School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Dr. Edward Clark MPHYS (Kent), PhD in Electronics (York)
Teaching Fellow
Email: edward.clark@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 4730
Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2335
Research Area: Intelligent Systems Group
Areas of Expertise: Collective Robotics, Emergent Behaviour, Artificial chemistries
Biography
Academic History
MPHYS in Theoretical Physics, University of Kent (2004)
PhD in Electronics, University of York (2008)
Research Associate on the BIAS-PROFS project, Department of Computer Science at the University of York (2008)
Research Associate on the PLAZZMID project, Department of Computer Science at the University of York (2009-2011)
Research Fellow, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds (2012)
Research Associate on the SYMBRION project, Department of Electronics, University of York (2013)
Teaching Fellow, Department of Electronics, University of York (2014)
Teaching
Teaching
I teach the following modules on the MSc in Autonomous Robotics Engineering course:
- Individual Project: Critical Evaluation of Robotic Systems Engineering
- Group Robotics Project
Research
Interests
I am an interdisciplinary researcher, specialising in analysing biological phenomena and applying such approaches to solving problems in computational and engineering systems.
Current research
Self assembly in collective robotic systems without centralised control; examining the usefulness of plants as a source of bio-inspired algorithms for efficient growth and transportation of resources.
Self Replication in the Artificial Chemistry: Stringmol. Designing systems of chemicals (or "organisms") that self-organise to perform self-replication in a similar way to DNA, and analysing their evolutionary behaviour. See more infromation on Stringmol.