CURRENT GRANTS

ITALK: Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in robots
Duration: 2008-2012
Recipient: Prof Angelo Cangelosi, Dr. Tony Belpaeme
Funding body: EU FP7, ICT Cognitive Systems, Robotics and Interaction
Collaborators/Partners: Italian Institute of Technology, Bielefeld University, University of Hertfordshire, National Research Council Rome, University of Souther Denmark, RIKEN Brain Science Institute Japan, and MIT USA
Amount awarded: EUR 6,250,000 (EUR 1,626,250 to Plymouth)

CONCEPT: Linguistic and direct transmission of concepts in robot-human networks
Duration: 2008-2011
Recipient: Dr. Tony Belpaeme
Funding body: EPSRC
Collaborators: University of Essex (D. Roberson)
Amount awarded: £192,291

VALUE: Vision, Action and Langauge Unified by Embodiment (RCUK Cognitive Systems Foresight)
Duration: 2008-2011
Recipient: Prof Angelo Cangelosi, Dr. Rob Ellis
Funding body: EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC
Collaborators: University of Dundee (M. Fischer), University of Wisconsin at Madison (A. Glenberg), Italian Institute of Technology (G. Metta)
Amount awarded: £809,132 (£507,722 at Plymouth)

Virtual Research Centre for Personal Robotics
Duration: 2007-2010
Recipient: Dr. G. Bugmann
Funding body: EPSRC
Amount awarded: £114,000

Learning the Structure of Music
Duration: 2005-2009
Recipient: Prof Eduardo R Miranda
Funding body: EPSRC
Amount awarded: £385,338

Communication and distributed control in multi-agent systems
Duration: 2007-2010
Recipient: Prof. A. Cangelosi
Funding body: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, US Air Force Research Lab
Amount awarded: US$ 150,000

 

PAST GRANTS

Emergent Cognition through Active Perception
Duration: 2005-2009
Recipient: Prof E.R. Miranda (Co-Applicant with Dr. Sue Denham)
Funding body: European Commission
EU partners: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Amount awarded: EUR 1,950,000

euCognition Support for Students/Staff Exchange at the Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Group
Duration: 2007-2008
Recipient: Prof Angelo Cangelosi
Funding body: euCognition Action Network
Amount awarded: €21,300 (5 different grants)

An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Musicology: A Case Study
Duration: 2004-2007
Recipient: Prof Eduardo Reck Miranda
Funding body: The Leverhulme Trust
Amount awarded: £49,470

DTI Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (Establishing an electronics design facility at Patronics International ltd)
Duration: 2005-2008
Recipient: Dr. P. Culverhouse
Funding body: DTI, University of Plymouth & Patronics International
Amount awarded: £141,752

DTI Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Duration: 2005-2007
Recipient: Dr C. Johnson (Co-Applicant)
Funding body: University of Plymouth & Goss Interactive
Amount awarded: £100,000

Organisation of the International Symposium on Language and Robots 2007
Duration: 2007
Amount awarded: EUR 3,300
Recipients: Dr. T. Belpaeme
Funding body: euCognition Coordinated Network

Organisation of the External Symbol Grounding Workshop ESG 2006
Duration: 2006
Amount awarded: EUR 2,800
Recipients: Prof. A. Cangelosi, Dr. T. Belpaeme
Funding body: euCognition Coordinated Network

Integrating language and cognition in autonomous systems
Duration: 2005-2006
Recipient: Dr Angelo Cangelosi
Funding body: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, US Air Force Research Labs
Amount awarded: US$ 45,559

Computational modelling of quantifiers: The relative influence of scalar and contextual factors
Duration: 2004-2006
Recipient: Prof. A. Cangelosi, Prof. K. Coventrry, Prof. S. Newstead
Funding body: EPSRC
Amount awarded: £141,752

DTI Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Duration: 2004-2005
Recipient: Dr Chris Johnson (Co-Applicant)
Funding body: DTI, University of Plymouth & Corpdata
Amount awarded: £100,000

