About us

As one of Southampton's University Strategic research Groups (USRGs) we aim to achieve a global top five reputation; ensure a sustainable, critical mass of cross-disciplinary excellence; provide continuity of funding for world class science and research in the area of autonomous systems, sensing, computing, communications and platforms; provide world class, cost effective facilities and capabilities for scientists and other users and allow society, through this technology, to develop and maintain a low carbon economy, respond to climate change and conduct earth science research whether sub-sea, surface, land, air or space. [Director: Professor James Scanlan ]

Governance

Steering committee :
Professor Damon Teagle , Dr András Sóbester , Professor Kirk Martinez , Dr Julian Leyland , Dr Jon Downes , Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato , Professor Neville Stanton , Dr Stephen Prior , Professor Hywel Morgan , Dr Sarvapali Ramchurn , Professor Mario Brito , Roger Gardner

Key facts

We are able to build unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using rapid prototyping techniques such as laser sintering and 3D printing - we built the world's first printed plane - reported in New Scientist . See the video .