Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear (RAIN)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
The nuclear industry has some of the most extreme environments in the world, with radiation levels and other hazards frequently restricting human access to facilities. Even when human entry is possible, the risks can be significant and very low levels of productivity. To date, robotic systems have had limited impact on the nuclear industry, but it is clear that they offer considerable opportunities for improved productivity and significantly reduced human risk. The nuclear industry has a vast array of highly complex and diverse challenges that span the entire industry: decommissioning and waste management, Plant Life Extension (PLEX), Nuclear New Build (NNB), small modular reactors (SMRs) and fusion.
Whilst the challenges across the nuclear industry are varied, they share many similarities that relate to the extreme conditions that are present. Vitally these similarities also translate across into other environments, such as space, oil and gas and mining, all of which, for example, have challenges associated with radiation (high energy cosmic rays in space and the presence of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in mining and oil and gas). Major hazards associated with the nuclear industry include radiation; storage media (for example water, air, vacuum); lack of utilities (such as lighting, power or communications); restricted access; unstructured environments.
These hazards mean that some challenges are currently intractable in the absence of solutions that will rely on future capabilities in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI). Reliable robotic systems are not just essential for future operations in the nuclear industry, but they also offer the potential to transform the industry globally. In decommissioning, robots will be required to characterise facilities (e.g. map dose rates, generate topographical maps and identify materials), inspect vessels and infrastructure, move, manipulate, cut, sort and segregate waste and assist operations staff. To support the life extension of existing nuclear power plants, robotic systems will be required to inspect and assess the integrity and condition of equipment and facilities and might even be used to implement urgent repairs in hard to reach areas of the plant. Similar systems will be required in NNB, fusion reactors and SMRs.
Furthermore, it is essential that past mistakes in the design of nuclear facilities, which makes the deployment of robotic systems highly challenging, do not perpetuate into future builds. Even newly constructed facilities such as CERN, which now has many areas that are inaccessible to humans because of high radioactive dose rates, has been designed for human, rather than robotic intervention. Another major challenge that RAIN will grapple with is the use of digital technologies within the nuclear sector. Virtual and Augmented Reality, AI and machine learning have arrived but the nuclear sector is poorly positioned to understand and use these rapidly emerging technologies.
RAIN will deliver the necessary step changes in fundamental robotics science and establish the pathways to impact that will enable the creation of a research and innovation ecosystem with the capability to lead the world in nuclear robotics. While our centre of gravity is around nuclear we have a keen focus on applications and exploitation in a much wider range of challenging environments.
Whilst the challenges across the nuclear industry are varied, they share many similarities that relate to the extreme conditions that are present. Vitally these similarities also translate across into other environments, such as space, oil and gas and mining, all of which, for example, have challenges associated with radiation (high energy cosmic rays in space and the presence of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in mining and oil and gas). Major hazards associated with the nuclear industry include radiation; storage media (for example water, air, vacuum); lack of utilities (such as lighting, power or communications); restricted access; unstructured environments.
These hazards mean that some challenges are currently intractable in the absence of solutions that will rely on future capabilities in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI). Reliable robotic systems are not just essential for future operations in the nuclear industry, but they also offer the potential to transform the industry globally. In decommissioning, robots will be required to characterise facilities (e.g. map dose rates, generate topographical maps and identify materials), inspect vessels and infrastructure, move, manipulate, cut, sort and segregate waste and assist operations staff. To support the life extension of existing nuclear power plants, robotic systems will be required to inspect and assess the integrity and condition of equipment and facilities and might even be used to implement urgent repairs in hard to reach areas of the plant. Similar systems will be required in NNB, fusion reactors and SMRs.
Furthermore, it is essential that past mistakes in the design of nuclear facilities, which makes the deployment of robotic systems highly challenging, do not perpetuate into future builds. Even newly constructed facilities such as CERN, which now has many areas that are inaccessible to humans because of high radioactive dose rates, has been designed for human, rather than robotic intervention. Another major challenge that RAIN will grapple with is the use of digital technologies within the nuclear sector. Virtual and Augmented Reality, AI and machine learning have arrived but the nuclear sector is poorly positioned to understand and use these rapidly emerging technologies.
RAIN will deliver the necessary step changes in fundamental robotics science and establish the pathways to impact that will enable the creation of a research and innovation ecosystem with the capability to lead the world in nuclear robotics. While our centre of gravity is around nuclear we have a keen focus on applications and exploitation in a much wider range of challenging environments.
Planned Impact
The nuclear industry is of enormous importance to UK society and its economy both in the short and long-term. Decommissioning the UK's legacy facilities is currently costing the UK Government approximately £3Bn/year, with estimates of its total cost over the next 120 years ranging from £90Bn-220Bn. Investment in Nuclear New Build (NNB) before 2030 is expected to be approximately £60Bn and the cost of building and operating a geological disposal facility is approximately £14Bn.
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) has a significant part to play in the UK's decommissioning programme with the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) estimating 20% of the costs of complex decommissioning projects will be spent on RAI, assuming the continued reliance on bespoke single use solutions. RAIN will deliver innovation in modular, reusable robotics with the target of achieving >20% improvements in cost and productivity in decommissioning and zero-human entries in to radioactive facilities. Conservative estimates by NNL indicate that robotic systems have already resulted in productivity improvements of >10% and that RAI has the potential to reduce decommissioning costs across the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) estate by approximately £11.7Bn.
New RAI technologies will lower costs and timescales, reduce risk and improve safety in high consequence interventions. The exposure of human workers to radiation and other hazards will be reduced significantly with the adoption of RAI and with reliable remote inspection of existing facilities possible, there is the potential to increase the life-span of the UK's existing reactor fleet, helping to secure the country's future energy provision.
Decommissioning legacy nuclear facilities and the inspection of new and old nuclear power plants is not a problem confined to the UK. The race to develop nuclear weapons and prototype reactors has left considerable decommissioning challenges in the USA, Russia, Korea and many other nations. In 2014 the IAEA recorded that there were a total of 438 nuclear reactors in operation with a further 59 under construction. The cost of decommissioning these reactors, legacy facilities and the additional 150 reactors that are already in permanent shutdown will cost approximately £1T. The development of reliable, functional robotic systems has the potential to transform decommissioning operations in all these countries and hence the export market for nuclear robotics is vast. The UK has an established reputation for delivering world leading nuclear science research and innovative decommissioning solutions and thus has the potential to become the recognised world leader in nuclear robotics.
The widespread adoption of RAI in the nuclear industry will also have a knock-on effect, that will support the use of robotics in other extreme environments, such as space for off-planet missions and in-orbit satellite design and maintenance and offshore operations, where it is estimated that up to 150 platforms around the UK will require decommissioning in the next 10 years and that the decommissioning costs in the North Sea alone will total £50Bn - £60Bn over the next 25 years.
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) has a significant part to play in the UK's decommissioning programme with the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) estimating 20% of the costs of complex decommissioning projects will be spent on RAI, assuming the continued reliance on bespoke single use solutions. RAIN will deliver innovation in modular, reusable robotics with the target of achieving >20% improvements in cost and productivity in decommissioning and zero-human entries in to radioactive facilities. Conservative estimates by NNL indicate that robotic systems have already resulted in productivity improvements of >10% and that RAI has the potential to reduce decommissioning costs across the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) estate by approximately £11.7Bn.
New RAI technologies will lower costs and timescales, reduce risk and improve safety in high consequence interventions. The exposure of human workers to radiation and other hazards will be reduced significantly with the adoption of RAI and with reliable remote inspection of existing facilities possible, there is the potential to increase the life-span of the UK's existing reactor fleet, helping to secure the country's future energy provision.
Decommissioning legacy nuclear facilities and the inspection of new and old nuclear power plants is not a problem confined to the UK. The race to develop nuclear weapons and prototype reactors has left considerable decommissioning challenges in the USA, Russia, Korea and many other nations. In 2014 the IAEA recorded that there were a total of 438 nuclear reactors in operation with a further 59 under construction. The cost of decommissioning these reactors, legacy facilities and the additional 150 reactors that are already in permanent shutdown will cost approximately £1T. The development of reliable, functional robotic systems has the potential to transform decommissioning operations in all these countries and hence the export market for nuclear robotics is vast. The UK has an established reputation for delivering world leading nuclear science research and innovative decommissioning solutions and thus has the potential to become the recognised world leader in nuclear robotics.
The widespread adoption of RAI in the nuclear industry will also have a knock-on effect, that will support the use of robotics in other extreme environments, such as space for off-planet missions and in-orbit satellite design and maintenance and offshore operations, where it is estimated that up to 150 platforms around the UK will require decommissioning in the next 10 years and that the decommissioning costs in the North Sea alone will total £50Bn - £60Bn over the next 25 years.
Organisations
- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Atomic Weapons Establishment (Collaboration)
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) (Collaboration)
- Intel Corporation, United States (Collaboration)
- Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- UK Atomic Energy Authority, Abingdon (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Institute of Safety Problems in Nuclear Power Plants (ISP NPP) (Collaboration)
- KMG Systems Ltd (Collaboration)
- British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL), United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Cavendish Nuclear (Collaboration)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Collaboration)
- Createc (Collaboration)
- Yorkshire Water, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Collaboration)
- Sellafield Ltd, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- ABB Group, Switzerland (Project Partner)
- University of Texas at Austin, United States (Project Partner)
- Manufacturing Technology Centre, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Moog Controls Ltd (Project Partner)
- Imitec Ltd (Project Partner)
- Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (Project Partner)
- Forth Engineering Ltd (Project Partner)
- National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- ITER - International Fusion Energy Org (Project Partner)
- Uniper Technologies Ltd. (Project Partner)
- Beihang University (BUAA) (Project Partner)
- Nuclear AMRC (Project Partner)
- Createc Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Gassco (Project Partner)
- Valtegra (Project Partner)
- EDF Energy Plc, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Festo Ltd (Project Partner)
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (Project Partner)
- Nuvia Limited, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Italian Institute of Technology, Italy (Project Partner)
- University of Florida, United States (Project Partner)
- OC Robotics (Project Partner)
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- AWE, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Rolls-Royce Plc, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Innotec Ltd (Project Partner)
- Longenecker and Associates (Project Partner)
- Shadow Robot Company Ltd (Project Partner)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Project Partner)
- Fusion For Energy (Project Partner)
- Tharsus (Project Partner)
- Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) (Project Partner)
- BP British Petroleum, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- UK Trade and Investment, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- James Fisher Nuclear Limited, Inverdurie, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Sprint Robotics (Project Partner)
Publications
Abdullah M
(2018)
Input Shaping Predictive Functional Control for Different Types of Challenging Dynamics Processes
in Processes
Abdullah, M.
