Jonathan Aitken
Senior University Teacher at The University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Aitken is a senior university teacher and robotics researcher with over a decade of experience in autonomous systems, specialising in quadcopter reconfiguration and safe deployment of drones. His academic career spans PhD work on immune-inspired distributed algorithms through postdoctoral projects on reconfigurable autonomy and operational risk in socio-technical systems, combining control theory, simulation and evolutionary computation. At the University of Sheffield he teaches and coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate robotics modules and individual projects while driving research into cobotics and human-robot collaboration. A licensed commercial drone pilot in the UK, he brings hands-on operational insight to policy and safety frameworks for real-world autonomous systems. Unusually for an academic, he also has practical experience managing property as a former director of a residents' company, reflecting a pragmatic, community-minded approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
King's School MacclesfieldPhD, Electronic Engineering, PhD, Electronic Engineering at University of York
French, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
marine8
autonomous-robots7
ros7
api7
robotics7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jonaitken/KUKA-IIWA-API
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Ros Enable API for easy integration with the KUKA IIWA
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apiroboticsautonomous-robotskuka-iiwamarine
jonaitken/ARDroneCamera
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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