Christopher E. Mower
I am a senior research scientist at Huawei Technologies
Research & Development working at the intersection of robotics
and machine learning. Previously, I was a Research Associcate in
surgical robotics at King's College London. I hold a PhD in
Informatics from the University of Edinburgh.
Alongside
my research in robotics, I am an advocate for open
source projects and strive for the development of
high-quality code.
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- Jul 2024: visited ETH Zurich, Switzerland to commence projects with Prof Marco Hutter.
- Jul 2024: visited TU Darmstadt, Germany to commence project with Prof Jan Peters.
- Jun 2024: released paper about our recent work on the ROS-LLM framework, find the paper on arXiv and the code here.
- Jun 2024: visited Shenzhen and Dongguan, China to support HDC 2024 with Huawei Cloud team and LEJU Robotics.
- Mar 2024: visited Hangzhou, China to implement experiments for an upcoming paper and code release.
- Feb 2024: recent work released on using LLMs to generate optimal controllers, see website here!
- Jan 2024: paper accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024!
- Aug 2023: started new role at Huawei Technologies Research and Development.
- Aug 2023: finished my post-doc at King's College London.
- Jul 2023: article accepted at the Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) 2023!
- Jul 2023: article accepted at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2023!
- Jul 2023: visited Sorbonne University, Paris for the FAROS Integration week.
- Jun 2023: Released code for FRI-Client-SDK_Python, that provides Python bindings for the FRI Client SDK C++ from KUKA.
- May 2023: attended ICRA 2023 and presented our latest work.
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- Apr 2023: Moved to Zurich, Switzerland to start a Visiting Scholar position at Balgrist University Hospital. I have joined the Research in Orthopedic Computer Science (ROCS) Group hosted by Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl.
- Apr 2023: released code for aruco_markers.
- Mar 2023: Moved to Leuven, Belgium to start a Visiting Scholar position at KU Leuven. I have joined the Robot-Assisted Surgery Group hosted by Prof. Emmanuel Vander Poorten.
- Mar 2023: released code for Spatial CasADi.
- Feb 2023: gave a talk at the King's SIE seminar on optimization-based methods for shared autonomy, slides.
- Jan 2023: two papers accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 in London, UK!
- Dec 2022: Attended and presented at CoRL 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Dec 2022: awarded funding from the King's Global Engagement Partnership fund. This will support two visiting positions at KU Lueven, Belgium and Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland.
- Nov 2022: released the code for the ROS-PyBullet Interface.
- Oct 2022: demonstrated some of my work in learning from demonstration, robotics, and shared autonomy to the public at
New Scientist Live, ExCeL London 2022. You can see a video of my demonstration here.
- Sept 2022: paper accepted at the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022! Submission can be found here.
- Sept 2022: visited KU Leuven for the fourth integration week and mid-review for the EU Horizon 2020 FAROS project.
- Jul 2022: graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in Informatics .
- Jul 2022: attended Surgical and Interventional Engineering Summer School at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, King's College London.
- Jun 2022: attended King's NeuroLab Teaching Sessions: Posterior lumbar spine approaches.
- May 2022: paper accepted to IEEE 2022 ICRA Workshop on Shared Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Adaptability and Trust.
- May 2022: started new role as Research Associate for Surgical Robot Control at King's College London.
- May 2022: finished post-doc at the University of Edinburgh.
- Feb 2022: won first prize for the best poster on "Non-prehensile Dual Arm Manipulation" at the 5th IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Conference 2022 with my colleages João Moura, Christian Rauch, Vladimir Ivan, and supervisor Sethu Vijayakumar.
- Sep 2021: started a Research Associate position at the University of Edinburgh. I will be collaborating on the European Union Horizon 2020 HARMONY project.
- Sep
2021: passed the viva for my
PhD! My examiners were Professor Nick
Hawes (University of Oxford) , and Dr
Michael Herrmann (University of Edinburgh).
- Jul 2021: published paper at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021 (virtual conference).
- Oct 2019: published paper at IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2019 in New Delhi, India.
- Aug 2019: published paper at IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2019 in Vancouver, Canada.
- Aug 2017: published paper at IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2017.
- Jun 2017: awarded
the First Prize for Greatest Potential for
Positive Impact at the Robots for Resilient
Infrastructure Challenge, Leeds, UK. Project
team: Wolfgang Merkt, Theodoros Stouraitis,
and myself.
- Sep 2016: started PhD Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
- Sep 2016: graduated from Imperial College London, MSc Computing (Visual Information Processing).
- Sep 2015: graduated from the University of Manchester, MSc Applied Mathematics with Numerical Analysis.
- Sep 2012: graduated from the University of Sheffield, BSc Mathematics.
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ROS-LLM: A ROS framework for embodied AI with task feedback and structured reasoning
Christopher E. Mower,
Yuhui Wan,
Hongzhan Yu,
Antoine Grosnit,
Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon,
Matthieu Zimmer,
Jinlong Wang,
Xinyu Zhang,
Yao Zhao,
Anbang Zhai,
Puze Liu,
Daniel Palenicek,
Davide Tateo,
Cesar Cadena,
Marco Hutter,
Jan Peters,
Guangjian Tian,
Yuzheng Zhuang,
Kun Shao,
Xingyue Quan,
Jianye Hao,
Jun Wang,
Haitham Bou-Ammar
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Design and Development of a Novel Force-Sensing Robotic System for the Transseptal Puncture in Left Atrial Catheter Ablation
Aya Mutaz Zeidan,
Zhouyang Xu,
Christopher E. Mower,
Honglei Wu,
Quentin Walker,
Oyinkansola Ayoade,
Natalia Cotic,
Jonathan Behar,
Steven Williams,
Aruna Arujuna,
Yohan Noh,
Richard James Housden,
Kawal Rhode.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023.
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ROS-PyBullet Interface: A Framework for Reliable Contact Simulation and Human-Robot Interaction
Christopher E. Mower,
Theodoros Stouraitis,
João Moura,
Christian Rauch,
Lei Yan,
Nazanin Zamani Behabadi,
Michael Gienger,
Tom Verauteren,
Christos Bergeles,
Sethu Vijayakumar.
Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Auckland, New Zealand, 2022.
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Old work
The following are some old projects.
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Objective Assessment for Surgical Dexterity
Christopher E. Mower, Objective Assessment for Surgical Dexterity, Masters Dissertation, Imperial College London,
2016.
Supervisor: Dr Benny Lo.
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Learning Catheter Paths for Cardiac Mapping
Christopher E. Mower, Learning Catheter Paths for Cardiac Mapping, Independent Study Option, Imperial College London,
2016.
Supervisor: Dr Su-Lin Lee.
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