(2018)
A formal sensitivity analysis for Laguerre based Predictive Functional Control
Aitken J
(2018)
Autonomous Nuclear Waste Management
in IEEE Intelligent Systems
Aitken J
(2018)
Autonomous Nuclear Waste Management
in IEEE Intelligent Systems
| Description | RAIN provides the UK with a unique consortium able to combine research curiosity, industry productivity and regulator security. A major focus within RAIN has been to stimulate collaboration between academic partners and between academia and industry and this has led to some notable highlights for the RAIN programme which includes: - Some attitude shifts within nuclear end users and the supply chain and the ONR towards recognising the potential for robotics and AI to make a difference. - The first deployment of a fully autonomous robot (CARMA) into an active facility on the Sellafield site. - The first deployment of a robot (MIRRAX) into the active Magnox Reprocessing Facility on the Sellafield site. - The first measurements made of neutron flux and gamma field inside an active nuclear reactor using a submersible robot. - The first use of LiDAR scans within JET, the Joint European Torus. - The first remote mapping of LLW drum stores at Culham and Harwell. - The mapping of radiation levels around the Chernobyl site using a quadruped robot. - The commissioning of the TARM facility at RACE, which provides the UK with unique equipment to develop next generation handling systems essential for the operation of future fusion reactors. - Multiple technology demonstrations to hundreds of industry experts in Cumbria, Bristol, Oxfordshire, Manchester and Japan. - Establishment of academic/industry working groups in the areas of Remote Inspection, Remote Handling and Safety Case and hosting of a number of well attended workshops that have developed these groups and further promoted RAIN. - Additional funding of more than £10M from industry and research councils to further explore nuclear robotics and develop commercial systems. - Publication of more than 200 articles in conference proceedings and internationally leading journals. - Formation of the spin-out company: Ice Nine by one of RAIN's PDRAs, which has already sold 70 robots to 7 universities in the UK and Europe and sold several inspection robots to nuclear end-users in the UK. |
| Exploitation Route | There are a number of robotic and sensing technologies that have been demonstrated in active nuclear environments and these technologies are beginning to be commercialised by industry. These technologies include the Carma robot that is being developed in partnership with Nuvia for surveying large floor areas in nuclear environments and radiation surveying equipment with Createc. The commercialisation of this technology will provide industry, most notably Sellafield Ltd, AWE, Rolls Royce etc, with the ability to accurately map radiation dose rates without relying on staff to enter hazardous environments. |
| Sectors | Energy |
| URL | http://rainhub.org.uk |
| Description | A number of industrial demonstrator activities have been undertaken that have been supported by RAIN researchers: Sellafield: The CARMA robot became the first autonomous robot to be deployed on the Sellafield site. This has established a pathway for transferring robot platforms on to site and a significant case study that will support making robotic deployments at Sellafield commonplace. The MIRRAX robot became the first robot to be deployed into the Magnox reprocessing facility. This facility had not been entered for many years and this entry enabled the generation of a 3D image of the facility that will provide valuable support to the decommissioning of this facility , which is being explored through the Innovate UK funded IIND programme. Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd: The Vega robot has been deployed into an active waste store on the Dounreay site. This was a pre-cursor to its deployment into an active drain, which requires urgent characterised to allow the decommissioning of laboratory facilities to continue. AWE: A 'white' trial has taken place to illustrate the ability of a tracked vehicle to explore and measure the radiation within an unknown legacy environment on the AWE site. The vehicle has been tested on-site and an active deployment is being planned for later in 2020. JET: The inside of JET was mapped with an ORI Lidar and stereo camera in 20 minutes rather than 1.5 days with the current manual approach, achieving 0.5mm accuracy with respect to the CAD model and identifying a component that was not in the digital model. Chernobyl: The Spot quadruped robot has been equipped with radiation detectors and deployed around the Chernobyl site to determine its capability to identify radiation maps, which it was able to produce at various locations around the power plant. Some of the robots and systems being developed in RAIN are now being commercialised. For example, the CARMA robot is now being commercialised by Nuvia for radiation monitoring across the global nuclear industry and Created are commercialising a legged robotic radiation survey system with ORI. Localisation and path planning techniques developed within RAIN are now being integrated on to products marketed by TPLC and Forth Engineering and will be commercialised in the nuclear and cleaning industries. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Education,Energy |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic |
| Description | Advisory Board Member for AI3SD |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | http://www.ai3sd.org |
| Description | Britis Standards Institution: AMT/10 Committee on Robot Safety and Robot Ethics |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | British Standards Institution: AMT/10 Committee on Robot Safety |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Not known yet |
| URL | https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/committees/50129752 |
| Description | British Standards Institution: Artificial Intelligence standards committee [ART/1] |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/committees/50281655 |
| Description | Co-Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on the Verificaiton of Autonomous Systems |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.ieee-ras.org/verification-of-autonomous-systems |
| Description | Membership of IEEE P7009 Standards committee on "Failsafe Design of Autonomous Systems" |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://standards.ieee.org/project/7009.html |
| Description | Membership of International Standards Committee (IEEE P7009 Standard for Fail-Safe Design of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7009.html |
| Description | Membership of International Standards Committee (P7001 Standard for Transparency of Autonomous Systems) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7001.html |
| 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 | Bio-inspired robotic hopper locomotion for navigation through hazardous terrain in extreme space environments |
| Amount | £79,214 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | |
| Description | CHIMERA - Robotic Inspection of Pressure Vessels |
| Amount | £163,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 104823 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | CHIMERA - Robotic Inspection of Pressure Vessels |
| Amount | £2,413,639 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 25537 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| 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 | Chair in Emerging Technologies |
| Amount | £129,999 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CiET 1718/6 |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 02/2028 |
| Description | Connect-R - Providing Structure in Unstructured Hazardous Environments |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 104825 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| 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 | 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 | Industry Accelerator Account (The Feasibility of Cobotics to improve the Operation of a Manufacturing Plant) |
| Amount | £33,175 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | KELVIN - In-situ Laser Deposition on Compressor Blades |
| Amount | £400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| 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 | Multi-Platform Inspection Maintenance & Repair in Extreme Environments (MIMRee) |
| Amount | £4,211,328 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 104821 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | New Investigator Award |
| Amount | £374,992 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S002383/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Novel locomotion for rough terrain in extreme space environments |
| Amount | £149,099 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Prometheus - A reconfigurable robotic platform(s) with advanced sensing for confined spaces |
| Amount | £2,207,717 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| 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 | Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) |
| Amount | € 3,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 821988 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | Robust Legged Locomotion for Autonomous Mobility in Challenging Environments |
| Amount | £299,994 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S002383/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| 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 | Smart Radiation Sensor for Intelligent Nuclear Robots |
| Amount | £197,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 105598 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | To develop, embed and exploit advanced manufacturing and collaborative robotics technology for increased productivity and operation of a Manufacturing Plant. |
| Amount | £134,625 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | KTP1025130 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Verifiability Node |
| Amount | £2,923,653 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V026801/1 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Title | Bimanual telerobotics research platform |
| Description | A bimanual teleoperation rig incorporating 2 Kuka industral robots with grippers, a glove-based tactile human interface, virtual reality interfaces, and 3D vision systems. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This facility will enable the RAIN team to develop and test algorithms, control strategies, etc. continuously across a range of research areas. The facility will allow for collaboration between institutes, and hubs. |
| Title | Drum Radiological models and Drum Scanning Models |
| Description | Valentin Piau (supervised by Guido Herrmann) from École Nationale Supérieure de Physique, Électronique et Matériaux, Grenoble, France, submitted final report for his 3 months (June-August 2018) project on "Automated ILW drum scanning using a robot manipulator - Development of a simulation tool". This tool is to be the basis of alpha, beta and gamma inspection algorithms for decommissioning. Gamma Source, Drum, drum material and gamma detector models have been developed. KUKA based scanning algorithms have been tested in simulation (relevant to NCNR and RAIN). Detail to be updated as work advances. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The models will be an important basis to practical scanning algorithms for other Researchers. Detail to be updated as work advances. |
| Title | Varanus: MASCOT Model and Data |
| Description | # MASCOT Model and Data Matt Luckcuck<m.luckcuck@tutanota.com>
06-07-2020 A Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) model of the MASCOT v.6 Safety Sub-System and the response time data from checking various traces using [FDR](https://cocotec.io/fdr/) and our Runtime Verification toolchain [Varanus](https://github.com/autonomy-and-verification-uol/varanus/tree/NFM-Data). ## Description The CSP model was built from a natural-language report of the (proposed) safety sub-system for the tele-operated robotic system MASCOT. A set of traces were constructed to test the model: * Stress-Testing: increasingly large, semi-random traces to test how model-checking/Varanus response times scale, and; * Scenarios: different 'attempts' at a hypothetical mission, designed to test all of the safety functions in the model. Each trace was checked using [FDR](https://cocotec.io/fdr/), directly; and then using our [Varanus](https://github.com/autonomy-and-verification-uol/varanus/tree/iFM-Data) toolchain, both online and offline. The check is to determine if the trace is a valid trace of the model. Further description of our toolchain and a link to relevant paper(s) can be found in the Varanus [repository]([Varanus](https://github.com/autonomy-and-verification-uol/varanus) ## Scenarios Briefly, the scenarios are: 1. Operator stays in hands on mode, speed stays below limit. 2. Operator stays in hands on mode, speed exceeds limit and tries to continue (causes a failure). - 2a Instead of the failure in Scenario 2, the system handles the broken speed limit, then resets, restarts, and finishes the mission. - 2b Instead of the failure in Scenario 2, the system handles the broken speed limit, the safe state key is removed, to allow minor servicing to the system. Then the key is returned, the system is reset, restarted, and the mission is completed. 3. Operator switches to autonomous mode after collecting tools, speed stays below limit. 4. Operator switches to autonomous mode after collecting tools, speed exceeds limit and tries to continue (causes a failure). - 4a Instead of the failure in Scenario 4, the system handles the broken speed limit, then resets, restarts, and finishes the mission. - 4b Instead of the failure in Scenario 4, the system handles the broken speed limit, then safe state key is removed, to allow minor servicing to the system. Then the key is returned, the system is reset, restarted, and the mission is completed. 5. The Safe State Key is used to trigger an emergency stop. Then the system is reset, restarted, and the mission is completed. 6. System enters Master Commissioning Mode. After some unmonitored movements (not triggering protective stop), Safe State Key is used to enter Safe State, and system is reset. 7. The Slave Commissioning Mode key is used to put the system into the Slave Commissioning Mode, where no speed events are registered. Then Slave Commissioning Mode is disabled, again using the Slave Commissioning Mode key. ## Structure * data: the raw log files ('logs') and a spreadsheet of the FDR and Varanus results * model: the CSP model of the safety sub-system, including the stress-test ('scenarios-stress-tests.csp' and scenario ('scenarios.csp') traces |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3932004 |
| Title | Varanus: MASCOT Model and Data |
| Description | # MASCOT Model and Data Matt Luckcuck<m.luckcuck@tutanota.com>
