The University of Sheffield
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Dr Roderich Gross
Lecturer

Address:
Dr Roderich Gross
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: +44-114-222-5610
Fax: +44-114-222-5683
Email: r.gross @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C8, Amy Johnson Building

Head of the Natural Robotics Lab

http://naturalrobotics.group.shef.ac.uk

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Biography

Roderich Gross received a Diploma degree in computer science in 2001 from Dortmund University of Technology (Germany) and an M.Sc. in applied science and a Ph.D. degree in engineering sciences in 2003 and 2007 from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). From 2005-2007, he was a JSPS research fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), a research associate with the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol (UK), and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Unilever R&D Port Sunlight (UK). From 2008-2009 he was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the EPFL (Switzerland). Since January 2010, he has been a Lecturer in the ACSE department of the University of Sheffield (UK).

Curriculum vitae (PDF file)

Research interests

Teaching

I currently teach the following modules:

Professional activities and recognition

- Program Chair of ANTS 2012 (8th Int Conf on Swarm Intelligence)
- Program Chair of TAROS 2011 (12th Conf Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems)
- Associate Editor of IROS 2012 (2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
- Associate Editor of ICRA 2012 (2012 IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation)
- Publication Chair of ANTS 2010 (7th Int Conf on Swarm Intelligence)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Swarm Intelligence
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. J. of Natural Computing Research
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. J. of Bio-Inspired Computation
- Guest Editor of Swarm Robotics special issue (Springer journal Neural Computing & Applications)
- Guest Editor of ANTS 2010 special issue (Springer journal Swarm Intelligence)
- Grant Reviewer for UK EPSRC Research Council
- Reviewer for 24 international journals (e.g., Royal Soc Interface, IEEE Trans Robot, Int J Robot Res, IEEE Trans Evol Compt)
- PC Member of 30 international conferences (e.g. RSS 2012, DARS 2012, GECCO 2012, PPSN 2012, ECAL 2011, AAMAS 2010)
- Marie Curie Reintegration Grant (2010-2013)
- Industry Sponsored Research Grant (2011-2012)
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2008-2009)
- Marie Curie Host Fellowship for Transfer of Knowledge (2007)
- JSPS Post-doctoral Fellowship for North American and European Researchers (2005)

Selected publications

Authored books, guest-edited special issues, edited books:

Gross R, "Self-Assembly in a Swarm of Autonomous Robots Studies in Computational Intelligence", Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, to appear

Gross R., Alboul L., Melhuish C., Witkowski M., and Prescott T., and Penders J. (Editors), "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011", LNCS 6856, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9

Dorigo M., Birattari M., Di Caro G., Doursat R., Engelbrecht A., Gambardella L.M., Gross; R., Sahin E., and Stuetzle T. (Editors) "ANTS 2010 Special Issue," Swarm Intelligence, 5(3-4), 2011 and 6(1), 2012

Dorigo M., Birattari M., Di Caro G. A., Doursat R., Engelbrecht A. P., Floreano D., Gambardella L. M., Gross R., Sahin E., Sayama H., and Stützle T. (Editors), "Swarm Intelligence, 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010", LNCS 6234, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4

Correll N. and Gross R. (Editors). "Special Issue on Swarm Robotics," Neural Computing & Applications, 19(6):785-865, 2010
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0941-0643/19/6/

International journals:

Dorigo M., Birattari M., Di Caro G., Doursat R., Engelbrecht A., Gambardella L.M., Gross; R., Sahin E., and Stuetzle T. "ANTS 2010 Special Issue," Guest Editorial, Swarm Intelligence, 5(3-4):143-147, 2011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-011-0064-x

Correll N. and Gross R. "From Swarm Robotics to Smart Materials," Guest Editorial. Special Issue on "Swarm Robotics", Neural Computing & Applications, 19(6):785-786, 2010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-010-0440-2

O'Grady R., Gross R., Christensen A.L., and Dorigo M. "Self-assembly strategies in a group of autonomous mobile robots," Autonomous Robots, 28(4):439-455, 2010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10514-010-9177-0

Nouyan S., Gross R., Bonani M., Mondada F., and Dorigo M. "Teamwork in self-organized robot colonies," IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, 13(4):695-711, 2009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2008.2011746

Gross R. and Dorigo M. "Towards group transport by swarms of robots," International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 1(1-2):1-13, 2009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2009.022770

Gross R. and Dorigo M. "Self-assembly at the macroscopic scale," Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(9):1490-1508, 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2008.927352

Gross R., Houston A.I., Collins E.J., McNamara J.M., Dechaume-Moncharmont F.-X., and Franks N.R. "Simple learning rules to cope with changing environments," Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 5(27):1193-1202, 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2007.1348

Gross R. and Dorigo M. "Evolution of solitary and group transport behaviors for autonomous robots capable of self-assembling," Adaptive Behavior, 16(5): 285-305, 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712308090537

Franks N.R., Hooper J.W., Gumn M., Bridger T.H., Marshall J.A.R., Gross R., and Dornhaus A. "Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants," Swarm Intelligence, 1(2):81-94, 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11721-007-0007-8

Gross R., Bonani M., Mondada F. and Dorigo M. "Autonomous self-assembly in swarm-bots," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6):1115-1130, 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2006.882919

Tuci E., Gross R.; Trianni V., Mondada F., Bonani M. and Dorigo M. "Cooperation through self-assembly in multi-robot systems," ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 1(2):115-150, 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1186778.1186779

Dorigo M., Trianni V., Sahin E., Gross R., Labella T.H., Baldassarre G., Nolfi S., Deneubourg J.-L., Mondada F., Floreano D. and Gambardella L.M. "Evolving self-organizing behaviors for a swarm-bot," Autonomous Robots, 17(2-3):223-245, 2004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3

List of publications:

List of publications