Papers on Robotics

In collaboration with Ulrich Nehmzow, Stephen Marsland, and Tom Duckett, I have been involved with developing neural network techniques in the field of robotics, mostly for navigation and exploration.

Bibliography

1

Tom Duckett, Stephen Marsland, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Fast, on-line learning of globally consistent maps.
Autonomous Robots, 12(3):287-300, 2002.
(abstract, full paper)

2

Jason Fleischer, Stephen Marsland, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Sensory anticipation for autonomous selection of robot landmarks.
In Proceedings, 2002 Workshop on Adaptive Behavior in Anticipatory Learning Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2002.
(abstract, full paper)

3

Stephen Marsland, Jonathan Shapiro, and Ulrich Nehmzow.
A self-organising network that grows when required.
Neural Networks, 15(8-9):1041-1058, 2002.
(abstract, full paper)
[At the time this paper was written, we were unaware of similar which we should have referenced. This work is described in A. Baraldi and P. Blonda, "A survey of fuzzy clustering algorithms for pattern recognition: Part II", IEEE Trans. Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 786-801, Dec. 1999.]

4

Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Environment-specific novelty detection.
In From Animals to Animats, the 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Edinburgh, 2002.
(full paper)

5

Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Vision-based environmental novelty detection on a mobile robot.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'01), Shanghai, 2001.
(full paper)

6

Tom Duckett, Stephen Marsland, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Simultaneous localization and mapping - a new algorithm for a compass-equipped mobile robot.
In Proceedings of the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics, Seattle, Washington, 2001.
(full paper)

7

Ulrich Nehmzow Stephen Marsland and Jonathan Shapiro.
Novelty detection in large environments.
In Proceedings of Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots 2001 (TIMR'01), 2001.
(full paper)

8

Tom Duckett, Stephen Marsland, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Learning globally consistent maps by relaxation.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'2000), pages 3841 - 3846, 2000.
(full paper)

9

Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Novelty detection for robot neotaxis.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Neural Computation (NC'2000), pages 554 - 559, 2000.
(full paper)

10

Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow, and Jonathan Shapiro.
A real-time novelty detector for a mobile robot.
In Proceedings of the EUREL Conference on Advanced Robotics Systems, 2000.
(full paper)

11

Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow, and Jonathan Shapiro.
Novelty detection on a mobile robot using habituation.
In From Animals to Animats: The 6th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, 2000.
(full paper)

12

Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow, and Jonathan Shapiro.
A model of habituation applied to mobile robots.
In Proceedings of TIMR 99, Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots, Bristol. Department of Computer Science, Manchester University, Technical Report Series, ISSN 1361-6161, Report UMCS-99-3-1, 1999.
(full paper)