Pervasive Sensing for Buried Pipes
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Mechanical Engineering
Abstract
In Europe, the total value of sewer assets amounts to 2 trillion Euros. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that water collection systems in the USA have a total replacement value between $1 and $2 trillion. Similar figures can be assigned to other types of buried pipe assets which supply clean water and gas. In China alone 40,000 km of new sewer pipes are laid every year. However, little is known about the condition of these pipes despite the pressure on water and gas supply utility companies to ensure that they operate continuously, safely and efficiently. In order to do this properly, the utility operator must identify the initial signs of failure and then respond to the onset of failure rapidly enough to avoid loss of potable water supply, wastewater flooding or gas escape. This is attempted through targeted inspection which is typically carried out through man-entry or with CCTV approaches, although more sophisticated (e.g. tethered) devices have been developed and are used selectively. Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the UK is a world leader in this research area, these approaches are slow and labour intensive, analysis is subjective, and their deployment disrupts traffic. Moreover, because these inspections are necessarily infrequent and only cover a small proportion of the pipe network, serious degradation is often missed and pipe failures occur unexpectedly, requiring emergency repairs that greatly disrupt life of the road and adjacent buried utility infrastructure.
This Programme Grant proposes a radical change in terms of buried pipe sensing in order to address the issues of pipe inspection and rehabilitation. It builds upon recent advances in sensors, nano- and micro-electronics research, communication and robotic autonomous systems and aims to develop a completely new pervasive robotics sensing technology platform which is autonomous and covers the entire pipe network. These robots will be able to travel, cooperate and interrogate the pipes from the inside, detect the onset of any defects continuously, navigate to and zoom on sub-millimetre scale defects to examine them in detail, communicate and guide any maintenance equipment to repair the infrastructure at an early sign of deterioration. By being tiny, they do not present a danger of being stuck, blocking the pipe if damaged or run out of power. By being abundant, they introduce a high level of redundancy in the inspection system, so that routine inspection can continue after a loss of a proportion of the sensors in the swarm. By making use of the propagation of sonic waves and other types of sensing these robots can monitor any changes in the condition of the pipe walls, joints, valves and lateral connections; they can detect the early development and growth of sub-millimetre scale operational or structural faults and pipe corrosion. An important benefit of this sensing philosophy is that it mimics nature, i.e. the individual sensors are small, cheap and unsophisticated, but a swarm of them is highly capable and precise. This innovation will be the first of its kind to deploy swarms of miniaturised robots in buried pipes together with other emerging in-pipe sensor, navigation and communication solutions with long-term autonomy. Linked to the related previous work, iBUILD (EP/K012398), ICIF (EP/K012347) and ATU's Decision Support System (EP/K021699), this Programme Grant will create the technology that has flexibility to adapt to different systems of governance globally.
This work will be done in collaboration with a number of industry partners who will help to develop a new set of requirements for the new pervasive robotic sensing platform to work in clean water, wastewater and gas pipes. They will support the formation and operation of the new research Centre of Autonomous Sensing for Buried Infrastructure in the UK and ensure that the results of this research have strong practical outcomes.
This Programme Grant proposes a radical change in terms of buried pipe sensing in order to address the issues of pipe inspection and rehabilitation. It builds upon recent advances in sensors, nano- and micro-electronics research, communication and robotic autonomous systems and aims to develop a completely new pervasive robotics sensing technology platform which is autonomous and covers the entire pipe network. These robots will be able to travel, cooperate and interrogate the pipes from the inside, detect the onset of any defects continuously, navigate to and zoom on sub-millimetre scale defects to examine them in detail, communicate and guide any maintenance equipment to repair the infrastructure at an early sign of deterioration. By being tiny, they do not present a danger of being stuck, blocking the pipe if damaged or run out of power. By being abundant, they introduce a high level of redundancy in the inspection system, so that routine inspection can continue after a loss of a proportion of the sensors in the swarm. By making use of the propagation of sonic waves and other types of sensing these robots can monitor any changes in the condition of the pipe walls, joints, valves and lateral connections; they can detect the early development and growth of sub-millimetre scale operational or structural faults and pipe corrosion. An important benefit of this sensing philosophy is that it mimics nature, i.e. the individual sensors are small, cheap and unsophisticated, but a swarm of them is highly capable and precise. This innovation will be the first of its kind to deploy swarms of miniaturised robots in buried pipes together with other emerging in-pipe sensor, navigation and communication solutions with long-term autonomy. Linked to the related previous work, iBUILD (EP/K012398), ICIF (EP/K012347) and ATU's Decision Support System (EP/K021699), this Programme Grant will create the technology that has flexibility to adapt to different systems of governance globally.
This work will be done in collaboration with a number of industry partners who will help to develop a new set of requirements for the new pervasive robotic sensing platform to work in clean water, wastewater and gas pipes. They will support the formation and operation of the new research Centre of Autonomous Sensing for Buried Infrastructure in the UK and ensure that the results of this research have strong practical outcomes.
Planned Impact
This research will have very considerable non-academic impact, targeted as follows:
1. Current End User Stakeholders. There will be a continual process of engagement with our end user partners (e.g. utilities, their supply chain and regulators) informing them of new developments and future capabilities providing them with the opportunity to co-create the research and technical development as the programme advances. The team is already engaged with these partners through ongoing research and consultancy projects. We will expand this engagement through a planned programme of bespoke meetings, extended workshops and staff exchanges. The meetings, workshops and staff exchanges will ensure a deep two-way dialogue to allow the PG team to understand precisely and respond appropriately to current end user needs and exploit opportunities as they develop.
2. Wider End User Community. We will disseminate the results of our research in professional journals and trader press magazines, which are read widely by practitioners and which have proved effective in the past to help to facilitate technology trials and subsequent adoption by utilities. We will also target industry-focused events such as CIWEM's UDG annual conference, where presentations will be made to raise awareness of the capabilities of the technology so that relationships can be developed with utilities and their consultants. We will use the networks of our end user project partners to communicate the programme's outputs to a wider audience in different spheres of the industrial sector. We will offer annual workshops and webinars at which engineers and managers will be given hands-on and interactive experiences on how autonomous sensors can be used to inspect infrastructure pervasively.
3. General Public. We will win the support of the general public through a carefully prepared sequence of social media activities, press releases of key achievements, public lectures on topical research issues, school workshops and on-line webinars. These will focus on the role of sensing in society, the advantages of autonomous inspection of buried infrastructure, the opportunities for reducing traffic congestion through fewer road excavations and the benefits for society through the novel use of robots for sensor deployment pervasively.
4. Policy Makers. This Programme Grant involves a team that is closely engaged with key professional bodies in the UK and overseas. This will enable us to interact very closely with the professional bodies and help them influence the R&D policies being developed by governments to support the adoption of this technology platform more widely. These include the work of at least the six leading professional bodies in the UK: National Infrastructure Commission, Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Institute of Acoustics and Institute of Physics. We will also interact with the appropriate regulators in order to change policy and modify current asset management practices.
1. Current End User Stakeholders. There will be a continual process of engagement with our end user partners (e.g. utilities, their supply chain and regulators) informing them of new developments and future capabilities providing them with the opportunity to co-create the research and technical development as the programme advances. The team is already engaged with these partners through ongoing research and consultancy projects. We will expand this engagement through a planned programme of bespoke meetings, extended workshops and staff exchanges. The meetings, workshops and staff exchanges will ensure a deep two-way dialogue to allow the PG team to understand precisely and respond appropriately to current end user needs and exploit opportunities as they develop.
2. Wider End User Community. We will disseminate the results of our research in professional journals and trader press magazines, which are read widely by practitioners and which have proved effective in the past to help to facilitate technology trials and subsequent adoption by utilities. We will also target industry-focused events such as CIWEM's UDG annual conference, where presentations will be made to raise awareness of the capabilities of the technology so that relationships can be developed with utilities and their consultants. We will use the networks of our end user project partners to communicate the programme's outputs to a wider audience in different spheres of the industrial sector. We will offer annual workshops and webinars at which engineers and managers will be given hands-on and interactive experiences on how autonomous sensors can be used to inspect infrastructure pervasively.
3. General Public. We will win the support of the general public through a carefully prepared sequence of social media activities, press releases of key achievements, public lectures on topical research issues, school workshops and on-line webinars. These will focus on the role of sensing in society, the advantages of autonomous inspection of buried infrastructure, the opportunities for reducing traffic congestion through fewer road excavations and the benefits for society through the novel use of robots for sensor deployment pervasively.
4. Policy Makers. This Programme Grant involves a team that is closely engaged with key professional bodies in the UK and overseas. This will enable us to interact very closely with the professional bodies and help them influence the R&D policies being developed by governments to support the adoption of this technology platform more widely. These include the work of at least the six leading professional bodies in the UK: National Infrastructure Commission, Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Institute of Acoustics and Institute of Physics. We will also interact with the appropriate regulators in order to change policy and modify current asset management practices.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Collaboration)
- SES Water (Collaboration)
- Fido Tech (Collaboration)
- Acoustic Sensing Technology Ltd (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC (Collaboration)
- MELWELL TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION CONSULTI (Project Partner)
- Red Zone Robotics (Project Partner)
- Utsi Electronics (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- aql (Project Partner)
- Balfour Beatty (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- University of Waterloo (Project Partner)
- Aliaxis Group S.A. (Project Partner)
- Rioned (Project Partner)
- Dwr Cymru Welsh Water (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- UK Society for Trenchless Technolody (Project Partner)
- UK Water Industry Research (Project Partner)
- Network Rail (Project Partner)
- Synthotech (Project Partner)
- Severn Trent (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Phoenix ISL (Project Partner)
- Guidance Automation Ltd (Project Partner)
- Anglian Water Services (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Thames Water (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- RSK Environmental Ltd (Project Partner)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Project Partner)
- Environmental Protection Agency (Project Partner)
- Stantec UK Ltd (Project Partner)
- Oxford Electromagnetic Solutions Limited (Project Partner)
- Scoutek Ltd (Project Partner)
- Nuron Ltd (Project Partner)
- Scottish Water (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Infrastructure Commission (Project Partner)
Publications
Aitken J
(2021)
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Inspection Robots in Water and Sewer Pipe Networks: A Review
in IEEE Access
Anderson S
(2023)
Acoustic Echo Sensing for Robot Localization in Buried Pipe Networks
Basharat S
(2022)
Exploring reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for 6G: State-of-the-art and the road ahead
in IET Communications
Biyik C
(2021)
Smart Mobility Adoption: A Review of the Literature
in Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Bouch C
(2023)
Robotic autonomous asset management: benefit/value-based business model creation
in Infrastructure Asset Management
Bowman B
(2022)
Gazing into the Crystal Ball: A Review of Futures Analysis to Promote Environmental Justice in the UK Water Industry
in Sustainability
Chomtong P
(2023)
A Miniaturized Multiband FSS Director Using Double Layer With ICPW Technique Structure for Wireless Communication Systems
in IEEE Access
| Description | Several distinct robotics platforms have been developed to investigate the motion of robots over difficult terrains, predominantly within sewer pipes. The majority of these robots are miniature, sitting on the palm of a hand. Novel and unusual locomotion strategies have been pursued including screw based pontoons, wheel-leg combinations (wheg), plus shape changing and soft skinned robots. Details on the environments which the robots will need to operate in have been carefully taken into account in the design process. Currently we focus on one particular robot design that integrates a majority of sensing, navigation, control, locomition and communication solutions developed by the team. Outwork has also included the development of miniature electronic control boards and associated software to enable the realisation of a number of physical prototypes. We have developed bespoke acoustic and ultrasonic array sensing methods to detect and characterise blockages and leaks in pipes. We have developed special control algorithms for the robots to function fully autonomously in the harsh and poorly mapped buried pipe environment, alone and as part of a collaborative community of robots. We have developed improved methods for robot localisation and mapping adapted for pipes and integrating acoustic, visual and IMU sensing, new RF communication methods for cooperative robots working in buried pipes. We have informed this work through computer simulations and laboratory measurements to determine which radio technologies work best for wireless communication with robots in sewer pipes. As a result, we are testing different approaches to make sure the robots will always stay within communication range. We have also identified that the success of autonomous robotic sensing in a very large buried pipe network would depend on the ability of robots to communicate information on position and local conditions wirelessly. We have developed a set of bespoke experimental facilities and explored field sites to demonstrate the capabilities of the Joeys underpinned by the new science. The team has worked collaboratively internally and externally to develop new science and published key specific research findings in various high-quality international journals and conference proceedings. Pipebots has developed a whole-systems approach for robots in pipes that builds lines of communication between the fundamental scientific research required when technology readiness levels (TRL) are low, and needs of those who will ultimately employ the technology developed. This communication ensures that research outcomes are more easily embedded with industry, and feedback from industry helps to shape future research. We have gained a comprehensive understanding of the challenges which water companies face. These challenges can be addressed through the deployment of autonomous robots. Our research together with wider engagement with the academic and industry partners contributes to the development the critical mass required to establish world leading capability in autonomous sensing in the UK. |
| Exploitation Route | Some of our work on sensing in sewers was supported by a joint grant with Thames Water supported by Ofwat Innovation Fund (ca £300k) resulting in a commercial prototype. We wupported a successful Ofwat Innovation Fund application by Northubtian Water to develop the bespoke National Leakage Research and Test Centre (NLRTC) faciltiy (ca £6M). This facility will be used for testing our robotic sensing solutions. Our work on new methods for pipe condition assessment and system mapping based on sensor fusion can be taken up by water companies. Our research has paved the foundation for the submission of one more follow-on grant application to Ofwat Innovation Fund led by Thames Water to develop No Dig technologies for pipe maintenance. We have also identified new research challenges, e.g. related to system miniaturisation, autonomy and big data. Some of these challenges will be addressed by members of the Pipebots team through follow-on funding, the other challenges can be taken up by a wider research community. One example is a large grant application to Hong Kong RGC to apply acoustic time reversal methods and metamaterials to develop leak detectors with improved sensitivity and spatial resolution. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Other |
| Description | We have recently completed year 4 of the 5 year Pipebots programme grant. We have made good progress across the 7 research Themes during year 4. We reviewed and updated the original workplan to set out our research priorities for the final 24 months of the programme. We have aligned these research priorities with industry requirements which we identified through engagement with our 36 industry partners. Our strategy from the outset has been to work closely with and a range stakeholders and industry representatives and to engage them in the research as it progresses. We have engaged with representatives from various industries, in particular the water industry and their regulators. We have built new partnerships and continued to consult and work with industry partners via virtual meetings and events and several site visits. We have organised and facilitated a series of industry workshops and webinars and we have set up and developed further our existing and new links with industry and academia. Building on our success and visibility during the first four years of the programme, we worked closely with industry partners Wessex Water, Welsh Water, Thames Water and Synthotech to develop and to test autonomous robots for the inspection of raising mains made from cast and ductile iron. Pipebots worked closely with Northumbrian Water to develop the 'National Leakage Research and Test Centre (NLRTC)'. This project involves 14 water companies, 2 universities (University of Sheffield and University of Southampton) and 2 research organisations (British Water and Isle Utilities). Pipebots contributed to the LeakVision project to detect leaks in hydrogen pipes. This project was supported by the InnovateUK, National Grid and Northern Gas Networks. There has been a continued and steady interest in the Pipebots Programme Grant, with significant interest from the water industry, utilities sector and the nuclear industry. In December 2022 Pipebots enjoyed significant media coverage when the BBC produced a number of news items on leaks. Pipebots featured on BBC Breakfast, the six o clock news and BBC 4's Inside Science programme. This media coverage and exposure led to a number of enquires on an international scale (including Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, China, South America, Mauritius and Australia) and from industries including the oil and gas sector, agriculture and pest control. The Pipebots team had follow up meetings with interested parties both nationally and internationally and are in discussions for follow on projects, studentships and potential investment opportunities as a result of this coverage. In addition to the industry engagement and media coverage, Pipebots has participated in a number of public engagement and industry events. In May 2022 Pipebots exhibited at Utility Week Live 2022 as part of the Isle Utilities Innovation Hub and was delighted to win the Isle Utilities Innovation award. Over 3,000 pan-utility professionals attended the 2-day event at the NEC in Birmingham and there was interest from various industry professionals and investors. Pipebots also participated in New Scientist Live 2022 at London's Excel Centre in October 2022 and received a lot of attention and interest from children, teachers and members of the general public during the course of the 3-day event. Professor Kirill Horoshenkov presented Pipebots and participated in the 'No Dig' Sprint as part of the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2022 which took place 12-14 July 2022. The event was well attended with over 780 people from 30 countries attending the 3 days of the festival. Back in August 2022, Pipebots was granted a 12-month 'no cost' extension to mitigate the delays experienced caused by the pandemic and the knock on effects of lockdowns and restrictions. The 12-month extension period will allow the team to complete the of the later part of the experimental studies, demonstrate the capability of the sensing platform and disseminate and exploit the underpinning science to take Pipebots technology forward for potential investment in a higher TRL. |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Other |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Sandpit: trustworthiness of autonomous robotic systems for national security and defence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/sandpit-trustworthiness-of-autonomous-robotic-systems-for-national-... |
| Description | Steering Committee Member for PAS128 Revision |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | (Co-UDlabs) - Building Collaborative Urban Drainage research labs communities |
| Amount | € 5,171,769 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101008626 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 04/2025 |
| Description | Advanced Manufacturing and productivity institute (AMPI) |
| Amount | £21,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 02/2027 |
| Description | CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research |
| Amount | £2,028,049 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X040518/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2023 |
| End | 06/2026 |
| Description | Distributed Fibre-optic Cable Sensing for Buried Pipe Infrastructure |
| Amount | £641,361 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S017283/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | EPSRC UK Acoustics Network Plus |
| Amount | £1,418,894 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V007866/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | EVOLVE: Electric Vehicles Point Location Optimisation via Vehicular Communications |
| Amount | € 800,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101086218 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 01/2026 |
| Description | Engagement Excellence Scheme 2019-2020 |
| Amount | £365 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Festival of the Mind 2020 |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Innovative Sensor Array for Sewer Survey |
| Amount | £300,495 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 76593 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | National Leakage Research and Test Centre (NLRTC) |
| Amount | £5,917,913 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ofwat |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 06/2027 |
| Description | Pipebots for Rising Mains - research and feasibility study |
| Amount | £343,300 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ofwat |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | Protecting environments with unmanned aerial vehicle swarms |
| Amount | £7,800,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Windracers |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | Robot Enabled Analytics for Water Utility Infrastructure and Asset Maintenance |
| Amount | £59,614 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 79942 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Resilience |
| Amount | £3,033,177 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V026747/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Verifiability |
| Amount | £2,923,652 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V026801/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Title | Strategies for guided acoustic wave inspection using mobile robots |
| Description | Support data and codes for the paper entitled, Strategies for guided acoustic wave inspection using mobile robots, in PRSA 2021 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Requests for further information |
| URL | https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3faz3idnijk9d2vlhj3vv40dxu/ |
| Description | Acoustic Sensing Technology Limited |
| Organisation | Acoustic Sensing Technology Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Some of our work on sensing in sewers (Theme 2) has direct relevance to Acoustic Sensing Technology Limited (ASTL). Pipebots has worked closely with ASTL to help develop the next generation of sensors for ASTL's sewerbatt technology. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The director of technolgy is part of the Pipebots Steering committee and has |
| Impact | This collaboration has resulted in a new InnovateUK grant: Innovative Sensor Array for Sewer Survey (ISASS) (£300k total). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers and D Hunt. University of Birmingham and United Utilities. |
| Organisation | United Utilities Group PLC |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Professor Chris Rogers, Dr Dexter Hunt and two Liveable Cities PhD research students met with two senior staff of United Utilities to discuss collaboration. The various methodologies created over the past ~18 years were discussed in the context of a large water company. University of Birmingham is contributing research, capacity and capabilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | United Utilities is contributing staff time, mentorship, access to data, access to case study sites, and training for the research students. |
| Impact | The expected outputs are two PhD theses, an as yet unknown number of publications and conference presentations. The expected outcome is embedding research methodologies into company practice. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, combining Civil Engineering and Governance. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Fido Technology Limited |
| Organisation | Fido Tech |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Our research on leak detection in distribution pipes is supported by Fido Technology Limited through a joint PhD supervision (Joanna Watts). The Pipebots team have given presentation and demonstrations to the Fido Technology on acoustic sensing and modelling techniques. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fido Technology Limited are jointly supervising University of Sheffield student Joanna Watts who is working on leak detection in distribution pipes. They have also supplied data and access to their field sites for experimental work. |
| Impact | work is ongoing |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Fresh Water Regulations |
| Organisation | SES Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | As a result of presenting at Utility Week Live in 2020, discussion have started on the regulations to insert a foreign object such as a robot or sonde into a drinking water pipe. As part of Pipebots, we are investigating this and aim to develop some common guidelines. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SES Water through Jeremy Heath provide direct input from the practitioner's viewpoint as well as in depth knowledge of existing regulations |
| Impact | no outputs yet, but expected in 2021 in the form of a technical report which can be shared across the water industry |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Organisation | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Our research on leak detection in distribution pipes is supported by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Smart Urban water supply systems (Smart UWSS) project who are developing novel acoustic methods of time reversal and matched field processing. We have facilitated 2 joint workshops to date where the Pipebots team and Smart UWSS have delivered lectures and discussed future collaboration opportunities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Smart Urban water supply systems (Smart UWSS) project have delivered lectures and discussed future collaboration opportunities with the Pipebots team. |
| Impact | We have facilitated 2 joint workshops to date where the Pipebots team and Smart UWSS have delivered lectures and discussed future collaboration opportunities. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | Files related to the Sun Founder Pico 4WD used at the Pipebots Workshop 2022. |
| Description | This repo contains information about how to set up your PC to use Thonny and how to program a Raspberry Pi Pico board. Produced as an internal guide for the Pipebots project workshop. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Might save someone some time when starting to use a Raspberry Pi Pico board for the first time. |
| URL | https://github.com/pipebots/pico-4wd-car |
| Description | 16th International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers attended the 16th International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium in Florence, Italy, 27th-28th September. He delivered a presentation that referred to UKCRIC, NBIF and Pipebots. An international academic and practitioner audience of ~30. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 2020 Huairou International Scientific Instrument Exhibition and Collaborative Innovation Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Rob Richardson gave a presentation at the 2020 Huairou International Scientific Instrument Exhibition and Collaborative Innovation Seminar (HR ISIES 2020), Beijing, china. (Virtual) on the 3rd Sept 2020. The talk was well attended with an audience of 300 people from industry and academic in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 2022 White Rose Collaboration Project Summer School at the University of York, 24 August 2022. |
| 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 | I attended the 2022 White Rose Collaboration Project Summer School at the University of York to discover more about bio-inspired robots. My main aim was to discover more about the different techniques employed to make robots that are safe to operate in and under the water. I was also able to share details about my own work on the small pipe inspection robots that I have been helping to develop for the Pipebots project. The Principal Investigator for the Pipebots project, Kirill Horoshenkov, did a 15 minute presentation on the Pipebots project. At the breaks and during the afternoon demonstrations, I was able to talk about our robots and find out how to improve the robustness and water resistance of our robots in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://pipebots.ac.uk/bio-inspired-autonomous-robots/ |
| Description | A Plenary Talk at the The 1st Joint International Conference on Design and Construction of Smart City Components on German University of Cairo, 17-19 Dec. 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a plenary talk at the The 1st Joint International Conference on Design and Construction of Smart City Components on German University of Cairo, 177-19 December 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.guc.edu.eg/en/home/events/event_details.aspx?eventID=317 |
| Description | Article in IAHR/IWA Joint Specialist Group on Urban Drainage (JCUD) annual newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A two page article was published in the annual JCUD newsletter which is circulated globally via email to members of the urban drainage community and is available online via the IWA connect website. It only recently went online, so impact is still developing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://www.jcud.org/links_downloads.shtml |
| Description | Article in The Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Viktor Doychinov wrote an article for The Conversation, titled 'An army of sewer robots could keep our pipes clean, but they'll need to learn to communicate'. The article was published on The Conversation website and social media channels and was republished by Techxplore |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/an-army-of-sewer-robots-could-keep-our-pipes-clean-but-theyll-need-to-le... |
| Description | Article on World Economic Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An article publised in The Conversation was re-posted on the World Economic Forum website, titled: 'An army of sewer robots could keep our pipes clean, but they'll need to learn to communicate' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/technology-robots-sewage-pipes-uk-artificial-intelligence/ |
| Description | Article on mail online |
| 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 | Pipebots featured on mail online on 31st December 2018. The article announced the Pipebots programme grant and explained the aims of the programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6540987/Futuristic-micro-robots-make-roadworks-thing... |
| Description | Attendance at WWT asset management conference |
| 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 | Discussion with senior asset management representatives from Welsh Water about development of the Pipebots operational concept |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | B Bowman meeting with United Utilities (10/2/2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting on 10/2/2022 with network strategy team at United Utilities to discuss the current blockers to proactive network surveying and maintenance with exploration of how the technology being developed in Pipebots could overcome these barriers. Opportunities were discussed for the short-medium term, as incremental change, and in the long-term, providing transformational change within the industry. A summary of the meeting has been generated and will be used to inform implementation options. Following these discussions United Utilities Network Strategy Team were interested in greater involvement as the research progresses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blog post: Mini Pipe Robots Could Help Stop and Prevent Leaky Pipes to Save Water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post Mini Pipe Robots Could Help Stop and Prevent Leaky Pipes to Save Water - posted on One Green Planet following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/mini-pipe-robots-could-help-stop-and-prevent-leaky-pipes-... |
| Description | Bradford Science Festival 2021 |
| 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 | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov and Dr Viktor Doychinov took part in the Bradford Science Festival this year. This year was bigger than ever, with shows and performances, installations, make and takes, demonstrations, experiments, crafting activities and more. Dr Doychinov ran a small stand about Pipebots with a short activity for children to participate in. The stand was busy day and Professor Horoshenkov and Dr Doychinov talked to approximnately 40 families about Pipebots, UKAN+ and robotics and wireless communications in general. · A whopping 10,000 visitors came to the Museum during the festival · There were over 25,000 visitor engagements in STEM activities · Over 70 contractors and organisations took part in the festival The event also had some great press coverage this year. Festival photos featured in the Guardian's photos of the week section; The i and The Daily Telegraph along with the local press the Yorkshire Post and Telegraph and Argus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/bradford-science-festival-2021 |
| Description | C Bouch. 4th International Conference on Trees, People and the Built Environment. 3-4 Feb 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Bouch attended the 4th International Conference on Trees, People and the Built Environment on 3rd and 4th February 2021, and presented a paper entitled Creating Business Models for Green Infrastructure. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Pipebots and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers and D Hunt. Meeting with United Utilities. 26 January 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers, Dr Dexter Hunt and two Liveable Cities Research Students met with two senior staff of United Utilities on 26th January 2021 to discuss potential plans for collaboration. The various methodologies created over the past ~18 years were discussed in the context of a large water company. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC CORONA, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers and J Leach. HS2 Innovation Workshop. 1 Nov 2022 |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers and Dr Joanne Leach attended a UKCRIC - HS2 Innovation Workshop organised by HS2 on 1st November 2022 to explore collaboration between UKCRIC and HS2 to advance HS2's Research & innovation programme. The research carried out over the past 20 years on sustainable, resilient and liveable cities, which provides the foundation for the UKCRIC Theory of Change for Infrastructure and Cities, provided the basis for the discussions. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers and J Leach. International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019. Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 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 | Chris Rogers and Joanne Leach attended the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019 - Joining Forces for Change, 10-13 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden, and ran a 90-minute Workshop Session entitled "Towards the Establishment of a New Transdisciplinary Area of Scholarship in Infrastructure and Cities". This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, UKCRIC UO, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers and J Leach. Royal Town, Planning Institute. 29 Nov 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers and Dr Joanne Leach met with Wei Yang, outgoing President of the Royal Town, Planning Institute, and Professor Mike Batty from UCL on 29th November 2022 to explore collaboration between UKCRIC and the Digital Task Force for Planning. The research carried out over the past 20 years on sustainable, resilient and liveable cities, which provides the foundation for the UKCRIC Theory of Change for Infrastructure and Cities, was presented. This led to Professor Rogers being invited to become a Director of the Digital Task Force for Planning as one of six Directors. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers and J Leach. UKCRIC: Living with COVID and Climate Change - impact on cities and infrastructure. 4 August 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 | Professor Chris Rogers and Dr Joanne Leach attended a workshop entitled UKCRIC: Living with COVID and Climate Change - impact on cities and infrastructure on 4th August 2020 with ~30, mainly practitioners, in attendance. The various infrastructure and urban systems methodologies created over the past ~18 years were introduced in discussions relating to the workshop topic. The workshop formed the basis of a UKCRIC report available at www.ukcric.com/insights/rethinking-infrastructure-and-cities-for-a-covid-19-world-a-ukcric-prospectus. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers and L Shrimpton. UKCRIC news. A Systems Approach to Increasing Urban and Infrastructure Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers and Elisabeth Shrimpton published an article on their contribution to the CoP26 event on the UKCRIC website and in the December 2021 UKCRIC newsletter. This served as dissemination from LC, UKCRIC CN and the Pipebots grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukcric.com/news/a-systems-approach-to-increasing-urban-and-infrastructure-resilience/ |
