Robotics for Nuclear Environments
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
The vision for this Programme is to deliver the step changes in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) capability that are necessary to overcome crucial challenges facing the nuclear industry in the coming decades.
The RAS challenges faced in the nuclear industry are extremely demanding and complex. Many nuclear installations, particularly the legacy facilities, present highly unstructured and uncertain environments. Additionally, these "high consequence" environments may contain radiological, chemical, thermal and other hazards. To minimise risks of contamination and radiological shine paths, many nuclear facilities have very small access ports (150 mm - 250 mm diameter), which prevent large robotic systems being deployed. Smaller robots have inherent limitations with power, sensing, communications and processing power, which remain unsolved. Thick concrete walls mean that communication bandwidths may be severely limited, necessitating increased levels of autonomy. Grasping and manipulation challenges, and the associated computer vision and perception challenges are profound; a huge variety of legacy waste materials must be sorted, segregated, and often also disrupted (cut or sheared). Some materials, such as plastic sheeting, contaminated suits/gloves/respirators, ropes, chains can be deformed and often present as chaotic self-occluding piles. Even known rigid objects (e.g. fuel rod casings) may present as partially visible or fragmented. Trivial tasks are complicated by the fact that the material properties of the waste, the dose rates and the layout of the facility within which the waste is stored may all be uncertain. It is therefore vital that any robotic solution be capable of robustly responding to uncertainties. The problems are compounded further by contamination risks, which typically mean that once deployed, human interaction with the robot will be limited at best, autonomy and fault tolerance are therefore important.
The need for RAS in the nuclear industry is spread across the entire fuel cycle: reactor operations; new build reactors; decommissioning and waste storage and this Programme will address generic problems across all these areas. It is anticipated that the research will have a significant impact on many other areas of robotics: space, sub-sea, mining, bomb-disposal and health care, for example and cross sector initiatives will be pursued to ensure that there is a two-way transfer of knowledge and technology between these sectors, which have many challenges in common with the nuclear industry.
The work will build on the robotics and nuclear engineering expertise available within the three academic organisations, who are each involved in cutting-edge, internationally leading research in relevant areas. This expertise will be complemented by the industrial and technology transfer experience and expertise of the National Nuclear Laboratory who have a proven track record of successfully delivering innovation in to the nuclear industry.
The partners in the Programme will work jointly to develop new RAS related technologies (hardware and software), with delivery of nuclear focused demonstrators that will illustrate the successful outcomes of the Programme. Thus we will provide the nuclear supply chain and end-users with the confidence to apply RAS in the nuclear sector.
To develop RAS technology that is suitable for the nuclear industry, it is essential that the partners work closely with the nuclear supply chain. To achieve this, the Programme will be based in west Cumbria, the centre of much of the UK's nuclear industry. Working with researchers at the home campuses of the academic institutions, the Programme will create a clear pipeline that propels early stage research from TRL 1 through to industrially relevant technology at TRL 3/4. Utilising the established mechanisms already available in west Cumbria, this technology can then be taken through to TRL 9 and commercial deployment.
The RAS challenges faced in the nuclear industry are extremely demanding and complex. Many nuclear installations, particularly the legacy facilities, present highly unstructured and uncertain environments. Additionally, these "high consequence" environments may contain radiological, chemical, thermal and other hazards. To minimise risks of contamination and radiological shine paths, many nuclear facilities have very small access ports (150 mm - 250 mm diameter), which prevent large robotic systems being deployed. Smaller robots have inherent limitations with power, sensing, communications and processing power, which remain unsolved. Thick concrete walls mean that communication bandwidths may be severely limited, necessitating increased levels of autonomy. Grasping and manipulation challenges, and the associated computer vision and perception challenges are profound; a huge variety of legacy waste materials must be sorted, segregated, and often also disrupted (cut or sheared). Some materials, such as plastic sheeting, contaminated suits/gloves/respirators, ropes, chains can be deformed and often present as chaotic self-occluding piles. Even known rigid objects (e.g. fuel rod casings) may present as partially visible or fragmented. Trivial tasks are complicated by the fact that the material properties of the waste, the dose rates and the layout of the facility within which the waste is stored may all be uncertain. It is therefore vital that any robotic solution be capable of robustly responding to uncertainties. The problems are compounded further by contamination risks, which typically mean that once deployed, human interaction with the robot will be limited at best, autonomy and fault tolerance are therefore important.
The need for RAS in the nuclear industry is spread across the entire fuel cycle: reactor operations; new build reactors; decommissioning and waste storage and this Programme will address generic problems across all these areas. It is anticipated that the research will have a significant impact on many other areas of robotics: space, sub-sea, mining, bomb-disposal and health care, for example and cross sector initiatives will be pursued to ensure that there is a two-way transfer of knowledge and technology between these sectors, which have many challenges in common with the nuclear industry.
The work will build on the robotics and nuclear engineering expertise available within the three academic organisations, who are each involved in cutting-edge, internationally leading research in relevant areas. This expertise will be complemented by the industrial and technology transfer experience and expertise of the National Nuclear Laboratory who have a proven track record of successfully delivering innovation in to the nuclear industry.
The partners in the Programme will work jointly to develop new RAS related technologies (hardware and software), with delivery of nuclear focused demonstrators that will illustrate the successful outcomes of the Programme. Thus we will provide the nuclear supply chain and end-users with the confidence to apply RAS in the nuclear sector.
To develop RAS technology that is suitable for the nuclear industry, it is essential that the partners work closely with the nuclear supply chain. To achieve this, the Programme will be based in west Cumbria, the centre of much of the UK's nuclear industry. Working with researchers at the home campuses of the academic institutions, the Programme will create a clear pipeline that propels early stage research from TRL 1 through to industrially relevant technology at TRL 3/4. Utilising the established mechanisms already available in west Cumbria, this technology can then be taken through to TRL 9 and commercial deployment.
Planned Impact
This Programme will deliver fundamental advances in several areas of robotics, achieving impact in the nuclear industry, academic research and other industrial sectors. To achieve this, the Programme brings together leading academic teams in the fields of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) and Nuclear Engineering, complemented by NNL's experience with delivering new technologies to the nuclear supply chain.
It is anticipated that RAS will have a profound impact on society and the UK economy in future years. However, to promote this growth, major near-term RAS applications are needed which offer significant economic value and societal benefit. In this regard, the nuclear industry offers one of the strongest and clearest justifications and markets for advanced RAS technology. UK decommissioning alone is valued at £90bn-220bn, a significant proportion of which MUST be completed by robots.
To maximise exposure to the end-user, the Programme will be based in west Cumbria. Being home to the Sellafield site, Calder Hall (world's first industrial nuclear power station) and the new-build nuclear power station at Moorside, west Cumbria has become a focal point for much of the UK's nuclear industry. Furthermore, Sellafield and NNL have invested significant resources in to the development of inactive and active demonstrators in west Cumbria. These demonstrators, which the Programme will exploit, are full-scale simulations of challenging nuclear scenarios, developed for testing and demonstrating new technologies for use in the nuclear industry. Testing our technologies on these facilities ensures that end-users and technology suppliers will have confidence to invest further in their development and commercialisation.
Each of the universities have strong track records of industrial collaboration which can help provide pathways to impact. By way of example, investigators from Manchester and Birmingham are currently leading three Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects, which are delivering advanced robotic innovation to the nuclear industry; two of these projects are based with SMEs in Cumbria. Manchester and NNL have further experience of working with businesses in west Cumbria, having created the Innovus funding programme, which provides support for SMEs to develop and commercialise new technologies. The third is with KUKA, the preferred supplier of industrial robot arms to the nuclear industry.
While the Programme's focus is the development of technologies for the nuclear industry, much of the work will have generic outputs applicable to other sectors: gas, oil and other mining industries, search and rescue, robotic surgery, and laboratories handling toxic agents, all share some similar challenges with the conditions and tasks.
The research teams are well connected in the UK and internationally with respect to both robotics and nuclear. To ensure Programme outputs feed in to these sectors, the work will be disseminated through targeted trade events, workshops and special sessions at larger conferences (e.g. IROS, ICRA and ERF), as well as high level academic publications (e.g. IEEE TRO, IJRR, IJCV, PAMI, ICCV, CVPR). Research visits will be made to robotics institutes and nuclear agencies in Europe, USA, South Korea and Japan, exploiting the extensive collaborations that the partners have established in these countries.
