Joanne Walker

Publications

• Burbidge R, Walker J and Wilson M. (2009). Grammatical Evolution of a Robot Controller. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009.
  
  
• Burbidge R, Walker J and Wilson M. (2009). A grammar for evolution of a robot cobtroller. In Proceedings of Towards Autonomy in Robotic Systems (TAROS).
  
  
• Walker J and Wilson M. (2008). A Performance Sensitive Hormone-Inspired System for Task Distribution Amongst Evolving Robots. In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2008.
  
  
• Walker J and Wilson M. (2007). Hormone-Inspired Control for Group Task-Distribution. In Proceedings of Towards Autonomy in Robotic Systems (TAROS).
  
  
• Darby S., Wilson M. and Walker J. (2007). Transfer of Evolutionary Methods between Robots (Poster). In Proceedings of Towards Autonomy in Robotic Systems (TAROS).
  
  
• Garrett S., Robbins M., Walker J., Wilson W., Aicklin U. (2006). Modelling Immunological Memory. Book chapter to appear in: In Silico Immunology (D. Flower and J. Timmis, eds.) Springer Verlag.
  
  
• Walker J., Garrett S., and Wilson M. (2006). The balance between initial training and lifelong adaptation in evolving robot controllers. In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B Vol 36: 423-432.
  
  
• Walker J, Garrett S and Wilson M (2003). Evolution for Real Robots: A Structured Survey of the Literature. Adaptive Behavior Vol 11(3): 179-203.
  
  
• Walker J and Garrett S. (2003). Dynamic Function Optimisation: Comparing the Performance of Clonal Selection and Evolution Strategies. In: ICARIS-2003, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science No.2787, pages 217--228.
  
  
• Walker J. (2003). Experiments in Evolutionary Robotics: Investigating the Importance of Training and Lifelong Adaptation by Evolution. (PhD thesis) UWA.
  
  
• Walker J. and Wilson M. (2002). Lifelong evolution for adaptive robots. In: IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'02).
  
  
• Walker J. and Wilson M.(2002). How Useful is Lifelong Evolution for Robotics? In: From Animals to Animats 7, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB-02).
  
  
• Garrett S. and Walker J. (2002). Combining evolutionary and `non'-evolutionary methods in tracking dynamic global optima. In: Proceedings of the 2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'02).
  
  
• Walker J. and Wilson M. (2001). Evolving mobile robot behaviours in simulation -- a comparison. In Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots; Proceedings of the 3rd annual British conference on autonomous mobile robotics and autonomous systems (TIMR'01).
  
  
• Walker J. (1999). Genetic Algorithm Toolkit. MSc Dissertation. University of Wales, Aberystwyth.