| Description | C Rogers et al hosted Dan Murray USEPA on 21 Nov 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers, Chris Bouch and Lis Shrimpton hosted Dan Murray of the US Environmental Protection Agency on 21st November 2019 and introduced the full suite of UKCRIC methodologies that might be applied to any system intervention, whether the introduction of Pipebots or otherwise This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers et al. MSc in Sustainable Construction module. U of Birmingham. 2-6 Mar 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers, Joanne Leach, Chris Bouch, Mike Goodfellow-Smith, Dexter Hunt, Marianna Cavada, Giovani Palafox and Lis Shrimpton delivered lectures on the findings from the sustainable, resilient and liveable cities research portfolio led by the University of Birmingham from 2003-present to the Sustainable Construction MSc module to 102 students from 2nd - 6th March. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC UO, UKCRIC CORONA, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers et al. Meeting with Oxford U. 28 May 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers, David Chapman, Nicole Metje, Nigel Cassidy and others met with three academics from Oxford University on 28th May 2019 and described the findings from Liveable Cities, UKCRIC (NBIF, CN, PLEXUS and CORONA), iBUILD, MTU, ATU, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, MTU, ATU, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers et al. Sustainable Construction MSc module 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers, Joanne Leach, Chris Bouch, Mike Goodfellow-Smith, Dexter Hunt, Marianna Cavada, Giovani Palafox and Lis Shrimpton delivered lectures on the findings from the sustainable, resilient and liveable cities research portfolio led by the University of Birmingham from 2003-present to the Sustainable Construction MSc module to 100 students from 22nd - 26th March 2021. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC UO, UKCRIC CORONA, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers, K Horoshenkov, N Metje. UK Society of Trenchless Technology. Pipebots - micro-robots revolutionising the management of buried pipes. 29 March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professors Chris Rogers, Kirill Horoshenkov and Nicole Metje presented at a lunchtime talk to the UK Society of Trenchless Technology on 'Pipebots - micro-robots revolutionising the management of buried pipes' on 29th March 2021 attended by ~100 industrial practitioners. Alongside the technical developments in the Pipebots programme, the various infrastructure and urban systems methodologies created over the past 20 years were presented and discussed. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, UKCRIC CN, Pipebots, and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers. Department for Transport, 27th September 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers gave a general presentation in which he outlined the history of research leading up to, and progress to date, of UKCRIC to Professor Sarah Sharples, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Transport, and three members of her team on 27th September 2021. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, UKCRIC CN, Self-Repairing Cities, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers. Twenty65 Conference 2019. Manchester, UK |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the Twenty65 Conference on 27th March 2019 in Manchester, at which he took part in workshop sessions during which he presented the thinking behind and the findings from Liveable Cities, UKCRIC CN, iBUILD, ATU and Pipebots. The audience of 40 delegates consisted of urban practitioners and academics. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, ATU, Pipebots, UKCRIC CN and UKCRIC PLEXUS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. 16th International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium. Florence, Italy, 27-28 Sept 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 | Chris Rogers attended the 16th International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium in Florence, Italy, 27th-28th September. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. 17th International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. 29-30 Sep 2022 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the 17th International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, on 29th-30th September 2022 at which he delivered a presentation covering his cities and buried infrastructure research portfolio and UKCRIC. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. 1st Water Engineering Science & Technology (WEST) Conference on 16th March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers gave a presentation entitled 'Assessing The Underworld - Three Interdependent Infrastructures' to the 1st Water Engineering Science & Technology (WEST) Conference on 16th March 2022 and took part in a Q&A session organised by OFWAT. The conference was attended by 250 delegates consisting of water industry practitioners and professionals. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. A Vision For Pervasive Autonomous Inspection of Buried Pipe Infrastructure. No Dig 2022. 38th Intl Conference on Trenchless Technologies. 3-5 Oct 2022. Helsinki, Finland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended the International No Dig 2022 Conference - the 38th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, 3rd-5th October 2022, Helsinki, Finland, and presented a paper entitled "A Vision For Pervasive Autonomous Inspection of Buried Pipe Infrastructure". This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. BEIS Scientific Team on 17th February 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers and two colleagues from UKCRIC attended a meeting with three members of the BEIS Scientific Team on 17th February 2022 to present UKCRIC's facilities, capacity and capability and discuss a response to the Sir Paul Nurse Review of the Research, Development and Innovation Landscape. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. BT Buried Infrastructure meeting. 21 Oct 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers, along with colleagues from Pipebots, attended a meeting with four senior staff from BT on 21st October 2019, during which he presented findings from his buried infrastructure research portfolio. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, MTU, ATU, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. BT Robotics Laboratory at Adastral Park, Ipswich on 4th November 2021 |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers attended the opening of the new BT Robotics Laboratory at Adastral Park, Ipswich on 4th November 2021 attended by 50 practitioners and academics. Following a morning of presentations, he attended an exhibition stand which was present throughout the day. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers. Below Ground Planning on 9th February 2022 |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers attended a workshop with a group of 12 practitioners on Below Ground Planning on 9th February 2022, during which he disseiminated findings from his infrastrcuture and urban systems research. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. Buried Infrastructure and the Move to Net Zero. Inst of Gas Engineers. 26 Apr 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled "Buried Infrastructure and the Move to Net Zero" to a joint meeting of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers and the Pipeline Industries Guild on 26th April 2022 attended by 40 practitioners and took part in a Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. COP26 Glasgow. A Systems Approach to Urban Resilience and Sustainable, Liveable, Adaptable and (Truly) Smart Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers presented to a workshop and panel discussion at COP26 in Glasgow entitled 'What makes Urban Infrastructure Resilient to Weather and Climate Change?' on 11th November 2021 attended by 100 international practitioners (in person and live online). He delivered a presentation entitled 'A Systems Approach to Urban Resilience and Sustainable, Liveable, Adaptable and (Truly) Smart Cities' and took part in a Q&A and panel discussion session. The various infrastructure and urban systems methodologies created over the past 20 years, along with specific research findings on urban resilience, formed the basis of the presentation. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC CORONA, Self-Repairing Cities, Pipebots and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers. Digital Built Britain and Mott Macdonald. 8 Dec 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers met with Mark Enzer, outgoing Chair of the Centre for Digital Built Britain, and Dr Brendan Bromwich from Mott Macdonald on 8th December 2022 to explore collaboration on systems engineering. The research carried out over the past 20 years on sustainable, resilient and liveable cities, which provides the foundation for the UKCRIC Theory of Change for Infrastructure and Cities, was presented. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. Directors of Hypertunnel 9 Sep 2022 and 19 Jan 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation covering his cities and buried infrastructure research portfolio and UKCRIC to the Directors of Hypertunnel on 9th September 2022, followed by questions and discussion on the potential for this to contribute to the development of this high-speed rail innovation. He subsequently presented to a virtual workshop on the same topic on 19th January 2023 to advance the discussions. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | C Rogers. EPSRC consultation for Engineering Healthier Cities. 16 September 2020 |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers took part as one of nine senior academics in an EPSRC consultation on the future research direction for Engineering Healthier Cities on 16th September 2020. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers. East-West Rail Workshop. 1 Aug 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended a UKCRIC East-West Rail Workshop on 1st August during which he disseminated the findings from his research portfolio with ~20 UKCRIC academic partners and ~10 railway practitioners. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Horizon 3 Futures Programme Workshop - HS2. 8 Jun 2022 |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers attended a Horizon 3 Futures Programme Workshop organized by HS2 on 8th June 2022 attended by 40 practitioners to explore collaboration between UKCRIC and HS2 to advance HS2's Research & innovation programme. The research carried out over the past 20 years on sustainable, resilient and liveable cities, which provides the foundation for the UKCRIC Theory of Change for Infrastructure and Cities, provided the basis for the discussions. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. ICSIC 2019. Cambridge 8 Jul 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction International Conference (ICSIC 2019) on 8th July 2019 in Cambridge, UK. He engaged in plenary discussions with ~100 delegates, mainly UK and international practitioners, on UKCRIC and the application of robotics for infrastructure engineering. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC NBIF, iBUILD, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. InSIS-UKCRIC Workshop. Oxford University. 12-13 November 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended an InSIS-UKCRIC Workshop hosted by the Institute for Science Innovation and Society (InSIS) at Oxford University on 12th and 13th November 2019 attended by ~20 academics and practitioners. He disseminated the findings from his infrastructure and cities research portfolio. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC UO and Self-Repairing Cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Innovate UK - QT-Hub. Birmingham 1 Jul 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended a visit by 2 staff of Innovate UK to discuss collaboration at the University of Birmingham Quantum Technologies Hub UK on 1st July 2019, at which he described his current research portfolio. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Institution of Civil Engineers. UK to Net Zero. 15 Sep 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 | Professor Chris Rogers took part in a half-day workshop hosted on 15th September 2020 by the Institution of Civil Engineers, and involving ~20 practitioners and academics, on the role of civil engineers in helping to move the UK to Net Zero. The various infrastructure and urban systems methodologies created over the past ~18 years were described and discussed. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers. International No-Dig 2019 Conference. 30 Sep-2 Oct 2019. Florence, Italy. 2 presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended the International No Dig 2019 Conference - the 37th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, 30th September-2nd October 2019, Florence, Italy, and presented two papers. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Interview by Kate McNeil, PaCCS Research. 1 Sep 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers was interviewed by Kate McNeil, the Communications Officer for PaCCS Research, an initiative established by UKRI as a successor to the Global Uncertainties project, on 1st September 2022. PaCCS aims to improve our understanding of global security challenges and to facilitate the dissemination of research findings in this area. The interview provide a contribution to the PaCCS evidence base in the form of a blog entitled "Engineering for Resilience" - see Engineering for Resilience in Urban Environments | (paccsresearch.org.uk) and a book entitled "Global Uncertainties: Collected Conversations. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/blog/engineering-for-resilience-in-urban-environments/ |
| Description | C Rogers. Interview for New Civil Engineer. 3 April 2020 |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers was interviewed by Joshua Stein for an article in response to the reported reduction in construction industry spend on research and development in the past year. The article appeared in New Civil Engineer on 3rd April 2020. New Civil Engineer is circulated to all 90,000 members of the Institution of Civil Engineers. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers. Issues being faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on plans for Smart Cities. Dubai 15 July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers took part in a live panel session entitled "Issues being faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on plans for Smart Cities" broadcast in Dubai on 15th July 2020 in which he Dr Sabih Getea Khisaf (Head of Engineering Middle East and North Africa, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.) were posed a series of questions by a local journalist and subsequently answered listener's questions. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers. Launch event NBIF. University of Birmingham. 20th October 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers gave a general presentation in which he outlined the history of research leading up to, and progress to date, of UKCRIC NBIF to 60 practitioners during the launch event for the new National Buried Infrastructure Facility on campus at the University of Birmingham on 20th October 2021. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, Self-Repairing Cities, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers. National Buried Infrastructure Facility. 17 May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation on UKCRIC's Built Environment Cluster and a presentation entitled "National Buried Infrastructure Facility" covering his buried infrastructure, cities and UKCRIC research portfolio to ~80 industry practitioners on 17th May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. No Dig 2022. 38th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies. 3-5 Oct 2022. Helsinki, Finland |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the International No Dig 2022 Conference - the 38th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, 3rd-5th October 2022, Helsinki, Finland, and engaged in panel discussions at two sessions with ~60 practitioners and academics in attendance. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. No-Dig 2019 Conference, Florence, Italy |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the International No Dig 2019 Conference - the 37th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, 30th September-2nd October 2019, Florence, Italy, and engaged in panel discussions at two sessions with ~60 practitioners and academics in attendance. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. PLEXUS stakeholder event, Birmingham. 3 Jul 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers hosted the Annual PLEXUS Stakeholder Event on 3rd July 2019 in Birmingham, attended by academics from a range of universities and ~20 industry practitioners, during which he disseminated the findings from his infrastructure and cities research portfolio. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Pervasive Green Infrastructure Corridors -Routes to More Sustainable, Resilient and Liveable Cities. RECLAIM Network Plus. 7 Dec 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled "Pervasive Green Infrastructure Corridors -Routes to More Sustainable, Resilient and Liveable Cities" covering his cities research portfolio and UKCRIC to ~40 researchers registered with the EPSRC-funded RECLAIM Network Plus in a double-header with Professor Paul Monks (Chief Scientific Advisor for BEIS), on 7th December 2022, followed by questions and discussion on the potential for infrastructure and urban systems to contribute to RECLAIM'S objectives. RECLAIM is and EPSRC-funded Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning cities from vulnerable spaces to healthy places for people). This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. Pipebots Industry Workshop. 12 Jul 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended a Pipebots Industry Workshop on 12th July 2019 with ~25 water industry professionals and engaged in multiple workshop discussions on different aspects of his buried research portfolio. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC NBIF, iBUILD, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Pipebots Launch Event, London. 20 Nov 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 | Chris Rogers attended Launch of the Pipebots programme grant on 20th November, during which he disseminated findings from his buried infrastructure research portfolio. This served as dissemination from iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC NBIF Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Recent NBIF Research. 12 Jan 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled Recent NBIF Research covering his and colleagues' buried infrastructure, cities and UKCRIC research portfolio to 15 industry practitioners on 12th January 2023. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | C Rogers. Severn Trent Water 6 Mar 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 | Chris Rogers met with the Bob Stear, the Chief Engineer of Severn Trent Water on 19th February 2020, during which he disseminated his findings from his UKCRIC and buried infrastructure research portfolio. This was followed up with a meeting with 5 University of Birmingham researchers and 5 Severn Trent Water engineers on 6th March 2020, where wider dissemination occurred. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC NBIF, ATU and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers. Sustainable, Resilient and Liveable Cities and True Smartness. 25 May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled "Sustainable, Resilient and Liveable Cities and True Smartness" covering his cities and UKCRIC research portfolio to ~40 industry practitioners registered with the ERDF-funded Alternative Resources with Low Impact programme, on 25th May 2022, followed by questions and discussion. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. Sustainable, Resilient, Liveable and Smart Infrastructure and City System Interventions. Loughborough University. 28 Feb 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a 2-hour presentation entitled "Sustainable, Resilient, Liveable and Smart Infrastructure and City System Interventions" to 40 final year undergraduate architecture and PhD students at Loughborough University on 28th February 2023. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | C Rogers. TRT World Roundtable. Net Zero: Car-Free Cities. 27-28 Feb 2020 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers took part in a 30-minute TV debate as part of the TRT World Roundtable series focussing on Net Zero. The debate was hosted by David Frost and along with Chris Rogers (representing Liveable Cities and the University of Birmingham) the panel members were Christian Woolmar (journalist specialising on the History of Transport Policy), Danny Harris (Executive Director of Transport Alternatives, New York), and Ian Taylor (Director, Alliance of British Drivers) broadcast by TRT World (Sky Channel 516) on 27th and 28th February 2020. The episode is available on YouTube at the URL given. TRT World has a global audience of 260 million in 190 countries. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxE0UJ9cfjUD_FLJkxKaH5w/search?query=car-free |
