Projects (30)

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.

Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty Mar 14, 2022 - Dec 15, 2023
Local food sectors, e.g. Foodbanks, still rely on paper-based referral systems whilst continuing to see increasing demand. In addition, the model of direct hand-outs of food parcels and electricity vouchers is unsustainable, lacks dignity for clients... Read More about Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty.

A Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management System for Long Term Care for Elderly People Aug 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024
A reinforcement learning method will model the behaviour of community care organisations with sequential decision processes focusing on organising the distribution, procurement and management of daily necessities, consumables, food, hospital emergenc... Read More about A Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Management System for Long Term Care for Elderly People.

False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Fake news (inaccurate information) peaked during the pandemic with around 46 000 daily Twitter posts containing false information (Lupi, 2020). In Europe over 70% people regularly encounter fake news (UNESCO, 2021). The Scottish government has recent... Read More about False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic.

AI for Plant Image Analysis: where we are and whats next? Oct 1, 2021 - Apr 30, 2023
The workshop has two aims: (i) offering training sessions on how to develop deep networks to people involved in plant biology; (ii) analyse their current provision

KTP Ace Aquatec Jun 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2023
To develop, test and incorporate Innovative AI based approaches to improve accuracy of Individual fish identification and sea lice detection.

Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs Oct 1, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020
Extending a containerised microservices architecture developed in the initial project to support a set of user functions required for the platform's MVP. Additionally, the project will deliver cloud APIs for later use with the company's consumer app... Read More about Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs.

Bus Passenger Analytics Jan 1, 2020 - Apr 30, 2020
Passengers using the Lothian Buses network may use a smart card (Ridacard) to pay for their journey, swiping the card on boarding a vehicle. Smart card journeys account for about 1/3rd of journeys made. This generates data recording when an individu... Read More about Bus Passenger Analytics.

Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets Sep 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
Urban air quality affects the lives of millions, according to WHO statistics air quality contributes to 6.7% of all deaths worldwide. Managing air quality in urban areas is now a priority for governments. In order to manage air quality and to predic... Read More about Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets.

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.

Caddie Charger May 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2014
Focusing on the IT aspects of sound recognition and analysis. The product will be used to monitor the players  playing golf shots using a mixture of location, wi-fi and sounds technologies. Through use of  sophisticated software programmes, the syste... Read More about Caddie Charger.

Market Prepare May 28, 2014 - Mar 22, 2015
A feasibility study & demo of tendering and rating software for Market Prepare to increase the work capacity and improve their customer’s experience when booking trade work and dealing with trades people.

BeeFound Feb 25, 2014 - May 24, 2014
A demonstrator has been created which showcases a ranking algorithm and availability matching.

Currently discussions are ongoing regarding a follow on project.

AvantGuarde Jan 28, 2014 - Mar 27, 2014
Workshop style sessions were held with Avant Garde, their work so far was reviewed and issues relating to performance were examined. We were able to make specific  suggestions to address a number of issues as well as provide training pass on speciali... Read More about AvantGuarde.

Optimum order of deliveries within milk rounds Nov 13, 2013 - Jun 30, 2014
This project is being undertaken in collaboration  with McQueens Dairies. The principle aim is investigate the optimisation of drop-off points within milk rounds. The project will establish a suitable GIS platform and build a demonstrator that will a... Read More about Optimum order of deliveries within milk rounds.

Esave Feasibility Study Jul 1, 2012 - Oct 26, 2012
This project undertook the following tasks:

1) An analysis of the existing work flow within the energy audit process used by esave on behalf of their clients.
2) The specification and design of an Android software tool to be used by the audit... Read More about Esave Feasibility Study.

Scapa Flow Technologies Mar 1, 2005 - Jun 30, 2006
To use evolutionary techniques to develop prototype software that will automatically optimise the performance of Enterprise Java software for large e-commerce systems.

Tick2Ride Proof of Concept Oct 1, 2007 - Nov 1, 2008
The project looked at using optimisation techniques to plan business travel (i.e. journey sharing) and reduce its environmental impact.

Both soft constraints (personal preferences) and hard constraints were modelled to identify the best oppor... Read More about Tick2Ride Proof of Concept.