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The challenges posed by global broadacre crops in delivering smart agri-robotic solutions: A fundamental rethink is required (2019)
Journal Article
Grieve, B. D., Duckett, T., Collison, M., Boyd, L., West, J., Yin, H., …Pearson, S. (2019). The challenges posed by global broadacre crops in delivering smart agri-robotic solutions: A fundamental rethink is required. Global Food Security, 23, 116-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.04.011

Threats to global food security from multiple sources, such as population growth, ageing farming populations, meat consumption trends, climate-change effects on abiotic and biotic stresses, the environmental impacts of agriculture are well publicised... Read More about The challenges posed by global broadacre crops in delivering smart agri-robotic solutions: A fundamental rethink is required.

Advanced motions for hexapods (2019)
Journal Article
Cheah, W., Khalili, H. H., Arvin, F., Green, P., Watson, S., & Lennox, B. (2019). Advanced motions for hexapods. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 16(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881419841537

Advanced motions, which utilize footholds on walls, offer considerably more opportunities for hexapods in accessing confined environment. However, there has been no research on the practical application of such motions on a hexapod. These motions are... Read More about Advanced motions for hexapods.

Φ Clust: Pheromone-Based Aggregation for Robotic Swarms (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvin, F., Turgut, A. E., Krajnik, T., Rahimi, S., Okay, I. E., Yue, S., …Lennox, B. (2018). Φ Clust: Pheromone-Based Aggregation for Robotic Swarms. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2018.8593961

In this paper, we proposed a pheromone-based aggregation method based on the state-of-the-art BEECLUST algorithm. We investigated the impact of pheromone-based communication on the efficiency of robotic swarms to locate and aggregate at areas with a... Read More about Φ Clust: Pheromone-Based Aggregation for Robotic Swarms.

Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research (2018)
Journal Article
Arvin, F., Espinosa, J., Bird, B., West, A., Watson, S., & Lennox, B. (2019). Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 94(3-4), 761–775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-018-0866-9

Mobile robots are playing a significant role in Higher Education science and engineering teaching, as they offer a flexible platform to explore and teach a wide-range of topics such as mechanics, electronics and software. Unfortunately the widespread... Read More about Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research.

Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging (2017)
Journal Article
Arvin, F., Watson, S., Turgut, A. E., Espinosa, J., Krajník, T., & Lennox, B. (2018). Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 92(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-017-0673-8

Swarm robotics studies the intelligent collective behaviour emerging from long-term interactions of large number of simple robots. However, maintaining a large number of robots operational for long time periods requires significant battery capacity,... Read More about Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging.

Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case (2016)
Journal Article
Hu, C., Arvin, F., Xiong, C., & Yue, S. (2017). Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 9(3), 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcds.2016.2574624

In this paper, we present a new bio-inspired vision system embedded for micro-robots. The vision system takes inspiration from locusts in detecting fast approaching objects. Neurophysiological research suggested that locusts use a wide-field visual n... Read More about Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case.

Investigation of cue-based aggregation in static and dynamic environments with a mobile robot swarm (2016)
Journal Article
Arvin, F., Turgut, A. E., Krajník, T., & Yue, S. (2016). Investigation of cue-based aggregation in static and dynamic environments with a mobile robot swarm. Adaptive Behavior, 24(2), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712316632851

Aggregation is one of the most fundamental behaviors and has been studied in swarm robotic researches for more than two decades. Studies in biology have revealed that the environment is a preeminent factor, especially in cue-based aggregation. This c... Read More about Investigation of cue-based aggregation in static and dynamic environments with a mobile robot swarm.

COSΦ: Artificial pheromone system for robotic swarms research (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvin, F., Krajnik, T., Turgut, A. E., & Yue, S. (2015). COSΦ: Artificial pheromone system for robotic swarms research. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2015.7353405

Pheromone-based communication is one of the most effective ways of communication widely observed in nature. It is particularly used by social insects such as bees, ants and termites; both for inter-agent and agent-swarm communications. Due to its eff... Read More about COSΦ: Artificial pheromone system for robotic swarms research.

Cue-based aggregation with a mobile robot swarm: a novel fuzzy-based method (2014)
Journal Article
Arvin, F., Turgut, A. E., Bazyari, F., Arikan, K. B., Bellotto, N., & Yue, S. (2014). Cue-based aggregation with a mobile robot swarm: a novel fuzzy-based method. Adaptive Behavior, 22(3), 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712314528009

Aggregation in swarm robotics is referred to as the gathering of spatially distributed robots into a single aggregate. Aggregation can be classified as cue-based or self-organized. In cue-based aggregation, there is a cue in the environment that poin... Read More about Cue-based aggregation with a mobile robot swarm: a novel fuzzy-based method.

Colias: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications (2014)
Journal Article
Arvin, F., Murray, J., Zhang, C., & Yue, S. (2014). Colias: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.5772/58730

Robotic swarms that take inspiration from nature are becoming a fascinating topic for multi-robot researchers. The aim is to control a large number of simple robots in order to solve common complex tasks. Due to the hardware complexities and cost of... Read More about Colias: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications.