Alan Gregory Millard

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• 2023

  Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments: Comparisons and Applications

  Zhang, X., Liu, P. & Millard, A. G., 26 May 2023, Yorkshire Innovation in Science and Engineering Conference (YISEC 2023).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• Towards Long-horizon Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

  Zhang, X., Millard, A. G. & Liu, P., 5 Jul 2023, (Accepted/In press) The 24th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS2023).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• 2022

  Agent-Based Simulation of Multi-robot Soil Compaction Mapping

  Roberts-Elliott, L., Das, G. & Millard, A. G., 1 Sept 2022, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 23rd Annual Conference, TAROS 2022, Culham, UK, September 7–9, 2022, Proceedings. Springer, p. 251-265 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 13546).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Integration and Robustness Analysis of the Buzz Swarm Programming Language with the Pi-puck Robot Platform

  Neale, A. & Millard, A. G., 1 Sept 2022, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 23rd Annual Conference, TAROS 2022, Culham, UK, September 7–9, 2022, Proceedings. Springer, p. 223-237 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Learning Cooperative Behaviours in Adversarial Multi-agent Systems

  Wang, N., Das, G. & Millard, A. G., 1 Sept 2022, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 23rd Annual Conference, TAROS 2022, Culham, UK, September 7–9, 2022, Proceedings. Springer, p. 179-189 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); vol. 13546).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Mixed-Criticality Wireless Communication for Robot Swarms

  Signer, S., Millard, A. G. & Gray, I., 5 Dec 2022, 9th International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems: Proceedings. WMC

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• 2020

  Human-swarm interaction via e-ink displays

  Millard, A. G., Joyce, R. A. & Gray, I., 31 May 2020.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

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• OpenKilo: A Truly Open-Source Kilobot Design Revision that Aids Repair and Extensibility

  Trump, J., Joyce, R. A. & Millard, A. G., 3 Dec 2020, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 21st Annual Conference, TAROS 2020, Nottingham, UK, September 16, 2020, Proceedings. Springer, p. 345-356 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS),; vol. 12228).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Prototyping Sensors and Actuators for Robot Swarms in Mixed Reality

  Murphy, A. & Millard, A. G., 3 Dec 2020, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 21st Annual Conference, TAROS 2020, Nottingham, UK, September 16, 2020, Proceedings. Springer, p. 377-386 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 12228).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• The Pi-puck Ecosystem: Hardware and Software Support for the e-puck and e-puck2

  Allen, J., Joyce, R. A., Millard, A. G. & Gray, I., 23 Oct 2020, Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2020.. Dorigo , M., Stützle, T., Blesa, M. J., Blum, C., Hamann, H., Heinrich, M. K. & Strobel, V. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 243-255 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 12421).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• 2019

  Autonomous Learning Paradigm for Spiking Neural Networks

  Liu, J., McDaid, L. J., Harkin, J., Karim, S., Johnson, A. P., Halliday, D. M., Tyrrell, A. M., Timmis, J., Millard, A. G. & Hilder, J., 17 Sept 2019, p. 737-744. 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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• Bio-inspired Anomaly Detection for Low-cost Gas Sensors

  Liu, J., Harkin, J., McDaid, L., Karim, S., Millard, A. G., Hilder, J., Hickinbotham, S., Johnson, A. P., Timmis, J., Halliday, D. M. & Tyrrell, A. M., 24 Jan 2019, 18th International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2018. IEEE Computer Society, 8626301. (Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology; vol. 2018-July).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• GABA Regulation of Burst Firing in Hippocampal Astrocyte Neural Circuit: A Biophysical Model

  Liu, J., McDaid, L., Araque, A., Wade, J., Harkin, J., Karim, S., Henshall, D. C., Connolly, N. M. C., Johnson, A. P., Tyrrell, A. M., Timmis, J., Millard, A. G., Hilder, J. & Halliday, D. M., 23 Jul 2019, In: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 13, 14 p., Vol 13, Article 335.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Time-multiplexed System-on-Chip using Fault-tolerant Astrocyte-Neuron Networks

  Johnson, A. P., Liu, J., Millard, A. G., Karim, S., Tyrrell, A. M., Harkin, J., Timmis, J. I., McDaid, L. J. & Halliday, D. M., 31 Jan 2019, 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• Towards a Swarm Robotic System for Autonomous Cereal Harvesting

  Millard, A. G., Ravikanna, R., Gross, R. & Chesmore, D., 17 Jul 2019, p. 458-461.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

• 2018

  Adaptive Online Fault Diagnosis in Autonomous Robot Swarms

  O'Keefe, J., Tarapore, D. S., Millard, A. G. & Timmis, J. I., 30 Nov 2018, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 5, 15 p., 131.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• ARDebug: An augmented reality tool for analysing and debugging swarm robotic systems

  Millard, A. G., Redpath, R., Jewers, A., Arndt, C., Joyce, R., Hilder, J. A., McDaid, L. J. & Halliday, D. M., 24 Jul 2018, In: Frontiers Robotics AI. 5, JUN, 6 p., 87.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Exploring Self Repair in a Coupled Spiking Astrocyte Neural Network

  Liu, J., McDaid, L., Harkin, J., Karim, S., Johnson, A. P., Millard, A. G., Hilder, J. A., Halliday, D. M., Tyrrell, A. M. & Timmis, J. I., 3 Jul 2018, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Fault diagnosis in robot swarms: An adaptive online behaviour characterisation approach

  O'Keeffe, J., Tarapore, D., Millard, A. G. & Timmis, J., 5 Feb 2018, 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings. IEEE, p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Fault-tolerant Learning in Spiking Astrocyte-Neural Networks on FPGAs

  Johnson, A. P., Liu, J., Millard, A. G., Karim, S., Tyrrell, A. M., Harkin, J., Timmis, J. I., McDaid, L. & Halliday, D. M., 29 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) 31st International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID 2018) & 17th International Conference on Embedded Systems (ES 2018). IEEE

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• FPGA-based Fault-injection and Data Acquisition of Self-repairing Spiking Neural Network Hardware

  Karim, S., Harkin, J., McDaid, L., Gardiner, B., Liu, J., Halliday, D. M., Tyrrell, A. M., Timmis, J. I., Millard, A. G. & Johnson, A. P., 4 May 2018, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). IEEE, 5 p. (IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• Homeostatic Fault Tolerance in Spiking Neural Networks: A Dynamic Hardware Perspective

  Johnson, A. P., Liu, J., Millard, A. G., Karim, S., Tyrrell, A. M., Harkin, J., Timmis, J. I., McDaid, L. & Halliday, D. M., 1 Feb 2018, In: Ieee transactions on circuits and systems i-Regular papers. 65, 2, p. 687-699 13 p., 7995041.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The need for combining implicit and explicit communication in cooperative robotic systems

  Gildert, N., Millard, A. G., Pomfret, A. & Timmis, J., 4 Jun 2018, In: Frontiers Robotics AI. 5, JUN, 65.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey › peer-review

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• 2017

  An FPGA-based hardware-efficient fault-tolerant astrocyte-neuron network

  Johnson, A. P., Halliday, D. M., Millard, A. G., Tyrrell, A. M., Timmis, J., Liu, J., Harkin, J., McDaid, L. & Karim, S., 9 Feb 2017, 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2016. IEEE, 7850175

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• Assessing Self-Repair on FPGAs with Biologically Realistic Astrocyte-Neuron Networks

  Karim, S., Harkin, J., McDaid, L., Gardiner, B., Liu, J., Halliday, D. M., Tyrrell, A. M., Timmis, J. I., Millard, A. G. & Johnson, A. P., 24 Jul 2017, IEEE Xplore: IS VLSI. 6 p. ( VLSI (ISVLSI), IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Conversational human-swarm interaction using IBM Cloud

  Millard, A. G. & Williams, J., 2017, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

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• Homeostatic Fault Tolerance in Spiking Neural Networks utilizing Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration of FPGAs

  Johnson, A. P., Liu, J., Millard, A. G., Karim, S., Tyrrell, A. M., Harkin, J., Timmis, J. I., McDaid, L. & Halliday, D. M., 15 Sept 2017, (Accepted/In press) The International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT-2017). IEEE

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• Self-Repairing Learning Rule for Spiking Astrocyte-Neuron Networks

  Liu, J., McDaid, L., Harkin, J., Wade, J., Karim, S., Johnson, A. P., Millard, A. G., Halliday, D. M., Tyrrell, A. M. & Timmis, J. I., 27 Oct 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) Neural Information Processing: 24th International Conference, ICONIP 2017, Guangzhou, China, November 14-18, 2017, Proceeding, Part II. Liu, D., Xie, S., Li, Y., Zhao, D. & El-Alfy, E.-S. (eds.). Springer, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10634, 10635 10636, 10637, 10638, 10639).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• The Pi-puck extension board: a Raspberry Pi interface for the e-puck robot platform

  Millard, A. G., Joyce, R. A., Hilder, J. A., Fleseriu, C., Newbrook, L., Li, W., McDaid, L. & Halliday, D. M., Sept 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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• Towards fault diagnosis in robot swarms: An online behaviour characterisation approach

  O’Keeffe, J., Tarapore, D., Millard, A. G. & Timmis, J., 20 Jul 2017, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 18th Annual Conference, TAROS 2017, Proceedings. Springer, Vol. 10454 LNAI. p. 393-407 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10454 LNAI).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• 2016

  An FPGA-based Hardware-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Astrocyte-Neuron Network

  Johnson, A. P., Halliday, D. M., Millard, A. G., Tyrrell, A. M., Timmis, J., Liu, J., Harkin, J., McDaid, L. & Karim, S., 2016, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Exogenous Fault Detection in Swarm Robotic Systems: An Approach Based on Internal Models

  Millard, A. G., Mar 2016, White Rose University Consortium. 224 p.

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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• The Psi Swarm: A low-cost robotics platform and its use in an education setting

  Hilder, J. A., Horsefield, A., Millard, A. G. & Timmis, J. I., Jun 2016, Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems . Springer, Vol. 9716. p. 158-164 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• 2014

  A Low-cost Real-time Tracking Infrastructure for Ground-based Robot Swarms

  Millard, A. G., Hilder, J. A., Winfield, A. F. T. & Timmis, J., 2014, Swarm Intelligence: 9th International Conference, ANTS 2014, Brussels, Belgium, September 10-12, 2014. Proceedings. Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Garnier, S., Hamann, H., Montes de Oca, M., Solnon, C. & Stützle, T. (eds.). Springer, p. 278-289 2 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8667).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Guided Structure Formation Using Modular E-pucks

  Hristov, G., Millard, A. G., Hilder, J. A. & Timmis, J., 2014, International Conference on on Intelligent Robots and Systems: Workshop on Swarm and Modular Robotics. IEEE, p. 3

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Run-time Detection of Faults in Autonomous Mobile Robots Based on the Comparison of Simulated and Real Robot Behaviour

  Millard, A. G., Timmis, J. & Winfield, A. F. T., 2014, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. IEEE, p. 3720-3725

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Towards exogenous fault detection in swarm robotic systems

  Millard, A. G., Timmis, J. & Winfield, A. F. T., 28 Jun 2014, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer, Vol. 8069 LNAI. p. 429-430 2 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8069 LNAI).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
• 2012

  Searching for Pareto-optimal Randomised Algorithms

  Millard, A. G., White, D. R. & Clark, J. A., 2012, SSBSE. Springer, Vol. 7515. p. 183-197 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• 2011

  Self-repairing Robot Swarms

  Millard, A. G. & Timmis, J., Oct 2011, p. 96-97. 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

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