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Robotics research drives improvements in our society. Top research from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø academics has international audiences.

Showcasing robotics research from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College at the top robotics conference of 2019

Robotic solutions are improving our lives, contributing innovative solutions in our healthcare, providing interactive help in our homes and ensuring the safe and smart use of our infrastructure. Fundamental robotics research at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø is helping to drive this change, and 2019 has so far seen 25 papers from the labs that make up the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Robotics Forum accepted into the top three robotics conferences of the year.             

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Aerial Inspection at close proximity of a vertical surface: a multi-modal mobility approach, H-N. Nguyen, B. Stephens, M. Kovac – Aerial Robotics Lab

A tether-powered automatic scanning system for repetitive monitoring. C. Liu, M. Kovac –Aerial Robotics Lab

, Ali Shafti, Pavel Orlov, A. Aldo Faisal –

A Gaze-contingent Robotized Flexible Endoscope. A. Kogkas, B. Glover, N. Patel, A. Darzi, G. Mylonas -

Gaze-contingent Robotic Assistance in the Operating Theatre.  A. Kogkas, A. Ezzat, R. Thakkar, A. Darzi, G Mylonas -

Deployable Soft Robotic Arm with Stiffness Modulation for Assistive Living Applications. J. Fathi, T. Vrielink, M. Runciman, G. Mylonas -

Shape Sensing of Variable Stiffness Soft Robots using Electrical Impedance Tomography (Shortlisted for Best Medical Robotics Paper Prize). J. Avery, M. Runciman, A. Darzi, G. Mylonas -

. Angus B. Clark and Nicolas Rojas –

, Binbin Xu, Wenbin Li, Dimos Tzoumanikas, Michael Bloesch, Andrew J Davison, Stefan Leutenegger –

, Tristan Laidlow, Jan Czarnowski, Stefan Leutenegger –

, Charles F Houseago, Michael Bloesch, Stefan Leutenegger –

Soft Haptics for the Simulation of Physical Examinations: A Case Study for Sphincter Tone Rendering (Joint Second Best Paper of the Workshop Prize). R Haghighi Osgouei, L Maréchal, T Dhome-Casanova, C Kontovounisios, F Bello –

Characterizing Visual Localization and Mapping Datasets. Sajad Saeedi, E Carvalho, Wenbin Li, Dimos Tzoumanikas, Stefan Leutenegger, Paul HJ Kelly, Andrew J Davison – /

SLAMBench 3.0: Systematic Automated Reproducible Evaluation of SLAM Systems for Robot Vision Challenges and Scene Understanding. Mihai Bujanca, Paul-Adrian Gafton, Sajad Saeedi, Andrew Nisbet, Bruno Bodin, Michael F P O’Boyle, Andrew J Davison, Paul H J Kelly, Graham Riley, Barry Lennox, Mikel Luján, Steve Furber – /

A Mechanics-Based Model for 3-D Steering of Programmable Bevel-Tip Needles. Thomas Watts, Riccardo Secoli, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena – Mechatronics in Medicine Lab

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

Reduced Order vs. Discretized Lumped System Models with Absolute and Relative States for Continuum Manipulators, Seyedmohammadhadi Sadati, Ali Shiva, Seyedeh Elnaz Naghibi, Caleb Rucker, Ludovic Renson, Christos Bergeles, Kaspar Althoefer, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Helmut Hauser, Ian Walker –

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

SailMAV: design and implementation of a novel multi-modal flying sailing robot. R. Zufferey, A. Ortega, C. Raposo, S. Armanini, A. Farinha, R. Siddall, I. Barasaluce, H. Zhu, M. Kovac - Aerial Robotics Lab

An Integrated Delta Manipulator for Aerial Repair. P. Chermprayong, K. Zhang, F. Xiao and M Kovac – Aerial Robotics Lab

. Benjamin Beyret, Ali Shafti, A. Aldo Faisal –

Informed Region Selection for Efficient UAV-based Object Detectors: Altitude-aware Vehicle Detection with CyCAR Dataset. Alexandros Kouris, Christos Kyrkou and Christos-Savvas Bouganis – iDSL Lab

Augmented Reality Controlled Smart Wheelchair Using Dynamic Signifiers for Affordance Representation, Rodrigo Chacon-Quesada and Yiannis Demiris –

Inference of user-intention in remote robot wheelchair assistance using multimodal interfaces, Vinicius Barbosa Schettino and Yiannis Demiris –

Towards Explainable Shared Control using Augmented Reality, Mark Zolotas and Yiannis Demiris –

Sim-to-Real Learning for Casualty Detection from Ground Projected Point Cloud Data. Roni Saputra, Nemanja Rakicevic, Petar Kormushev – Robot Intelligence Lab

Human robot visual interface for 3D steering of a flexible, bio-inspired needle for brain surgery. Eloise Matheson, Riccardo Secoli, Stefano Galvan, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena – MiM Lab