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Reinforcement learning and optimal adaptive control: An overview and implementation examples by Khan, Said G., Herrmann, Guido, Lewis, Frank L., Pipe, Tony, Melhuish, Chris

“…This paper provides an overview of the reinforcement learning and optimal adaptive control literature and its application to robotics. Reinforcement learning…”
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Seeing by touch: evaluation of a soft biologically-inspired artificial fingertip in real-time active touch by Assaf, Tareq, Roke, Calum, Rossiter, Jonathan, Pipe, Tony, Melhuish, Chris

“…Effective tactile sensing for artificial platforms remains an open issue in robotics. This study investigates the performance of a soft biologically-inspired…”
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Negating the fulcrum effect in manual laparoscopic surgery: Investigating skill acquisition with a haptic simulator by Spiers, Adam J., Baillie, Sarah, Pipe, Tony G., Asimakopolous, George

“…Background Manual laparoscopic surgery requires extensive training and familiarization. It has been suggested that motion inversion caused by the ‘fulcrum…”
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On Determinism of Game Engines Used for Simulation-Based Autonomous Vehicle Verification by Chance, Greg, Ghobrial, Abanoub, McAreavey, Kevin, Lemaignan, Severin, Pipe, Tony, Eder, Kerstin

“…Game engines are increasingly used as simulation platforms by the autonomous vehicle community to develop vehicle control systems and test environments. A key…”
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Toward Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensing Capsule Endoscopy for Detection of Submucosal Tumors by Winstone, Benjamin, Melhuish, Chris, Pipe, Tony, Callaway, Mark, Dogramadzi, Sanja

“…Here, we present a method for lump characterization using a bio-inspired remote tactile sensing capsule endoscopy system. While current capsule endoscopy…”
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Automated Extraction of 3D Printed Parts From Unfused PA12 Powder Using a One-Shot 3D Printed Compliant Gripper by Cormack, Jordan, Fotouhi, Mohammad, Adams, Guy, Pipe, Tony

“…Automated individual part extraction from powder based 3D printers has the potential to save time and cost compared with fully manual part extraction, or part…”
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Novel Bio-Inspired Approach for Fault-Tolerant VLSI Systems by Samie, Mohammad, Dragffy, Gabriel, Tyrrell, Andy M., Pipe, Tony, Bremner, Paul

“…Living organisms are complex systems, and yet they possess extremely high degrees of reliability. Since failures are local, their repair will often be taken on…”
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Lump localisation through a deformation-based tactile feedback system using a biologically inspired finger sensor by Roke, Calum, Melhuish, Chris, Pipe, Tony, Drury, David, Chorley, Craig

“…The ability to localise harder areas in soft tissues is often desired during robot-assisted surgical operations. A deformation-based tactile feedback system…”
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Planning Maximum-Manipulability Cutting Paths by Pardi, Tommaso, Ortenzi, Valerio, Fairbairn, Colin, Pipe, Tony, Esfahani, Amir Masoud Ghalamzan, Stolkin, Rustam

“…This letter presents a method for constrained motion planning from vision, which enables a robot to move its end-effector over an observed surface, given start…”
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Whiskered robots by Pipe, Tony, Pearson, Martin

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Bootstrapping a robot’s kinematic model by Broun, Alan, Beck, Chris, Pipe, Tony, Mirmehdi, Majid, Melhuish, Chris

“…We present a system that is able to autonomously build a 3D model of a robot’s hand, along with a kinematic model of the robot’s arm, beginning with very…”
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Safe Adaptive Compliance Control of a Humanoid Robotic Arm with Anti-Windup Compensation and Posture Control by Khan, Said Ghani, Herrmann, Guido, Pipe, Tony, Melhuish, Chris, Spiers, Adam

“…Safety is very important for physical human-robot interaction. Compliance control can solve an important aspect of the safety problem by dealing with impact…”
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Hardware architecture of the Protein Processing Associative Memory and the effects of dimensionality and quantisation on performance by Qadir, Omer, Lenz, Alex, Tempesti, Gianluca, Timmis, Jon, Pipe, Tony, Tyrrell, Andy

“…The Protein Processor Associative Memory (PPAM) is a novel hardware architecture for a distributed, decentralised, robust and scalable, bidirectional,…”
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Corrigendum to ‘Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Adaptive Control: An Overview and Implementation Examples’ [Annual Reviews in Control 36 (1) (2012) 42–59] by Khan, Said G., Herrmann, Guido, Lewis, Frank L., Pipe, Tony, Melhuish, Chris

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Detrive: Imitation Learning with Transformer Detection for End-to-End Autonomous Driving by Chen, Daoming, Wang, Ning, Chen, Feng, Pipe, Tony

“…This Paper proposes a novel Transformer-based end-to-end autonomous driving model named Detrive. This model solves the problem that the past end-to-end models…”
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Tactile edge detection by Chorley, Craig, Melhuish, Chris, Pipe, Tony, Rossiter, Jonathan

“…The mechanics of the skin and subcutaneous tissues are as central to the sense of touch as the optics of the eye is to vision and the acoustics of the ear is…”
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An Agency-Directed Approach to Test Generation for Simulation-based Autonomous Vehicle Verification by Chance, Greg, Ghobrial, Abanoub, Lemaignan, Severin, Pipe, Tony, Eder, Kerstin

“…Simulation-based verification is beneficial for assessing otherwise dangerous or costly on-road testing of autonomous vehicles (AV). This paper addresses the…”
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Usability Study of a Novel Triple-arm Mixed-Reality Robot Teleoperation System by Sobhani, Mehdi, Smith, Alex, Giuliani, Manuel, Pipe, Tony

“…The usability of a novel triple-arm mixed-reality robot teleoperation system is investigated. The system is developed to provide a sense of remote presence for…”
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Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans by Lallee, S., Pattacini, U., Lemaignan, S., Lenz, A., Melhuish, C., Natale, L., Skachek, S., Hamann, K., Steinwender, J., Sisbot, E. A., Metta, G., Guitton, J., Alami, R., Warnier, M., Pipe, T., Warneken, F., Dominey, P. F.

“…Robots should be capable of interacting in a cooperative and adaptive manner with their human counterparts in open-ended tasks that can change in real-time. An…”
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Longitudinal Driving Skills Transfer from Driver to Smart Vehicle by Cheng, Shuo, Wang, Ning, Chen, Feng, Pipe, Tony

“…Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) research has attracted much attention in recent years. In fact, some functionality of AV, such as cruise control, lane keeping and…”
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