| Post: | Senior Lecturer in CSAI |
| Location: | Pevensey 3 4C06 |
| Email: | inmanh@sussex.ac.uk |
| Personal homepage | |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8431 or 8195 |
| UK: | (01273) 678431 or (01273) 678195 |
| International: | +44 1273 678431 or +44 1273 678195 |
Biography
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My research interests largely centre on the development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems. Application domains of interest include evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware, molecules for pharmaceutical purposes. A theoretical topic in evolution is Neutral Networks, the study of pathways of neutral mutations through sequence space, or percolating ridges through fitness landscapes, which may be typical of many complex evolutionary scenarios and can be exploited by artificial evolution. Other interests include philosophical approaches to AI and Artificial Life (a non-representational, dynamical systems approach); passive dynamic walking; and Gaia theory.
Selected publications
2008
‘Psychoanalysis’ of a minimal agent (with Santosh Manicka) in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
A minimal approach to modular assembly (with Gregory Studer) in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
Adaptive behavioural modulation and hysteresis in an analogue of a kite control task (with Allister Furey) in Proc of SAB 2008, 10th Int Conf on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Osaka, Japan: Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-69133-4
Adaptive growth processes: a model inspired by Pask’s ear (with Nathaniel Virgo) in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
Associative learning on a continuum in evolved dynamical networks (with Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres and Beer, R.) in Adaptive Behavior Volume 16 pp. 361-384
Environmental regulation can arise under minimal assumptions (with James Dyke, Ezequiel Di Paolo and McDonald-Gibson, J.) in Journal of Theoretical Biology Volume 251 pp. 653-666
Homeostasis via chaos: implementing the uniselector as a dynamical system in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
Misrepresentations in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
Morphodynamics and perceptual worlds: conceptual approach and an experiment in evolutionary robotics (with Fernando Almeida E Costa and Ian Macinnes) in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
Reaction-diffusion spots as a model for autopoiesis (with Nathaniel Virgo) in Proc 11th Int Conf on Artificial Life Winchester, UK: MIT Press ISBN 978-0-262-75017-2
Robust adaptive control for kite wind energy using evolutionary robotics (with Allister Furey) in Proc of Biological Approaches fro Engineering Conference Southampton, UK:
2007
A distributed formation algorithm to organize agents with no coordinate agreements (with Gregory Studer) in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007 Lisbon: Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
Adapting Particle Swarm Optimisation for Fitness Landscapes with Neutrality (with Owen, Alan) in Proceedings 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium Hawaii: IEEE Press ISBN 1-4244-0698-6
Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life 2007 (edited with Fernando Almeida E Costa, Rocha, Luis Mateus, Costa, Ernesto and Coutinho, António) Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
Entropy Production in Ecosystems. (with Nathaniel Virgo) in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007 Lisbon: Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
Evolution of Neural Networks for Active Control of Tethered Airfoils (with Allister Furey) in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007 Lisbon: Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
Hebbian Learning using Fixed Weight Evolved Dynamical ‘Neural’ Networks (with Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres) in Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. (IEEE-ALife'07) Hawaii: IEEE Press ISBN 1-4244-0698-6
Increasing complexity can increase stability in a self-regulating ecosystem (with James Dyke, Ezequiel Di Paolo and McDonald-Gibson, J.) in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007 Lisbon: Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
Programmable Springs: Developing Actuators with Programmable Compliance for Autonomous Robots. (with Bill Bigge) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems Volume 55 pp. 728-734
The Dynamics of Associative Learning in an Evolved Situated Agent (with Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres) in Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Life, 2007 Lisbon: Springer-Verlag ISBN 978-3-540-74912-7
2006
A Situated, Embodied and Dynamical Systems Approach to Understanding Learning and Memory (with Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres) in AI'50, 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, Monte Verita, Switzerland Monte Verita, Switzerland:
Learning on a Continuum in Evolved Dynamical Node Networks (with Eduardo Izquierdo Torres) L.M. Rocha et al, ed., in Artificial Life X, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems Bloomington, Indiana, USA: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-68162-5
Programmable Springs: Developing Compliant Actuators for Autonomous Robots (with Bill Bigge) University of Surrey, Guildford: ISBN 0-905-24703-5
Pushing Up the Daisies (with James Dyke) in Artificial Life X, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems
2005
Embracing Plagiarism: Theoretical , Biological and Empirical Justification for Copy Operators in Genetic Optimisation (with Simon McGregor) in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 6 (4). pp. 407-420. Volume 6 pp. 407-420
Evolution and the Origins of the Rational Zilhão, António, ed., in Cognition, Evolution, and Rationality. London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-36260-1
Evolutionary Robotics: A new scientific tool for studying cognition (with Ezequiel Di Paolo, Rachel Wood, Matthew Quinn and Tuci, E A (Internal 4)) in Artificial Life Volume 11 pp. 79-98
Hysteresis and the Limits of Homeostasis: From Daisyworld to Phototaxis in Advances in Artificial Life: 8th European Conference, ECAL 2005 Canterbury, UK: Springer-Verlag: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3630/2005