06-07-2020 A Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) model of the MASCOT v.6 Safety Sub-System and the response time data from checking various traces using [FDR](https://cocotec.io/fdr/) and our Runtime Verification toolchain [Varanus](https://github.com/autonomy-and-verification-uol/varanus/tree/NFM-Data). ## Description The CSP model was built from a natural-language report of the (proposed) safety sub-system for the tele-operated robotic system MASCOT. A set of traces were constructed to test the model: * Stress-Testing: increasingly large, semi-random traces to test how model-checking/Varanus response times scale, and; * Scenarios: different 'attempts' at a hypothetical mission, designed to test all of the safety functions in the model. Each trace was checked using [FDR](https://cocotec.io/fdr/), directly; and then using our [Varanus](https://github.com/autonomy-and-verification-uol/varanus/tree/iFM-Data) toolchain, both online and offline. The check is to determine if the trace is a valid trace of the model. Further description of our toolchain and a link to relevant paper(s) can be found in the Varanus [repository]([Varanus](https://github.com/autonomy-and-verification-uol/varanus) ## Scenarios Briefly, the scenarios are: 1. Operator stays in hands on mode, speed stays below limit. 2. Operator stays in hands on mode, speed exceeds limit and tries to continue (causes a failure). - 2a Instead of the failure in Scenario 2, the system handles the broken speed limit, then resets, restarts, and finishes the mission. - 2b Instead of the failure in Scenario 2, the system handles the broken speed limit, the safe state key is removed, to allow minor servicing to the system. Then the key is returned, the system is reset, restarted, and the mission is completed. 3. Operator switches to autonomous mode after collecting tools, speed stays below limit. 4. Operator switches to autonomous mode after collecting tools, speed exceeds limit and tries to continue (causes a failure). - 4a Instead of the failure in Scenario 4, the system handles the broken speed limit, then resets, restarts, and finishes the mission. - 4b Instead of the failure in Scenario 4, the system handles the broken speed limit, then safe state key is removed, to allow minor servicing to the system. Then the key is returned, the system is reset, restarted, and the mission is completed. 5. The Safe State Key is used to trigger an emergency stop. Then the system is reset, restarted, and the mission is completed. 6. System enters Master Commissioning Mode. After some unmonitored movements (not triggering protective stop), Safe State Key is used to enter Safe State, and system is reset. 7. The Slave Commissioning Mode key is used to put the system into the Slave Commissioning Mode, where no speed events are registered. Then Slave Commissioning Mode is disabled, again using the Slave Commissioning Mode key. ## Structure * data: the raw log files ('logs') and a spreadsheet of the FDR and Varanus results * model: the CSP model of the safety sub-system, including the stress-test ('scenarios-stress-tests.csp' and scenario ('scenarios.csp') traces |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3932005 |
| Description | AWE - Disruptive technologies collaboration |
| Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have been working with the AWE as collaborators providing them with intelligence about new sensor technologies arising from the grant. Specifically AWE have been engaging on the development of low power sensor pobs for monitoring temperature, humidity and radiation intensity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The have attended Industrial Advisory Board meetings, provided contacts within BEIS and established a side project on sensor developments for monitoring storage environments at the Aldermaston site. We have been advised that they will let us deploy our sensor units on the Aldermaston site as a significant demonstration of the technology. They have also provided access to their advanced SIMS capability to make quantification of Boron in the diamond films we've been making. |
| Impact | This partnership has led to us developing a PCB version of our prototype sensor pod technology that will be purchased and deployed by the AWE as a prototype demonstration. The project has been inherently cross-disciplinary involving electronic engineers, device physicists and materials scientists. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Accelerator mass spectrometry measurements of plutonium in samples from nuclear decommissioning sites |
| Organisation | ETH Zurich |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of my students was seconded to ETH Zurich for 6 weeks, and we provided the samples. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They did the measurements. |
| Impact | 'A comparison of high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy and accelerator mass spectrometry for environmental assay of plutonium', M. J. Joyce, Invited paper, NSS-WS1 I - Instrumentation and Measurement in Nuclear Media workshop, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, November 2018, #3054. 'A comparison of plutonium abundance in soil from sites in the United Kingdom measured with high-efficiency, high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy, neutron assay and accelerator mass spectrometry', M. J. Joyce, C. Tighe, C. Degueldre, M. Christl and J. Andrew, Plutonium Futures 2018, San Diego, September 2018. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Autonomy in complex environments |
| Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Department | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Provided path planning support and participated in field trials in the Mojave Desert |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided robotic platform and led field trials in the Mojave Desert |
| Impact | Two conference papers accepted in 2020. Third conference paper in preparation. Journal paper in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Benchmarking and Evaluation of Robust SLAM algorithms |
| Organisation | Intel Corporation |
| Department | INTEL Research |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | SLAM algorithms are an essential component of embodied AI systems, providing the fundamental perception infrastructure necessary for navigation and other higher-level tasks. Despite increasing accuracy, and significant advancements in mapping capabilities, one of the greatest challenges for SLAM today is robustness. Although efforts to increase the robustness of SLAM algorithms have been made, they usually address specific niches, and generalisation capabilities across a large variety of challenging factors is not well studied.This paper presents SLAMBench 4.0, an evaluation frame-work for measuring the robustness of SLAM algorithms with respect to challenging conditions such as fast motion, non-uniform illumination, dynamic scenes, and long-term localisation in changing environments. Building on previous versions of the framework, we introduce 4 new datasets and 3 new algorithms. We perform an extensive evaluation of state-of-the-art SLAM algorithms on the newly introduced datasets, and discuss potential research directions for improving the robustness of SLAM algorithms. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intel Research labs have contributed directly to the research leading to SLAMBench 4.0 by integrating datasets and functionally needed to analyse Lifelong SLAM. Robots are often expected to operate in changing environments over long periods of time. SLAMBench 4.0 provides the necessary infrastructure for loading multiple sequences and assessing the robust-ness of an algorithm to changes in the environment be-tween sequences. We demonstrate the new functionality on the OpenLORIS-Scene dataset. |
| Impact | A submission of a paper describing SLAMBench 4.0 has been done. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| 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 | Cavendish-Babcock |
| Organisation | Cavendish Nuclear |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Providing information and updates on the gamma and beta voltaic technologies as part of the ASPIRE project as well as the wide nuclear robotics research hub grants. |
| Collaborator Contribution | 2 days per year (£1600 est.) for expert advice, consultancy and attendance at the annual advisory board |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning |
| Organisation | Institute of Safety Problems in Nuclear Power Plants (ISP NPP) |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We visited the CHNPP and demonstrated the ease of use and benefit of a quadrupedal robotic platform for radiation mapping of the outer shell of the reactor building. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have now been invited back to undertake more detailed inspections within the interior of the building. This is an unprecedented degree of access in such a short space of time. |
| Impact | Wide reaching international news coverage Physics and Engineering |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration for inspection of drummed fusion waste |
| Organisation | UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Site visit, mapping of waste store area and demonstration of robot |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access provided to waste store |
| Impact | Collaboration between the Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford and the UK Atomic Energy Authority No impact yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration of In-situ Sampling for Inspection of Pressurised Water Reactor |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Department | Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Rolls-Royce UTC at the University of Nottingham have been focusing on developing fundamentally novel, miniaturised robotic systems, (e.g., hexapods and continuum robots), for inspection, maintenance and repair operations in challenging environments (e.g., aero-engines and nuclear) for more than 10 years. A series of hexapods robot such as FreeHex and WalkingHex have been designed and developed at the UTC and live demonstrations of the prototypes have been successfully performed at Rolls-Royce according to different in-situ maintenance requirements. Unlike a conventional Gough-Stewart platform, the feet of the UTC hexapods are not attached to a fixed base, but their layout can be adjusted according to the morphology of the area to be reached or machined. Once the feet are anchored, the robot can perform 6-Degree-of-Freedom high precision machining operation (up to 40 um). Hence, the hexapods can self-propel to deliver different end effectors for inspection and repair on the targets in extreme environments (e.g., marine engines and power stations), shortening the shut-down time of the facility and removing human from the hazards. A reconfigurable walking hexapod is under development for the in-situ repair and maintenance of industrial installations in the nuclear environment within the RAIN framework. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies to deliver the intelligent nuclear power to meet world's vital power needs. As a Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre at University of Nottingham, we have regular meetings, technical visits and discussions on how the robots developed within the UTC can address the nuclear challenges within Rolls-Royce plants. For example, Rolls-Royce confirmed that the FreeHex has served extremely well to demonstrate the practical potential for carrying out complex machining operations in tight space, such as profile milling and thread milling on mock-up parts of nuclear power systems. The technology offers Rolls-Royce a genuine alternative to their traditional bespoke machine designs for repairing the nuclear power systems. However, if the environment of the machining operation is nuclear polluted/hazard, it is extremely difficult for human operator to conduct the machining task. In order to overcome this challenge, we have designed a new version of the FreeHex (i.e. RAIN-Hex) which has walking and machining capabilities with a work volume that can be increased by ca. 50%. We continue working closely with Rolls-Royce specialists to develop intelligent robotic solutions to provide safe operation in nuclear power plants. |
| Impact | Not yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration of remote inspection of nuclear sites |
| Organisation | British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) |
| Department | Magnox |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Site visit and description of technology |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access provided to decommissioning sites. Establishment of additional contacts for follow-up discussions. |
| Impact | Collaboration between the Oxford Robotics Institute and Magnox |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with KUKA Systems UK Limited on bimanual teleoperation |
| Organisation | KMG Systems Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of research and demonstration platform. Contribution of expertise. Provision of facilities and equipment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to equipment and facilities including 2 robot arms. Provided expertise and information to support. |
| Impact | Establishment of a 2-armed robotic research and demonstration platform at RACE, UKAEA. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Japan Atomic Energy Agency |
| Organisation | Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The grant award has led to the establishment of a strategic partnership with the JAEA based around fallout and fuel debris analysis. There has been an MoU signed by both institutions to permit collaboration, exchange of personnel and samples. Subsequently, the remit of the MoU has been widened (2019) to include joint work on diamond battery (ASPIRE) technology, high dose-rate diamond detectors and radiation mapping robots. We have contributed expertise, consultancy, shared data recorded from Japanese samples and sites and have won several experimental sessions at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility for fallout particle analysis. JAEA colleagues have participated in all of our UK synchrotron experiments and participated and presented at UK workshops and conferences e.g. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Already we have had over 15 visits from the JAEA since the start of the partnership as well as a suite of fallout samples from Fukushima and access to nuclear fallout storage sites and other restricted areas of the Fukushima fallout zone. The site access and samples provided are extremely valuable. |
| Impact | Several joint publications. Widening of the relationship to cover other areas such as radiation detection, UAVs and most recently diamond batteries. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| 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 | NNL collboration in soft robotics for inspection in Nuclear decommissioning environments |
| Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Dr Andrew Weightman and colleagues at The University of Manchester will apply their expertise and experience to supervise an industrial PhD student to develop soft robotic systems for inspection of nuclear sites. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NNL will host the industrial PhD student at their site in Workington. NNL will provide access to suitable equipment and facilities and facilitate engagement with key stakeholders to identify specific problems to focus on. |
| Impact | No outputs to date. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Nottingham-Bristol demonstration of laser sensor attached to snake-like robot for surface analysis |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have used our snake robot to position a laser sensor in difficult-to-reach space for material scanning. The robot consists of 24 degree of freedom with a working channel of 7.3mm diameter. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bristol university designed the laser sensor based on Theory of Raman Spectroscopy. |
| Impact | The demonstration had been completed successfully. We have tested several materials including different plastic and liquid. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Nuclear regulation/certification |
| Organisation | Department for Work and Pensions |
| Department | Office for Nuclear Regulation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Initial series of meetings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initial series of meetings. |
