
Professor Jonathan Rossiter
B.Eng.
Current positions
Professor of Robotics
Department of Engineering Mathematics
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Research interests
I am Professor of Robotics and head of the Soft Robotics group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory.
Soft robotics is the research and development of novel compliant technologies for robotic systems, medical applications and engineering. These include core technologies such as smart materials and artificial muscles, smart mechanisms and structures, autonomous soft robots, smart skins and tactile interaction devices. In my robotic actuator and artificial muscle research I have been developing new polymer-composite actuators involving principles of buckling and bi-stability and robots which are inspired by bio-mimetic study of swimming organisms, including bacteria and fish.
My research also include bio-mimetics, artificial intelligence, composites, sensors and the wider robotics field. Bio-mimetics is an engineering tool that covers a huge scale from the tangible nano-technology level, including materials, actuators and sensors, right up to the intangible level of artificial intelligence, including high-level perception, cognition and reasoning.
My research on sensing extends from tactile sensing techniques to human-like visual sensing and perception and human assist paradigms including the projection of one sense (such as vision or balance) to another sense (such as touch).
In the field of artificial intelligence I focus on high-level intelligence and especially human-like reasoning with uncertainty.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Improving Quality of Life for People Living with EB: Developing an interdisciplinary network to evaluate requirements and engineering solutions for a second skin technology
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The aim of this project is exchanging ideas between academics from the University of Bristol and collaborators from Cure EB, where design and development of a soft wearable artificial skin…Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/03/2022 to 31/07/2022
Strategies for Improving the Sensing Performance of Personalised Therapeutic Products for People Living with Dementia
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This project seeks to develop a soft robotic device as a therapeutic product with intelligent sensing to support people living with dementia. In this project, we systematically explore and develop…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
11/10/2021 to 30/06/2022
8032 ROBOFOOD 964596
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/10/2021 to 30/09/2025
ISCF Smart Collaborative Industrial Robotics Research Centre
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
30/09/2021 to 29/03/2025
EMPOWER - bio-enhancement through implantable artificial muscles
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/03/2021 to 28/02/2026
Thesis supervisions
Model-based Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Tactile Sensations
Supervisors
Additive Manufacturing of Soft, Functional Structures for Next-Generation Soft Robotics
Supervisors
Smart Dielectric Elastomer Generators
Supervisors
Integration and Coupling of High Performance Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Systems
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Soft robotics technologies to treat laryngeal disorders
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Intelligence in soft robotics
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Mechanical Metastructures with Integrated Flexible Electronics Systems
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Euglenoid Movement and Novel Mechanisms for Soft Robots
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Light driven robots - flare launching autonomous swimming hydrobot (FLASH)
Supervisors
Development of Soft Artificial Muscles towards a Smart Assistive Suit
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
30/06/2022A Soft Fabric-based Shrink-to-fit Pneumatic Sleeve for Comfortable Limb Assistance
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)
Design exploration of electro-pneumatic pumps (EPPs) to obtain high pressure and air flow rate improvement
SPIE Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXIV 2022
ReRobot: Recycled Materials for Trustworthy Soft Robots
2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2022
Towards a Soft Exosuit for Hypogravity Adaptation: Design and Control of Lightweight Bubble Artificial Muscles
A calming hug
PLoS ONE