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Phil Husbands

Informatics/CCNR
University of Sussex

Selected Publications

2024

P. Husbands (2024) Robots: Todo lo que necesitas saber, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Chile [Spanish language edition of Husbands (2021) Robots, OUP] Trans: C. Gutierrez, ISBN 978-956-289-339-8

Varna, F. and Husbands, P. (2024) Two New Bio-inspired Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithms for Single-Objective Continuous Variable Problems Based on Eavesdropping and Altruistic Animal Behaviours, Biomimetics 9(9).538; [PDF]   https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics9090538

Rodriguez, F. and Husbands, P. (2024) A Saucerful of Secrets: Open-Ended Organizational Closure in the Game of Life, Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference, 22-31, MIT Press. [PDF]

Shepherd, D., Husbands, P., Philippides, A. and Johnson, C. (2024) Versatility of Low-Resolution Tactile Sensing for Edge and Pose Detection, Proc. IEEE 5th Int. Conf. on AI, Robotics and Control (AIRC 2024), IEEE press.

2023

Rodriguez, F., Husbands, P.,  Ghosh, A. and White, B. (2023) Frame by frame? A contrasting research framework for time experience, In ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference, MIT Press. [PDF]  https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00688

P. Husbands (2023) Roboty. Co każdy powinien wiedzieć, Wydawnictwo Naukowe, PWN [Polish language edition of Husbands (2021) Robots, OUP] Trans: W. Fenrich and W. Sikorski, ISBN-10: 8301227966

Rodriguez, F. and Husbands, P. (2023) A minimal time consciousness model. In Proceedings of The Science of Consciousness Conference 2023, Taormina.

2022
Santos, B., Gomes, R., Barandiaran, X., Husbands, P. (2022) Active Role of Self-sustained Neural Activity on Sensory Input Processing: A Minimal Theoretical Model, Neural Computation 34(3):686-715  https://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01471   [accepted PDF]

2021
Phil Husbands (2021) ROBOTS: What Everyone Need to Know, Oxford University Press.  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/robots-9780198845393?lang=de&cc=ie
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Phil Husbands (2021) ROBOTS: What Everyone Need to Know, Audiobook, Tantor Media, narrated by Liam Gerrard, https://tantor.com/robots-phil-husbands.html

Santos, B., Gomes, R., Barandiaran, X., Husbands, P. (2021) Active Role of Self-sustained Neural Activity on Sensory Input Processing: A Minimal Theoretical Model, Neural Computation, accepted   [accepted PDF]

Varna, F.T. and Husbands, P. (2021) HIDMS-PSO Algorithm with an Adaptive Topological Structure, Proc. 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Florida, USA, IEEE Press.

Varna, F.T. and Husbands, P. (2021) AHPSO: an Altruistic Heterogeneous Particle Swarm Optimisation Algorithm for Global Optimisation, Proc. 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Florida, USA, IEEE Press.

Varna, F.T. and Husbands, P. (2021) Biased Eavesdropping Particles: A Novel Bio-inspired Heterogeneous Swarm Optimisation Algorithm, Proc. 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Florida, USA, IEEE Press.

Varna, F. and Husbands, P. (2021) HIDMS-PSO with Bio-inspired Fission-Fusion Behaviour and a Quorum Decision Mechanism, In the Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), 1398-1405, doi: 10.1109/CEC45853.2021.9504755.   [accepted PDF]

Varna, F. and Husbands, P. (2021) Genetic Algorithm Assisted HIDMS-PSO: A New Hybrid Algorithm for Global Optimisation, In the Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), 1304-1311, doi: 10.1109/CEC45853.2021.9504852 .    [accepted PDF]

Santos, B., Gomes, R., Husbands, P. (2021) The role of rebound spikes in the maintenance of self-sustained neural spiking activity, Nonlinear Dynamics 105:767-784  [PDF]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-021-06581-2

Phil Husbands, Yoonsik Shim, Michael Garvie, Alex Dewar, Norbert Domcsek, Paul Graham, James Knight, Thomas Nowtny, Andrew Philippides (2021) Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Bio-inspired Adaptive Robotics: Exploiting Embodied Dynamics, Applied Intelligence 51(9):6467-6496   [PDF]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10489-021-02275-9 

2020

Garvie, M., Flascher, I., Philippides, A., Thompson, A. and Husbands, P. (2020) Evolved Transistor Array Robot Controllers, Evolutionary Computation 28(4):677-708  https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00272     [PDF]  

F. Varna and P. Husbands (2020) BIS: A New Swarm-Based Optimisation Algorithm, Proceedings 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Canberra, Australia, 2020, pp. 457-464,  doi: 10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308590 [accepted PDF]      url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9308590

F. Varna and P. Husbands (2020) HIDMS-PSO: A New Heterogeneous Improved Dynamic Multi-Swarm PSO Algorithm, Proceedings 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Canberra, Australia, pp. 473-480, doi: 10.1109/SSCI47803.2020.9308313 url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9308313 [accepted_PDF]

2019

Shim, Y. and Husbands, P. (2019) Embodied Neuromechanical Chaos through Homeostatic Regulation, Chaos  29(3) 033123 [PDF]  https://doi.org/10.10/1.5078429