It is anticipated that RAS will have a profound impact on society and the UK economy in future years. However, to promote this growth, major near-term RAS applications are needed which offer significant economic value and societal benefit. In this regard, the nuclear industry offers one of the strongest and clearest justifications and markets for advanced RAS technology. UK decommissioning alone is valued at £90bn-220bn, a significant proportion of which MUST be completed by robots.
To maximise exposure to the end-user, the Programme will be based in west Cumbria. Being home to the Sellafield site, Calder Hall (world's first industrial nuclear power station) and the new-build nuclear power station at Moorside, west Cumbria has become a focal point for much of the UK's nuclear industry. Furthermore, Sellafield and NNL have invested significant resources in to the development of inactive and active demonstrators in west Cumbria. These demonstrators, which the Programme will exploit, are full-scale simulations of challenging nuclear scenarios, developed for testing and demonstrating new technologies for use in the nuclear industry. Testing our technologies on these facilities ensures that end-users and technology suppliers will have confidence to invest further in their development and commercialisation.
Each of the universities have strong track records of industrial collaboration which can help provide pathways to impact. By way of example, investigators from Manchester and Birmingham are currently leading three Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects, which are delivering advanced robotic innovation to the nuclear industry; two of these projects are based with SMEs in Cumbria. Manchester and NNL have further experience of working with businesses in west Cumbria, having created the Innovus funding programme, which provides support for SMEs to develop and commercialise new technologies. The third is with KUKA, the preferred supplier of industrial robot arms to the nuclear industry.
While the Programme's focus is the development of technologies for the nuclear industry, much of the work will have generic outputs applicable to other sectors: gas, oil and other mining industries, search and rescue, robotic surgery, and laboratories handling toxic agents, all share some similar challenges with the conditions and tasks.
The research teams are well connected in the UK and internationally with respect to both robotics and nuclear. To ensure Programme outputs feed in to these sectors, the work will be disseminated through targeted trade events, workshops and special sessions at larger conferences (e.g. IROS, ICRA and ERF), as well as high level academic publications (e.g. IEEE TRO, IJRR, IJCV, PAMI, ICCV, CVPR). Research visits will be made to robotics institutes and nuclear agencies in Europe, USA, South Korea and Japan, exploiting the extensive collaborations that the partners have established in these countries.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (Collaboration)
- SELLAFIELD LTD (Collaboration)
- Sellafield (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Nu Generation (Project Partner)
- Forth Engineering Ltd (Project Partner)
- FIS360 (Project Partner)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Project Partner)
- National Physical Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Italian Institute of Technology (Project Partner)
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (Project Partner)
- EDF Energy (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- KUKA (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Project Partner)
- Network Rail (Project Partner)
Publications
Adjigble M
(2021)
SpectGRASP: Robotic Grasping by Spectral Correlation
Adjigble M
(2018)
Model-free and learning-free grasping by Local Contact Moment matching
Adjigble M
(2023)
3D Spectral Domain Registration-Based Visual Servoing
Arvin F
(2017)
Perpetual Robot Swarm: Long-Term Autonomy of Mobile Robots Using On-the-fly Inductive Charging
in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Arvin F
(2018)
PhiClust pheromone based aggregation for robotic swarms
Ban Z
(2021)
Self-Organised Collision-Free Flocking Mechanism in Heterogeneous Robot Swarms
in Mobile Networks and Applications
Bekiroglu Y
(2020)
Benchmarking Protocol for Grasp Planning Algorithms
in Robotics and Automation Letters
Bezcioglu M
(2021)
Self-Organised Swarm Flocking with Deep Reinforcement Learning
| Description | As recently as 2012 there was very little nuclear robotics research on-going in the UK and limited engagement between academia and industry in Cumbria, where the nuclear industry is focused. At UoM, for example, the group consisted of only one academic member of staff and one PDRA. Similarly, whilst BRL is the largest academic robotics centre in the UK, prior to RNE there was only one PhD student working in the field of nuclear robotics. The landscape has been transformed by RNE, with the combined nuclear robotics research groups at UoM, UoB and BRL now totalling more than 70 researchers and the UK recognised as an international leader in robotics for extreme environments. Notable achievements include: - UoM has opened the Robotics for Extreme Environments Laboratory (REEL) in Cumbria. This facility now provides the UK with a unique academic robotics capability embedded within the nuclear industry, offering, for the first time in west Cumbria, employment opportunities for people wishing to pursue a career in academic engineering research. This facility has been responsible for delivering first-of-a-kind technology on to the Sellafield site through RNE and other research programmes. - UoB has invested £2.7M in building a dedicated 900m2 Extreme Robotics Lab on their main campus, and is additionally developing significant industrial space off-campus to house manipulators, which match those currently deployed on the Sellafield site's Box Encapsulation Plant. - RNE has demonstrated that it can deliver new technology into the nuclear industry, with multiple demonstrations of robotics technology being made at both NNL's facility in Workington and REEL. Furthermore, the MallARD aquatic vehicle, that has been developed within RNE, was successfully deployed into an active nuclear storage pond in Finland, the first known deployment of an autonomous surface vehicle in an active storage pond. - Demonstrations have resulted in significant interest from industry and a variety of follow-on projects. These follow-on projects include Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Innovate UK projects and research funded directly by industry - all focused on delivering new technologies into industries operating in extreme environments. - Significant numbers of articles have been published in leading journals and conferences illustrating how robotic systems can be used to sort radioactive materials, transport instrumentation around nuclear facilities whilst avoiding radiation hotspots and undertake routine tasks, such as radiation scans, that would otherwise require operations staff to enter hazardous environments and include risk at the mission planning level of the robot. - Attracted funding to support 13 PhD studentships that are supporting the research work completed within RNE. |
| Exploitation Route | We are currently engaging with the nuclear supply chain with the intention of translating the robotic technologies developed in this programme into commercial solutions. These solutions will be commercialised by SMEs and Tier 2 organisations and deployed on to nuclear sites to reduce the need for operational staff to enter hazardous environments. Transfer of technology into other sectors, particularly oil and gas, is also being explored. |
| Sectors | Electronics,Energy |
| URL | https://nuclearrobots.org |
| Description | The main non-academic impacts from RNE include the following: The Mona robot that was developed in RNE, which is a small-scale robot to support swarm research projects, has been commercialised by a spin-out company, Ice-9. More than 70 of the robots have been sold to organisations in the UK, Europe and Africa. The MallARD robot has been deployed into an active nuclear storage pond in Finland and Sellafield are currently exploring its use in several ponds that they operate. In support of this Sellafield are now financially supporting a 2-year follow-on project. Specific applications include cleaning the walls of the pond and measuring radiation dose around the perimeter of the ponds, where it will be used to remove operational staff from high risk environments. TEPCO are also considering using the MallARD vehicle to help with their decommissioning efforts at Fukushima Daiichi. MallARD is also now available as a commercial product through Ice-9. The University of Birmingham have continued to develop their spinout company A.R.M Robotics Ltd, which has carried out two SBRI Innovate UK projects (one funded by NDA and the other funded by Sellafield Ltd). Outreach: RNE has been active in outreach particularly in west Cumbria, presenting workshops at the Infinity Festival in September'17, engagement activities at the Bright Sparks Event in Robotics Week 2018 and ongoing STEMNet involvement with local schools. RNE has run workshops during British Science Week, March'18, which reached ~1000 students aged 11-14yrs, has had annual involvement at the Manchester Science Festival (Europe's largest science festival) and actively participated in the First® LEGO® League. Watson has delivered community talks at Pint of Science events as well as appearing on BBC's Tomorrow's World Live during the Manchester Science Festival. University of Birmingham has continued its educational outreach work, including annual robotics summer schools for 14-17 year olds, delivered at the Royal Institution in London. Advocacy for EPS: All the academic researchers within RNE are involved in advocacy of engineering and the physical sciences. Stolkin, for example continues to serve as Royal Society Industry Fellow, and is active in nuclear robotics committees of IEEE, euRobotics and other international organisations. Lennox has recently been elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, which allows him to respond to and influence UK Government policies in relation to robotics and engineering in general. For example, he met with Lords Puttnam and Giddens, members of the Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to discuss opportunities for robotics and AI in the nuclear industry. Pipe and Lennox are core members of the UK-RAS Executive Committee, which engages in many activities advocating RAS. Pipe has been involved in leading: i) the organisation of the first UK-RAS Conference for Early Careers and PhD Students; ii) a variety of RAS demonstrations for UK Robotics Week and; iii) a White Paper on Robotics in Social Care and Robot Ethics. In 2020 Lennox hosted the annual IEEE conference on Robotics and Autonomous Systems in Manchester, which was attended by more than 100 researchers. Winfield is actively involved in standards. He is a member of the British Standards Institute committee AMT/010 (Robotics), which drafted BS 8611:2016 Guide to the Ethical Design of Robots and Robotic Systems. He is a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Standards Association Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, and chairs Working Group P7001, drafting a new IEEE standard on Transparency of Autonomous Systems (Winfield, 2019). Winfield is also engaged in advocacy and policy work, submitting evidence to the Lords Select committee on AI (2017) and the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on AI and Data Analytics (2018); he has recently been appointed a member of the World Economic Forum Global AI Council. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Electronics,Energy |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | 3D-Subsea |
| Amount | £66,209 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IAA 260 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Advancing Location Accuracy via Collimated Nuclear Assay for Decommissioning Robotic Applications (ALACANDRA) |
| Amount | £1,208,438 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V026941/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 04/2025 |
| Description | Autonomous Aquatic Inspection and Interverntion (A2I2) |
| Amount | £2,387,540 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 25500 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Capital Equipment Funding |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | Development of a semi-automated controller for MSM system |
| Amount | £188,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Ground Based Robots |
| Amount | £130,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Sellafield Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 02/2020 |
| Description | Heterogeneous multi-agent robotic inspection missions |
| Amount | £557,498 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ICF 307 |
| Organisation | Sellafield Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account 402: Developing a Smart Swab for Improved Characterisation |
