Bi-SENSS consortium is led by Veolia Nuclear Solutioni (VNS). Fabulous teams from VNS, University of Lincoln (UoL) (Lincoln Centre for Autonomous System (L-CAS)), UK, Faculty.ai and CREATEC build an exciting technology for Autonomous + HRI technologies in response to the need for nuclear waste cleaning in the world. The consortium brings together proven technologies and deep domain expertise from leading nuclear, agritech and artificial intelligence (AI) practitioners to build a solution around automating DEXTERTM - a commercial force guided and radiation-hardened teleoperated robotic platform and integrating it with advanced characterisation and tracking technologies to identify, classify, transfer, trace and package waste. UoL team consisted of Prof. Rai, Hanhedid, Dr Argin and Dr Poozhiyil. UoL team led by Dr Ghalamzan build/developed all the components necessary for autonomous movements of the Dexter arm (read more about Dexter here). This is the first time in the history of Dexter tat it moves autonomously. This project outputs (1) Autonomous capability of Dexter (step-change in the commercial opputunity for VNS), (2) Synthetic and Real dataset for Nuclear decomissioning, (3) AI models for autonomous grasping and packaging optimization of items.
SBRI, Innovate UK, 2020-2022.
Contact PI: Dr Amir Ghalamzan
Contact Co-I: Prof. Mini Rai
Contact Co-I: Prof. Marc Hanheide