Autonomous Systems
We conduct research on algorithms, hardware and software systems that enable sensing, (semi) autonomous operation and decision making across a range of real-world domains, such as UAVs and robotics
Research activities
The UCL-CS Autonomous Systems group conducts research on theoretical, computational and experimental aspects of autonomous systems.
Our research in machine learning, reinforcement learning, and vision develops novel theoretical methods that act as fundamental technology enablers of autonomous systems.
We then deploy these methods on real systems (that we sometime fabricate), and investigate how to make them work when operating in unconstrained real world settings.
In so doing, we explore and tackle challenges that emerge both in robot-people interactions (e.g., collaborative decision making, explainable AI, affective robots) and in robot-environment interactions (e.g., sensing, control, mapping, swarms).
We are concerned with a broad variety of real-world problems autonomous systems can contribute to, from surgical robots to space missions, from emergency response to advanced decision-making.
Current projects
- Legged robot navigation in unstructured terrain
- Fault recovery in autonomous robotic space operations
- Hand-eye calibration for robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery
- Algorithmic policy-making
People
Academic and Research Staff
Licia Capra Professor of Pervasive Computing Areas of interest: human-autonomous system interactions, algorithmic decision-making, urban analytics, computational social science | |
Stephen Hailes Professor of Wireless Systems Areas of interest: sensors and sensing, RAS for animal monitoring, RAS for environmental monitoring and emergency response | |
Simon Julier Professor of Situation Awareness Systems Areas of interest: artificial intelligence and robotics, augmented reality, data fusion | |
Dimitrios Kanoulas Lecturer in Robotics and Computation Areas of interest: robot perception, robot learning, robot loco-manipulation | |
Valerio Modugno Research Fellow Research Interests: Legged Robot Control, Planning, and Learning | |
Mirco Musolesi Professor of Computer Science Areas of interest: human-centred artificial intelligence/machine learning, reinforcement learning and its applications, multi-agent systems, modelling of social systems; Computational models of human/user behaviour. |
PhD Students
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Luke Jonathan Beddow PhD Student Research interests: robotics, manipulators design, robot grasping, machine learning | |
Victor-Alexandru Darvariu PhD Student Research interests: combinatorial optimization, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, graph neural networks, network science. | |
Tim Douglas PhD student Research interests: computational social science, social media analysis | |
Denis Hadjivelichkov PhD Student Research interests: robotics, robot loco-manipulation, imitation learning, self-supervised learning, deep learning | |
Olivia Macmillan-Scott PhD Student Research interests: agent-based modelling, game theory, cooperation. | |
Seongho Son PhD student Research interests: deep learning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, evolutionary game theory. | |
Maria Stamatopoulou PhD Student Research interests: robotics, locomotion, legged robots, reinforcement learning | |
Julius Sustarevas PhD Student Research interests: autonomous manufacturing and construction, mobile manipulators | |
Elizaveta Tennant PhD Student Research interests: bottom-up development of machine ethics; applied reinforcement learning; moral psychology; multi-agent systems/agent-based modelling; game theory | |
Charles Westphal PhD Student Research Interests: Deep reinforcement learning, social dilemmas, cybersecurity. | |
Lorenz Wolf PhD Student Research Interests: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Generative Modelling, Multi-Agent Systems, Statistical Machine Learning |
Alumni
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Nicolas Anastassacos Alumni |
Contact
Prof Licia Capra
Head of AS Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University College of London
66-72 Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK
