Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space (FAIR-SPACE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Surrey Space Centre Academic
Abstract
Advances in robotics and autonomous systems are changing the way space is explored in ever more fundamental ways. Both human and scientific exploration missions are impacted by these developments. Where human exploration is concerned, robots act as proxy explorers: deploying infrastructure for human arrival, assisting human crews during in-space operations, and managing assets left behind. As humans extend their reach into space, they will increasingly rely on robots enabled by artificial intelligence to handle many support functions and repetitive tasks, allowing crews to apply themselves to problems that call for human cognition and judgment. Where scientific exploration is concerned, robotic spacecraft will continue to go out into Earth orbit and the far reaches of deep space, venturing to remote and hostile worlds, and returning valuable samples and data for scientific analysis.
The aim of FAIR-SPACE is to go beyond the-state-of-the-art in robotic sensing and perception, mobility and manipulation, on-board and on-ground autonomous capabilities, and human-robot interaction, to enable space robots to perform more complex tasks on long-duration missions with minimal dependence on ground crew. More intelligent and dexterous robots will be more self-sufficient, being able to detect and respond to anomalies on board autonomously and requiring far less teleoperation.
The research will see novel technologies being developed for robotic platforms used in orbit or on planet surfaces, namely: future on-orbit robots tasked with repairing satellites, assembling large space telescopes, manufacturing in space, removal of space junk; and future surface robots, also known as planetary rovers, for surveying, observation, extraction of resources, and deploying infrastructure for human arrival and habitation; a further case study will target human-robot interoperability aboard the International Space Station.
The research will merge the best available off-the-shelf hardware and software solutions with trail-blazing innovations and new standards and frameworks, aiming at the development of a constellation of space robotics prototypes and tools. This aims to accelerate the prototyping of autonomous systems in a scalable way, where the innovations and methodologies developed can be rapidly spun out for wide adoption in the space sector worldwide.
FAIR-SPACE directly addresses two of the priorities in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper: robotics & artificial intelligence and satellite & space technologies. The clear commitment offered by the industrial partners demonstrates the need for establishing a national asset that will help translate academic outputs into innovative products/services. Our impact plan will ensure we can maximise co-working with user organisations, align our work with other programmes (e.g. InnovateUK) and effectively transfer our research outputs and technology to other sectors beyond space such as nuclear, deep mining and offshore energy. FAIR-SPACE will therefore not only help in wealth creation but also help develop a robotics UK community with a leading international profile.
The aim of FAIR-SPACE is to go beyond the-state-of-the-art in robotic sensing and perception, mobility and manipulation, on-board and on-ground autonomous capabilities, and human-robot interaction, to enable space robots to perform more complex tasks on long-duration missions with minimal dependence on ground crew. More intelligent and dexterous robots will be more self-sufficient, being able to detect and respond to anomalies on board autonomously and requiring far less teleoperation.
The research will see novel technologies being developed for robotic platforms used in orbit or on planet surfaces, namely: future on-orbit robots tasked with repairing satellites, assembling large space telescopes, manufacturing in space, removal of space junk; and future surface robots, also known as planetary rovers, for surveying, observation, extraction of resources, and deploying infrastructure for human arrival and habitation; a further case study will target human-robot interoperability aboard the International Space Station.
The research will merge the best available off-the-shelf hardware and software solutions with trail-blazing innovations and new standards and frameworks, aiming at the development of a constellation of space robotics prototypes and tools. This aims to accelerate the prototyping of autonomous systems in a scalable way, where the innovations and methodologies developed can be rapidly spun out for wide adoption in the space sector worldwide.
FAIR-SPACE directly addresses two of the priorities in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper: robotics & artificial intelligence and satellite & space technologies. The clear commitment offered by the industrial partners demonstrates the need for establishing a national asset that will help translate academic outputs into innovative products/services. Our impact plan will ensure we can maximise co-working with user organisations, align our work with other programmes (e.g. InnovateUK) and effectively transfer our research outputs and technology to other sectors beyond space such as nuclear, deep mining and offshore energy. FAIR-SPACE will therefore not only help in wealth creation but also help develop a robotics UK community with a leading international profile.
Planned Impact
The FAIR-SPACE Hub will establish a national asset in space intelligent systems and robotics that will help realise the target of creating a £40Bn UK space industry by 2030, as set out in the government's Space Innovation and Growth Strategy. The Hub will provide research and innovation to a sector that generates £13.7bn of income, supports 38,500 jobs and has worker productivity 2.7x greater than the national average (UK Space Agency, December 2016). The research challenges addressed by the Hub will confer significant benefits not only to the space industry but also to a number of other priority, crossover and downstream sectors, including telecommunication, broadcasting, navigation- and location-based services, meteorological and geospatial services, defence and security, and even healthcare. The Hub will contribute to safety-critical autonomy for extreme environments, e.g. deep mining and nuclear decommissioning, and the wider industrial robotics sector.
The commitment offered by our project partners (from industry, government, independent research and educational bodies) underscores the wide diversity of impact that will be achieved through world-leading research and innovation. It also demonstrates that we will be well placed to engage with the other programmes led by InnovateUK. Among our non-space-centric industrial partners are multinationals such as Intel, the world's largest producer of semiconductors, and preeminent robot arm manufacturer KUKA. The director of Intel Health and Life Science Innovations, for example, foresees synergies between space robotics and healthcare applications, and the founder of cloud-based telehealth operator InTouch also sees many challenges in common between the healthcare and space domains.
The convergence of AI, deep learning and robotics is poised to deliver versatile, intelligent and robust solutions for environments that are inaccessible to humans. Orbital and planetary surface autonomous vehicles push robotic exploration and high-performance, low-energy computing to the limit - which can be an accelerant to the development of disruptive technologies.
The proposal is also of direct relevance to major players in the aerospace sector such as BAE Systems, Airbus Defence & Space, Thales Alania Space, SSTL, ESA, UKSA, NASA (who are all project partners of the Hub) for application in the military, air, satellites, and adjacent markets, in addition to unmanned scientific exploratory missions conducted by space agencies.
Considering the wider implications of the proposed work of the Hub, standards bodies and policy makers that set laws and regulations on autonomous systems will be afforded a useful evidence base from the Hub's work, particularly as an entire research theme has been given over to addressing verification challenges engendered by space robotics. Cybersecurity standards, unmanned vehicle certification also come into this, with ripple-on implications in commercialisation of terrestrial UAVs or driverless cars. Creation of new business and wealth is envisaged through UK tech startups and SMEs like the Hub's existing partners RURobots and NEPEC.
The Hub will impact on the general public as we engage with them to shape the programme and show the value of robotics and AI. Inspiring the next generation will be an emphasis. In its 2017 synopsis, Engineering UK reports an annual shortfall of 20,000 graduate engineers. The Hub will help address this by working with schools and the National Space Centre to demonstrate the excitement of engineering to young people.
The commitment offered by our project partners (from industry, government, independent research and educational bodies) underscores the wide diversity of impact that will be achieved through world-leading research and innovation. It also demonstrates that we will be well placed to engage with the other programmes led by InnovateUK. Among our non-space-centric industrial partners are multinationals such as Intel, the world's largest producer of semiconductors, and preeminent robot arm manufacturer KUKA. The director of Intel Health and Life Science Innovations, for example, foresees synergies between space robotics and healthcare applications, and the founder of cloud-based telehealth operator InTouch also sees many challenges in common between the healthcare and space domains.
The convergence of AI, deep learning and robotics is poised to deliver versatile, intelligent and robust solutions for environments that are inaccessible to humans. Orbital and planetary surface autonomous vehicles push robotic exploration and high-performance, low-energy computing to the limit - which can be an accelerant to the development of disruptive technologies.
The proposal is also of direct relevance to major players in the aerospace sector such as BAE Systems, Airbus Defence & Space, Thales Alania Space, SSTL, ESA, UKSA, NASA (who are all project partners of the Hub) for application in the military, air, satellites, and adjacent markets, in addition to unmanned scientific exploratory missions conducted by space agencies.
Considering the wider implications of the proposed work of the Hub, standards bodies and policy makers that set laws and regulations on autonomous systems will be afforded a useful evidence base from the Hub's work, particularly as an entire research theme has been given over to addressing verification challenges engendered by space robotics. Cybersecurity standards, unmanned vehicle certification also come into this, with ripple-on implications in commercialisation of terrestrial UAVs or driverless cars. Creation of new business and wealth is envisaged through UK tech startups and SMEs like the Hub's existing partners RURobots and NEPEC.
The Hub will impact on the general public as we engage with them to shape the programme and show the value of robotics and AI. Inspiring the next generation will be an emphasis. In its 2017 synopsis, Engineering UK reports an annual shortfall of 20,000 graduate engineers. The Hub will help address this by working with schools and the National Space Centre to demonstrate the excitement of engineering to young people.
Organisations
- University of Surrey (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Thales Group (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Intel (United States) (Collaboration)
- BT Group (Collaboration)
- Satellite Applications Catapult (Collaboration)
- InTouch Health (Collaboration)
- European Space Agency (Collaboration)
- Extend Robotics (Collaboration)
- R U ROBOTS LIMITED (Collaboration)
- KUKA Robotics (Collaboration)
- D-RisQ (Collaboration)
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (Collaboration)
- Gaitech International Ltd (Collaboration)
- Airbus Group (Collaboration)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Schlumberger Limited (Collaboration)
- Elestial (Collaboration)
- Deepbridge Capital LLP (Collaboration)
- NEPTEC UK LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Future AI and Robotics for Space Hub (Collaboration)
- UK Space Agency (Collaboration)
- Valuechain Technology Ltd (Collaboration)
- Horizon Space Technologies Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- Network Rail (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Collaboration)
- Italian Institute of Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT) (Collaboration)
- International Space University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (Collaboration)
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Astroscale Holdings Inc (Collaboration)
- Royal College of Art (Collaboration)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd (Project Partner)
- China Aerospace Sci and Tech Corp (Project Partner)
- Value Chain Lab (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Surrey Satellite Technology (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (Project Partner)
- NEPTEC UK Limited (Project Partner)
- Italian Institute of Technology (Project Partner)
- Thales Alenia Space UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- Airbus (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Project Partner)
- Satellite Applications Catapult (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- KUKA (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- R.U.Robots (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- InTouch Health (United States) (Project Partner)
- Schlumberger (United States) (Project Partner)
- European Space Agency (UK) (Project Partner)
- United Kingdom Space Agency (Project Partner)
Publications
Fisher M
(2020)
Towards a framework for certification of reliable autonomous systems
in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Fisher M
(2021)
Increasing confidence in autonomous systems
Fisher M
(2021)
Agile Tasking of Robotic Systems with Explicit Autonomy
in The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings
Freer D
(2020)
Data augmentation for self-paced motor imagery classification with C-LSTM.
in Journal of neural engineering
Freer D Et Al
(2019)
Toward Real-time Motor Imagery Classification with C-LSTM Using Data Augmentation
in Journal of Neural Engineering
Gainer P
(2020)
Multi-scale verification of distributed synchronisation
in Formal Methods in System Design
Gainer P
(2020)
Multi-Scale Verification of Distributed Synchronisation
in Formal Methods in System Design
Gao Y
(2017)
Review on space robotics: Toward top-level science through space exploration.
in Science robotics
Gras G
(2019)
Context-Aware Modeling for Augmented Reality Display Behaviour
in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Gu X
(2020)
Coupled Real-Synthetic Domain Adaptation for Real-World Deep Depth Enhancement.
in IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
| Description | Some of the key technical findings are captured by the publications reported in the earlier part of the form along with detail provided in the most recent Annual Review (available on the FAIR-SPACE website). We delivered the FAIR-SPACE Summit on 16th February 2022 in Manchester and the FAIR-SPACE final showcase on 16th March 2022 online and in person at University of Surrey, Imperial College and University of Edinburgh. Arising from the Summit, A Summit Report will chart UK Space Robotics & Cross Sector Robotics Roadmaps, capabilities and potential missions to advise UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the broader government policy agenda. The Report outlines technical milestones achieved by FAIR-SPACE, international developments and missions together with the next step research challenges for the UK within the context of international space development ambitions. 2 Industrially relevant Use Cases relating to Active Debris Removal and Teleoperation have been developed and demonstrated alongside other research according to the programme's 5 research themes. The Use Cases have been showcased at Surrey, Edinburgh, and Imperial academic partner facilities. |
| Exploitation Route | The FAIR-SPACE community is working to chart a national roadmap for development and prompt both the international and cross-sector collaboration that can realise the potential to be had. The scope includes significant opportunity to transfer benefits across many sectors- from nuclear power to healthcare--that can take advantage of and in turn shape the progress that is now underway, alongside plans to establish an International Space Robotics Forum that can bring robotics experts together with all interested stakeholders. It is envisioned that the Use Case Demonstrators will be used by the UK Space Industry (and others) to progress UK capability in the emerging space market, (and also telephony, mining, subsea, nuclear and other environments). |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy,Other |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/s/FAIR-SPACE_Annual_Review_2021.pdf |
| Description | The FAIR-SPACE hub has been using its' findings within the academic & industrial communities as follows: • Through initiating and launching industry-supported Innovation Projects, working with new industry partners including, but not limited to SAGA Robotics Ltd, TEC-SAG, ESA-STEC, AVS, Space Application Services and RHEA, findings have passed between the projects and FAIR-SPACE helping to augment and drive forward technical capabilities. • Conducting a series of workshops has brought together a range of speakers and participants from industry, government and academia, identifying and examining the challenges facing industry, current approaches to address those challenges, and the research and development gaps. An example is the Towards Greater Autonomy in Space Workshop, in collaboration with the Satellite Applications Catapult which attracted over 90 participants with national and international speakers. • More than £23 million in funding linked to and prompted by our findings has been secured includes (but not limited to): o EPSRC-funded IAA project developing predictive fault detection/diagnostic techniques utilising space data; o Research England funded SPRINT project working with Intelcomm to develop an AR/VR decision-making for an autonomous space robot system; o NSIP project on Federated Satellite Quantum Key Distribution in partnership with Arqit, RAL Space, QinetiQ, NPL, BT, Virgin Orbit and Know Space; o EU H2020 ICT and FET-OPEN projects such as NIMA: Non-invasive Interface for Movement Augmentation; o Approval of a ?13 million Centre of Excellence in Intelligent Automation and Robotics at the University of Salford; o Successful awards in Health Care and Nuclear Industries exploiting space technology, with 2 successful bids involving autonomous vehicles and controlled gripper technology. • UKIPO patent application 2005716.2, 2020 (low-cost robotic drilling) and 1906983.0, 2019 (system for movement control for soft exoskeleton). • Direct contracted research, including BT contract supporting a spin off from the space drilling technology. • The development of new collaborations such as D-Risq, to improve safety assurance of AI driven robotic systems, and the Royal College of Art, for inner space suit. • Invited speaking at key international research conferences and industrial exhibitions. • Undertaken secondments nationally and internationally including at NASA. Other work with NASA - in collaboration with Ejenta (USA) - includes verification of an astronaut rover scenario via their agent modelling language |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Healthcare,Security and Diplomacy,Transport,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Advisory Board Member for AI3SD |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/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 | Northern Robotics Network. Samia Nefti-Meziani is a founder member of this network which identifies ways in which the northern RAS community, through world class research, cutting edge companies and innovative application, can help drive the future of robotics in the UK. The Network also aims to influence policy in the area of RAS. Whilst the membership was initiated prior to FAIR-SPACE it is an ongoing activtiy and the influence of FAIR-SPACE will increase as a result of involvement in the network. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Secretary of the working group developing the IEEE P7009 Standard for Fail-Safe 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 | Autonomous Decision Support System for Space Situational Awareness |
| Amount | £132,000 (GGP) |
| Funding ID | P2_IV_016_202003 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | CLEAR mission study phase B |
| Amount | £1,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Centre of Excellence in Intelligent Automation and Robotics (ERDF) |
| Amount | £13,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| 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 | Cyber Security in Nuclear Systems |
| Amount | £118,042 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | ESA-ECSAT NPI Program |
| Amount | € 45,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | FAIR: Framework for responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the financial seRvices industry |
| Amount | £3,166,200 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V056883/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 11/2026 |
| Description | Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for localisation of Autonomous Vehicles |
| Amount | £99,193 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 104500 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 02/2019 |
| Description | Horizontal drilling experiments |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | BT Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Industry Funding |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Department | China Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | China |
| Start | 07/2018 |
| End | 05/2020 |
| Description | Industry Funding |
| Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Defence and Space UK |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | Industry Funding |
| Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UniStrong |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | China |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | InnovateUK Midlands ICURe |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Integrated innovation for Nuclear Decommissioning |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | Lunar Cubesat for Exploration - VMMO |
| Amount | € 150,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | Sysnova Challenge 2018 on LUCE |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | MODEL CHECKING FOR FORMAL VERIFICATION OF SPACE SYSTEMS - EXPRO PLUS |
| Amount | € 350,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | PhD Scholarship |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Agreement No. 11152 & 11153 |
| Organisation | UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Predictive Fault Detection for Connected Autonomous Robotic Systems |
| Amount | £42,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Project Synergy |
| Amount | £3,559,595 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 103289 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | Quantum Secure Communications from space: Future Proofing our Nation's Digital Networks and those of our International Partners |
| Amount | £70,449 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Responsive Additive Manufacture to Overcome Natural and Attack-based disruption (RAMONA) |
| Amount | £1,024,124 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V051040/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Plus (RAIN+) |
| Amount | £1,975,413 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W001128/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | SPRINT 1274 - GNC/RNS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PHASES-0 DEFINITION |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | SPRINT |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | SPRINT 1292 - COMMERCIALIZATION ROADMAP FOR "WASP DRILL" TECHNOLOGY |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | SPRINT SME Voucher Scheme |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Secure Systems Engineering for Space (SSE4Space) |
| Amount | € 90,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | VIBEKO: Vision Based Knowledge Extraction using Artificial Intelligence |
| Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Title | Field trials dataset for planetary space environment |
| Description | Data set collected at Island of Wright using OPAL LiDAR and PointGrey camera. The data set covers a long distance travel on outdoor off-road terrain. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The data set is quite unique in terms of the sensors used and outdoor analogue site for planetary surfaces. It is important for testing and validation of the data fusion techniques produced in this project. |
| Description | BT fibre to premises programme |
| Organisation | BT Group |
| Department | BT Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | BT is interested in acquiring the "wasp drill" technology developed by Professor Yang Gao's research group for horizontal drilling within BT's fibre to premises programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | My research team offered the technology (originally developed for the space sector or space environments) and has been working with BT to exploit the IPR and technology transfer to non-space sector. |
| Impact | NDA restricted. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Royal College of Art for Inner Space suit |
| Organisation | Royal College of Art |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sensing technology |
| Collaborator Contribution | 1. Conductive Materials/Fabrics 2. Nine RCA students from the MA Textiles Programme, School of Design, visited the Hamlyn Centre and engaged in "FAIR-SPACE: The Future Traveller: Textile design for everyday well-being in space" |
| Impact | Inner suit sensing abilities |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with robotics SME (Extend Robotics) |
| Organisation | Extend Robotics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | offering domain expertise in space robotics and help support the SME to expand their business application to space. |
| Collaborator Contribution | expertise in remote operation using robotic manipulators |
| Impact | validations of terrestrial tele-operation to space use. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Defence & Space |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | BAE Systems |
| Department | BAE Systems Military Air & Information |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Department | Center for Space Utilization |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Department | Changchun Institute of Optics,Fine Mechanics and Physics |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Deepbridge Capital LLP |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Future AI and Robotics for Space Hub |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Gaitech International Ltd |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Horizon Space Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | InTouch Health |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Intel Corporation |
| Department | Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | International Space University |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Italian Institute of Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT) |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | KUKA Robotics |
| Department | KUKA Robotics UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | NEPTEC UK Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | R U Robots Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Schlumberger Limited |
| Department | Schlumberger (France) |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Department | Boulby Underground Science Facility |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Thales Group |
| Department | Thales Alenia Space |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Valuechain Technology ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Industrial Partners |
| Organisation | Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bringing together an international team of industrial collaborators, provide use-case research programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical Oversight, Approve the overall strategy, Oversee progress, Horizon scanning, set technical objectives, advise on technical road-map, review use-case milestoones |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the early nature of the collaboration |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Safety Assurance of AI-Driven Robotic System |
| Organisation | D-RisQ |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of the project for FAIR-SPACE is to accelerate TRL development to exploitation by using D-RIsQ technology or/and personnel in order to assist FAIR-SPACE Hub UoS verify its technology outputs comply with the requirements & imposed conditions. The D-RisQ solution is deemed to be faster and as robust as others available. D-RisQ believe that certain attributes of Artificial Intelligence (machine learning, etc) cannot be adequately verified but they have shown that their approach can enable some AI techniques to be safely adopted in an industrial context. D-RisQ has applied its software V&V expertise through a larger number of funded projects and has frequently worked with academic and research organisations in the past. D-RisQ see a benefit to accelerating the use of their technology in as many sectors as possible, including the space sector. Through this project they will gain exemplars as well as the potential for feedback on extensions to the capabilities. Together D-RisQ and the FAIR-SPACE Hub, University of Surrey (UoS) researcher will work to verify the software outputs beings developed for RAS for Space at the University of Surrey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | D-Risq has provided an innovative software platform for safety verification and validation of AI and machine learning algorithm. |
| Impact | The project is in progress and there is no output at the moment. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Sustainable on-orbit servicing with Elestial |
| Organisation | Elestial |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We help assess the feasibility of the proposed orbital platform designs by our partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partner provides novel concepts of orbital platform designs for future commercial operations of on-orbit servicing. |
| Impact | - new orbital robotics design concepts. - new mission operation concepts. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK IOS / ADR Capability as a Platform for Growth |
| Organisation | Astroscale Holdings Inc |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Partnered with Astroscale and Satellite Applications Catapult to complete research for UKSA to understand the UK's capability in the fields of Active Debris Removal (ADR) and In-Orbit Servicing (IOS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed to market analysis and understanding of UK capabilities in IOSM/ADR missions |
| Impact | A Report to UKSA |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | UK IOS / ADR Capability as a Platform for Growth |
| Organisation | Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Partnered with Astroscale and Satellite Applications Catapult to complete research for UKSA to understand the UK's capability in the fields of Active Debris Removal (ADR) and In-Orbit Servicing (IOS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed to market analysis and understanding of UK capabilities in IOSM/ADR missions |
| Impact | A Report to UKSA |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | University Partners |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the collaboration just starting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University Partners |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the collaboration just starting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University Partners |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the collaboration just starting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University Partners |
| Organisation | University of Salford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the collaboration just starting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University Partners |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Department | Surrey Space Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the collaboration just starting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University Partners |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on Research Themes |
| Impact | No outcomes yet due to the collaboration just starting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | A Drill |
| Description | The technology is a novel solution for portal device suitable for horizontal and vertical drilling with both terrestrial and space based applications. |
| IP Reference | 2005716.2 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | The patent application is filled on the 20/04/2020. The publications are therefore permitted to get submitted from this date. Commercial exploitation is underway but in confidence due to NDA. |
| Title | Improvements in or Relating to Robot Grippers |
| Description | The patent application replates to the controller for the gripper being developed as part of FAIRSPACE. |
| IP Reference | 1810156.8 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | None to report to date. |
| Title | SENSOR FAULT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS |
| Description | A new tools for predicting sensors faults in autonomus cars |
| IP Reference | PCT/GB2020/053345 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | SENSOR FAULT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, PCT/GB2020/053345 |
| Title | Brahms model of astronaut-rover team |
| Description | Multi-agent model of an astronaut-rover team based in the Brahms modelling language. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The software was used to show that astronaut-rover teams can be modelled in Brahms and formally verified using BrahmsToPromela and the SPIN model checker. This led to the following paper: Formal Verification of Astronaut-Rover Teams for Planetary Surface Operations. Webster, Matt , Dennis, Louise , Dixon, Clare , Fisher, Michael, Stocker, Richard and Sierhuis, Maarten (2019) Formal Verification of Astronaut-Rover Teams for Planetary Surface Operations. In: IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2020-03-07 - 2020-03-14. |
| Title | The MCAPL Framework |
