Dr Rob Worley

I joined the University of Sheffield in 2018 as a PhD student, and became a Research Associate in 2022. During this time, I have been working on the Pipebots project, developing robot localization for application to autonomous inspection of buried pipes. As of 2025, I am working on the Pipebot Patrol project, where I am continuing this work, as well as developing robot sensing and control.

I’m interested more broadly in the topics of state estimation and classification, and in the applications of robotics, mapping, and artificial intelligence.