Professor Sabine Hauert
MA (EPFL-Switzerland), PhD (EPFL-Switzerland)
Current positions
Professor of Swarm Engineering
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Trustworthy Robot Swarms to Power City-Scale Logistics
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
01/09/2025 to 31/08/2030
Protecting environments with UAV swarms
Principal Investigator
Description
Windracers, Distributed Avionics, British Antarctic Survey, University of Bristol, The University of Sheffield, Helix Technologies and Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service are working together to develop a live demonstration for…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/07/2022 to 30/06/2024
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2022 to 30/04/2027
Trustworthy light-based robotic devices for autonomous wound healing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022
Trustworthy light-based robotic devices for autonomous wound healing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022
Thesis supervisions
Learning Human-readable Behaviour Trees from Video Demonstrations of Robot and Natural Swarms
Supervisors
Swarm performance indicators and algorithms for logistics use cases
Supervisors
Safe Robot Swarms
Supervisors
Screening Nanoparticle Dynamics on Modular Tumours-on-a-chip devices
Supervisors
Decentralised Algorithms for Area Coverage
Supervisors
Autonomous Light-Based Robotic Control of Cellular Dynamics
Supervisors
The dynamic optical micro-environment
Supervisors
Comparison of the burden and basal performance of optogenetic expression systems
Supervisors
Onboard Evolution of Human-Understandable Behaviour Trees for Robot Swarms
Supervisors
Towards Photo-contractile Swarms of Protocellular Robotic Agents
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/10/2025A Novel Dispenser-based Assembly Concept for a Hexagonal SBSP Array
76th International Astronautical Congress 2025
Evolving Dynamic Fault Mitigation Strategies in a Robot Swarm for Collective Transport
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
Towards Understanding the Impact of Swarm Motion on Human Trust
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025)
Applying the “SOTEC” framework of sociotechnical risk analysis to the development of an autonomous robot swarm for a public cloakroom
Risk Analysis
Consensus in the weighted voter model with noise-free and noisy observations
Swarm Intelligence
Related people
Professor Helmut Hauser
Professor of Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Dr Simon Jones
Senior Research Associate
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Dr Johanna Blee
Senior Research Associate
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Mr Georgios Tzoumas
Senior Research Associate
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology