Search Results - "Bugmann, G."

Superficial warming and cooling of the leg affects walking speed and neuromuscular impairments in people with spastic paraparesis by Denton, A, Bunn, L, Hough, A, Bugmann, G, Marsden, J

“…Abstract Background People with hereditary and spontaneous spastic paraparesis (HSSP) report that their legs are stiffer and walking is slower when their legs…”
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Neural network design for engineering applications by Rafiq, M.Y, Bugmann, G, Easterbrook, D.J

“…Computers are an integral part of day to day activities in engineering design and engineers have utilised various applications to assist them improve their…”
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Application of arachnid prey localisation theory for a robot sensorimotor controller by Adams, S.V., Wennekers, T., Bugmann, G., Denham, S., Culverhouse, P.F.

“…We extend an existing spiking neural model of arachnid prey orientation sensing with a view to potentially using it in robotics applications. Firstly, we have…”
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On quaternion based parameterization of orientation in computer vision and robotics by Terzakis, G., Culverhouse, P., Bugmann, G., Sharma, S., Sutton, R.

“…The problem of orientation parameterization for applications in computer vision and robotics is examined in detail herein. The necessary intuition and formulas…”
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Cellular Automata Model for Predicting the Failure Pattern of Laterally Loaded Masonry Wall Panels by Zhou, G. C, Rafiq, M. Y, Bugmann, G, Easterbrook, D. J

“…This paper introduces a technique that directly predicts the failure patterns of laterally loaded masonry panels based on the results of existing typical…”
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Training personal robots using natural language instruction by Lauria, S, Bugmann, G, Kyriacou, T, Bos, J, Klein, A

“…As domestic robots become pervasive, uninitiated users will need a way to instruct them to adapt to their particular needs. Researchers are designing a…”
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Classification of Finger Movements for the Dexterous Hand Prosthesis Control With Surface Electromyography by Al-Timemy, A. H., Bugmann, G., Escudero, J., Outram, N.

“…A method for the classification of finger movements for dexterous control of prosthetic hands is proposed. Previous research was mainly devoted to identify…”
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The impact of spoken interfaces on the design of service robots by Bugmann, G., Wolf, J.C., Robinson, P.

“…Purpose - Service robots need to be programmable by their users who are in general unskilled in the art of robot programming. We have explored the use of…”
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Normalized Gaussian Radial Basis Function networks by Bugmann, Guido

“…The performances of normalised RBF (NRBF) nets and standard RBF nets are compared in simple classification and mapping problems. In normalized RBF networks,…”
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On quaternion based parameterization of orientation in computer vision and robotics by Terzakis, G., Culverhouse, P., Bugmann, G., Sharma, S., Sutton, R.

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Mobile robot programming using natural language by Lauria, Stanislao, Bugmann, Guido, Kyriacou, Theocharis, Klein, Ewan

“…How will naive users program domestic robots? This paper describes the design of a practical system that uses natural language to teach a vision-based robot…”
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Synaptic depression increases the selectivity of a neuron to its preferred pattern and binarizes the neural code by Bugmann, Guido

“…The preferred pattern of a neuron is defined here by the set of features detected by its excitatory inputs. It is shown that the Leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF)…”
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Converting natural language route instructions into robot executable procedures by Lauria, S., Bugmann, G., Kyriacou, T., Bos, J., Klein, E.

“…Humans explaining a task to a robot use chunks of actions that are often complex procedures for robots. An instructable robot needs to be able to map such…”
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Vision-based urban navigation procedures for verbally instructed robots by Kyriacou, Theocharis, Bugmann, Guido, Lauria, Stanislao

“…When humans explain a task to be executed by a robot they decompose it into chunks of actions. These form a chain of search-and-act sensory-motor loops that…”
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Coefficient of variation vs. mean interspike interval curves: What do they tell us about the brain? by Christodoulou, Chris, Bugmann, Guido

“…A number of models have been produced recently to explain the high variability of natural spike trains (Softky and Koch, J. Neurosci. 13 (1) (1993) 334). These…”
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Biologically plausible neural computation by Bugmann, Guido

“…The function of a neuron can be described simultaneously at several levels of abstraction. For instance, a spike train represents the result of a computation…”
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Vision-based urban navigation procedures for verbally instructed robots by Kyriacou, T., Bugmann, G., Lauria, S.

“…Humans who explain a task to a robot, or to another human, use chunks of actions that are often complex procedures for robots. An instructible robot needs to…”
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Towards a neural model of timing by Bugmann, Guido

“…This paper describes a neural model of interval timing, which reproduces the duration discrimination experiments of Wearden, J.H., 1992, J. Exp. Psychol. 18,…”
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A spiking neuron model: applications and learning by Christodoulou, Chris, Bugmann, Guido, Clarkson, Trevor G

“…This paper presents a biologically inspired, hardware-realisable spiking neuron model, which we call the Temporal Noisy-Leaky Integrator (TNLI). The dynamic…”
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A model of visual backward masking by Bugmann, Guido, Taylor, John G.

“…When two successive stimuli are presented within 0–200 ms intervals, the recognition of the first stimulus (the target) can be impaired by the second (the…”
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