Johnson, C., Philippides, A. and Husbands, P. (2019) Simulating soft-bodied swimmers with particle-based physics, Soft Robotics 6(2):263-275  https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/soro.2018.0027 ).  doi: 10.1089/soro.2018.0027  [accepted vers.  PDF]

Garvie, M. and Husbands, P. (2019)  Automatic Synthesis of Totally Self-Checking Circuits  http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07023

Roberts, T., Kern, F., Fernando, C., Szathmáry, E., Husbands, P., Philippides, A., and Staras, K. (2019) Encoding Temporal Regularities and Information Copying in Hippocampal Circuits, Scientific Reports 9 19036 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55395-1  doi:10.1038/s41598-019-55395-1  [PDF]


2018
Shim, Y. and Husbands, P. (2018) The Chaotic Dynamics and Multistability of Two Coupled Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model Neurons, Adaptive Behavior 26(4):165-176 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1059712318789393 [PDF]

Holland, O. and Husbands, P. (2017) Pioneers of cybernetics: Grey Walter’s robot tortoises, and the Ratio Club, In Robots: The 500-year quest to make machines human, Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, in collaboration with The Science Museum, 86-99.

2016

Shim, Y., Philippides, A.,  Staras, K., Husbands, P. (2016) Unsupervised Learning in an Ensemble of Spiking Neural Networks mediated by ITDP, PLoS Computational Biology 12(10): e1005137. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005137. http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005137   [PDF]

Johnson, C., Philippides, A. and  Husbands, P. (2016) Active Shape Discrimination with Compliant Bodies as Reservoir Computers, Artificial Life 22(2):241-268,  doi:10.1162/ARTL_a_00202 url: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_00202#.Vu_KQUeULUc]  [PDF]

Y. Shim, J. Auerbach, P. Husbands (2016), Darwinian Dynamics of Embodied Chaotic Exploration, Proc. GECCO’16, ACM Press, 1053-1056.

P. Calcraft, A. Philippides, P. Husbands, J. Niven (2016) The evolution of handedness: Why are ant colonies left- and right-handed? In Proc. BIOMATH’16. (Biomath Communications 3(1) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11145/589)

S. Nolfi, J. Bongard, D.Floreano, P. Husbands (2016) Evolutionary Robotics. In Siciliano, B. and  Khatib, O. (Eds.) Springer Handbook of Robotics 2nd Ed, Chapter 76, Berlin: Springer, 2035-2067. isbn 978-3-319-32550-7

Husbands, P. (2016) Evolutionary Robotics. In G. Webb and C. Sammut (Eds) ,Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining , Chapter  94, Springer, published on-line Aug 2016  doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-7502-7_94-1 http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4899-7502-7_94-1

2015

Shim, Y. and Husbands, P. (2015) Incremental Embodied Chaotic Exploration of Self-Organised Motor Behaviours with Proprioceptor Adaptation. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2:7. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2015.00007 [PDF] 
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2015.00007/abstract

Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham, Bart Baddeley and Phil Husbands (2015) Using Neural Networks to understand the information that guides behaviour: a case study in visual navigation. In H. Cartwright (Ed), Artificial Neural Networks: Methods and Applications, Springer (Methods in Molecular Biology vol. 1260), 227-240.

Johnson, C., Philippides, A., Husbands, P. (2015) Maze Navigation and Memory with Physical Reservoir Computers, In P. Andrews et al. (Eds) Late Breaking Proceedings of ECAL’15, 19-22, MIT Press. https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/late-breaking/ecal2015-late-breaking-proceedings.pdf

Terri Roberts, Kevin Staras, Philip Husbands, and Andrew Philippides (2015) Entraining and Copying of Temporal Correlations in Dissociated Cultured Neurons, Stuart P. Wilson, Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Anna Mura, Tony J. Prescott (Eds.) Proc.  Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 4th International Conference, Living Machines, Springer, 223-227.   [PDF]

M. O’Shea, P. Husbands, A. Philippides (2015) Nitric Oxide Neuromodulation. In Dieter Jaeger and Ranu Jung (Eds),  Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 3, 2087-2100, New York: Springer Reference.  [PDF]


2014

Johnson, C., Philippides, A., Husbands, P. (2014) Active Shape Discrimination with Physical Reservoir Computers, In Proc. Alife 14, 178-185, MIT Press.     [PDF]

Husbands, P. and Di Paolo, E. (2014) The Gomi Legacy. Adaptive Behavior 22(6):386-389 DOI: 10.1177/1059712314545633 [PDF]

M. O’Shea, P. Husbands, A. Philippides (2014) Nitric Oxide Neuromodulation. In Dieter Jaeger and Ranu Jung (Eds),  Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_330-2, published online  at  http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_330-2

P. Husbands (2014) Robotics. In K. Franklish and W. Ramsey (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, CUP, 269-295. 

P. Husbands, R. Moioli, Y. Shim, A. Philippides, P. Vargas, M. O'Shea (2014) Evolutionary Robotics and Neuroscience. In P. Vargas, E. Di Paolo, I. Harvey and P. Husbands (Eds), The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 17-63.

Patricia A. Vargas, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Inman Harvey and Phil Husbands (2014) Context and Challenges for Evolutionary Robotics. In P. Vargas, E. Di Paolo, I. Harvey and P. Husbands (Eds), The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 1-16.

P. Vargas, E. DiPaolo, I. Harvey and P. Husbands (Eds), The Horizons of Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 2014. pp 298 + ix   http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/horizons-evolutionary-robotics

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2013

Moioli, R. and Husbands, P. (2013)  Neuronal Assembly Dynamics in Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Scenarios, Neural Computation 25(11):2934–2975.  [PDF]  http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/NECO_a_00502

Bruno Santos, Xabier Barandiaran, Philip Husbands, Miguel Aguilera, Manuel Bedia (2013) Sensorimotor Coordination and Metastability in a Situated HKB Model, Connection Science 24(4): 143-161.  [preprint PDF]

Churchill, A., Husbands, P. and Philippides, A. (2013) Multi-Objective Tool Sequence and Parameter Optimization for Rough Milling Applications. In Proc. IEEE Congress Evol. Computing, CEC’13, IEEE Press, 1475-1482, DOI=10.1109/CEC.2013.6557737

Churchill, A., Husbands, P. and Philippides, A. (2013) Multi-objectivization of the Tool Selection Problem on a Budget of Evaluations. In Robin C. Purshouse et al (Eds) , Proc. 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criteria Optimisation, EMO 2013, Springer LNCS vol. 7811, 600-614. 

Alexander W. Churchill, Phil Husbands, and Andrew Philippides (2013) Tool sequence optimization using synchronous and asynchronous parallel multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with heterogeneous evaluations, Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2013 IEEE Congress on, IEEE Press, 2924-2931. DOI=10.1109/CEC.2013.6557925

Churchill, A., Husbands, P. and Philippides, A. (2013) Tool Sequence Optimisation Using Preferential Multi-Objective Search. In Proc. GECCO’13, ACM Press, 181-182. DOI=10.1145/2464576.2464665

Paul Calcraft, Phil Husbands, and Andrew Philippides (2013). An Environmental Model of Self-Compatibility Transitions in the Solanaceae Plant Family. Proc. ECAL 2013, MIT Press, 1107-1113.    [PDF]

Philippides, A., Baddeley, B., Husbands, P. and Graham, P, (2013) A Situated and Embodied Model of Ant Route Navigation, Proc. ECAL 2013, MIT Press, 1007-1008. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch150 [PDF]

Thorniley, J. and Husbands, P. (2013) Hidden information transfer in an autonomous swinging robot. Proc ECAL’13, MIT Press, 513-520. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch074 [PDF]

2012

Husbands, P. and Holland, O. (2012) Warren McCulloch and the British Cyberneticians, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37(3):237-253.  [preprint]
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000003/art00005

McGregor, S., Vasas, V., Husbands, P. and  Fernando, C. (2012) Evolution of Associative Learning in Chemical Networks, PLoS Computational Biology  8(11): e1002739. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002739 [PDF]

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002739


Moioli, R., Vargas, P. and Husbands, P. (2012) Synchronisation effects on the behavioural performance and information dynamics of a simulated minimally cognitive robotic agent, Biological Cybernetics 106(6-7):407–427  http://www.springerlink.com/content/2272278860444755/     [preprint PDF]

Santos, B., Barandiaran, X. and Husbands, P. (2012) Synchrony and phase relation dynamics underlying sensorimotor coordination, Adaptive Behavior  20(5):321-336    [PDF]

Yoonsik Shim and  Phil Husbands (2012) Chaotic Exploration and Learning of Locomotion Behaviours. Neural Computation 24(8):2185-2222    [PDF]

[Associated Movies here]


Fernando, C., Szathmary, E. and Husbands, P. (2012) Selectionist and evolutionary approaches to brain function: a critical appraisal, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience  6:24.  [PDF]
doi:10.3389/fncom.2012.00024
http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2012.00024/abstract

Nathaniel Virgo, Chrisantha Fernando, Bill Bigge and Phil Husbands (2012)  Evolvable Physical Self-Replicators. Artificial Life, 18(2) :129-142.  [PDF]  

[Associated Movie here]

Baddeley B , Graham P , Husbands P , Philippides A , 2012 A Model of Ant Route Navigation Driven by Scene Familiarity. PLoS Comput Biol 8(1): e1002336. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002336 [PDF]
 http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002336

2011

Fernando C, Vasas V, Szathmáry E, Husbands P (2011) Evolvable Neuronal Paths: A Novel Basis for Information and Search in the Brain. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23534. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023534 [PDF]

Husbands, P. and O'Shea,  M. (2011) Co-evolution of biological and computational sciences. In Gray, F. (Ed) Making The Future: A History of The University of Sussex, 172-176, Sussex University.

N. Virgo, C. Fernando, B. Bigge and P. Husbands (2011) The Elongation Catastrophe in Physical Self-Replicators. In Proc. ECAL 11, 828-835, MIT Press.  [PDF] 

Bart Baddeley, Andrew Philippides, Paul Graham, Philip Husbands. (2011) Models of Visually Guided Routes in Ants: Embodiment  Simplifies Route Acquisition. In Proc. ICIRA 2011 Special session: A Body for the Brain:Embodied Intelligence in Bio-inspired Robotics,  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer. 

