Research themes at Bristol Robotics Laboratory
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory is involved in a wide range of robotics research projects both nationally and internationally. Our research portfolio spans over a number of different themes as follows:
Aerial Robots
Research into intelligent aircraft, including autonomous Micro Air Vehicles, specializing in their guidance and control.
Assisted Living
Research into interactive assistive robots and smart sensor systems to realise person-focussed innovative assistive care solutions for supporting independent living.
Bioenergy & Self Sustainable
Systems
Research into overcoming the energy barrier to deployment of autonomous robots in remote areas utilising microbial fuel cells.
Biomimetic and Neuro-robotics
Developing robots that can operate in challenging environments, beyond the limitations of conventional sensory devices.
Connected
Autonomous Vehicles
Research and Development in all aspects of Connected Autonomous Vehicles.
Robots for
Hazardous Environments
Research and Development in all aspects of Robotics for Hazardous Environments and Autonomous System Support.
Medical Robotics
Robotic technology is able to provide precise and accurate sensing and movement capabilities, thus improving patient and surgeon experience.
Non-linear Robotics
Would you feel confident of approaching and touching a heavy duty production assembly robot in operation? Possibly not…
Robot Vision
Developing Robots that are able to view, analyse what they see and make decisions in response to instructions by humans.
Robotic Ethics
Researching Robot Ethics and Ethical Robots. The former is concerned with ethical use of autonomous systems, while the latter is concerned with how autonomous systems can themselves be ethical.
Safe Human Robot Interaction
Investigating the aspect of physical and behavioural safety, to enable safe Human Robot Interaction, thus ensuring a robot is capable of performing cooperative tasks with humans.
Smart
Automation
Research into the next generation of advanced robotics engineering systems. Robots that can make human like decisions whilst carrying out manufacturing process.
Soft Robotics
Soft robotics seeks to make robots that are soft, flexible and compliant, just like biological organisms.
Swarm Robotics
A combination of environmental, social and internal cues could result at the group level in components believed to be important in the emergence of self-organised behaviour.
Tactile
Robotics
Robots with human-like tactile dexterity would transform our economy and society. But how do you give robots a sense of touch?
Unconventional Computation in Robots
Drawing inspiration from nature to address the issues of distributed manipulation in the micro-scale.
Verification and Validation for Safety in
Robots
Investigating all aspects of safety for verification and validation purposes and to enable safe Human Robot Interaction in cooperative tasks.
Page last updated 15 March 2018