Executive Committee Meeting
Date:
Tue, 23/11/2021 - 14:00 to 16:00
Location:
Online
Gateway Event - Remote operations to robotics systems using low latency VPNs
Date:
Tue, 09/11/2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Location:
Online - link will be sent under separate cover
Speaker:
Professor Yvan Petillot
Heriot-Watt University
CDT wins Equality Award
Submitted by Anne Murphy on Fri, 29/10/2021 - 12:06In recognition of outstanding work to recruit and support gender diverse students, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems has won the 2021 Minerva Informatics Equality Award.
The prestigious award recognises excellence in the encouragement to enrol, and retention of, female students in Computer Science and Informatics programmes.
IPAB Workshop: Optimal Control via Combined Inference and Numerical Optimisation
Date:
Thu, 28/10/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Daniel Layeghi
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 28th October at 1pm via Zoom. Daniel Layeghi will be speaking. The Zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: ICRA "Optimal Control via Combined Inference and Numerical Optimisation".
Joint Robotics CDT student conference
Date:
Mon, 13/06/2022 - 09:00
Location:
University of Bristol
Note revised dates since this was originally posted.
More details to follow re the conference which will take place on Monday 13th June and Tuesday 14th June, and accommodation options but students expected to arrive on Sunday 12th June for welcome tour of the Bristol Harbourside.
IPAB Workshop: Rana Alkhoury Maroun, Daniel Layeghi, Ebtehal Alotaibi
Date:
Thu, 14/10/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Rana Alkhoury Maroun, Daniel Layeghi, Ebtehal Alotaibi
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 14th October 2021 at 1pm via Zoom. Rana Alkhoury Maroun, Daniel Layeghi, Ebtehal Alotaibi will be speaking. The zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Speaker: Rana Alkhoury Maroun
Title: Using the Mushroom Body Architecture for Locality-Sensitive Hashing
IPAB Seminar: Early visions of machines that can reproduce and evolve, and their relevance today
Date:
Thu, 07/10/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Tim Taylor
The next IPAB Seminar is due to take place on Thursday, 7th October at 1pm via Zoom. Tim Taylor will be speaking. Joining instructions can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: Early visions of machines that can reproduce and evolve, and their relevance today
IPAB Workshop: World Models for Character Animation
Date:
Thu, 30/09/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Levi Fussell
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 30th September at 1pm via Zoom. Levi Fussell will be speaking. The zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: World Models for Character Animation
IPAB Workshop: Safe and Efficient Suction under Partial Observations
Date:
Thu, 23/09/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Martin Asenov and Floyd Chitalu
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on Thursday 23rd September 2021 at 1pm via zoom. Martin Asenov and Floyd Chitalu will be speaking. The meeting details can be found in the corresponding email.
IPAB Workshop: Bob Fisher
Date:
Thu, 16/09/2021 - 13:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Bob Fisher
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on Thursday 16th August 2021 at 1pm via zoom. Bob Fisher will be speaking. The zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
My 2021 IPAB seminar will give the highlights from 5 projects that I have been involved with in the past year.
* Predicting Austrian Forest Thinning - using aerial data and deep learning to
predict when a forest needs to be thinned to improve forest growth and health
* Detecting, tracking, and assessing pig behaviour - how does piglet behaviour change