About this Event
The Robotics Forum and Amazon are delighted to be running the first Imperial College Robotics Forum-Amazon PhD Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Robotics. This exciting collaboration with Amazon will reward PhD students pursuing outstanding robotics research at Imperial College London. Numerous applications from outstanding students were received and after a very difficult selection process, nine students have been shortlisted.
Join us on April 8th, for a day of exciting demos and presentations, as our students compete for the three winning spots and a £5,000 prize!
Programme
9:30 – 9:35 Welcome & Introductory address
9:35 – 10:50 Early-stage PhD student presentations
9:35 – 10:00 Maria Raposo de Lima — Robotic Affective Communication Framework for Ageing and Dementia Support
10:00 – 10:25 Eduardo Candela Garza — Scenario Generation and Safety Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles
10:25 – 10:50 Fabian Plum — Computational Methods to study the Behaviour of Social Insects
10:50 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:15 Mid-stage PhD student presentations
11:00 – 11:25 Dandan Zhang — From Teleoperation to Human-Robot Shared Control for Multiscale Robotic Surgery
11:25 – 11:50 Nils Funk — High-Speed Indoor Navigation in Dynamic Environments
11:50 – 12:15 Stephen Laws — A study of new mechanisms and methods for complex robotic-assisted orthopaedic surgery involving soft tissues
12:15 – 13:15 Break
13:15 – 14:30 Late-stage PhD student presentations
13:15 – 13:40 André Tristany Farinha — Micro air vehicles for remote sensing in multi-terrain environments
13:40 – 14:05 Angus Clark — Continuously bending reconfigurable robot manipulators for flexible handling and assembly in confined and remote environments
14:05 – 14:30 Liang He — A Soft Robotic Approach for Robot-assisted Palpation Training
14:30 – 15:00 Selection panel discussion
15:00 – 15:15 Winner announcement
15:15 – 15:30 Closing remarks
Note: This event is only open to Imperial college students and staff.