B. Santos, X. Barandiaran and P. Husbands (2011) Neurodynamic regimes of phase relation and behaviour in robotic models. In Proc. Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting : CNS 11

O. Holland and P. Husbands (2011), The Origins of British Cybernetics: The Ratio Club, Kybernetes  40(1/2): 110-123.  http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fwd.htm?id=aob&ini=aob&doi=10.1108/03684921111117951

Bart Baddeley, Paul Graham, Andrew Philippides and Philip Husbands (2011). Holistic Visual Encoding of Ant-Like Routes: Navigation without Waypoints, Adaptive Behavior 19(1):3-15.  [PDF]

B. Santos, X. Barandiaran and P. Husbands (2011) Metastable dynamical regimes in an oscillatory network modulated by an agents sensorimotor loop. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (SSCI 2011).

2010

Bush D, Philippides A, Husbands P and O'shea M (2010). Spike-timing dependent plasticity and the cognitive map. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 4:142. doi:10.3389/fncom.2010.00142
http://frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2010.00142/abstract      [PDF]

K. Dale and P. Husbands (2010) The Evolution of Reaction-diffusion Controllers for Minimally Cognitive Agents,  Artificial Life 16(1):1-19.  [PDF]

Phil Husbands, Andy Philippides, Patricia Vargas, Chris Buckley, Peter Fine, Ezequiel Di Paolo and Michael O'Shea (2010) Spatial, temporal 
and modulatory factors affecting GasNet evolvability, Complexity 16(2):35-44. DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20336 [preprint PDF]

Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands and Michael O'Shea (2010) Reconciling the STDP and BCM Models of Synaptic Plasticity
in a Spiking Recurrent Neural Network, Neural Computation 22(8):2059-2085.  [PDF]

Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands and Michael O'Shea (2010) Dual Coding with STDP in an Auto-associative Network
Model of the Hippocampus, PLoS Computational Biology 6(7):e1000839. http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000839

P. Husbands and A. Philippides and A.K. Seth  (2010)  Artificial neural systems for robots. In  Eduardo Alonso and  Esther Mondragon  (Eds),
Computational Neuroscience for Advancing Artificial Intelligence: Models, Methods and Applications, chapter 10 pps. 214-248, IGI Global.

P. Husbands (2010)  Evolutionary Robotics. Chapter 34 in Claude Sammut (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Springer.

P. Brown and P. Husbands. (2010)  Not Intelligent by Design. In H. Gardiner and C. Gere (Eds), Art Practice in a Digital Culture, Ashgate, 61-92.

Y. Shim and P. Husbands (2010) Chaotic Search of Emergent Locomotion Patterns for a Bodily Coupled Robotic
System. In H. Fellermann et al. (Eds) Proc. Artificial Life XII, MIT Press, 757-764.  [PDF]

B. Santos and P. Husbands (2010) Accommodating homeostatically stable dynamical regimes to cope with different environmental conditions.
In H. Fellermann et al. (Eds) Proc. Artificial Life XII, MIT Press, 395-402. [PDF]

R. Moioli, P. Vargas, P. Husbands (2010 ) Exploring the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators in minimally
cognitive evolutionary robotics tasks. In Proc. IEEE Congress on Evol. Comput (CEC'10), IEEE Press.   [PDF]

B.Baddeley, P.Graham, A.Philippides, P.Husbands (2010) Route Learning Through Classification. In Proc. Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology (AIIB), (part of AISB 2010), Leicester. [PDF]
 

2009

Bart Baddeley, Paul Graham, Andrew Philippides , Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Thomas Collett , Philip Husbands (2009) What can be learnt from analysing
insect orientation flights using probabilistic SLAM? Biological Cybernetics 101(3):169-182   DOI: 10.1007/s00422-009-0327-4  [PDF]

P. Husbands (2009) Never Mind The Iguana, What About The Tortoise? Models in Adaptive Behaviour
(Invited commentary on Barbara Webb target paper, Animals versus animats: or why not model the real iguana?) Adaptive Behavior 17(4):320-324. [PDF]

P. Vargas, R. Moioli, F. Von Zuben, P. Husbands (2009) Homeostasis and Evolution Together Dealing with Novelties and Managing Disruptions,
International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics 2(3):435-454. [PDF]

Renan C. Moioli, Patricia A. Vargas and Phil Husbands (2009), A Multiple Hormone Approach to the Homeostatic Control of Conflicting Behaviours in an Autonomous  Mobile Robot, In Proc. IEEE Congress on Evol. Comput (CEC'09), IEEE Press, 47-54.  [PDF]

Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands, Michael O'Shea (2009) Dual Coding in an Auto-associative Network Model of the Hippocampus, In Proc.
Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting - CNS'09.