| Impact | Collaboration between Univ. Liverpool, ONR and RACE (Culham Fusion) looking at future regulation for nuclear robotics. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Research visit to Createc to discuss radiation sensing |
| Organisation | Createc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research visit to Createc to discuss radiation sensing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research visit to Createc to discuss radiation sensing |
| Impact | Research visit to Createc to discuss radiation sensing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Yorkshire Water collaboration for autonomous inspection of Dams |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Yorkshire Water have over 200 assets (dams) many of which are over 150 years old. The assets have to be regularly inspected to ensure water supply is reliable and to identify potential problems which could indicate problems with their structural integrity. A particular aspect of these operations is to visually inspect the outlet shaft, valves and outlet pipe which often exits the dam through a tunnel. This is a hazardous operation working in confined spaces and often requires a five-man team, two engineers performing the inspection and a three-person safety support team. Our research team have visited three Yorkshire water assets to see first-hand the challenge and improve our understanding by speaking with the engineers on site. We have identified an overlap of technology developed for nuclear environments which may satisfy an unmet need to reduce risk to people, improve frequency of inspection and reduce inspection and maintenance costs for Yorkshire Water. We are currently adapting existing technology to deploy at a Yorkshire Water site, we hope this will prove the feasibility of such technology and lead to a funded collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Yorkshire Water have hosted our research team to visit assets enabling us to explore the challenge and identify potential autonomous solutions. We have had follow on discussions with the principle engineer - reservoirs (Mr Newman Booth) and in the coming month will demonstrate technology on site to evaluate its feasibility for adaption and application. |
| Impact | There are no outputs to date, but envisage outputs post deployment on site. This collaboration has involved Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineers with computer scientists. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | ABIT* |
| Description | Publish path planning algorithm to open source library of planning algorithms |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Publish path planning algorithm to open source library of planning algorithms |
| URL | http://ompl.kavrakilab.org/ |
| Title | AIT* |
| Description | Publish path planning algorithm to open source library of planning algorithms |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Publish path planning algorithm to open source library of planning algorithms |
| URL | http://ompl.kavrakilab.org/ |
| Description | Initial collaboration project meeting with Ross Robotics (skype), initiated through the RAIN project |
| 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 | initial collaboration project meeting with Ross Robotics (skype), initiated through the RAIN project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Rad-hard ICs and Gloveboxes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss the applicability of MAGICS's technology to decommissioning Gloveboxes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Theme 1 meeting @ Manchester, 14/11/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Theme 1 meeting @ Manchester, 14/11/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit Bristol Theme 1 partner and meeting about radiation sensor integration with ANYmal robot 16/11/2018 |
| 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 Bristol Theme 1 partner and meeting about radiation sensor integration with ANYmal robot 16/11/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit of RACE, Culham, with Final 4th Year MEng Group and 3rd Year Project Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit of RACE (Alessandro Altobelli, Ozan Tokatli) in London, 4 March 2019: A final, fourth year student group of five and a third year project student visited with me RACE at Culham to gain further knowledge about the KUKA-based teleoperation system of RACE, their robotic hand research and their nuclear robotics work. This was an excellent opportunity for the final, fourth year student group as it is working on a teleoperation system in their final year project. The third year student is developing a tendon driven robotic hand. The knowledge exchange with Shadow Robotics can lead to further discussions in the area of teleoperation and hand control. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Real time double-dealing in fast neutron assay', Georgia Institute Tech. (US, 2017). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the Georgia Institute of Technology to research groups there, i.e. academic researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 141. 'A comparison of high-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy and accelerator mass spectrometry for environmental assay of plutonium', M. J. Joyce, Invited paper, NSS-WS1 I - Instrumentation and Measurement in Nuclear Media workshop, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, November 2018, #3054. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation on research sponsored by RAIN at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Sydney, Australia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventclass.org/contxt_ieee2018/online-program/session?s=NSS-WS1+I |
| Description | 268. 'Instrumentation approaches to radioactivity assessments in decommissioning, environmental analysis and materials assay', Invited talk, IEEE NSS workshop - Advanced Measurements and Instrumentation for/in Research Reactors, InMe-01, Atlanta (US, October 2017). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper to an official workshop of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/nss-mic/2017/Workshops.html#NI |
| Description | 269. 'A short history of real-time, fast neutron detection and its applications', Paul Scherer Institute (Switzerland, December 2017). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk at the Paul Scherrer Institute on neutron assay and its relevance to autonomous assessments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 3rd Fukushima International 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 | International Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 3rd UK Robot Manipulation Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop attendance and networking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.robot-manipulation.uk/index.html |
| Description | A presentation on nuclear accidents and Fukushima, given to researchers of the RAIN and NCNR research consortia, January 2019, Oxford, England. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk given to researchers, postgraduate students, staff and visitors to the annual meeting of the RAIN consortium which included representatives from the NCNR consortium too. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | A talk at KSEAUK (Korean Scientist and Engineering Association in the UK) annual conference in Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Disseminated the overview of RAIN activities and virtual-reality-based human-robot interaction research work to academic and industrial South Korean people in UK/EU as well as those from South Korea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | AI@Oxford Panel - The Oxford Robotics Endeavour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted panel discussion between ORI and ORI members: BP, Navtech, L3 ASV, Oxbotica |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/innovation-news/events/aioxford-conference/ |
| Description | AIMS CDT Launch event |
| 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 | Launch event for the AIM CDT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | AIMS CDT research presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promoted our RAIN work to BP, QinetiQ and Schlumberger. Perhaps laid some groundwork for future RI trials. Bossa Nova and Frontier Development Labs also present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AIRTO Dinner |
| 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 | Industry - Networking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ANYmal Demo for Open Day at University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | RAIN ANYmal demo for Engineering Science Open Day - 14 September |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ANYmal demo for Engineering Science open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | University of Oxford open day - ANYmal demo to show to student prospects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AR for Nuclear workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Tom Bale, Bristol on AR for Nuclear |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | AWE board meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Regular update on progress to the AWE Strategic board with University of Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AWE briefing day regarding use of robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Dr Andrew Wallwork from the AWE to discuss the use of robots for advanced manufacturing and concept redevelopment for glovebox working |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Accenture / ATI Innovation Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of work on inspection in collabroation with Accenture Labs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | American Glovebox Society Annual Conference : 22 - 25/7/19 |
| 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 | American Glovebox Society Annual Conference in Boston |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Applanix |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research talk to Applanix to investigate collaboration |
| 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 | Astropreneur Session - manufacturing for and in space - 09 June 2020 |
| 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 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Attend ICRA 2018 |
| 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 | Annual International Conference on Robots and Automation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://icra2018.org/ |
| Description | Attend IROS - 2018 - Madrid |
| 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 | Attended IROS. Presented RAIN paper (Faruq et al, above). Talked to representatives of Toyota, Saga Robotics, Magazino. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attendance at Future of Nuclear Robotics Safety Cases Workshop (September 2018) |
| 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 | A joint workshop (11th Sept 2018) organised by the University of York, University of Liverpool and Office for Nuclear Regulation. There were presentations from the Universities of Liverpool and York, and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). The workshop was well attended, with attendees from both academia and industry who had an interest in robotics, autonomy, AI, safety, assurance, and certification.There were attendees who are involved in the RAIN Hub, Assuring Autonomy programme, and the Office for Nuclear Regulation. In the afternoon, there was a lively discussion session about safety cases and robotics in the nuclear industry, trying to elicit the scenarios and requirements of such systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mattlck/FNRC/workshop1/ |
| Description | Attendance at RAS Meeting in Liverpool to discuss RAIN research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Disseminating research to attendees of Robotics RAS meeting in Liverpool as part of larger industry event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attendance at the Elephants to Ants - Innovate UK Q6 Quarterly Meeting on 18 July 2019 |
| 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 | Attendance at the Elephants to Ants - Innovate UK Q6 Quarterly Meeting on 18 July 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attendance at the Safety & Ethics of Autonomous Systems Meeting, London |
| 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 | Attendance at the Safety & Ethics of Autonomous Systems Meeting, London on 2 July 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended (and competed in) the World Robot Summit Expo in Tokyo, 15-21/10/2018 |
| 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 | The ORI's robotics competition team (Team ORIon) took part in their first competition, the World Robot Summit (WRS) in Tokyo, Japan. The recently assembled team got straight to work, using their long flight to manually label bounding boxes on a large image set in order to get their object detection working! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ori.ox.ac.uk/team-orion-competes-at-the-world-robot-summit-in-japan/ |
| Description | Attended 2nd International Symposium on Fusion Remote Handling Technology at RACE 18th-22nd Feb 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fusion developers, engineers and scientists from UK, Finland, France and China gathered to discuss SoA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended EPSRC AIMS CDT Meet |
| 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 | We attended the EPSRC AIMS CDT annual meeting, attendees included partners - BP, Schulmberger, ESA/FDL and others |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended F4E workshop on Rad-tol technologies |
| 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 | Around 50 people from international locations attended in order to update and plan on work related to radiation hard technologies for nuclear fusion and other. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended ICRA 2019 in Montreal |
| 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 | Attended ICRA 2019 Submitted and presented 2 papers and 2 posters Organised a workshop attended by 200 people and streamed live online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended IROS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 1-3/10/18 - Attended IROS. Presented RAIN paper (Faruq et al, above). Talked to representatives of Toyota, Saga Robotics, Magazino. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended IROS conference in Macau |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended IROS conference in Macau |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended IROS, Madrid 2018 |
| 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 | Attended IROS, Madrid 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Buenos Aires, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended ISER to learn about SoA experimental robotics techniques |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended Living Machines Conference, Paris, 2018, to discuss current research with fellow academics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended Living Machines Conference, Paris, 2018, to discuss current research with fellow academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended ONR's Introduction to Nuclear Regulation Seminar, Liverpool |
| 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 | Attended ONR young professionals seminar to learn about the industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended RAIN talk at RACE with Antonio Bicchi of Pisa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attended RAIN talk at RACE with Antonio Bicchi of Pisa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended RAIN talk in RACE - Antonio Bicchi of Pisa |
