Chris Melhuish

Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Frank L. Lewis, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Reinforcement learning and optimal adaptive control: An overview and implementation examples. Annual Reviews in Control 36(1): 42-59 (2012)

Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Frank L. Lewis, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Corrigendum to 'Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Adaptive Control: An Overview and Implementation Examples' [Annual Reviews in Control 36 (1) (2012) 42-59]. Annual Reviews in Control 36(2): 359 (2012)

Jacques Penders, Lyuba Alboul, Tony J. Prescott, Roderich Groß, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski: TAROS2011. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 60(11): 1355 (2012)

Calum Roke, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, David Drury, Craig Chorley: Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 60(11): 1442-1448 (2012)

Stéphane Lallée, Ugo Pattacini, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexander Lenz, Chris Melhuish, Lorenzo Natale, Sergey Skachek, Katharina Hamann, Jasmin Steinwender, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Giorgio Metta, Julien Guitton, Rachid Alami, Matthieu Warnier, Tony Pipe, Felix Warneken, Peter Ford Dominey: Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans. IEEE T. Autonomous Mental Development 4(3): 239-253 (2012)

Ioannis Georgilas, Andrew Adamatzky, Chris Melhuish: Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata. CASE 2012: 936-941

Alexander Lenz, Stéphane Lallée, Sergey Skachek, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Peter Ford Dominey: When shared plans go wrong: From atomic- to composite actions and back. IROS 2012: 4321-4326

Benjamin Winstone, Gareth Griffiths, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, Jonathan Rossiter: TACTIP - Tactile fingertip device, challenges in reduction of size to ready for robot hand integration. ROBIO 2012: 160-166

Alan Broun, Chris Beck, Tony Pipe, Majid Mirmehdi, Chris Melhuish: Building a Kinematic Model of a Robot's Arm with a Depth Camera. TAROS 2012: 105-116

Terry Tritton, Joanna Hall, Angela Rowe, Sophie Valentine, Alicja Jedrzejewska, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Ute Leonards: Engaging with Robots While Giving Simple Instructions. TAROS 2012: 176-184

Thomas M. W. Burton, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Stuart C. Burgess, A. J. Turton, Chris Melhuish: Sensitivity Analysis of a Parametric Hand Exoskeleton Designed to Match Natural Human Grasping Motion. TAROS 2012: 390-401

Emma Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, Tareq Assaf, Martin J. Pearson, Peter Walters, Tony J. Prescott, Chris Melhuish, Jonathan Rossiter, Tony Pipe, Paul Dean, John Porrill: Bioinspired Control of Electro-Active Polymers for Next Generation Soft Robots. TAROS 2012: 424-425

Antonia Tzemanaki, Sanja Dogramadzi, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Towards an Anthropomorphic Design of Minimally Invasive Instrumentation for Soft Tissue Robotic Surgery. TAROS 2012: 455-456

Ioannis Georgilas, Andrew Adamatzky, Chris Melhuish: Towards an Intelligent Distributed Conveyor. TAROS 2012: 457-458

Guido Herrmann, Matthew Studley, Martin J. Pearson, Andrew T. Conn, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski, Jong-Hwan Kim, Prahlad Vadakkepat (Eds.): Advances in Autonomous Robotics - Joint Proceedings of the 13th Annual TAROS Conference and the 15th Annual FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Bristol, UK, August 20-23, 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7429, Springer 2012, isbn 978-3-642-32526-7

Paolo Dario, Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Tony J. Prescott, Gordon Cheng, Giulio Sandini, Roberto Cingolani, Rüdiger Dillmann, Dario Floreano, Christophe Leroux, Sheila MacNeil, Pieter Roelfsema, Xenophon Verykios, Antonio Bicchi, Chris Melhuish, Alin Albu-Schäffer: Robot Companions for Citizens. Procedia CS 7: 47-51 (2011)

Said Ghani Khan, Alexander Lenz, Guido Herrmann, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Toward Safe Human Robot Interaction: Integration of Compliance Control, an Anthropomorphic Hand and Verbal Communication. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2011: 17-24

Jamaludin Jalani, Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Chris Melhuish: A Novel Approach of Robust Active Compliance for Robot Fingers. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2011: 50-57

Paul Bremner, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Mike Fraser, Sriram Subramanian: The effects of robot-performed co-verbal gesture on listener behaviour. Humanoids 2011: 458-465

Stéphane Lallée, Ugo Pattacini, Jean-David Boucher, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexander Lenz, Chris Melhuish, Lorenzo Natale, Sergey Skachek, Katharina Hamann, Jasmin Steinwender, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Giorgio Metta, Rachid Alami, Matthieu Warnier, Julien Guitton, Felix Warneken, Peter Ford Dominey: Towards a platform-independent cooperative human-robot interaction system: II. Perception, execution and imitation of goal directed actions. IROS 2011: 2895-2902

Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Frank L. Lewis, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: A Q-learning based Cartesian model reference compliance controller implementation for a humanoid robot arm. RAM 2011: 214-219