| Description | C Rogers. The Invisible Carbon in Architecture and Infrastructure. 8 Jun 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled "The Invisible Carbon in Architecture and Infrastructure" to the C-DICE Net Zero World Café series on 8th June 2022 attended by 12 Postdoctoral and Early Career Researchers. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots and UKCRIC NBIF grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. The Underworld From Ecosystem Services to Hard Engineering. The Engineering Club. 7 Apr 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled "The Underworld - From Ecosystem Services to Hard Engineering" to The Engineering Club on 7th April 2022 attended by 50 practitioners and took part in a Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.engineeringclub.org.uk/talk/underworld-from-ecosystems-to-hard-engineering/ |
| Description | C Rogers. The Urban Metabolism and its accommodation in our streets". Department for Transport, Jan 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers delivered a presentation entitled "The Urban Metabolism and its accommodation in our streets" to the Department for Transport, attended by ~60 DfT practitioners and policy-makers on 14th January 2022. The various infrastructure and urban systems methodologies created over the past 20 years, along with specific research findings on road and buried infrastructure condition assessment and damage avoidance using trenchless technologies, were presented, following which he took part in a 20-minute Q&A session. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, UKCRIC NBIF and the Pipebots grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC All Hands Meeting in Cambridge. 7th November 2019. |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the UKCRIC All Hands Meeting in Cambridge on 7th November 2019. He disseminated the findings from his research portfolio during workshop discussions with ~30 UKCRIC academic partners. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, UKCRIC UO, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC All Hands Meeting in London. 3rd December 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended the UKCRIC All Hands Meeting in London on 3rd December 2019. He disseminated the findings from his research portfolio during workshop discussions with ~30 UKCRIC academic partners. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC All Hands meeting, Birmingham UK. 31 Jul 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the UKCRIC All Hands Meeting in Birmingham on 31st July 2019. He disseminated the findings from his research portfolio during workshop discussions with ~30 UKCRIC academic partners. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, UKCRIC UO, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC All Hands meeting, Southampton UK. 3 Sep 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the UKCRIC All Hands Meeting in Southampton on 3rd September 2019. He disseminated the findings from his research portfolio during workshop discussions with ~30 UKCRIC academic partners. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, UKCRIC UO, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC CIM Launch 17 Jun 2019 Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended the launch of the UKCRIC Centre for Infrastructure Materials on 17th June 2019 in Leeds, at which he delivered the UKCRIC presentation and took part in workshop sessions during which he communicated the thinking behind and the findings from Liveable Cities, UKCRIC (NBIF, CN, PLEXUS and CORONA), iBUILD, ATU, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. The audience of 30 delegates consisted of urban practitioners and academics. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, ATU, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC International Advisory Board. 11-12 March 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers attended a sequence of teleconference calls with the UKCRIC International Advisory Board on 11th and 12th March 2020 during which he disseminated findings from his infrastructure and cities research portfolio. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC TRAINRig. Derby 19 Jun 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers delivered the UKCRIC presentation at the launch of the UKCRIC TRAINRig, hosted by the University of Birmingham in Derby, on 19th June 2019 and took part in individual discussions during which he communicated the thinking behind and the findings from Liveable Cities, UKCRIC (NBIF, CN, PLEXUS and CORONA), iBUILD, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. The audience of 30 delegates consisted primarily of urban practitioners. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKCRIC mtg with Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers.18 Feb 2020. London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended a UKCRIC meeting with the Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers and his senior colleagues on 18th February 2020 in London, during which he disseminated his findings from his UKCRIC research portfolio. This served as dissemination from UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, UKCRIC UO and Pipebots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. UKRI Tomorrow's Engineering Research Challenges Workshops. 30th November and 1st, 7th and 9th December 2021. |
| 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 | Professor Chris Rogers attended a series of four half-day UKRI Tomorrow's Engineering Research Challenges Workshops to help to define the research agenda on 30th November and 1st, 7th and 9th December 2021. One of 50 delegates, he brought his experience of infrastructure and urban systems research to bear on the discussions. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UF, ULB, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC CORONA, S-RC, Pipebots, UKCRIC NBIF and the Birmingham Urban Observatory grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | C Rogers. UoB Open Day. 28 Jun 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers attended an Open Day for prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students on campus at the University of Birmingham on 28th June 2019. He described his research portfolio to ~30 prospective students and parents. This served as dissemination from LC, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC UO, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | C Rogers. Water Engineering Professors Workshop. Leeds. 24 Jun 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers attended the Water Engineering Professors Workshop in Leeds on 24th June 2019, and took part table and plenary discussions on water industry research needs, during which he communicated the thinking behind and the findings from Liveable Cities, UKCRIC (NBIF, CN, PLEXUS and CORONA), iBUILD, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. The audience of 20 delegates consisted of academics. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Clark Lecture 2019 |
| 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 | Chris Rogers hosted the Clark Lecture and half-day workshops and meetings with Professor Phil Blythe (Chief Scientific Advisor to the DfT) on 11th June 2019. Detailed discussions on the UoB research included the findings from Liveable Cities, UKCRIC (NBIF, CN, PLEXUS and CORONA), iBUILD, MTU, ATU, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. This was also displayed in the 90 minutes before, and after, the evening lecture to the 120 attendees, consisting on a mixture of academics from a wide range of disciplines, industrialists and lay people. This served as dissemination from LC, iBUILD, UKCRIC CN, UKCRIC PLEXUS, UKCRIC CORONA, UKCRIC NBIF, UKCRIC UO, MTU, ATU, Self-Repairing Cities and Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DRONES & ROVS 2021, 25th and 26th February 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov was invited to give a talk at the DRONES & ROVS 2021 conference, hosted by INSPIRE University Transportation Centre, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. Prof Horoshenkov presented Swarm Robotics for the Inspection of Underground Pipes at the conference which was attended by international academics and professionals. Participants from the conference have been in contact with the Pipebots team and a follow up meeting has been arraged with Prof Horoshenkov and Ocean Infinity who are interested in disucssing opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion with Spectar technologies about Pipebots, surveying sewer networks, their robot and plans |
| 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 | Will Shepherd had an online meeting with Suraj Hiremath and Wouter Viroux of Spectar Technologies in March 2021. They discussed a prototype inspection robot that Spectar have developed for larger diameter pipes and plans to add sensors to it. Also discussed were the business drivers for inspection robots, how these might vary between countries and how to obtain relevant information to build up these cases. Areas where information could be shared to mutual benefit were discussed. Future developments of Pipebots sensors could potentially be deployed on a Spectar platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://spectar-technologies.com/ |
| Description | Dynamics Research Group Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Dynamic Research Group (DRG) at the University of Sheffield is one of the largest dedicated research groups specialising in structural dynamics in the world. Particular topics of interest include nonlinear dynamics, structural health and condition monitoring, uncertainty analysis, acoustics, smart structures and vibration control. The annual showcase allows the DRG to showcase their research and facilities and discuss new collaborations. Typically postgraduate students prepare posters or presentations and the event lasts all afternoon to allow plenty of time for interactions and discussions. An estimated 200 people attended this time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://acoustics.ac.uk/events/dynamics-research-group-showcase-event-university-of-sheffield/ |
| Description | Engagement Activities - Polypipe & partners |
| 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 | A delegation of visitors from Polypipe & partners visited the National Buried Infrastructure Facility on 27/04/22 to discuss potential research opportunities and received a talk from Nicole Metje on the scope of research available at NBIF and also had a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement Activities WRc |
| 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 | A delegation from the Water Research Centre visited the National Buried Infrastructure Facility on 09/11/22 and received a talk from Nicole Metje on the scope of research available at NBIF and also had a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Feature on IMECHE: How swarms of robots will revolutionise the construction industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IMECHE featured an article in August 2019 about Micro robots. The article involved an interview with Prof. Kirill Horoshenkov who talked about the challenge to develop miniature robots and how they communicate in the pipe networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/feature-how-swarms-of-robots-will-revolutionise-the-constru... |
| Description | Festival of the Mind |
| 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 | Pipebots participated in Festival of the Mind 2020 which took place at Millennium Galleries, Sheffield from Thursday 17-Sunday 27 September 2020. The interactive augmented reality exhibition demonstrated how tiny robots and new technology will improve safety and efficiency in underground pipe networks. Visitors to the exhibition were able to view Pipebots at work in an underground pipe network using ipads. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://pipebots.ac.uk/pipebots-at-festival-of-the-mind/ |
| Description | Film of Sprint on Pipe networks |
| 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 film of the sprint on pipe networks is a video record of the first Pipebots Sprint held at the ICAIR facility in Sheffield in June 2019. The aim of the Sprint was to educate the academic team about piped water networks and their likely defects. The video includes interviews with academics from each theme, describing their role and the aims of their theme. The video is available on the Pipebots website and YouTube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzmryN33N7A&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Formal Launch of Programme Grant at at the Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 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 | An interactive workshop was held to engage people in the Programme Grant and gain their insight and input to the Programme, 20th November 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Future Water Networks 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Simon Tait presented "Robots in sewers - the latest research" at the Future Water Networks 2020 conference on Wednesday 18th November 2020. Participants from the water industry and academia from UK and Europe attended the 3 day conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.futurewaterassociation.com/event/future-water-networks-2020/ |
| Description | Grand Opening of the Engineering Research Facilities at the University of Birmingham |
| 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 | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov, along with Prof Chris Rogers and Prof Simon Tait attended the Grand Opening of the Engineering Research Facilities at the University of Birmingham on 20th October 2021. The event was well attended industry and academia and included a tour of the The National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF) facility for research, education and training in buried infrastructure-ground interaction, soil stabilisation and improvement, geophysical sensing, pipeline detection & condition assessment, tunnelling and trenchless technologies, a facility Pipebots intends to use for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | How robots are crawling through underground pipes and helping the work conserve water |
| 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 | Following the coverage on the BBC on 26/12/2023, a podcast was broadcast on 'What's new today'. The episode features an 11-year-old girl sharing about this news story that she found fascinating. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/6oqauBoqd3mZ4Q4czqk10F?si=YkjdO9OhS5WJsT5cQ2O8HQ&nd=1 |
| Description | Hydrolink Magazine: Autonomous robotics for water and sewer networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This article featured in a special issue (Artificial Intelligence) of Hydrolink magazine, published in August 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.iahr.org/library/infor?pid=10799 |
| Description | ICE Talk - Robotics for the inspection of underground pipes, online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov gave a presentation on 'Robotics for the inspection of underground pipes' at the Yorkshire Branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 29th March 2021. The event was attened by 35 members of the Institution of Civil Engineers. In his presentation, Prof Horoshenkov presented the Pipebots vision and research challenges and the approaches used by Pipebots to overcome these challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/robotics-for-inspection-underground-pipes-online |
| Description | International No Dig 2019 Conference - the 37th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Chris Rogers attended the International No Dig 2019 Conference - the 37th International Conference on Trenchless Technologies, 30th September-2nd October 2019, Florence, Italy, and presented two papers. Both presentations referred to UKCRIC, NBIF and Pipebots. Each had an international academic and practitioner audience of ~50. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | International Women's Day & Independence of Mauritius Lecture: 8 March 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov presented Pipebots at the International Women's Day & Independence of Mauritius Lecture on 8th March 2023. The talk was well attended, with 55 participants attending the virtual talk which was followed by a Q&A session. There were requests for further information following the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Introduction to Pipebots at visit to EAWAG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short presentation and talk introducing the Pipebots project to a group of researchers and students from the urban water department at EAWAG https://www.eawag.ch/en/department/sww/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Presentation at Pipelines Industry Guild |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk was given to the PIG meeting in front of ~30 people on 'How Science & Research is contributing to Decarbonising Infrastructure Construction' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Talk on Internet-of-Robotics and Autonomous Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Glasgow Summer School co-located with IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE UK - CHINA EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (UCET) was presented on Robotics and Autonomous Systems focusing on work being done in Pipebots project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Isle Utilities Zero Pollutions Conference 2021 - participation in online panel |
| 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 | Dr Will Shepherd gave a short presentation and participated in a panel discussion considering how new technologies will help the water industry achieve zero pollution events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.isleutilities.com/events/zero-pollutions-conference-2021 |
| Description | Joint workshop with UNEXMIN and Robominers |
