The Computational Intelligence Group's Robotic Adventures
Graham Winstanley
University of Brighton
Computational Intelligence Research Group
29 February 2012, Watts 504 @ 1pm
Abstract
For a number of years there has been a kind of 'underground activity' within the group on autonomous rovers. It would perhaps be wrong to label this as research, but it has been a source of some education, inspiration, fun, desperation..., and has been a good 'vehicle' for establishing a link between research and teaching. An unofficial robotics programme emerged from a chance meeting with a group at the Open University some time ago, and resulted in the development of a number of devices. Recently there has been a resurgence in interest and new work is underway, both in hardware and software. The talk will cover some history, there will be a demonstration of one of our systems, and its hardware and software structures will be discussed. Hopefully there will be a discussion on what we want out of this kind of endeavour.
