Pauline Pounds

Drone design: How do we make drones that fly longer? Farther? More efficiently? Carry heavier payloads? Quieter? Safer? All of the above? Bipedal Robot Locomotion: How can we build bipedal robots with the advanced capabilities shown by cutting-edge walking machines, but at a fraction of the cost? Embodied intelligence: How do we build robots that use the nature of their electromechanical construction to do innately smart things but without a big brain? Can we make drones that passively avoid obstacles and reject gust disturbances? Can we make sensors that connect to very low-level control to allow robots to perform tasks safely without expensive processing? Disposable drones: How can we build drones cheaply enough that you could throw them away when you're done with them? How do we deploy them or steer them to their target without expensive systems onboard? How do we make those drones biodegrade or break down to avoid polluting the environment when they're done their mission? Exoskeletons: How do we build performance-enhancing exoskeletons for search and rescue or warehouse applications that don't tire the wearer out?

[2026] Design and development of 19-DOF responsive SMA-based exoskeleton for rehabilitation. Kansal, Sachin, Yadav, Udayan, Kumar, Tanmay, Gaira, Devansh, Kansal, Priya, Dhiman, Gaurav and Pounds, Pauline (2026). Design and development of 19-DOF responsive SMA-based exoskeleton for rehabilitation. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-56602-6 [2026] Act-Exo-Rehab: an adaptive active exoskeleton for upper limb rehabilitation in real-time environments. Mallampalli, Shyam Sundar, Kansal, Sachin, Pounds, Pauline, Shaukat, Kamran and Alam, Talha Mahboob (2026). Act-Exo-Rehab: an adaptive active exoskeleton for upper limb rehabilitation in real-time environments. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-61368-y [2026] Quantization of DRL models for embedded microcontrollers. Bohm, Peter