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@article{zhong_2019_sensorimotor_language,
  author = {Zhong, Junpei and Peniak, Martin and Tani, Jun and Ogata, Tetsuya and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Sensorimotor input as a language generalisation tool: a neurorobotics model for generation and generalisation of noun-verb combinations with sensorimotor inputs}},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {Autonomous Robots},
  volume = {43},
  number = {5},
  pages = {1271--1290},
  doi = {10.1007/s10514-018-9793-7},
  publisher = {Springer},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-018-9793-7},
  note = {Published in volume 43 in 2019; first published online in August 2018. The linked open PDF is the preprint.}
}

@article{broz_2014_italk,
  author = {Broz, Frank and Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. and Belpaeme, Tony and Bisio, Ambra and Dautenhahn, Kerstin and Fadiga, Luciano and Ferrauto, Tomassino and Fischer, Kerstin and Förster, Frank and Gigliotta, Onofrio and Griffiths, Sascha and Lehmann, Hagen and Lohan, Katrin S. and Lyon, Caroline and Marocco, Davide and Massera, Gianluca and Metta, Giorgio and Mohan, Vishwanathan and Morse, Anthony and Nolfi, Stefano and Nori, Francesco and Peniak, Martin and Pitsch, Karola and Rohlfing, Katharina J. and Sagerer, Gerhard and Sato, Yo and Saunders, Joe and Schillingmann, Lars and Sciutti, Alessandra and Tikhanoff, Vadim and Wrede, Britta and Zeschel, Arne and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{The ITALK Project: A Developmental Robotics Approach to the Study of Individual, Social, and Linguistic Learning}},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {Topics in Cognitive Science},
  volume = {6},
  number = {3},
  pages = {534--544},
  doi = {10.1111/tops.12099},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12099},
  note = {The full collaboration is credited in published author order.}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2014_scaling_up,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Scaling-up action learning neuro-controllers with GPUs}},
  year = {2014},
  booktitle = {2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)},
  pages = {2519--2524},
  doi = {10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889925},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889925}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2013_aquila_2,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Morse, Anthony and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Aquila 2.0 software architecture for cognitive robotics}},
  year = {2013},
  booktitle = {2013 IEEE Third Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL)},
  pages = {1--6},
  doi = {10.1109/DEVLRN.2013.6652565},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/DEVLRN.2013.6652565}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2011_aquila,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Morse, Anthony and Larcombe, Christopher and Ramirez-Contla, Salomon and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Aquila: An open-source GPU-accelerated toolkit for cognitive and neuro-robotics research}},
  year = {2011},
  booktitle = {The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks},
  pages = {1753--1760},
  doi = {10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033436},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033436}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2010_island_model,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Bentley, Barry and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo and Ampatzis, Christos and Izzo, Dario and Biscani, Francesco},
  title = {{An island-model framework for evolving neuro-controllers for planetary rover control}},
  year = {2010},
  booktitle = {The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)},
  pages = {1--8},
  doi = {10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596942},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596942}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2010_evolutionary_rovers,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Bentley, Barry and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo and Ampatzis, Christos and Izzo, Dario and Biscani, Francesco},
  title = {{An evolutionary approach to designing autonomous planetary rovers}},
  year = {2010},
  booktitle = {Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2010 (TAROS 2010)},
  pages = {198--204},
  isbn = {978-1-84102-263-5},
  publisher = {University of Plymouth},
  url = {https://martinpeniak.com/wp-content/themes/mpeniak-2026/assets/docs/archive/taros-2010-active-vision-unknown-environments.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2009_co_evolving,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Co-evolving controller and sensing abilities in a simulated Mars Rover explorer}},
  year = {2009},
  booktitle = {2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation},
  pages = {2772--2779},
  doi = {10.1109/CEC.2009.4983290},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2009.4983290}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2009_active_vision,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Marocco, Davide and Ramirez-Contla, Salomon and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Active vision for navigating unknown environments: An evolutionary robotics approach for space research}},
  year = {2009},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space (ESA SP-673)},
  publisher = {European Space Agency},
  url = {https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/projects/workshop_ai09/papers/s2_3penia.pdf},
  note = {The proceedings title is used here; the older website listed a title variant.}
}

@inproceedings{peniak_2008_autonomous_exploration,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Autonomous robot exploration of unknown terrain: A preliminary model of Mars Rover robot}},
  year = {2008},
  booktitle = {10th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2008)},
  publisher = {European Space Agency},
  url = {https://martinpeniak.com/wp-content/themes/mpeniak-2026/assets/docs/archive/astra-2008-rover-controller-design.pdf},
  note = {Author order follows the surviving paper.}
}

@phdthesis{peniak_2014_gpu_thesis,
  author = {Peniak, Martin},
  title = {{GPU Computing for Cognitive Robotics}},
  year = {2014},
  school = {University of Plymouth},
  doi = {10.24382/4208},
  url = {https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/secam-theses/453/},
  note = {Plymouth hosts the thesis download and four accompanying research films. The 2024 repository deposit date is not the thesis year.}
}

@incollection{peniak_2014_mtrnn_chapter,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Multiple Time Scales Recurrent Neural Network for Complex Action Acquisition: Model Enhancement with GPU-CUDA Processing}},
  year = {2014},
  booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science IV},
  editor = {Kvasnička, Vladimír and Pospíchal, Jiří and Návrat, Pavol and Chalupa, David and Clementis, Ladislav},
  pages = {187--201},
  isbn = {978-80-227-4208-5},
  publisher = {Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava},
  url = {https://www2.fiit.stuba.sk/~kvasnicka/Free\%20books/Umela_inteligencia_a_kognitivna_veda_IV.pdf},
  note = {The book is also catalogued as Umelá inteligencia a kognitívna veda IV. The title, editors and page range follow the published volume.}
}

@misc{sengupta_2017_docker,
  author = {Sengupta, B. and Vazquez, E. and Sasdelli, M. and Qian, Y. and Peniak, M. and Netherton, L. and Delfino, G.},
  title = {{Large-scale image analysis using docker sandboxing}},
  year = {2017},
  howpublished = {arXiv:1703.02898 [cs.CV]},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.1703.02898},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1703.02898},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02898},
  note = {Preprint submitted 7 March 2017. Author initials follow the deposited manuscript; no peer-reviewed journal edition is asserted.}
}

@misc{peniak_2011_mtrnn_abstract,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Marocco, Davide and Tani, Jun and Yamashita, Yuichi and Fischer, Kerstin and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Multiple Time Scales Recurrent Neural Network for Complex Action Acquisition}},
  year = {2011},
  howpublished = {Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Conference Abstract: IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011},
  doi = {10.3389/conf.fncom.2011.52.00009},
  url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fncom.2011.52.00009/event_abstract},
  note = {The DOI identifies the conference abstract. The related manuscript has a different author order; it is not the publisher version of this abstract. Frontiers states that it did not peer-review these event abstracts.}
}

@misc{peniak_2011_aquila_pccat,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Morse, Anthony and Larcombe, Christopher and Ramirez-Contla, Salomon and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Aquila: Massively Parallelised Developmental Robotics Framework}},
  year = {2011},
  howpublished = {2nd Postgraduate Conference for Computing: Applications and Theory (PCCAT 2011)},
  url = {https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AISBQ132.pdf},
  note = {Received the PCCAT 2011 best paper award. The thesis lists this contribution among conference abstracts; a standalone author PDF has not yet been recovered.}
}

@misc{peniak_2010_rovers_pccat,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Bentley, Barry and Marocco, Davide and Ampatzis, Christos and Biscani, Francesco and Izzo, Dario and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Designing Autonomous Robot Controllers for Planetary Exploration: A Model of a Mars Rover}},
  year = {2010},
  howpublished = {Postgraduate Conference for Computing: Applications and Theory (PCCAT 2010)},
  url = {https://martinpeniak.com/wp-content/themes/mpeniak-2026/assets/docs/archive/pccat-2010-rover-best-paper.pdf}
}

@misc{peniak_2008_rover_esscs,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Autonomous Robot Exploration of Unknown Terrain: A Preliminary Model of Mars Rover Robot}},
  year = {2008},
  howpublished = {25th Annual Workshop of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems, Genoa},
  url = {https://martinpeniak.com/wp-content/themes/mpeniak-2026/assets/docs/research/esscs-2008-mars-rover-abstract.pdf},
  note = {This two-author workshop abstract is distinct from the three-author ASTRA paper.}
}

@techreport{cangelosi_2010_robotic_islands,
  author = {Cangelosi, Angelo and Marocco, Davide and Peniak, Martin and Bentley, Barry and Ampatzis, Christos and Izzo, Dario},
  title = {{Evolution in Robotic Islands: Optimising the design of autonomous robot controllers for navigation and exploration of unknown environments}},
  year = {2010},
  institution = {European Space Agency, Advanced Concepts Team},
  type = {Ariadna Final Report},
  number = {09-8301},
  url = {https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/projects/roboticislands/},
  note = {ESA lists this as the final report. The hosted document retains the cover date 25 June 2010 and the wording “Draft Report”.}
}

@misc{peniak_2012_gtc_action_acquisition,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{GPU-accelerated Action Acquisition Through Multiple Time Scales Recurrent Neural Network}},
  year = {2012},
  howpublished = {GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2012), San Jose},
  url = {https://developer.download.nvidia.com/GTC/PDF/GTC2012/Posters/P0474_GPU-accelerated_Action_Acquisition_peniak_etal.pdf}
}

@misc{peniak_2009_crns_rover_poster,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Bentley, Barry and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{Designing Autonomous Robot Controllers for Planetary Exploration: A Model of a Mars Rover}},
  year = {2009},
  howpublished = {Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems Inaugural Workshop (CRNS 2009), Plymouth},
  url = {https://martinpeniak.com/wp-content/themes/mpeniak-2026/assets/docs/archive/crns-2009-active-vision-rover.pdf},
  note = {The title follows the preserved poster. The older bibliography described it as “Evolving Biologically-Inspired Vision for the Exploration of Martian Environments”.}
}

@unpublished{peniak_undated_gpu_mtrnn_manuscript,
  author = {Peniak, Martin and Marocco, Davide and Cangelosi, Angelo},
  title = {{GPU-accelerated Action Acquisition Through Multiple Time Scales Recurrent Neural Network}},
  url = {https://martinpeniak.com/wp-content/themes/mpeniak-2026/assets/docs/archive/ijcnn-2012-mtrnn-action-learning-gpu.pdf},
  note = {Preserved under the historical filename IJCNN2012.pdf. The document exists, but conference publication and its date have not been established. It is kept here separately from verified publications.}
}