Alex Dewar
Associate Tutor (Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Research Group)

Selected publications

Article

Husbands, Phil, Shim, Yoonsik, Garvie, Michael, Dewar, Alex, Domcsek, Norbert, Graham, Paul, Knight, James, Nowotny, Thomas and Philippides, Andrew (2021) Recent advances in evolutionary and bio-inspired adaptive robotics: exploiting embodied dynamics. Applied Intelligence. ISSN 0924-669X

Dewar, Alex D M, Wystrach, Antoine, Philippides, Andrew and Graham, Paul (2017) Neural coding in the visual system of Drosophila melanogaster: how do small neural populations support visually guided behaviours? PLoS Computational Biology, 13 (10). a1005735 1-21. ISSN 1553-7358

Wystrach, Antoine, Dewar, Alexander David McDonald, Philippides, Andrew and Graham, Paul (2016) How do field of view and resolution affect the information content of panoramic scenes for visual navigation? A computational investigation. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 202 (2). pp. 87-95. ISSN 0340-7594

Dewar, Alex D M, Wystrach, Antoine, Graham, Paul and Philippides, Andrew (2015) Navigation-specific neural coding in the visual system of Drosophila. BioSystems, 136. pp. 120-127. ISSN 0303-2647

Gaffin, Douglas D, Dewar, Alexander, Graham, Paul and Philippides, Andrew (2015) Insect-inspired navigation algorithm for an aerial agent using satellite imagery. PLoS ONE, 10 (4). e0122077. ISSN 1932-6203

Dewar, Alexander D M, Philippides, Andrew and Graham, Paul (2014) What is the relationship between visual environment and the form of ant learning-walks? An in silico investigation of insect navigation. Adaptive Behavior, 22 (3). pp. 163-179. ISSN 1059-7123

Conference Proceedings

Pellatt, Lloyd, Dewar, Alex, Philippides, Andrew and Roggen, Daniel (2020) Mapping vicon motion tracking to 6-axis IMU data for wearable activity recognition. International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC 2020), Kitakyushu, Japan, Aug. 26-29, 2020. Published in: Activity and behavior computing. 3-20. Springer, Singapore. ISSN 2190-3018 ISBN 9789811589430

Meyer, Stefan, Nowotny, Thomas, Graham, Paul, Dewar, Alex and Philippides, Andrew (2020) Snapshot navigation in the wavelet domain. Living Machines 2020, Freiburg, Germany, 28-30 July 2020. Published in: Vouloutsi, Vasiliki, Mura, Anna, Tauber, Falk, Speck, Thomas, Prescott, Tony J and Verschure, Paul F M J, (eds.) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. 12413 245-256. Springer Nature, Cham. ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 9783030643126

Dewar, Alex, Graham, Paul, Nowotny, Thomas and Philippides, Andrew (2020) Exploring the robustness of insect-inspired visual navigation for flying robots. ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, Online, July 13 - 18, 2020. Published in: Bongard, Josh, Lovato, Juniper, Hebert-Dufrésne, Laurent, Dasari, Radhakrishna and Soros, Lisa, (eds.) Artificial Life Conference Proceedings. (32) 668-677. The MIT Press

Knight, James C, Sakhapov, Daniil, Domcsek, Norbert, Dewar, Alexander D M, Graham, Paul, Nowotny, Thomas and Philippides, Andrew (2019) Insect-inspired visual navigation on-board an autonomous robot: real-world routes encoded in a single layer network. ALife 2019: the 2019 conference on Artificial Life, Newcastle, July 29 - August 2, 2019. Published in: Proceedings of ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life. (31) 60-67. MIT Press ISBN 9780262358446

Philippides, Andy, Steadman, Nathan, Dewar, Alex, Walker, Christopher and Graham, Paul (2016) Insect-inspired visual navigation for flying robots. Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Published in: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2016.. 9793 263-274. Springer International Publishing ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 9783319424170

Philippides, Andrew, Dewar, Alexander, Wystrach, Antoine, Mangan, Michael and Graham, Paul (2013) How active vision facilitates familiarity-based homing. Published in: Lepora, Nathan F, Mura, Anna, Krapp, Holger G, Verschure, Paul F M J, Prescott, Tony J and Unset, (eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Living Machines 2013: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems; London, UK; 29 July – 2 August 2013. 8064 427-430. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 9783642398018

Thesis

Dewar, Alexander David McDonald (2016) A computational approach to understanding visually guided behaviours in insects. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.