| 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 | Attended RAIN talk in RACE - Antonio Bicchi of Pisa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended STRANDS Architecture working group workshop at ORI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Learning opportunity with ORI on novel architecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended TAROS 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS), 2019, in London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended The 2019 IEEE UK&I RAS Conference and 2019 IFToMM UK MO Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended the 2019 IEEE UK&I RAS Conference and 2019 IFToMM UK MO Conference to communicate with professionals in robotics research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2019-ieee-uki-ras-conference-and-2019-iftomm-uk-mo-conference-tic... |
| Description | Attended UK Space Agency Robotics Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended, contributed, and presented at UKSA workshop on Robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attended Workshop at ICRA 2018, Workshop: Multilegged Robots: Towards Robust Real-World Deployments |
| 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 | Attended ICRA 2018 Workshop - multilegged robots - towards robus real-wolrd deployments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attending Human-Agent Interaction conference to disseminate research and learn about SoA, Southampton, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research disseminated and future collaborations developed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attending TAROS conference remotely |
| 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 | Attending conference (virtually) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Attending event on advances in robotics and social impcats (ARSO) in Genoa, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Engaging with academics to discuss the impact of robotics on policy, society and global work structures. Leading to collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Automation, AI & Robotics Workshop |
| 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 | We were invited to a workshop organised by the UK Science and Innovation Network at the British Consulate in America on Automation, AI & Robotics. This got researchers and companies from across the US and the UK together to discuss their research in this field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Autonomous Systems Development Guidelines meeting with the ONR |
| 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 involving Matt Luckcuck and Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool) and Steve Frost, Andy White, and Doug Styles (Office for Nuclear Regulation), to provide feedback on initial 'principles' document that will form a set of guidelines on how to develop autonomous systems for hazardous nuclear environments. I.E the things to consider when designing, developing, verifying, and deploying such a system for the nuclear estate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | B2B NS/UKAEA |
| 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 | B2B NS/UKAEA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBSRC-EPSRC Workshop on Advanced Horticulture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of representatives from diverse engineering and bioscience related disciplines to explore how we can stimulate sustainable, e?cient and pro?table production systems for the horticulture sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BEIS OPSS International Regulatory Delivery Conference |
| 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 | National Policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BHP Science and Innovation Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk to BHP Science and Innovation Council about decision making under uncertainty to educate c-level executives on AI/robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Babcock-Cavendish collaboration and meetings on nuclear waste and plant inspection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop organised by the South West Nuclear Hub for the purposes of sharing information on our research on nuclear waste and nuclear plant inspection. This specifically included diamond detectors as well as laser-driven gamma and neutron imaging of waste packages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Bessemer Society 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 | Networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Big meet nuclear training |
| 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 | We hosted a RAIN Big meet and on the second day coordinated training in Nuclear energy. We invited researchers from the NCNR hub to attend. A group came along and said they appreciated the lectures and the interaction with the RAIN hub members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Bluedot |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outreach stand at Bluedot Festival. This stand was joint with the Dalton Nuclear Institute and aimed to discuss both nuclear and robotics. We had games focused on the nuclear challenges we are trying to address, as well as a robot maze and manipulators to show our solutions. Dalton brought games related to nuclear energy, radiation and geological disposal facilities. In the middle we had a conversation pillar / graffiti wall for people to add discussion and comments. It was really well received and we had some great conversations over the festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | British Solar Renewables meet |
| 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 | Discussing the potential for a remote inspection demonstrator, targeted at solar farms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Business and Innovation Magazine interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media |
| 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 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 | CIFAR-UKRI-CNRS workshop on AI & Society: From Principles to Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint CIFAR-UKRI-CNRS workshop on AI & Society: From Principles to Practice held at Turing Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CPAC - RACE - ORCA, SL, RR, EDF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Industry Visit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Call with CSIC |
| 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 | Preparation for international collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with DOE |
| 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 | Industry Call |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with Kirsty Hewitson UK NNL - weekling from 1/-01/2020 to 26/06/2020 |
| 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 | regular update meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Call with NAMRC |
| 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 | Preparation for National Collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with Nvidia |
| 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 | JET in Holodeck |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with Nvidia |
| 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 | JET in Holodeck |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with Prof Oxford Brookes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | RAS Apprenticeships |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with Subsea 7 |
| 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 | Industry Call |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Call with US DOE |
| 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 | UK/US Science Agreement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Catchup with Createc - 29 April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss "the right" glovebox operators at Sellafield (Matt Mellor) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Chair of conference session at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Sydney, Australia, November 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was co-chair of the Nuclear Instrumentation and Measurements for Reactors session at the IEEE NSS-MIC in Sydney, Australia in November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventclass.org/contxt_ieee2018/online-program/session?s=N-09#s42 |
| Description | Challenges for nuclear innovation: Robotics and AI |
| 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 | The workshop was part of the IET Nuclear Engineering for Safety, Control and Security 2019. The purpose of the workshop was to provide a collection of examples of innovation in nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://events2.theiet.org/nuclear/index.cfm |
| Description | Cheltenham Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Supported UK-RAS network stand at Cheltenham Science Festival. Over 14,183 visitors engaged in the Cyber Zone that we were a part of. We were encouraging people to participate in the school robotic challenge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Civil Nuclear Fusion & Supply Chain HPO Workshop - 4 November 2020 |
| 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 | Civil Nuclear Fusion & Supply Chain HPO Workshop - 4 November 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CogX Conference |
| 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 | CogX Conference, 12 June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with National Institute for Standards and Testing (NIST), USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration with National Institute for Standards and Testing (NIST), USA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| 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 | Community Festival |
| 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 | The University of Manchester's community day. They invite members of the public from the region to attend an open day full of outreach activities. We debuted games that had been designed to communicate nuclear challenges that can be addressed using robotics and had fantastic engagement from members of the public at all ages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference Call with ITER |
| 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 | Working Meeting: Digital twinning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Conference call with Savanah River National Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Preparation for International Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | CorteX Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on interoperable robotics, with industrial and academic participation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cortex Demo Day - 11 September 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demo Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cortex-TARM Demo - 23 July 2020 |
| 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 | Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cross Hub Digital Tissue Initiateve - July to August 2020 |
| 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 | Regular meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cross-sector Round Table on Innovation and Regulation (at Royal Academy of Engineering) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Cross-sector Round Table on Innovation and Regulation, organised by NNL |
| 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 | Demo at Fire Service College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Demo of Robots at Fire Service College with EU Projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Demo at Workshop on Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems (VaVas) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Nick presented Betty (ROBOT) demo at Workshop on Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/site/wsvavas2018/ |
| Description | Demo of mobile robot at Pembroke College as part of University of Oxford Open Days 27 & 28/6/18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Demo of mobile robot at Pembroke College as part of University of Oxford Open Days 27 & 28/6/18 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Demonstration of flexible gripper grasping delivered by Nottingham continuum robotic arm |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In this event, Nottingham team demonstrated to use a continuum robot for manipulating a flexible gripper (a flexible rubber balloon filled with fine particles actuated by vacuum) to pick some objects with random shapes. It is potential interest of aerospace and nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Design and development of a slender dual-structure continuum robot for in-situ aeroengine repair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The latest development of a slender dual-stage continuum robot was presented in the IROS 2019 at Madrid and a paper titled of 'Design and Development of a Slender Dual-Structure Continuum Robot for In-situ Aeroengine Repair' was published in this world-leading robotics related conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53424/ |
| Description | Developing Safety Case workshops |
| 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 | Developing Safety Case workshops - planning future activity between ONR and Liverpool |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Discuss Remote Inspection demonstrators with British Solar Renewables |
| 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 | British Solar Renewables are very interested in the remote inspection and monitoring of their large solar farms. Whilst this isn't nuclear it's very very similar in a lot of respects: long term change detection but using IR cameras (looking for hotspots on panels). Plan to take this forward to proposal either to RAIN, Lloyds or IUK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discuss possibility of 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 | Discussion with WOOD regarding possibility of future projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussed potential outreach activity for 2019 with head of activites at FACT, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited by director of activities at FACT, Liverpool, to arrange future outreach lectures on the impact of robotics to industry and society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussion with NDA |
| 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 | Input to Policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussion with NDF |
| 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 | International Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussion with Nick Akiona |
| 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 with Nick Akiona of Accenture Labs on uses of ORI tech for inspection tasks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Discussion with Oxford University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | National Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussion with Sellafield and NNL regarding engagement with RAIN |
| 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 between RAIN directors and people from Sellafield and NNL regarding current and future work with RAIN |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussion with Sellafield and NNL regarding engagement with RAIN |
| 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 senior engineers and innovation managers from Sellafield and the National Nuclear Laboratory to discuss current and future collaboration opportunities and working with RAIN |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Dr Bryony Butland, UKRI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | UKRI Visit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Dynamic Walking Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attending conference (virtually) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | EDF Security Meeting |
