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Bistable minimum energy structures (BiMES) for binary robotics (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. Bistable minimum energy structures (BiMES) are devices derived from the union of the concepts of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures and bistable systems. This article presents this novel approach to active, elas... Read More about Bistable minimum energy structures (BiMES) for binary robotics.

On the evolution of behaviors through embodied imitation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abstract This article describes research in which embodied imitation and behavioral adaptation are investigated in collective robotics. We model social learning in artificial agents with real robots. The... Read More about On the evolution of behaviors through embodied imitation.

Combining unsupervised learning and discrimination for 3D action recognition (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. Previous work on 3D action recognition has focused on using hand-designed features, either from depth videos or 2D videos. In this work, we present an effective way to combine unsupervised feature learning with discriminative fea... Read More about Combining unsupervised learning and discrimination for 3D action recognition.

A novel small scale Microbial Fuel Cell design for increased electricity generation and waste water treatment (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are a sustainable energy technology with minimal carbon footprint, which is promising for wastewater remediation and generation of u... Read More about A novel small scale Microbial Fuel Cell design for increased electricity generation and waste water treatment.

An energetically-autonomous robotic tadpole with single membrane stomach and tail (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. We present an energetically autonomous robotic tadpole that uses a single membrane component for both electrical energy generation and propulsive actuation. The coupling of this small bio-inspired... Read More about An energetically-autonomous robotic tadpole with single membrane stomach and tail.

Safety in Medical Robotics: Hazard Analysis for a Robot-Assisted Fracture Surgery System (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Towards robot assisted fracture surgery for intra-articular joint fractures (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Robot-assisted system for joint fracture surgery (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Incidence of fractures is steadily increasing and is expected that in 2025, Germany will have the largest number of fractures per year in Europe (≈928,000), followed by the UK (≈682,000) (Hernlund 2013). This work is concerned with distal-femur-fract... Read More about Robot-assisted system for joint fracture surgery.

Powered exoskeleton with palm degrees of freedom for hand rehabilitation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2015 IEEE. Robotic rehabilitation is a currently underutilised field with the potential to allow huge cost savings within healthcare. Existing rehabilitation exoskeletons oversimplify the importance of movement of the hand while undertaking everyda... Read More about Powered exoskeleton with palm degrees of freedom for hand rehabilitation.

The robot vibrissal system: Understanding mammalian sensorimotor co-ordination through biomimetics (2015)
Book Chapter

© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015. We consider the problem of sensorimotor co-ordination in mammals through the lens of vibrissal touch, and via the methodology of embodied computational neuroscience-using biomimetic robots to synthesize an... Read More about The robot vibrissal system: Understanding mammalian sensorimotor co-ordination through biomimetics.

Systematic analysis of video data from different human-robot interaction studies: A categorisation of social signals during error situations (2015)
Journal Article

Human–robot interactions are often affected by error situations that are caused by either the robot or the human. Therefore, robots would profit from the ability to recognize when error situations occur. We investigated the verbal and non-verbal soci... Read More about Systematic analysis of video data from different human-robot interaction studies: A categorisation of social signals during error situations.

Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Here we present a tactile sensing capsule endoscopy system. Whilst current capsule endoscopy utilises cameras to diagnose lesions on the surface of the gastrointestinal tract lumen, this proposal... Read More about Biomimetic tactile sensing capsule.

Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2015 IEEE. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency for information conveyance. A key component of such improvement is the observer's ability to integrate information from the two communication chann... Read More about Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison.

Editorial: Special issue on ground robots operating in dynamic, unstructured and large-scale outdoor environments (2015)
Journal Article

Real-world outdoor applications of ground robots have, to date, been limited primarily to remote inspection of suspected explosive devices and, with less success, to the broader domain of remote survey and inspection in hazardous environments. Such r... Read More about Editorial: Special issue on ground robots operating in dynamic, unstructured and large-scale outdoor environments.

Improved human-robot collaborative control of redundant robot for teleoperated minimally invasive surgery (2019)
Journal Article

© 2016 IEEE. An improved human-robot collaborative control scheme is proposed in a teleoperated minimally invasive surgery scenario, based on a hierarchical operational space formulation of a seven-degree-of-freedom redundant robot. Redundancy is exp... Read More about Improved human-robot collaborative control of redundant robot for teleoperated minimally invasive surgery.

The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Lemaignan et al. The study of the fine-grained social dynamics between children is a methodological challenge, yet a good understanding of how social interaction between children unfolds is important not only to Developmental and Social Psycho... Read More about The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics.

Head-raising of snake robots based on a predefined spiral curve method (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors. A snake robot has to raise its head to acquire a wide visual space for planning complex tasks such as inspecting unknown environments, tracking a flying object and acting as a manipulator with its raising part. However, only a... Read More about Head-raising of snake robots based on a predefined spiral curve method.

Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. There is a need for effective collective decision making in decentralised multi-agent and robotic systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to the best-of-n decision problem with large n. It utilises nega... Read More about Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics.

Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language (2018)
Book

This book describes CoSMoS (Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation), a pattern-based approach to engineering trustworthy simulations that are both scientifically useful to the researcher and scientifically credible to third parties. This approach e... Read More about Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language.

Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. This paper explores the question of ethical governance for robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. We outline a roadmap-which links a number of elements, including e... Read More about Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems.