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Adaptive Behaviour Research Group (ABRG)		Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Laboratory
Kevin Gurney Kevin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology which hosts the ABRG. He has trained and worked in a range of areas from mathematical physics, through digital systems engineering and neural networks, to expermental psychology. He has focussed over the last few years on the computational neuroscience of the basal ganglia and, more recently, of the rat whisker pathway.		Chris Melhuish Professor Chris Melhuish is Director of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and mathematical Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The last 10 years have been spent working specifically on autonomous robot systems including robots which generate their energy from biomass using microbial fuel cells. He has worked on many aspects of collective minimalist techniques including locomotion kinesis and taxis, collective behaviour transition and building using stigmergy. He has a BSc in Geology, an MSc in computer science and a PhD in collective robotics. He is a Fellow of the BCS and a chartered engineer.
Tony Prescott Tony is interested in understanding the functional architecture of the vertebrate brain. After degrees in Psychology, and AI, he decided that the best approach was to combine analysis (psychology and neuroscience) with synthesis (robotics). When not working on the problem of sensorimotor co-ordination in the rat/robot, Tony lectures on connectionism, dynamic systems, and robotics.		Tony Pipe Tony's work ranges from applications of electronics to medical systems through to biologically-inspired machine intelligence. His group are currently involved with hormone level tracking using microscopic magnets, electroacupuncture, Immunotronics (self-healing VLSI circuits), embedding mammalian brain function in VLSI circuits, implementing evolutionary computation, neural networks and fuzzy systems directly on VLSI circuits, and developing the silicon retina into a visual object recognition system. He also sometimes finds time to sleep and eat.
Peter Redgrave Needs no introduction, really - knows his true blue from his wheatgerm peroxiwhatsit, and rides a motorcycle.		Martin Pearson Martin is currently employed at the IAS laboratory as a Research Associate for the Whiskerbot project. He is also enrolled on a Ph.D. programme in which the modelling of neurons and neural structures using hardware processing platforms will also play a significant role. Here he is looking very chuffed with himself having just fathered his first son.
Ben Mitch Mitch joined the ABRG in september 2003 to work as a Research Associate on the WhiskerBot project. His training is in physics and control engineering; his primary role on the project is computational modelling of the whisker-barrel system. Here he is looking a little perplexed as he begins to learn all about animals.		Ian (Dizzy) Gilhespy Dizzy specialises in digital/analogue electronics and computing, and is currently interested in multi-processor, object orientated embedded systems. He has been involved in several major projects at IAS including DiveBot and LinuxBots, but has been chained up in the WhiskerBot construction shop now for over a year, his protests falling on deaf ears.