- PSQ A309, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- G.Bugmann@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Dr Guido Bugmann
Visiting Associate Professor (Reader)
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Researching in the areas of Brain Modelling and Robotics.
See my home page for further information and a brief CV.
Teaching interests
I used to teach:
Undergraduate Level
- AINT101 - Computer Science Workshop
- ROCO103 - Robot Build and Design
- AINT205 - Alternative Computing Paradigms
- AINT303 - Neural Computation
Postgraduate Level
- AINT507 - Natural Language Interfaces
- AINT503 - Interactive Intelligent Systems Workshop
Extracurricular
- Robotics Club
Research interests
- Brain Modelling and Neural Networks
- Human-Robot Communication using Natural Language
- Artificial Vision for Robot Navigation
- Planning
See my home page for further information.
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2019 'Probing the early phase of rapid instructed rule encoding' Biosystems 184, 103993-103993 , DOI Open access
2018 'Paving the Way to Eureka-Introducing "Dira" as an Experimental Paradigm to Observe the Process of Creative Problem Solving' Frontiers in Psychology 9, , DOI Open access
2018 'Adaptive windowing framework for surface electromyogram-based pattern recognition system for transradial amputees' Sensors (Switzerland) 18, (8) , DOI Open access
2016 'Superficial warming and cooling of the leg affects walking speed and neuromuscular impairments in people with spastic paraparesis' Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 59, (5-6) 326-332 , DOI Open access
2015 'On learning time delays between the spikes from different input neurons in a biophysical model of a pyramidal neuron' Biosystems 136, 80-89 , DOI Open access
2015 'Improving the Performance Against Force Variation of EMG Controlled Multifunctional Upper-Limb Prostheses for Transradial Amputees' IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 24, (6) 650-661 , DOI Open access
2015 'Fitting multiple projective models using clustering-based Markov chain Monte Carlo inference' IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING 33, 15-25 , DOI
2014 'On quaternion based parametrization of orientation in computer vision and robotics' Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review (1) 82-93 Open access
2013 'On quaternion based parameterization of orientation in computer vision and robotics' Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review 6, (5) 15-24 , DOI
2013 'The speed of learning instructed stimulus-response association rules in human: experimental data and model' Brain Res 1536, 2-15 , DOI Open access
2013 'Activity Propagation in a Network of Coincidence-Detecting Neurons' COGNITIVE COMPUTATION 5, (3) 307-326 , DOI
2013 'Modelling the human blink: a computational model for use within human-robot interaction' International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 10, (1) 1-31 Publisher Site , DOI
2013 'Classification of Finger Movements for the Dexterous Hand Prosthesis Control with Surface Electromyography' IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 17, 608-618 , DOI
2013 'A note on the probability distribution function of the surface electromyogram signal' Brain Res Bull 90, 88-91 , DOI
2013 'A preliminary investigation of the effect of force variation for myoelectric control of hand prosthesis' Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2013, 5758-5761 , DOI
2013 'Protocol for site selection and movement assessment for the myoelectric control of a multi-functional upper-limb prosthesis' Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2013, 5817-5820 , DOI
2012 'Distinguishing the causes of firing with the membrane potential slope' Neural Comput 24, (9) 2318-2345 , DOI
2012 'Modeling fast stimulus-response association learning along the occipito-parieto-frontal pathway following rule instructions' Brain Res 1434, 73-89 , DOI
2012 'One-shot pattern recognition learning in a deep multilayer neural network of biological inspiration' PERCEPTION 41, (10) 1273-1274
2011 'Application of arachnid prey localisation theory for a robot sensorimotor controller' NEUROCOMPUTING 74, (17) 3335-3342 , DOI
2007 'Determination of the fraction of active inputs required by a neuron to fire' Biosystems 89, (1-3) 154-159
2006 'Cellular automata model for predicting the failure pattern of laterally loaded masonry wall panels' Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering 20, (6) 400-409
2006 'Prediction of the behaviour of masonry wall panels using evolutionary computation and cellular automata' Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture 4200, 534-544
2006 'Stable encoding of robot paths using normalised radial basis networks: application to an autonomous wheelchair' International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems 4, (2/3/4) 239-239 , DOI
2005 'A model of visual backward masking' Biosystems 79, (1-3) 151-158
2005 'The impact of spoken interfaces on the design of service robots' Industrial Robot-An International Journal 32, (6) 499-504
2005 'The what and when of service robotics' Industrial Robot-An International Journal 32, (6) 437-437
2005 'Vision-based urban navigation procedures for verbally instructed robots' Robotics and Autonomous Systems 51, (1) 69-80
2003 '“Application of cellular automata in modelling laterally loaded masonry panel boundary effects”' Masonry International 16, (3) 104-114
2002 'Synaptic depression increases the selectivity of a neuron to its preferred pattern and binarizes the neural code' Biosystems 67 (1-3), 17-25 , DOI
2002 'A spiking neuron model: applications and learning' Neural Networks 15, (7) 891-908
2002 'Mobile robot programming using natural language' Robotics and Autonomous Systems 38, (3-4) 171-181
2002 'Special issue - Papers presented at the International Workshop on NEURONAL CODING '01 - Plymouth, UK 9-14 September, 2001 - Foreword' Biosystems 67, (1-3) 1-2
2002 'Vision-based urban navigation procedures for verbally instructed robots' 2002 Ieee/Rsj International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vols 1-3, Proceedings 51, 1326-1331
2001 'Coefficient of variation vs. mean interspike interval curves: What do they tell us about the brain?' Neurocomputing 38, 1141-1149
2001 'Neural network design for engineering applications' Computers & Structures 79, (17) 1541-1552
2001 'Personal robot training via natural-language instructions' Ieee Intelligent Systems 16, (3) 38-45
2001 'Training personal robots using natural language instruction' Ieee Intelligent Systems 16, (5) 38-45
2001 'Training personal robots using natural language instruction' IEEE Intelligent Systems 16, (5) 38-45 , DOI
2000 'Modelling relative recency discrimination tasks using a stochastic working memory model' Biosystems 58, (1-3) 195-202 , DOI
2000 'Near Poisson-type firing produced by concurrent excitation and inhibition' Biosystems 58, (1-3) 41-48 , DOI
2000 'Artificial Neural Networks to Aid Conceptual Design' The Structural Engineer 78, 25-32-25-32
2000 'Is working memory stochastic?' EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 12, 168-168
2000 'Modelling Relative Recency Discrimination Tasks using a Stochastic Working Memory Model' Biosystems 58, 195-202-195-202
2000 'Near-Poisson firing induced by concurrent excitation and inhibition' Biosystems 58, 41-148-41-148
1999 'Computational delays and habits' IEE Colloquium (Digest) (49)
1998 'Normalized Gaussian Radial Basis Function networks' Neurocomputing 20, 97-110
1998 'Normalized Radial Basis Function Networks' Neurocomputing 20, 97-110-97-110
1998 'Towards a Neural Model of Timing' Biosystems 48, 11-19-11-19
1997 'Binding by synchronisation: A task-dependence hypothesis' BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES 20, (4) 685-+ , DOI
1997 'Binding by Synchronisation: A Task Dependence Hypothesis' Brain and Behaviour Sciences 20, 685-686-685-686
1997 'Biologically Plausible Neural Computation' Biosystems 40, 11-19-11-19
1997 'Neuro-Resistive Grid Appraoch to Trainable Controllers: A Pole Balancing Example' Neural Comput. Appl. 5, 33-44
1997 'Neuro-resistive grid approach to trainable controllers: A pole balancing example' Neural Computing and Application Journal 5, 33-44-33-44
1997 'Role of Temporal Integration and Fluctuation Detection in the highly irregular firing of a Leaky Integrator Neuron Model with Partial Reset' Neural Computation 9, 985-1000-985-1000
