Papers
9
Total Citations
85
H-Index
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About
Guy Burroughes is a leading researcher in robotics for extreme environments, with a primary focus on advancing teleoperation and autonomous systems for the nuclear industry. His major contributions center on developing robot-assisted glovebox telemanipulation, enabling operators to perform hazardous tasks remotely while minimizing radiation exposure. His most impactful work, "Robot-Assisted Glovebox Teleoperation for Nuclear Industry" (2021, 47 citations), addresses the critical challenge of human access to radiation-contaminated facilities. Burroughes has also pioneered innovative approaches to system resilience, including self-reconfigurable robotics architectures that combine fuzzy logic with ontological reasoning for adaptive decision-making. His research extends to anomaly detection using variational autoencoders for early fault identification in robots operating in challenging environments, and LIDAR-vision fusion for reconstructing nuclear fusion facilities like JET. Notable achievements include contributions to mission operations and autonomy for planetary robotics, and dynamic model identification for manipulators in DEMO fusion engineering. With a publication record spanning from 2015 to 2022, Burroughes has established himself as a key figure in nuclear robotics, bridging the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical deployment in some of the world's most demanding operational settings.
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Top Papers
- 1Robot-Assisted Glovebox Teleoperation for Nuclear Industry47 citations · 2021
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- 3Reconstructing JET using LIDAR-Vision fusion9 citations · 2019
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- 5Mission Operations and Autonomy4 citations · 2016
- 6Variational AutoEncoder to Identify Anomalous Data in Robots3 citations · 2021
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- 9Optimal Grasping Pose Synthesis in a Constrained Environment2 citations · 2020