Organisation of the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Duration: 2004
Amount awarded: £11,240
Recipients: Prof. A. Cangelosi, Dr. G. Bugmann, Prof. R. Borisyuk
Funding body: EPSRC, BBSRC, The British Academy

Developing Techniques for Evolutionary Music
Duration: 2003-2005
Recipient: Prof Eduardo Reck Miranda (Co-Applicant)
Funding body: Australian Research Council (ARC)
Amount awarded: AU$111,000

In-situ imaging and recognition of harmful algal bloom species by artificial neural network
Duration: 2003-2005
Recipient: Dr. P. Culverhouse
Funding body: European Commission (MAST 5)
EU partners: 8 SME, 6 RTD partners
Amount awarded: EUR 1,484,756

Cervical Smear assessment QA project
Duration: 2003-2004
Recipient: Dr. P. Culverhouse
Funding body: NHS National Cancer Screening Service
Amount awarded: £11,670

Design and Implementation of MTutor on-line learning materials for Systematic Problem Solving in the Telecommunications Industry
Duration: 2003
Recipient: Dr. P. Culverhouse
Funding body: E-Skills (UK) Ltd.
Amount awarded: £14,468.

Organisation of the 2001 Neural Coding Workshop
Duration: 2001
Amount awarded: £14,000
Recipients: Dr. G. Bugmann, Prof. R. Borisyuk
Funding body: EPSRC, Wellcome Trust

Instruction-Based Learning for Mobile Robots: IBL
Date of award: 2000-2003
Recipient: Dr G. Bugmann, Dr. E. Klein (Edinburgh)
Funding body: EPSRC
Amount awarded: £300,000

DTI Teaching Company Scheme
Duration: 2000-2002
Recipient: Dr G. Bugmann, Dr. P. Robinson, D. Marshall, R. Burns
Funding body: DTI, University of Plymouth & Semicon
Amount awarded: £70,000

A new approach for analysis of neurophysiological experimental data
Duration: 2000-2003
Recipient: Dr. L. Stuart
Funding body: EPSRC
Amount awarded: £53,260

STI Search for Terrestrial Intelligence
Duration: 2000-2001
Recipient: G. Bugmann, M. Phillips, A. Cangelosi et al.
Funding body: Wellcome Trust – SciArt grant
Amount awarded: £10,000

Multi-agent systems for modelling language evolution
Duration: 2000-2003
Recipient: Prof. A. Cangelosi
Funding body: EPSRC
Amount awarded: £47,417

Spatial and Temporal Object Databases
Duration: 1999-2003
Recipients: Dr. C. Johnson (Co-investigator)
Amount awarded: £149,486

DiCANN: Dinoflagellate Categorisation by Artificial Neural Network
Duration: 1999-2001
Recipient: Dr. P. Culverhouse
Funding body: European Commission (MAST 3)
EU partners: Zoppoli R, Universita di Genova, Italy, Fonda S, Consorzio per la Gestione del Laboratorio di Biologia Marina, Trieste, Italy, Reguera B, Centro Oceanografico de Vigo, Spain
Amount awarded: EUR 1,686,000

 

TRAVEL GRANTS

Royal Academy of Engineering, T. Belpaeme, 2006, £600
Royal Academy of Engineering, A. Cangelosi, SAB2006 Conference, £600
European Office Aerospace Research & Development , A. Cangelosi, KIMAS07 Conference, $2,800
European Office Aerospace Research & Development , A. Cangelosi, Fusion2006 Conference, $3,831
European Office Aerospace Research & Development , A. Cangelosi, KIMAS05 Conference (Keynote Speaker), $2,463
Royal Academy of Engineering, P. Culverhouse, Marine Laboratory Research visit USA, £600
EPSRC Travel grant , G. Bugmann, R. Borisyuk , FP6 preparatory grant meeting, £1000