1997 'Role of Temporal Integration and Fluctuation Detection in the Highly Irregular Firing of a Leaky Integrator Neuron Model with Partial Reset' Neural Comput. 9, 985-1000
1995 'RAPID PATH PLANNING FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS USING AN EMULATED RESISTIVE GRID' ELECTRONICS LETTERS 31, (22) 1960-1961 , DOI
1992 'Multiplying with neurons: compensation for irregular input spike trains by using time-dependent synaptic efficiencies' Biol Cybern 68, (1) 87-92 , DOI
1991 'SUMMATION AND MULTIPLICATION - 2 DISTINCT OPERATION DOMAINS OF LEAKY INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURONS' NETWORK-COMPUTATION IN NEURAL SYSTEMS 2, (4) 489-509 , DOI
1991 'CHARACTERIZING BUBBLES IN BIOREACTORS USING LIGHT OR ULTRASOUND PROBES - DATA-ANALYSIS BY CLASSICAL MEANS AND BY NEURAL NETWORKS' CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 69, (2) 474-480 , DOI
1991 'Summation and multiplication: two distinct operation domains of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons' Network: Computation in Neural Systems 2, (4) 489-509 , DOI
1989 'CHARACTERIZING BUBBLES IN BIOREACTORS BY ULTRASOUND' TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 7, (7) 166-169 , DOI
1989 'MEASURING THE MEAN DIAMETER OF GAS-BUBBLES USING THE DEVIATION-TYPE METHOD' HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA 62, (2-3) 314-317
1987 'OPTICAL-EMISSION PROFILES USED FOR A-SI-H DEPOSITION RATE CALCULATION' JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS 97-8, 1423-1426 , DOI
1987 'CHARACTERISTICS OF ANODIC DEPOSITION OF A-SI-H IN THE NEGATIVE LIGHT OF DC-SILANE-HELIUM PLASMA' HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA 60, (2) 185-185
1986 'OPTIMIZATION OF SI-A DISSOCIATION IN AN ELECTRICAL-DISCHARGE' HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA 59, (6-7) 1026-1026
1985 'REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE PLASMA-CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN ELECTRICAL-DISCHARGE' HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA 58, (5) 870-870
1985 'STUDY OF ALUMINUM CONTACT ON A-SI-H' HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA 58, (5) 861-864
1984 'SOME SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEPOSITION OF A-SI LAYERS IN THE DC DISCHARGE IN SILANES' HELVETICA PHYSICA ACTA 57, (2) 276-277
1983 'INFLUENCE OF GAS-FLOW DIRECTION ON DC GLOW-DISCHARGE DEPOSITED A-SI FILMS' JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS 59-6, (DEC) 675-678 , DOI
1978 '[Demonstration of a control lever for a simulator of visual aptitudes]' Soz Praventivmed 23, (4) 293-294 , DOI
1978 'PRESENTATION OF A RESPONSE LEVER FOR SIMULATION OF VISUAL IMAGES' SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN 23, (4) 293-294 , DOI
Books
2005 Modeling language, cognition and action. Singapore World Scientific
Chapters
2002 'MIROSOT: A teaching and learning tool' in Ju-Jangn Lee Proc of 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress Korea Robot Soccer Association 309-314
2001 'Role of the cerebellum in time-critical goal-oriented behaviour: Anatomical basis and control principle' 2036/2001 Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience: Towards Neuroscience-Inspired Computing 255-269
1998 'A Connectionist Approach to Spatial Memory and Planning' in Landau LJ; Taylor JG Concepts for Neural Networks Springer 109-146 Publisher Site
Conference Papers
2017 'An Open-Source Tele-Operated Mobile Manipulator: CHAP V1' Springer International Publishing 199-210 , DOI Open access
2017 'Recovery of a Humanoid Robot from a Destabilising Impact' Springer International Publishing 32-40 , DOI Open access
2015 'Joint Torques and Velocities in a 3-mass Linear Inverted Pendulum Model of Bipedal Gait' Springer International Publishing 82-93 , DOI
2014 'Development of a Highly Dexterous Robotic Hand with Independent Finger Movements for Amputee Training' 291-293 , DOI
2014 'Humanoid Robot Gait Generator: Foot Steps Calculation for Trajectory Following' Springer International Publishing 251-262 , DOI
2012 'Finger Movements Classification for the Dexterous Control of Upper Limb Prosthesis Using EMG Signals' in Herrmann G; Studley M; Pearson MJ; Conn AT; Melhuish C; Witkowski M; Kim J-H; Vadakkepat P Springer 434-435 Publisher Site
2011 'A Role for Robotics in Sustainable Development?'
2011 'Classification of finger movements for the proper control of prosthetic hand' 103-108
2011 'What Can a Personal Robot Do for You?' in Groß R; Alboul L; Melhuish C; Witkowski M; Prescott TJ; Penders J Springer 360-371 Publisher Site
2009 'A Neural Architecture for Fast Learning of Stimulus-Response Associations' in Prasad B; Lingras P; Ram A IICAI 828-841 Publisher Site
2009 'BunnyBot: Humanoid Platform for Research and Teaching' 25-+
2008 'Converting Multi-Modal Task Instructions to Rule-Based Robot Instructions' 586-591
2007 '“Generality of using Correctors to Predict the Behaviour of Masonry Wall Panels”' Proc. of the 24th W78 conference, 14th Int. EG-ICE Workshop and 5th ITC@EDU workshop, Maribor, Slovenia, June 669-674
2007 'Understanding rules in human-robot instructions' 2007 Ro-Man: 16Th Ieee International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Vols 1-3 709-714
2006 '“Using Timoshenko Formula to Modify the Experimental Error of Masonry Panels”' in CD-Rom Proc. of the 7th Int. Masonry Conference, London, British Masonry Society, Paper 47
2006 'An investigation into numerical model updating of masonry panels subjected to lateral load' in CD-Rom Proc. of the 7th Int. Masonry Conference, London, British Masonry Society, Paper 33
2006 'More accurate prediction of the behaviour of masonry panel subjected to lateral loads”' in CD-Rom Proc. of the 7th Int. Masonry Conference, London, British Masonry Society, Paper 19
2006 'Uniqueness study of updating the FEA model of laterally loaded masonry panel by genetic algorithm”,' in CD-Rom Proc. of the 7th Int. Masonry Conference, London, British Masonry Society, Paper 36
2006 'Linking Speech and Gesture in Multimodal Instruction Systems' ROMAN 2006 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 9-/-0/20069-/-0/2006IEEE , DOI
2005 'Effective spoken interfaces to service robots: Open problems' 18-22
2003 'Predicting the behaviour of laterally loaded masonry wall panels using cellular automata' 165-166
2002 'Converting natural language route instructions into robot executable procedures' 223-228
1999 'Computational delays and habits' 13-17
1999 'Classification using networks of normalized radial basis functions' 435-444
1999 'Guidelines for designing neural networks for civil engineering applications' 109-115
1998 'Artificial neural networks for modelling some of the activities of the conceptual stage of the design process' 631-643
1997 'Effects of medial septal lesions - Implications for models of hippocampal function' 577-583
1995 'The configuration space transformation for articulated manipulators: a novel approach based on RBF-networks' 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks IEE , DOI
1994 'MODELLING OF THE HIGH FIRING VARIABILITY OF REAL CORTICAL NEURONS WITH THE TEMPORAL NOISY-LEAKY INTEGRATOR NEURON MODEL' 2239-2244
1993 'The Temporal Noisy-Leaky Integrator Neuron with Additional Inhibitory Inputs' in Mira J; Cabestany J; Prieto A Springer 465-470 Publisher Site
1992 'A TEMPORAL NOISY-LEAKY INTEGRATOR NEURON CONSTRUCTED USING PRAMS' 1475-1478
1992 'DIRECT APPROACHES TO IMPROVING THE ROBUSTNESS OF MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS' 1063-1066
1992 'THE NEURONAL COMPUTATION TIME' 861-864
'Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Predict the Behaviour of Masonry Panels”' in CD-Rom Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Rome 8-/-0/20059-/-0/2005
'Single channel-based myoelectric control of hand movements with Empirical Mode Decomposition' 6059 -6062-6059 -6062 , DOI
Other academic activities
Artificial Neural Networks and their Applications.
Biological Neural Networks and models of Brain Functions.
Artificial vision.
Spoken Interfaces with Machines.