Projects (63)

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..

Long-range Perceptive and Situation-Proactive Autonomous Vehicles for Green and Human-centric Driving Mar 1, 2024 - Feb 28, 2026
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are expected play significant roles in the society and economy. However, the current AVs have a severe drawback: they are unable to recognize the situations they are facing on the road related to their users or tasks at an e... Read More about Long-range Perceptive and Situation-Proactive Autonomous Vehicles for Green and Human-centric Driving.

Audio Mostly 2023 Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/).

Conference Theme:
Embodied Sound in the Virtual

Conference Abstract:
Sound design can play a crucial role in suppo... Read More about Audio Mostly 2023.

Context-driven proactively Auto-recognising and Learning Met-bot for Meteorological Disaster Surveillance and Precautious Warning Apr 1, 2019 - Feb 28, 2022
The project aims to advance the autonomy of field robots with a novel approach to developing a new generation of Meteorological Drone Robots (Met-Bot) which will be context-driven, proactively auto-recognising and proactively learning in coping with... Read More about Context-driven proactively Auto-recognising and Learning Met-bot for Meteorological Disaster Surveillance and Precautious Warning.

Solicitor Data Management for TC Young Jun 11, 2018 - Oct 10, 2018
Develop a bespoke system for managing defined client data including charitable clients in Scotland for TC Young.

Trisent: Innovation Voucher for Personal Context Data Project Feb 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2018
This is a small project to initiate an engagement following an unsuccessful application for a larger Data Lab project.

Trisent’s core technology is called the Personal Context Management System (PCMS) which gathers context data into a database an... Read More about Trisent: Innovation Voucher for Personal Context Data Project.

Managing Archaeological Projects - Innovation Voucher Sep 1, 2017 - Nov 30, 2017
Develop a prototype for an interactive data-driven website to address the unique challenges of managing numerous archaeological services projects across diverse sites in Scotland.

Next Generation Trust Architecture Mar 1, 2018 - Feb 29, 2020
This work will provide proof-of-concept infrastructures and which will be used to create an ecosystem for strong use cases, and thus attract new funding for the building of new health and social care infrastructures, with a focus a cyber resilient tr... Read More about Next Generation Trust Architecture.

Research visit @ University of Bielefeld Jun 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Research exchange with the Bielefeld Dialogue Systems group

KTP Standard Life Jan 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
The development of enhanced data analytics capabilities to enable the modelling, analysis and presentation of complex data to improve Group Internal Audit’s assessment and insight into business risks and performance

The Extractive Components of UK Hardwood Apr 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2017
Use the ITED system to search literature based observations about the chemical extractive components of both broadleaf and conifer tree species commonly grown in the UK.

Chemically, wood structure mainly comprises of cellulose, hemicelluloses and... Read More about The Extractive Components of UK Hardwood.

Glimpse Interactive Wellness Gestures (Factory in the lab) Jul 1, 2016 - Nov 30, 2016
The focus of the project is to use the new breed of motion sensors which can fully capture the movement of hands and fingers, and use this to create an early stage product to demonstrate how precise hand and finger movements can promote a healthy lif... Read More about Glimpse Interactive Wellness Gestures (Factory in the lab).

Towards Green, Sustainable and Personalisable E-Business Services Jun 15, 2012 - Jul 31, 2014
The project will advance the current state of art of e-business and cloud computing by developing a novel approach to cloud-based e-business service evolution and personalisation.

We'll seek further funding from the research councils and EU calls... Read More about Towards Green, Sustainable and Personalisable E-Business Services.

Context-Active Resilience in Cyber Physical systems (CAR) Dec 21, 2016 - Dec 20, 2018
This European Fellowship project will benefit the researcher by giving and enhancing the knowledge and skills for a future generation of CPSs which enjoy the unique feature of context-active resilience. With such new capability and training, the rese... Read More about Context-Active Resilience in Cyber Physical systems (CAR).

An On-Line Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagger and Gold-Standard corpus of Scottish Gaelic Feb 26, 2015 - Feb 26, 2015

Youth School: Donor and Beneficiary Interactions "Funding Lab" Nov 28, 2014 - Apr 13, 2015
User Experience report detailing system technology, persona's, scenarios, wire-frame and recommendations for future work. Partial on-line prototype developed utilising HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.Partner is keen to develop partnership with Edinburgh N... Read More about Youth School: Donor and Beneficiary Interactions "Funding Lab".

TrueBuild Usable Building Regulations Oct 21, 2014 - Jan 11, 2015
The TrueBuild app is a resource delivered by Smart ‘Phone (either IOS or Android) to help builders access and interpret Building Regulations quickly and easily whilst on site.

Engineering Services Mobile Software for Plansafe Ltd. Sep 1, 2014 - Nov 24, 2014
The project is to develop a bespoke, mobile software application which will record results of Statutory Examinations of lifting, pressure and LEV equipment and automatically generate the associated reports. It is intended that this software will beco... Read More about Engineering Services Mobile Software for Plansafe Ltd..

Scottish Crofting Federation E-Learning May 12, 2014 - Aug 31, 2014
The aim of the project led by Alistair Lawson of IIDI is to create a prototype  for a single module of a Crofting Entry Level Course developed by the Scottish Crofting Federation.  



This project delivered and evaluated a web-based prototype on... Read More about Scottish Crofting Federation E-Learning.

ArbAid: Personal safety beacon registration and information delivery system Apr 15, 2014 - Jul 8, 2014
Design for a system for managing information about personal safety beacons for outdoor activities in remote locations. The user will be able to register a device and provide personal details about themselves and their activities for use by emergency... Read More about ArbAid: Personal safety beacon registration and information delivery system.