Mr Edward Bray (he/him)

BA, MEng

Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

PhD Student

enbray1@sheffield.ac.uk

Pam Liversidge Building

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Mr Edward Bray
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Pam Liversidge Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Profile: I joined the Natural Robotics Lab at The University of Sheffield in October 2019, having previously graduated with a MEng in Engineering from Cambridge University. My research focuses on how robots can use self-assembly to construct bridges across gaps out of their bodies. The approach taken incorporates local force measurements into the algorithms in order to build structures that will not collapse under their own self-weight.

Research interests

Publications

Scimeca L, Maiolino P, Bray E & Iida F (2020) Structuring of tactile sensory information for category formation in robotics palpation. Autonomous Robots, 44(8), 1377-1393.
Bray E & Gross R () Recent Developments in Self-Assembling Multi-Robot Systems. Current Robotics Reports.

Bray E & Gross R (2022) Distributed optimisation and deconstruction of bridges by self-assembling robots. Robotics: Science and System XVIII. New York, NY, USA, 27 June 2022 - 1 July 2022. View this article in WRRO
Bray E & Gross R (2021) Distributed self-assembly of cantilevers by force-aware robots. Proceedings of 2021 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) (pp 110-118). Cambridge, UK, 4 November 2021 - 5 November 2021. View this article in WRRO

Teaching activities

I have worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the following modules:

Natural Robotics Lab