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A. Vardy. Review of The Robotics Primer by Maja J. Matarić. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 9(1), 2008
R. Möller, A. Vardy, S. Kreft, & S. Ruwisch. Visual Homing in Environments with Anisotropic Landmark Distribution. Autonomous Robots 23:231-245, 2007
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R. Möller and A. Vardy. Local Visual Homing by Matched-Filter Descent in Image Distances. Biological Cybernetics, 95, 413-430, 2006.
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A. Vardy and R. Möller. Biologically plausible visual homing methods based on optical flow techniques. Connection Science, 17(1/2), 47-90, 2005. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy and F. Oppacher. A scale invariant local image descriptor for visual homing. In G. Palm and S. Wermter, editors, Biomimetic neural learning for intelligent robots. Springer, 2005. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy. Using Feature Scale Change for Robot Localization along a Route. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010). IEEE Xplore, 2010 [PDF Document]
D. Churchill, A. Vardy. Homing in Scale Space. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008). IEEE Xplore, 2008 [PDF Document]
A. Vardy. A simple visual compass with learned pixel weights. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. IEEE Xplore, 2008 [PDF Document]
S.N. Ferdaus, A. Vardy, G.K.I. Mann, and R.G. Gosine. Comparing global measures of image similarity for use in topological localization of mobile robots. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. IEEE Xplore, 2008 [PDF Document]
R. Möller, A. Vardy, L. Gerstmayr, F. Röben, and S. Kreft. Neuroethological concepts at work: Insect-inspired methods for visual robot navigation. In Biological Approaches for Engineering Conference, 2008
G. Gamage, A. Vardy, G.K.I. Mann, and R.G. Gosine. Robot Obstacle Avoidance Behaviour using Particle Swarm Optimization. In Proceedings of the Newfoundland Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2008
S.N. Ferdaus, A. Vardy, G.K.I. Mann, and R.G. Gosine. Feature selection and tracking for mobile robot localization. In Proceedings of the Newfoundland Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2007
A. Burke and A. Vardy. Visual Compass Methods for Robot Navigation. In Proceedings of the Newfoundland Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy. Long-Range Visual Homing. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pages 220-226, 2006. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy and F. Oppacher. A scale invariant neural feature detector for visual homing. In G. Palm and S. Wermter, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Neurobotics, German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ulm, 2004. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy and F. Oppacher. Anatomy and physiology of an artificial vision matrix. In A.J. Ijspreet, M. Murata, and N. Wakamiya, editors, Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology: First International Workshop, BioADIT 2004, volume 3141 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 290-305. Springer, 2004. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy and F. Oppacher. Low-level visual homing. In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, and J. Ziegler, editors, Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), volume 2801 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 875-884. Springer, 2003. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy. A visually-based evolvable control architecture for agents in interactive entertainment applications. In J. Kelemen and P. Sosik, editors, Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), volume 2159 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 469-479. Springer, 2001. [PDF Document]
A. Vardy, J. Robinson, and L-T. Cheng. The wristcam as input device. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pages 199-202. IEEE Computer Society, 1999. [PDF Document]
Ph.D Thesis: Biologically Plausible Methods for Robot Visual Homing, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, 2005. [PDF Document, 10MB]
M.Sc Thesis: A Visually-Based Evolvable Control Architecture for Agents in Interactive Entertainment Applications, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, 2000.