research publications

The Bristol Robotics Laboratory contributes to the development of the global robotics community by publishing its research in international conferences and journals. The publications created by the researchers and postgraduates within BRL are peer reviewed and aim to further the advanced field of robotics and promote inter-disciplinary colloboration. Prior to December 2005 works were published under the umbrella of IAS. For related works published by individual and asssociate members of BRL visit the personal links provided on our people database.

This page contains a chronological database of BRL publications 2005 - Present, for details on any paper please contact the first author. For works published prior to December 2005 visit the IAS publications page: http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/publications.htm

2008

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I. and Melhuish, C. 2008. Biological Computing Using Perfusion Anodophile Biofilm Electrodes (PABE). Int. J. Unconventional Computing, Vol. 4, pp 23-32.

Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C. and Greenman, J. Small scale Microbial Fuel Cells - Large scale power. In proceedings of the Electrochemical Society's 3rd Biological Fuel Cell Symposium, 19-23 May 2008, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Tony Prescott (2008) "Computational neuroethological modelling of the rat facial whiskers", Proceedings of Biological Approaches to Engineering Conference (BAEC), 17-19th March, Southampton, UK (pp:135-138).

Bindi, V., Strunk, J., Baker, J. Bacon, R., Boensel, M., Shoup, F., Vaidyanathan, R., “Littoral Undersea Warfare: A Case Study in Process Modelling for Functionality and Interoperability of Complex Systems”, International Journal of System of Systems Engineering (IJSSE), 1, 1-2, pp 18-58, 2008
Lock, R.J., Vaidyanathan, R., Burgess, S.C., “Morphing Modes of Mobility in Natural and Engineering Systems”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering, The Algarve, Portugal, June 2008
Whitcomb, C., Vaidyanathan, R., Pluta, J., Kiihne, J., Solitario, W., “Architecture Development for an Unmanned Vehicle Sentry System of Systems”, Proceedings of the 23rd Bristol International Unmanned Air Vehicle Systems (UAVS) Conference, Bristol, UK, April 2008
Bachmann, R.J., Boria, F., Vaidyanathan, R., Ifju, P., Quinn, R.D., “Adapting to Terrain Through Multiple Modes of Mobility”, (Abstract) 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 2008
Palmer, D.W., Kirshenbaum, M., Quinn, R.D., Vaidyanathan, R. “Adaptation in Human Collective Behaviour as Inspiration for Robot Swarming”, (Abstract) 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 2008
Vaidyanathan, R., Fargues, M.P., Gupta, L., Kurcan, R., Kota, S., Lin, D., Quinn, R.D. “A Dual Mode Aural Human-Robot Teleoperation Interface”, (Abstract) 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 2008
Kovacina, M., Palmer, D., Branicky, M.B., Vaidyanathan R., “Evolutionary Generation and Adaptation of Decentralized Swarming Algorithms”, (Abstract) 4th International Symposium of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 2008

2007

Bagnall, A., Cawley, G., Whittley, I., Bull, L., Studley, M, Tekiner, F. & Pettipher, M.  (2007) Super Computer Heterogeneous Classifier Meta-Ensembles. International  Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining 3(2): 67-82.

Benkhelifa E, Pipe A, Dragffy G, Nibouche M, 2007, Evolvable Hardware: A problem of Generalisation. Which Works Best: Large Population Size and Small Number of Generations or vice versa? Int. Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO), "Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag.

Benkhelifa E, Pipe A, Dragffy G, Nibouche M, 2007, Towards Evolving Fault Tolerant Biologically Inspired Hardware Using Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceeding of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Sept 25-28 2007, Singapore. EI Compendex Database and IEEE Xplore.

Benkhelifa E, Pipe A, Nibouche M, Dragffy G, 2007, Steps Forward to Evolve Bio-inspired Embryonic Cell-Based Electronic Systems. Proceeding of the International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES) Sept 21-23 2007: 174-185. Wuhan, China. LNCS Springer Verlag.

