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Profiles
Dr Martin Stoelen
Lecturer in Robotics
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation ("Sobresaliente Cum Laudem"), 2010 - 2014 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
- Master in Robotics and Automation ("Matrícula de Honor"), 2008 – 2010 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
- Master of Science (M.Sc.), Aerospace Engineering, 2005 – 2008 University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, USA
- Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Aerospace Engineering & Astronautics, with Distinction, 2001 – 2005 Kingston University, London, UK
Professional membership
- IEEE (2006 – present): member
- ACM (2007 – present): member
- HFES (2009 – present): member
- EUCognition (2012 - present): member
- RobotDoc (2012 – present): associate fellow
Teaching interests
Module Leader:
- ROCO504 “Advanced Robot Design”
- Structural analysis and rapid prototyping
- Embodied artificial intelligence
- Soft and variable-stiffness robots
- https://github.com/ROCO504/ROCO504
- ROCO224 “Introduction to Robotics”
- Previously ROCO216/217
- Forward and inverse kinematics
- Statics and structural analysis
- Robot control and programming
- AINT153PP “Intelligent Systems”, co-taught
- Introduction to intelligence
- Mobile robot behaviours
Also teaching:
- AINT514 “Computer Science Workshop”
- AINT511 “Topics in Advanced Intelligent Robotics”
- ROCO050 “Electronics & Robotics”
Other responsibilities:
- Exam Coordinator, Computing
- Programme Manager, MSc Robotics (from 2018/2019)
Research interests
See my up-to-date ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Stoelen
Grants & contracts
- Grant: CASTOR, 2018-2020
- Royal Academy of Engineering - Industry Academia Partnership Programme, UK/Colombia
- Funding: £50,000 total
- Co-Investigator, Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Carlos A. Cifuentes G.
- Grant: Robotic Fruit & Vegetable Picker Videos, 2018
- SEI Creative Associate Awards, Plymouth University
- Funding: £2,000
- Principal Investigator (PI), Creative Associate: Danny Cooke
- Grant: China Robot Harvest++, 2018-2019
- Newton Fund, UK
- Funding: £72,000
- Principal Investigator (PI), Co-Investigator: Prof. Mick Fuller
- Grant: China Robot Harvest, 2017-2018
- Newton Fund, UK
- Funding: £50,000
- Principal Investigator (PI), Co-Investigator: Prof. Mick Fuller
- Grant: Autonomous Brassica harvesting in Cornwall (ABC), 2017-2020
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- Agri-tech in Cornwall
- Funding: £216,000
- Principal Investigator (PI)
- Grant: Fieldwork Robotics Ltd, 2017
- Spin-out company at Plymouth University
- HEIF Proof of Concept, Plymouth University
- Funding: Approx. £50,000
- Director and co-founder
- Grant: Compliant Autonomous Systems for Agriculture (CASA), 2016 - 2019
- HEIF Proof of Concept, Plymouth University
- Funding: £29,100
- Principal Investigator. Co-investigator: Prof. Angelo Cangelosi
- Fellowship: Developmental Context-driven Robot learning (DeCoRo), 2014-2016
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (IEF), EU FP7
- Funding: €230,000
- Website: http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/SoCCE/CRNS/decoro/
- Supervisor: Prof. Angelo Cangelosi
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'An Open-Source Social Robot Based on Compliant Soft Robotics for Therapy with Children with ASD' Actuators 9, (3) 91-91 , DOI
2020 'Q-Model: An Artificial Intelligence Based Methodology for the Development of Autonomous Robots' Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 20, (6) , DOI
2017 'Proof-of-concept robot platform for exploring automated harvesting of sugar snap peas' Precision Agriculture , DOI Open access
2016 'Adaptive Aid on Targeted Robot Manipulator Movements in Tele-Assistance' Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics 7, (1) , DOI Open access
2015 'Distributed and Adaptive Shared Control Systems: Methodology for the Replication of Experiments' IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 22, (4) 137-146 , DOI Open access
2011 'Task-Oriented Kinematic Design of a Symmetric Assistive Climbing Robot' IEEE Transactions on Robotics 27, (6) 1132-1137 , DOI
2010 'Assessment of Fitts’ Law for Quantifying Combined Rotational and Translational Movements' Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52, (1) 63-77 , DOI
Books
Duckett T; Pearson S; Blackmore S; Grieve B 2018 Agricultural Robotics: The Future of Robotic Agriculture. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Chapters
2019 'Measuring Progress on an Approach for Interactive Learning of Context-Driven Actions' Cognitive Systems Monographs Springer International Publishing 127-145 , DOI
2016 'Co-exploring Actuator Antagonism and Bio-inspired Control in a Printable Robot Arm' From Animals to Animats 14 14th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2016, Aberystwyth, UK, August 23-26, 2016, Proceedings Springer 244-255 , DOI Open access
Conference Papers
2019 'Proof-of-concept modular robot platform for cauliflower harvesting' 12th European Conference on Precision Agriculture Wageningen Academic Publishers , DOI Open access
2019 'Soft manipulator robot for selective tomato harvesting' 12th European Conference on Precision Agriculture Wageningen Academic Publishers , DOI Open access
2019 'Ai Motion Control – A Generic Approach to Develop Control Policies for Robotic Manipulation Tasks' Cambridge University Press (CUP) 3561-3570 , DOI
2019 'Eduardo: A Low Cost Assistive Robot Development Platform, Featuring a Compliant End Effector' Springer International Publishing 39-48 , DOI
2017 'Jellyfish inspired soft robot prototype which uses circumferential contraction for jet propulsion' 61-72 , DOI Open access
2017 'Neurorobotic Simulations on the Degradation of Multiple Column Liquid State Machines' International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017) Anchorage, Alaska, USA 5-/-0/20175-/-0/2017Open access
2017 'Short-Term Plasticity in a Liquid State Machine Biomimetic Robot Arm Controller' International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017) Anchorage, Alaska, USA 5-/-0/20175-/-0/2017Open access
2016 'Graceful Degradation Under Noise on Brain Inspired Robot Controllers' Springer International Publishing 195-204 , DOI Open access
2015 'Low-cost robotics for horticulture: a case study on automated sugar pea harvesting' Wageningen Academic Publishers 283-290 , DOI
2014 'Distributed sensing, learning and control in an assistive manipulator' 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) 0-/-1/20140-/-1/2014IEEE , DOI
2014 'Predictive Hebbian association of time-delayed inputs with actions in a developmental robot platform' 700-707 , DOI
2013 'Adaptive collision-limitation behavior for an assistive manipulator' 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013) 1-/-1/20131-/-1/2013IEEE , DOI
2012 'Online learning of sensorimotor interactions using a neural network with time-delayed inputs' 2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL) 1-/-1/20121-/-1/2012IEEE , DOI
2012 'Benchmarking shared control for assistive manipulators: From controllability to the speed-accuracy trade-off' 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012) 0-/-1/20120-/-1/2012IEEE , DOI
2011 'An information-theoretic approach to modeling and quantifying assistive robotics HRI' the 6th international conference 3-/-0/20113-/-0/2011ACM Press , DOI
2009 'ASIBOT assistive robot in a domestic environment' the 2nd International Conference 6-/-0/20096-/-0/2009ACM Press , DOI
2008 'Interface for EVA Human-Machine Interaction' International Conference On Environmental Systems SAE International , DOI
2007 'Advanced space suit design within a human-robotic architecture' 1690-1700