Category: Blog

Photo of Oscar Julian Gonzalez Villarreal
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From Mexico to Milton Keynes

Ever since my early childhood days I’ve always been amazed by automation. My personal interest in this topic was in large thanks to my own father’s business which sold imported components critical to what some may consider “old school” automation

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TAS-S researchers outside Lancaster Castle
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Meeting the TAS-S team!

TAS-S researchers outside Lancaster Castle
Waiting to explore Lancaster Castle
A large decorated Christmas tree in the Lancaster House Hotel
The Lancaster House Hotel was looking very festive throughout the event

On the 24th and 25th November, the TAS-S Researchers took part in a face-to-face workshop for the very first time.  For me, this was

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Researcher Zhuangkun Wei working hard on a laptop
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PhD to PDRA

Hello everyone! It is a great honor to join the TAS-S project and the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Cranfield University as a Research Fellow on Research Strand 2.  My part in this project is to secure

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Photo of Dr. Luke Moffat
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ELSI, Workshops, and the things in-between

Starting out in Philosophy, I was told by many colleagues that the aim was conceptual exactitude. Get your groundings right, figure out the foundations of your arguments. Now, 5 years out from finishing my PhD, I find myself in new

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A pair of scales superimposed onto a picture of a group meeting.
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ELSI Workshops

ELSI and Autonomous Systems seem to go together. Making Autonomous Systems trustworthy appears to demand ethical considerations, thinking about ways of regulating and making laws, and the societal impacts of those.

In our first two workshops with TAS-S, I worked

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Dr Yu by the Thames, with Tower Bridge in the background.
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A new job at Lancaster University!

I officially joined Lancaster University on 8th April this year as a senior research associate on TAS-S. I had just completed my Ph.D. study at the University of Exeter where I stayed for 5 years, since the first time I

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Photo of Dr. Burak Yuksek with the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco in the background
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Autonomous Systems, aviation and TAS-S

Aviation has been a passion for me since my childhood. Whenever I heard an airplane or helicopter, I was trying to spot it in the sky and guess what type of aircraft it was and where it was going.  Even

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Photo of Pamela Forster, holding a cup of tea
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New role, new project!

As I have been in the role of Project Manager for the  TAS-S node for a few weeks now, I thought this would be a good opportunity to reflect on how things are going so far and highlight some of

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