Benkhelifa E, Pipe A, Dragffy G, Nibouche M, 2007, Evolvable Embryonics: Promising Early Results to an Automatic Design of Self-Repair Hardware System. Proceeding of the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM) June 25-28 2007. Nevada, Las Vegas (USA). CSREA Press.

Bull, L. and Studley, M. and Bagnall, A.J. and Whittley, I.M., "Accuracy-based Learning Classifier System Ensembles with Rule-Sharing", IEEE Transactions on Evolutio nary Computation (to appear), 2007.

Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C. and Greenman, J. (2007) Artificial gills for robots: MFC behaviour in water. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 2, 2007, S83-S93.

James Edwards, Chris Melhuish, Jonathan Lawry, Jonathan Rossiter (2007) "Feature Identification for Texture description from Tactile Sensors"
"Proceedings of TAROS 2007, September 3-5, Aberystwyth, Wales".

Peter Jaeckel, Neill Campbell and Chris Melhuish, (2007), Towards Realistic Facial Behaviour - Mapping from Video Footage to a Robot Head. In: 10th edition of the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), IEEE, June 2007, pp. 833 – 838

Peter Jaeckel, Neill Campbell and Chris Melhuish, (2007), Mapping from Video Footage to a Robot Head - In: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (Taros) 2007, pp. 9-16

Lenz A, Balakrishnan T, Pipe A G, Melhuish C, 2007, Eye-Robot: A Biologically Inspired Adaptive Controller. TAROS.

M.J. Pearson, A.G. Pipe, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, T.J. Prescott *(2007) "Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modelled on the Rat Whisker Sensory system" Adaptive Behavior, *15(3)*, 2007, 223-240

M.J.Pearson, I.Gilhespy, K.Gurney, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, M.Nibouche, A.G.Pipe. *(2007) "Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Hard-Real-Time Applications: A Model Validated FPGA Approach" [Accepted] IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

M.J. Pearson, A.G. Pipe, B.Mitchinson, K.Gurney, C.Melhuish, I.Gilhespy and M.Nibouche (2007) "Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal Processing and Control Applications: A Model Validated FPGA Approach."  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(5), 2007 ,** pp:1472-1487.
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2007.891203

M.J. Pearson, A.G. Pipe, B.Mitchinson, K.Gurney, C.Melhuish, I.Gilhespy and M.Nibouche (2007) "Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal Processing and Control Applications: A Model Validated FPGA Approach."  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(5), 2007 ,** pp:1472-1487.
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2007.891203

Pearson M J, Pipe A G, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Prescott T J, 2007, Whiskerbot: A robotic active touch system modeled on the rat whisker sensory system, J. of Adaptive Behavior 15(3):223-240.

Pearson M J, Gilhespy I, Gurney K, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A G, 2007, Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Hard-Real-Time Applications: A Model Validated FPGA Approach, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(5):1472-1488.

Pipe A G, Carse B, 2007, Fuzzy Classifier System Architectures for Mobile Robotics: an Experimental Comparison. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22(9):993-1020, Wiley.

Papoutsidakis M, Chamilothoris G, Pipe A, 2007, Auto-selective three term control of position and compliance of a pneumatic actuator, Int. J. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (Enformatika), 4(2):786-790, ISSN 1305-5313.

F. Qiao, Q. M. Zhu, A. Winfield, C. Melhuish and L. Zhang (2007) “Indirect Fuzzy Adaptive Control of Robotic Manipulator Based on Sliding Mode Scheme” accepted for publication in IEEE ICMA 2007

Liu, W., Winfield, A. F. T., Sa, J., Chen, J., and Dou, L. (2007a). Towards energy optimisation: Emergent task allocation in a swarm of foraging robots. Adaptive Behavior, 15(3):289–305.

Liu, W., Winfield, A. F. T., and Sa, J. (2007b). Modelling swarm robotic system: A case study in collective foraging. In Wilson, M. S., Labrosse, F., Nehmzow, U., Melhuish, C., and Witkowski, M., editors, Proceeding of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, pages 25 – 32,  Aberystwyth, UK.

