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Alan Winfield

2 accepted papers

2023

Ethical Assessment of a Hospital Disinfection Robot

ICRA 2023poster

Robots have the potential to deliver very positive impacts for society, however, it's critical that in preparing for real-world deployments, we recognize and take steps to mitigate against the potential harms, both direct and indirect, that they may cause. In this paper, we explore how the ethics ca…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2018

Recruitment Near Worksites Facilitates Robustness of Foraging E-Puck Swarms to Global Positioning Noise

IROS 2018poster

We compare the ability of two different robot controllers for collective foraging to cope with noise in robot global positioning data and show how recruitment, in the form of broadcast messages near worksites, can make swarms more robust. Swarms of five e-puck robots are used in a semi-virtual envir…

Cited by 7SourceScholar