 

2008

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P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 2008. [MIT Press Link]  [Contents] [Introduction (PDF)]

The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture, and tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions--the unrecognized origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science, and neuroscience. In The Mechanical Mind in History, scientists, artists, historians, and philosophers discuss the multidisciplinary quest to formalize and understand the generation of intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems as a wholly mechanical process.
Contributors:
Peter Asaro, Horace Barlow, Andy Beckett, Margaret Boden, Jon Bird, Paul Brown, Seth Bullock, Roberto Cordeschi, Jack Cowan, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Hodges, John Holland,Owen Holland, Jana Horakova, Philip Husbands, Jozef Kelemen, John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie, Oliver Selfridge, Michael Wheeler.
Edited by Philip Husbands, Owen Holland and Michael Wheeler    [contents] [introduction]

P. Husbands and O. Holland. The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics. In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 91-148, 2008. [PDF]

P. Husbands and M. Wheeler and O. Holland. The Mechanical Mind . In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 1-18, 2008. [PDF]

P. Husbands. An interview with John Maynard Smith.  In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 373-382, 2008. [PDF,preprint]

P. Husbands. An interview with John Holland.  In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 383-396, 2008.[PDF, preprint]

P. Husbands. An interview with Oliver Selfridge.  In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 397-408, 2008. [PDF, preprint]

P. Husbands. An interview with Horace Barlow.  In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 409-430, 2008. [PDF,preprint]

P. Husbands. An interview with Jack Cowan.  In  P. Husbands, O. Holland, M. Wheeler,  (Eds), The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 431-446, 2008. [PDF, preprint]

P. Vargas, E. Di Paolo, P. Husbands, Exploring non-spatial GasNets in a delayed response robot task. In S. Bullock et al (Eds), Proc. Artificial Life XI, 640-647,MIT Press, 2008. [PDF]

Jon Bird, Phil Husbands, Martin Perris, Bill Bigge and Paul Brown, Implicit Fitness Functions for Evolving a Drawing Robot. In Proc. 6th European Workshop on Evolutionary
and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART '08), Springer, 2008. [PDF]

Andrew Philippides, Lincoln Smith, Paul Graham, and Phil Husbands, Linked Local Visual Navigation and Robustness to Motor Noise and Route Displacement. In Proc. SAB'08: Animals to Animats X, LNCS 5040, 179-188, Springer, 2008. [PDF]

Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands and Michael O'Shea, Theta Phase Coding and Acetylcholine Modulation in a Spiking Neural Network. In Proc. SAB'08: Animals to Animats X, LNCS 5040, 159-168, Springer, 2008. [PDF]

Moioli, R., Vargas, P., Von Zuben, F. and Husbands, P. Evolving an artificial homeostatic system. In Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2008, LNAI 5249, 278-288, Springer, 2008.

Moioli, R., Vargas, P., Von Zuben, F. and Husbands, P. Towards the evolution of an artificial homeostatic system. In Proc. World Conf. on Computational Intelligence, WCCI'08, (CEC'08) Hong Kong, 2008. [PDF]

D.Floreano, P. Husbands, S. Nolfi. Evolutionary Robotics. In Siciliano, B. and  Khatib, O. (Eds.) Springer Handbook of Robotics, Chapter 61, Springer, 2008. [PDF]

2007

L. Smith, A. Philippides, P. Graham, B. Baddeley and P. Husbands, Linked local navigation for visual route guidance, Adaptive Behavior, 15(3):257-271, 2007. [PDF]

P. Husbands and P. Copley and A. Eldridge and J. Mandelis. An Introduction to Evolutionary Computing for Musicians, In E.R. Miranda and J.A. Biles (Eds) Evolutionary Computer Music, 1-27, Springer, 2007.[PDF]

P. Brown, B. Bigge, J. Bird, P. Husbands, M. Perris, D. Stokes, The Drawbots, In Proceeding of MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Prague, 2007. [PDF]

Y.S. Shim and P. Husbands, Feathered Flyer: Integrating Morphological Computation and Sensory Reflexes into a Physically Simulated Flapping-Wing Robot for Robust Flight Manoeuvre. In  F. Almeida e Costa (Ed), Proc. ECAL'07, Springer , LNCS 4648, 756-765, 2007. [PDF]

P. Vargas, E. Di Paolo, P. Husbands, Preliminary Investigations on the Evolvability of a  Non-Spatial GasNet Model. In F. Almeida e Costa (Ed), Proc. ECAL'07, Springer , LNCS 4648, 966-975, 2007.

Y.S. Shim and P. Husbands. A flapping-wing flying machine with an evolved neurocontroller. In Proc. International Symposium on FLYING INSECTS & ROBOTS , 2007.

2006

J. Mandelis and P. Husbands, Genophone: Evolving Sounds and Integral Performance Parameter Mappings,  International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 15(4):599-621, 2006. [PDF]

L. Smith, A. Philippides and P. Husbands, Navigation in Large-scale Environments Using an Augmented Model of Visual Homing. In S. Nolfi et al. (Eds), Proc. SAB'06: Animals to Animats IX, Springer LNCS 4095, 251-262, 2006. [PDF]

Daniel Bush, Andrew Philippides, Phil Husbands and Michael O'Shea, Investigating STDP and LTP in a spiking neural network. In S. Nolfi et al. (Eds), Proc. SAB'06: Animals to Animats IX, 323-334, Springer LNCS 4095, 2006.  [PDF]

D. Bush, A. Philippides, P. Husbands, M. O'Shea, Embodied learning: investigating stable Hebbian learning in spiking neural networks. In Proc. AISB Associative Learning and Reinforcement Learning Workshop, 2006.