| 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 | Nuclear Industry Association security summit hosted in Bristol - Plenary on robotics and innovation for security and surveillance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EDF meeting on nuclear safety and security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with EDF Head of Security for Hinkley Point C to discuss the use of sensor and robotic systems for site security and surveillance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engaged with multiple RAIN partners at IROS Conference, Madrid, 2018, to discuss current and future collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended a variety of meetings throughout the conference to further RAIN research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 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 | Engineering in Practice Lecture, Oxford Univ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | All of OU Yr1 Eng Sci |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ess Industry Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Industry Visit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | European robotics forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Nottingham group had a stand in the conference and presented the robots developed by the team via videos. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_forum/ |
| Description | Fair-Space visit to RACE |
| 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 by FAIR-SPACE academics and related students to RACE to discuss collaborations on robotics in Nuclear and Space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academic workshop, in collaboration with Prof. Michael Fisher and Dr Marie Farrell, held at the Third World Congress on Formal Methods, in Porto. The workshop featured 2 invited speakers, 5 paper presentations, and a whole-group discussion session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://autonomy-and-verification-uol.github.io/events/fmas/ |
| Description | Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems workshop, Porto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems workshop, Porto |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Fukushima site visit |
| 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 | Preparation for International Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Future of Nuclear Robotics Safety Cases |
| 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 | This was the first in a series of workshops. It introduced the current certification processes, highlights some of the issues as we move towards more sophisticated Robotics and AI solutions, and discussed the way forward. We had have talks by representatives from the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and York, and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://tiny.cc/FNRSC2018 |
| Description | Future of Nuclear Safety Cases 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 | Future of Nuclear Safety Cases workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mattlck/FNRC/workshop1/ |
| Description | Gave an invited talk at the AAAI 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 17-19/10/18 - Gave an invited talk at the AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy and also represented RAIN paper (SOMA). DIscussions with other academics plus industry (Cogitai and Nissan). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/lta/ |
| Description | Gave invited talk at IIT, Genoa, on novel methods to be used in HRI within industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Gave presentation at AI Night event at Liverpool University disseminating HRI research to general public and academic audience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited outreach lecture on the future of robotics and HRI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Gave presentation on methodologies used in HRI at HRI Conference, Chicago 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Gave talk on HRI practices and theory at AISB Conference, Liverpool. 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest lecture in the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems class for Bachelor students at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Rafael C. Cardoso gave an overview of three of the ISCF RAI Hubs (FAIR-SPACE, ORCA and RAIN) and discussed his research in the hubs. The research being done in the hubs was praised and some further questions were posed by the students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Guest lecture in the Multi-Agent Systems class for Master students at the University of Genoa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Rafael C. Cardoso and Angelo Ferrando gave an overview of three of the ISCF RAI Hubs (FAIR-SPACE, ORCA and RAIN) and discussed their research in the hubs during the first part of the lecture. In the second part of the lecture the speakers presented the 2019 Multi-Agent Programming Contest and discussed the strategies used by their team to win first place in the Contest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/LivUni_AVLab/status/1187706140106379264 |
| Description | H2020 proposal meeting - VineAssist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coordinating £6m project proposal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | H2020 proposal meeting - VineAssist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coordinating £6m project proposal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | HBAC Opening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated robots to Prince Willam at HBAC opening |
| 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 | Hosted BEIS At ORI |
| 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 | Hosted visit of BEIS analysts, promoted ORI and RAIN, discussed UK funding landscape and translational activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted Dr.Andreea Radulescu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Dr. Andreea Radulescu from Dyson robotics division, seminar at Oxford Robotics Seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted Italian High School Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Italian High School Students at ORI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted Italian high school students. Oct 17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | ORI hosted high school students from Italy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ori.ox.ac.uk/itt-marconi-student-visit-to-ori/ |
| Description | Hosted Members Day at ORI |
| 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 | Part of team hosting ORI Members' Day with BP, JLR, Nominet, Nav Tech, Bossa Nova, Honda Research Europe, and ASV |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted ORI Industry Members at ORI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 30/11/18 - Part of team hosting ORI Members' Day with BP, JLR, Nominet, Nav Tech, Bossa Nova, Honda Research Europe, and ASV |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted Remote Inspection Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Led Remote Inspection Working Group meeting with representatives from NNL, Nuvia, Jacobs, James Fisher Nuclear plus MAN, LANCS, BRIS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted Toyota Representatives at ORI |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Toyota Representatives at ORI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted Toyota representatives in ORI. Oct 12 |
| 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 | Hosted Toyota representatives in ORI. Oct 12 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted W20 presentation at Oxford Robotics Institute to International Business Leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted W20 presentation at Oxford Robotics Institute to International Business Leaders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted Whitehall Industry Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Whitehall Industry Group at Oxford Robotics Institute to present to them about us/ demo and around workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted a visit from a contact at ZF Group |
| 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 | Hosted a visit from a contact at ZF Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted a visit from a contact at ZF Group. |
| 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 | 8/10/18 - Hosted a visit from a contact at ZF Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted group from Liverpool for Theme 4 discussion |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted group from Liverpool for Theme 4 discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted group from Liverpool for Theme 4 discussions. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 1/11/18 - Hosted group from Liverpool for Theme 4 discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted visit and meeting in ORI with Prof. George Pappas 09/10/2018 |
| 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 | Hosted visit and meeting in ORI with Prof. George Pappas 09/10/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted visit and meeting in ORI with Professor George Pappas |
| 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 | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ORI hosted a visit and meeting with Professor George Pappas - there were several talks and demos throughout the day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted visit from Lightsource BP |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on use of autonomous robots for solar farm maintainence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted visit from Singapore government delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The visit was led by the Assistant Chief Executive (Technology and Infrastructure) of IMDA, Mr Philip Heah with representatives from Singapore government research agency (A*STAR). The Intelligent Computing Labs (division of IMDA, led by Dr Ngoh Lek Heng) is now embarking on a new initiative called the Human & Machine Collaboration (HMC) in order to implement this vision recommended under the SDE TRM by exploring potential area for collaboration with UK universities and companies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted visitor at Oxford Robotics Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | RAIN hosted Prof Ludovic Righetti from NYU and MPI for invited talk "On the Importance of contact interactions for robotic locomotion and manipulation' 05.06.18 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hosted visitor at Oxford Robotics Institute |
| 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 | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Dr Radu Calinescu - January 2018 at Oxford Robotics Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | I2C RAIN Monthly meeting |
| 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 | I2C RAIN Monthly meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | ICAPS Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk to ICAPS summer school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ICRA workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organized workshop on Towards Real-World Deployment of Legged Robots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://icra2019wslocomotion.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | ICRND - regular meetings in 2020 |
| 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 | ICRND - regular meetings throughout 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ICRND Virtual Meeting - 13 November |
| 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 | ICRND Virtual Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended (virtually) the 2020 ICRA conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - ASIPP, Hefei |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - Beijing University of Post and Telecoms (QMU), Beijing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - City Univ, Hong Kong |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - SWIP, Chengdu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - Sanjiang University, Nanjing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - Tsinghua, Beijing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - UESTC, Chengdu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, Suzhou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IET Prestige Lecture Series - Zhejiang University, Hangzhou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IIF Festival |
| 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 | Demonstrated our robot Betty at the Westgate during the IIF Festival in Oxford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IMechE Nuclear Decommissioning Knowledge Capture Workshop - 13 February 2019 |
| 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 | IMechE Nuclear Decommissioning Knowledge Capture Workshop - 13 February 2019: Research Associate, Kaiqiang Zhang, and I participated. This was an ideal opportunity to meet various industrial and governmental stakeholders across Europe involved in various aspects of nuclear decommissioning. The event took place at the Office of Nuclear Regulations in Bootle. (This is reported for NCNR and RAIN) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://nearyou.imeche.org/eventdetail?id=16007 |
| 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 | IROS Madrid |
| 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 | International Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ISCF Grand Challenges - Resolution Foundation - David Willetts |
| 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 | Resolution Foundation - David Willetts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ISCF Grand Challenges - Resolution Foundation - David Willetts |
| 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 | Resolution Foundation - David Willetts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ISCF Robotics Cohort Event 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual ISCF cohort meeting. Presented RAIN work with Createc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ITER - RACE Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | International Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ITER - RACE Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | ITER - Race Steering Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial event in Manchester |
| 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 | industrial event in Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Industry visitors (Rolls-Royce Deutschland and Fraunhofer) |
| 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 | The potential collaboration was discussed and a preliminary agreement was made during this visiting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Inter-operable Robotics 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 | National Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Internationa Symposium on Fusion Remote Handling Technology |
| 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 | Hosted and organised 2nd international symposium on fusion remote handling technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Robotics Showcase |
