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
Co-AIMS: Research Hub on Collaborative AI for Manufacturing Sustainability
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
31/10/2025 to 30/10/2032
Co-AIMS: Research Hub on Collaborative AI for Manufacturing Sustainability
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
31/10/2025 to 30/10/2032
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 30/04/2028
Thesis supervisions
Swarm performance indicators and algorithms for logistics use cases
Supervisors
Screening Nanoparticle Dynamics on Modular Tumours-on-a-chip devices
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Safe Robot Swarms
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Decentralised Algorithms for Area Coverage
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The dynamic optical micro-environment
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Swarm Medicine
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Autonomous Light-Based Robotic Control of Cellular Dynamics
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Onboard Evolution of Human-Understandable Behaviour Trees for Robot Swarms
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Towards Photo-contractile Swarms of Protocellular Robotic Agents
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Towards Stochastic Swarms for Environmental Applications
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Comparison of the burden and basal performance of optogenetic expression systems
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Shaping robot swarms through morphogenesis and interactive engagement with society
Supervisors
Skilling the gap
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A Computational Framework for the Optimisation of Antivenom Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
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Hybrid Swarms
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On the design and usability of expressive robot swarms for multi-human-swarm interaction in social applications
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A biologically-inspired artificial lateral line
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Sociogenesis and Collective Movement
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Swarm-based wildfire monitoring and mitigation
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Learning Human-readable Behaviour Trees from Video Demonstrations of Robot and Natural Swarms
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Evolving Morphological Adaption Methods in Compliant Robots
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
22/05/2026DRESS
2026 IEEE 9th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning of a Fault-Robust Controller in an Intralogistics Robot Swarm
Swarm Intelligence
Scalable real-time multi-UAV coverage path planning for large geographical areas
2025 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
A Novel Dispenser-based Assembly Concept for a Hexagonal SBSP Array
76th International Astronautical Congress 2025
Autonomous Robotic Swarms: A Corroborative Approach for Verification and Validation
IEEE International Conference on Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems, ERAS 2025 - Proceedings
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