Prof Emma Hart's Projects (18)

Autonomous Quadrupedal Robots: Adaptable To The Unpredictable. May 1, 2024 - Nov 2, 2024
In controlled settings such as factories, robots are able to achieve many tasks efficiently and accurately. However, it is still a challenge to design robots that operate in unstructured, dynamic and outdoor environments without human supervision (i.... Read More about Autonomous Quadrupedal Robots: Adaptable To The Unpredictable..

Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2026
The next-generation of intelligent cyber-physical and IoT systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming an essential part of our environment. With the ever-growing number of intelligent smart devices collecting huge amounts of data at... Read More about Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum.

Marine Soundscapes and eDNA for Assessing Biodiversity and Functioning of Re-establishing European Flat Oyster Reefs, Ostrea edulis Sep 27, 2021 - Mar 26, 2025
Marine Soundscapes and eDNA for Assessing Biodiversity and Functioning of Re-establishing European Flat Oyster Reefs, Ostrea edulis’

Improving Science-Informed Crab Fisheries Management in Brazil Jul 1, 2020 - Oct 31, 2021
The project offers a unique opportunity to engage with, actively contribute to and learn from a UK-Brazilian applied research project investigating the reproductive rhythmicity of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus, to underpin and improve the managem... Read More about Improving Science-Informed Crab Fisheries Management in Brazil.

Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation Jun 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020
Continuum Industries novel software tech allows engineers to automate their work and evaluate millions of possible combinations of design parameters. Primary application lies in linear infrastructure design - roads, railways, pipelines, cables. Wher... Read More about Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation.

Keep Learning Jul 1, 2021 - May 31, 2025

The project proposes a novel architecture for designing optimisation systems that “keeps learning” when exposed to a continual stream of instances: these systems will autonomously adapt their components over time to respond to gradual drift in the... Read More about Keep Learning.

Towards Guided Self-Organisation in Artificial Complex Systems: A Swarm Robotics Case Study Mar 18, 2020 - Mar 17, 2024
Swarm robotics refers to the design and coordination of large numbers of simple physical robots. Uses include environmental applications such as pollution monitoring in the oceans using aquatic robots to monitoring deforestation using drones; conduct... Read More about Towards Guided Self-Organisation in Artificial Complex Systems: A Swarm Robotics Case Study.

COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2026
Embracing the multimodal nature of speech presents both opportunities and challenges for hearing assistive technology:
on the one hand there are opportunities for the design of new multimodal audio-visual (AV) algorithms; on the other hand,
multimo... Read More about COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids.

KTP: Intelligent Agents Jun 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
Improving customer experience through intelligent workflow

Autonomous Robot Evolution: Cradle to Grave Aug 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2022
Robotics is changing the landscape of innovation. But traditional design approaches are not suited to novel or unknown habitats and contexts, for instance: robot colonies for ore mining, exploring or developing other planets or asteroids, or robot sw... Read More about Autonomous Robot Evolution: Cradle to Grave.

Production of final version smartphone application and data queries for citizen science research in Brazil to improve mangrove crab fisheries management Jun 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018
Production of final version smartphone application and data queries for citizen science research in Brazil to improve mangrove crab fisheries management.

Ensembles for Optimisation Sep 1, 2015 - Aug 31, 2016
Optimisation – finding cost-effective or high-performing solutions - is a key economic driver for business today. However, academic literature on search-based optimisation techniques reflects an escalating arms race to produce highly specialized algo... Read More about Ensembles for Optimisation.

Life Long Learning Hyper Heuristic Optimisation Oct 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2015
This project aims to improve the current state of the art in developing optimisation tools which are relevant and acceptable to industry.

This will be achieved by addressing industrial current concerns regarding the ability of academic optimisatio... Read More about Life Long Learning Hyper Heuristic Optimisation.

An Investigation of Hyper-Heuristic Methods: A New Generation of Problems-Solvers Nov 1, 2000 - Jul 31, 2004
The project made significant advances in discovering new automated methods for combining heuristics to solve bin-packing problems, outperforming results obtained by any individual heuristic.

Advances were made using learning classifier systems and... Read More about An Investigation of Hyper-Heuristic Methods: A New Generation of Problems-Solvers.

FOCAS Jan 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2016
FOCAS is a coordination action in the area of collective adaptive systems. It provides increased visibility to the research carried out by projects funded by the FOCAS FET Proactive Initiative and others in research fields related to collective adapt... Read More about FOCAS.

SIGNAL Oct 1, 2001 - Dec 31, 2004
This is an EU-funded research project to develop basic methodologies and principles of systemic intelligence for artefacts such as robots that will be capable of steadily growing their knowledge through continued experience. The project involves four... Read More about SIGNAL.

AWARENESS (Co-ordination Action) Oct 1, 2010 - Sep 30, 2013
For latest news and events, please see the project webpage here

Awareness is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting research under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative:Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (Awareness).  Awareness provide a supportive en... Read More about AWARENESS (Co-ordination Action).

PerAda (PANORAMA) Jan 1, 2008 - May 31, 2011
The project finished on 31/06/11 and was evaluated as "Excellent: the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations"

The reviewers commented: In summary, the project has done a grea... Read More about PerAda (PANORAMA).