| 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 | Stand at the international robotics showcase, including 3 robotic platforms that we demonstrated to attendees. About the event: The full-day programme includes exclusive talks by world-renowned experts in science and technology, panel discussions, exhibitions, robot demonstrations and an award ceremony for competition winners demonstrating cutting-edge robotics innovation. Exciting demonstrations of cutting-edge robotics technology; Lively discussion and debate, covering ethical, legal and economic impacts of Robotics and AI; The release of several new White Papers, covering the current research landscape in: Urban Automation & Transport AgriTech The day also offers academics, industry, government organisations and the public, the opportunity to enjoy the fascinating and diverse exhibits by our sponsors, as well as provide a lively forum for discussion and discovery of some of the latest technological developments and research challenges in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. The event will take place within the 2018 International Business Festival and a 9 day pass is included within your registration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International robotics showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The centrepiece of the UK Robotics Week, the international robotics showcase includes world renowned keynote speakers and leading industry exhibitors and robot demonstrations. We had a lot of discussion and interaction from this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/robotics-week/international-robotics-showcase-2019-programme/ |
| Description | Interview for BBC Click |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | During attending the Farnborough Air Show 2018 in the UK, James Kell from Rolls-Royce plc was interviewed by the BBC Click and he had talked about the advanced On-Wing technology which has been developed at RR UTC at University of Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct4dyr |
| Description | Interview for Science online news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Science online news -- regarding the virtual reality-based human-swarm interaction system developed by the University of Manchester within RAIN hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/ever-dream-controlling-robot-swarms-new-virtual-reality-head... |
| Description | Interview on BBC Radio Merseyside Sci-Friday as expert on robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Was special guest on science slot, Sci-Friday, on BBC Radio Merseyside to discuss robotics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview with Ipsos-MORI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ipsos-MORI Survey Interview |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Interview with electronics magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with IEEE Spectrum regarding the deployment of Spot in Chernobyl. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/boston-dynamics-spot-chernobyl |
| Description | Invited talk at CyPhyAssure Spring School |
| 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 | Invited talk at CyPhyAssure Spring School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk at CyPhyAssure Spring School |
| 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 | Invited talk at CyPhyAssure Spring School University of York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/circus/CyPhyAssure/school/ |
| Description | Invited talk at Robotics For Extreme Environments event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on RAIN/RACE collaborations with FAIR-SPACE on robotics for extreme environments at NASA Johnson Space Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk at Verification of Autonomous Systems Working Group, Washigton DC, USA [Nov 2018] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Verification of Autonomous Systems Working Group, Washigton DC, USA [Nov 2018] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.robotistry.org/vaswg/nist2018/nist2018.html |
| Description | Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The invited talk was well received and was preceded by talks by officials from the British Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, and it extended awareness of our detector-related robotic activities to the wider Atomic Energy community in Japan consolidating further collaboration and engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/aesj2018s/advanced?query=Joyce&searchType=subject |
| Description | Invited talk at the workshop "Emerging Learning Techniques for Robotics" at Hamlyn Symposium 2019, London, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 50 researchers attended the workshop to share the state-of-the-art research in emerging learning techniques for robotics. The speakers are experts in robotics interanationally, including Prof. Gordon Cheng, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, Dr Ender Konukoglu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It was opened by Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang, The Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, UK, who is the president of the UK-RAS network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WAPM12-Emerging-F-1.pdf |
| Description | Invited talk to Aker Solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination to Industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited talk to Conference on Al and Robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conference Talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited talk: 'Real-time, fast neutron detection and its applications', Reactor Centre, Jošef Stefan Institute (Slovenia, 2018). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk given to employees and researchers at the Slovenian reactor institute, including people from the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency and the Japanese National Maritime Research Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ipsos-MORI survey interview, 06/12/2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ipsos-MORI survey interview, 06/12/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ipsus Morri survey participation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Ipsus Morri survey participation to support RAIN performance analysis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JFNL Call - 1/8/19 |
| 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 | JFNL Call |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | James Fisher and Sons plc visit in UoN |
| 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 | James Fisher and Sons plc visited the UoN robotics lab and discussed the collaboration in Game-change scheme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - CalTech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research talk to NASA JPL at start of a research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | KTN Robotics Showcase 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 | Had a stand exhibiting at the KTN Robotics Showcase event. This event was oversubscribed and a great opportunity to interact with people working in RAI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/highlights-from-the-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-industry-showcase |
| Description | Keynote Speaker at TIME/OVERLAY 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at TIME symposium and OVERLAY workshop entitled "Verifying Autonomous Robots: Challenges and Reflections". The talk discussed experiences in carrying out verification of robotics and autonomous systems given work on several projects to an audience that was primarily from the formal methods, verification and logics communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://time2020.inf.unibz.it/keynote-speakers/ |
| Description | Keynote at the IOPartsworkshop at MobiSys 2018 |
| 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 | Keynote at the IOPartsworkshop at MobiSys 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2018/workshops/ |
| Description | Kuka Systems ltd 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 | Discussion on potential collaborations and opportunities with Kuka systems ltd. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lakes College Walkaround - 22 September 2020 |
| 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 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Laser Piglet Discussion - 06 May 2020 |
| 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 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Laser Piglet Discussion - 13 May 2020 |
| 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 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Laser Piglet Discussion - 25 March 2020 |
| 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 | Laser Piglet Discussion - 25 March 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Laser Piglet Discussion - Rob Buckingham and Simon Bucknell (3HQ1) - 18 March 2020 |
| 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 | Laser Piglet Discussion - Rob Buckingham and Simon Bucknell (3HQ1) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Lecture and Panel discussion at CyPhyAssure |
| 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 | Attended CyPhyAssure spring school/workshop at York. Gave invited lecture, participated in panel discussion. |
| 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 | Lego Rovers a Great Hollingworth Academy |
| 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 | A workshop on Mars Rovers and AI Programming was delivered to a 5 classes as part of a Year 9 enrichment day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Aintree Davenhill |
| 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 | Four robot programming workshops delivered to primary school children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Arnot St. Mary |
| 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 | A Lego Robot programming workshop held a school for years 5 and 6. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Ashurst Primary |
| 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 | Programming workshop with Lego Robots delivered to primary school children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Cheltenham Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A stand for the Lego Rover activity at Cheltenham Science Festival organised by the UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems network in order to publicise their robot programming competition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Fairfield Primary |
| 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 | Lego Robot programming workshop delivered to six classes at a local primary school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Fairfield Primary |
| 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 | Programming workshop using Lego Robots delivered to primary school children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Great Ashton STEM Academy |
| 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 | A workshop on Mars Rovers and AI Programming was delivered to a STEM Club. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Green Park School |
| 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 | Five robot programming workshops delivered to primary school children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Haydock High School |
| 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 | A Lego Robot programming activity run for an after school club. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Holy Cross Primary |
| 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 | Lego Robot programming workshops run for years 3-6 at Holy Cross Primary School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Holy Rosary Primary |
| 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 | Two Lego Rovers workshops delivered to Year 5 children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Hudson Primary |
| 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 | A workshop on Mars Rovers and AI Programming was delivered to three classes of Primary School children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at LIPA Primary |
| 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 | A workshop on Mars Rovers and AI Programming was delivered to two classes of Primary School children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Lydiate Primary |
| 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 | Three Lego Rovers workshops delivered to primary children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Manchester Youth Zone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ran three Robot programming workshops at a holiday club organised by Manchester Youth Zone which was running a STEM theme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Melland High School |
| 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 | Lego Rover workshop delivered to a mixed group of SEN children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Melling Primary |
| 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 | Four workshops run for primary children in Key Stage 2. Sparking questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Speke Hall |
| 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 | 9 lego robot programming workshops were run for families over three days. This was to tie in with the National Trusts Women and Power theme, and Speke Hall's Vigorous Victorians theme which featured Ada Lovelace. The workshops were well received with most families reporting that it got them to discuss issues around robots and artificial intelligence with their family and friends. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Andrew's |
| 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 | Two Lego Rover workshops delivered to year 3 classes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Anne's Catholic Primary |
| 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 | Lego Rover programming workshops delivered to children in Key Stage 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Anne's Primary |
| 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 | Three Lego Robot programming workshops run at a primary school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. George's Primary |
| 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 | A programming workshop using Lego Robots was delivered to four classes in Key Stage 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Gregory's |
| 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 | Two workshops run for primary children in Key Stage 2. Sparking questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Hilda's Primary |
| 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 | A workshop on Mars Rovers and AI Programming was delivered to a class of Primary School children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. John Bosco |
| 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 | Two workshops run for primary children in Key Stage 2. Sparking questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Joseph's Catholic Primary |
| 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 | A robot programming workshop run with children in year 4-6. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Mary's Crosby |
| 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 | A workshop on Mars Rovers and AI Programming was delivered to two classes of Primary School children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Oswald's |
| 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 | Two Lego programming workshops delivered to a primary school audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Paul's Catholic Junior School |
| 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 | Two visits to St. Paul's Catholic Junior School delivering Lego Rover workshops to Y3 and Y5. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at St. Thomas' |
