Myra S. Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is a senior lecturer in

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

Aberystwyth University , mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment = ...

, Wales. Her research interests are in the broad area of

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

, and she also teaches in the field.

Education and research

Myra S. Wilson received the B.Sc. degree from Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. She heads the Intelligent Robotics Group, as well as the Biologically Inspired Robotics Network (biro-net). Her interests include adaptive robotics and biologically inspired systems.

Media work

She was a judge on the

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robot combat programme '' Robot Wars'' for the fourth and fifth series in 2000–2001.

Selected publications

* Walker, Joanne, Simon Garrett, and Myra Wilson. "Evolving controllers for real robots: A survey of the literature." ''Adaptive Behavior'' 11.3 (2003): 179-203. * J. H. Walker, S. M. Garrett and M. S. Wilson, "The balance between initial training and lifelong adaptation in evolving robot controllers," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 423–432, April 2006, doi: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.859082. * Giagkos, Alexandros, and Myra S. Wilson. "BeeIP: Bee-inspired protocol for routing in mobile ad-hoc networks." ''International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior''. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010. * Burbidge, Robert, and Myra S. Wilson. "Vector-valued function estimation by grammatical evolution for autonomous robot control." '' Information Sciences'' 258 (2014): 182-199. * Giagkos, Alexandros, et al. "UAV flight coordination for communication networks: genetic algorithms versus game theory." ''Soft computing'' 25.14 (2021): 9483-9503.

References

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