I have been employed on the following projects:
Intelligent Situational Awareness Platform
Funded by InnovateUK and in collaboration with Sirius Constellation Ltd. The goal of this project is to create an intelligent situational awareness platform, in the domain of real-time satellite data, where the operator will be able to understand why the platform has drawn a particular conclusion or recommended response. This project will develop the use of explainable planning for use with near-real-time situational awareness information, demonstrating the commercial and operational benefits.
SQUIRREL: Autonomous Robots
This project is funded by the EU FP7 Project SQUIRREL.
SQUIRREL addresses clutter in an open world by actively controlling the environment, and incrementally learning to extend the robot's capabilities while doing so. We term this the B3 (bit by bit) approach, as the robot tackles clutter one bit at a time and continuously extends its knowledge as new bits of information become available. Squirrel is inspired by a user driven scenario, that exhibits all the rich complexity required to convincingly drive research, but allows tractable solutions with high potential for exploitation.
You can find more details about this application on the project website:
http://www.squirrel-project.eu/
PANDORA: Underwater Robotics
This project is funded by the EU FP7 Project PANDORA.
PANDORA is a three-year project that will develop plan-based intelligent control of underwater vehicles operating for long periods without human intervention. A key goal is to significantly reduce the frequency of assistance requests. Following the Deep Water Horizon oilfield disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, contractors are developing highly actuated and hover-capable autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for subsea inspection and intervention. PANDORA is focusing on automating inspection and maintenance of subsea oilfields.
You can find more details about this application in the following paper:
Planning Inspection Tasks for AUVs
M. Cashmore, M. Fox, T. Larkworthy, D. Long, D. Magazzeni.
Proceedings of OCEANS'13 MTS/IEEE.
LINK (last checked 02/04/2012)
The video below shows an early test from the first year of PANDORA. The Nessie AUV from the Ocean Systems Lab of Heriot-Watt University inspects pipes and pillars in the diver centre at Fort William, Scotland.