Centre for Robotics

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Professor Bing Chu

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Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy

Research interests

  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pipelines for calibration, localisation and 3D mapping of the seafloor with full-field uncertainty characterisation 
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation of seafloor imagery
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intelligent and manoeuvrable robotic imaging platform for visual survey of complex environments

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Professor Chris Freeman PhD, BEng, BSc, CEng, FIET

Professor

Research interests

  • Iterative learning and repetitive control theory and their experimental application to industrial systems and biomedical engineering
  • Biomechanics 
  • Motor learning and control

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Dr Christine Evers

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Machine Listening
  • Robot Audition
  • Bayesian inference
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Dr Danesh Tarapore

Associate Professor
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Dr Daniel Clark FRAeS, FIET, CMath FIMA, CStat, SFHEA, SMIEEE

Professor

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Professor Eric Rogers

Prof. of Control Systems Theory & Design
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Dr Ibrahim Sari

Associate Director of Business Dev in ES

Research interests

  • Semiconductors
  • System Integration
  • Advanced Packaging
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Dr Indu Bodala PhD

Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests

  • Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Social Robots
  • Affective Computing

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Professor Kirk Martinez

Prof of Electronics & Computer Science

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