Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Agri-food Robotics.- Plant phenotyping using DLT method: Towards retrieving the delicate features in a dynamic environment.- Rapid Development and Performance Evaluation of a Potato Planting Robot.- An Automated Precision Spraying Evaluation System.- Smart Parking System Using Heuristic Optimization For Autonomous Transportation Robots In Agriculture.- Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Soups with Multi-modal Taste Feedback.- Folding Morphing-wheg Duct-entry Robot for Nuclear Characterisation.- Autonomy.- Occupancy Map Abstraction for Higher Level Mission Planning of Autonomous Robotic Exploration in Hazardous Nuclear Environments.- Spiral Sweeping Protocols for Detection of Smart Evaders.- Action Recognition for Improving Pedestrian Intent Prediction.- Evaluation of SLAM algorithms for Search and Rescue applications.- Developing an Integrated Runtime Verification for Safety and Security of Industrial Robot Inspection System.- Collaborative and Service Robotics.- Sonification of Ionising Radiation Data for Robot Operators.- Automating a Telepresence Robot for Human Detection, Tracking, and Following.- Towards Multimodal Sensing and Interaction for Assistive Autonomous Robots.- Locomotion and Manipulation.- CPG-based locomotion control of a quadruped robot with an active spine.- Low-resolution sensing for sim-to-real complex terrain robots.- Towards wait-and-catch routine of a dynamic swinging object using a prototype robotic arm manipulator.- Simultaneous Base and Arm Trajectories for Multi-Target Mobile Agri-Robot.- Design and kinematic analysis of a 3D-printed 3DOF robotic manipulandum.- Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning with Manipulators for Pick-and-place.- Machine Vision.- Fast 3D Semantic Segmentation Using a Self Attention Network and Random Sampling.- An assessment of self-supervised