Philip is a mechatronics engineer developing the robot localisation capabilities of the Occlusion project’s autonomous rovers. He is focusing on robot perception and spatial alignment between the 3D Gaussian Splatting models and the environment. This work will enable the UC Vision rovers to perform precise robotic manipulation tasks in unstructured outdoor environments such as vineyard pruning operations.

He is currently studying for a Masters of Engineering and his thesis title is “Hybrid LiDAR-3D Gaussian Splatting Localisation for Precise Robot Perception in Unstructured Vineyard Environments”.