| Description | The MCAPL framework is a suite of tools for building interpreters for agent programming languages and model checking programs executing in those interpreters. It consists of the AIL toolkit for building interpreters for rational agent programming languages (BDI languages) and the AJPF model checker. AJPF extends the JavaPathfinder model checker to prove LTL properties of BDI agents. This distribution also contains a number of programming languages implemented in the AIL. Chief among these are Gwendolen, the EASS variant of Gwendolen that can be used to program hybrid autonomous systems and GOAL. This is the 2021 release of the framework, consisting of all necessary source code files and manuals. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5720861 |
| Company Name | AI4SPACE LTD |
| Description | AI4SPACE specializes in software-defined solutions and services to enable visual navigation for spacecraft with a wide range of orbital applications such as in-orbital servicing, assembly, and active debris removal, etc. |
| Year Established | 2021 |
| Impact | The company is founded by Prof. Yang Gao that spins out from the multi-award winning research lab (STAR LAB) led by her at Surrey Space Centre at University of Surrey. A flagship product of the company is machine learning based pose estimation technique using monocular camera, which offers significant reduction in cost, power and size compared to the state-of-the-art solutions hence a more sustainable solution. This technology is based on the research algorithm developed by Prof Gao's team that is ranked top 3 in the ESA-Stanford Pose Estimation Challenge. The company has been granted ~£300k (01/05/2022-30/04/2023) from InnovateUK to help develop our business and flagship product. There is further investor funding under development for the new business. |
| Description | "Towards Greater Autonomy in Space" workshop, London, January 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 | "Towards Greater Autonomy in Space" workshop, London, January 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sa.catapult.org.uk/events/towards-greater-autonomy-in-space/ |
| Description | 13th UK-China Workshop of Space Science and Technology |
| 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 | Sponsored by both China and UK space agencies, the 13th UK-China Workshop of Space Science and Technology was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province from December 11 to 13. Beihang University is among the co-organizers of the event. About 200 experts and government officials attended the workshop and discussed in depth on the eight issues such as trade and policies, space detection and astronomy, earth observation, new space technologies, and so on. In the meantime, the plan to explore new modes of international cooperation in the field of civil space in 2019 was worked out on the basis of the UK-China Joint Laboratory for Space Science and Technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 13th UK-China Workshop on Space Science and Technology and in Automation |
| 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 | Hundreds of leading scientists and technologists from UK and Chinese space research and industry communities discussed how to deepen their collaboration and pave the way for future innovation at the 13th UK-China workshop on space science and technology in Ningbo City, east China's Zhejiang Province, held from December 11 to 13. Dr Fallah, attended to the meeting as the keynote speaker to present FAIR-SPACE hub to British and Chinese delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/13th-UK-China-Space-Conference.aspx |
| Description | 2nd IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter Conference |
| 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 | Invited speaker to promote trustworthy cyber-physical systems including future AI and robotics for space and autonomous vehicles |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://hamlyn.doc.ic.ac.uk/uk-ras/events/2nd-annual-ieee-uk-ireland-ras-conference |
| Description | 2nd IEEE UK&Ireland RAS Chapter 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 | Invited speaker to promote future AI and robotics for space (FAIR-SPACE) Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://hamlyn.doc.ic.ac.uk/uk-ras/events/2nd-annual-ieee-uk-ireland-ras-conference |
| Description | AEROSPACE Conference 2020 |
| 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 | Presented two talks on cyber security in Space |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AI & Robotics Workshop at the NASA Johnson Space Centre |
| 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 Technology Collaboration Center held a two day workshop on Automation, AI & Robotics on March 27 & 28, hosted by the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, sponsored by the UK Science & Innovation Network, with presentations on the latest technology developments or unmet challenges. Scottish Enterprise was a supporting partner for the workshop. This event brought together organizations needing or developing automation, AI or robotics technologies, in a format providing an opportunity for participants to network and explore potential partnerships. Dr Saber Fallah was invited as the keynote speaker to introduce FAIR-SPACE hub research to British and American delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/news/2019/3/29/automation-ai-amp-robotics-workshop-houston |
| Description | Advanced Engineering UK 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 | Colleagues attended the Advanced Engineering event in order to explore the links between digital manufacturing, AI, automation and robotics. This event was well attended and also included an ESA stand where a FAIR-SPACE Hub collaborator was also exhibiting and also a FAIR-SPACE partner. Ideas were generated about how to use the notions of digital twin, or 3D printing capabilities to consider in space manufacturing possibilities but also how industrial robotics could inform rendezvous and docking techniques or the assembly of lunar infrastructure. Information about our research was shared with some robotics companies, but also some sensor companies who were considering space as a potential new market. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.advancedengineeringuk.com |
| Description | Airbus event on Eyes on 2028 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Eyes on 2028 took place last Tuesday 29th May in London - an afternoon of talks, panel discussions and seminars exploring themes such as March of the Machines, The World at our Command and Fake News Wars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Algorithmic Bias Report technical workshop |
| 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 | The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation held the workshop to discuss the practical steps needed to reduce bias in algorithmic decision making. Invitees included a range of participants from across Government, regulation, academia, NGOs, and industry. This built upon their interim report on bias and contributed towards the publication of their final report in the spring. Topics included workforce diversity, data resources and partnerships, sandboxes, bias mitigation tools, and the collection (or not) of protected characteristic data: all with a view to improving the development of algorithmic decision making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Annual Karen Sparck Jones lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual Karen Sparck Jones lecture at the Royal Society. Asked questions of speaker and commented on latest developments in CAV and Space. Various discussions during networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Assuring Autonomy Event- Further discussion with UKAEA (RACE) regarding interoperable robotics |
| 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 | Further discussion with UKAEA (RACE) regarding interoperable robotics at the Assuring Autonomy event held at LRF on 11th September. The Warwick PI attended the event as a representative of FAIRSPACE and contributed to the discussion on ensuring trust in Robotic, Connected and Autonomous Systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Attend trade show to look for buyers of technologies: Wearable Tech Show |
| 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 | Attend trade show (Mar 2020) to look for buyers of technologies for wearable technologies developed. Right before lockdown, participation was a bit low but never the less yielded multiple leads in terrestial industry which are still being followed up, putting NDAs in place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Attendance at ISCF Robotics & AI (RAI) Cohort Event 2019 |
| 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 | Requested to attend and also encourage an industry partner to present on their project work and the FAIR-SPACE Hub. Bob Buckle from Intelcomm agree to talk for 10 minutes and slides are available. Bob also mentioned our forthcoming funding call. Partnership Manager attended on the day and used it for networking. Other speakers on the day, namely University of Edinburgh, also mentioned FAIR-SPACE Hub being part of their collaborative projects. In addition we were the only Hub to distribute our Annual Review. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robotics-and-ai-industry-showcase-2019-delegates-tickets-51809745343 |
| Description | Attendance at Space Security Scoping 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 | Academics and industrial practitioners attended the workshop on space security scoping held at the University of Liverpool's campus in London on 1st Feb 2019. After introductory talks from Carsten Maple and Michael Fisher, questions about space security were posed and discussed. A technical report is being written for the FAIR-SPACE Hub and the discussion will be used to inform future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~marie/scopingsecwk/ |
| Description | Attendance at Towards Greater Autonomy in Space 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 | A workshop for business, organisation, or researcher interested in the opportunities and the challenges of increasingly autonomous space systems. Co-organised by the Satellite Applications Catapult, University of Liverpool, UK Space Agency, and Fair-Space Hub, the workshop covered: The potential and benefits of increasing space autonomy Identification of key opportunities for autonomy in the space sector Current regulatory processes for (semi-autonomous) space vehicles The types of argument and evidence that is required for autonomy in other sectors New issues around the verification and validation of autonomous systems Issues concerning security, AI, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sa.catapult.org.uk/events/towards-greater-autonomy-in-space/ |
| Description | Attended ESA Lunar Workshop (May) |
| 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 ESA Lunar Workshop (free) - the online workshop does not provide adequate space for networking, though some background information is gained. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Attended Harwell EnergyTec Cluster 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 | This event took place at Harwell and offered the Hub the opportunity to network with those on campus working in the energy sector, in particular those with extreme and challening environments. There was a hope that through the networking event the Hub could look to develop a joint event with the energy sector to better understand the synergies that may exist between space and energy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Automotive Suppliers Day talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussing security, privacy and resilience in transport systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | BAE visited the CAV Lab at the University of Surrey which hosts FAIR-SPACE researchers working on AI and autonomous systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Saber Fallah hosted a visit from BAE systems on behalf of CAV-LAB and the FAIR-SPACE Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | BSI Industry group on digital twins |
| 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 on developing digital twins to support UK infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BSI Security in a Digital World Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speaker at BSI-organised community event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | BSI Workshop on Digital Twins 16-11-18 |
| 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 | Meeting on national strategy for digital twins. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Be Inspired - An event to promote STEM subjects and careers in engineering to secondary school students. |
| 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 | Surrey University hosted the "Be Inspired" event on behalf of Fluor Ltd, on Wednesday 27th June. This was to support Women in Engineering Day, with the events' primary objective being to promote STEM subjects and careers in engineering to secondary school students. FAIR - SPACE participated in the event which took place in the Surrey Vet School, having a stand and the Hub Director, Professor Yang Gao gave an inspirational invited talk to the audience of school children & parents. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/events/20180627-be-inspired-and-make-world-better-place The FAIR-SPACE stand was very well attended, with a lot of engagement with the children and their parents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/events/20180627-be-inspired-and-make-world-better-place |
| Description | Brazilian Cyber Security Summ 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Maple gave a keynote presentation on Cyber Security in Internet of Things systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | CSaP PETs event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the Royal Society. One of three panellists in a discussion of security and privacy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-organizing space workshop at IROS2021 |
| 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 | Prof Yang Gao co-organized a space robotics workshop at the flagship annual conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS) in 2021, the only workshop in space this year at IROS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/spacerobots2021/home |
| Description | Conference co-chair and session chair of international conference on Light 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 | The Light Conference represents internationally top-class community activity on optics and photonics. With Prof Yang Gao's participation, the Light Conference 2018 manages to cover an application track on large space telescope assembly, going forward into an international programme for the next ten years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.lightconference.cn/index.php/index/detail.html |
| Description | Coventry and Warwickshire engagement in Europe meeting - 5 and 6 November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A meeting to discuss future strategic engagement between the region and Europe. Specifically engagements with regions in Paris, Brussels, Ljubljana, Barcelona and Gothenberg. A talk was given on Cyber Security in the Internet of Things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Cyber Security Issues in Space Syatems 1-2-19 |
| 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 was conducted by the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool to examine cyber security issues in space systems. Research was presented and discussion ensued to inform future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cyber Security in AI and IoT |
| 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 | Presented at high-level industry event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DCMS Roundtable |
| 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 | DCMS Roundtable on Cyber Resilience discussing challenges, research and future directions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Defence Space Conference (Nov 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The 2 day conference attracted speakers and attendees from across the military, Government, industry, and academia. The event considered how Defence needs to mobilise, modernise, and transform its approach to the Space domain now and into the future and explored the opportunities and disruptive possibilities for the future of military space. Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting was a speaker in the panel session 'Disrupting Space 3 - Space Manufacturing'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Demonstrated the techniques and work of this project at the South West Thames Robotics evening. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A robotics event was organised by a working group of leading GPs in the South West Thames region with an interest in current robotic research in general and related to their work. We attended the event and demonstrated the algorithms and work developed during this work as well as discussed our experience of the wider robotics industry as a whole. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Demonstration of gripper in nuclear decommissioning (18/9/19) |
| 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 | Salford we part of an Innovate UK project awarded to Wood Plc to develop a toolkit of tools for nuclear decommissioning. A version of the FAIRSPACE griper was used as part of the demonstration to Innovate UK and Sellafield and a presentation was given detailing the technology and how it could be used in the nuclear industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2019/06/24/anchored-in-reality-but-pushing-innovation-into-under-developed-a... |
| Description | Demonstration with Shadow Robot Company Ltd at the UK Space Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The UK Space Conference 2019 featured a dynamic and collaborative Innovation Zone in the heart of the Exhibition Hall. Organisations were invited to showcase leading technology, revolutionary solutions and the latest applications. The Hub and Shadow Robot were selected to exhibit in this Innovation zone, demonstrating some innovations being developed linked to theme 1,2 and 3. This was a competitive application and whilst we did not win the award we did attract a lot of interest and were one of the few innovations being demonstrated that were joint between academia and industry. We continue to collaborate with Shadow Robot. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ukspace2019.co.uk/ehome/200183909/what%27s-on/get-involved/ |
| Description | Developing collaboration with Thales Alenia Space |
| 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 | Discussions on collaboration between U. Liverpool and Thales Alenia Space on V&V |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Development of notion of resilience by design with University of Glasgow and University of Bristol |
| 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 | Development of notion of resilience by design with University of Glasgow and University of Bristol. Discussions with UKCRC on 17th September to assess whether the idea will form part of a new EPSRC Network Grant proposal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Dialogue between no. of potential partners for EU funding opportunity under PERASPERA |
| 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 | A series of dialogues took place in Autumn 2019 with potential partners regarding a PERASPERA proposal, but ultimately it was felt that access to existing consortia was difficult and the likelihood of being funded did not justify efforts required to draw together a proposal. Discussions and a desire to talk with the UK Space Agency on this matter were taken to the IOSM working group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue re. in space manufacturing |
| 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 MTC as follow up to the Made For Space conference. MTC are keen to support the development of a VR marketing tool to enable us to promote our research. They also want to work with the Hub to identify future funding opportunities linked to in space manufacturing due to their role in the SMARTER project funded under the same call as the Hub. They may seek funding through the Ambassador programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue to discuss STEPHANIE Interreg project |
