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Overview

Alan F. T. Winfield is affiliated with the University of the West of England in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on computer science, social sciences, and engineering. Within these areas, their work extensively covers subfields such as artificial intelligence, safety research, social psychology, mechanical engineering, and control and systems engineering.

Their research topics include ethics and social impacts of AI, reinforcement learning in robotics, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), modular robots and swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms and applications, robot manipulation and learning, and adversarial robustness in machine learning.

Notable recent publications by Alan F. T. Winfield include:

  • IEEE P7001: A Proposed Standard on Transparency, 2021, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Designing Ethical Social Robots-A Longitudinal Field Study With Older Adults, 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Governing AI safety through independent audits, 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Special Issue "On Defining Artificial Intelligence"-Commentaries and Author's Response, 2020, Journal of Artificial General Intelligence
  • Mutual Shaping in Swarm Robotics: User Studies in Fire and Rescue, Storage Organization, and Bridge Inspection, 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Frequent co-authors of Alan Winfield include Marina Jirotka, Matthew Studley, Emma Hart, A. E. Eiben, and Jon Timmis. These collaborations reflect a sustained contribution to research in robotics and AI.

Key publication venues for their work are Frontiers in Robotics and AI, arXiv (Cornell University), Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence, and the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence. Frontiers in Robotics and AI stands out as the most frequent venue where they have published.

Best Publications

  • Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems.

    Alan F. T. Winfield;Marina Jirotka

  • Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

    Joanna Bryson;Alan Winfield

  • Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world

    Margaret Boden;Joanna Bryson;Darwin Caldwell;Kerstin Dautenhahn

  • Interactive robots in experimental biology

    Jens Krause;Alan F.T. Winfield;Jean Louis Deneubourg

  • Distributed Sensing and Data Collection Via Broken Ad Hoc Wireless Connected Networks of Mobile Robots

    Alan F. T. Winfield

  • Machine Ethics: The Design and Governance of Ethical AI and Autonomous Systems

    Alan F. Winfield;Katina Michael;Jeremy Pitt;Vanessa Evers

  • Governing AI safety through independent audits

    Gregory Falco;Gregory Falco;Ben Shneiderman;Julia Badger;Ryan Carrier

  • Safety in numbers: fault-tolerance in robot swarms

    Alan F.T. Winfield;Julien Nembrini

  • An architecture for ethical robots inspired by the simulation theory of cognition

    Dieter Vanderelst;Alan F. T. Winfield

  • Towards Energy Optimization: Emergent Task Allocation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots

    Wenguo Liu;Alan F. T. Winfield;Jin Sa;Jie Chen

  • Towards an Ethical Robot: Internal Models, Consequences and Ethical Action Selection

    Alan F. T. Winfield;Christian Blum;Wenguo Liu

  • The application of wireless local area network technology to the control of mobile robots

    Alan F. T. Winfield;Owen Holland

  • Environment-driven distributed evolutionary adaptation in a population of autonomous robotic agents

    Nicolas Bredeche;Jean Marc Montanier;Wenguo Liu;Alan F.T. Winfield

  • Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

    Alan F.T. Winfield

  • Modeling and Optimization of Adaptive Foraging in Swarm Robotic Systems

    Wenguo Liu;Alan F. T. Winfield

  • Adaptive foraging for simulated and real robotic swarms: the dynamical response threshold approach

    Eduardo Castello;Tomoyuki Yamamoto;Fabio Dalla Libera;Wenguo Liu

  • Minimalist coherent swarming of wireless networked autonomous mobile robots

    Julien Nembrini;Alan Winfield;Chris Melhuish

  • Towards dependable swarms and a new discipline of swarm engineering

    Alan F. T. Winfield;Christopher J. Harper;Julien Nembrini

  • Special Issue on Swarm Robotics

    Erol Sahin;Alan F. T. Winfield

  • On Formal Specification of Emergent Behaviours in Swarm Robotic Systems

    Alan F.T. Winfield;Jin Sa;Mari-Carmen Fernandez-Gago;Clare Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Timmis
Jon Timmis University of Sunderland
Anthony G. Pipe
Anthony G. Pipe University of the West of England
Andy M. Tyrrell
Andy M. Tyrrell University of York
A. E. Eiben
A. E. Eiben Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael Fisher
Michael Fisher University of Manchester
Quanmin Zhu
Quanmin Zhu University of the West of England
Yvan Petillot
Yvan Petillot Heriot-Watt University
Chris Melhuish
Chris Melhuish University of the West of England
Simon Jones
Simon Jones Microsoft (United States)
Mauro Birattari
Mauro Birattari Université Libre de Bruxelles

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