Jamaludin Jalani, Guido Herrmann, Chris Melhuish: Robust active compliance control for practical grasping of a cylindrical object via a multifingered robot hand. RAM 2011: 316-321

Calum Roke, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe, David Drury, Craig Chorley: Deformation-Based Tactile Feedback Using a Biologically-Inspired Sensor and a Modified Display. TAROS 2011: 114-124

Said Ghani Khan, Jamaludin Jalani, Guido Herrmann, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Task Space Integral Sliding Mode Controller Implementation for 4DOF of a Humanoid BERT II Arm with Posture Control. TAROS 2011: 299-310

Elena Corina Grigore, Kerstin Eder, Alexander Lenz, Sergey Skachek, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. TAROS 2011: 323-335

Roderich Groß, Lyuba Alboul, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski, Tony J. Prescott, Jacques Penders (Eds.): Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6856, Springer 2011, isbn 978-3-642-23231-2

Guido Herrmann, Chris Melhuish: Towards Safety in Human Robot Interaction. I. J. Social Robotics 2(3): 217-219 (2010)

Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Adam Spiers: Safe Adaptive Compliance Control of a Humanoid Robotic Arm with Anti-Windup Compensation and Posture Control. I. J. Social Robotics 2(3): 305-319 (2010)

Ulrich Nehmzow, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski, Theocharis Kyriacou: "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems" (TAROS) - The UK conference on intelligent, autonomous robotics. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 58(3): 227-228 (2010)

Adam Spiers, Guido Herrmann, Chris Melhuish, Tony Pipe: A neural network method of learning human motion by observation in operational space. Humanoids 2010: 86-91

Alexander Lenz, Sergey Skachek, Katharina Hamann, Jasmin Steinwender, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: The BERT2 infrastructure: An integrated system for the study of human-robot interaction. Humanoids 2010: 346-351

Richard Craig, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Christopher James, Chris Melhuish: Assessment of human response to robot facial expressions through visual evoked potentials. Humanoids 2010: 647-652

Said Ghani Khan, Guido Herrmann, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Adaptive multi-dimensional compliance control of a humanoid robotic arm with anti-windup compensation. IROS 2010: 2218-2223

Stéphane Lallée, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexander Lenz, Chris Melhuish, Lorenzo Natale, Sergey Skachek, Tijn van der Zant, Felix Warneken, Peter Ford Dominey: Towards a platform-independent cooperative human-robot interaction system: I. Perception. IROS 2010: 4444-4451

Danny Bazo, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Alexander Lenz, Chris Melhuish: Design and testing of a hybrid expressive face for a humanoid robot. IROS 2010: 5317-5322

Alexander Lenz, Sean R. Anderson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Paul Dean, John Porrill: Cerebellar-Inspired Adaptive Control of a Robot Eye Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B 39(6): 1420-1433 (2009)

Mohammad Samie, Gabriel Dragffy, Anca Popescu, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish: Prokaryotic Bio-Inspired Model for Embryonics. AHS 2009: 163-170

Xin Yang, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish: A Biologically Inspired Hardware Module for Embedded Auditory Signal Processing Applications. BIOSIGNALS 2009: 382-387

Adam Spiers, Guido Herrmann, Chris Melhuish, Anthony G. Pipe, Alexander Lenz: Robotic Implementation of Realistic Reaching Motion Using a Sliding Mode/Operational Space Controller. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009: 230-238

Paul Bremner, Anthony G. Pipe, Mike Fraser, Sriram Subramanian, Chris Melhuish: Beat gesture generation rules for human-robot interaction. RO-MAN 2009: 1029-1034

Paul Bremner, Anthony G. Pipe, Sriram Subramanian, Mike Fraser, Chris Melhuish: Conversational Gestures in Human-Robot Interaction. SMC 2009: 1645-1649

John Greenman, Ioannis Ieropoulos, Chris Melhuish: Biological Computing Using Perfusion Anodophile Biofilm Electrodes (PABE). IJUC 4(1): 23-32 (2008)

Myra S. Wilson, Frédéric Labrosse, Ulrich Nehmzow, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - Mobile Robotics in the UK. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56(12): 1015 (2008)

Peter Jaeckel, Neill Campbell, Chris Melhuish: Facial behaviour mapping - From video footage to a robot head. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56(12): 1042-1049 (2008)

Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Ben Mitchinson, Tony J. Prescott: Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on the Rat Whisker Sensory System. Adaptive Behaviour 15(3): 223-240 (2007)

Ulrich Nehmzow, Chris Melhuish, Mark Witkowski, Eddie Moxey, Alex Ellery: Mobile robotics in the UK and worldwide: Fast changing, and as exciting as ever. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 55(9): 659-660 (2007)

Martin J. Pearson, Anthony G. Pipe, Benjamin Mitchinson, Kevin N. Gurney, Chris Melhuish, Ian Gilhespy, Mokhtar Nibouche: Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal-Processing and Control Applications: A Model-Validated FPGA Approach. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 18(5): 1472-1487 (2007)

