Academic Partners
Led by the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, ORCA Hub is made up of a collaboration of the following UK universities:
Through our university partners ORCA brings together leading experts in the fields of:
- Sensing
- Signal processing
- Mapping and localisation
- Soft sensing and integration on manipulators
- Structural integrity monitoring
- Robot control
- Human-robot interaction
- Multimodal interfaces for autonomous systems in multiple domains
- Automated and adaptive motion planning
- Explainable AI
- Machine learning
- Autonomous systems
- Robot verification
- Asset and condition monitoring
Hub Management Team
Anna Kedzia
ORCA Hub Administrator
Co-Investigators
Research Team
Dr. Stefano Albrecht
Research Associate
Dr. Simona Aracri
Research Associate
Paola Ardón Ramírez
PhD Student
Dr. Jamie Blanche
Research Associate
Yu (Tony) Cao
Research Associate
Yaniel Carreno
PhD Student
Dr. Kamil Cetin
Research Associate
Chris Dadswell
Research Associate
Dr. Paul Duckworth
Research Associate
Dr. Angelo Ferrando
Research Associate
Arnau Garriga Casanovas
Research Associate
Daniel Gordon
Research Associate
Dr. Josiah Hanna
Research Associate
Dr. Vladimir Ivan
Research Associate
Dr. Pouyan Khalili
Research Associate
Dr. Sanghyun Kim
Research Associate
Dr. Pierre Le Bras
Research Associate
Dr. Qian Li
Research Associate
Dr. Shuo Li
Research Associate
Dr. Alan Lindsay
Research Associate
Dr. Matt Luckuck
Research Associate
Dr. Tomasz Luczynski
Research Associate
Dr. Stefano Mariani
Research Associate
Dr. Carlos Mastalli Cadenas
Research Associate
Dr. Alistair McConnell
Research Associate
Dr. Peter McKenna
Research Associate
Joao Moura
Research Associate
Dr. Rahul Mourya
Research Associate
Dr. Vincent Page
Research Associate
Èric Pairet Artau
PhD Student
Dr. Fabio Papacchini
Research Associate
Dr. Milad Ramezani
Research Associate
Christian Rauch
Research Associate
Dr. David Robb
Research Associate
Dr. Tushar Semwal
Research Associate
Dr. Carlo Tiseo
Research Associate
Dr. Harun Tugal
Research Associate
Dr. Pawel Waszczuk
Research Associate
Dr. Osama Zaki
Research Associate
Chenyang Zhao
Research Associate
Dr. Xingyu Zhao
Research Associate
Lucy Martin - Former Head of Robotics, EPSRC:
"It is really important that we build this collaborative community between industry and academia to make sure that whatever the novel breakthrough is in science, that actually leads to real world products and services.”