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Overview

Chris Melhuish is affiliated with the University of the West of England in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple overlapping fields including Engineering, Computer Science, and Psychology.

The main subfields of study that Chris Melhuish has contributed to are Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research addresses topics such as Soft Robotics and Applications, Surgical Simulation and Training, Face Recognition and Perception, Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Emotion and Mood Recognition, Robot Manipulation and Learning, as well as Speech and Dialogue Systems.

Recent published papers include:

  • A review on the techniques used in prostate brachytherapy, 2022, Cognitive Computation and Systems
  • The Effectiveness of Dynamically Processed Incremental Descriptions in Human Robot Interaction, 2021, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Emotive Response to a Hybrid-Face Robot and Translation to Consumer Social Robots, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Emotive Response to a Hybrid-Face Robot and Translation to Consumer Social Robots, 2021, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Insights into MFC Stacks Treating Urine; Practical Challenges for Practical Implementation, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative projects include:

  • Yanlei Li
  • Chenguang Yang
  • Amit Bahl
  • Raj Persad
  • Maitreyee Wairagkar

Their publications are found in venues such as:

  • Cognitive Computation and Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics

    Owen Holland;Chris Melhuish

  • Comparative study of three types of microbial fuel cell

    Ioannis A. Ieropoulos;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish;John Hart

  • Microbial fuel cells based on carbon veil electrodes: Stack configuration and scalability

    Ioannis Ieropoulos;John Greenman;Christopher R Melhuish

  • Reinforcement learning and optimal adaptive control: An overview and implementation examples

    Said Ghani Khan;Guido Herrmann;Frank L. Lewis;Tony Pipe

  • Waste to real energy: the first MFC powered mobile phone

    Ioannis A. Ieropoulos;Pablo Ledezma;Andrew Stinchcombe;George Papaharalabos

  • Self-sustainable electricity production from algae grown in a microbial fuel cell system

    Iwona Gajda;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish;Ioannis Ieropoulos

  • Energetically autonomous robots: Food for thought

    Chris Melhuish;Ioannis Ieropoulos;John Greenman;Ian Horsfield

  • Improved energy output levels from small-scale Microbial Fuel Cells

    I Ieropoulos;J Greenman;Christopher R Melhuish

  • Development of a tactile sensor based on biologically inspired edge encoding

    Craig Chorley;Chris Melhuish;Tony Pipe;Jonathan Rossiter

  • Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal-Processing and Control Applications: A Model-Validated FPGA Approach

    M.J. Pearson;A.G. Pipe;B. Mitchinson;K. Gurney

  • Simultaneous electricity generation and microbially-assisted electrosynthesis in ceramic MFCs.

    Iwona Gajda;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish;Ioannis Ieropoulos

  • Energy accumulation and improved performance in microbial fuel cells

    Ioannis Ieropoulos;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish;John Hart

  • EcoBot-II: An artificial agent with a natural metabolism

    Ioannis Ieropoulos;Chris Melhuish;John Greenman;Ian Horsfield

  • Miniature microbial fuel cells and stacks for urine utilisation

    Ioannis A. Ieropoulos;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish

  • Minimalist coherent swarming of wireless networked autonomous mobile robots

    Julien Nembrini;Alan Winfield;Chris Melhuish

  • Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on the Rat Whisker Sensory System

    Martin J. Pearson;Anthony G. Pipe;Chris Melhuish;Ben Mitchinson

  • Electricity generation and struvite recovery from human urine using microbial fuel cells

    Jiseon You;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish;Ioannis Ieropoulos

  • EcoBot-III: A robot with guts

    Ioannis Ieropoulos;John Greenman;Chris Melhuish;Ian Horsfield

  • Joint action understanding improves robot-to-human object handover

    Elena Corina Grigore;Kerstin Eder;Anthony G. Pipe;Chris Melhuish

  • Collective sorting and segregation in robots with minimal sensing

    Chris Melhuish;Owen Holland;Steve Hoddell

  • 2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REHABILITATION ROBOTICS (ICORR)

    T. M. W. Burton;R. Vaidyanathan;Stuart C Burgess;A. J. Turton

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank L. Lewis
Frank L. Lewis The University of Texas at Arlington
Lorenzo Natale
Lorenzo Natale Italian Institute of Technology
Virgilio Mattoli
Virgilio Mattoli Italian Institute of Technology
Alin Albu-Schaffer
Alin Albu-Schaffer German Aerospace Center
Jong-Hwan Kim
Jong-Hwan Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Quanmin Zhu
Quanmin Zhu University of the West of England
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Rachid Alami
Rachid Alami Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Paolo Dario
Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Roberto Cingolani
Roberto Cingolani Italian Institute of Technology

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