Andrew Vardy
B.Eng. (Memorial), M.Sc. (Sussex), PhD (Carleton), P.Eng.
- Professor
Contact Information
Ph: 709-864-4521
Em: av[at]mun.ca
Office: CSF-4128
Areas of Expertise
Swarm robotics, autonomous mobile robotics, bio-inspired robotics
Research Interests
Swarm robotics, especially decentralized control of simple robots for collective tasks such as object sorting and clustering, pattern formation and collective construction
Personal Profile
Dr. Andrew Vardy is a Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Memorial University in St. John's, Canada. He completed degrees in electrical engineering (B.Eng, Memorial University, 1999), evolutionary and adaptive systems (M.Sc, University of Sussex, 2000), and computer science (Ph.D, Carleton University, 2005). His main research area is swarm robotics, but he has also developed new techniques in visual robot navigation. He leads the Bio-Inspired Robotics (BOTS) group, which is focused on developing swarms of robots that can actively organize their environments, for example, by sorting objects or cleaning a space.
Dr. Vardy’s work in swarm robotics led to the name “Vardy” being used for a swarm of robots in season 10 of the BBC's Doctor Who. He is proud to have collaborated with researchers from the University of Konstanz on research that won the IEEE Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems in 2024. His work is supported by the Discovery Grant program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Profile Links
Lab/research group site: https://bots.cs.mun.ca
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=ccxPX38AAAAJ
GitHub (BOTS Lab): https://github.com/BOTSlab