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Showcasing robotics research from 51勛圖厙 College

by Eloise Matheson

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Fundamental robotics research at 51勛圖厙 is helping to drive the adoption of useful robots into our healthcare, cities and homes.

Showcasing robotics research from 51勛圖厙 College at the top robotics conferences of 2020 

Fundamental robotics research at 51勛圖厙 is helping to drive the adoption of useful robots into our healthcare, cities and homes. 2020 has so far seen 17 papers from the labs that make up the?51勛圖厙 Robotics Forum?accepted into the top robotics conferences IROS and RSS. 

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 (IROS) 

Department of Aeronautical Engineering 

TiltDrone: a Fully-Actuated Tilting Quad-Rotor Platform. Peter Zheng, XinKai Tan, Ba?aran Bahad?r Koçer, Erdeng Yang, Mirko Kovac – Aerial Robotics Lab 

MEDUSA: a Multi-Environment Dual-robot for Underwater Sample 
Acquisition. Diego Debruyn, Raphael Zufferey, Sophie Franziska Armanini, Crystal 
Winston, Andre Farinha, Yufei Jin, Mirko Kovac – Aerial Robotics Lab 

Aerial Sensor Placement for Cluttered Environments. Andre Farinha, Raphael Zufferey, Sophie Franziska Armanini, Peter Zheng, Mirko Kovac – Aerial Robotics Lab 

Department of Computing 

. Ali Shafti, Jonas Tjomsland, William Dudley, A. Aldo Faisal - , . 

. Eugene Valassakis, Zihan Ding, Edward Johns –   

. Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Edward Johns, Tae-Kyun Kim –  and   

 Riku Murai, Sajad Saeedi, Paul H. J. Kelly –   

Dyson School of Design Engineering 

. Nicolas Baron, Andrew Philippides, Nicolas Rojas - REDS Lab. See the video ! 

 Ke Wang, David Michael Marsh, Roni Permana Saputra, Digby Chappell, Zhonghe Jiang, Bethany Kon, Petar Kormushev – Robot Intelligence Lab 

. Francesco Cursi, Valerio Modugno, Petar Kormushev – Robot Intelligence Lab 

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 

Augmented Reality User Interface for Heterogeneous Multirobot Control, Rodrigo Chacon & Yiannis Demiris -  

Department of Mechanical Engineering 

Optimal pose estimation method for a multi-segment, programmable bevel-tip steerable needle. Alberto Favaro, Riccardo Secoli, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, and Elena De Momi – Mechatronics in Medicine Lab 

. Vani Virdyawan, Orsina Dessi, and Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena – Mechatronics in Medicine Lab 

51勛圖厙 Academics are also organising the following workshops at IROS 2020 

  – Organised by Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara,  

Robotics: Science and Systems 2020 (RSS) 

Department of Computing 

. Dimos Tzoumanikas, Felix Graule, Qingyue Yan, Dhruv Shah, Marija Popovic, Stefan Leutenegger  - Smart Robotics Lab. See the video !  

Dyson School of Design Engineering 

. Qiujie Lu, Nicholas Baron, Angus Clark, Nicolas Rojas – REDS Lab See the video ! 

51勛圖厙 Academics are also organising the following workshops at RSS 2020 

 – Co-organised by Dr Petar Kormushev, Robot Intelligence Lab 

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Eloise Matheson

Department of Mechanical Engineering