| Amount | £93,416 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IAA 402 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2023 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | Industry Accelerator Account (Autonomous Cleaning Robots) |
| Amount | £102,606 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Industry Accelerator Account (Debris Clearance Vehicle) |
| Amount | £102,606 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Mobile Robots for Generic Characterisation of Nuclear Facilities - Extension |
| Amount | £216,690 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IAA 266 |
| Organisation | Sellafield Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | RAICAM |
| Amount | € 2,743,826 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101072634 |
| Organisation | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2027 |
| Description | Radiation Damage to Electronic Systems |
| Amount | £76,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Department | Rolls Royce Submarines |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Description | Radiation Hardened robotics for remote INspectiOn - RHINO |
| Amount | £504,102 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X022331/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Radiological Sensing for Robotic Platforms |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear (RAIN) |
| Amount | £12,203,190 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R026084/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies |
| Amount | £2,760,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CiET1819\13 |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 05/2029 |
| Description | Sort and segregate nuclear waste: phase 1 (SBRI competition) |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Title | CARMA II Alpha Contamination Avoidance Results |
| Description | Four files consisting of datasets from Alpha contamination avoidance experiments conducted at RAICo1, Cumbria using the CARMA II UGV platform. The UGV is instructed to follow a path consisting of concentric polygons, with each vertex as a navigation waypoint. If avoidance behaviours are enabled, the UGV will not traverse over an area where Alpha contamination has been detected via a front mounted sensor. All files are txt, human readable, tab delimited, derived from larger ROS bag files recorded during the experimental campaign. All files contain a header row with descriptions of each column. Timestamps are in Unix Epoch time (as is standard for the Robot Operating System), positions in metres are given with a captial X, Y, Z for each cartesian axis respectively. The Z value are not necessary for this work, therefore their actual value may not correspond to realworld values, these should be ignored. Quaternion representations of orientation are given by x, y, z, w. Finally, any Alpha radiation intensity values are given as counts/sec. Any position data has been referenced to the first waypoint in the follower path. Data was originally collected in November 2022 (in ROS bag format), which was interrogated to provide the data in these .txt files. The position of the Alpha source was located at approximately: X = 2.0 m | Y = -0.4 m "AlphaOnly_Travelpath.txt" represents the waypoint positions the UGV should try to match. "AlphaOnly_NoAvoidancePath.txt" represents the reference frame of the robot chassis and it's position in space as estimated by SLAM, whilst no avoidance behaviours are enabled. "AlphaOnly_WithAvoidancePath.txt" represents the reference frame of the robot chassis and it's position in space as estimated by SLAM, whilst avoidance behaviours are enabled and enacted when Alpha contamination is detected. "AlphaOnly_WithAvoidanceAlphaCounts.txt" represents the postion of the radiation detector and the measured counts during the experiment. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/CARMA_II_Alpha_Contamination_Avoidance_Results/21... |
| Title | CARMA II Alpha Contamination Avoidance Results |
| Description | Four files consisting of datasets from Alpha contamination avoidance experiments conducted at RAICo1, Cumbria using the CARMA II UGV platform. The UGV is instructed to follow a path consisting of concentric polygons, with each vertex as a navigation waypoint. If avoidance behaviours are enabled, the UGV will not traverse over an area where Alpha contamination has been detected via a front mounted sensor. All files are txt, human readable, tab delimited, derived from larger ROS bag files recorded during the experimental campaign. All files contain a header row with descriptions of each column. Timestamps are in Unix Epoch time (as is standard for the Robot Operating System), positions in metres are given with a captial X, Y, Z for each cartesian axis respectively. The Z value are not necessary for this work, therefore their actual value may not correspond to realworld values, these should be ignored. Quaternion representations of orientation are given by x, y, z, w. Finally, any Alpha radiation intensity values are given as counts/sec. Any position data has been referenced to the first waypoint in the follower path. Data was originally collected in November 2022 (in ROS bag format), which was interrogated to provide the data in these .txt files. The position of the Alpha source was located at approximately: X = 2.0 m | Y = -0.4 m "AlphaOnly_Travelpath.txt" represents the waypoint positions the UGV should try to match. "AlphaOnly_NoAvoidancePath.txt" represents the reference frame of the robot chassis and it's position in space as estimated by SLAM, whilst no avoidance behaviours are enabled. "AlphaOnly_WithAvoidancePath.txt" represents the reference frame of the robot chassis and it's position in space as estimated by SLAM, whilst avoidance behaviours are enabled and enacted when Alpha contamination is detected. "AlphaOnly_WithAvoidanceAlphaCounts.txt" represents the postion of the radiation detector and the measured counts during the experiment. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/CARMA_II_Alpha_Contamination_Avoidance_Results/21... |
| Title | Dataset |
| Description | This set includes all collected data and figures used in this paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset/21525939 |
| Title | Dataset |
| Description | This set includes all collected data and figures used in this paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Dataset/21525939/1 |
| Title | MIRRAX: A Reconfigurable Robot for Limited Access Environments - Experimental Dataset |
| Description | ROS Bag files of experiments conducted in support of the IEEE TRO paper "MIRRAX: A Reconfigurable Robot for Limited Access Environments" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/MIRRAX_A_Reconfigurable_Robot_for_Limited_Access_... |
| Title | MIRRAX: A Reconfigurable Robot for Limited Access Environments - Experimental Dataset |
| Description | ROS Bag files of experiments conducted in support of the IEEE TRO paper "MIRRAX: A Reconfigurable Robot for Limited Access Environments" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/MIRRAX_A_Reconfigurable_Robot_for_Limited_Access_... |
| Description | CARMA |
| Organisation | Sellafield Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UoM developed the prototype CARMA robotic platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sellafield Ltd ave provided engineering support and access to active facilities on the Sellafield site. |
| Impact | This collaboration has resulted in two deployments of the CARMA platform into active areas on the Sellafield site. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CSIRO |
| Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Researchers working on developing research ideas, planning and carrying-out the research and providing the data for the collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advice on the research novelty, supporting paper writing (editing, proof-reading and writing sections) on collaborative papers. Ongoing dialogue on potential collaborative projects. Access to their facilities, navigation software and localisation solution through previous secondment. |
| Impact | 1 paper accepted for publication (ICRA 2021) 1 currently in preparation for resubmission |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement with IAEA |
| Organisation | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | PDRAs developed a robotic floating platform to monitor nuclear storage ponds and a ground based platform to detect radioactive materials in nuclear waste storage facilities. This was tested at an event/competition in Australia and was found to meet their criteria. Further work is now being planned with IAEA to continue to develop the platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The IAEA provided €1000 in prize money and designed and constructed a test facility in Brisbane. The IAEA have taken the MALLARD robot developed in this project and successfully deployed it into a spent fuel storage pond in Finland. This was the first time an autonomous robotic platform had been deployed into a spent fuel storage pond. |
| Impact | MALLARD: robotic floating platform available for research and test work. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | MIRRAX |
| Organisation | Sellafield Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The MIRRAX ground vehicle was designed for accessing and surveying radioactive facilities through very narrow ports (150 mm). MIRRAX was successfully designed and tested using university facilities and in March 2018, the robot was deployed in an active facility on the Sellafield site, where is successfully generated a 3D scan of the environment. This scan will be used in future decommissioning plans. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sellafield Ltd provide technical and logistic support and in March 2018 provided access to one of their active facilities. |
| Impact | Deployment and generation of 3D scan of active facility to ai with future decommissioning plans. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Robotics for Nuclear Environments (RNE) collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UWE is also a partner in the EPSRC funded project Robotics for Nuclear Environments (RNE), led by the University of Manchester, and we were able to introduce Manchester and the RNE project to ARE. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The RNE project, led by Prof Barry Lennox at the University of Manchester, was able to bring examples of real-world extreme environments that might be strong candidates for the evolutionary robotics approach envisioned by the ARE project. Prof Lennox also served on the advisory board for ARE. |
| Impact | One outcome was a deeper understanding within the ARE team of the severe challenges faced by robots in extreme environments. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Title | MONA Robot |
| Description | MONA is a low-cost small (approx 7 cm diameter) robot that has been developed for research studies into swarm robotics and for UG laboratories. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | 60 robots have been sold to the Universities of Manchester of Lincoln. These robots have been used on the UG programmes. |
| Title | MallARD autonomus aquatic surface vehicle |
| Description | MallARD is a uniquely capable autonomous surface vehicle. It is small enough to be deployed in confined space and has unmatched ability to dynamically position and station keep |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The robot has formed the basis several research projects and is now available as a standard tool for use in nuclear fuel storage pools |
| Description | "Robot Accident Investigation"Alan Winfield invited talk at the ICRA 2020 workshop Robot Dystopias |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Alan Winfield was invited to give an online talk at a workshop of the 2020 ICRA conference. The theme of the workshop was 'Against Robot Dystopias' and its aims were to: 1. To identify ethical, legal and societal issues within robotics and automation. 2. To introduce and discuss technical methods for addressing these issues. In this talk, Alan spoke about the RoboTIPS project and work on the Ethical Black Box and robot accident investigations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://against-20.github.io |
