Our Team — Autonomous Manufacturing Lab | University College London

Leadership Team

Director | Dr Vijay Pawar

Vijay’s research focuses on developing intelligent robotic technologies that extend human sensing, interaction and exploration in new scale domains. At one extreme this embraces devices to micro-manipulate cell-sized objects useful in applications from material science to high-throughput microscopy and nanomedicine (ES/T011866/1). Progressing up the scales, the team investigates multisensory tools and high frequency controllers suited to human scale dexterous manipulation (EP/R005338/1). Through the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab, current work includes autonomous mobile manufacturing systems operating collectively to assemble large-scale structures (EP/S031464/1). Vijay’s work has led to high-impact publications in Nat. Comms and Sci. Robotics.

Director | Robert Stuart Smith

He is a Principle Research Associate in the Department Of Computer Science at University College Of London, and an Assistant Professor Of Architecture at University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in multi-agent behaviour-based control and path planning , developing adaptive swarm capabilties for UAVs, UGVs and 6-Axis Industrial Robots for autonomous distributed data collection, manufacturing and construction activities. He is PI and Co-I of more than £4m of research funding on UAV-based autonomous manufacturing (EP/S031464/1, EP/N018494/1).