| 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 | Pipebots organised a joint workshop with EU funded projects UNEXMIN and ROBOMINERS. The workshop took place in Amsterdam on 17th October 2019. 18 participants from the 3 projects (Pipebots, UNEXMIN and ROBOMINERS) came together to discuss common challenges, find similarities and explore ideas for future collaboration. The group discussed and shared ideas on Robotics, Miniaturisation, Navigation, Communication and Sensing and made plans for future workshops and events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Keynote talk at IEEE MENACOMM on Creating Impact Momentum in Communication adn Sensing Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 people attended this keynote talk at IEEE MENACOMM which described how you can abstract complex problems and use theoretical tools to solve them. Pipebots was presented as a case-study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://menacomm.org/Program.php |
| Description | L Shrimpton. Urban Infrastructure and Resilience - the Future of Governance. Glasgow COP26, Nov 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lis Shrimpton presented to a workshop and panel discussion at COP26 in Glasgow entitled 'What makes Urban Infrastructure Resilient to Weather and Climate Change?' on 11th November 2021 attended by 100 international practitioners (in person and live online). She delivered a presentation entitled 'Urban Infrastructure and Resilience - the Future of Governance' and took part in a Q&A and panel discussion session. The governance framework created in the Pipebots programme formed the basis of the presentation. This served as dissemination from Pipebots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Machine Learning and Multi-Sensor Data Processing for Autonomous Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | More than 55 percent of the world population lives in cities and it is predicted that this number will increase to 70 percent in the next five years. This will increase the number of mega cities around the world. Cities are complex systems and they are equipped with many sensors. Sensors provide enormous amounts of information beyond the capacity that a human could process. This talk will focus on the challenges that modern cities face - from the point of view of mobility, intelligent transport, surveillance, resilience, machine learning methods and autonomy in urban data analytics and big data. This talk will discuss recently developed machine learning methods able to deal with data challenges such as volume, velocity, veracity and variety. Some of these trends in machine learning and autonomy are towards development of trustworthy solutions, able to work under different conditions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Nuor0XaETThgoqBh2HCtxA |
| Description | Meeting with Acoustic Sensing Technology (UK) 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 | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov, Dr Yicheng Yu and Aisling Cooling met with Richard Long and Chris Barker from Acoustic Sensing Technology (UK) Ltd on 16th June to discuss the work in Theme 2 (sensors) and potential collaboration. This has resulted in being awarded funding via the Innovate UK Sustainable Innovation Fund. ASTL are leading the 9 month Innovative Sensor Array for Sewer Survey (ISASS) project where Pipebots is the academic partner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Adam Smith of Yorkshire Water |
| 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 | Meeting to discuss: involvement with case studies; access to standards/procedures; business models; systems engineering |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with BT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kirill Horoshenkov, Simon Tait, Chris Rogers, Will Shepherd and Aisling Cooling met will representatives from BT on 21st October 2019. The group discussed how Pipebots work could apply in telecom use-case and discussed potential collaboration opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with DCWW Digital ReThink team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chris Bouch, University of Birmingham attended a meeting with the Welsh Water Digital ReThink team to explore collaboration opportunities for buried infrastructure, R&D and practice. The meeting resulted in development of stronger links and more opportunities with Welsh Water. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Delme Williams, Business Improvement Manager with Welsh Water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chris Bouch and Lewis Makana, both of University of Birmingham, attended a meeting with the Welsh Water's Delme Williams to understand more clearly Welsh Water's processes for business improvement, and how these might influence Pipebot's research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Fido Tech - 5th October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Joanna Watts, Joby Boxall, Simon Tait and Kirill V. Horoshenkov from Pipebots met with Neil Edwards, Polly Blythe and Victoria Edwards from FidoTech. The team discussed working together on sensing technology and agreed to meet on a regular basis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Hull City council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Chris Rogers, Aisling Cooling, Prof Simon Tait and Dr Chris Bouch met with senior managers from Hull City Council to discuss Pipebots and how Hull City Council can become involved in the programme and possibly testing as part of their Smart Cities project. Agreed there is an opportunity to work together and agreed that Andy Bell (Major projects and infrastructure) would join the Pipebots Steering Committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Leo Carswell, Principal Consultant, WRC to discuss the approval process for new technology in clean water pipes |
| 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 | Chris Bouch, Lis Shrimpton, Bryony Bowman, and Lewis Makana met Leo Carswell to discuss the approval process for new technology in clean water pipes, which will influence the direction of research on the Pipebots project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Lewis Richards, Microsoft. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Will Shepherd and Jonathan Sykes (Grantham Centre, UoS) had an online meeting with Lewis Richards who is a technology strategist with Microsoft, focussing on the water industry. Pipebots applications were discussed as well as other water industry technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Ocean Infinity 5th March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov and Aisling Cooling met with Ramsay Lind from Ocean Infinity who contacted Prof Kirill Horoshenkov as after his talk at a recent Drones and ROV conference. Ocena Infinity were interested in disucssing opportunities for collaboration and during the meeting it was agreed Pipebots will arragne a webinar with Ocean Infinity and representatived from the water industry to discuss opportunities for Pipebots and Ocean Infinity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Oil and gas Technology 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 Simon Tait met with Andy Bell of the Oil and gas Technology Centre in Aberdeen in January 2020. In the meeting they discussed supply disruptions due to failures, reducing leakage, avoiding customer complaints about water discolouration. Asset management and talked about a Water Industry Challenge Workshop follow-up session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Paul Gaskin of Welsh water |
| 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 | Meeting with Welsh Water's innovation manager to: explain Pipebots' systems approach; identify the pipework problems that Welsh Water regards as most important; discuss obtaining access to Welsh Water's procedures and standards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Peter Henley of WRC |
| 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 | Chris Bouch, University of Birmingham attended a meeting with Peter Henley, Senior Consultant - Infrastructure Solutions, WRC to discuss an opportunity to present to the WRc-led team working on the next edition of the Manual of Sewer Condition Classification, designed to support AI classification of sewer defects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Severn Trent / UKWIR |
| 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 | Simon Tait met with Alex Mortlock of Severn Trent and also the Sewerage Programme Lead for UKWIR. Pipebots in general and Case Studies specifically were discussed. Alex will suggest suitable water company people to steer the case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Severn Trent Water |
| 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 Kirill Horoshenkov and Prof Simon Tait met with Matt Lewis of Severn Trent Water. In the meeting they discussed pipe mapping systems and data collection. Plans were made for Matt to join the Pipebots Steering Committee meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Toby Harding and colleagues from Kier Utilities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss: which pipe network issues Kier regard as most important; obtaining access to Kier's procedures and standards; how Pipebots can best impact Kier's business model |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with University of Surrey - 15th July 2020 |
| 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 | Bruce Drinkwater, Krill Horoshenkov and Aisling Cooling from the Pipebots team met with Paul Smith, David Jesson and Michael Mulheron from the University of Surrey to progress discussions and ideas for submitting a proposal on NDE for cast iron pipes. The meeting took place on 15th July 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with University of Surrey - 17th June 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov, Prof Bruce Drinkwater and Aisling Cooling met with David Jesson, Michael Mulheron and Paul Smith from the university of Surrey to discuss Non Destructive Testing on 17th June 2020. The group discussed NDE and exchanged knowledge and ideas. Plans were made for a follow up meeting with the rest of the Theme 2 (sensors) theme to discuss potential areas for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with University of Surrey - 19th August 2020 |
| 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 | Paul Smith, David Jesson, Michael Mulheron from University of Surrey attended a meeting with Bruce Drinkwater, Kirill Horoshenkov, Aisling Cooling, Xudong Niu, Yicheng Yu, Ali Safari from Pipebots via GoToMeeting on 19th August 2020. The team discussed NDE for cast iron pipes and potential collaboration. The team agreed to meet to brainstorm ideas for a proposal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with WRc |
| 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 | four members of the Pipebots team attended a meeting with a principal consultant from WRC to discuss the approval processes for robotic technology in water pipes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Wessex Water - 25th June 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kirill Horoshenkov, Simon Tait and Aisling Cooling from the Pipebos team attended a meeting with Joey Durham and Julian Britton from Wessex Water to discuss Rising mains and data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Wessex Water - 6th October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kirill Horoshenkov, Ash Cooling and Simon Tait from the Pipebots team met with Julian Britton from Wessex water by Zoom on 6th October 2020. The team discussed rising mains and submitting a bid to the innovation fund. Kirill and Simon agreed to prepare a proposal for Wessex Water to review at the next meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Mini robots will be deployed along water pipes to spot mains leaks before they happen in new trial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article on daily mail online following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11575701/Mini-robots-deployed-water-pipes-spot-mains... |
| Description | Mott MacDonald Ho Chi Minh City Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Will Shepherd gave an invited presentation at a webinar, which was part of a project run by Mott MacDonald, funded by the UK cross-Government Prosperity Fund's Future Cities Programme. The project works with the government bodies of Ho Chi Min City to develop a GIS of the city drainage and sewage network as well as carrying out flood modelling. An important part of the project is the training and capacity building of the local stakeholders, which this webinar was a part of. Will presented a 20 minute overview of the Pipebots project, alongside two other presentations, and then participated in a Q&A session, which produced some interesting discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National School Robot Competition Launch event 2020 |
| 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 | Aisling Cooling and Dr Chris Parrott attended the National School Robot Competition at the national space centre in Leicester on 13th February 2020. Aisling and Chris talked to 35 school children age 8 - 11 about Pipebots and showed them the Pipebots animation and showed a demonstration of the prototype robot. There was a lot of interest and questions from the children and their teachers who were very interested in Pipebots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukras.org/school-robot-competition/ |
| Description | New Scientist Live at Excel, London in conjunction with UKCRIC |
| 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 | UKCRIC had provide a stand at New Scientist Live at Excel in London to explain to the general public about the goals of the Pipebots project for the 3 days of the event. Small inspection robots are being developed by the Pipebots project that can map and report on the condition of sewer and potable water pipes. Outcome: Engaged with many people of all ages and explained the goals of the project. Several more knowledgeable people were also talked to from the oil and gas industries, the building trades and an insurance assessor who dealt with drainage pipes. After having the goals of the project explained to them, the most common response was what a clever idea and why isn't it already being done. There were also several requests for kits for the small robots being demonstrated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | News article about robotics meeting at KWR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | KWR reported the 2020 knowledge-sharing meeting of the Hydroinformatics Platform whiich was dedicated to the theme of robotics on their website. The article gave an overview of the meeting which Prof Simon Tait attended and presented Pipebots. The article includes links to the Pipebots website and includes information about Pipebots aims and objectives. The report was also shared via the Pipebots twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/actueel/robotics-in-the-water-industry/ |
| Description | Non-acoustic Leakage detection - UKWIR workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to around 20 pipeline practitioners on non-acoustic leakage detection including quantum technology gravity gradiometers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Northumbrian Water's Innovation Festival 2022 |
| 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 | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov presented Pipebots at the 'No Dig' Sprint as part of the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2022 which took place 12-14 July 2022. The event was well attended with over 780 people from 30 countries attending the 3 day event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.innovationfestival.org/the-festival/ |
| Description | OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: Europe winter heat records smashed |
| 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 | Podcast - OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: Europe winter heat records smashed following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://uk.news.yahoo.com/opinion-tech-science-daily-podcast-132854286.html |
| Description | Online presentation to staff and students (undergrad and postgrad) at Teesside University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | During a one hour session, a presentation was given by Dr Will Shepherd to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as staff members at Teesside University, the presentation lasted approximately 40 minutes and was followed by a Q&A session. The presentation was a general overview of the project, including the background / need for Pipebots, the project structure and details of the work so far and future aims. There were 17 people participating (plus the presenter), based on the participants list in MS-Teams. There was interesting discussion, one of the students is part time and works at a water company and he will share more details of the project with the company, who are likely to participate in future industry webinars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Organization of Hands on IoT Development Activity with IEEE Comsoc 2020 UK& Ireland Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The activity was geared towards knowledge exchange with young researchers. Mostly those who have had little or no experience of working with IoT protocol. A practical session was conducted to familiarize these young researchers with the fundamentals of IoT protocols and implementation details. As a follow on from this activity, this year we would be organizing a much longer session specifically focused on deployment in an industrial setting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ieeetv.ieee.org/product/practical-session-developing-internet-things-iot-applications |
| Description | Over a quarter of water is lost through leakage. These small "AI pipebots" could fix that |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog post on ZME Sciance following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/over-a-quarter-of-water-is-lost-through-leakage-thes... |
| Description | Participation in Euro-SAM Workshop, presenting "Development of Autonomous Robotics for Inspection of Smaller Diameter Sewers: The Pipebots Project" |
| 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 | Will Shepherd was invited to submit a title to present at the 8th edition EURO-SAM workshop. The accepted title was "Development of Autonomous Robotics for Inspection of Smaller Diameter Sewers: The Pipebots Project". Euro-SAM is a workshop in Sewer Asset Management held approximately annually and organised by the Urban Drainage Asset Management sub-committee of the IWA/IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage. The workshop is intentionally small to facilitate strong discussion among the community which comprises water utility representatives, consultants, post-graduate research students and academic researchers. Participating in the workshop enhanced awareness of the Pipebots project and led to interesting discussions, some of which will feed back into the project development and others might lead to future collaborations, such as testing opportunities or follow-on funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://udam.home.blog/euro-sam/ |
| Description | Participation in Euro-SAM Workshop, presenting "Machine learning for prediction of failures in sewer networks" |
| 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 | We were invited to submit a title to present at the 8th edition EURO-SAM workshop. The accepted title was "Machine learning for prediction of failures in sewer networks", this was a collaboration with Ehsan Kazemi who is working on the Horizon-2020 Co-UD Labs project. Ehsan gave the presentation. Euro-SAM is a workshop in Sewer Asset Management held approximately annually and organised by the Urban Drainage Asset Management sub-committee of the IWA/IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage. The workshop is intentionally small to facilitate strong discussion among the community which comprises water utility representatives, consultants, post-graduate research students and academic researchers. Participating in the workshop enhanced awareness of the Pipebots project and Co-UD Labs project and led to interesting discussions, some of which will feed back into the project development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://udam.home.blog/euro-sam/ |
| Description | PhD progress report for United Utilities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Lis Shrimpton and Bryony Bowman, together with Chris Bouch, Lewis Makana and Chris Rogers, all of University of Birmingham, met Jo Harrison and Simon Boyland of United Utilities (UU). Lis and Bryony briefed UU on the progress they have made with their Pipebots-related PhDs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots Animated Film |
