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      Dr. Ian KellyPost-Doctoral Research Fellow: Energetic Autonomy Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences University of the West of England, Bristol Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY UK Phone: Fax:
 
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        Research After escaping from an eight-year stint at the
Department of Cybernetics 
of the University of Reading I came to the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (IASeL) to carry out research into truly 
autonomous robotic systems. During my self inflicted sentence of fun at Reading 
I completed both my first degree in Cybernetics joint with Computer Science, and 
a Ph.D. in Cybernetics. My doctoral research was in the fields of group 
robotics, shared experience learning and flocking, and basically consisted of 
playing with toys, err I mean building serious research robots and designing 
their controllers. For more serious information on my Ph.D. research and the 
specifications of the robots (better known as the communicating Seven Dwarfs) 
that I co-designed (with David Keating et al.) and constructed follow this link 
(communicating Dwarfs).
 
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