Myra Wilson

Myra S. Wilson is a British computer scientist and senior lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University, Wales, whose research interests are in the broad area of robotics and who also teaches in the field. She received a BSc from Aberdeen University and a PhD in computer science from the University of Edinburgh. She heads the Intelligent Robotics Group and the Biologically Inspired Robotics Network (biro-net), and her interests include adaptive robotics and biologically inspired systems. She was a judge on the BBC television robot combat programme Robot Wars for the fourth and fifth series in 2000 and 2001. Her publications include a survey of the literature on evolving controllers for real robots, BeeIP, a bee-inspired protocol for routing in mobile ad-hoc networks, and work on UAV flight coordination for communication networks using genetic algorithms and game theory.