SLMC Projects & Grants

Active Projects & Funding Agencies

• Project Title: UK Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Hub for Offshore Energy Asset Integrity Management (ORCA)
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Christopher Williams, Michael Mistry, Ram Ramamoorthy
  Grant Agency: EPSRC (EP/R026173/1)
  Project Duration: October 2017 - March 2021
• Project Title: Future AI and Robotics for Space (FAIR-SPACE)
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar co-PI: Zhibin Li
  Grant Agency: EPSRC (RN0344)
  Project Duration: October 2017 - March 2021
• Project Title: Memory of Motion (MEMMO)
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar 
  Grant Agency: EU government bodies
  Project Duration: January 2018 - December 2021
• Project Title: The Microsoft Research - Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Robotics
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: UK industry, commerce and public corporations
  Project Duration: August 2017 - May 2022
• Project Title: Learning Robotic Motor Skills, Visual Control and Perception for Warehouse Automation
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: UKIERI (DST-UKIERI-2016-17-0152)
  Project Duration: April 2017 - December 2020

• Project Title: Institute Programme Co-Director for Artificial Intelligence
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: The Alan Turing Institute
  Project Duration: September 2018 - August 2020
• Project Title: Learning to grasp movable objects on tactile information
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: UK Industry
  Project Duration: September 2017 - August 2021
• Project Title: Dexterous Human-robot Cooperation
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: EU
  Project Duration: August 2016 - August 2020

Archived Grants & Projects

• Project Title: Topology based Motion Synthesis for dexterous manipulation (TOMSY)
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, co-PI: Taku Komura, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
  Grant Agency: EU Framework 7 IST Cognitive Systems (EU FP7 270436)
  Project Duration: April 2011 - March 2014
• Project Title: Topology based Motion Synthesis
  PI: Taku Komura, co-PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
  Grant Agency: EPSRC (EP/H012338/1)
  Project Duration: October 2010 - September 2013
• Project Title: Commercialization of variable damping and impedance actuators
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: IKTF Research Grant
  Project Duration: 2010-2011
• Project Title: Biomorphic Variable Stffness (STIFF)
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: EU Framework 7 IST Cognitive Systems (EU FP7 231576)
  Project Duration: January 2009 - December 2011
• Award: Senior Research Fellowship in Learning Robotics
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: Microsoft Research and Royal Academy of Engineering
  Project Duration: August 2007 - July 2012
• Project Title: Vibrotactile Feedback for Prosthetic Hand
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: KTP Research Grant and Touch Bionics
  Project Duration: 2010
• Project Title: Automating and Enhancing Team Performance Analysis
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: IDEA lab POP award, UoE
  Project Duration: 2009
• Workshop Grant: “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
• Equipment Grant: EMG and Polhemus Motion Tracking Device
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: Royal Academy of Engineering
  Project Duration: 2009
• Equipment Grant: Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with Tactile Sensor Arrays
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: Royal Academy of Engineering
  Project Duration: 2008
• Project Title: SENSOPAC: Sensorimotor structuring of Perception and Action for emerging Cognition  [link]
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: EU Framework 6 IST Cognitive systems
  Project Duration: Jan 2006 - Dec 2009
• Project Title: Controlling Humanoid Behaviour through Combination of Parameterized Cost Functions
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: EPSRC CASE studentship and HONDA Research Institute-Europe
  Project Duration: October 2005 - September 2008
• Hosting Grant: Research Grant  to support Eminent Scientist visit
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: ERASMUS Mundus EuMI Research Grant 
  Project Duration: April 2006 - September 2006
• Equipment Grant: Upgrade of robotics teaching kits for IAR course
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar, Barbara Webb
  Grant Agency: EPSRC Collaborative Teaching Account (CTA)
  Project Duration: 2005 - 2006
• Project Title: Real TIme Visual Attention: Experiments and Modelling
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: The Royal Society UK
  Project Duration: April 2004 - March 2005
• Project Title: MAVERic: Oculomotor Experimental Vision Head
  PI: Sethu Vijayakumar
  Grant Agency: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
  Project Duration: May 2000 - July 2003