Mike Blow MSc BEng - artificiallife.co.uk

Michael Blow MSc BEng(Hons)

Address:

9 Offham Village
East Sussex
BN7 3QA
Great Britain

Telephone:

UK 01273 471366 International +44 1273 471366

Email:

mike@artificiallife.co.uk

Research Interests:

Autonomous robotics for exploration, multi-robot systems and swarm intelligence, emergence and scalability of swarm algorithms, stigmergy, evolutionary robotics, human-robot interaction.

Publications and previous work:

"Stigmergy: Biologically-inspired robotic art"(to be published in proc. AISB 2005 conference)
"There Does Not, in Fact, Appear to Be a Plan: A Collaborative Experiment in Creative Robotics" (draft, to be published in proc. AISB 2005 conference)
MSc. Thesis: "Why do Ants Use Trails? Evolving Foraging Behaviour in Simulation and Real Life."
MSc. Artificial Life paper: "Evolutionary Robotics Simulation using a CTRNN."
MSc. Animal and Machine Intelligence paper: "When is many better than one? An examination of co-operative and social animal behaviour and the pros and cons of collective robotics."
MSc. Adaptive Systems paper: "Swapping Evolved Behaviours in a Subsumption Architecture Robot."
MSc. Creative Artificial Intelligence paper: "An Investigation into Aesthetic Preference using Generative Art."
MSc. Visual Perception and Cognition paper: "The Unfulfilled Potential of Sensory Substitution."
MSc. Formal Computational Skills paper: "An Investigation into a CTRNN Node."
MSc. Programming Techniques paper: "Spell Checker."
MSc. Neural Networks paper: "House Price Prediction using a Multilayer Perceptron."

Qualifications:

MSc. Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, Sussex University 2004: Pass with Distinction
BEng. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Brighton University 1992: Grade 2.1