| Description | AMT/010/01/01 Sustainable Robotics BSI Committee Membership |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A new committee has been formed to develop a BSI guide to Sustainable Robotics for release in 2023. This was the initial meeting to discuss the content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Allerdale Borough Council at REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions to raise awareness of REEL/RAIN/RNE and UoM's presence in west Cumbria, research overview and demonstrations of robotics technologies presented to key members of Allerdale Borough Council. Discussions of new funding for REEL and opportunities for engagement with industry and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Aquatic Platforms- Vertex Sellafield Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations to key stakeholders at Sellafield and NNL on MallARD platforms, as well as overview on aquatic platforms including AVEXIS and Braendler Engineering Projects. Legacy ponds team and MSSS stakeholders present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Atkins DDP Event Sept 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Event for industry and supply chain in relation to robotics and related technologies. Presentation of robotics projects and up to date research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Benefits Mapping Robotics at Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 3 day benefits mapping workshop for robotics at Sellafield, discussion of robotics projects and engagement with RAICo1. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Bright Sparks engagement with local school children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrating swarm robotics and robotics for nuclear at the Bright Sparks finale. There were pupils from 3 schools local to Cumbria at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CARMA - Sellafield Analytical Teams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited research talk on CARMA robot to Sellafield's Analytical team- via PolyCom system to multiple users on site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CARMA IAA CE Marking engagement - 13/04/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Update on CARMA project and CE marking requirements from SL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CARMA Project Update with SL Remediation Team 25/03/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Update on CARMA project with remediation team from SL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CARMA for PHUMS deployment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield and Cavendish to discuss alternative radiometric tools for use on CARMA robot |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CARMA project progress update with Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield's C-RAI, RAI IRT and remediation customer for CARMA project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CARMA project update and demonstration for Sellafield - 17/12/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | End customer demonstration of CARMA for Sellafield remediation team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CZT for MIRRAX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of the integration of CZT sensor with MIRRAX robot, speaking with radiometry and different stakeholder groups at Sellafiled, additional demonstration of CARMA robot at REE Laboratory in Cumbria. Potential loan of equipment for deployment scenario, further engagement with radiometric team to discuss design requirements and doses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Carrs Engineering - REEL information share |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Research update and information share between REEL projects and Carr's Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Co-creation workshop - initial engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagemenet with Sellafield (Central and technical remediation teams) for participation in co-creation workshops (UWE). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - Business case support |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Business case support to Sellafield application for lease of collaborative robotics facility in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - CCS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Review of potential location for collaborative colocation robotics centre in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - CCS Jan 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to colocation site for collaborative robotics lab in West Cumbria engagement with Sellafield and NNL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - NCfN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to local Cumbrian College to discuss colocation of collaboration partners at site, opportunity for increased and continual engagement with FE college. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - meetings w/c 01/02/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Weekly meetings to discuss move into new colaborative facility, lab set up, space allocation, collaboration and cooperation agreements with Sellafield, NNL and RACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - meetings w/c 07/02/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Weekly meetings to discuss move into new colaborative facility, lab set up, space allocation, collaboration and cooperation agreements with Sellafield, NNL and RACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - meetings w/c 25/01/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Weekly meetings to discuss move into new colaborative facility, lab set up, space allocation, collaboration and cooperation agreements with Sellafield, NNL and RACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - weekly meetings 06/01/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Weekly meetings to discuss move into new colaborative facility, lab set up, space allocation, collaboration and cooperation agreements with Sellafield, NNL and RACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Collaborative Facility Cumbria - weekly meetings 12/01/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Weekly meetings to discuss move into new colaborative facility, lab set up, space allocation, collaboration and cooperation agreements with Sellafield, NNL and RACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conservative Party Conference research showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a research exhibition that was a fringe event at the conservative party conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Copeland Borough Council and ARUP Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Copeland Borough Council and ARUP for The University of Manchester's input (as part of REEL/RNE/RAIN) into regional development plans, as case studies for the report. Requests for information on specific case studies were given for the report including MallARD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Copeland Council Visit- REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to REEL from Copeland Borough Council members of the Nuclear and Energy Team, presentations delivered on robotics technologies and demonstrations of robotics shown to members. Follow-up requests for future meetings and engagement with CBC and ARUP for robotics case studies . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DSRL visit to REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | REEL hosted visit to Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) to start engagement re possible robotics deployments. Overview of work UoM is involved with both for RNE and RAIN was discussed, including particular challenges DSRL are facing and possible technology solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Delivering change through robotics at Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We organised this event jointly with Sellafield. It was oversubscribed with a waiting list at over 300 people. This event provided a platform for: demonstrating the current use of robotics at Sellafield, inviting Sellafield's workforce to help shape the future role of robotics in decommissioning, showcasing next-generation robotic developments, presenting the progress of the RAIN Hub, and stimulating ideas, discussion and future innovation. The day included talks from key decision makers at Sellafield, as well as researchers and those from other sectors. There was an exhibition space with 3 key zones, showing technology from (1) the academic researchers, (2) the SMEs / supply chain, and (3) what is currently in use at Sellafield. This event felt key in changing people's views on the use of robotics in Nuclear. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gamechangers.technology/challenges/delivering-change-through-robotics/ |
| Description | Demonstration at Nuclear South West Showcase and Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 2 and 3 October 2019 Manuel Giuliani, Alex Smith, and Paul Bremner presented the NCNR and RNE projects at the Nuclear South West Showcase and Conference. As part of the showcase, a robotic teleoperation setup for nuclear waste handling was demonstrated. Over 50 showcase visitors, mostly members of the nuclear industry, successfully used the teleoperation robot. Giuliani, Smith, and Bremner also used the conference to establish new contacts to companies in the nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://nuclearsouthwest.co.uk/events/2019/9/2/nuclear-south-west-conference-2019 |
| Description | Demonstration of CARMA and MALLARD robots |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CARMA and MALLARD robots were demonstrated to industry to get feedback on their current development stage and look for opportunities for these to be deployed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Demonstration of CARMA and related technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CARMA robot was demonstrated to Sellafield to get feedback on their current development stage and look for opportunities for these to be deployed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Demonstration of CARMA robot |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of the CARMA 2 robot. Engineers from across the Sellafield site and the NDA came to the REEL labs in Cumbria. We showed how the CARMA performs floor scans to detect radiation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Dive tank at RAICo- meeting with NNL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with NNL to discuss demonstrators at RAICo including dive tank/water tank for aquatic robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dounreay Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Dounreay to discuss robotics technologies and potential solutions to decommissioning challenges facing DSRL, presentations delivered from RAIN and key challenge holders from DSRL. Site visits included as part of two day visit and engagement. Plans for future visits, robotics showcase and deployments put into place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Engagement with EPE - Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with EPE team at Sellafield, at new site. Information share on projects of mutual interest and opportunties to work together discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Engagement with Inspira |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Inspira, Cumbrian company who link schools for STEM and outreach engagement activities. Discussion of our research programme and capability, with a look to engage with the wider school community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engagement with Sellafield- CARMA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement to discuss development of platform, CE marking and future deployments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Engagement with Sonomatic- future projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | RAIN and RNE meeting with Sonomatic to discuss current projects and opportunities to collaborate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | European Robotics Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Exhibited at the European Robotics Forum 2019. Took brochures and kit to display and create discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_forum/ |