Vaidyanathan, R., Fargues, M., Gupta, L., Kurcan, R., Lin, D., Kota, S., Quinn, R.D., “A Dual Mode Human-Robot Interface Based on Physiological Signal Capture in the Aural Cavity”,  International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 26, 11-12, pp 1205-1223, 2007

Vaidyanathan, R., Chung, B., Gupta, L., Kook,Kota, S., West, J. D., “A Tongue-Movement Communication and Control Concept For Hands-Free Human-Machine Interfaces”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics A (SMC-A), 37, 4, pp 533-546, 2007

Kirshenbaum, M., Palmer D., McCullick, P., Vaidyanathan, R., “Explaining Swarm Design Concepts using an Interactive, Bottom-up Simulation Tool”, 2007 IEEE International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, Bridgeport, CT, USA, Dec. 2007, (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Bledsoe, R., Vaidyanathan, R., Durham, J., Yun, X., “Semi-autonomous Micro Robot Control and Video Relay through Internet and Iridium Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOM), 4pp, Athens Greece, Oct. 2007
Bindi, V., Strunk, J., Baker, J. Bacon, R., Boensel, M., Shoup, F., Vaidyanathan, R., “Littoral Undersea Warfare: A Case Study in Process Modeling for Functionality and Interoperability of Complex Systems”, International Conference on Managing and Engineering in Complex Situations (MECS07), 23pp, Norfolk, VA, USA, Oct 2007
Vaidyanathan, R., James, C.J., “Independent Component Analysis for Extraction of Critical Features from Tongue Movement Ear Pressure Signals”, IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), pp 5481 – 5484. Lyon, France, Aug. 2007 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Quinn, R.D., Ifju, P.G., Bachmann, R.J., Vaidyanathan, R., “A Small, Biologically-Inspired Vehicle with Hybrid Air-Land Mobility” (Abstract), Flying Insects and Robots Symposium, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, Aug., 2007

2006

Bagnall, A.J. and Whittley, I.M. and Janacek, G.J. and Kemsley, K. and Studley, M. and Bull, L., "A Comparison of DWT/PAA and DFT for Time Series Classification", In 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, 2006.

Bagnall, A.J. and Whittley, I.M. and Studley, M. and Pettipher, M. and Tekiner, F. and Bull, L., "Variance Stabilizing Regression Ensembles for Environmental Models", In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2006.

Deittert M, Toomer C, Pipe A G, 2006, Biologically Inspired UAV Propulsion. Procs. 21st International UAV Systems Conference, Bristol, UK.

Edwards, J., Froud,D., Lawry,J. and Melhuish, C. (2006) 'Vague' Concept Learning with Robotic Systems. TAROS'06 proceedings pp 46,47.

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I., McKenzie, C. and Melhuish, C. (2006) Microbial Computing using Geobacter biofilm electrodes: output stability and consistency. Int. J. Unconventional Computing, 2(3), 2006, 2491-265.

Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I. and Melhuish, C. (2006) “Perfusion anodophile biofilm electrodes and their potential for computing”. From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers, Adamatzky, A. and Teuscher, C. (Eds), pp. 67-78, ISBN: 0-9551170-9-7.

Chris Melhuish, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Samuel R. Scholes, Ian Horsfield and Fred Weslby (2006) Ant inspired sorting by robots: the importance of initial clustering. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 3, 2006, 235-242
Chris Melhuish, Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman and Ian Horsfield. (2006) Energetically autonomous robots: food for thought. Autonomous Robots. Published on-line DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-6574-5 pp. 187-198

Melhuish, C., Ieropoulos, I. and Greenman, J. (2006) Artificial gills for robots: oxygen for sustenance. TAROS'06 proceedings pp 118-125. Best paper award from Institute of Physics.

Melhuish, C., Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J. and Horsfield, I. (2006) Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought Autonomous Robots, 21(3), 2006, 187-198.

Melhuish, C., Ieropoulos, I. and Greenman, J. (2006) “Artificial gills for robots: underwater energy autonomy with MFCs.” "Proceedings of the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS)'06 conference, September 4-6, Guildford, UK.

Mitchell T J, Pipe A G, 2006, A Comparison Of Evolution Strategy-Based Methods For Frequency Modulated Musical Tone Timbre Matching, Seventh International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (ACDM 2006).

*B.Mitchinson , M.Pearson , C.Melhuish , T.J. Prescott* (2006) "A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System" Proceedings of The International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (ISAB), 25th-29th September, Rome, Italy

Martin Pearson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Ian Gilhespy, Kevin Gurney, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson, Anthony Pipe* (2006) “A Hardware Based Implementation of a Tactile Sensory System for Neuromorphic Signal Processing Applications” "Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 14-19, Toulouse, France".

M.J. Pearson, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, T.Prescott* (2006) "Hardware based Brain Stem Sub-Nucleus Model for Brain-Based Robotic Experimentation" Proceedings of Computational NeuroScience (CNS), 16th-20th July, Edinburgh, UK,

M.J. Pearson, I.Gilhespy, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, M.Nibouche, A.G. Pipe, T.J. Prescott. *(2006) "A Biologically inspired FPGA based implementation of a tactile sensory system for object recognition and texture discrimination" Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 28th-30th August, Madrid, Spain

M.J. Pearson, I.Gilhespy, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, M.Nibouche, A.G. Pipe, T.J. Prescott. *(2006) "Further work on a biomimetic haptic sensor", Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), 4th-6th September, Guilford, UK

Pearson M J, Gilhespy I, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A G, Prescott T J, 2006, A Biologically inspired FPGA based implementation of a tactile sensory system for object recognition and texture discrimination" Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 28th-30th August, Madrid, Spain.

Pearson M J, Gilhespy I, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A G, Prescott T J, 2006, Further work on a biomimetic haptic sensor", Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), 4th-6th September, Guilford, UK.

Pearson M, Nibouche M, Gilhespy I, Gurney K, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Pipe A, 2006, A Hardware Based Implementation of a Tactile Sensory System for Neuromorphic Signal Processing Applications, proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 14-19, Toulouse, France.

John Porrill, Paul Dean, Sean Anderson, Mayank Dutia, John Menzies, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, Alexander Lenz, Thanushan Balakrishnan (2006) “Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inspired Control System” p81, S55  Accepted for presentation at CNS 2006.

Porrill J, Dean P, Anderson S R, Dutia M, Menzies J, Melhuish C, Pipe T, Lenz A, Balakrishnan T, 2006, Functions of distributed plasticity in a biologically-inpsired control system: from electrophysiology to robotics. Computational Neuroscience, Edinburgh UK.

Sergey Skachek, Andrew Adamatzky and Chris Melhuish (2006) Manipulating planar shapes by light-sensitive excitable medium: computational studies of closed loop systems. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Vol 16, No 8 (2006), 2333-2349

Studley, M.  Learning Classifier Systems for Multi-objective Robot Control, Doctoral Thesis, University of the West of England, March 2006. Available for download from http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/lcsg/ as technical report UWELCSG06-05

Studley, M. & Bull, L. (2006) Using the XCS Classifier System for Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning Problems. Artificial Life 13(1): 69-86.

Liu, W., Winfield, A., Sa, J., Chen, J., and Dou, L. (2006). Strategies for energy optimisation in a swarm of foraging robots. In Sahin, E., Spears, W. M., and Winfield, A. F. T., editors, Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, September 30-October 1, 2006 Revised Selected Papers, volume 4433 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 14–26. Springer.

I.M. Whittley, A.J. Bagnall, L. Bull, M. Pettipher, M. Studley and F. Tekiner Attribute Selection Methods for Filtered Attribute Subspace based Bagging with Injected  Randomness (FASBIR), In Feature Selection for Data Mining Workshop, Part of the 2006 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2006.

Zhang X, Dragffy G, Pipe A G, Zhu Q M, 2006, Embryonics: A Path to Artificial Life? Journal Artificial Life 12(3):313-323, the MIT Press.