G. McHale and P. Husbands,  Incorporating Energy Expenditure into Evolutionary Robotics Fitness Measures, In L. Rocha et al. (Eds), Proc. Alife X, 206-212, MIT Press, 2006. [PDF]

P. Husbands. Machine Intelligence, In. A.C. Grayling and A. Pyle and N. Goulder (Eds), Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, Thoemmes Continuum Press, 2006. [PDF]

2005
Andrew Philippides, Swidbert R. Ott, Phil Husbands, Thelma A. Lovick and Michael O'Shea, Modeling co-operative volume signaling in a plexus of nitric oxide synthase-expressing neurons, Journal of Neuroscience, 25(28): 6520-6532, 2005. [PDF]

A.Philippides and P. Husbands and T. Smith and M. O'Shea. Flexible couplings: diffusing neuromodulators and adaptive robotics. Artificial Life, 11(1&2):139-160, 2005. [PDF]

Paul Brown, Phil Husbands, Margaret A. Boden, Catherine Mason  and Alan Sutcliffe, Creating Histories, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Creativity and Cognition, 322-323, ACM Press, 2005.

2004

Jordan Pollack, Mark Bedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami and Richard A. Watson (Eds), Artificial Life IX:Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, MIT Press, 2004. [MIT Press link]

G. McHale and P. Husbands, Quadrupedal locomotion: GasNets, CTRNNs and Hybrid CTRNN/PNNs compared. In J. Pollack et al. (Eds), Proc. Alife IX, 106-112, MIT Press, 2004. [PDF]

G. McHale and P. Husbands, GasNets and other evovalble neural networks applied to bipedal locomotion. In S. Schaal et al. (Eds), Proc. From Animals to Animats 8: Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB'2004), 163-172, MIT Press, 2004 . [PDF]

J. Mandelis and P. Husbands, Don't just play it, grow it: breeding sound synthesis and performance mappings. In Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on New Interfaces for Mucial Expresion (NIME'04), 47-50, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2004 .

2003

M. Quinn, L. Smith, G. Mayley and P. Husbands. Evolving controllers for a homogeneous system of physical robots: Structured cooperation with minimal sensors. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A, 361:2321-2343, 2003. [PDF]

J. Bird, P. Layzell, A. Webster, P. Husbands. Towards Epistemically Autonomous Robots: Exploiting the Potentialof Physical Systems, Leonardo 36(2):109-114, (2003) [PDF]

Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and O'Shea, M. Local evolvability of statistically neutral GasNet robot controllers. Biosystems , 69:223-243, 2003.[PDF]

J. Mandelis and P. Husbands. Musical Interaction with Artificial Life Forms: Sound Synthesis and Performance Mappings. Contemporary Music Review, 22(3):69-77, 2003.[PDF]

A. Philippides, P. Husbands, T. Smith and M. O'Shea. Structure based models of NO diffusion in the nervous system. In J.Feng(Ed.). Computational Neuroscience: a comprehensive approach,pp. 97-130, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2003. [PDF] 

2002
Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and Philippides, A. and O'Shea, M. Neuronal plasticity and temporal adaptivity: GasNet robot control networks. Adaptive Behavior, 10(3/4), 161-184, 2002. [PDF]

T. Reil and P. Husbands. Evolution of Central pattern Generators for Bipedal Walking in Real-time Physics Environments, IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation  6(2):10-21,  2002. [PDF]

P. Husbands. Robot Futures. American Scientist 90(4), 381-382, July, 2002.[PDF]

Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and O'Shea, M. Characterising fitness landscapes through evolvability. Evolutionary Computation, 10(1):1-34, 2002 . [PDF]

Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequeil A. Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Mark Bedau, Philip Husbands, Simon Kirby and Anil Seth The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling, Artificial Life 8(1): 87-100, 2002. [PDF]

A.Philippides and P. Husbands and T. Smith and M. O'Shea. Fast and Loose: Biologically Inspired Coupling. In K. Standish et al. (Eds), Proc. Artificial Life VIII, MIT Press, 293-301, 2002. [PDF]

M. Quinn, L. Smith, G. Mayley and P. Husbands. Evolving Team Behaviour for Real Robots. In  K. Standish et al. (Eds), Proc. Artificial Life VIII , 302-311, MIT Press, 2002. [PDF]

Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and Philippides, A. and O'Shea, M. (2002). Temporally adaptive networks: Analysis of GasNet robot control. In  K. Standish et al. (Eds), Proc. Artificial Life VIII , 274-282, MIT Press, 2002. [PDF]

Smith, T.M.C., Husbands, P., and O'Shea, M. (2002). Evolvability and analysis of robot control networks. In Hallam, B., Floreano, D., Hallam, J., Hayes, G., and Meyer, J.-A., (editors), From Animals to Animats 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB'2002), pages 394-395. MIT Press, 2002.