| 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 | Pipebots 2 is an animated film showing the Pipebots robots working underground to detect leaks and send information about the leaks back to the hub and a repair team heading to the location of the leak. The film highlights the following points: Increased productivity, Money not being spent digging up roads, Positive environmental impact. The film can be viewed on the Pipebots website and YouTube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazZNmLHWSY&t=11s |
| Description | Pipebots Industry Webinar |
| 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 Pipebots team held an 'Industry webinar' via GoToMeeting on 2nd June 2020. The team used this opportunity to gather industry partners and stakeholders to outline the current position, share progress and seek ideas on how to shape the research towards and/or industry's needs. Jordan Boyle gave an update on Sprint 2, Chris Bouch discussed business models and Simon Tait gave an update on the case studies and facilitated a discussion on case studies and industry needs. There was a lot of interest, discssion and questions from the 37 online participants, primarily from the water industry. There was some really positive feedback from industry partners who said 'Your concepts are bold and driving innovation exponentially towards products we need' and the webinar was 'Very professional, and well thought out'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Pipebots Industry Webinar 2 - 15th December 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 fourth Pipebots industry workshop took place by Zoom on Tuesday 15th December 2020. 30 participants from industry joined the Pipebots team for a webinar to present and discuss Pipebots progress to date and the future scientific challenges. As part of the webinar, members of the Pipebots team facilitated highly valuable and informative discussions with participants in smaller groups where each group discussed: i) where Pipebots might be deployed in the shorter term (low hanging fruit), ii) which applications could pervasive sensing deliver the most significant improvements and iii) are there opportunities for the use of autonomous robotic inspection systems that the Pipebots team are not currently aware of. Alongside these points, constraints and barriers to the deployment of in pipe robots were discussed. The team captured the discussions and collated the 200 'sticky notes' from the breakout sessions and used this valuable information to inform the revised workplan and milestones which was presented at the Pipebots Steering Committee meeting on 23rd February 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Pipebots Industry Webinar 5 |
| 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 Pipebots team facilitated the fifth industry workshop on Monday 20th September 2021. The workshop took place by zoom and the team were joined by 25 industry participants. As part of the workshop we demonstrated the latest Pipebots technology including a demonstration of the first swarm of robots. We also provided an update on recent progress and participants has the opportunity to provide feedback and guidance on the latest developments. A number of follow up discussions with industry partners were arranged as a result of the webinar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots Launch 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 | The official launch of the Pipebots programme grant took place at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on 2019. The event was very well attended with 80 participants from academia, industry, government and investors joining the Pipebots team to launch the 5-year Programme Grant. The purpose of the event was to officially launch Pipebots. The day kicked off with a poster display and demonstrations from our robotics team in Leeds and Sheffield. Prof Kirill Horoshenkov introduced the day's events and presented the Pipebots vision and showed the new Pipebots Video. Prof Rob Richardson presented the technical aspects and Prof Simon Tait presented the roadmap and impact. Participants from industry contributed to facilitated discussions on key research themes and industrial panel discussions on key challenges. The team gained a lot of valuable input from stakeholders which will help to plan and progress the next phase of the project. We used electronic badges at the event. The statistics from the event shows that there was a total of 1,420 connections at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://pipebots.ac.uk/pipebots-launch/ |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The first issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 3rd December 2019. The newsletter was sent to the Pipebots mailing list (142 people) and shared via the Pipebots social media channel (200 followers). The first issues of the newsletter shared information about recent events, including the sprint, launch event and workshops, as well as a link to the Pipebots video. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/ccdf2ebfdb67/pipebots-newsletter-issue-3677513?e=c8bcdee524 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 10 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 10th issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 1st March 2022. In this issue of the newsletter we gave an update on the work the team are doing on sensors and an udpate on the joeys. The newsletter was sent to 272 members via our mailing list and was shared with 353 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/a6bfa527868a/pipebots-newsletter-issue-10?e=410e614998 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 11 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 10th issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 27th May 2022. In this issue of the newsletter we gave an update on the work the team are doing on sensors and an udpate on new projects and the team's participating in utilty week live where we met with many interested parties and arranged follow up meetings to discuss new porject ideas. The newsletter was sent to 309 members via our mailing list and was shared with 362 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/92629195cee2/pipebots-newsletter-issue-5214405 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 12 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Issue 12 of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 1st September 2022. The newsletter included an update on the latest Pipebots research and links to the latest Pipebots publictions and events. The newsletter was shared via the mailing list (318 people) and twitter (379 followers). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/daf39b892663/pipebots-newsletter-issue-12 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 13 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Issue 13 of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 1st December 2022. The newsletter included an update on the latest Pipebots research and links to the latest Pipebots publictions and events. The newsletter was shared via the mailing list (320 people) and twitter (388 followers). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/74372218e668/pipebots-newsletter-issue-5286808 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 14 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 14 was issued on 1st March 2023. The newsletter was sent via the mailing list, twitter and features on the Pipebots website. There were a number of enquiries following the newsletter being issued. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://bit.ly/3ZxgQZp |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The second issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 3rd March 2020. The newsletter was sent to the Pipebots mailing list (152 people) and shared via the Pipebots social media channel (230 followers). The second issue of the newsletter provided information on the case studies, the second Pipebots Sprint on system integration and an update on recent events, including the 1st Joint International Conference on Design & Construction of SMART CITY Components in Cairo and the National School Robot Competition Launch. As a result of the newsletter, we had a request from Industry partner, Keir, to participate in one of our case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://us3.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=726779d7556fc0334c19fc886&id=8ade96255e |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The third issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 1st June 2020. The newsletter was sent to the Pipebots mailing list (162 people) and shared via the Pipebots social media channel (252 followers). The third issue of the newsletter provided an update on all of the research themes in the programme and details of working with Welsh Water. The newsletter also included details of recent publications and upcoming events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/0746f2023a8c/pipebots-newsletter-issue-3 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The fourth issue of the Pipebots newsletter included an update on Sprintbot and we welcomed new members to the team. We also had an update on activities from each theme. The newsletter was sent to 168 people via our mailing list and shared with our 260 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://pipebots.ac.uk/pipebots-newsletter-issue-4-now-available/ |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The fifth issue of the Pipebots newsletter incldued the outcome of sprint 2 and testing Sprintbot. We also welcomed new members to the team and reported on a new Innovate UK project - Innovative Sensor Array for Sewer Survey' (ISASS). The newsletter was sent to 218 people via our mailing list and shared with our 290 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/2256def435e8/pipebots-newsletter-issue-5 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The fifth issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued in December 2020. In this issue of the newsletter we reported on testing of Sprintbot and welcomed new members to the team. We also reported on a new Innovate UK project: Innovative Sensor Array for Sewer Survey' (ISASS). The newsletter was sent to 218 members via our mailing list and was shared with 290 followers on twitter which lead to 906 engagements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/2256def435e8/pipebots-newsletter-issue-5 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 6 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The 6th issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 1st March 2021. In this issue of the newsletter we reported on Sprint 3- Software integration, the industry webinar which took place in December 2020 and we also reported 7 new publications. The newsletter was sent to 232 members via our mailing list and was shared with 304 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/b8e40b637b53/pipebots-newsletter-issue-6?e=c8bcdee524 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 7 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 7th issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 28th May 2021. In this issue of the newsletter we gave an update on the work the team are doing on sensors and an udpate on the conferences and events the team attended during the past few months. We also reported 4 new publications. The newsletter was sent to 237 members via our mailing list and was shared with 336 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/86b400b7a2f7/pipebots-newsletter-issue-7 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 8 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The eighth issue of the newsletter was shared on the Pipebots website, twitter and distributed via the mailing lists. We advertised our industry webinar in this issue of the newsletter and as a result saw the number of participants sign up to join the webinar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/ee2b6f6eac74/pipebots-newsletter-issue-8?e=c8bcdee524 |
| Description | Pipebots Newsletter Issue 9 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 9th issue of the Pipebots newsletter was issued on 2nd December 2021. In this issue of the newsletter we gave an update on the work the team are doing on sensors and an udpate on the conferences and events the team attended during the past few months. We also reported EPSRC Portfolio Manager's visit to the labs at Sheffield and Leeds and a new publication. The newsletter was sent to 267 members via our mailing list and was shared with 348 followers on twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/4cff3e67f5df/pipebots-newsletter-issue-9?e=c8bcdee524 |
| Description | Pipebots Twitter Account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Pipebots twitter account was set up in April 2019. As at 6th December 2019, we have 200 followers from academia, industry, public sector organisations and general public. The twitter account is used to share information about Pipebots with our followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/pipebots |
| Description | Pipebots VR Video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Pipebots Virtual Reality video shows Pipebots at work in an underground pipe network. This video may be viewed on a mobile device which allows viewers to look around the scene with 180-degree movement. This video is available on the Pipebots Youtube channel and will be used at public engagement events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqD1O5MhBDk&t=3s |
| Description | Pipebots Webinar with IPEK |
| 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 | Pipebots hosted a webinar by IPEK https://www.ipek.at/en/. The team from IPEK presented their technology to the Pipebots team, this was followed by a discussion for potential collaboration. Following the webinar, we set a date for a follow up meeting with the Theme 5 (navigation) team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Pipebots Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Pipebots website was launched in March 2019 to coincide with the beginning of the grant. The website contains information about the programme grant, the team, contact information and programme news and events. There is also a link to the twitter feed on the website. Since the website launched in March 2019, there have been 2,329 new visitors to the website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://pipebots.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Pipebots YouTube Channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Pipebots YouTube Channel launched in June 2019. The channel is used to disseminate and promote Pipebots videos. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pipebots |
| Description | Pipebots and Wessex Water |
| 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 | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov, Prof Simon Tait and Aisling Cooling from the Pipebots team met with Dan Green, Head of Sustainability and Innovation at Wessex Water on Wednesday 16th December 2020 to discuss a potential project and follow on funding from the Innovation fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Pipebots and Wessex Water |
| 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 | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov met with Andrea Gysin (Thames water), Francieli Thums (Wessex Water) Sean Gregory (Welsh Water), Julian Britton (Wessex water). Rachel Cunningham (Thames Water) on Tuesday 19th January 2021 to discuss a project on rising mains and submitting a bid to the Innovation fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots at New Scientist Live! |
| 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 | Pipebots exhibited at New Scientist Live at Excel London 7-9 October 2022. The stand features a demonatration of the Joey robots as well as a VR activity which was very popular with children visiting the exhibition. There was a lot of interest from students, teachers and other exhibitors which has resulted in follow up meetings and articles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://live.newscientist.com/ |
| Description | Pipebots conference workshop - Pervasive sensing of buried pipes and AI |
| 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 | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov chaired a special session at the Twenty65 2021 conference on 16th March 2021. The workshop: Pervasive sensing of buried pipes and AI was attended by 20 indsutry participants who participated in discussions with the chair: Kirill Horoshenkov, and presenters Simon Langdale from Synthotech who gave a talk on Pervasive sensing of pipes and Claire Fenwick from Nuron who gave an overview on the work they are doing on Pervasive sensing of sewers. The talks were followed by an interactive discussion and plans made for follow up meetings with participants including Ocean Infinity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twenty65.ac.uk/media/editor/2021%20T65%20Conference%20Programme_4.pdf |
| Description | Pipebots meeting with DCWW Information Systems Manager |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chris Bouch, University of Birmingham attended a meeting with the Welsh Water Information Systems Manager to explore collaboration opportunities for buried infrastructure, R&D and practice. The meeting resulted in development of stronger links and more opportunities with Welsh Water. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Pipebots meeting with DCWW data scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Chris Bouch, University of Birmingham attended a meeting with the Welsh Water Information Systems Manager to explore collaboration opportunities for buried infrastructure, R&D and practice. The groupd discussed an opportunity to present to the WRc-led team working on the next edition of the Manual of Sewer Condition Classification, designed to support AI classification of sewer defects. The meeting resulted in development of stronger links and more opportunities with Welsh Water. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Pipebots meeting with Innovate UK |
| 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 | Prof Kirill Horoshenkov, Prof Simon Tait and Aisling Cooling met with Mark Emerton (Senior Innovation Lead for Robotics & AI) and Iain Mauchline (Innovation lead for electronics, sensors and photonics) from Innovate UK on 26th January 2022 to discuss opportunites for follow on funding for Pipebots and routes to commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/2022 |
| 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 | Pipebots featured on BBC Breakfast on 26/12/2022 as part of a news item on leaks. The 3 minute item featured demonstration of the Joeys and interviews with Professor Kirill Horoshenkov and Prof Netta Cohen. Since the broadcast on 26/12/2022 there have been a lot of enquiries for further information and meetings via the website as well as other articles and blog posts being published. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_crSNB1q2A |
| Description | Pipebots on BBC news at six - 26/12/2022 |
| 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 | Pipebots featured on BBC news at six on 26/12/2022 as part of a news item on leaks. The 3 minute item featured demonstration of the Joeys and interviews with Professor Kirill Horoshenkov and Prof Netta Cohen. Since the broadcast on 26/12/2022 there have been a lot of enquiries for further information and meetings via the website as well as other articles and blog posts being published. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pipebots on Instagram |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pipebots has created an instagram account to share news, images and videos from the programme. The account was created in December 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/pipebots/ |
| Description | Pipebots on Rip off Britain |
| 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 | Prof. Kirill Horoshenkov and Dr. Chris Parrott appeared on the BBC TV show Rip-Off Britain to discuss the technology being developed in Pipebots for detecting leaks in water pipes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://pipebots.ac.uk/pipebots-on-the-bbc/ |
