Callum Rhodes

Callum Rhodes

Post Doc researcher

The Dyson Robotics Lab, Imperial College London

Biography

Callum Rhodes is a current Post Doctoral research fellow at the Dyson Robotics Lab, Imperial College London under the supervision of Professor Andrew Davison. His current research interest is on distributed inference and leveraging learnt monocular priors for 3D scene understanding. Before this, he completed his PhD in field robotics at Loughborough University’s Center for Autonomous Systems, with a focus on remote gas distribution mapping using robotic platforms. He is passionate about creating real-time software solutions and seeing the process through to hardware deployment.

Interests
  • Computer Vision
  • Distributed Computation
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Applied robotics
Education
  • PhD in Field Robotics, 2022

    Loughborough University

  • MEng in Automotive Engineering, 2018

    Loughborough University

Skills

Technical
Python (OpenCV, Open3d, Pytorch, JAX)
MATLAB (Robotics system toolbox)
Simulink
ROS1/2
C++ (OpenCV, Torchlib, OpenMP)
CAD (NX)
Hobbies
Snowboarding
Football
Drumming
Motorcycling

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Imperial College London
Research Fellow
April 2023 – Present London, UK
Researching distributed and efficient computation methods for modern computer vision problems applied to robotics.
 
 
 
 
 
Frazer-Nash Consultancy
Control Engineer
October 2022 – July 2023 Bristol, UK
Developing control capabilities for assured autonomous systems.
 
 
 
 
 
Loughborough University
Research Associate
December 2019 – October 2022 Loughborough, UK
Lead researcher on a DSTL funded project investigating efficient source term estimation using unmanned aerial vehicles.

Projects

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U-ARE-ME
Uncertainty aware rotation estimation in Manhattan environments.
U-ARE-ME
3D gas distribution mapping
Applying distributed inference techniques in order to acheive dense 3D mapping of sparse gas concentration measurements in real time.
3D gas distribution mapping
ELROB 2022
Heterogenous remote sensing for building real-time 3D radiation maps.
ELROB 2022
Auto-STE
Autonomous source term estimation using a UAV in cluttered, GPS denied environments.
Auto-STE
EnRicH 2021
Testing robotic response equipment in a real world full scale nuclear facility.
EnRicH 2021

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Recent Publications

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(2023). Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning. Autonomous Robots.

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(2022). Scalable probabilistic gas distribution mapping using Gaussian belief propagation. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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(2021). Dual control for exploitation and exploration (DCEE) in autonomous search. Automatica.

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(2020). Informative path planning for gas distribution mapping in cluttered environments. 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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(2019). An information theoretic approach to path planning for frontier exploration. Loughborough University.

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Contact

Feel free to contact me for any opportunities or any questions regarding my projects.