I'm a 4th year DPhil (PhD) student in the Mobile Robotics Group at Oxford University. My supervisor is Dr Paul Newman. I work on autonomous exploration, and have developed novel approaches to solve this problem - most recently a method based on solving a partial differential equation across a voxelised representation of the workspace, with boundary conditions ensuring complete exploration. This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2011.

Choosing Where To Go:
Complete 3D Exploration with Stereo
Robbie Shade and Paul Newman
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Shanghai, China, May 2011
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Discovering and Mapping Complete Surfaces
With Stereo
Robbie Shade and Paul Newman
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010
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Navigating, Recognising and Describing Urban Spaces With Vision and Laser
Paul Newman, Gabe Sibley, Mike Smith, Mark Cummins, Alastair Harrison, Christopher Mei, Ingmar Posner, Robbie Shade, Derik Schröter, Liz Murphy, Winston Churchill, Dave Cole and Ian Reid
The International Journal of Robotics Research
28th October 2009
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