| 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 | A Lego Robot Programming workshop was delivered to 4 classes of primary children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Summerhill Primary |
| 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 | Four robot programming workshops delivered to primary school children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at the AISB Convention |
| 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 | Lego Rovers workshop for families run as part of the AISB Convention |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at the World Museum |
| 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 | Four family workshops run at the World Museum in Liverpool to support their Astronomy Photograph of the Year exhibition. Approx 15 families participated experimenting with controlling and programming Lego Robots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers at the World Museum (Moon Landing) |
| 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 | Four family workshops held at the World Museum, Liverpool as part of their celebration of 50 years of the Moon Landings. Positive and interesting conversations with participants and discussion with the World Museum about integrating the workshop into their schools' programme in the coming year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Lego Rovers: Light Night |
| 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 | I ran an outreach stand at Light Night (Liverpool's free one-night arts and culture festival) for the Lego Rovers activity (developed by Dr Louise Dennis at the University of Liverpool). I talked to members of the general public (old and young) about autonomous robotics and AI, while demonstrating several Lego Rover robots in both remote control and autonomous modes. This sparked many questions from both the children and adults, which were much wider than just the concepts in the activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Lego Rovers: Liverpool World Museum |
| 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 | Four workshops (with up to 10 groups in each workshop) for the Lego Rovers outreach activity (developed by Dr Louise Dennis at the University of Liverpool). We guided the groups of children through a series of activities with their Lego Rover robot. First, they were shown how to remote control the robot; then we introduced a delay to their remote control, to simulate the robot being on the moon; then we explained the idea of AI and autonomous systems and allowed them to play with adding rules to the robot to make it take actions by itself. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Lego Rovers: Liverpool World Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Four workshops (with up to 10 groups in each workshop) for the Lego Rovers outreach activity (developed by Dr Louise Dennis at the University of Liverpool). We guided the groups of children through a series of activities with their Lego Rover robot. First, they were shown how to remote control the robot; then we introduced a delay to their remote control, to simulate the robot being on the moon; then we explained the idea of AI and autonomous systems and allowed them to play with adding rules to the robot to make it take actions by itself. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/events/displayevent.aspx?EventId=40204 |
| Description | Lego Rovers: Speke Hall |
| 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 | A two day event at Speke Hall, Liverpool where we ran a series of workshops (with up to 10 groups in each workshop) for the Lego Rovers outreach activity (developed by Dr Louise Dennis at the University of Liverpool). We guided the groups of children through a series of activities with their Lego Rover robot. First, they were shown how to remote control the robot; then we introduced a delay to their remote control, to simulate the robot being on the moon; then we explained the idea of AI and autonomous systems and allowed them to play with adding rules to the robot to make it take actions by itself. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Lego Space Rovers at Manchester Science Festival |
| 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 | A series of 20 workshops on programming autonomous systems delivered to families as part of Manchester Science Festival. Children were highly engaged and there were questions on future directions from parents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Local Industrial Strategy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Input to Policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MASTU opening |
| 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 | National Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MEMMO project meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with collaborators in France and Germany |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Maeeting with Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Kyoto University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presenting on technological developments to solve nuclear challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Magnox-RACE Follow Up - 29 July 2020 |
| 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 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 CORIN Team from Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Meeting and discussion about future collaboration activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting EPSRC robotics portfolio manager, Clara Morri |
| 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 | Presentation of research and discussion upcoming fellowship proposal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting Maxon Motors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Dr. Bianca Barun (CH) and William Mason (UK) from Maxon Motors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting Rob Buckingham and Kirsty Hewitson - regular call spanning 17 January to 25 June 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Meeting Rob Buckingham and Kirsty Hewitson - regular call spanning 17 January to 25 June 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting and visit with CreaTec |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CreaTec visited ORI to discuss collab with Ioannis Havoutis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Brichwood |
| 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 | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Brichwood |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Brichwood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Brichwood |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Brichwood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with NNL at Birchwood, Warrington |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Workington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting at NNL, Workingotn, 26th January 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, Workington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting at NNL, Workington, 30th May 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting at National Nuclear Laboratories, in Liverpool |
| 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 NNL to discuss future collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss potential for research project |
| 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 The Perfect Little Company regarding potential research project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with ARRIVAL |
| 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 to discuss potential upcoming collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with AWE re sensor units |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with AWE regarding the use of their Kromek D3S sensor units for integration into robotic ground and aerial systems for surveys. A loan of 5 sensors was agreed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Accenture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Accenture to discuss potential inspection trials with the ANYmal quadruped |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Accenture - 25.01.21 |
| 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 | Meeting to discuss collaboration on quadruped robots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Accenture - 5.1.21 |
| 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 | Meeting to discuss collaboration on quadruped robots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Aron Kidsi (GMV) |
| 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 GMV on space robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with BP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with BP about collaboration and partnership |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with British Solar Renewables |
| 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 | Talked to British Solar Renewables about a possible long term inspection and monitoring application at solar farms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Cavendish |
| 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 and lab tour with Cavendish Nuclear / Babcock to find challenge areas we could address and potential for collaboration. There were a few specific projects that they were particularly interested in. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - ANYbotics |
| 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 | collaboration discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - ANYbotics |
| 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 | Formed collaboration around their robot |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - ANYbotics |
| 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 | Collaboration around their robot |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - Boston Dynamics |
| 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 | Formed collaboration around their robot |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - Chevron |
| 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 | collaboration discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - Petrobas |
| 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 | collaboration discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - Prolite |
| 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 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Company - Willow Innovation |
| 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 | collaboration discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Createc |
| 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 CEO of Createc on RH and glovebox demonstration and future innovation/funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Createc |
| 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 | Initial meeting between RAIN and Createc. Lots of overlapping interests and technological skills between RAIN and Createc in the space of remote inspection. Createc have a test site at RACE and offices in Oxford, so we will try to build on this to support RIWG activities at least. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Createc |
| 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 | Meeting with Createc about starting Innovate UK project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Createc |
| 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 | Kick off meeting for the RAIN extension project "Flexible/Modular Radiation Sensing for Mobile Robots" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Createc on Interoperable Robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met to discuss industry needs and strategy for UK interoperable robotics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with DIT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Preparation for National Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Dan Wolff, from the Nuclear Innovations & Research Office on 15 July 2019 |
| 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 Dan Wolff, from the Nuclear Innovations & Research Office on 15 July 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with FAIR-SPACE strategic partnerships manager |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Attended meeting related to inter-hub engagement and news publication related to FARE-SPACE and RACE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with FAIRspace team |
| 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 | Attended event hosted by FAIR-SPACE, sparking many discussions around possible collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Gregg Epps from React Robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Gregg Epps from React Robotics, discussion about current activities and possible projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Jameel Marafie - Headlight AL - 6/6/19 |
| 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 Jameel Marafie - Headlight AL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Kevin Burns, Head of Glove Boxes R&D at Sellafield |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of current developments of the Virtual Reality lab for remote manipulation at the University of Manchester. Mr Burns provided a description of the different activities at Sellafield Ltd related with glove boxes, and the meeting was designed to design a demonstration related with these activities. The meeting was also attended by Robert Skilton (RACE) and Inmo Jang (PDRA at University of Manchester). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Kevin Burns, 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 | Detailed workshop of Sellafield glovebox POCO challenge with main challenge owner from Sellafield. |
| 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 NDF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Preparation for International Collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with NDF |
| 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 | International Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with National Nuclear Laboratories and Sellafield, at NNL Workington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with National Nuclear Laboratories and Sellafield, at NNL Workington |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with National Nuclear Laboratories at Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with National Nuclear Laboratories at University of Liverpool, 14th May 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with National Nuclear Laboratories at Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with National Nuclear Laboratories at Liverpool |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Nuclear AMRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presenting on technological developments to solve nuclear challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with ORI and MRF |
| 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 | Workshop with ORI and UKAEA Materials Research Facility to discuss opportunities for mobile mapping and recovery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation (Liverpool 2017) |
| 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 | Participated in a meeting at University of Liverpool (20th December 2017) with members of the RAIN Hub and the Office of Nuclear Regulation. The impact of this was to shape future research directions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation, Bootle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation, Bootle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation, Bootle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation, Bootle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation, Bootle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Office for Nuclear Regulation, Bootle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Ozan Tokatli, RACE/UKAEA |