For the CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit, please visit the CAST homepage.

My current research is based around understanding the requirements and possible designs for information-processing architectures for intelligent robots. It is a mix of theoretical and practical integration work (i.e. work concerned with principled approaches to building whole systems from state-of-the-art components). Recent products of this research have been the CoSy Architecture Schema and an integration toolkit based on this. On top of this I have recently been exploring PECAS, an architecture combining cross-modal binding and continual planning.

This work was started in 2004 when I was a post-doc on the CoSy project, and from 2008 is being continued on the CogX project. Some videos of demonstrators we produced on CoSy can be seen below...

Before the CoSy project I was a post-doc at Media Lab Europe in the now defunct (but not forgotten) Common Sense group. In this group I worked with John Kelleher on analogical reasoning and an extension to the T9 text input system. Before that I completed a PhD sponsored by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe here, working with Aaron Sloman and Ian Wright on intelligent agents for computer games. My thesis, which presented an anytime planning algorithm and an agent architecture able to take advantage of its anytime capabilities, can be found on my publications page