Visiting Professor, Department of Electronics, University of York
Director of the UWE Science Communication Unit
EPSRC Senior Media Fellow
Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England, Bristol Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY UK Phone: +44 117 328 2644 Email: Alan.Winfield (at) uwe.ac.uk
Skype: alanftwinfield
Welcome to my home page. I'm an engineer and academic at UWE Bristol, and I conduct research in mobile robotics within the Bristol Robotics Lab.
I am deeply interested in mobile robots for two reasons: (1), they are complex and potentially useful machines that embody just about every design challenge and discipline there is and (2), robots allow us to address some deep questions about life, emergence, culture and intelligence in a radically new way, that is by building models. Thus, robotics is for me both engineering and experimental philosophy.
I'm committed to the widest possible dissemination of research and ideas in science, engineering and technology and I believe that robots provide us with a wonderful vehicle for public engagement. Actually I would go a stage further and argue that intelligent robots will become ubiquitous in the near future and we therefore need to start a dialogue now about the ethical and moral questions that will arise.
Biography: Short Biography Press and Media
LinkedIn profile
Current Projects: euRathlon blog posts
Symbrion blog posts
Recent Projects:
Artificial Culture blog posts
Robotic Visions blog posts
Walking with Robots blog posts
Publications Research students
New Project - the European Robotics Athlon: euRathlon webpage, and blogpost
Friday
22
February
2013,
Seminar
for the Neural
Dynamics
Forum, University of Bristol.
Tuesday
12
March
2013,
Inspiring
Science:
Lectures
for
A
Level students, British Library, London.
Selected recent papers
Woodman R, Winfield AFT, Harper C and Fraser M, Building Safer Robots: Safety Driven Control, International Journal of Robotics Research. 31 (13), 1603-1626, Nov 2012. Download pdf (accepted version).
Dixon C, Winfield A, Fisher M and Zheng C, Towards Temporal Verification of Swarm Robotic Systems, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60 (11), 1429-1441, Nov 2012. Download pdf (accepted version).
Grand, A., Wilkinson, C., Bultitude, K., and Winfield, A., Open science: a new "trust technology"? Science Communication, 34 (5), 679-689, 2012.
Bredeche N, Montaniera J-M, Liu W and Winfield AFT, Environment-driven Distributed Evolutionary Adaptation in a Population of Autonomous Robotic Agents, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, 18 (1) 2012.
Winfield AFT and Erbas MD, On embodied memetic evolution and the emergence of behavioural traditions in robots, Memetic Computing, 3 (4), 2011. Download pdf (accepted version).
Jens Krause, Alan F.T. Winfield, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Interactive robots in experimental biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26 (7), 2011. Download pdf (accepted version).