Join Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy online to learn more about our CDT in Robotics & Autonomous Systems, followed by a question and answer session.
Schedule
10:00 am
Dr Ramamoorthy - short talk about the CDT in Robotics & Autonomous Systems.
On 3rd and 4th November 2015, researchers from the groups of Nicolas Mansard (LAAS, Toulouse), Jeremy Wyatt (U. of Birmingham) and Matt Howard (Kings College London) visited for two days to discuss avenues for potential collaboration in the area of humanoid control and manipulation. After a presentions from the visiting groups, Edinburgh research staff and PhD students gave a tutorial session demonstrating their humanoid simulation environment, research in whole-body motion planning and locomotion.
The CDT RAS will be visiting Seebyte at Queensferry Road. Ioseba Tena will give a short presentation and then there will be tours around the premises.
Affiliated students are welcome. Please email Anne.Murphy@hw.ac.uk if you're interested. Since there are limited spaces, they will be offered on a first come basis.
Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms
Nature-inspired optimization algorithms have become effective tools for engineering designs and optimisation. Nature provides a rich source of inspiration for ingenious problem-solving. However, there exist many challenging issues in this area. This talk focuses on the recent developments and highlights some key issues in swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation.
The world as its own best controller: The case of anthropomorphic robots
On Friday 23rd October 2015, the first Edinburgh Centre for Robotics took place in the James Watt Centre II at Heriot-Watt University. Industrial delegates, academic staff and students (CDT & aligned) attended the event. Professor Peter Corke, from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, opened the Conference with his talk “Why Robots See?”, which highlighted the similarities and differences between human and robot visions, as well as pondered on the future of Robotics in relation to recent advances in Computer Vision.
At the end of last week a large wooden crate arrived at the Robotics Lab at Heriot-Watt University. Since then our team has been busy unpacking and assembling our latest piece of equipment. We are now delighted to share images of the FLASH robot, the latest addition to the Robotics Lab. His unique, mechanoidal appearance allows him to avoid the uncanny valley phenomenon and use gestures, face and the whole body to efficiently express emotions.
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, who holds a RAEng - Microsoft Research Chair in Robotics and is the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics director at the University of Edinburgh, delivered the first lecture in the University’s Our Changing World series for 2015 on Tuesday 29th September 2015.
This course is compulsory for 1st year PhD students of the CDT in Robotics & Autonomous Systems. Many Informatics PhD students break their studies for three to six months to take up an industrial internship. Internships can be beneficial in many ways. You may gain a new perspective on the practical application of your research area, you will get a flavour of working in an industrial setting, and you will make contacts which may be useful to you as your career evolves.