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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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]

Informational Principles in the Perception-Action Loop Ashby'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.]

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.]

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'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]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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

Brain Signals Enhanced Haptic Game Interface Design. The project is to develop a novel game interface that human players could control the virtual characters using haptic joystick as well as using mind, through a process of real-time brain EEG signals collection and analysis to detect player’s intention. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

House generation control system. With the introduction of the Government Feed In Tariff(FIT)it makes financial sense to utilise all of your renewable generation on site. If your generation is sold back to the Grid you get around 3p per KWH. If you use the KWH's on site you save around 13p per KWH(rough cost per KWH from energy supplier. Therefore my project is to research and implement a control system that will decide where a houses renewable generation will be used. [(CC) BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK]

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.]

Laser particle counter for air quality analysis. Design and build a device that uses laser light scattering to count airborne particulate matter within a range of 2.5 and 10 micrometers, to give a count of harmful particles for a given volume of air. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Buck Boost convertor in DCM. A buck boost convertor which initially boost the voltage from 18 volt to 60 volt and then to be down converted to 13.5 volt via a buck convertor. The aim is to run this power supply in discontinued conduction mode. It is envisage that dcm will improve the efficiency of the smps [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Automotive Low Cost Driver Sleep Detection. The idea is to provide a low cost driver sleep detection system that is capable of detecting if the driver of a vehicle has fallen asleep behind the wheel. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]

Bipedal robot: hands. We have a need for five fingered hands that can grasp cloth. We have a prototype and a Solidworks model. It has 3 rotational axes, finger grip, thumb grip and wrist rotate. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]