T. Smith and A. Philippides and P. Husbands and M. O'Shea Neutrality and ruggedness in robot landscapes. In Proc. IEEE Int. Congress on Evol. Comput., pp1348-1353, IEEE Press, 2002. [PDF]

Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and Philippides, A. and O'Shea, M. (2002). Evaluating the effectiveness of biologically-inspired robot control networks through operational analysis.. Proc.EPSRC/BBSRC Int. Workshop on Biologically-inspired robotics: The legacy of Grey Walter, 280-287, 2002.

 M. Quinn, L. Smith, G. Mayley and P. Husbands. Evolving Team Behaviour for Real Robots. In EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop on Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W. Grey Walter, pages 217-224, 2002.

L. Smith and P. Husbands. Navigation in Large Scale Environments. In EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop on Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W. Grey Walter, pages 272-279, 2002. 

2001

C.L.R. Santos; P.P.B. de Oliveira ; P. Husbands and C.R. Souza. Three case studies on the GasNet model in discrete domains. International Journal of Neural Systems, 11(3):295-304, 2001.

P. Husbands and A. Philippides and T. Smith and M. O'Shea. Volume Signalling in Real and Robot Nervous Systems. Theory in Biosciences, 120:253-269, 2001 [PDF]

P. Husbands. Cognitive Science: Real or Imaginary? Artificial Intelligence. 130(2): 191-194, 2001.[PDF]

P. Husbands. Evolving Artificial Intelligence. Review of Nolfi, S. and Floreano, D., Evolutionary Robotics. Trends in Cognitive Science. 5(11), 500, 2001. [PDF]

P. Husbands and A. Philippides and T. Smith and M. O'Shea. The shifting network: Volume Signalling in Real and Robot Nervous Systems In Kelemen, J. and Sosik, P. (Eds.)  Proc. ECAL2001, LNAI 2159, Springer, 23-37, 2001.[invited keynote] [PDF]

N. Jakobi, P. Husbands et al. The Development of a Tool for Optimising the Multi-task Scheduling Problem of a Mail Centre's Local Distribution Operation. In Proc. Int. Conf.  Mail Technology: Evolution to e-Revolution, I. Mech. E. Press, 21-30, 2001.

T. Smith and P. Husbands and M. O'Shea. Neutral networks and Evolvability with a Complex Genotype-Phenotype Mapping. In Kelemen, J. and Sosik, P. (Eds.) Proc. ECAL2001, LNAI 2159, Springer, 272-281, 2001. [PDF]

Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and O'Shea, M. Neutral Networks in an Evolutionary Robotics Search Space. In Proc. Of Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001 (CEC'01), 136-145, IEEE Press, 2001.

S. Drake and Husbands, P. Survival of the Sickest: A site-specific recombination operator for accelerated function optimisation. In Proc. Of Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001 (CEC'01), 1374-1381, IEEE Press, 2001. [PDF]

Smith, T.M.C. and Husbands, P. and O'Shea, M. Not Measuring Evolvability: Initial Investigation of an Evolutionary Robotics Search Space. In Proc.  Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001 (CEC'01), 9-16, IEEE Press, 2001. [PDF]

C.L.R. Santos; P.P.B. de Oliveira and P. Husbands and C.R. Souza. The quest for stabilisation in GasNet. . Proc. of the V Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 367-372, 2001.

2000

A.Philippedes and P. Husbands and M. O'Shea. Four Dimensional Neuronal Signaling by Nitric Oxide: A Computational Analysis. Journal of Neuroscience  20(3): 1199--1207, 2000. [PDF]


Older papers still regularly requested:


P. Husbands and T. Smith and N. Jakobi and M. O'Shea. Better Living through Chemistry: Evolving GasNets for Robot Control, Connection Science, 10(3&4), 185-210, 1998. [PDF]

P. Husbands and I. Harvey and D. Cliff and G. Miller, Artificial Evolution: A new path for AI?  Brain and Cognition  34, 130-159, 1997. [PDF]

I. Harvey and P. Husbands and D. Cliff and A. Thompson and N. Jakobi Evolutionary Robotics: The Sussex Approach. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 20, 205-224, 1997. [PDF]

Husbands, P. and I. Harvey and D. Cliff. Circle in the round: State space attractors for evolved sighted robots.  Robotics and Autonomous Systems  15(1-2), 83-106, 1995. [PDF]

D. T. Cliff, I. Harvey and P. Husbands. Explorations in Evolutionary Robotics,  Adaptive Behaviour 2(1), 71--108, 1993.  [PDF]

Husbands, P. An Ecosystems Model for Integrated Production Planning. Int. Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing  6(1&2), 74--86, 1993. [PDF]

P. Husbands and T. Smith and M. O'Shea and N. Jakobi and J. Anderson and A.Phillipides. Brains, Gases and Robots.  Proceedings ICANN'98 Springer-Verlag, LNCS, 51-63, 1998. [Invited Keynote]. [PDF]

A. Phillipides and P. Husbands and M. O'Shea. Neural Signalling -- its a Gas! Proc. ICANN'98, L. Niklasson et al.(Eds), Springer-Verlag, 241-250, 1998.

N. Jakobi, P. Husbands and T. Smith. Robot Space Exploration by Trial and Error. In: Proceedings of GP98, J. Koza et al. (Eds), San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 807--815, 1998. [PDF]

J._A. Meyer, P. Husbands and I. Harvey. Evolutionary robotics: A survey of applications and problems.  In P. Husbands and J.-A. Meyer (Eds),  Evolutionary Robotics: Proc. EvoRob'98, LNCS 1468, Springer Verlag, 1-21, 1998. [PDF]

P. Husbands. Evolving Robot Behaviours with Diffusing Gas Networks. In P. Husbands and J.-A. Meyer (Eds),  Evolutionary Robotics: Proc. EvoRob'98, LNCS 1468, Springer Verlag, 71-86, 1998. [PDF]

P. Husbands and M. McIlhagga and R. Ives. Experiments with an Ecosystems model of integrated production planning. In T. Back, D. Fogel and Z. Michalewicz (Eds.) Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, Oxford University Press/ Institute of Physics,1997. [PDF]

Husbands, P. and Jermy, G. and McIlhagga, M. and Ives, R. Two applications of genetic algorithms to component design. In Evolutionary Computing: Selected papers from AISB workshop on evolutionary computing. T. Fogarty (ed.), 50-61, Springer-Verlag, LNCS vol. 1143, 1996.[PDF]

McIlhagga, M. and Husbands, P. and Ives, R. A comparison of search techniques on a wing-box optimisation problem.  Proceedings PPSN IV, H. Voigt and W. Ebeling and I. Rechenberg and H.-P.Schwefel (Eds.), 614-623, Springer-Verlag LNCS vol. 1141, 1996.

McIlhagga, M. and Husbands, P. and Ives, R. A Comparison of Optimisation Techniques for Integrated Manufacturing and Scheduling.In Proceedings PPSN IV, H. Voigt and W. Ebeling and I. Rechenberg and H.-P. Schwefel (Eds.), 604-613,Springer-Verlag LNCS vol. 1141, 1996. [PDF]

Jakobi, N. and P. Husbands and I. Harvey. Noise and the reality gap: the use of simulations in evolutionary robotics. In  Proc. 3rd European Conference on Artificial Life.  F. Moran et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp.704-720, 1995. [PDF]

Husbands, P. and Harvey, I. and Cliff, D. and Miller, G. The Use of Genetic Algorithms for the Development of Sensorimotor Control Systems. In P. Gaussier and J. Nicoud (Eds.),  Proc. Int. Conf. on Perception to Action  (PerAc'94), pp.110-121, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994. [PDF]

Husbands, P. Distributed Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithms for Multi-Criteria and Multi-Constraint Optimisation. In T. Fogarty (Ed.), Evolutionary Computing, AISB Workshop Selected Papers, pp.150-165,  Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 865, 1994. [PDF]

Harvey, I. and Husbands, P. and Cliff, D. Seeing The Light: Artificial Evolution, Real Vision.In D. Cliff and P. Husbands and J.-A. Meyer and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 3, Proc. of 3rd Intl. Conf. On Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB'94, pp. 392-401, MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1994. [PDF]

Husbands, P. Genetic Algorithms for Scheduling. AISB Quarterly, No.89, pp.38-45, 1994. [PDF]

Husbands, P. An Ecosystems Model for Integrated Production Planning. Int. Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing  6(1&2), 74--86, 1993. [PDF]

Harvey, I., Husbands,  P. and Cliff,  D. Issues in  evolutionary robotics.  In From Animals  to Animats 2:  Proc. 2nd  Int. Conf. on  the Simulation  of Adaptive  Behaviour,  Meyer,  J.,  Roitblat,   H.  and  Wilson,  S.   (Eds.),pp.364-373, MIT Press, 1993.[PDF]

Cliff, D., Husbands,  P. and Harvey,  I. Evolving visually  guided robots.  In From Animals  to Animats 2:  Proc. 2nd  Int. Conf. on  the Simulation  of Adaptive Behaviour, Meyer, J., Roitblat, H. andWilson, S. (Eds.), pp.374-383,MIT Press, 1993. [PDF]

Husbands, P. and  Harvey, I. Evolution  versus design: controlling  autonomous mobile robots.   Proc.  3rd  Annual  Conf.  on  Artificial  Intelligence, Simulation and  Planning  in High  Autonomy  Systems.  IEEE  Computer  SocietyPress, Los Alimitos, CA, June 1992, Pp.139-146. [PDF]

Husbands, P. and Mill, F. Simulated Co-Evolution as The Mechanism for Emergent Planning and Scheduling.  Proc.  4th Int. Conf.  on Genetic  Algorithms, Belew, R. & Booker, L. (eds), Morgan Kaufmann, 1991, Pp. 264-270. [PDF]


Other publications of interest:

Husbands, P. and Meyer, J.-A. (Eds) Evolutionary Robotics: Proceedings of 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1468, 1998. [Springer link]

P. Husbands and I. Harvey (Eds.) Proc. 4th European Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1997. [MIT Press link]

Cliff, D. and Husbands, P. and Meyer, J-A. and Wilson, S. (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 3: Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1994. [MIT Press link]

 

 

Phil Husbands, University of Sussex.