| 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 | A preliminary discussion took place so that STEPHANIE leads could understand the activities of the Hub and vice versa in case there were any synergies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.interregeurope.eu/stephanie/ |
| Description | Dialogue with Andor |
| 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 | Andor's Physical Sciences Research and OEM team wanted to discuss space debris tracking and how the Hub might be interested to do some research with them. Andor also have products that are already of interest for ground based tracking observations, both CCDs and sCMOS technology. They are also in process of building a large area sCMOS camera platform, called Balor, which we think will be particularly suited to tracking.or use their instrumentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Australian Space Agency |
| 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 | Initiated by the UK Space Agency we met teams form the Australian Space agency to showcase our research and identify opportunities for collaboration and knowledge transfer. Australia has broad expertise in robotics for mining which is being transferred across to space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Autonaut |
| 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 | Autonaut develop autonomous vessels and were keen to understand if the Hub could support their R&D roadmap through their funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with BAE Systems SMARTER Project team |
| 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 | Links were made with BAE as lead on the UKRI funded SMARTER project. As a result of this discussion members of the SMARTER project from BAE requested to become members of our International/Industrial Advisory Board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104057 |
| Description | Dialogue with Business Durham |
| 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 | Business Durham represent a number of companies linked to the Space sector in the North East. They are also host to the North East Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications. Research themes were presented to colleagues at Business Durham with a view to understanding if any companies from the NE may be interested to work with the Hub. Business Durham may also wish to consider the Ambassador funding as well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Dialogue with CSIRO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussions have been ongoing with the Australian Space Sector, in particular CSIRO, thanks to an introduction by the UK Space Agency. The Hub will seek to sign an informal agreement to enable the formalisation of some exchange activities between researchers from the Hub and those at CSIRO with a view to arranging some secondments or placements under the Hub funding programme, and some introductions to CSIRO industrial partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Centres of Excellence from Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Knowledge Exchange activity run by the Satellite Applications Catapult for the Centres of Excellence the Hub was invited to present remotely on its research activity and raise the profile of it funding. Other organisations were also on the call including ESA Business Ambassadors. As a result of this meeting the Hub presented at a Satuccino event on the Hub's funding and arranged a pre-satuccino workshop for the Autumn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with City of London |
| 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 | City of London were interested to find out more about the Hub and its research so they could understand how they could broaden the research programme by accessing the Innovation Project fund. Subsequent to this call, City of London submitted an application to the Innovation Project fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Crypta Labs |
| 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 | Further to an H2020 event we began a dialogue with Crypta Labs who provide cyber security and wish to move into the space sector. Crypta Labs were interested in our research and requested further information in particular with regards to the SPRINT programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Deepbridge Capital |
| 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 | Discussions took place with Deepbridge about our current research portfolio and how we could work together to leverage some of the VC funding available. It was also agreed that Deepbridge would support a future event and provide a mentor for the start up weekend. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.deepbridgecapital.com |
| Description | Dialogue with Interactive Machines |
| 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 | Interactive Machines offer AI solutions in predictive maintenance, particularly for remotely located machines and robots. They were interested to understand if the Hub would be interested in supporting research in non-space sectors as offshore maintenance. Interactive Machines were keen to develop an Innovate UK bid or similar. They had some partners already ready to be involved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Katherine Smith, University of Manchester |
| 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 | Katherine Smith was interested to know about the Innovation Project funding, so I explained about the current research being undertaken at the Hub and where gaps could be plugged with new research projects. Subsequent to this dialogue Katherine submitted an application to the Innovation Project fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with NNL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | NNL were interested to get an update on the technologies we were working on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with National Oceanography Centre |
| 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 | Discussions began to discuss a potential partnership between the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre and the FAIR-SPACE Hub with a view to accessing further funding. the NOC had received funding through NERC for robotics activities in the marine sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://noc-innovations.co.uk/marine-robotics-innovation-centre |
| Description | Dialogue with Powering space |
| 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 | Powering Space is an organisation that offers start up mentoring and facilitation as well as events management expertise for start up weekends. Dialogue led to Powering Space supporting the event held in partnership with Thales Alenia Space and it is likely that Powering Space will apply though the Ambassador programme to deliver a future event promoting the innovations from the Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Qinetiq |
| 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 | Further to the DSEI event we made contact with the Head of Space at Qinetiq to discuss working together going forward. Qinetiq were sent further information about our work and they were also introduced to the IOSM working group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Representative from Northern Space Consortium |
| 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 | Representing a range of organisations, from advanced composite manufacturers, to digital start ups, from Local Enterprise Partnerships, to Universities, The Northern Space Consortium is the only advocacy group in the North of England dedicated to informing & introducing new & existing businesses to the tremendous opportunities presented by the well established, yet rapidly growing, UK space industry. The hub is seeking to establish links with the space sector across the UK and as a result this dialogue has now begun. As a result of this meeting, an event was held in the NW at Sensor City where the Northern Space Consortium attended and through other contacts and we anticipate an Ambassador application or several, to come from this event and the forming of this relationship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.thensc-uk.com |
| Description | Dialogue with SSTL |
| 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 | SSTL and the Hub met to talk about future funding opportunities. This dialogue led to the identification of a specific call. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with Seraphim Capital |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dialogue has commenced with Seraphim Capital to develop ways of working together to grow the robotics and ai sector in the Uk wrt space through some kind of acceleration programme. Seraphim already have a successful bootcamp which focuses mainly on downstream and data but it is also interested to look at Upstream opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://seraphimcapital.co.uk |
| Description | Dialogue with Space Specialists Ltd |
| 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 | Further to our event in the NW, Space Specialists have approached us to help with forthcoming activities in the region. They have also expressed an interest in applying through the Ambassador programme. The Hub has also donated some freebies to a regional scout group who were studying for their Space badge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://spacespecialists.com |
| Description | Dialogue with We are Nova |
| 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 | We are Nova are a company that works closely with our VC, Deepbridge Capital. Whilst in Liverpool, a meeting was held to begin a dialogue around how the Hub could work with the start up community to help it meet its KPIs. Further to this discussion an event was organised in Liverpool and We are Nova agreed to provide mentors for the Start up weekend. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.wearenova.co.uk |
| Description | Dialogue with Winchester Science Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dialogue and Visit to Winchester Science Centre with a view to understanding the costs of developing an exhibition piece. Discussions also took place about researchers spending a day at the Centre with their lego rover activity. Winchester Science Centre also agreed to circulate details of the School Robot Competition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dialogue with potential collaborator Hyperspace industries |
| 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 | Possible future collaboration opportunities with this new company based in the UK and with strong links to the Scottish space ecosystem. The dialogue has led to an application through the Ambassador funding programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Dialogue with potential new Hub partner/ambassador |
| 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 | Vicky Video is a Space Sector Video Blogger | Copywriter | Presenter | Voiceover who has delivered some successful videos for previous events at the Hub. However, she is interested in collaborating further through the Ambassador programme. She already works closely with the Northern Space Consortium and has key links across the UK Space sector and is keen to support the hub to promote its research activity. This dialogue has led to a submission for funding to the Ambassador Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickyduncalf/?originalSubdomain=uk |
| Description | Digital City Expo - Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Steve Davis gave a presentation titled "The Future of Robotics" at the Digital City Expo in Manchester to an audience of mainly industry attendees. The presentation focussed on how robots are moving our of the manufacturing sector and into all types of environments. The presentation included the FAIRSPACE work being developed at Salford and how it has application in space but also across many other sectors, including how the FARISPACE gripper technology was recently used in Nuclear decommissioning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://digitalcityfestival.com/agenda-2020/ |
| Description | ESA/CNES Software Product Assurrance and Engineering workshop, Toulouse, October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESA/CNES Software Product Assurrance and Engineering workshop, Toulouse, October 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European Robotics Forum ERF2020 in Spain (March 2020) |
| 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 | ERF is a influential robotics networking event in Europe with up to 1000 top European robotics experts who attend the conference with a 3 day programme of workshops to attend, and exhibition stands for which FAIR-SPACE jointly hosted an ISCF stand with ORCA, RAIN and NCNR hubs. With attendees/representatives from DLR and AIRBUS who visited the stand who were both very interested in our FAIR-SPACE research. In addition, a cross-hub presentation 'Funding Robotics for Extreme Environments - a UK Perspective' was presented by Simon Watson and well attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Examining Measures to Secure Space-based Strategic Assets from Cyber-attacks 30-10-19 |
| 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 | Speaker at Chatham House event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibited at Hamlyn Center Christmas Showcase |
| 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 | VIP tour including a representative from Helen Hamlyn Trust has visited, which sparked questions, discussions and increased interest. This was also useful for researchers outside of the project to engage in conversations. Clinicians and medical practitioners are also amongst the list of VIP visitors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition at DSEI 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 | FAIR-SPACE recently attended the DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International) 2019 event at Excel in London, held from 10th - 13th September. This event brought together governments, thought leaders and the global defence and security companies from a round the world to showcase their products and services, offer Iive demonstrations and network with the entire global community. Over 76,000 attended the event over the three day period with representation from 114 countries and whilst you may think that the majority of attendees were from the Military, actually it was industry that dominated the event with over 60% representation. On its 20th anniversary the DSEI event also saw the introduction of 2 new "hubs", one of which was Space, and therefore the Hub took advantage of this new focus to go along and make some new connections and talk about the opportunities that can arise from working with our national centre of research excellence. We also talked to representatives from all sectors about the benefits of AI and robotics in their products or services and challenged some to consider taking the human out of the loop, even if only in theory, to explore how defence or security activities could be re-thought when robotics was introduced. This, as you can imagine, led to some interesting discussions with tank manufacturers, surveillance and reconnaissance companies and even those manufacturing or supplying clothing or uniforms. Those in the Space Hub group themselves all worked together to sell the UK's space capabilities to the international attendees and champion our strengths in the UK as an ambitious sector with a challenge to grow the space sector and capture 10% of the future global market by 2030. As well as being a friendly bunch, the Hub is lucky to work with companies who share these ambitions and are looking to those support those future market opportunities, as identified in the Prosperity from Space document, such as low cost access to space, earth information services and in space robotics. Since this event we have been maintaining contract with Qinetiq and keeping them abreast of our activity. We have also made good links with other space companies such as Black Arrow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.dsei.co.uk |
| Description | Exhibition at Made for Space |
| 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 | Made for Space was organised by and hosted at the MTC. The Hub was invited to exhibit and generated a great deal of interest. Following this event a collaboration was developed with MTC and the series of workshops was TAS was developed after encountering contacts at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukspace.org/event/made-for-space-new-manufacturing-opportunities/ |
| Description | Exhibition at the UK Space 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 | The Hub attended the conference to exhibit their research from across the partnership and of note the MARCEL rover was debuted to the conference attendees and attracted considerable interest. We also exhibited in partnership with the Surrey Space Centre for the first time. Attendance was also delivered at the Chinese Trade Talk and the Northern Space Consortium networking event and the Women in Aerospace networking breakfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukspace2019.co.uk |
| Description | Exhibitor at Robotics and AI Showcase 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 | FAIRSPACE had a stand at Robotics and AI Showcase in Manchester. The stand featured live demos of the FAIRSPACE gripper, drill and soft exoskeleton. The event was mainly targeted at industry and involved raising the profile of the FAIRSPACE project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.rai2019.co.uk/ |
| Description | ExpeRience: A space odyssey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | ExpeRience the feeling of space exploration as we celebrate 50 years since the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Discover from an expert panel how AI can help us survive in space, whether we should advocate for research into cryonics and what it takes for humans to be isolated for such long periods of time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2018/june/public-experience-a-space-odyssey |
| Description | FAIR-SPACE Researcher, Dr Muhammad Alkalla, talking about the wasp inspired drill at the HSE presentation for Parliament Week on 13th Nov. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 13th November, Dr Muhammad Alkalla gave a talk & displayed the robotic drill as part of Parliament Week. This event, organised by the Health & Safety Executive sought to showcase robotics that are making the workplace safer for humans by removing them from extreme environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukparliamentweek.org/ |
| Description | FAIR-SPACE Robotics Summit |
| 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 | Future AI & Robotics in Space (FAIR-SPACE) teamed up with the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK Space Agency (UKSA), Satellite Applications Catapult, and National Robotics Network (NRN) to host a unique one-day international summit on the key influences and core questions advancing innovation in space robotics, and the potential to be gained from critical advances now being realised within Robotics and Autonomous Systems. The Summit's hybrid format allowed an impressive international representation of government and industry influencers to participate speeches, presentations and three panel sessions. Panel sessions: 1. A road map for development of space robotics 2. Cross- industry use cases and applications 3. Anticipating and developing the competences and skills The agenda featured cutting-edge research across multiple areas of development in soft robotics, haptics, intelligent grasping, wearables, sensing, machine learning and systems engineering, and the prototypes that have been developed to advance the effectiveness, reach and dexterity of machines within the harshest of environments. A post-summit 'UK Space Robotics & Cross Sector Robotics Roadmaps' report to support policy and funding aims to be produced . An International Space Robotics Forum (ISRF) has also been proposed to coordinate and facilitate future opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacesummit.com/ |
| Description | FAIR-SPACE Showcase - Use Case Demonstrations |
