Projects and Grants: Archive

An archive of our previous projects and funding agencies.

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HARMONY: Enhancing Healthcare with Assistive Robotic Mobile Manipulation (HARMONY)

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: Horizon 2020 (UoE Research Explorer Page)

Project Duration: January 2021 - June 2024

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UoE-AIRS Joint Project

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Tin Lun Lam

Grant Agency: Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (Project Details)

Project Duration: January 2020 - December 2023

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Interactive Collision-Free Bi-Manual Manipulation (Kawada JIP)

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Vladimir Ivan

Grant Agency: Kawada Robotics Corporation (Project Details)

Project Duration: June 2020 - Feb 2023

honda
Co-bots and Exoskeletons for Assisted Living with Ergonomic Measures

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar & Michael Gienger

Grant Agency: Honda Research Institute (UoE Research Explorer Page)

Project Duration: Feb 2021 - Jan 2023

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PI: Vladimir Ivan, Sethu Vijayakumar

Project Partners: Touchlabs (Project Details)

Project Duration: Feb 2021 - Sept 2022)

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Memory of Motion (MEMMO)

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Steve Tonneau

Grant Agency: EU H2020 (UoE Research Explorer Page)

Project Duration: January 2018 - June 2022

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UK Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Hub for Offshore Energy Asset Integrity  Management (ORCA)

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Michael Mistry, Ram Ramamoorthy

Grant Agency: EPSRC (UoE Research Explorer Page)

Project Duration: October 2017 - March 2022

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Future AI and Robotics for Space (FAIR-SPACE)

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Zhibin Li

Grant Agency: EPSRC (UoE Research Explorer Page)

Project Duration: October 2017 - March 2022

UKIERI
Learning Robotic Motor Skills, Visual Control and Perception for Warehouse Automation

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: UKIERI (Details)

Project Duration: April 2017 - December 2020

Honda
Dexterous Human-robot Cooperation

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Michael Gienger

Grant Agency: EU and HONDA Research Institute (Details)

Project Duration: August 2016 - November 2020

Jamstec
JIP with JAMSTEC Japan

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar co-PI: Hakan Bilen 

Grant Agency: JAMSTEC (Details)

Project Duration: May 2019 - December 2019

EU
iLEVATOR: intraLogistics Enabled by autonomous Vehicles cooperATing with Operators and Robots

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: EU (Details)

Project Duration: January 2017 - December 2017

Hitachi
Intelligent Warehousing for Dynamic Environments

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: Hitachi (Details)

Project Duration: November 2015 - July 2016

UKRI
Anyscale Applications

PI: Vijay Nagarajan, co-PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Michael O'Boyle

Grant Agency: EPSRC (Details)

Project Duration: October 2013 - March 2018

UKRI
ROBOTARIUM: The Edinburgh Robotic and Autonomous Systems Capital Grant

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: EPSRC (Details)

Project Duration: July 2013 - May 2016

UKIERI
Deciphering variable impedance strategies in human locomotion for the development of next generation robotic devices

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: UKIERI (Details)

Project Duration: May 2013 - November 2015

Royal Academy
Games Robots Play 

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, co-PI: Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Grant Agency: Royal Academy of Engineering (Details)

Project Duration: April 2012 - July 2013

EU
Topology based Motion Synthesis for dexterous manipulation 

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, co-PI: Taku Komura, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Grant Agency: EU Framework 7 IST Cognitive Systems (EU FP7 270436) (Details)

Project Duration: April 2011 - March 2014

UKRIEPSRC
Topology based Motion Synthesis

PI: Taku Komura, co-PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Grant Agency: EPSRC (Details)

Project Duration: October 2010 - September 2013

UKRI
Commercialization of variable damping and impedance actuators

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: IKTF Research Grant

Project Duration: 2010-2011

UKRI
Vibrotactile Feedback for Prosthetic Hand

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: KTP Research Grant and Touch Bionics (Details)

Project Duration: 2010

EU
Biomorphic Variable Stiffness 

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: EU Framework 7 IST Cognitive Systems (EU FP7 231576) (Details)

Project Duration: January 2009 - December 2011

UoE
Automating and Enhancing Team Performance Analysis

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: IDEA lab POP award, UoE

Project Duration: 2009

EU
“Regression in Robotics”: Robotics: Science & Systems, Seattle, USA

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Christian Plagemann, Jo-Anne Ting

Grant Agency: EU FP7 PASCAL2 Network of Excellence Grant

Project Duration: 2009

Royal Academy
EMG and Polhemus Motion Tracking Device

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: Royal Academy of Engineering

Project Duration: 2009

Royal Academy
Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with Tactile Sensor Arrays

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: Royal Academy of Engineering

Project Duration: 2008

Royal Academy
Senior Research Fellowship in Learning Robotics

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: Microsoft Research and Royal Academy of Engineering (Details)

Project Duration: August 2007 - July 2012

EU
Research Grant  to support Eminent Scientist visit

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: ERASMUS Mundus EuMI Research Grant 

Project Duration: April 2006 - September 2006

EU
SENSOPAC: Sensorimotor structuring of Perception and Action for emerging Cognition 

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: EU Framework 6 IST Cognitive systems (Details 1) (Details2) (Details3)

Project Duration: Jan 2006 - Dec 2009

Honda
Controlling Humanoid Behaviour through Combination of Parameterized Cost Functions

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: EPSRC CASE studentship and HONDA Research Institute-Europe (Details)

Project Duration: October 2005 - September 2008

UKRI
Upgrade of robotics teaching kits for IAR course

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Barbara Webb

Grant Agency: EPSRC Collaborative Teaching Account (CTA)

Project Duration: 2005 - 2006

Royal Society
Real TIme Visual Attention: Experiments and Modelling

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: The Royal Society UK (Details)

Project Duration: April 2004 - March 2005

                        
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MAVERic: Oculomotor Experimental Vision Head

PI: Sethu Vijayakumar

Grant Agency: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

Project Duration: May 2000 - July 2003