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2013

Evans, M. , Fox, C. , Lepora, N. , Pearson, M. , Sullivan, J. C. and Prescott, T. J. (2013) The effect of whisker movement on radial distance estimation: A case study in comparative robotics. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 6 (12). ISSN 1662-5218

2012

Fox, C. W. , Evans, M. , Pearson, M. and Prescott, T. J. (2012) Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60 (11). pp. 1356-1366. ISSN 0921-8890

Anderson, S. , Porrill, J. , Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. , Prescott, T. J. and Dean, P. (2012) An internal model architecture for novelty detection: Implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in sensory processing. PloS One. ISSN 1932-6203

Mitchinson, B. , Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. and Prescott, T. J. (2012) Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot. In: Proceedings of 13th Advances in Autonomous Systems, Bristol, UK, August 20-23, 2012.

Mitchinson, B. , Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. and Prescott, T. J. (2012) The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots. In: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2012.

Sullian, J. , Mitchinson, B. , Pearson, M. , Evans, M. , Lepora, N. , Fox, C. W. , Melhuish, C. and Prescott, T. J. (2012) Tactile discrimination using active whisker sensors. IEEE Explore, 12 (2). pp. 350-362. ISSN 1530-437X

Wilson, E. , Anderson, S. R. , Assaf, T. , Pearson, M. , Walters, P. , Melhuish, C. , Rossiter, J. , Pipe, T. , Dean, P. and Porrill, J. (2012) Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots. In: Herrmann, G. , Studley, M. , Pearson, M. , Conn, A. , Melhuish, C. , Witkowski, M. , Vadakkepat, P. and Kim, J. H. , eds. (2012) 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, Proceedings. (7429) Bristol: Springer, pp. 424-425. ISBN 9783642325267

Lepora, N. , Sullivan, C. , Mitchinson, B. , Pearson, M. , Gurney, K. and Prescott, T. J. (2012) Brain-inspired Bayesian perception for biomimetic robot touch. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, 14th - 18th May, 2012.

Fox, C. W. , Evans, M. , Pearson, M. and Prescott, T. J. (2012) Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, 14th - 18th May, 2012.

Evans, M. , Pearson, M. , Prescott, T. J. and Fox, C. W. (2012) Whisker texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry. In: IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Algarve [Portugal], October 7-12, 2012.

2011

Pearson, M. , Mitchinson, B. , Sullivan, J. C. , Pipe, A. G. and Prescott, T. J. (2011) Biomimetic vibrissal sensing for robots. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366 (1581). pp. 3085-3096. ISSN 1471-2970

Rooney, T. , Pearson, M. , Welsby, J. , Horsfield, I. , Sewell, R. and Dogramadzi, S. (2011) Artificial active whiskers for guiding underwater autonomous walking robots. In: CLAWAR 2011, Paris, France, 6th-8th September 2011.

Rooney, T. , Pearson, M. , Welsby, J. , Horsfield, I. , Sewell, R. and Dogramadzi, S. (2011) Object localisation using active whiskers on underwater autonomous walking robot. In: Bidaud, P. , Tokhi, M. O. , Grande, C. and Virk, G. S. , eds. (2011) Field Robotics: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines. World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 190-195. ISBN 9789814374279

2010

Anderson, S. , Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. , Prescott, T. J. , Dean, P. and Porrill, J. (2010) Adaptive cancellation of self-generated sensory signals in a whisking robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26 (6). pp. 1065-1076. ISSN 1552-3098

Pearson, M. and Pipe, A. G. (2010) SCRATCHbot: Active tactile sensing in a whiskered mobile robot. In: (2010) From Animals to Animats 11, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (6226) 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour Aug 25-28 2010 Proceedings. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 93-103. ISBN 978-3-642-15192-7

Pearson, M. and Pipe, A. G. (2010) Towards biomimetic vibrissal tactile sensing for robot exploration, navigation, and object recognition in hazardous environments. In: 4th IARP workshop: Robots for risky interventions and Environmental Surveillance - maintenance, Sheffield, UK, 2010.

2009

Fox, C. W. , Mitchinson, B. , Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. and Prescott, T. J. (2009) Contact type dependency of texture classification in a whiskered mobile robot. Autonomous Robots, 26 (4). pp. 223-239. ISSN 0929-5593

Mitchinson, B. , Chan, T.-S. , Chambers, J. , Pearson, M. , Humphries, M. , Fox, C. , Gurney, K. and Prescott, T. J. (2009) BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24 (1). pp. 49-61. ISSN 1474-0346

Prescott, T. J. , Pearson, M. , Mitchinson, B. , Sullivan, J. C. W. and Pipe, A. G. (2009) Whisking with robots: From rat vibrissae to biomimetic technology for active touch. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 16 (3). pp. 42-50. ISSN 1070-9932

2008

Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. and Melhuish, C. (2008) Computational neuroethological modelling of the rat facial whiskers. In: Biological Approaches to Engineering , Southampton, UK, 2008., pp. 135-138

2007

Pearson, M. , Pipe, A. G. , Mitchinson, B. , Gurney, K. , Melhuish, C. , Gilhespy, I. and Nibouche, M. (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). pp. 1472-1487. ISSN 1045-9227

2004

Mitchinson, B. , N. Gurney, K. , Redgrave, P. , Melhuish, C. , G. Pipe, A. , Pearson, M. , Gilhespy, I. and J. Prescott, T. (2004) Empirically Inspired Electro-Mechanical Model of the Rat Mystacial Follicle-Sinus Complex. To be published in Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 271 (1556). pp. 2509-16. ISSN 09628452