Jan Wessnitzer

Research Student: Distributed computation in networks of mobile robots

Faculty of Engineering
University of the West of England, Bristol
Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY
UK
Phone:
Fax:


Email: Jan Wessnitzer@gmx.net

 

 


 

The LinuxBots with IR Towers.

 

 

Simulation Movie of Robot Hunting a Target. (10.1MB avi)

Movie of Formation movement (1.98 MB avi)

Forming a square. (1.24MB mpg)

Morphing movie. (2.54MB avi)

 

Robot formation

 

Robot formation

Robots forming on a beacon

Robots forming on a beacon

MSc dissertation:

A robot implementation of Halperin's Neuro-Connector model. MSc thesis. Department of Artificial Intelligence. University of Edinburgh. 2000.

 

Publications:

Conference proceedings:

  • J. Wessnitzer, A. Adamatzky and C. Melhuish (2001) Towards self-organising structure formations : a decentralised approach. Proceedings of TIMR 2001.
  • J. Wessnitzer, A. Adamatzky and C. Melhuish (2001) Towards self-organising structure formations : a decentralised approach. Proceedings of ECAL 2001. Springer, pp573-581.
  • J. Wessnitzer, A. Adamatzky and C. Melhuish (2002) Building adaptive structure formations with decentralised control and coordination. Poster presentation at SAB 2002.
  • J. Wessnitzer and C. Melhuish (2002) Building adaptive structure formations with decentralised control and coordination. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2002.
  • J. Wessnitzer and C. Melhuish (2003) Collective decision-making and behaviour transitions in distributed ad hoc wireless networks of mobile robots: target-hunting. Proceedings of ECAL 2003 Accepted for full publication!

 

  • Jan Wessnitzer (2004) Strategies for Structural Self-Organisation in Wireless Networks of Mobile Robots. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. University of the West of England.