This seminar will introduce new robot designs being developed which include compliance, variable stiffness and physical softness to allow safer human interaction in the manufacturing sector and beyond. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Robotics

CRNS: Variable Stiffness and Soft Robots

Title: "Exploration of Affect Sensing in Multimodal Interaction" Bio: Li Zhang is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in Northumbria University and also serving as an Honorary Research Fellow in University of Birmingham, UK. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNS: Li Zhang, 2015

Title: "Robot Perception and Creativity Exploiting Conceptual Spaces" Bio: Antonio Chella is a full professor in Robotics at the University of Palermo and an associate researcher at CNR (the Italian National Research Council). [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNS: Antonio Chella, 2015

Title: "The Most Complex Machines Ever" Bio: Prof. Phillips is a Principal Staff Engineer at ARM Ltd, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Plymouth. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNS: Ian Phillips, 2015

Title: Predictive Learning as a Key for Cognitive Development: New Insight from Developmental Robotics Abstract: Robotics research has a potential to yield new insights about infant development. Investigating neural models for robots to acquire social behaviors could lead to a better understanding of underlying mechanisms for human cognition. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNS Yukie Nagai 2014

Dr Phil Culverhouse and some of our current students discuss what it’s like to study here and show you some of our facilities. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

ROBOTICS AT PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Title: "Using code generation to facilitate GPU computing for science applications" Abstract: In this talk I will briefly introduce the concepts of how graphical processing units (GPUs) can be used for general purpose computing using the NVIDIA CUDA API and then present how we are using a simple domain specific language and code generation to build a versatile simulator for neural networks on GPU hardware. [(CC) BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK]

CRNS Thomas Nowotny

Informational Principles in the Perception-Action Loop Ashby&#39;s Law of Requisite Variety (1956) and, in last years, especially its later rediscovery and extension by Touchette and Lloyd (2000, 2004) have indicated that Shannon information acts as fundamental "currency" constraining the potential organisation and "administration" of cognitive tasks. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNS2013DanielPolani

Abstract Control of Myoelectric Hand Prostheses Myoelectric prosthetic limbs provide a vital route to functional rehabilitation of amputees and people with upper-limb agenesis (congenital deficit). Myoelectric prostheses are typically controlled via the surface electromyogram signals recorded non-invasively from the amputee’s residual forearm and hand muscles. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNSKianoush Nazarpour2013

title: Towards Automatic Design of Optimisation Algorithms abstract: Memetic Computing (MC) is a subject that studies optimization algorithms as structured collections of interacting operators. This talk introduces MC, explains sequential and parallel memetic structures, states the Ockham&#39;s Razor principle in MC and shows how a bottom-up approach, in accordance to the No Free Lunch Theorem, can lead to simple and yet efficient algorithmic structures. [(CC) BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK]

CRNSFerrante Neri2013

Models that utilise learning tend to be small and typically fail to scale up to general real world applications. This talk presents a theoretical approach to understanding both human cognition and the problems a general learning robot must face. This is used to present a single model, with the iCub robot, applied to the multiple developmental stages of language acquisition. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

CRNS Morse 2013 Developmental Robotics Language and Action

Second lecture on an introduction to VHDL. This session, we look at how to manipulate signals and some of the rules in place to protect the developer from making errors. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

ELEC226 - Offline Lecture Trimmed

A selection of electronics and robotics students from Plymouth University describe their final stage project work. The interviews were filmed during the combined computing, electronics and robotics project showcase event on 22 May 2013. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Electronics and Robotics Project Showcase 2013

Science & Technology Showcase in the graduation marquee - 11/09/12 [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Science & Technology Showcase

Use of EMG in robotic control. The project entails creating a mobile robot with a robotic arm and an adjustable camera rig. The robot will them be controlled using a combination of EEG and EMG. The arm and camera rig will be controlled using EMG, while the robot’s movements will be controlled using EEG. Both inputs will be collet and transmitted wirelessly to the robot. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Project Open Day 2012 - Aashish Santana - MEng Robotics

The Centre for Robotics & Neural Systems builds on world-leading and international excellence performance in Computer Science, Robotics & Neural Systems research. It coordinates large UK & EU projects, collaborating with major international centres in cognitive robotics & computational neuroscience.

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