| Description | FIS360 and Sellafield Robotics Engagement - 11/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss clearance and projects for Sellafield engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | FIS360/RAIN Catch up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with FIS360 to discuss opportunity for researcher development in RAICo and future projects for Sellafield including engagement with SL's C-RAI CoE Forum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Future Opportunities Group (FOG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Future opportunities group, chaired by the Mayor of Copeland, includes leading members of key industry e.g. LEP, West Cumbrian Mining, UCLAN, NNL, SL, BECBC amongst many others. New opportunities discussed including new funding at REEL and overview of robotics successes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HOME Offshore demonstration day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The HOME offshore project coordinated an event on autonomous inspection of assets in the energy industry. We had a RAIN stand and had a RAIN submersible platform demonstrating underwater inspection of mock up offshore wind farm. There were also drone inspections of the turbine blades. It was great to take part in an event focused on a different industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hamburg TUHH Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Hamburg TUHH to discuss underwater communications collaborative projects using MallARD platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Harbourfest Whitehaven - July |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outreach and engagement activity for Harbourfest in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Event for general public including robotics demos and showcase for event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Health Physics Group Wide Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Formal working group relating to health physics, in particular CARMA and related research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IAA - Underwater Communications Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement to develop more detailed plans for IAA submission. Sellafield funded project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IAA - Underwater Communications Engagement Finalising |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement to finalise the IAA paperwork and submission before panel, discussion on funding route and timings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | IAA - Underwater Communications Initial Discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield Ltd to disucss opportunties for funding future research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IMechE Visit to REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to REEL from IMechE members, made up of representatives of multiple industry organisations. Talks delivered and demonstrations of robotics technologies showcased. Follow up enquiries for involvement in future outreach activities in local area as well as requests for repeat visits for IMechE to REEL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Innovators Breakfast Meeting Cumbria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Breakfast meeting at the Business cluster meeting held in Cumbria, engagement and networking with members of the UK nuclear industry, representatives from the Centre for Leadership Performance (outreach), Sellafield Ltd and Cumbria FM about our research activities and proposed robotics solutions. Resulted in new contacts made, requests for site visits, applications for summer internships at our robotics laboratory in Cumbria and uptake of our research theme by the local Cumbria-wide media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited public talk by Alan Winfield - AI Ethics from Theory to Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Alan Winfield gave a presentation on "The Ethical Roboticist, from principles to practice", at AI Ethics from Theory to Practice, Collective Intelligence UK, Bristol, 7 July 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-ethics-from-theory-to-practice-tickets-363495854887 |
| Description | Invited public talk by Alan Winfield - Turing Institute (webinar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this online talk, Alan Winfield presented the "IEEE 7001-2021, A new standard on Transparency of Autonomous Systems", in the webinar "Towards transparent and explainable AI: The current standardisation landscape, AI Standards Hub", Turing Institute (online), 8 Dec 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://aistandardshub.org/events/towards-transparent-and-explainable-ai-the-current-standardisation... |
| Description | Jennifer David NNUF Hot Robotics Outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | J. David is involved in the NNUF Hot robotics outreach programme to engage with school children who may not have considered a career or education in nuclear and/or robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jennifer David and Joseph Bolarinwa, presentation on RNE project results titled "Heterogeneous team of mobile robots in nuclear environments" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J. David and J. Bolarinwa presented their results in RNE project titled "Heterogeneous team of mobile robots in nuclear environments" to the Swarm Robotics research team at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Nov 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Jennifer David, "Robots for Nuclear Environments", Speaker, ARAM, National Virtual Conference on Automation, Robotics, AI and Mechatronics, Chennai India, 2021. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | J David gave a talk on RNE and nuclear robotics in the National Virtual Conference on Automation, Robotics, AI and Mechatronics, Chennai India, 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | KTN RAI industrial showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | KTN RAI Industry event. RAIN director Professor Lennox gave a presentation, joint with Sellafield and Forth engineering, on the development of the AVEXIS and the success of the collaboration. The event was well attended and a lot of people came to talk to us at the stand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Keynote talk/presentation at Sellafield Ltd "Game-changers" event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk at Game-changers confererence organised by UK nuclear industry to explore the potential of robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Legacy Ponds Visit Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Legacy Ponds team on Sellafield site following earlier robotics showcase on site. Follow up meeting with site tour to visit legacy ponds facilities and engage with key operations team members. Information share on current projects progress and key challenges for stakeholders. Follow up requests for further engagement and demonstration of technology on site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lego Robots regional final |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Hosted the lego robots schools tournament. There were 9 teams from different schools across Greater Manchester in attendance in 2019, and this rose to 18 schools for 2020. These children had been engaged with researchers whilst developing their robots, stimulating interest in robotics. Schools from 2019 returned for 2020, clearly finding the event useful and worthwhile. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://www.firstlegoleague.co.uk/ |
| Description | Lunch and Learn Presentation- Sellafield Graduates- 24/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Sellafield graduates regarding placements with UoM/RAIN/RNE/REEL in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | M. Giuliani, P. Bremner, J. David, A. Smith, M. Sobhani, J. Bolarinwa, "Using Robots for Nuclear Decommissioning", Demonstration of NCNR and RNE robot demonstrators at BRL Virtual Conference, June 2021, Bristol. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A mockup demo was setup for the BRL Virtual conference. The demo consists of two robots with some barrels in a nuclear environment running a risk-based navigational framework with three risks - temperature, radiation and collision risk. The robots navigate autonomously accessing the environment for temperature and radiation source and tries to avoid them while also trying to avoid collision by assessing the risk of collision. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/ceMmweklE50 |
| Description | METI DCF Japan Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on REE Laboratory and the Robotics for Extreme Environment Group (REEG) and wider research program including RNE and RAIN to members of the Japanese BEIS/NDA (METI), organised by BECBC (British Energy Coast Business Cluster). Members of the UK nuclear industry present including NNL, Sellafield Ltd, CoNE, North West Nuclear Arc Consortium, Dalton Nuclear Institute (University of Manchester) and local business influencers. Specifically spoke about the research undertaken by the programmes and the impact locally and advantages of having close ties and engagement with the nuclear industry. Jan 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MIRRAX CZT and code Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with Sellafield on integration of uSPEC CZT ritec sensor into MIRRAX robot for future deployment on SL site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MIRRAX- Development and Deployment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Technology engagement to discuss MIRRAX development for particular site deployment, and design of robot and corresponding collimator requirements for deployment scenario, Sept 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MP Trudy Harrison Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit by MP Trudy Harrison to visit new RAICo1 facility in Whitehaven Cumbria, demonstrations of technologies and engagement with researchers and key team members |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MallARD at THORP discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with THORP stakeholders to discuss possible use of MallARD robot in ponds with specific sensor payload. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Lord Giddens and Lord Puttnam at the House of Lords |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Lord Puttnam and Lord Giddens to advise on latest developments in robotics and AI. Lord Puttnam and Giddens are both members fo the Parliamentary AI Committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with RrOBO, Atkins and Sellafield C-RAI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sellafield C-RAI visit to Atkins, project update meeting on RrOBO project and RAICo involvement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Sellafield's C-RAI team - 21/04/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Catch up with Sellafield's C-RAI team to discuss projects, progress, upcoming work and future plans for RAICo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Toshiba Research Ltd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On 28 November 2018, Manuel Giuliani and Alex Smith from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), University of the West of England, met at BRL with researchers from Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TRL). The BRL team presented NCNR and a tele-operation demonstration to the visitors. TRL presented on their work in wireless communication. The goal of this meeting was to work together on wireless tele-operation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MoD Collaboration Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Organised by Sellafield's Central Robotics and AI group in collaboration with RAICo (UKAEA, UoM) and Atkins and Createc, workshop to discuss collaboration on quadruped robots including SPOT, ANYmal and Ghost Robotics robots. Projects share and update. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MoD Follow up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Follow up activity following earlier presentation to MoD, specifically interested in areas to engage with robotics hubs and learn from experience/get involved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | NDA Health, Safety and Wellbeing Event Dec 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Health safety and wellbeing event aimed at Nuclear Industry professionals. Formally invited to participate in the event and present technology and current research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NDA Supply Chain Event - July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Exhibitor at the NDA Supply Chain Event in Telford, July 2022. Attended by over 1700 people from industry and supply chain. saw technology and engaged with programme, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NDA and EPSRC visit DCF/REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Nuclear decommissioning authority (NDA) along with senior EPSRC members visited the Dalton Cumbrian Facility, members from REEL took robots to demonstrate recent updates and give presentations on current research findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | NDA stakeholder summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrate CARMA and AVEXIS to NDA stakeholders. Showing our innovations in robotics for decommissioning and highlighting the progress in collaboration to date to ensure a pipeline of innovative technologies and skilled capability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | NDA visit REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit of NDA members to REEL, update on current research progress, tour of facilities and demonstration of robotic technologies given. Discussions on future funding and opportunities with other site licenced companies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | NDA visit and comms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit from the NDA to our REE Laboratory in West Cumbria, meeting with the communications department to demonstrate robotics technology. Videos were taken on the CARMA and MALLARD robots in addition to documentation of the MIRRAX robot in construction, engagement with researchers. Photos and videos were used in wider publicity about our robotics technologies and advancements, Oct 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | NNL Celebrating Excellence meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | working meeting with Sellafield and NNL to discuss and prepare for NNL's celebrating excellence meeting later in year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NNUF Visit RAICo1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit from NNUF-HR team to RAICo1 to discuss collaborative working opportunities. Including showcase of technology demonstrations, show of facilities and current & future projects share. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | NPL Visit - July 22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit by NPL to RAICo1, technology demonstrations and engagement with researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | New SO Sellafield engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with new SO from Sellafield regarding clearance and official engagement with SL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Nortek |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Nortek to discuss RNE projects and support opportunities to collaborate/support activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Nuclear Robotics Workshop at BRL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tom Bridgwater from BRL, University of the West of England organised a workshop on nuclear robotics at BRL on 10.12.2019. The workshop was attended by collaborating colleagues from NCNR, RAIN, and RNE. The main topics of the workshop were robot teleoperation, radiation measurements, and challenges in human factors for human-robot interaction in hazardous environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nuclear academics meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The meeting provides a forum for academics working on nuclear energy related research, from new build through to decommissioning of existing reactors, to discuss topics of common interest. This year there were national and international speakers from industry, government, funding bodies and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Nuvia COMO CARMA and Sellafield - follow up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Follow up meeting to discuss integration of Nuvia's COMO detector into commercial CARMA product via KTP project. Discussion with ESH&Q sensors to be used on outdoor CARMA project and further details on safety requirements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nuvia COMO and CARMA at SL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of use of Nuvia's COMO detector on CARMA robot for commercial product with Sellafield EHS&Q and other related stakeholders. Discussion of other possible sensors for CARMA in particular for outdoor use. Discussions rescheduled for future meeting, paperwork for deployment discussed with plant owners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nuvia visit to REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with project partners Nuvia, to discuss and share updates of current technologies and explore future working opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nuvia: Robotics Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of robotic technologies, opportunities for collaboration and future projects. Sept 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pint of Science Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Watson gave a talk as part of the Manchester Pint of Science Festival during the Robot Revolution session, entitled "Are Robots just Spanners or Evil Overlords in Waiting?". The event was open to the general public and was sold out. The talk was well received and sparked a lot of discussion and debate so that the Q&A session afterwards lasted well over an hour (15 minutes were originally scheduled). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/robot-revolution |
| Description | Preparatory meeting with NNL and Sellafield for SL's Knowledge Management Talk on Robotics and AI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss and prepare presentation on collaborative work between UoM/SL/NNL for NDA estate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation and panel discussion at Fukushima Research Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at conference to describe how RAIN and RNE may be able to support the on-going work at Fukushima Daiichi. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://fukushima.jaea.go.jp/initiatives/cat05/pdf/FRCradremote_Program.pdf |
| Description | Presentation to NWDRF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to panel members of the Nuclear Waste and Decommissioning Research Forum (NWDRF), members included Sellafield, NDA, EDF, DSRL, LLWR, RWM etc, discussed robotics technologies for decommissioning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation/talk at IROS robotics conference - shared control robotic grasping |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Maxime Adligble presented his paper at a leading international conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYYWy7c2fs&t=304s |
| Description | RAI Catch up with Sellafield and FIS360 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield's C-RAI team with RAIN and FIS360 to discuss RAICo and RAI activities in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAI Integrated Research Team @ REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics and deployment scenario engagement with Sellafield Ltd, discussion to review key stakeholder engagement and robotic project progress. Following discussion, design improvements and preparations made for future deployments, further feedback delivered |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | RAICo Engagement - 05/11/21-12/11/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | RAICo engagement including discussions between SL, UoM and FIS360 regarding future projects, RAI CoE and demonstrations at RAICo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Engagement w/c 23/08/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement to discuss RAICo progress, plans, space, training requirements and projects within new joint building. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Engagement w/c 24th May 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with SL, UKAEA and NNL re RAICo facility in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Facility Engagement- w/c 19/04/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement regarding new RAICo facility in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Incubator Facility Engagement - 120321 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement regarding new RAICo facility in Cumbria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Incubator Facility Engagement w/c 14/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield, UKAEA and NNL regarding new RAICo facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Incubator Facility Engagement w/c 28/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement re RAICo incubator facility including SL, UKAEA and NNL- regarding operational activities, procurement, projects, collaboration agreement and research activities in new centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo NDA visit 25/08/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tour of RAICo facilitiy, supporting Sellafield's C-RAI team on senior execs from NDA visit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Opening Event Engagement - 07/02/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement regarding opening event at RAICo including NNL UAKEA, FIS360 and Sellafield. Discussion on relevant projects and demonstrations to showcase. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RAICo Opening Event March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Opening event for RAICo1, demonstrations of technologies and engagement with researchers and key challenge holders from industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RAICo Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Formal working group relating to RAICo collaborative programme of work including sharing of progress, previous work and future plans from UKAEA, UoM and Sellafield Ltd. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RAICo Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Follow up session on research programme for RAICo with UKAEA, Sellafield Ltd and UoM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | RAICo Programme Review with Sellafield C-RAI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Review of programme of delivery of RAICo refurbishments including related projects coming into site, and their related opportunities. Engagement with SL's C-RAI team, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Working group for RAICo including UKAEA, NDA, Sellafield Ltd and UoM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RAICo Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 2 day workshop on RAICo programme including UoM, UKAEA, Sellafield Ltd, Magnox, Dounreay and NDA on industry related programme and possible research opportunities including previous work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | RAICo online event engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with UKAEA SL and NNL to discuss event on 13th May, agenda and publicity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAICo update meetings w/c 20/09/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with multiple SL stakeholders including procurement, PFDO, commercial, planning, health and safety as well as C-RAI project team. Meetings also included NNL and UKAEA regarding progress at RAICo facility, space allocation, projects etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAIN/FIS360 Engagement 07/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with FIS360 to discuss engagement plans to work with Sellafield including RAICo (PDRA/PhD future plans). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | REEL summer engagement day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research presentations and technology demonstrations during event at REE Laboratory in west Cumbria. Invitation to postgraduate and postdoctoral students, academics and PS staff at neighbouring institution to come and engage with our technologies and understand more about our research programme. Members of the local nuclear industry were also in attendance including Sellafield Ltd and NNL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | REEL/Sellafield C-RAI Team update 26/03/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield's central robotics and AI team, catch up on technology, project updates and future engagement activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Research Sprint and Demonstration RAICo1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Week long research sprint with BRL and University of Strathclyde on joint research sprint. Demonstration at the end of the week attended by local industry including Sellafield Ltd, Jacobs, UKAEA and Atkins. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Robotics Community Engagement Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A Manchester technology interest group contacted the robotics group following media covered to give a special talk at an event for the community an general public. Robotics platforms were taken along to the event to demonstrate the technology first hand as well as a talk covering the research programme and engagement with the nuclear industry. The talk promoted enthusiastic discussion about new technology advances and the challenges the programme faces. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.chu3a.org.uk/resources/TechGp-20180403-Robots.pages.pdf |