| 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 | One day showcase event to present all FAIR-SPACE research from the five-year programme. The event consisted of Panel Discussion, Research presentations, Use case demonstrations, lab visits with live demonstrations, Q&A sessions. The event was hybrid (in person and online), and hosted across 3 live venues (Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, and Surrey) to showcase capabilities in robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) for space, key developments in the dexterity of robots, alongside advanced capabilities for remote teleoperation, autonomous capture of a non- cooperative piece of space debris and the bio-inspired agility and adaptability of grippers designed to mimic the movement of human fingers, advances in remote teleoperation as an operator in London manipulates and senses pressure being applied by robots hundreds of miles away in Edinburgh, and the supporting machine learning models that compensate for stress, filter human error, and infer human intuition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/showcase |
| Description | FAIR-SPACE lectures at Royal College of Art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fair-space researchers gave a series of five talks to masters students of RCA. As a result, nine RCA students from the MA Textiles Programme, School of Design, visited the Hamlyn Centre and engaged in "FAIR-SPACE: The Future Traveller: Textile design for everyday well-being in space". Projects assessment is on the 18th of March. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FAIR-SPACE workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | FAIR-SPACE hub partners presented their progress. Industrial partners and collaborators from Royal College of Art also attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FAIRSPACE Showcase |
| 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 | Showcase of innovations from FAIRSPACE project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | FCO and DIT organised visit to US aerospace industry hub in LA |
| 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 | This is a comprehensive business visit to nearly 10 organisations in the LA area of US (known as the US aerospace industry hub), to promote UK's expertise and research excellence in space and aerospace research. The visit is organised by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Department of International Trade. Professor Yang Gao was also the guest of honer at the inaugural reception on space technologies taking place at the British Counsellor Residence . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FT Cyber Security Summit 16-11-18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A presentation and panel on cyber security of the internet of things. Discussion concentrated on CAV and space systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Facility Visit of University of Surrey |
| 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 | Some industries from Singapore were invited to demonstrate the research facilities of Surrey Satellite Centre, Automotive Engineering Centre, and 5GIC in the University of Surrey. A plan for future research collaboration was agreed and an NDA signed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Fairspace Sumit |
| 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 Fairspace summit presented the work conducted in the project to industry and the funders. There were also a number of industry focused panel discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacesummit.com/ |
| Description | Featured article on nuclear robotics |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Featured article on collaborative project transfering space technologies to nuclear sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurenuclear-decommissioning-sending-the-robots-in-58452... |
| Description | Featured in NCUB State of the Relationship Report 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FAIR-SPACE is featured in the State of the Relationship Report of the National Centre of Universities & Business (NCUB). This is flagship report series which aims to summarise university - business collaboration across the UK and provide an authoritative source on the spread and quality of collaboration activity taking place in the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.ncub.co.uk/reports/state-of-the-relationship-report-2018 |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with OffWorld on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with OffWorld on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation including interview with Open Cosmos on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with Open Cosmos on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation including interview with Oxford Space System on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with Oxford Space System on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation including interview with SSTL on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with SSTL on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation including interview with SpaceForge on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with SpaceForge on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation including interview with Thales Alenia Space on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with Thales Alenia Space on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation including interview with dOrbit on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with dOrbit on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Formal conversation with Airbus on HRI in space for an industry paper |
| 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 | Formal conversation including interview with Airbus on the future of HRI in Space, as part of the process to produce an industry report on said topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | GREAT Festival of Innovation |
| 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 | Professor Yang Gao is the UK representative space roboticist to be invited in the panel discussions in relation to Space Innovation and Global Warning. Her inputs also helped to promote the UK's research excellence in space engineering and robotics research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://hamlyn.doc.ic.ac.uk/uk-ras/news/uk-space-roboticist-panellist-great-festival-innovation-2018 |
| Description | Greg Akers, Senior Vice President of Advanced Security Initiatives, Cisco Security and Trust Organization |
| 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 latest research ideas and current challenges and advances from CISCO |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest Speaker at the ORBIT Responsible Research and Innovation in Space Cyber Security Hackathon at Royal Holloway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PhD students worked in groups for two days, focusing on both technical and ethical issues related to satellites. Presentations were given on different topics by academic researchers and industry professionals. PhD students presented their proposals at the end of the hackathon, many of which took into account Warwick and Liverpool's work on security guided verification and validation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.orbit-rri.org/blog/2019/06/07/orbit-delivered-first-ethical-hackathon-royal-holloway/ |
| Description | Guest lecture at International Space University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Yang Gao gave a guest lecture on future space AI and robotics at the International Space University (ISU) on the 20th Feb 2019 in Strasbourg in France. The lecture forms a part of the Masters programme curriculum for the ISU students on space technologies. Prof Gao also disseminated information of the FAIR-SPACE Hub opportunities to the students in terms of placements and internships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Guest lecture on Security Minded Verification at Coventry University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented an expanded guest lecture based on our publication "Using Threat Analysis Techniques to Guide Formal Verification: A Case Study of Cooperative Awareness Messages" which was presented at SEFM plus an overview of the FAIR-SPACE hub. The audience involved academic experts in maritime, automotive, security and formal verification. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | H2020 Brokerage event |
| 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 | To enable brokerage for H2020 Space related calls the Hub attended this event in Prague and networked with some key contacts from the existing consortia. In addition contacts were made with a University in Switzerland interested in CAV technology and the cross overs in the space sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://h2020-space-information-day.b2match.io |
| Description | Hamlyn Funders - Christmas Show Case |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrate Hamlyn/Fair-Space technology via demos and presentations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Highways England workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Salford University's centre for Autonomous Systems and Advanced Robotics hosted a workshop for Highways England and their supply chain. The workshop identified their main challenges which could be solved by robots and autonomous systems. The FAIRSPACE gripper was highlighted as having applications in handling task. e.g. in lamp post replacement/installation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IAC 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 | This flagship international event is held annually and attracts global interest in all things space. We had the privilege of being part of the UK Space Pavilion at this event, which meant we could access the event at a discounted rate and occupied a highly visible space, representing the best of UK robotics and AI for in space markets and space exploration. A team of 4 post doctoral researchers led on the exhibition stand and delivered high quality and professional interaction with potential collaborators. We also used a simple questionnaire to generate interest and gather information which has led to some follow ups. We have also been invited back for a second year on the stand should we wish. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.iac2019.org |
| Description | IOSM working group |
| 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 | This working group continues to develop ambitious plans to support growth of the sector and is producing a market research report shortly that will feature FAIR-SPACE. Work has also been done to share the stakeholder analysis (pre-lim document) drafted by the Innovation & Partnership manager. Contacts across the IOSM market are being made (mostly no Hub partners) and a strategic decision will be made shortly about how we look to work more closely with the group from a research perspective whilst at the same time supporting their ambitions. To date the event on 21st January 2020 led by Liverpool and Warwick was deemed a success and very much something that supported the IOSM agenda. The Hub has offered to develop a follow event if desired. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | IROS.TV featuring STAR LAB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Space Technology for Autonomous and Robotic systems Laboratory (STAR LAB) led by Professor Yang Gao at the University of Surrey is one of the eight research labs worldwide featured by the IROS.TV during the international flagship conference in intelligent robots and systems (IROS) on 4th-8th November 2019. The film helps showcase research expertise of the Surrey-based space robotics lab, ranging from orbital manipulation to planetary surface and subsurface exploration. The STAR LAB also looks at technology transfer into other extreme environments such as nuclear, oil and gas. For example, the film fetures several UK-based industry collaborators including Shadow Robotics, GMV and RACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/aLbMjxBwbnE |
| Description | ISCF RAI Inform & Inspire Global Expert Mission to the US: Dissemination 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 ISCF RAI Inform & Inspire Global Expert Mission to the US: Dissemination Day was held in London and we were invited to attend as some of our delegation had been a part of the Mission, on the academic side. At this event, D-Risq announced their future collaboration with FAIR-SPACE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/global-expert-mission-uk-usa-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-rai-in-e... |
| Description | ISCF Robotics & AI (RAI) Networking Event |
| 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 | Networking event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ISCF Wave 3: Robotics Call for Challenge Ideas and Scoping Workshop |
| 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 | A workshop to establish the key challenges in robotics and automation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Imperial Late on wearable tech |
| 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 | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 21st February 2019, FAIR-SPACE attended the Imperial Lates: Smart Fashion event, hosted by Imperial College London. Researchers from FAIR-SPACE and The Hamlyn Centre demonstrated the latest in wearable AR, VR and eye tracking technology that could be used to train astronauts or those working in extreme environments. Visitors to the event were able to talk to the researchers and try out some of the designs themselves. Click here to read more about the latest space glove technology which our Researchers showcased as part of the event. Imperial Lates celebrate the latest in science and engineering at Imperial College London - bringing the public together with world leading minds in their respective fields, who not only love what they do, but also love sharing their work with new audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/news/2019/2/25/imperial-lates-smart-fashion |
| Description | Innovate Guildford 2019 23rd March |
| 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 | On 23rd March 2019, FAIR-SPACE attended Innovate Guildford, a one-day festival, showcasing advanced technologies and giving insight into the amazing knowledge, innovation and creativity in the region. With our interactive stand, visitors were able to discover what robotics and artificial intelligence can do in space. They were able to explore different scenarios for robots - how they could be used on a planet's surface, or whilst circulating in orbit, and even how they can help astronauts living in the Moon Village. Visitors also had the opportunity to build their own moon villages using Lego and we showcased our Lego Rovers, which demonstrate the programming challenges involved in space exploration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Insider Media Ltd B2B Press Release Building moon villages and making bricks on Mars |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On the 20th of June 2018 there will be a session on Manufacturing in Space at the International Business Festival to which FAIR-SPACE is participating. This B2B news piece is related to this event. 100 SMEs are signed up to the event and the reach of this article is expected to be more than 100 mainly UK based companies. The expected impact of this activity is more businesses looking for collaboration about manufacturing in space using Private-Public Partnership (PPP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/national/building-moon-villages-and-making-bricks-on-mars |
| Description | International Advisory Board for the EU funded projects on robotics and AI for extreme environments in underwater mining |
| 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 | Invited member of the International Advisory Board for the EU funded projects on robotics and AI for extreme environments in under water mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Robotics Showcase and Hub Presentation at the UK-RAS event at the International Business Festival 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 | FAIR-SPACE hub attended the one-day showcase and speaker programme to highlight latest robotics innovation. Professor Yang Gao gave a presentation about the FAIR-SPACE Hub to an audience of robotics experts. At the same time FAIR-SPACE hub supported the event by having a stand displaying the latest rover with sensor fusion. There were quite a few organisations that expressed interest to join the Hub.The robotics showcase was part of the International Business Festival held in Liverpool which was also attended by policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/186229/registration-open-international-robotics-showcase-liverpool/ |
| Description | Interview for Filling Space |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview between Professor Yang Gao, FAIR-SPACE's director and Filling Space. As a result of the interview, an article was published on their website and shared - https://filling-space.com/2018/12/21/artificial-intelligence-advancing-space-exploration/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://filling-space.com/2018/12/21/artificial-intelligence-advancing-space-exploration/ |
| Description | Invited talk at Arklow Library |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Yang Gao gave an invited public talk on space AI and robotics to the audience organized by the Irish library. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklow/lifestyle/number-of-events-taking-place-at-arklow-libra... |
| 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 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 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 | IoTSF 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 | Moderated a panel on Trustworthy IoT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IoTSF Executive Strategy Board and Speakers meeting |
| 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 | Discussion group on latest developments in IoT security and privacy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | IoTSF Supply Chain Integrity Project Meeting 9-6-20 |
| 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 | Presenting input to IoTSF Supply Chain Integrity Project Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IoTSF Supply Chain Integrity Project Partnership meeting 12-5-20 |
| 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 where Prof Maple provided input to IoTSF SCI project based upon work in secure and resilient supply chains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IoTSF Supply Chain Integrity Project Partnership meeting 22-4-20 |
| 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 where Prof Maple provided input to IoTSF SCI project based upon work in secure and resilient supply chains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Joint event with SSPI |
| 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 | Held in partnership with the SSPI, Space and Satellite Professionals International, this event brought the research from the Hub to the attention of the broader satellite industry. The Hub presented alongside 3 other organisations from both the upstream and the downstream. Hub funders were present at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sspi.org/cpages/home |
| 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 | 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 Anderton Primary 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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 Hope 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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 John Fisher Catholic 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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 Medlock Primary School |
| 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 | Robot stand themed around Mars Rovers at local primary school community fair. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 Plymouth Grove Primary 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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lego Rovers at Rushbrook Primary 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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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. Teresa'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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 Sutton 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 | Robot programming activity delivered in school themed around Mars Rovers. Sparked discussion and questions form the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 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 | MTC meeting on security and privacy in IoT systems 26-10-18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Advising MTC on cyber security issues and risk assessment in IoT systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Manufacturing in Space Presentation at the International Business Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Manufacturing in Space was a session as part of the Made in the UK Manufacturing day at the International Business Festival 2018. As part of the session FAIR-SPACE hub provided a presentation and participated in a panel. Questions from the audience were also addressed after the panel. Around 50 people saw the presentation and there was some good interaction with non-space SMEs who want to join the space sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.internationalbusinessfestival.com/programme/manufacturing |
| Description | Media Coverage at International Robotics Showcase |
| 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 | Imperial College and the University of Surrey collaborated to produce a joint exhibition for FAIR-SPACE at the International Robotics Showcase. Interactive demos was developed for the FAIR-SPACE stand to engage in active discussion. The exhibition was well covered by 9 broadcast media - including the BBC, 24 science and technology media and 4 education and local media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/robotics-week/international-robotics-showcase-2019/ |
| Description | Media interview on AI robotics for Space |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | International media interview at sputniknews.com on AI Boost for Opportunistic Science in Space Exploration - UK STAR Lab Head. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201810051068622418-artificial-intelligence-space-exploration/ |
| Description | Meeting for engagement between Coventry & Warwickshire and Europe 15-10-18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A meeting to discuss future strategic engagement between the region and Europe. Specifically engagements with regions in Paris, Brussels, Ljubljana, Barcelona and Gothenberg. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with Defence Solutions Centre |
| 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 | Prof Nefti-Meziani met with representatives from the Defence Solutions Centre to describe the work being conducted in Fairspace, future plans and identify areas where there may be potential collaboration and application of the technology developed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with European Space Agency at Daresbury |
| 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 European Space Agency at Daresbury |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Liverpool City Region Transport Policy unit |
| 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 Liverpool City Region Transport Policy unit 9th November 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with MDA Ltd and the Canadian Space Agency |
| 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 | Prof Nefti-Meziani met with MDA Ltd and the Canadian Space Agency to describe the work being conducted in Fairspace and how they could be involved. A major outcome was an agreement to take part in the panel discussions at the Fairspace summit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Sellafield and National Nuclear Labs |
| 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 | Prof Nefti-Meziani met with representatives from Sellafield and NNL to discuss the outputs of Fairspace and identify areas where they could be applied to the nuclear sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Thales Alenia Space, Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting at Thales Alenia Space, Bristol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Thales Alenia Space, Bristol and Visit Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit lab, tried demo and discuss opportunities to cooperate at Thales Alenia Space, Bristol. Thales expressed interest in continue discussion and exploration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Member of the IOSM working group |
| 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 IOSM working group brings together key players in the UK IOSM market to act as a focal point for Industry and Government representatives to collaborate with the aim of a global leadership in this key new market area. The Hub, as a key technology enable for this market, is a member. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Metalysis / UK Space Agency ISRU Workshop |
| 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 | The aim of the objective was to bring together industry and academia to collaborate in ISRU. The European Space Agency (ESA) has named Metalysis, a UK based materials company, their first ESA Grand Challenger. The award will see research and development sponsored by Metalysis, and overseen by ESA focused on In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU). UKSA wants Metalysis to collaborate with organisations that already have experience in the field and the workshop provided a great opportunity to progress the thinking in this field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://space.blog.gov.uk/2018/06/01/register-your-interest-the-in-situ-resource-utilisation-isru-wo... |
| Description | NASA Workshop at the University of Liverpool |
| 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 | Mars Rover themed LEGO Robot workshops organised as part of a University Event surrounding a visit from Holly Ridings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | National Robotics Network road mapping workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Nefti-Meziani facilitated a meeting of the National Robotics Network which is developing road map which will identify share industrial robotic and automation challenges and plan a path to solving these. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | New Space Across Midlands Innovation Workshop |
| 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 | The event involved academic partners in the Midlands who are involved with space research meeting to organise a strategy for space research across the institutions. Each University gave a presentation on their work and their institution's capabilities and facilities. Subsequent workshops discussed what areas of research needed to be focused on and what training was needed. Cyber security was highlighted as an important challenge for future space systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-space-across-midlands-innovation-tickets-60457051669 |
| Description | ORCA / FAIR-SPACE Teleoperation & Telemanipulation webinar |
| 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 | The event was online, with presentations and Q&A sessions. Dr Alex Zhibin (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Ziwei Wang (Imperial College London) of FAIR-SPACE presented "Remote bimanual manipulation and evaluation of operator's mental load and performance during teleoperation". A haptic teleoperation system that enables complex manipulation and docking, which provides human demonstrations of motor skills that can be developed into autonomous operation capabilities. This system features manual, semi-autonomous and fully autonomous control modes for object capture and assembly tasks, biomonitoring for estimating the operator's mental load, holographic user interfaces for enhancing the usability, and haptic feedback to improve the system transparency for the operator. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | One of team on the FAIR-SPACE stand at the International Business Festival (Liverpool 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 | Was on the FAIR-SPACE stand at the 2018 International Business Festival. Raised awareness of FAIR-SPACE. Had individual discussions with visitors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.internationalbusinessfestival.com/ |
| Description | Organised Space Security Scoping 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 | 29 academics and industrial practitioners attended the workshop on space security scoping held at the University of Liverpool's campus in London on 1st Feb 2019. Questions about space security were posed to the attendees and a very active discussion ensued. A formal report is being constructed for the FAIR-SPACE Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~marie/scopingsecwk/ |
| Description | Organising International Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems |
| 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 | Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems Workshop organised as part of the FM world congress 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://autonomy-and-verification-uol.github.io/events/fmas/ |
| Description | Organising the first workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | First workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA) organised as part of the the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This workshop was organised by Rafael C. Cardoso, Angelo Ferrando, Tobias Ahlbrecht, Claudio Menghi, and Daniela Briola. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://area2020.github.io/ |
| Description | PETRAS PRIVACY, ETHICS , AND TRUST IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Industry workshop on PRIVACY, ETHICS , AND TRUST IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS. In conversation with former CSA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | PETRAS Transport and Mobility Demonstrator 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 | 11th January - Dr Alisdair Ritchie, PETRAS Impact Champion, attended a workshop on the future Transport and Mobility Demonstrator proposed for the PETRAS programme. The workshop was led by Professor Carsten Maple and included 14 attendees from academia and industry partners to PETRAS. The outputs were a clearer vision of what a future PETRAS Transport and Mobility demonstrator would look like for PETRAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | PETRAS conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | First international conference on Living in the IoT. 7 papers were presented and a session contribution by CM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Panelist at IET Webinar on Innovation & Funding in Milsatcoms |
| 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 | Prof Gao serves as the guest panelist at the IET webinar on Innovation & Funding in Milsatcoms in Jan 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.theiet.org/events/innovation-and-funding-in-milsatcoms/ |
| Description | Panellist at New Mobility White Paper Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | WSP have launched a Whitepaper on New Mobility. As part of this Prof Samia Nefti-Meziani was an expert panellist at a Breakfast Event hosted by Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce on 24th April 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/events/new-mobility-now/ |
| Description | Participation at Cheltenham Science Festival and obtaining entries to the UK-RAS network School Robot Challange |
| 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 | UK-RAS network School Robot Challenge lead invited FAIR-SPACE to share part of their stand at the Cheltenham Science Festival and lead the School Robot Challenge for a day. At the festival information about FAIR-SPACE and its activities were provided to the public. Furthermore 4-14 year old school children were encouraged to draw space robots to be part of the School Robot Challenge. There was great interest by children to design a robot that could be used on the Moon or Mars. FAIR-SPACE plans to be an active supporter of the EPSRC UK-RAS School Robot Challenge and this was one of the supported activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/ |
| Description | Participation at Primary School Careers Afternoon |
| 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 | We were approached by a Year 6 pupil to attend a Career's Afternoon (for years 5 & 6) at All Saints CE Primary School in Horsham, West Sussex on 26th June 2018. Emma Wright (FAIR-SPACE Programme Manager) and Sadra Bolourian (Surrey University PhD Student) attended and engaged with 62 children who came in groups to the FAIR-SPACE stand and talked to Emma and Sadra about Robotics and AI for Space imparting advice and inspiration to pupils with respect to getting involved in STEM related careers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Participation in Verification and Regulatory Issues for Remote Robotic Inspection Workshop (Jan 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | [Text from the workshop organisers.] This workshop brings together key stakeholders interested in the verification and regulation challenges faced when using robotic systems or remote inspection. A variety of speakers, from across industry, regulatory organisations, and academia, will present their views on this important topic. The workshop is divided into three sessions covering: Applications; Regulation & Verification; and Future Challenges. Each session will have short talks with a Q&A opportunity for audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participation in Workshop on the safety, certification and regulation of robots in inspection (University of York, Novemebr 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 | The event considered sessions on * Legal frameworks in verification and assurance of infrastructure inspection robotics * Standardised design, analysis and verification methods for robots across domains * Discussion and conclusion and was attended by a cross disciplinary audience. It was run by the University of York as part of the RIMA project and the Assuring Autonomy programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in the Second workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS) |
| 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 | From the workshop website: "The Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems bring together researchers working on a range of techniques for formal verification of autonomous systems, to present recent work in the area, discuss key difficulties, and stimulate collaboration between the robotics and formal methods communities. This workshop is concerned with the use of formal methods to specify, model, or verify autonomous or robotic systems; in whole or in part. Submissions may focus on case studies that identify the challenges for formal methods in this area, or experience reports that provide guidelines for tackling these challenges. Work using integrated formal methods, or describing the future directions of this field, are particularly welcome." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://autonomy-and-verification-uol.github.io/events/fmas |
| Description | Participation in the first workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA) |
| 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 the first workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA) organised as part of the the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This workshop was organised by Rafael C. Cardoso, Angelo Ferrando, Tobias Ahlbrecht, Claudio Menghi, and Daniela Briola. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://area2020.github.io/ |
| Description | Participation to London International Robotics Showcase 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 | Participation to the workshop day. Live simulation demonstrations and research activities presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/robotics-week/showcase-event/ |
| Description | Partnership Agreement signed with SPRINT |
| 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 | A formal agreement was signed to enable SPRINT and FAIR-SPACE to work together to promote the research outputs of the FAIR-SPACE hub. It is anticipated that FAIR-SPACE partners will look to access SPRINT funding as appropriate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.sprint.ac.uk |
| Description | Platform for Investigation |
| 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 | Participation in a Platform for Investigation event at the Museum of Science and Industry to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Manchester Baby Computer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the Opportunities and Challenges in Space Robotics Workshop held with ICRA 2020 |
| 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 presented the poster "Verification and Validation for Space Robotics" at the Opportunities and Challenges in Space Robotics Workshop held with ICRA 2020. This poster was a collection of some of the work done by our FAIR-SPACE group at the University of Liverpool (Authors: R. C. Cardoso, M. Farrell, G. Kourtis, M. Webster, L. A. Dennis, C.Dixon, M. Fisher, and A. Lisitsa). There were many questions from interactions with participants of the workshop, and the poster was praised in one of the speakers talk during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/view/space-robotics-workshop/home |
| Description | Presentation and Stand at the UKSEDS Lunar Rover Competition held at RAL Space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The activity objective is to get university students to build planetary rovers that can collect simulated lunar regolith. The rovers go through vibration tests to simulate the space launch. Over 50 students attended from 8 universities for the final. FAIR-SPACE Hub had a stand and provided a presentation about Space Robotics to the students. UK-RAS white papers and the Robotics week were also promoted to the students. There was a good discussion with the students and it seemed most of them were planning to do a PhD related to Robotics. FAIR-SPACE Hub was the Catering-sponsor for this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://robotics.ukseds.org |
| Description | Presentation at Barclays AI Frenzy 1.0 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Resulting from the visit by Barclays Eagle Lab Samia Nefti-Meziani was invited to present at the AI frenzy event to discuss AI including FAIRSPACE and the future uses of AI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://labs.uk.barclays/ |
| Description | Presentation at European Lunar Symposium 21 - 23 May 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Yang Gao, Hub Director of FAIR-SPACE, presented the Lunar "Volatile and Mineralogy Mapping Orbiter (VMMO)" mission at the European Lunar Symposium on the 22nd May 2019 in Manchester, UK. The VMMO mission will showcase new generation of nano-sat technologies (12U CubeSat) with high performing GNC and autonomous capabilities to deliver high equality science about the Moon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://els2019.arc.nasa.gov/ |
| Description | Presentation at Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Steve Davis presented at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics about the soft robotics and gripper being developed for FAIRSPACE. 24-27 Jun 2018, Royal Geographical Society London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/centres/globalhealth/eventssummary/eve... |
| Description | Presentation at Salford Festival of Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Davis gave a presentation at the Salford Festival of Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.salford.ac.uk/researchfest |