McCarthy, C., Wyllie, R., G., Vaidyanathan, R., and Paulo, G., "An Integrated Systems Architecture to Provide Maritime Domain Protection", Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS), 3, 2, pp 63-75, 2006
Jones, K., Boria, F., Bachmann, R.J., Vaidyanathan, R., Ifju, P., Quinn, R.D., “MMALV – The Morphing Micro Air-Land Vehicle”, 2006 IEEE International Conference of Robotics on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Video Proceedings, Beijing, China, Oct 2006 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Kurcan, R.S., Fargues, M.P., Vaidyanathan, R., “In-Ear Microphone Speech Data Recognition using HMMs”, IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 12th - Signal Processing Education Workshop, Sept. 2006 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Bulbuller, G., Fargues, M.P., Vaidyanathan, R., “In-Ear Microphone Speech Data Segmentation and Recognition using Neural Networks”, IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 12th - Signal Processing Education Workshop, Sept. 2006 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Vaidyanathan, R., Gupta, L., Kook, H., West, J., “A Decision Fusion Pattern Classification Architecture for Human-Robotic Interface”, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp 3610-3617, Orlando, FL, May 2006 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Vaidyanathan, R., Fargues, M., Gupta, L., Kota, S., Lin D., West, J, “A Human-Machine Interface for Rehabilitative Device Control Based on Aural Flow Monitoring”, 2006 IEEE RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Pisa, IT, Feb. 2006 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)

2005

Andrew Adamatzky, Sergey Skachek, Ben De Lacy Costello, Chris Melhuish (2005) Manipulating objects with chemical waves: Open loop case of experimental Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium. Physics Letters A 350 pp. 201-209.

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Hart, J. (2005) Comparison of three different types of microbial fuel cell  Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 37(2), 2005, 238-245.

Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C. and Hart, J. (2005) Energy accumulation and improved performance in microbial fuel cells Power Sources, 145(2), 2005, 253-256.

Ieropoulos, I., Melhuish, C., Greenman, J. and Horsfield, I. (2005) “Artificial symbiosis: Towards a robot-microbe partnership” "Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS '05) Conference, September 12-14, London, UK.

Ieropoulos, I.; Melhuish, C.; Greenman, J. & Horsfield, I. (2005) EcoBot-II: An artificial agent with a natural metabolism. Int. J. Advanced Robotics Systems, 2(4), 2005, 295-300.

Masao Kubo, Chris Melhuish (2005) Energy Autonomy of Mobile Robots. ROBOMEC2005 Kobe, Japan 2A1-S-069, pp1-4(2005)

Mitchinson B, Prescott T J, Martin C J, Gurney K, Pearson M J, Gilhespy I, Pipe A G, 2005, A computational model of a brainstem loop for whisker pattern generation, procs. Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, abstract number 625.4.

Mitchell T J, Pipe A G, 2005, Convergence Synthesis of Dynamic Frequency Modulation Tones Using an Evolution Strategy. Procs. EvoMUSART 2005, 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art.

M.J. Pearson, I.Gilhespy, C.Melhuish, B.Mitchinson, M.Nibouche, A.G. Pipe, T.J. Prescott. *(2005) "A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor" International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems *2(4)*, 2005, 335-343.

M.J.Pearson C.Melhuish, A.G.Pipe, M.Nibouche, I.Gilhesphy, K.Gurney,B.Mitchinson  *(2005)* *"Design and FPGA Implementation of an Embedded Real-Time Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network" Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 24th-26th August, Tampere, Finland

M.Pearson , I.Gilhespy , K.Gurney , C.Melhuish , B.Mitchinson , M.Nibouche , A.Pipe *(2005) "A Real-Time, FPGA based, Biologically Plausible Neural Network Processor" Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 11th-15th September 2005, Warsaw, Poland

M.J. Pearson , I.Gilhespy , C.Melhuish ,B. Mitchinson, M.Nibouche , A.G. Pipe ,T. J. Prescott *(2005) "A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles" Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), 12th-14th September, London, UK

Pearson M J, Gilhespy I, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A G, Prescott T, 2005, A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems; 2(4):335-343.

Pearson M J, Gilhespy I, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A G, Prescott T J, 2005, A Biologically Inspired Haptic Sensor Array for use in Mobile Robotic Vehicles. Procs. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, London, 12th-14th September 2005 (TAROS 2005).

