CV

PhD

University of Leeds, UK

Robotics

Pass, No Corrections

MSc

University of Leeds, UK

Mechatronics and Robotics

Distinction

BEng (Hons)

Coventry University, UK

Mechanical Engineering

1st

CTO

Eden Robotics AI

Leading design, innovation, technical direction, and AI at Eden Robotics.

• Robotics
• AI
• Mechanical Design
• Technical Lead

Research Assistant

University College London

The development of design tools, algorithms and simulation environments for small scale pipe robots.

• Robotics
• AI
• Mechanical Design
• Deep Reinforcement Learning

Research Assistant

Real Robotics Lab

The development of loco-manipulation and bio-inspired locomotion frameworks for legged robots.

• Robotics
• AI
• Deep Reinforcement Learning

Teaching Assistant

University of Leeds

Leading the delivery of tutorials and labs in coding, hardware development, and classical mechanics modules.

• Coding
• Teaching
• Leading Tutorials

Design Engineer Intern

Severn Trent Water

Working to deliver solution feasibility analysis and outline design on projects at wastewater plants.

• Mechanical Design
• Project Management
• Fluid Mechanics

Learning to Adapt through Bio-Inspired Gait Strategies for Versatile Quadruped Locomotion

Nature Machine Intelligence

Development a bio-inspired deep reinforcement learning locomotion framework for zero-shot adaptation to complex real-world terrains.

Learning Bipedal Walking on a Quadruped Robot Via Adversarial Motion Priors

Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems

Leveraging Adversrial Motion Priors with a teacher-student policy to enable a quadruped robot to walk as a biped on rough terrain.

Bio-Inspired Gait Transitions for Quadruped Locomotion

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Formulation of a bio-inspired gait scheduler for quadruped agnostic gait transitions.

Performance and Usability Evaluation Scheme for Mobile Manipulator Teleoperation

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Through extending Fitts' law a standardized interface evaluation method for quadruped manipulators is developed and evaluated in a set of human studies.

High Utility Teleoperation Framework for Legged Manipulators Through Leveraging Whole-Body Control

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

The development of a teleoperation framework for legged manipulators to enable full utilisation of the targe system's utility via the forumulation of a bespoke inverse-kinematics based whole-body controller.

Whole-body Control for a Torque-controlled Legged Mobile Manipulator

Actuators

The development of an inverse-dynamics whole-body controller for legged manipulators.

Benchmarking Dynamic Balancing Controllers for Humanoid Robots

Robotics

The evaluation of balancing strategies for humanoid robots against standardizede key performance indicators.

Trigger-assisted Ambidextrous Control Framework for Teleoperation of Two Legged Manipulators

Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

The development of a teleoperation framework for intuative simultaneous control of two legged manipulators.

Teleoperating a Legged Manipulator Through Whole-Body Control

Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems

The forumlation of an inverse-kinematics based whole-body controller for enabling intuative teleoperation control.

Teleoperation of a Legged Manipulator for Item Disposal

UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference

A study into utilising a whole-body teleoperation control framework for a complex item disposal task.

EPSRC IAA TeLeMan DUO

The development of a teleoperation framework for multiple legged robots, capable of handling the challenges of real-world environments and exploiting shared autonomy.

• Development a bio-inspired deep reinforcement learning locomotion framework for zero-shot adaptation to complex real-world terrains.
• Assisted in the writing of the project proposal and led the project in its later stages.
• Led collaborative projects between the University of Leeds and University College London.
• Output: Publications in Nature Machine Intelligence and Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems. Features at ICRA 2024 and in BBC Look North, The Telegraph, Radio New Zealand, and ITV news bulletin.

EPSRC Pipebots Initiative

Revolutionizing buried pipe infrastructure management through the development of autonomous pipe robots.

• After targeted discussion on stakeholder requirements, I developed deep learning tools for the design of pipe climbing robots to be deployed by BT in real infrastructure, along with designing several hardware experiments for validation.

Innovate UK AMPI

The development of a teleoperation loco-manipulation control framework for explosive ordnance disposal using legged robots.

• Development of a bespoke optimal control-based whole-body controller for intuitive teleoperation.
• Formulation of a bio-inspired gait scheduler for quadruped agnostic gait transitions.
• Development of performance and usability metrics for teleoperation control of legged manipulators.
• Led collaborative projects between the University of Leeds and Harbin Institute of Technology.
• Output: Publications in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems, and UKRAS22 Conference Proceedings. Features in UK Lab Live and IEEE Spectrum Video Friday.

EU Horizon EUROBENCH

The EUROBENCH project aims at creating the first benchmarking framework for robotic systems in Europe. The framework will allow companies and researchers to test the performance of robots at any stage of development.

• In collaboration with King Juan Carlos University, I developed core simulation environments, performance metrics, and control framework testing procedures in the drive to create the first benchmarking framework for robotic systems, which also led to a journal publication.