Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

Soft and Compliant Robots.- A Scalable Variable Stiffness Revolute Joint based on Layer Jamming for Robotic Exoskeletons.- A Universal Stiffening Sleeve Designed for all Types of Continuum Robot Systems.- A Passively Compliant Idler Mechanism for Underactuated Dexterous Grippers with Dynamic Tendon Routing.- An Inhomogeneous Structured Eversion Actuator.- Resistance Tuning of Soft Strain Sensor based on Saline Concentration and Volume Changes.- A low cost Series Elastic Actuator Test Bench.- Shape Reconstruction of Soft-Body Manipulator: a Learning-based Approach.- Silicone Based Capacitive E-skin Sensor for Soft Surgical Robots.- Soft Hinge for Magnetically Actuated Millimetre-size Origami.- An Adaptable Robotic Snake using a Compliant Actuated Tensegrity Structure for Locomotion.- Mobile Robots.- Topological Robot Localization in a Large-Scale Water Pipe Network.- Visual Topological Mapping Using an Appearance-based Location Selection Method.- Building a Navigation System for a Shopping Assistant Robot from off-the-shelf Components.- Testing an Underwater Robot Executing Transect Missions in Mayotte.- Modelling and Control of an End-Over-End Walking Robot.- Deep Learning-based Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicle at Roundabouts.- Learning, Mapping, Planning.- A Comparative Study for Obstacle Avoidance Inverse Kinematics: Null-space based vs. Optimisation-based.- A Structural Approach to Dealing with High Dimensionality Parameter Search Spaces.- Self-Supervised Learning Through Scene Observation for Selective Item Identification in Conveyor Belt Systems.- A 4D Augmented Flight Management System based on Flight Planning and Trajectory Generation merging.- Real World Bayesian Optimization Using Robots to Clean Liquid Spills.- LocalSPED: A Classification Pipeline that Can Learn Local Features for Place Recognition using a Small Training Set.- Towards Robust Mission Execution via Temporal and Contingent Planning.- Human-robot Interaction.-An Experiment on Human-Robot Interaction in a Simulated Agricultural Task.- Expression of Grounded Affect: How Much Emotion Can Arousal Convey?.- Towards Safer Robot Motion: Using a Qualitative Motion Model to Classify Human-Robot Spatial Interaction.- Tactile Feedback in a Tele-Operation Pick-and-Place Task Improves Perceived Workload.- Touch it, Rub it, Feel it! Haptic Rendering of Physical Textures with a Low Cost Wearable System.- ShearTouch - Towards a Wearable Tactile Feedback Device to Provide Continuous Shear Force Sensation in Real Time.- A Pressure Controlled Membrane Mechanism for Optimising Haptic Sensing.- Experiment Establishing Spatiotemporal Resolution of Human Thermal Perception for Developing a Prosthetic Robotics Hand Thermal Interface.- Robotic Systems and Applications.- An Upper Limb Fall Impediment Strategy for Humanoid Robots.- Requirements Specification and Integration Architecture for Perception in a Cooperative Team of Forestry Robots.- OpenKilo: A truly Open-Source Kilobot Design Revision that Aids Repair and Extensibility.- Towards Growing Robots: A Piecewise Morphology-Controller Co-Adaptation Strategy for Legged Locomotion.- A Novel Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Wire-Based Clutch Design and Performance Test.- Prototyping Sensors and Actuators for Robot Swarms in Mixed Reality.- ROSMonitoring: a Runtime Verification Framework for ROS.- One-shot 3D Printed Underactuated Gripper.- A Cable-based Gripper for Chemistry Labs.- Magnetic Force Driven Wireless Motor.