Pearson M, Gilhespy I, Gurney K, Melhuish C, Mitchinson B, Nibouche M, Pipe A, 2005, A Real-Time, FPGA based, Biologically Plausible Neural Network Processor, Procs. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Warsaw, 11th-15th September 2005 (ICANN 2005).

Pearson M, Melhuish C, Pipe A, Nibouche M, Gilhespy I, Gurney K, Mitchinson B, 2005, Design and FPGA Implementation of an Embedded Real-Time Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network, Procs. International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Tampere, Finland, 24th-26th August 2005 (FPL 2005).

Pipe A G, Melhuish C, Pearson M J, Gilhesphy I, Mitchinson B, Gurney K, Prescott T J, 2005, Artificial, Active Vibrissal Array Modelling the Mechanics and Neurology  of Rat Whisking, procs. Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington, USA, abstract number 625.5.

Pipe A G, Carse B, 2005, First Results from Further Experimental Comparisons Between Pittsburgh and Michigan Fuzzy Classifier Systems for Mobile Robotics. Procs. Fourth Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT 2005).

Samuel R. Scholes, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, S. Tim Swift and Chris Melhuish (2005) Ants can sort their brood without a gaseous template Journal of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  59: 531-540

Bull, L., Studley, M., Bagnall, A. & Whittley, I. (2005) On the use of Rule Sharing in Learning Classifier System Ensembles. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on E volutionary Computation. IEEE, pp612-617.

Studley, M. & Bull, L. (2005) X-TCS: Accuracy-based Learning Classifier System Robotics. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE, pp209 9-2106. 

Antony Waldock, Brian Carse, Chris Melhuish (2005) Hierarchical fuzzy rule based systems using an information theoretic approach, Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications. Vol 10. Issue 10, pp. 867-869

Antony Waldock, Brian Carse, Chris Melhuish (2005) Learning Hierarchical Fuzz Rule-Based Systems for a Mobile Robot Controller. Proceedings of  the 2nd International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ACDCA-ICMI 2005), Tozeur, Tunisia, Vol 1, Issue 1, pp. 582-588.

Yang J, Montakhab M, Pipe A G, Carse B, Davies T S, 2005, Application of Multi-Agent Technology to Fault Diagnosis of Power Distribution Systems, Int. Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 1(2):1-16, IG Publishing.

Walton, D.J., Paulo, E.P., McCarthy, C.J., Vaidyanathan, R., “Modeling Force Response to Small Boat Attack against High-Value Commercial Ships”, 2005 IEEE Winter Simulation Conference, 988-991, Dec. 2005  (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Boria, F.J., Bachmann, R.J., Ifju, P.G., Quinn, R.D., Vaidyanathan, R., Perry, C., Wagener, J., “A Sensor Platform Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion”, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, CN, Aug. 2005  (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Boxerbaum, A., Werk, P., Vaidyanathan, R., Quinn, R.D., “Design of an Autonomous Amphibious Robot for Surf Zone Operations: Mechanical Design for Multi-Mode Mobility”, 2005 IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Monterey, CA, July 2005  (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Harkins, R., Vaidynathan, R., Quinn, R.D., Boxerbaum, A., Ward, J.L., “Design of an Autonomous Amphibious Robot for Surf Zone Operations: Simulation, Control Hardware Implementation” 2005 IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Monterey, CA, July 2005 (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)
Bachmann, R.J. Boria, F.J., Ifju, P.G., Quinn, R.D., Kline, J., Vaidyanathan, R., “Utility of a Sensor Platform Capable of Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion”, 2005 IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Monterey, CA, July 2005  (IEEE Xplore Conference Proceedings)

technical reports

This is the technical report series of internally released publications for the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (and the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory that preceded it). They report on progress of postgraduate students or other technical issues raised by ongoing programmes of research being carried out in the laboratory, which could be of interest both internally and externally. Access to the contents of these reports can be requested by email to the webmaster at this site.

EcoBot an Energetically Autonomous Robot (pdf)