Robotics

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Implicitly Quantized Representations for Reinforcement Learning

Learning representations for reinforcement learning (RL) has shown much promise for continuous control. In this project, we investigate using vector quantization to prevent …

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Mode-Constrained Exploration for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

This work presents a learning-based control method for navigating to a target state in unknown, or partially unknown, multimodal dynamical systems. In particular, it develops a …

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Trajectory Optimisation in Learned Multimodal Dynamical Systems

This work presents a two-stage method to perform trajectory optimisation in multimodal dynamical systems with unknown nonlinear stochastic transition dynamics. The method finds …

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Amazon Picking Challenge

As part of the FARSCOPE CDT program I worked in a team to develop a solution to Amazon’s picking challenge. This involved designing a robotic pick-and-place system that was capable …

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Autonomous Vehicle Lane Detection Software

An application was designed following the model-view-controller architecture to enable multiple autonomous vehicle algorithms to be simulated in different views and to allow the …

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Kidnapped Robot

This project involved developing algorithms capable of localising a robot within a known environment but at an unknown position and moving it to a target location. This was …

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UAV Swarm

This project involved developing distributed software enabling a swarm of fixed wing UAVs to track a pollutant cloud. A discrete time state space model of the world was produced …

Aidan Scannell
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