2004
Artificial Life Richard L. Gregory, ed., in The Oxford Companion to the Mind Oxford University Press ISBN 0-198-66224-6
Homeostasis and Rein Control: From Daisyworld to Active Perception in Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE 9) MIT Press pp. pp 309-314 ISBN 0-262-66183-7
The Role of Non-Genetic Change in the Heritability, Variation, and Response to Selection of Artificially Selected Ecosystems (with Alexandra Penn) in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9. Bostan, MA, USA: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-66183-7
The evolution of control and adaptation in a 3D powered passive dynamic walker (with Eric Vaughan and Ezequiel Di Paolo) in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, MA, USA: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-66183-7
The evolution of control and adaptation in a 3D powered passive dynamic walker. (with Eric Vaughan and Ezequiel Di Paolo) Pollack J, Bedau, M, Husbands, P, Ikegami, T and Watson, R A, ed., in Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE 9) MIT Press pp. pp 139-145 ISBN 0-262-66183-7
The tango of a load balancing biped (with Eric Vaughan and Ezequiel Di Paolo) in Proceedings of CLAWAR 2004, 7th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots Madrid, Spain: Springer-Verlag ISBN 3-540-22992-2
Time and Motion Studies: The Dynamics of Cognition, Computation and Humanoid Walking (with Eric Vaughan and Ezequiel Di Paolo) in HART 2004, Fourth Intl. Symp. on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems: From Control to Autonomy Fukui, Japan:
2003
An evolutionary ecological approach to the study of learning behaviour using a robot based model (with Elio Tuci and Matthew Quinn) in Adaptive Behavior Volume 10 pp. 201-222
Decisions and noise: the scope of evolutionary synthesis and dynamical analysis. (with Ezequiel Di Paolo) in Adaptive Behavior 11(4): 284-288 Volume 11 pp. 284-288
2002
Evolutionary computational methods to predict oral bioavailability QSPRs (with W. Bains, R. Gilbert and L. Sviridenko) in Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development 5(1):44-51 Volume 5 pp. 44-51
Evolving Robot Consciousness: The Easy Problems and the Rest J.H. Fetzer, ed., in Evolving Consciousness Amsterdam: J.H. Benjamins ISBN 9-027-25154-1
Evolving fixed-weight networks for learning robots (with E. Tuci and M. Quinn) in Proceedings Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: IEEE Press ISBN 0-780-37282-4
Evolving integrated controllers for autonomous learning robots using dynamic neural networks. (with E. Tuci and M. Quinn) in Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'02), 4-9 August 2002, Edinburgh, UK. Edinburgh: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-58217-1
Using a net to catch a mate: Evolving CTRNNs for the Dowry Problem (with Tuci, E A and Todd, P M) in From Animals to Animats: 7th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems) Edinburgh, UK: MIT Press ISBN 0262582171
2001
Artificial Evolution: A Continuing SAGA in Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Takashi Gomi (ed.), Proc. of 8th Intl. Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics (ER2001) Tokyo, Japan: Springer-Verlag
2000
Artificial evolution: a new path for Artificial Intelligence? (with Phil Husbands, Cliff, D. and Miller, G.) Chrisley, R., ed., in Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts in Cognitive Science Routledge ISBN 0-415-19331-1
Consensus sequence plots and error thresholds (with Gabriela Ochoa and Hilary Buxton) in Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI) int conf Paris: Springer-Verlag ISBN 3-540-41056-2
Optimal mutation rates and selection pressure in genetic algorithms (with Gabriela Ochoa and Hilary Buxton) in GECCO-2000 Las Vegas, USA: Morgan Kaufmann ISBN 1-55860-708-0
Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver T. Gomi, ed., in Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Vol. III, Toronto, Canada: AAI Books, ISBN 0-969-88723-0
The use of neutral genotype-phenotype mappings for improved evolutionary search (with Shipman, R. and Shackleton, M.) in BT Technology Journal Volume 18 pp. 103-111
1999
Evolution of a non-linear robot controller (with Moore, W. E.) in Proc of IASTED Int Conf on Robotics and Applications Santa Barbara, USA: Acta Press, Calgary ISBN 0-88986-265-6
1997
Artificial evolution and real robots in Artificial Life and Robotics Volume 1 pp. 35-38
Artificial evolution of visual control systems for robots (with Phil Husbands and Cliff, D.) Srinivasan, M., ed., in From Living Eyes to Seeing Machines Oxford University Press ISBN 0-198-57785-0
Artificial evolution: a new path for Artificial Intelligence? (with Phil Husbands, Cliff, D. and Miller, G.) in Brain and Cognition Volume 34 pp. 130-159
Evolutionary Robotics (with Phil Husbands, Adrian Thompson, Jakobi, N. and Cliff, D.) in Handbook of Evolutionary Computation Oxford University Press ISBN 0-750-30392-1
Evolutionary Robotics: the Sussex Approach. (with Phil Husbands, Adrian Thompson, Cliff D and Jakobi, N.) Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Robotics and Autonomous Systems Volume 20 pp. 205-244 ISBN 0921 8890
Evolving minimal sensorrimotor systems (with Phil Husbands) in Artificial Life and Robotics Volume 1 pp. 23-42
Is There Another New Factor in Evolution? Evolutionary Computation: Evolutionary Computation Volume 4(3) pp. 311-327 ISBN 1063 6560
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (edited with Phil Husbands) Brighton, UK: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-58157-4
1996
Relearning and Evolution in Neural Networks. Adaptive Behavior: Adaptive Behavior Volume 4(1) pp. 79-82 ISBN 1059 7123
Unicycling helps your French: Spontaneous recovery of associations by learning unrelated tasks. (with Stone J) Neural Computation: Neural Computation Volume 8(4) pp. 697-704 ISBN 0899 7667
1995
Circle in the round: state space attractors for evolved sighted robots (with Phil Husbands and Cliff, D.) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems Volume 15 pp. 83-106
1993
Explorations in evolutionary robotics (with Phil Husbands and Cliff, D.) in Adaptive Behavior Volume 2 pp. 71-104