| Description | Pipebots presentation at CoP26 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On the 11th November Professor Chris Rogers and Elisabeth Shrimpton from the University of Birmingham presented the Pipebots programme to a virtual and live international audience at CoP26 in Glasgow. The presentations formed part of a seminar entitled, 'What makes Urban Infrastructure Resilient to Weather and Climate Change? and were organised and presented under the United Nations 'Race to Resilence' Hub. The presentations showcased research on governance, infrastructure and urban systems and how that research is being augmented and applied to projects such as Pipebots, seeking to bring about transformational change. Chris Rogers' presentation was entitled 'A Systems Approach to Urban Resilience and Sustainable, Liveable, Adaptable and (Truly) Smart Cities' and discussed the UKCRIC infrastructure and urban systems methodologies created over the past 20 years, along with specific research findings on urban resilience. He explained how these methodologies are being integrated into a Theory (and Practice) of Change and how these can support the application of transformational projects such as Pipebots. Elisabeth Shrimpton delivered a presentation entitled 'Urban Infrastructure and Resilience - the Future of Governance' and discussed some of the governance challenges to transformational change in infrastructure, the role of social and environmental justice and the potential for sensing projects such as Pipebots to form part of a just solution with far wider environmental and social benefits. These presentations show how the academic work being undertaken in the project can provide robust, evidence-backed and practical tools to help move the sector forward to benefit people and planet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ukcop26.org/ |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Animal attachment systems used in locomotion: inspirations for surface science and robotics - Prof Stanislav Gorb (University of Kiel, Germany) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Stanislav Gorb (University of Kiel, Germany) gave a talk on Animal attachment systems used in locomotion: inspirations for surface science and robotics at the Pipebos webinar series on Thursday 15th April 2021. The talk was well attended by the Pipebots team and colleagues from University of Kiel and plans made to discuss opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Autonomous ultrasonic inspection using Bayesian optimisation - Dr Paul Gardner University of Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Paul Gardner from the University of Sheffield gave a talk on Autonomous ultrasonic inspection using Bayesian optimisation to the Pipebots team on Thursday 1st April 2021. The talk was attended by members of the Dynamics research group at the University of Sheffield and there were requests for more information and to join the mailing list. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Design and development of novel optical fibre sensors for industrial applications - Professor Tong Sun, FREng, OBE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Tong Sun, FREng, OBE of City, University of London gave a talk on the Design and development of novel optical fibre sensors for industrial applications at the Pipebots webinar series on 28th October 2021. The webinar was well attended and Prof Kirill Horoshenkov and Professor Sun have arrnaged a follow up meeting to discuss opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Explainable and Autonomous Sensing of Complex Networked Systems - Weisi Guo, Cranfield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Weisi Guo, Cranfield University gave a talk at the Pipebots webinar series. Prof Guo presented 'Explainable and Autonomous Sensing of Complex Networked Systems' on 20th May 2021. The talk was well attended by the team with some good discusssion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Fellowships |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On Thursday 25th November 2021, we organised a Fellowships workshop with William Gompertz (EPSRC), Prof. Lizzy Cross, Dr Andy Nicols and Dr Mehmet Dogar who talked about their experiences of applying for and gaining a fellowship, this was a very inspiring and informative workshop and particularly helpful for members of the Pipebots team considering applying for a fellowship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Flow and sediment sensing in sewers - Dr Andy Nicols, Wendy Wu and Shiyao Wang |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Andy Nicols and PhD students Wendy Wu and Shiyao Wang from Dept. of Civil & Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield gave a talk on Flow and sediment sensing in sewers at the Pipebots webinar series on 14th October 2021. The webinar was well attended and Dr Nicols has agreed to give another related talk to the team who are very interested in this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Guided waves inspection of pipelines, Prof Mike Lowe, Imperial College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mike Lowe, Imperial College London gave a talk at the Pipebots webinar series on 17th June 2021. The talk, titled 'Guided waves inspection of pipelines' was well attended by members of the Pipebots team and led to some interesting discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On Thursday 9th December 2021 Dr James Shucksmith, University of Sheffield and Dr Sonja Ostojin, EMS gave a talk about Knowledge Transfer Partnership's (KTP's). Dr James Shucksmith shared his experiences and gave an overview of KTP's, the application process and opportunities. Dr Sonja Ostojin,talked about KTP and working in Industry. This was an informative and valuable session for the team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems - Dr Amanda Prorok, Cambridge University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Amanda Prorok, Cambridge University gave a talk at the Pipebots webinar series. The talk, titled 'Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems' was well attended by members of the Pipebots team and led to some interesting discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - NDE (EMAT) sensor platform for robotic contact inspections - Dr Frederic Cegla, Imperial College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Frederic Cegla from Imperial College London gave a talk at the Pipebots webinar series on Thursday 13th January 2022. The talk, titled 'NDE (EMAT) sensor platform for robotic contact inspections' was well attended by the Pipebots team and members of UKAN. There was a good disucssion following the talk. Dr Cegla was interested in hearing more about the Pipebots programme grant and suggested a webinar with his reseach group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Robotics for nuclear - Prof Barry Lennox, University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Barry Lennox from the University of Manchester joined the Pipebots team on 18th March 2021 and gave a talk on Robotics for Nuclear. Plans were made for follow up meetings and the Pipebots team were invited to give a talk at the RAIN Hub webinar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://rainhub.org.uk/about/events/past-webinars/ |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - SLAM and robot autonomy, Dr Sen Wang |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Sen Wang, Heriot-Watt University gave a talk on SLAM and robot autonomy at the Pipebots webinar series on Thursday 4th December 2021. The webinar took palce on Zoom and was well attended by members of the Pipebots team. There were some good discussions and plans made for a follow up meeting with Dr Wang and sme of the Pipebots Team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Sewer Inspection - A US perspective - Dan Murray, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dan Murray, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave a talk at the Pipebots webinar series on 15th July 2021. The talk, titled 'Pipebots webinar - Sewer Inspection' was well attended by members of the Pipebots team and led to some interesting discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - Snake bots - Prof Fumitoshi Matsuno (Kyoto University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Fumitoshi Matsuno (Kyoto University) gave a talk on Bio-inspired robotics and its applications to the Pipebots Team on Thursday 8th April 2021. There was a good discussion with the team following the talk and plans made to disucss collaboration opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots webinar - The Role of Risk Profile in Structural Asset Health Management (Prof. Michael Todd) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Michael Todd, from the Department of Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA gave a talk on The Role of Risk Profile in Structural Asset Health Management on Thursday 29th April 2021 as part of the Pipebots webinar series. In his talk, Prof Todd discussed the approach to take into account the decision-maker's individual or organisational behavioral risk profile, using expected utility theory, in performing structural asset health management. There was a Q&A session following the talk and palns made for another talk and a disucssion on opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pipebots: The tiny 'leak hunter' robots that can save billions of litres of water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post on wionews.com following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast on 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.wionews.com/technology/pipebots-the-new-innovation-in-robotics-which-can-save-billions-o... |
| Description | Plenary talk at the conference on Smart Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Lyudmila Mihaylova gave a plenary talk at the conference on Smart Cities in Cairo, Egypt, 17-19 December 2019. Prof Mihaylova presented the Pipebots project, showed the video, discussed project aims and objectives and work packages. There was a lot of interest in Pipebots. After her talk, Prof Mihaylova had a meeting with academics from Civil Engineering and Computer Science, Robotics. The conference was well attended and there were 2 transport ministers in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.jicsmartcities.com/keynote-speakers |
| Description | Presentation and workshop activity at water industry event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated in RPS (consultancy) Innovation and Best Practice day in Birmingham, the event included staff from RPS and representatives from most UK water companies. A presentation was made to introduce Pipebots as part of the morning program and robotic inspection formed part of the afternoon strategy cafe. This afternoon session involved discussion and adding ideas as to how the water industry could take advantage of new technologies and where there was most benefit for the application of these technologies. Outcome: This information on where the water industry perceives where robotic inspection will have the most impact is very useful to inform the areas on which the Pipebots project will focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at CoP26 Glasgow, November 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The presentations formed part of a seminar entitled, 'What makes Urban Infrastructure Resilient to Weather and Climate Change? organised and presented under the United Nations 'Race to Resilence' Hub. The presentation showcased research on governance, infrastructure and urban systems and how that research is being augmented and applied to projects such as Pipebots, seeking to bring about transformational change. The presentation was entitled 'Urban Infrastructure and Resilience - the Future of Governance' and discussed some of the governance challenges to transformational change in infrastructure, the role of social and environmental justice and the potential for sensing projects such as Pipebots to form part of a just solution with far wider environmental and social benefits. These presentations show how the academic work being undertaken in the project can provide robust, evidence-backed and practical tools to help move the sector forward to benefit people and planet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at IEEE Sensors 2021 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented research on acoustic/ultrasonic methods for detection of blockages in buried pipelines to ~20 academics at the IEEE Sensors 2021 conference. Some interesting questions and discussion followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at Sensing In Water 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sensing In Water 2019 is the biennial conference and exhibition of the 'Sensors for Water Interest' group, which includes professionals who use, develop and sell sensors which have applications in the water industry. The event attracted 158 water industry professionals and 30 exhibitors over the 2 days. An abstract was submitted to this conference and was selected for a presentation. The presentation gave an overview of the Pipebots project. At the end of each group of presentations the four presenters formed a panel answering questions from the audience. Following the presentation attendees gave a positive response and expressed interest in the project, we have been encouraged to attend the next biennial conference to present an update on the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.swig.org.uk/sensing-in-water-2019/ |
| Description | Presentation at Sewer Processes and Networks Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Peer reviewed extended abstract was presented at the 10th International Conference on Sewer Processes and Networks at Grz in Austria on 25th August 2022. Dr Ehsan Kazemi presented the paper, Dr Will Shepherd and Prof Simon Tait were co-authors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.tugraz.at/events/spn10/home/ |
| Description | Presentation at the 21st Century Sewer Workshop at KIT Gelsenkirchen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Simon Tait attended the 21st Century Sewer Workshop at KIT Gelsenkirchen, 9th to 11th Sept. 2019. Prof Tait gave a presentation on Pipebots |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the 21st Leakage Conference February 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation given by Prof Nicole Metje as part of the Soapbox Challenge at the 21st Leakage Conference, via an online portal, followed by a Q&A panel discussion with Professors Nicole Metje and Kirill Horoshenkov |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.leakageconference.co.uk |
| Description | Presentation at the Subsurface Asset Management & Surveying Conference 2021 on Pervasive Sensors in Kuala Lumpur 21-22 September 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 people attended the conference both face to face and virtually to learn about in-pipe inspection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://pejuta.com.my/?p=8162 |
| Description | Presentation for GEE201 Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk introducing the concepts of my research topic and presenting some results from my recent research, with the aim of educating the audience of undergraduate engineering students about the topic in general and about my research, alongside my colleagues' research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation on governance and innovation in the water sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I prepared and delivered a formal presentation on governance and innovation in the water sector to circa 25 practitioners and academics in the sector at their invitation. This sparked numerous questions on the importance (or otherwise) of governance and inhibiting role of regulation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to and participation at EUROSAM |
| 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 EUROpean - Sewer Asset Management (EUROSAM) workshop usually runs annually and aims to share recent research results and to facilitate collaboration between European researchers. The workshop is run by the Urban Drainage Asset Management Working Group of the International Water Association's Joint Committee on Urban Drainage. The 2021 workshop was held over two mornings and was online. 41 people attended, mainly from Europe, but with other countries represented. Dr Will Shepherd gave a presentation on Pipebots which was well received with a strong discussion afterwards and potential links were made with other researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://udam.home.blog/euro-sam/ |
| Description | Presentation to the International Conference on Urban Drainage |
| 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 | Dr Will Shepherd presented "Pervasive Sensing for Buried Wastewater Collection and Drainage Networks" to the International Conference on Urban Drainage on 28th October 2021, which was hosted in Melbourne, Australia, but was an online event with a global audience. The presentation was 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes Q&A from the audience, which generated some interesting questions. There was also an associated 3 page extended abstract published in the conference proceedings. The presentation and extended abstract covered the general aspects of the project and presented results on sewer blockage sensing and robot localisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.icud2021.org/ |
| Description | Presentation: The thinking on Pipebots as part of the ICE Dougal Clerk Lecture entitled Water Supply in 50 Years |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Joby Boxall presented the thinking on Pipebots as part of the ICE Dougal Clerk Lecture entitled Water Supply in 50 Years' Time on 1st April 2019 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, with ~100, primarily practitioners, in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: The thinking on Pipebots to a Water Networks Short Course entitled Resilient Water Services |
| 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 | Professor Joby Boxall presented the thinking on Pipebots to a Water Networks Short Course entitled Resilient Water Services at Stellenbosch University, South Africa on 8th and 9th October 2019 . There were 40 participants made up of academics and PGR students from South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Press release - FT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview of Nicole Metje for Financial Times story, leading to an article regarding Water security in focus as England faces threat of another summer drought |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/5c46d8c3-c0bc-4ae6-8b0d-b8721ff28ac6 |
| Description | Prof Joby Boxall as invited to chair the WWT Future Networks 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 to act as conference chair for the WWT Future Networks conference on the 1st March 2022. https://event.wwtonline.co.uk/smart/conference-agenda/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://event.wwtonline.co.uk/smart/conference-agenda/ |
| Description | Prof Joby Boxall was invited to chair a discussion session on 'Enabling research and innovation through regulation' at the UKWIR annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Joby Boxall was invited to chair a discussion session on 'Enabling research and innovation through regulation' at the UKWIR annual conference, 4th October 2022. The panel included Harry Armstrong, Director Regulatory Policy, Ofwat; Mar Batista Segui, Head of Programme, British Water; Andrew Tyler, Scotland Hydro Nation Chair; Tony Harrington, Director of Environment, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Prof Netta Cohen meeting with BT |
| 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 Netta Cohen had a meeting with BT in June 2019. Potential collaborations were discussed based on the Pipebots proposed robotic solutions and there was a follow up discussion at the launch in November 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prof. Joby Boxall interviewed on Radio4 PM programme on 27th May 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Joby Boxall was interviewed as part of a piece on water resources on the Radio 4 PM programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAEng - 2020 New Fellows' Celebration 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 | Professor Kirill Horoshenkov attended the RAEng - 2020 New Fellows' Celebration event at The Royal Academy of Engineering on 22nd September 2022. The event was well attended and provided the opportunity to meet with colleagues to discuss opportunities for collaboration. Following the event, Prof Horoshenkov met with Prof Tong Sun OBE FREng from City, University of London to discuss opportunities for collaboration. Prof Sun is also giving a talk at the Pipebots webinar series on 28th October 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Robominers visit to Sheffield |
