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
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
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
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
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022
Trustworthy light-based robotic devices for autonomous wound healing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2022
Swarm technology and digital twinning to enable coordination and utilisation of high numbers of 100kg payload UAVs in aid delivery and firefighting applications
Principal Investigator
Description
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to become a reality for civil applications such as the transport of goods, aid delivery, or firefighting.
The ULTRA unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed…Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/12/2020 to 31/08/2022
Thesis supervisions
Swarm performance indicators and algorithms for logistics use cases
Supervisors
Screening Nanoparticle Dynamics on Modular Tumours-on-a-chip devices
Supervisors
Decentralised Algorithms for Area Coverage
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
Shaping robot swarms through morphogenesis and interactive engagement with society
Supervisors
Skilling the gap
Supervisors
On the design and usability of expressive robot swarms for multi-human-swarm interaction in social applications
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
10/01/2025Evolving Dynamic Fault Mitigation Strategies in a Robot Swarm for Collective Transport
Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2025)
On the ethical governance of swarm robotic systems in the real world
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Distributed Spatial Awareness for Robot Swarms
DARS 2024: 17th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
Search Space Illumination of Robot Swarm Parameters for Trustworthy Interaction
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems - 16th International Symposium
Use case design for swarms of firefighting UAVs via mutual shaping
2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO)
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
Research Associate
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology