Benjamin Nicholls
Research Interests
Human-robot interaction, machine learning and soft robotics
Activities and Outputs
- Assisted with outreach at Croptec 2023 (Nov 2023)
- Author of blog article ‘Students attended Croptec 2023‘ (Dec 2023)
- Contributor to blog article ‘Peer-to-peer support for the transition to PhD‘ (Mar 2024)
- Author of blog article ‘Students visit vertical farming lab‘ (Apr 2024)
About me
I joined the CDT for the opportunity to get exposure to real-world applications of robotics. I’m looking forward to getting to work alongside industry partners to get a better understanding of a problem from the initial concept all the way to the end goal/product.
I studied at the University of Lincoln for my undergraduate degree and I enjoyed it so much here I decided to stay; my favourite aspect of Lincoln is the amount of green spaces there are around the city.
MSc Project
AI cleaning of unstructured data for application in models trained on lab derived and clean datasets
From an image of the ground featuring seeds and some freshly germinated weeds, remove noise, areas of non-interest, and segment areas of interest. The cleaned images are intended for use on a weed seed classifier as part of my PhD project.
PhD Project
Title to be confirmed