| 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 | Pipebots hosted a visit from two participants in the Robominers project, as a follow-up activity from the workshop in Amsterdam. We discussed common research challenges and opportunities in the areas of autonomous localisation and navigation, as well as underwater wireless communications. The workshop ended with a plan for data exchange and future updates between the projects, as well as with a tour of the Sheffield Robotics labs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Robot talk: Dr Jonathan Aitken talks about Pipebots |
| 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 | In the latest episode of RobotTalk, Claire Asher talked to Dr Jonathan Aitken about Pipebots, sewer inspection, and robots in the real world. The episode was broadcast on 24th February 2023 and resulted in further interest and enquiries via social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukrobotics.libsyn.com/episode-thirty-eight-jonathan-aitken |
| Description | Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Industry Showcase 2021 |
| 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 | Pipebots recently participated in the biggest Robotics and AI Industry Showcase in the UK! The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Industry Showcase took place online from 25th to 27th May 2021. Pipebots were one of 72 exhibitors at the event and hosted a 'virtual booth' as part of the showcase. Prof. Kirill Horoshenkov, Dr Jordan Boyle and Dr Viktor Doychinov participated in the event which attracted over 1,400 delegates from industry, academia, government, research and technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.org/events/robotics-artificial-intelligence-industry-showcase-2021/ |
| Description | Rogers, Chapman, Cassidy, Jefferson, Metje. Meeting with Streetworks UK and HAUC UK. 14 January 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professors Rogers, Chapman, Cassidy, Jefferson and Metje from UKCRIC NBIF met with Clive Bairsto, Chair of Streetworks UK (which has ~100 members) and HAUC UK, on 14th January 2021 to share each organisation's visions, aims and objectives and discuss the potential for collaboration. This served as dissemination from LC, MTU, ATU, iBUILD, UF, UKCRIC CN, S-RC, Pipebots, and UKCRIC NBIF. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Smart 'Joey' bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Folloiwng the recent publiction 'Autonomous control for miniaturized mobile robots in unknown pipe networks' Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer, publised a blog post 'Smart 'Joey' bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes' the post was shared widely on social media and let to enquiries and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/11/16/smart-joey-bots-could-soon-swarm-underground-to-clean-and-in... |
| Description | Soft Launch of the Programme Grant at the TWENTY65 Conference April 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 | An interactive workshop was held to engage people in the Programme Grant and gain their insight and input to the Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Speaking to House of Lords Select Committee on the Built Environment |
| 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 | I was invited to speak to the House of Lord Select Committee on the Built Environment, private session on the 7th February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sustainable Construction MSc module 21-25 Mar 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chris Rogers, Joanne Leach, Chris Bouch, Mike Goodfellow-Smith, Dexter Hunt, Marianna Cavada, Giovani Palafox and Lis Shrimpton delivered lectures on the findings from the sustainable, resilient and liveable cities research portfolio led by the University of Birmingham from 2003-present to the Sustainable Construction MSc module to 100 students from 21st - 25th March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at the Robotics and AI in nuclear hub webinar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Bruce Drinkwater gave a talk on Ultrasonic and acoustic sensing for buried pipe inspection with swarms of robots at the Robotics and AI in nuclear hub webinar series on Thursday 22nd April 2021. In his talk, Prof Drinkwater discussed the future possibilities for sensing using swarm robotics and the work done in Pipebots. The focus of his talk was on the acoustic and ultrasonic sensors that can detect blockages and damage. The talk was well attended with over 50 participants from the RAIN hub and pipebots team joining the webinar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://rainhub.org.uk/about/events/past-webinars/ |
| Description | Talk at water@leeds Annual Confluence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Viktor Doychinov gave a talk 'Pipebots - Pervasive Sensing for Buried Sewer and Water Pipes' at the water@leeds Annual Confluence on Thursday 7 October 2021. The talk was well attended and well received by the audience of academics, researchers and Phd students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://water.leeds.ac.uk/events/waterleeds-annual-confluence/ |
| Description | The world's water leakage problem can be avoided by miniature AI-powered robots |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post on News Track Live following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/22 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://english.newstracklive.com/news/the-worlds-water-leakage-problem-can-be-avoided-by-miniature-... |
| Description | These tiny AI-powered robots can prevent world's water leakage problem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online article on NewsBytes following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/water-pipe-robots-developed-to-stop-potential-leakage/stor... |
| Description | Top five construction robots in 2022: doing our dirty work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post following coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast: Top five construction robots in 2022: doing our dirty work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/top-five-construction-robots-in-2022-doing-our-dirty-work/ |
| Description | Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning Methods |
| 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 is an invited plenary talk as part of the 12th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2022), November 4th-7th, 2022, Online Conference, Beijing. The talk stimulated interesting discussions and possibly new research collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://cecnetconf.org/Program |
| Description | Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning Methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This is an invited talk as part of the Terrorism Risk Assessment, Modelling and Mitigation Seminar Series (TRAMMSS) at Cranfield University, 11 November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/events/events-2022/towards-trustworthy-machine-learning-methods |
| Description | Twenty65 Annual 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 | Back in March 2021 Pipebots participated in the Twenty65 Annual Conference. Pipebots ran an interactive workshop 'Pervasive sensing of buried pipes and AI' as part of the conference. Prof. Kirill Horoshenkov chaired the special session on 16th March 2021 and was joined by Simon Langdale from Synthotech who gave a talk on pervasive sensing of pipes and Claire Fenwick from Nuron who gave an overview on the work Nuron are doing on pervasive sensing of sewers. The workshop was attended by 20 industry participants who participated in some interesting discussions with Kirill, Simon and Claire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UKAN+ and Pipebots stand at New Scientist Live |
| 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 | New for New Scientist Live Manchester 2022 New Scientist Live is a mind-blowing festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and why it matters. Following its multi-award-winning shows in London, on 12-14 March 2022 for the first time it is moving to Manchester, transforming the Manchester Central venue into the most exciting place in the universe for three days. More than 40 speakers and 30+ exhibitors will come together in Manchester Central to create an unrivalled atmosphere and energy, packed with thought-provoking talks, ground-breaking discoveries, interactive experiences and hands-on activities, workshops and performances. Fun, entertaining, informative and inspirational, New Scientist Live stimulates the mind and senses like no other event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://live.newscientist.com/new-for-2022 |
| Description | US Environmental Protection Agency |
| 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 | Chris Rogers, Chris Bouch and Lis Shrimpton hosted Dan Murray of the US Environmental Protection Agency on 21st November and introduced the full suite of UKCRIC methodologies that might be applied to any system intervention, whether the introduction of Pipebots or otherwise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Utility Week Live 2020! |
| 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 | Pipebots participated in Utilities Week Live! 24th to 26th November 2020. Prof Kirill Horoshenkov and Prof Nicole Metje participated in the virtual event at the special session on 'Tackling Water Leakage'. As part of this session Prof Horoshenkov presented Pipebots: transforming maintenance and detection. The recorded presentation can be viewed on the Pipebots YouTube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgXvhyeRR_Q&t=160s |
| Description | Utility week live 2022 |
| 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 Pipebots team were very excited to participate in Utility Week Live 2022 at the NEC, Birmingham 17th and 18th May 2022. Pipebots exhibited alongside Isle Utilities as part of the SME Hub at the event. The event was very well attended by a wide range of stakeholders from across the water sector and other UK utilities organisations. PhD student, Bryony Bowman presented an overview of Pipebots during the tech talk sessions on day 1 of the event and Professor Kirill Horoshenkov 'pitched' Pipebots as part of the Dragon's Den style 'Innovation competition' where a panel of judges selected Pipebots as the winner of the competition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.utilityweeklive.co.uk/ |
| Description | Video Short: Pipebots - coming soon to a sewer near you. |
| 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 | Pipebots - coming soon to a sewer near you, short video produced by EPSRC following the coverage of Pipebots on BBC Breakfast 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PwPr7wp85WU |
| Description | Video on GlobalSpec.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Pipebots 2 video was reposted on GlobalSpec.com with a title: Video: These underground robots promise to maintain pipe infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://insights.globalspec.com/article/15856/video-these-underground-robots-promise-to-maintain-pip... |
| Description | Water Industry challenges 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 | The water industry challenges workshop took place at Sheffield's ICAIR facility on 12th July 2019. The Pipebots team hosted a group of 23 Stakeholders to identify water industry challenges in buried pipe networks. As well as identifying the challenges, the stakeholders were asked to consider the impacts of these challenges on the public, the water utilities and the environment over three future time horizons with different scenarios. Following presentations on the current state of the art and challenges for the Pipebots team, stakeholders were asked to plan delivery routes and timescales for the top 6 challenges. The industry challenges identified at this workshop have been combined with the technological challenges to develop Challenge Specifications which the Pipebots team will use to guide their research. Two report were produced as a result of the workshop and are available on the project website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://pipebots.ac.uk/report-on-pipebots-water-industry-challenges-workshop-now-available/ |
| Description | Water pipe robots could stop billions of litres leaking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC News article featuring Pipebots - Water pipe robots could stop billions of litres leaking, published online on 26/12/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64052740 |
| Description | Webinar - Flexural ultrasonic transducers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Steve Dixon, University of Wawick gave a talk on Flexural ultrasonic transducers as part of the Pipebots webinar series on 15th September 2022. The webinar was well attended by members of the Pipebots team and there were questions and discussions following the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar by Dr Gordon Dobie (University of Strathclyde) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Gordon Dobie from the University of Strathclyde joined the Pipebots team on 18th March 2021 and gave a talk on In-situ Inspection Robotics Research at Strathclyde. Plans were made for follow up meetings to discuss opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar on low cost, low power acoustic communication and sensing: Enabling the Internet of Underwater Things by Jeff Neasham (University of Newcastle) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk started with a brief introduction to underwater acoustics and the challenges posed by the underwater transmission channel. Jeff then described the design of robust, cost effective acoustic communication devices based on spread spectrum technology and explain how we achieve very low energy implementation. These devices form a building block for large scale underwater wireless sensor networks. Jeff described a number of ongoing research projects at Newcastle University addressing the monitoring of the marine environment, cetacean distribution, vessel traffic and lost fishing gear. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://acoustics.ac.uk/events/low-cost-low-power-acoustic-communication-and-sensing-enabling-the-in... |
| Description | Webinar: Legged robots for real-world deployment and inspection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Hendrik Kolvenbach (ETH Zurich) gave a tlak on 28th Aprl 2022 as part of the Pipebots webinar series. The talk, titled 'Legged robots for real-world deployment and inspection' was well attended by the Pipebots team and we remain in contact with Professor Kolvenbach to discuss collaboration opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar: Legged robots for the underground environment - MAB Robotics company and technology |
| 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 | Jakub Bartoszek, MAB Robotics, gave a talk on Legged robots for the underground environment - MAB Robotics company and technology on 26th May 2022 as part of the Pipebots webinar series. The webinar was well attended by members of the Pipebots team and plans were made for a follow up meeting to discuss opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar: Machine Learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Tim Rogers, University of Sheffield gave a talk on his work on Machine learning on 21st July 2022 as part of the Pipebots webinar series. The webinar was well attended by members of the Pipebots team including academics, researchers and Phd students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar: Machine learning in material recognition tasks |
| 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 | Prof Krzysztof Walas, POZNAN UNIVERSITYOF TECHNOLOGY, gave a talk on Machine learning in material recognition tasks on 19th May 2022 as part of the Pipebots webinar series. The webinar was well attended by members of the Pipebots team and plans were made for a follow up meeting to discuss opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar: National Infrastructure Commission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Chappell, National Infrastructure Commission gave a talk on Asset Management in the Water Industry as part of the Pipebots webinar series. The webinar was well attended by academics, researchers and PhD students and plans were made for inovolving NIC in future Pipebots activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar: Soft Aerial Robotics for Infrastructure Sensing and Repair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Mirko Kovac (Imperial College London) gave a talk titled 'Soft Aerial Robotics for Infrastructure Sensing and Repair' as part of the Pipebots webinar series on 5th May 2022. The webinar was well attended by members of the Pipebots team (researchers and PhD students) and we remain in contact with Prof. Kovac to discuss opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar: UNEXUP: The experiences with the open-frame UX-1Neo vs. the original UX-1 robot |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Norbert Zajzon, the PI of the UNEXUP project gave a talk 'UNEXUP: The experiences with the open-frame UX-1Neo vs. the original UX-1 robot' as part of the Pipebots weekly webianr programme on 7th April 2022. The webinar was well attended by the Pipebots team including researchers and PhD students. We have arrnaged a follow-up workshop with UNEXUP and Robominers projects to discuss technical aspects and opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | What about water: What Lurks Beneath: How Robots Can Save City Plumbing with Vanessa Speight |
| 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 | Professor Vanessa Speight talked about Pipebots technology on the 'What about water' podcast on 15th February 2023, this lead to enquiries and requests for further informtion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.whataboutwater.org/s04e11/ |
| Description | Workshop presentation and discussion at CIWEM Urban Drainage Group Autumn Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a workshop on 'Data, big data & coding' which was part of the 2019 CIWEM Urban Drainage Group Autumn Conference. This involved giving one of the three presentations and then taking part in smaller group discussions to investigate how robotic inspection can be targeted for most benefit in urban drainage systems and how the data can be used. The attendees were from water companies, consultants and contractors. Outcome: Information on where the water industry perceives where robotic inspection and associated data will have the most impact is very useful to inform the areas on which the Pipebots project will focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ciwem.org/special-interest-groups/urban-drainage-group |
| Description | Workshop with Smart UWSS from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. |
| 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 | Pipebots hosted a joint workshop with Smart UWSS from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on 7th December 2020. Over 40 participants from both Pipebots and Smart UWSS joined the workshop via Zoom. Both teams gave an update on their work and this was followed by a discussion on opportunitues to collaborate. One of the outcomes from the meeting was to set up a series of webinars so the teams can share knowledge from their projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop with Smart University of Southampton |
| 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 | Pipebots organised a joint workshop with the University of Southampton on Tuesday 27th May 2021. The teams from both Pipebots and the University of Southampton presented theit work and there was a Q&A sessin following the presentations. The group also discussed overlaps, the use of facilities/models and potential areas for collaboration.Plans were made to have another workshop in the enar future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |