Recent Publications of Tom Duckett

• Robot Mapping
• Robotic Olfaction,
• Robot Control,
• Recognition Systems for Robots (including self-localisation).

Robot Mapping

• Peter Biber and Tom Duckett,
  Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots
  Accepted for oral presentation at Robotics: Science and Systems
  Cambridge, MA, June 8-11, 2005.
   
• Udo Frese, Per Larsson and Tom Duckett
  A Multilevel Relaxation Algorithm for Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics,
  Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 196-207, April 2005.
   
• Peter Biber, Henrik Andreasson, Tom Duckett and Andreas Schilling,
  3D Modeling of Indoor Environments by a Mobile Robot with a Laser Scanner and Panoramic Camera
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004),
  Sendai, Japan, September 28 - October 2, 2004.
   
• Tom Duckett,
  A Genetic Algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  Proc. ICRA-2003, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
  pp. 434-439, Taipei, Taiwan, May 12-17, 2003.
   
• Tom Duckett, Stephen Marsland and Jonathan Shapiro,
  Fast, On-line Learning of Globally Consistent Maps
  Autonomous Robots,
  Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 287-300, 2002.
   
• Stephen Marsland, Ulrich Nehmzow and Tom Duckett,
  Learning to Select Distinctive Landmarks for Mobile Robot Navigation
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems,
  Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 241-260, 2001.
   
• Tom Duckett and Ulrich Nehmzow,
  Exploration of Unknown Environments using a Compass, Topological Map and Neural Network
  Proc. CIRA '99, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation,
  Monterey, California, November 8-9, 1999.
   

Robotic Olfaction

• Achim Lilienthal and Tom Duckett,
  Building Gas Concentration Gridmaps with a Mobile Robot
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems,
  Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 3-16, 2004.
   
• Achim Lilienthal and Tom Duckett,
  Experimental Analysis of Smelling Braitenburg Vehicles (Best Paper Award, ICAR 2003)
  Proc. ICAR-2003, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics,
  Coimbra, Portugal, June 30-July 3, 2003.
   
• Michael Wandel, Achim Lilienthal, Tom Duckett, Udo Weimar, and Andreas Zell,
  Gas Distribution in Unventilated Indoor Environments Inspected by a Mobile Robot
  Proc. ICAR-2003, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics,
  Coimbra, Portugal, June 30-July 3, 2003.
   
• Ahmed Mohamod Farah and Tom Duckett,
  Reactive Localisation of an Odour Source by a Learning Mobile Robot
  Proc. SWAR'02, Second Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics,
  Stockholm, Sweden, October 10-11, 2002.
   
• Tom Duckett, Mikael Axelsson and Alessandro Saffiotti,
  Learning to Locate an Odour Source with a Mobile Robot,
  Proc. ICRA-2001, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
  Seoul, Korea, May 21-26, 2001.
   

Robot Control

• Tomás Martínez-Marín and Tom Duckett,
  Fast Reinforcement Learning for Vision-guided Mobile Robots
  Proc. ICRA-2005, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
  Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22, 2005.
   
• Jacopo Aleotti, Alexander Skoglund and Tom Duckett,
  Teaching Position Control of a Robot Arm by Demonstration with a Wearable Input Device
  Proc. IMG04, International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping
  Genoa, Italy, July 1-2, 2004.
   
• Li Jun and Tom Duckett,
  Robot Behavior Learning with a Dynamically Adaptive RBF Network: Experiments in Offline and Online Learning
  Proc. Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous System (CIRAS 2003),
  Singapore, December 15-18, 2003.
   
• Li Jun and Tom Duckett,
  Learning Robot Behaviours with Self-Organizing Maps and Radial Basis Function Networks
  Proc. SWAR'02, Second Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics,
  Stockholm, Sweden, October 10-11, 2002.
   

Recognition Systems for Robots

• André Treptow, Grzegorz Cielniak and Tom Duckett,
  Active People Recognition Using Thermal and Grey Images on a Mobile Security Robot
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 2-6, 2005.
   
• Henrik Andreasson, André Treptow and Tom Duckett,
  Localization for Mobile Robots using Panoramic Vision, Local Features and Particle Filter
  Proc. ICRA-2005, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
  Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22, 2005.
   
• Grzegorz Cielniak and Tom Duckett,
  People Recognition by Mobile Robots
  Proc. AILS-2004, 2nd Joint SAIS/SSLS Workshop
  Lund, Sweden, April 15-16, 2004.
   
• Henrik Andreasson and Tom Duckett,
  Topological Localization for Mobile Robots using Omni-directional Vision and Local Features
  Proc. IAV2004, The 5th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles,
  Lisbon, Portugal, July 5-7, 2004.
   
• Per Munkevik, Tom Duckett and Gunnar Hall,
  Vision System Learning for Ready Meal Characterisation
  Proc. International Conference on Engineering and Food (ICEF9),
  Montpellier, France, March 7-11, 2004.
   
• Henrik Andreasson and Tom Duckett,
  Object Recognition by a Mobile Robot using Omni-directional Vision
  Proc. Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2003) ,
  Bergen, Norway, November 2-4, 2003.
   
• Grzegorz Cielniak and Tom Duckett,
  Person Identification by Mobile Robots in Indoor Environments
  Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensing (ROSE 2003),
  Örebro, Sweden, June 5-6, 2003.
   
• Tom Duckett and Ulrich Nehmzow,
  Performance Comparison of Landmark Recognition Systems for Navigating Mobile Robots
  Proc. AAAI-2000, Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  Austin, Texas, July 30-August 3, 2000.
   

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