Dr Mat Evans (Research Fellow)
Contact
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TP, UK.
Email: pcp07mhe/at/sheffield.ac.uk
Website: Personal Website
Research Interests
- Computational methods for active touch sensing
- Funded by the EPSRC
Publications
2013
- Craig Bertram, Matthew H. Evans, Mahmood Javaid, Tom Stafford, and Tony J. Prescott (2013), Sensory Augmentation with Distal Touch: The Tactile Helmet Project, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8064, 2013, pp 24-35.
- Evans M, Fox C, Lepora N, Pearson M, Sullivan JC and Prescott T (2013), The effect of whisker movement on radial distance estimation: a case study in comparative robotics, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 6: 12.
2012
- Lepora N, Martinez U, Barron H, Evans M, Metta G and Prescott T (2012), Embodied hyperacuity from Bayesian perception: Shape and position discrimination with an iCub fingertip , IEEE proceedings of IROS, 4638-4643.
- Lepora N, Fox C, Evans M, Diamond M, Gurney K and Prescott T (2012), Optimal decision-making in mammals: insights from a robot study of rodent texture discrimination, Royal Society Interface , 9 (72): 1517-1528.
- Sullivan J, Mitchinson B, Pearson M, Evans M, Lepora N, Fox C, Melhuish C and Prescott T. (2012), Tactile Discrimination using Active Whisker Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, 12(2):350-362.
- Evans M, Pearson M, Lepora N, Prescott T and Fox C (2012), Whiskered texture classification with uncertain pose geometry , IEEE proceedings of IROS, 7-13.
2011
- Fox C, Evans M, Lepora N, Pearson M, Hamm A and Prescott T (2011), Crunchbot: A mobile whiskered robot platform. , Springer LNCS proceedings of Towards Autonomous robotic systems (TAROS).
- Lepora N, Fox C, Evans M, Mitchinson B, Motiwala A, Sullivan J, Pearson M, Welsby J, Pipe T, Gurney K and Prescott T (2011), A general classifier of whisker data using stationary naïve Bayes: Application to BIOTACT robots, proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, Springer LNCS 6856:13-23.
2010
- Lepora N, Pearson M, Mitchinson B, Evans M, Fox C, Pipe T, Gurney K and Prescott T (2010), Naive Bayes novelty detection in a whiskered moving robot, proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2010), 131-136.
- Evans M, Fox C, Pearson M, Lepora N and Prescott T. (2010), Whisker-object contact speed affects radial distance estimation, Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2010)..
- Lepora, N, M Evans, C. Fox, M.E. Diamond, K.N. Gurney and T.J. Prescott (2010), Naive Bayes texture classification applied to whisker data from a moving robot, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
- Tony Prescott, Martin Pearson, Charles Fox, Mat Evans, Ben Mitchinson, Sean Anderson, Tony Pipe (2010), Towards biomimetic vibrissal tactile sensing for robot exploration, navigation, and object recognition in hazardous environments, RISE'10, Fourth international workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance-Maintenance.