Chris Melhuish, Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Ian Horsfield: Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought. Auton. Robots 21(3): 187-198 (2006)

Sergey Skachek, Andrew Adamatzky, Chris Melhuish: Manipulating Planar Shapes with a Light-Sensitive Excitable Medium: Computational Studies of Closed-Loop Systems. I. J. Bifurcation and Chaos 16(8): 2333-2349 (2006)

Antony Waldock, Brian Carse, Chris Melhuish: Hierarchical fuzzy rule based systems using an information theoretic approach. Soft Comput. 10(10): 867-879 (2006)

Martin J. Pearson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe, Chris Melhuish, Ian Gilhespy, Benjamin Mitchinson, Kevin N. Gurney, Tony J. Prescott, Peter Redgrave: A Biologically Inspired FPGA Based Implementation of a Tactile Sensory System for Object Recognition and Texture Discrimination. FPL 2006: 1-4

Benjamin Mitchinson, Martin J. Pearson, Chris Melhuish, Tony J. Prescott: A Model of Sensorimotor Coordination in the Rat Whisker System. SAB 2006: 77-88

Ulrich Nehmzow, Chris Melhuish: Mobile robotics in the United Kingdom. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 51(1): 1-2 (2005)

Martin J. Pearson, Chris Melhuish, Anthony G. Pipe, Mokhtar Nibouche, Ian Gilhespy, Kevin N. Gurney, Benjamin Mitchinson: Design and FPGA Implementation of an Embedded Real-Time Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Network Processor. FPL 2005: 582-585

Martin J. Pearson, Ian Gilhespy, Kevin N. Gurney, Chris Melhuish, Benjamin Mitchinson, Mokhtar Nibouche, Anthony G. Pipe: A Real-Time, FPGA Based, Biologically Plausible Neural Network Processor. ICANN (2) 2005: 1021-1026

Matt Wilson, Chris Melhuish, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Samuel Scholes: Algorithms for Building Annular Structures with Minimalist Robots Inspired by Brood Sorting in Ant Colonies. Auton. Robots 17(2-3): 115-136 (2004)

Hiroshi Yokoi, Andy Adamatzky, Ben de Lacy Costello, Chris Melhuish: Excitable Chemical Medium Controller for a Robotic Hand: Closed-Loop Experiments. I. J. Bifurcation and Chaos 14(9): 3347-3354 (2004)

Hiroshi Yokoi, Andy Adamatzky, Ben de Lacy Costello, Chris Melhuish: Nonlinear cyclic pattern generation using an excitable chemical medium controller for a robotic hand. IROS 2004: 112-117

Andrew Adamatzky, Ben de Lacy Costello, Chris Melhuish, Norman Ratcliffe: Experimental Reaction-Diffusion Chemical Processors for Robot Path Planning. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 37(3): 233-249 (2003)

Ioannis Ieropoulos, Chris Melhuish, John Greenman: Artificial Metabolism: Towards True Energetic Autonomy in Artificial Life. ECAL 2003: 792-799

Jan Wessnitzer, Chris Melhuish: Collective Decision-Making and Behaviour Transitions in Distributed Ad Hoc Wireless Networks of Mobile Robots: Target-Hunting. ECAL 2003: 893-902

Antony Waldock, Brian Carse, Chris Melhuish: A hierarchical fuzzy rule-based learning system based on an information theoretic. EUSFLAT Conf. 2003: 534-538

Jacob Hurst, Larry Bull, Chris Melhuish: TCS Learning Classifier System Controller on a Real Robot. PPSN 2002: 588-600

Ian Kelly, Chris Melhuish: SlugBot: A Robot Predator. ECAL 2001: 519-528

Chris Melhuish, Matt Wilson, Ana B. Sendova-Franks: Patch Sorting: Multi-object Clustering Using Minimalist Robots. ECAL 2001: 543-552

Jan Wessnitzer, Andrew Adamatzky, Chris Melhuish: Towards Self-Organising Structure Formations: A Decentralized Approach. ECAL 2001: 573-581

Owen Holland, Chris Melhuish: Stimergy, Self-Organization, and Sorting in Collective Robotics. Artificial Life 5(2): 173-202 (1999)

Chris Melhuish, Owen Holland, Steve Hoddell: Convoying: using chorusing to form travelling groups of minimal agents. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 28(2-3): 207-216 (1999)

Andrew Adamatzky, Owen Holland, Chris Melhuish: Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure. Emergence of Patterns in Lattice Swarms. ECAL 1999: 432-441

Chris Melhuish: Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots. ECAL 1999: 585-595

Chris Melhuish, Terence C. Fogarty: Applying a Restricted Mating Policy to Determine State Space Niches Using Immediate and Delayed Reinforcement. Evolutionary Computing, AISB Workshop 1994: 224-237