Past Projects

Bio-Robots: Crawl, Jump, and Slither!
Official Link: here
Funder: EPSRC
Start date: 1 July 2022
End date: 30 June 2024
Value: £200,339
PI: Prof. Ifat Yasin (UCL)
co-I: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Prof. Stephen Hailes (UCL)

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Interactive Multi-Robot Assembly!
Link: TBA
Funder: UCL Architecture Research Fund (ARF)
Start date: 01 September 2022
End date: 01 June 2023
Value: £9,989
PI: Pradeep Devadass (UCL), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Dominik Johannes Zisch (UCL)
co-I: Samuel Turner-Baldwin (UCL), Ben Spong (UCL), Alberto Fernandez Gonzalez (UCL)
Advisors: Fiona Zisch (UCL), Peter Scully (UCL)

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PhD studentship
Funder: EPSRC – Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)
Start date: 01 September 2022
End date: 30 September 2026
Value: £99,774.62
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)
co-I: Carlo Ciliberto (UCL)

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Interactive Multi-Robot Assembly!
Funder: UCL Architecture Research Fund (ARF)
Start date: 01 September 2022
End date: 01 June 2023
Value: £9,989
PI: Pradeep Devadass (UCL), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Dominik Johannes Zisch (UCL)
co-I: Samuel Turner-Baldwin (UCL), Ben Spong (UCL), Alberto Fernandez Gonzalez (UCL)
Advisors: Fiona Zisch (UCL), Peter Scully (UCL)

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LR-NAMO: Learning Robot Navigation Among Movable Objects
Funder: EPSRC New Investigator Award
Start date: 01 January 2022
End date: 31 December 2024
Value: £396,473.94
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)
Mentors: Prof. Simon Julier (UCL), Prof. Marc Deisenroth (UCL)

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Employing Quadrupedal Robots as an Innovative Solution for Last-Mile Logistics
Funder: UCL Grand Challenges Doctoral Students
Start date: 01 January 2022
End date: 31 July 2022
Value: £500
PI: Mr Johnson (UCL), Mrs Stamatopoulou (UCL)
Mentors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Manos Chaniotakis (UCL)

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Machine Learning for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation of Everyday Objects
Funder: UCL Cities Partnerships Programme
Start date: 01 January 2022
End date: 31 July 2022
Value: £5,000.00
PI: Yasemin Bekiroglu (UCL)
co-I: Florian Pokorny (KTH), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Marc Deisenroth (UCL)

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UCL Robotics Innovation Network
Funder: UCL Innovation Enterprise
Start date: 01 January 2022
End date: 31 March 2022
Value: £29,978.00
PI: Sarah Spurgeon (UCL) co-I: Rob Thompson (UCL), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Helge Wurdemann (UCL), Stuart Robson (UCL)

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TeleVisit: Virtual Visiting Universities via Teleoperation and Telexistence on Mobile Robots
Funder: Daiwa Foundation Award
Start date: 01 December 2021
End date: 31 December 2022
Value: £7,250.00
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)

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First UCL Robotics Institute Workshop
Funder: UCL Researcher-led Initiatives Award 2021
Start date: 01 July 2021
End date: 31 July 2022
Value: £500.00
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)
co-I: Sarah Spurgeon (UCL), Yuanchang Liu (UCL), Helge Wurdemann (UCL)

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RECYCLE: Garbage Recycle Collection with a Mobile Manipulation Robot
Funder: UCL Global Engagement Funds 2020/21 & UCL-CS Strategic Research Funds
Start date: 01 February 2021
End date: 28 February 2022
Value: £7,335.20 (UCL: £7,335.20)
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)
co-I: Arash Ajoudani (IIT)

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TeLeMan: Teleoperative Legged Manipulator for Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Link:here
Funder: DASA/Dstl Telexistence
Start date: 01 February 2021
End date: 31 May 2022
Value: £99,578.44 (UCL: £37,360.00)
PI: Chengxu Zhou (UoL)
co-I: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Robert Richardson (UoL)

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TeleGrasp: Using Human IMU-based Teleoperation and Robot Vision to Create a Semi-Autonomous System
Link:here
Funder: UCL-Osaka University Strategic Partner Funds & UCL-CS Strategic Research Funds
Start date: 01 November 2021
End date: 31 October 2022
Value: £10,000.00 (UCL: £7,059.60)
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)
co-I: Weiwei Wan (Osaka Univ.)

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PhD studentship
Funder: EPSRC – Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)
Start date: 01 September 2020
End date: 30 September 2024
Value: £99,774.62
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)
co-I: Helge Wurdemann (UCL)

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Legged Robotics and Locomotion Task Group
Funder: UK-RAS Strategic Task Group
Start date: 01 February 2020
End date: 28 February 2021
Value: £23,000.00
PI: Maurice Fallon (Univ. of Oxford)
co-I: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL), Ioannis Havoutis (Univ. of Oxford), Chengxu Zhou (Univ. of Leeds), Zhibin Li (Univ. of Edinburgh), Michael Mistry (Univ. of Edinburgh)

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Visual-based Box Manipulation, using the Pyrene Humanoid Robot
Funder: EU H2020 TERRINet Project; 6-months support and access to LAAS-CNRS lab and Pyrene Humanoid Robot
Start date: 01 December 2019
End date: 31 May 2020
Value: £23,000.00
PI: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL)

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