Papers
32
Total Citations
705
H-Index
15
About
Charles Fox is a versatile robotics and autonomous systems researcher whose work spans biomimetic sensing, agricultural robotics, and autonomous vehicle interaction. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to whisker-based tactile sensing, drawing inspiration from the vibrissae of rodents to develop sophisticated robotic perception systems. His BIOTACT Sensor and the "Shrewbot" platform demonstrated that robots could navigate and build maps through touch alone — a breakthrough for environments where vision fails — with his tactile SLAM work accumulating nearly 50 citations and his whisker discrimination studies attracting over 79. Fox has also made substantial contributions to precision agriculture, developing machine vision algorithms for weed detection in grassland (81 citations), robotic crop row tracking, and critically, a widely-cited legal framework for autonomous agricultural robots (65 citations) that bridges engineering and policy. His empirical game-theoretic approach to pedestrian-vehicle interaction (42 citations) further demonstrates his interdisciplinary reach into autonomous vehicle safety. Across his career, Fox has consistently translated biological insight and theoretical rigour into practical robotic systems, making him an influential figure for students working at the intersection of biomimetics, field robotics, and autonomous systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 2Tactile Discrimination Using Active Whisker Sensors79 citations · 2011
- 3Legal framework for small autonomous agricultural robots65 citations · 2018
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- 5Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot48 citations · 2012
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- 7Empirical game theory of pedestrian interaction for autonomous vehicles42 citations · 2018
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- 10Robotic crop row tracking around weeds using cereal-specific features25 citations · 2022