A.L. Nelson, G.J. Barlow, and L. Doitsidis, “Fitness functions in evolutionary robotics: A survey and analysis,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 345-370, Apr. 2009.
A.L. Nelson, E.
Grant, “Aggregate selection in evolutionary robotics,” in Mobile
Robots: The Evolutionary Approach, eds. N. Nedjah, L. Coelho, L.
Mourelle, Studies in Computational Intelligence , vol. 50, pp. 63-88,
Springer,
2007. ()
A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, “Using direct competition to select for competent controllers in evolutionary robotics,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 840-857, Oct. 2006.
A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, “Developmental analysis in evolutionary robotics,” in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE SMC Mountain Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems (SMCals’06), July 2006, pp. 201-206.
N.B. Almutairi, M.T. Alrifai, A.L. Nelson “,” ACSE International Journal on Automatic
Control and Systems Engineering, vol. 5, no. 4, Dec., 2005.
L. Doitsidis, A. Nelson, M. Long, K. Valavanis, R. Murphy, “Experimental validation of a Matlab based control architecture for multiple robot outdoor navigation,” in Proceedings of the Joint 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Control & 13th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (2005 ISIC-MED), Limassol, Cyprus , June 27-29, 2005.
A.L. Nelson, E.
Grant, J.M.
Galeotti, S. Rhody, “Maze
exploration behaviors using an integrated evolutionary robotics
environment,” Journal of Robotics
and Autonomous Systems,
vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 159-173, Mar. 2004.
A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, T.C. Henderson, “Evolution of neural controllers for competitive game playing with teams of mobile robots,” Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 135-150, Mar. 2004.
G.J. Barlow, T.C.
Henderson,
A.L. Nelson, E. Grant, “Dynamic
leadership protocol for S-nets,” Proceedings of
the 2004 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’04),
New Orleans LA, Apr. 26-May 1, 2004, vol. 2, pp.
1091-1096.
A.L. Nelson, L.
Doitsidis,
M.T. Long, K.P. Valavanis, R.R. Murphy, “Incorporation of
MATLAB into a
distributed behavioral robotics architecture,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS’04), Sendai, Japan, Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2004, pp.
2028-2035.
Grant, E. Mattos, L. Barlow, G. Nelson, A.L. Luthy, K. Levedahl, B. Lee, G. “Evolutionary neural controllers for mobile robot colonies,” in Proceedings of the World Automation Congress, June 28 - July 1, 2004, vol. 17, pp. 37-42.
A.L. Nelson, E.
Grant, G.J.
Barlow, T.C. Henderson, “A
colony of robots using vision sensing and evolved neural controllers,”
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’03), Las Vegas
NV, vol.
3, Oct. 27-31, 2003, pp. 2273-2278.
A.L.
Nelson, E. Grant, G.J. Barlow, M. White, “Evolution of
autonomous robot
behaviors using relative competitive fitness,” Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference,
Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent
Systems (KIMAS’03) Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering Systems,
A.L. Nelson, E.
Grant, G.
Lee, “Developing
evolutionary neural
controllers for teams of mobile robots playing a complex game,”
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE
International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2003), Las
Vegas NV, Oct. 27-29, 2003, pp. 212-218.
A.L. Nelson, E.
Grant, G.
Lee, “Using
genetic
algorithms to capture behavioral traits exhibited by knowledge based
robot agents,”
Proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference: Computer
Applications
in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2002), San Diego CA, Nov. 7-9,
2002, pp.
92-97.
J. Galeotti, S.
Rhody, A.L.
Nelson, E. Grant, G. Lee, “EvBots – the
design and
construction of a mobile robot colony for conducting evolutionary
robotic experiments,”
Proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference: Computer
Applications
in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2002), San Diego CA, Nov. 7-9,
2002, pp.
86-91.
A.L. Nelson, E.
Grant, T.C.
Henderson, “Competitive
relative performance evaluation of neural controllers for competitive
game
playing with teams of real mobile robots,” Measuring the
Performance and
Intelligence of Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 PerMIS Workshop,
NIST
Special Publication 990, Gaithersburg MD, Aug. 13-15, 2002, pp. 43-50.
A.L. Nelson, M.
Chow, “Characterization
of coil faults in an axial flux variable reluctance PM motor,”
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion,
vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 340-348, Sept. 2002.
S.H. Bernacki, A.L.
Nelson,
L. Abdullah, J.K. Sheehan, A. Harris, C. William Davis, S.H. Randell, “Mucin gene
expression
during differentiation of human airway epithelia in vitro. Muc4 and
muc5b are
strongly induced,” American Journal
of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, vol. 20, no. 4, pp.
595-604,
Apr. 1999.
K. Burridge, A.
Nelson, “An in-gel
assay for protein
tyrosine phosphatase activity: detection of widespread distribution in
cells
and tissues,” Analytical Biochemistry,
vol. 232, no. 1, pp. 56-64, Nov. 1995.
A. Nelson, M. Chow, “Electric vehicles and axial flux permanent magnet motor propulsion systems,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter, vol. 46, no.4, pp.3-6, Dec. 1999.
Andrew L Nelson, “Competitive
Relative
Performance and Fitness Selection for Evolutionary Robotics,”
Doctoral
Dissertation,
Andrew L. Nelson, “Characterization of Winding Faults in Axial Flux Reluctance Motors in the Context of Electric Vehicle Propulsion Systems,” Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 2000.
Lecture Presentation: Introduction to Fuzzy Logic
Lecture Presentation: Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
Lecture Presentation: Introduction to Neural Networks
Lecture Presentation: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Presentations:
Dissertation Presentation: Competitive Relative Performance and Fitness Selection for Evolutionary Robotics
IROS 2004 Presentation: Incorporation of MATLAB into a Distributed Behavioral Robotics Architecture
IROS 2003 Presentation: A Colony of Robots Using Vision Sensing and Evolved Neural Controllers
PerMIS 2002 Presentation: Competitive relative performance evaluation of neural controllers for competitive game playing with teams of real mobile robots