| Description | Presentation at Satuccino at the Harwell Campus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Hub presented through the Satuccino 1 minute pitch on the funding opportunities available at the Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at UK SEDS Lunar Rover challenge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Hub sponsored the UK SEDS event and also presented on their work to those who had entered the competition. We also exhibited at Harwell during the event and networked with industry representatives also there. It is our intention to continue with this sponsorship of UK SEDS for next year |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at conference on Cyber Resilience for Property Managers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on cyber resilience in IoT systems and Science Parks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at conference on Cyber Resilience for Property Managers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on cyber resilience in IoT systems and Science Parks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at the University of York event, Self configurative robots |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a talk at this event held at the University of York. Self configurable robotics could be argued to be a key technology for in-space services and space exploration. There were demonstrations from the team at York university and also some industry partners present from Europe. PERASPERA companies also presented on their work. The University of York subsequently submitted an application for Innovation & Project funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/events/2019/7/15/self-configuring-modular-robotics-for-earth-and-space |
| Description | Presentation for Technical Perspectives on Cyber Diplomacy Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk and Q & A on cyber security of the IoT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to Aerospace Valley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Samia Nefti-Meziani was invited to present to the Aerospace Valley which is a French cluster of aerospace engineering companies and research centres. The aim being to highlight how research including that within the FAIRPACE project can be applied to the Aerospace sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to Airbus UK 29-11-18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on cyber security in satellite systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to Eng Soc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk on cyber security in IoT systems including transport, space and manufacturing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to Ice Cubes Service |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Remote presentation to Ice Cube Services team about the FAIR-SPACE Hub in order to ascertain whether their services would be able to support some of our research ambitions in terms of Theme 4 - Human Robot Interaction. They can provide a commercial service to enable access to microgravity environment and also to astronauts as well. They are working with the UK Space Agency and ESA. It might be that together we can raise the profile of in space robotics applications through the new AI in a box service they are hoping to launch |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.icecubesservice.com |
| Description | Presentation to Multiply. Space about the Hub and collaboration opportunities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss potential collaborations and future bid development with a client represented by Multiply. Space. Further to this meeting, Multiply Space have been introduced to the IOSM Working group in order to pitch their ideas on robotics. They have also been introduced to other industrial partners from within the FAIR-SPACE Hub and research information from across the Hub has been shared with them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://multiply.space |
| Description | Presentation to Salford Royal Hospital |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Samia Nefti-Meziani presented to a meeting of healthcare practitioners, clinical staff the chief technology officer and lead strategist of Salford Royal hospital. The aim was to demonstrate capabilities in RAI and the glove and gripper developed in FAIRSPACE were highlighted as technologies with potential healthcare related applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to Space Technology in Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the FAIR-SPACE project and robotics demonstration of the Humanoid robot Valkyrie at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://highgrowth.scot/kim-mcallister-watch-this-space/ |
| Description | Presentation to Tameside NHS trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given describing robotics technology being developed at Salford including the FAIRSPACE gripper, glove and sensor technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Python Robot Programming (Trial Visit) to Belvedere 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 | Trial visit with a Python based robotics programming activity to a local school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RAI collaboration workshop with Salford Royal NHS Trust (29/4/19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A morning workshop was hosted by Salford robotics attended by healthcare practitioners and managers from Salford Royal NHS Trust. The aim of the workshop was to identify robotics technology of potential use at the hospital. As part of the workshop demonstration of the systems being developed within FAIRSPACE were given. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | RITICS Showcase 18-10-18 |
| 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 | Various discussions on security and privacy in CAV and space systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Reasoning Machines talk for the University of the Third Age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk covering the implementation of reasoning in machines and philosophical issues associated with computers and thought. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Remote Manipulation & Handling In space & on Earth |
| 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 event was the 1st in a series delivered in partnership with TAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.fairspacehub.org |
| Description | Remote Manipulation Activities in Space and on Earth Workshop |
| 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 | This workshop aimed to develop collaborative partnerships to address current challenges for space-related robotic remote manipulation & handling using spotlight presentations & group discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robotics-for-remote-manipulation-handling-in-space-and-on-earth-ticke... |
| Description | Remote presentation to Liftmeoff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Liftemeoff are a new start up exploring the use of AI for On-Orbit Computer Vision to Track Satellite & Celestial Body Behaviour. They are interested to become a part of the space AI upstream community. After presenting on the Hub's expertise, Liftmeoff were introduced as a prospective presenter at a forthcoming IOSM meeting - decision pending. Connections were also made to enable Liftmeoff to make introductions into the UK RAS network and the Northern Space Consortium so they are introduced into the ecosystem. It is the hope that they can support the Hub's ambitions to grow the IOSM market through AI based research through a potential future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.liftmeoff.com |
| Description | Robot Programming at the Liverpool IntoUniversity Homework Club |
| 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 two robot programming activities (one based on Lego Robots and one based on Python programming for Raspberry Pi robots) at the IntoUniversity Homework Club. IntoUniversity is an organisation based in Anfield which works on raising aspirations of pupils in disadvantaged schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Robot pilot that can grab the flight controls gets its plane licence |
| 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 | Interviewed by the New Scientist in relation to a news story from the US. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2214731-robot-pilot-that-can-grab-the-flight-controls-gets-its-... |
| Description | Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Industry Showcase (RAI21) |
| 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 | FAIR-SPACE exhibited on a virtual stand with pre-recorded videos and presentations at Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) Industry Showcase in May. RAI is the UK's largest showcase of industrial Robotics and AI technologies, and a unique community-led event that stimulates collaborative development for solving real world problems with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, FAIR-SPACE Director participated in the 'UKRI's Robots for In-Orbit and Space Applications showcase of UK space robotics projects, including satellite servicing, active debris removal, in-orbit assembly and planetary exploration' panel session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.org/events/robotics-artificial-intelligence-industry-showcase-2021/ |
| Description | Robotics & the Synthetic Environment Virtual Workshop (Sept 2020) |
| 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 workshop was the third in a series of workshops organised by FAIR-SPACE and co-hosted with Thales Alenia Space, Shadow Robot Company and MULTIPLY Global. The workshop was well attended with an audience of 70+ from both industry and academia. Participants of the workshop were invited to present a 2 slide, 5 min talk or video on their R&D work, product or project they are working on, with presentations from Immersion, Shadow Robot, Ocado, UCL, Thales Alenia Space, Thales, BMT, ESA/DLR, Pitch technologies, 4Wardfutures, ORCA Hub, RACE, and MTC. After the event, attendees and presenters are able to continue networking via the LinkedIn VR/AR/XR + robotics Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Industry Showcase - 12th March 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 | Researchers from FAIR-SPACE took part in the exhibition at the showcase. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.co.uk/events/robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-industry-showcase |
| Description | Roundtable TV Show for "ROBOTS: Time to think about laws?" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is an international TV broadcast on panel discussion on legal issues of embedding robots in human society. Professor Yang Gao is one of the four international expert panelists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ux5WdNRPQw |
| Description | Rovers and Sensors in the Snow |
| 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 | Invited speaker at joint meeting among the British Antarctica Survey, EPSRC funded FAIR-SPACE Hub and 4S programme grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Royal Academy of `Engineering workshop on - Safety and ethics of autonomous systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Royal Academy of `Engineering, National Engineering Policy Centre workshop "Safety and ethics of autonomous systems" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Royal Society DTAP workshop - supply chains and logistics 22-4-20 |
| 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 | An interview/discussion with the Royal society regarding their DTAP work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Royal Society Public Dialogues |
| 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 | Provided expertise on trustworthy systems engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royal Society Space Working Group |
| 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 | Member of task force providing expertise on trustworthy systems engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | STEM for Girls Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The STEM for Girls event was organised by Accenture. It was run at the Crystal building on 15th March 2018 in London. 300 girls from London schools attended the event. FAIR-SPACE hosted a stand at the event with an activity based on the School Robot Challenge. The activity involved the girls designing their own space robots and making them into 3D virtual models using software provided. Over 100 girls took part in the activity. The purpose of the activity was to encourage girls to develop their interests in STEM subjects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Salford Conversations Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve Davis took part in the first Salford Conversations event of 2020. This was a networking event aimed at raising awareness of research activities being undertaken at the University and to build new connections. The audience was both academic and support staff from across the University. The FAIRSPACE gripper and a version of the soft glove were taken to the event and shown to attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://testlivesalfordac.sharepoint.com/sites/UoS_Staff/SitePages/Salford-Conversations-event-huge-... |
| Description | Satellite Applications Catapult 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 | Developing collaboration with Satellite Applications Catapult on both regulatory and V&V aspects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | School Robot Competition June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Open to all UK schoolchildren and students aged from 8 - 14, the competition introduces the idea of robotics for space exploration and support of future planetary missions through the designing and programming of a robot to complete a science mission on another planet. The aim of the competition is to inspire and engage young people in the science of robotics and space exploration, and to foster interest in STEM subjects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/school-robot-competition/ |
| Description | School Space Robot Challenge 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The School Space Robot Challenge has been set up as a 'dry run' for a large school space robot competition to be run by FAIR-SPACE in 2020. The competition involves school children designing their own space robot (planetary or orbital) on paper and turning it into a virtual 3D model using computer aided design software developed specifically for the challenge. The children learn about the roles and possibilities for space robots and learn 3D design skills during the activity. The purpose of the activity is to provide a gender-balanced activity that enthuses young people with space and robots encouraging them to develop their interest in STEM subjects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://uk-ras.org |
| Description | Secondment to NASA Ames Research Center |
| 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 | Marie Farrell's secondment to NASA Ames Research Center to collaborate on using distinct verification techniques for the software components in a NASA rover. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Security and IoT workshop - 9th December 2019 |
| 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 | Developing scope for a funding call for CR&D |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Series of events between Turing and Deepmind |
| 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 | Knowledge exchange series with Deepmind |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Smallpiece Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Telephone meeting with CEO of the Smallpiece Trust and the now merged Arkwright Scholarships Trust . Specialists in STEM education, the meeting discussed a proposal for Smallpiece/Arkwright to engage with schools on our behalf as part of our public engagement agenda |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | South Coast Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Telephone meeting with Innovation Fellow at Portsmouth University's South Coast Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications, to discuss the Centre's promotion of our activities and our potential participation in VentureFest South 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Space:Late at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry |
| 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 stand demonstrating lego Mars Rovers featuring as part of an evening "Space:Late" event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Many enthusiastic and interested discussions with members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/what-was-on/space-late |
| Description | Speaker at Westminster Insight - Leading the World in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Investment, Innovation and Going for Growth |
| 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 | Prof Nefti-Meziani was a speaker at the Westminster Insight - Leading the World in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Investment, Innovation and Going for Growth. the event was held on 28th September 2018 in Kensington London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://westminsterinsight.com/event/2891/Leading_the_World_in_Artificial_Intelligence_and_Machine_L... |
| Description | Sponsor of UKRAS Competition 'School Robot Competition 2020' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | STEM activity organised by UKRAS and Twinkl to raise awareness of robotics and space, for School children aged 8-14 years who were given the chance to enter a competition that ran from March 2020 to October 2020, to design and build their robots to take on the Mars terrain challenges in the Free Play Mode during The UK Robotics School Robot Competition. The competition was open to all UK schools, and all sponsors of the event distributed1,000 invites each to schools. 200+ schools entered the com |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/school-robot-competition/design |
| Description | Stargazing 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 | A stand demonstrating lego Mars Rovers featuring as part of an evening "stargazing" event at the World Museum in Liverpool. Many enthusiastic and interested discussions with members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Stargazing at the World Museum (Autumn 2019) |
| 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 | Stand involving Lego Robots supporting an evening event at Liverpool's World Museum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://legorovers.csc.liv.ac.uk |
| Description | Stargazing at the World Museum (Winter 2020) |
| 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 | Stand involving Lego Robots supporting an evening event at Liverpool's World Museum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk at "Sensors and Data in Robotics" workshop held at British Antarctic Survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at "Sensors and Data in Robotics" workshop held at British Antarctic Survey, explaining FAIR-SPACE Hub |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.bas.ac.uk/event/sensors-and-data-in-robotics/ |
| Description | Talk at Society-centric approaches to AI challenges in Cybersecurity Event |
| 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 | Discussion with policymakers in Australia, UK and US |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Telefonica Security Strategy event 23-10-18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Telefonica Security Strategy event presenting latest research on security and privacy in next generation networks to executive board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | To the moon and beyond 3: The new space race and what winning it looks like |
| 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 | Professional media interview on new space race with Professor Yang Gao |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/to-the-moon-and-beyond-3-the-new-space-race-and-what-winning-it-looks-li... |
| Description | Tommy Flowers Network Speaking |
| 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 security of industry 4.0 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tomorrow's World Live: Me and My Robot |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Dennis participated in a panel interview on the future of robotics run by the BBC at Manchester Science Festival in front of a live audience. It was live-streamed on various social media channels and subsequently made available on iPlayer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05lph23 |
| Description | Towards Greater Autonomy in Space 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 | A workshop to discuss the future of the space industry and the benefits and risks associated with autonomous systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Towards Greater Autonomy in Space workshop 21-1-20 |
| 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 | Presented a talk on cyber security of space systems including NewSpace and IoST |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Towards the Use of Lunar Resources Workshop at ESTEC |
| 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 | ESA and other agencies around the world are preparing to send humans back to the Moon. This time it will be to stay and enable the next steps on humanity's adventure to Mars and onwards into the Solar System. The longevity and sustainability of this endeavour may depend on our ability to harness the resources available to us at the lunar surface and to use these to provide the consumables, fuels, propellants and materials that future explorers will need. The ESA workshop aim was for industrial partners to share their capabilities towards ISRU. The objective is to grow the private space sector. Good progress was made to collaborate with other organisations and there were some promising PhD candidates who have applied to join FAIR-SPACE hub after discussions at the workshop. The attendance was at just over 250 at the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://exploration.esa.int/moon/59878-workshop-towards-the-use-of-lunar-resources/ |
| Description | Trust in Autonomous Systems workshops 18-19/6/20 |
| 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 | A series of workshops exploring trust and trustworthiness in autonomous systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Turing-NCSC Cyber Security series of events |
| 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 | Workshop series investigating the future of cyber security |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UK 2070 meeting |
| 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 | The UK 2070 Commission is an independent group chaired by Lord Bob Kerslake, conducting an inquiry into spatial inequalities across the country. The full list of Commissioners and partners are listed here: http://uk2070.org.uk/commission/. Briefly speaking, spatial inequalities are the social, economic and environmental consequences of uneven city and regional development, which result from inadequate spatial planning and management. The overarching objective of the inquiry is to move towards a sustainable and 'people-centred' national framework to tackle long-standing problems of inequality and create change for the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK Cross-Industry Development Task Force |
| 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 | Member of task force providing expertise on trustworthy systems engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | UK Cyber Security Research Institute meeting |
| 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 | Various discussions at the UK Cyber Security Research institutes meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UK FCO mission to US - Expert Panel |
| 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 | Spoke at a panel for SAC 2018. Involved presentation and vibrant Q&A afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.southernautocon.com/full-schedule/ |
| Description | UK RAS Network Showcase Exhibition |
| 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 | As part of the UK RAS network, we exhibited in London at the Royal Geographical Society. This was principally led by Imperial but all partners contributed. We also attracted a lot of media interest and colleagues were interviewed. Other Hubs were also exhibiting at this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK Space Conference 2021 |
| 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 UK Space Conference 2021 held online in Sept 2021. The conference is well established as the most important and influential event for space in the UK. For the sixth time, this biennial event will bring together the UK and international space community from across government, industry and academia to exchange ideas, share plans, develop relationships and seek inspiration to thrive in the new space age. FAIR-SPACE participated at the event, with Sir Prof Martin Sweeting a keynote speaker and Dr Ziwei Wang (Imperial College London) participating in a soapbox session entitled 'A Bimanual Teleoperation Framework for Time-Delayed Tasks'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.spaceconference.co.uk/ |
| Description | UKCRC/EPSRC workshop on future challenges 14-15/3/18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to define the major challenges for UK in ICT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKSA Space to Connect 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | FAIR-SPACE exhibited at the UKSA Space to Connect 2022. The annual one-day hybrid event brings together the space sector, providing the opportunity to meet new companies, organisations and people who are innovating at the forefront of the space applications sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | US-UK AI Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable on challenges in Ai and how joint collaboration can address these |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Uk Centre for Astrobiology |
| 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 | Preliminary discussion are taking place about working with this organisation to develop a joint event in 2020 in partnership with an existing partner of the Hub. The UK centre for Astrobiology is intending to utilise the Ambassador funding to progress this idea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment Research Away Day. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This away day involved invited presentations and networking activities for all staff in the University of Salford's School of Science, Engineering and Environment. Prof. Steve Davis gave a presentation at this event which included the research being conducted for FAIRSPACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Salford internal workshop on robotics in healthcare (11/4/19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop attended by staff from the University of Salford's robotics group and the University's Health School aimed to explore how robotics could be used in health and social care. The workshop demonstrated the gripper technology developed in FAIRSPACE and the soft exoskeleton technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Use of Robotics and Automation for Mineral Prospecting and Extraction |
| 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 | As the member of the International Advisory Board, being invited to attend the joint conference of three EU funded projects on robotics for deep mining (UNEXMIN, iVAMOS and RTM). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://eurogeologists.eu/event/joint-conference-unexmin-vamos-projects-use-robotics-automation-mine... |
| Description | Validation and Verification for AI and Robotics in Space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to investigate challenges in securing space systems. Exploration of approaches to combine validation and verification with security methodologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | VentureFest |
| 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 | TBA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Venturefest South 2019 29 March |
| 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 | Venturefest South is an annual interactive one day conference and this year attracted over 1,000 people. The event brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and businesses from across the South to share ideas, explore best-practice, showcase new technology and create deals to help develop and take local business ideas forward. It was interesting to see so many smaller companies using technologies that could be applicable in extreme environments, such as space. For example, AR for training in hazardous scenarios and the possibility that an IoT type network could enable in a planetary environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://venturefestsouth.co.uk/news/venturefest-south-attracts-over-1000-visitors-for-record-breakin... |
| Description | Visit by Barclays Eagle Labs |
| 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 | Visit by a team from Barclays Eagle Lab aiming to learn about research and projects currently being undertaken with the aim to developing future collaboration and partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit by Enterprise M3 to facility |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Enterprise M3 were invited to the Hub to discuss opportunities and a forthcoming cross-sector event where the HJUb may exhibit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Visit by Hilti Corporation |
| 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 | Company visit to explore the use of gripper technology being developed in FAIRSPACE in construction applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit by KTN for SPACE and Head of Complex Systems |
| 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 | KTN attended the FAIR-SPACE Hub to meet with researchers to learn about current research activity. Up to 5 researchers presented their work with a view to the KTN identifying potential new collaborators from industry, including non-space companies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit by US 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We were requested to host a US delegation from a number of institutions in the US who included Dr. Ron Diftler (NASA), Dr. Mitch Pryor( Professor at the University of Texas), and Stephan Hart (TRACLabs). The delegation visited several hubs and also attended the UK RAS International Showcase event. Our US colleagues also had a tour of the University 5G labs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit by industry - DRisQ |
| 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 | The team from D-RisQ came to demonstrate their software that we will be testing as part of a research collaboration with DRIsQ going forward liked to AI for autonomous systems. They have a couple of options that we saw that will be used by researchers to validate and verify algorithms developed for the FAIR-SPACE Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.drisq.com |
| Description | Visit from Chinese 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 | A visit from the Chinese government Zhaoqing Municipality visited the Salford robotics group and the FAIRSPACE gripper and glove were both demonstrated to them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit from Kawasaki Heavy Industries |
| 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 | A senior Research and Development manager from Kawasaki Heavy Industries visited Salford's robotics centre to identify technology which may have application within their industry. The visit included presentation and tour including demonstration of the technology being developed for FAIRSPACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit from Northern Powerhouse Partnership |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit by Emma Green from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership with the aim of determining the work being conducted in order to be able to promote it within the Northern Powerhouse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit from Northern Space Consortium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Davis gave a presentation to the Northern Space Consortium followed by a lab tour to see the technology being developed at Salford as part of FAIRSPACE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit from Salford Royal Trust stroke unit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A delegation from Salford Royal's stoke unit attended a workshop at Salford to identify robotics technology which could be applied in healthcare. The glove was identified as having application in post stroke rehabilitation and training and the soft sensor for use for patient monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit from Vietnam Ministry of Education |
| 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 | Dr. Davis facilitated a visit by a delegation from the Vietnam Ministry of Education who were interested in training and research opportunities. The glove, gripper and soft sensor being developed within FAIRSPACE were demonstrated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit to Onslow School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Arthur Bouton, Aleksander Maslowski and Ann Swift visited this local school for the second year running on their request. They deliver a design project as part of their curriculum to year 7s and chose moon buggies as the design they wished to explore. Like last year the children design the buggies and show them to us to explain what motivated the design choices they made based on their understanding of the brief. Ann Swift gave a short overall presentation of the space environment and why robotics are important. On this occasion Arthur was able to bring his fully assembled rover and gave an engaging demonstration followed by a talk about the importance of flexibility and stability in his design. Afterwards the children came in in small groups to look more closely at the rover and ask questions. Here Aleks demonstrated some lego rovers to the children and we talked about their design as well and a little bit about intelligent vehicles. Post visit we shared details about the UK-RAS school robot competition and have offered to go back into the school if they wish to show them how to enter. We have been invited to come back next year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Visit to Onslow school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A researcher from Surrey University and the Innovation & Partnership Manager visited a local school to talk about planetary robotics to years 5 and 6. The children had been looking at how to design products and test them, but were interested to do this with moon rovers. It is anticipated we will return to the school once the rover is full assembled to show the children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Warwick Engineering Society : AI - Investigating the New Reality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Maple Key Note Speaker at event 16/11/20 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar series 'From PPE to Spacesuits' (Sept to Nov 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The webinars were run to better understand and share the challenges of spacesuit and human robot interaction in space and on Earth. This was a four part open-air conversation during September to November 2020 with 3 speakers at each session from spacesuit makers, astronauts, terrestrial medical and allied health professionals, with audience input in a moderated Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/news/2020/11/26/from-ppe-to-spacesuits |
| Description | Women in Space networking event, London (March 2020) |
| 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 event was organised by London Space Network to celebrate International Women's Day and to bring together and celebrate Women in Space working across the Space and Technology ecosystems. FAIR-SPACE gave a talk about the research being undertaken at the Hub and also the experiences in developing relationships and collaborations in the intersection between the research community and industry. Astroscale, UK SEDS and KCL Space Society also gave talks, which was followed afterwards by networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Work Experience |
| 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 | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 1 A Level student visited FAIR-SPACE at Surrey University to carry out work experience. Rachel had this to say.."I found my 3 day work experience very interesting, and full of excitement. Some cutting-edge technologies and equipment have changed my view on AI, and I could see how amazing the researchers are devoting themselves into discovering the mystery of space. I would really like to thank FAIR-SPACE Hub for offering me such a wonderful opportunity, and I believe the FAIR-SPACE Hub will lead AI and Robotics to a better future." Rachel is hoping to study Computer Science at University and after her time with the FAIR-SPACE team reported that she would be keen to pursue a career developing AI and Robotics for Space applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop delivered in partnership with Thales Alenia Space |
| 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 event was co-organised by the Hub and Thales Alenia Space and was delivered as part of a series of workshops focusing on building a community in Remote Handling & Manipulation in the UK. This second event was held in the North of England and we were pleased to invite the Northern Space Consortium to play host through their links with Sensor City Liverpool. The event consisted of a series of presentations from both Hub representatives but also industry and included Cross Hub representation. Many new links have been made since this event and it generated interest on LinkedIn thanks to the support of Vicky Video who did a series of interviews with attendees. Indeed a new LinkedIn group has been bone out of this series of events, led by colleagues from the organising committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.fairspacehub.org/events/https/wwweventbritecouk/e/robotics-for-remote-manipulation-handl... |
| Description | Workshop on UK CAV Security Testing 19/3/18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting to discuss the challenges and requirements of cyber security testing of CAVs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop on cyber security priority areas for SIA 14-11-18 |
| 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 | To advise SIA of the latest developments and threats in Cyber Security |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop with patients with upper body degenerative illnesses. (11/4/19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | This workshop hosted at Salford included a Dr and three of her patients to discuss the problems they have and how robotics technology could help. The glove being developed within FAIRSPACE was tested by all the patients. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | workshop on 'From BCI to Human Robot Augmentation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Artificial intelligence along with advances in wearable robotics and sensing systems pave the way towards embedded systems that form a natural extension of human physical abilities. Seamless integration of these systems would require the development of advanced systems that sense human intentions and mental states such as workload and fatigue. Brain computer/machine interface (BCI/BMI) has already broken down barriers for the physically disabled, restoring the ability to communicate, enhancing rehabilitation for paretic patients and allowing control of movements for paraplegic patients that would otherwise be impossible. These systems advance our understanding of the underlying motor learning mechanisms as they alter the mapping between neuronal activity and feedback control. Furthermore, the technology has been used to assess cognitive states for mental training and attention monitoring in safety critical tasks. This workshop aims to provide a forum to bring together neuroscientists, engineers, and healthcare practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines to present the current state-of-the-art in Brain Computer Interface research for rehabilitation and mental state assessment in critical applications. It will also present some of the major technical challenges and unmet healthcare demands that can potentially reshape the future of rehabilitation robotics and wearable devices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/hamlyn/workshops/from-bci-to-human-robot-augmentation/ |