The Team
We are a group of researchers and students working on marine robotics and perception.
Blair Thornton
Professor of Marine Autonomy
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science (FEPS)
School of Engineering
Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering (CMEE)
Groups & Institutes
Teaching
Editorial roles
- Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
- Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Guest Editor of Field Robotics Journal Marine Robotics Special Issue
Adrian Bodenmann
Senior Research Assistant
Teaching contributions
- SESS6072 Maritime Robotics Laboratories
Sam Simmons
Research Technician
CMMI Marine Robotics Research Technician (2022 start)
Emma Curtis
PhD student
PhD (2020 start: NERC Inspire)
Cailei Liang
PhD student
PhD (2023 start: CSC Scholarship)
Sam Fenton
PhD student
PhD (2023 start: Sonardyne and SMMI sponsored)
Sarah Stevens
PhD student
PhD (2023 start: INSPIRE)
Alec O’Loughlin
PhD student
PhD (2024 start)
Alumni
PhD (2018-2024: CTD-SIS)
Senior Research Fellow (2018-2024)
- SESS6072 Maritime Robotics Tutorials
PhD (2019-2023 Sonardyne Int. Ltd. and LTDS)
PhD (2017 - 2022: NEXUS and LTDS)
Student poster winner: UT2019 Taiwan
3 minute thesis competition 2019: UoS finalist and People choice award winner
Research Technician (2020-2021)
PhD (2018 -2021: Japanese government scholarship)
(2017 - 2020 )
Student poster winner: Oceans 2018 Kobe, Japan
MEng 2019, UG project 2018
Analysis of Uncertainty in Laser-Scanned Bathymetric Map (conference paper here) awarded the 2018 SMI Donald Maxwell Award
Research Fellow (2018 -2019)
Team Photos
Team members during 2021 awayday to GoApe: (Top from left) Takaki Yamada, Blair Thornton, Jonathan Boschen-Rose, (Bottom from left) David Stanley, Miquel Massot-Campos, Emma Curtis, Jenny Walker, Jose Cappelletto, Adrian Bodenmann
Team members in 2019 onboard DY109/BioCam on RRS Discovery. Bottom row from left (UoS) David Stanley, Takaki Yamada, Blair Thornton, Jose Cappelletto, Adrian Bodenmann, Miquel Massot Campos and top row from left (NOC MARS) Richard Austin-Berry, Phil Bagley, Rachel Marlow, Eoin O Hobain, Owain Shepherd
Team members in 2018 onboard the R/V Falkor, FK180731, Left to right: Tomoko Takahashi, Kazunori Nagano, Jennifer Walker, Adrian Bodenmann, Tetsu Koike, Blair Thornton, Miquel Massot, Jin Wei Lim, Yuya Nishida, Kiminori Shitashima