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 Ruth Schulz

ruth_schulz.jpgDr Ruth Schulz


Contact Details

Mail:

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

The University of Queensland

St. Lucia Q 4072

Australia

 

E-mail:

ruth@itee.uq.edu.au

 

Phone:

+ 61 7 3365 9765

 

Room:

Axon 308

 


Research

Lingodroids


Teaching

COMP3702/7702 Artificial Intelligence


Publications

Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (In Press). Lingodroids: Socially grounding place names in privately grounded cognitive maps. Adaptive Behavior.

Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2011) Are we there yet? Grounding temporal concepts in shared journeys, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 3(2), 163-175

Wyeth, G., Milford, M., Schulz, R., and Wiles, J. (2011) The RatSLAM project: robot spatial navigation, In J. L. Krichmar & H. Wagatsuma (Eds.), Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robotics (pp. 87-108). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schulz, R., Glover, A., Milford, M., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2011) Lingodroids: Studies in Spatial Cognition and Language, ICRA 2011, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011

Schulz, R., Glover, A., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010). Robots, communication, and language: An overview of the Lingodroid Project, in Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.

Glover, A., Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010). Grounding action in visuo-haptic space using experience networks, in Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.

Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010), Language change across generations for robots using cognitive maps. In H. Fellermann, M. Dörr, M. M. Hanczyc, L. L. Laursen, S. Maurer, D. Merkle, P.-A. Monnard, K. Stoy and S. Rasmussen (Eds.), Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. (pp. 581-588). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Schulz, R., Prasser, D., Stockwell, P., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2008). The formation, generative power, and evolution of toponyms: Grounding a spatial vocabulary in a cognitive map. In A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7) (pp. 267-274). Singapore: World Scientific Press. [PDF]

Milford, M., Schulz, R., Prasser, D., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2007). Learning spatial concepts from RatSLAM representations. Robotics and Autonomous Systems - From Sensors to Human Spatial Concepts, 55(5), 403-410.

Schulz, R., Milford, M. J., Prasser, D., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2006). Learning spatial concepts from RatSLAM representations. Paper presented at "From sensors to human spatial concepts" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China. [PDF]

Schulz, R., Stockwell, P., Wakabayashi, M., & Wiles, J. (2006). Towards a spatial language for mobile robots. In A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith & K. Smith (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Singapore: World Scientific Press. [PDF]

Schulz, R., Stockwell, P., Wakabayashi, M., & Wiles, J. (2006). Generalization in languages evolved for mobile robots. In L. M. Rocha, L. S. Yaeger, M. A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. L. Goldstone & A. Vespignani (Eds.), ALIFE X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. (pp. 486-492). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. [PDF]

Wiles, J., Schulz, R., Bolland, S., Tonkes, B., & Hallinan, J. (2001). Selection procedures for module discovery: Exploring evolutionary algorithms for cognitive science. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2001). (pp. 1124-1129). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wiles, J., Schulz, R., Hallinan, J., Bolland, S. & Tonkes, B. (2001). Probing the persistent question marks. In L. Spector, E. Goodman, A. Wu, W. B. Langdon, H.-M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen, M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M. Garzon & E. Burke (Eds), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001).  (pp. 710-717). San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. [PS]


PhD Thesis

Spatial Language for Mobile Robots: The Formation and Generative Grounding of Toponyms


Presentations

Evolang7 [PDF]

General introduction to RatChat project [PDF]


Final Year Engineering Thesis

Interface for an Automated Cocktail Maker [ZIP]

Abstract


Curriculum Vitae


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