| Description | Robotics R&D Engagement Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, May 2018. Following up engagement following industry demonstration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Robotics R&D Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, May 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Robotics Research Seminar- Cumbria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Robotics research seminar, organised for researchers working within robotics with key industry members in attendance, including members from Sellafield and The National Nuclear Laboratory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Robotics Researchers Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Robotics researchers workshop, with guest speakers from industry including Game Changers, NDA and Createc. Networking event arranged for researchers to engage cross institutionally and with different aspects of the nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Robotics Showcase at Sellafield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On site technology showcase, robots were showcased including MallARD, CARMA, El-MallARD, AVEXIS. Engagement with plant operators and range of stakeholders. Exhibition as well as formal presentation and small demonstration of ground robot. Members of legacy ponds team requested future visit and meetings re MallARD platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Robotics Technology Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of mature robotics technologies including CARMA 2 (most recent version), CARMA EDD and MALLARD in addition to discussions about other platforms in build or development. Stakeholders from Sellafield Ltd, different plants on site interested in active demonstrations for robotics technologies. Further discussions and deployment plans organised as an outcome. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Robotics summer school week at Royal Institution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Week long summer school for 24 school children who design and build and program their own robots while learning about robotics and AI. Held at the famous Royal Institution premises in central London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Robotics technology demonstration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of robotics technologies including CARMA and MALLARD robots at REE laboratory in west Cumbria to RACE stakeholders. Understanding of technical capabilities at site including test facilities and researcher capabilities, Oct 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | SL RAI Advisory Board Workshop on Charter and Terms of Reference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to form the new Sellafield C-RAI Advisory Board. This session brainstormed both the charter and the terms of reference for this Advisory Board included members of nuclear industry, supply chain, NDA and wider SLCs.. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SL RAI IRT Steering Group - 18/06/20 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sellafield's Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Integrated Research Team Steering Group- research and update share across academia, industry, other SLCs, NDA, NNL, Game Changers, AWE, MAGNOX. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | SL RAI IRT Steering Group - 29/09/20 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sellafield's Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Integrated Research Team Steering Group- research and update share across academia, industry, other SLCs, NDA, NNL, Game Changers, AWE, MAGNOX. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | SL and NDA tour of RAICo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield COO and NDA, first visit to RAICo before refurbishments works commence. Rebecca Weston, Melanie Brownridge, Steve Shackleford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SPRINT Robotics- MallARD and CARMA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations at SPRINT robotics conference in Netherlands on both MallARD and CARMA projects. Well attended by industry, lots of engagement and follow up contact on CARMA project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | School visit to the lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School children visited the robotics lab as part of a tour of engineering departments coordinated by the UoM social responsibility team. There were questions and discussions by the students, about robotics and engineering at university. The school reported the visit was worthwhile. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield - CE marking CARMA Calder |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion re CE marking of CARMA project ahead of deployment at Calder site on Sellafield. Discussion on safety requirements of technology, technical files, engagement with key members of ESH&Q, RAI IRT and site safety teams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping Scoping Session - 15/12/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Scoping session for roadmapping C-RAI at Sellafield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping Workshop - Retrievals - 03/03/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping workshop for Retrievals value stream at Sellafield, understanding key programme decisions to be made over the next 20 years and opportunities for RAI technologies across TRL scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping Workshop - SFM - 01/03/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping workshop for SFM value stream at Sellafield, understanding key programme decisions to be made over the next 20 years and opportunities for RAI technologies across TRL scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping Workshop - SNM - 02/03/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping workshop for SNM value stream at Sellafield, understanding key programme decisions to be made over the next 20 years and opportunities for RAI technologies across TRL scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping scoping session with value stream - Retrievals - 26/01/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Scoping session with retrievals value stream ahead of RAI Roadmapping workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping scoping session with value stream - SFM- 27/01/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Scoping session with value stream SFM ahead of RAI roadmapping workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping scoping session with value stream - SNM- 01/02/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Scoping session with SNM value stream at Sellafield ahead of RAI roadmapping workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping strategy workshop - 04/11/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | First strategy workshop for roadmapping of RAI technology requirements across the Sellafield estate, to produce 20 year roadmap. Facilitated by IfM Cambridge. Project until end of March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping weekly catch ups - Dec 21 to March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Weekly roadmapping catch up between SL, IfM and UoM for roadmapping strategy plans with value streams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI Roadmapping workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping workshop with Sellafield on requirement for RAI technologies for next 20 years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI and RAICo Engagement w/c 04/10/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield's C-RAI team regarding current robotics projects, updates meetings and future engagement with RAICo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI programme board meeting 06/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Programme board meeting to discuss upcoming C-RAI forum meeting including agenda, support for C-RAI CoE forum going forward and role of RAIN in academic engagement with programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield C-RAI, FIS360 and Forth Eng - 18/08/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics and related project update meeting with Sellafield C-RAI, FIS360 and Forth Engineering. To discuss potential collaboration opportunities and plans for future aquatic robotic platforms demonstration for industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield Engagement- Rad Hardened ROV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | First engagement with stakeholders for remote inspection of high radiation environment. Members of SL's RAI IRT, plant technical leads and NNL management in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield Engagement- Roadmapping Robotics/Remote Engineering linking with local education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Roadmapping session with education/innovation areas on plant to discuss pipeline and flow of apprentices/graduates and outreach to schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield Exec Board Visit to RAICo1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Exec and non exec board members of Sellafield Ltd visit to RAICo1 to meet researchers and see technology demonstrations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield Future Projects Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of short research proposals for future projects drawing on REE Laboratory capability and opportunities for collaboration, Nov 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduate Placement - CE marking engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on CE marking, discussion on integrating industry practices into robotics solutions developed within Universities, including expert legal input. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduate Placement Discussion - 02/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Alex Collins to discuss future secondment within SL graduate scheme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduate Placement Review - Current and Future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations and review of graduate placement researchers at REEL. Engagement with advisors of scheme to discuss progress and future placement (numbers/timings). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduate Placement discussion - 17/09/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sarah Graham from SL graduate scheme to discuss placement with RAICo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduate Placements- catch up - 19/08/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield C-RAI team to discuss future secondments into UoM of Sellafield graduate placements. Including robotics and AI and project management support roles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduate placement discussion - 31/01/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Sellafield graduate Steven Halfhead regarding placement/secondment at REEL/RAICo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield Graduates meeting - 10/05/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with SL C-RAI team RAI IRT lead to discuss graduate placements talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield Innovation Centre Projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield team working with rapid innovation solutions, request to REEL/RAIN for support on robotics projects going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Innovation Day Feb 23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Innovation day on Sellafield site for Sellafield Ltd workers. Demonstrated technology and project updates for relevant technologies for potential stakeholders and general industry awareness of technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sellafield MSc engagement with REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with Sellafield to host SL staff member completing MSc, as knowledge exchange partnership at REEL. Further discussions following meeting, resulting in number of requests for other similar visits for members of SL to visit and work at REEL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Mel Willis Catch Up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Engagement activity on current and future projects with Mel Willis at Sellafield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Outlined issues with IAA project and made progress to counteract these and progress contract management. Nov 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development and future deployment scenarios, March 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Formalised discussion of deployment dates for next 6 months for MIRRAX and CARMA platforms, and discussion of other technology possibilities and deployment scenarios to aim for in future. Jan 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Progress of IAA application and security update for researchers visiting site, Sept 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Discussion on progress of security paperwork for researchers deploying technologies on site and aims for 2019 for active deployments. Jan 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development and future deployment scenarios, April 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Discussion on future research project (IAA) and clearance for site access for robotic deployments, Sept 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development and future deployment scenarios, End April 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement & Demo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement - MALLARD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios including MALLARD robot and demonstration of capability at REE Laboratory in Cumbria, June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of timeline for next 6 months relating to CARMA and MIRRAX deployments and required developments to platforms. Jan 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement Update |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, Sept 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement and Demo Prep |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and demonstration of CARMA robot to industry audience in non-active environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement and Deployment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics and deployment scenario engagement with Sellafield Ltd, discussion to prepare realistic mock-up scenario for demonstration of robotic capability to stakeholders. Following discussion, design and preparation of scenario completed, further feedback delivered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement and Deployment Scenarios |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Showcase day of robotics technology in collaboration with Sellafield Ltd to engage with Postgraduate students and future researchers, Dec 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement and Deployment Scenarios |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Outdoor deployment scenario for CARMA robot deployment discussed including location and logistics. Discussion on time line for on site deployment, update on IAA and site access requirements, Oct 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement and Deployment Scenarios |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios, Oct 2018. Discussion on IAA and clearance paperwork. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement and Future Projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Discussion on future projects and IAA research proposal, Aug 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement, Future projects CARMA 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing future projects and deployment scenarios, April 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement, Security and Site Access |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Discussion on site clearance and security procedures required for deployment of robotic technologies on site, August 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement- CZT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on successful integrtion of Ritec CZT sensor into MIRRAX platform. Sellafield Ltd representative was made aware of the technologies we have at REE Laboratory and given tour and demonstration of available technologies. Jan 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement- sensors for deployment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Handover and discussion of sensor integration onto CARMA robotic platform, specific radiometric sensors require for site survey as directed by Sellafield Ltd. Discussion of MIRRAX development with sensor loan, and site clearance paperwork, Nov 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots Engagement-MIRRAX CZT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing research development, progress to date and future deployment scenarios. Loan of CZT radiometric sensor for MIRRAX development and deployment, discussion of integration of sensor into robot and technical site details. Dec 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Mobile Robots, Deployment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mobile ground robotics research project engagement, discussing specific deployment scenario and intended technology deployment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sellafield Portfolio Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Sellafield Ltd's portfolio board including NDA members and executive board on UoM programme of work for RAICo1. Includes update on the previous and current research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield RAI IRT MallARD demo meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Sellafield's RAI IRT team to discuss demonstration of MallARD platform on Sellafield site, plan for engagement with key stakeholders including requirements/logistics and paperwork for demonstration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield RAI IRT Steering Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Steering committee for Sellafield's RAI IRT discussions on engagement with Sellafield, current projects update and key challenges from stakeholders on site discussed. Physical meeting in west Cumbria with dial in from other other site licenced companies, members present including Sellafield, NNL, NDA, EDF and Magnox. Future requests for involvement on panel and engagement with wider stakeholders on site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield RAI Roadmapping - Remediation Value Stream - 13/01/22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | RAI Roadmapping activity with Sellafield value stream- remediation team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield RAI Roadmapping Webinar for Value Streams - 21/01/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Webinar (including talk re RAICo) for programme leads and heads of value streams at Sellafield- information regarding roadmapping workshops to be held in March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield RAI Roadmapping session 14/06/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | First discussion on roadmapping requirement of RAI capability across Sellafield Estate, engagement with SL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield Robotics Event Planning Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Planning meeting for event at the end of March 2023 (following up event for RAIN event held in March 2019) joint event with Sellafield Ltd, UoM and FIS360 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sellafield Robotics Roadmapping- SFM workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics roadmapping workshop for Sellafield ltd's SFM value stream |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield Robotics Roadmapping- SNM scoping workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics roadmapping workshop scoping session for SNM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield Robotics Roadmapping- SNM workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics roadmapping workshop for Sellafield Ltd's SNM value stream |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield Secondment Engagement - Joshua |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement to discuss secondment and placement of student from Sellafield Ltd into REEL @ RAICo1 Team |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sellafield Secondments @ REEL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield nuclear graduates and scheme managers, two graduates to be seconded to REEL/RAIN for 6 month design placements to support the design development and deployment of MIRRAX and other robotics technologies ready for site deployment. Two way information share for REEL/SL helping to facilitate improved industry-related working practices for REEL/UoM and facilitate successfully integrating robotics onto site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield Security and Access |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with security and clearance team within Sellafield Ltd to discuss access requirements for researchers involved with robotics deployments. Discussion and presentation regarding the robotics platforms and demonstrations of technologies to new group of stakeholders. Generated new discussions around the technologies and wider understanding within new areas of the nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield and MoD meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Formal engagement with MoD to discuss areas of complementary research and development- RAIN and RNE invited to present work alongside of Sellafield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield at RRS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics research seminar to showcase recent robotics research, attended by Sellafield's RAI Integrated Resarch Team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Sellafield deployment site visit- engagement with plant |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Robotics and deployment scenario engagement with Sellafield Ltd, visit and engagement to understand requirements from plant operations team ahead of deployment of robotics technology. Following discussions, logistics and safety paperwork were completed allowing deployment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sellafield graduate placement discussion - 07/10/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with Sellafield's Alex Collins on potential graduate placement with UoM in Cumbria at REEL or RAICo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sellafield- New end user challenge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement of UoM robotics, UoM ChemEng, SL's RAI IRT and end users with new challenge re remote inspection and swabbing challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Shadow Robotics Engagement and Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement of nuclear industry with Shadow Robotics including UKAEA, Atkins, Createc and UoM to discuss relevant projects and opportunities to work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Site tour and engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sellafield site induction and tour, in addition to introductions and discussions with non-technical site staff about our research programme and innovative robotic technologies, designed for the nuclear industry. Furthermore, following the meetings, an invitation to showcase the research programme on site to business leaders was received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sonomatic: Robotics Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Sonomatic technical and business areas to discuss robotics advancements and developments and to discuss use of facilities, collaboration opportunities and deployment scenarios Sept 2018. Specific introductions made to both RNE and RAIN research programmes . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Speaker at EURA workskop on Regulating Uncertainty |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I gave an invited talk entitled 'AI Accident Investigation' at the EURA Conference 2021 - on REGULATING UNCERTAINTY on 9 April 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjCMRu86IRU&t=4917s |
| Description | TEPKO Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to RAICo1 by TEPKO members including discussion on previous and current research as well future research plans for RAICo1. Including members from Sellafield Ltd, UKAEA, UoM and TEPKO. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tuv Sud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to members of Tuv Sud on REE Laboratory and the overview of the robotics projects in REEG including RNE and RAIN, demonstration of robotics technology including videos and live demo of CARMA robot. Discussion on future placements of researchers and PhD students, as well as access requirements to testing and mock-up scenarios. Jan 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UKAEA CFO and STEP Siting Group RAICo visit -26/01/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tour of RAICo with Sellafield C-RAI team for UKAEA CFO and STEP Siting group. Discussions on activity in Cumbria, current and future projects and opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKAEA and RACE Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Intitial dicussions with business engagement teams at UKAEA and RACE (Rotherham and Culham) to discuss new areas to engage and future projects/funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | VPS and SL Site tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to VPS and Sellafield site to engage specifically with stakeholder groups on site, with deployment opportunities in mind for the CARMA robot. Following visit, 3 different site areas are engage with deployment opportunities. Aug 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Virtual Seminar- Knowledge Management Talk RAI Collaboration between Industry and Academia: Solving our Decommissioning Challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sellafield's Knowledge Management Talk series- episodes on Robotics and AI within Sellafield. Collaboration with Sellafield and NNL, recorded and distributed on public networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.cballard.co.uk/SellafieldPortal/RAIKM.MP4 |
| Description | Whitehaven Girl Guide Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Supporting activity of engagement with local girl guides unit activity for robotics engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Robotics in Extreme Environments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Alex Smith (NCNR) and Paul Bremner (RNE) were co-organisers for the 3 day Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction for Robotics in Extreme Environments, which took place at the beginning of October 2020. The workshop was organised in collaborations with colleagues from NCNR, RNE, RAIN and ORCA. The workshop had over 120 attendees, with roughly 40% of attendees being from industry. One of the workshops organised by the UWE colleagues featured Daniel Cork, Director of Cerberus Nuclear. As part of the workshop, Manuel Giuliani was part of the discussion panel at the end of the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Youtube Video Time Lapse: Building a Simulated Nuclear Facility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BRL published a Youtube video that shows a time lapse of how the lab built their simulated nuclear facility, a test bed for research on using robots for nuclear decommissioning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/1QOWcinPT54 |