Dr Fred Labrosse

PhD (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

Dr Fred Labrosse

Senior Lecturer

Department of Computer Science

Contact Details

Profile

Dr Labrosse obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, in 1999.  After a postdoc in the then Mathematics department, Computing group, University of Bath, UK, he joined the Computer Science department, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK, in 2000.

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Lecturer
Coordinator
Moderator
Tutor

Dr Labrosse teaches in the various robotics modules offered by the department of Computer Science.

Research

Dr Labrosse's research interests focus on robotics and image processing/machine vision for robotics, specifically in the area of autonomous, off-road, navigation.  This includes autonomous driving on ill-defined "roads", cross-field navigation and topological mapping and planning.  Dr Labrosse collaborates with a variety of "customers" having real problems to solve in the real world.  This includes archaeologists, biologists and geographers.  For these applications, Dr Labrosse uses a variety of robots ranging from large wheeled robots to multi-copters and fixed wing air frames.  Many of these robots have been designed and built in the Computer Science department for specific applications and general research.

Research Groups

Publications

Cook, J, Roberts, BP, Labrosse, F & Snooke, N 2025, 'Detecting and Mapping Invasive Species Across Riparian Corridors via Object Detection Approaches in UAV Imagery: An Example of Impatiens glandulifera', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 15, no. 8, e71921. 10.1002/ece3.71921
Pringle, S, Dallimer, M, Goddard, MA, Le Goff, LK, Hart, E, Langdale, SJ, Fisher, JC, Abad, SA, Ancrenaz, M, Angeoletto, F, Auat Cheein, F, Austen, GE, Bailey, JJ, Baldock, KCR, Banin, LF, Banks-Leite, C, Barau, AS, Bashyal, R, Bates, AJ, Bicknell, JE, Bielby, J, Bosilj, P, Bush, ER, Butler, SJ, Carpenter, D, Clements, CF, Cully, A, Davies, KF, Deere, NJ, Dodd, M, Drinkwater, R, Driscoll, DA, Dutilleux, G, Dyrmann, M, Edwards, DP, Farhadinia, MS, Faruk, A, Field, R, Fletcher, RJ, Foster, CW, Fox, R, Francksen, RM, Franco, AMA, Gainsbury, AM, Gardner, CJ, Giorgi, I, Griffiths, RA, Hamaza, S, Hanheide, M, Hayward, MW, Hedblom, M, Helgason, T, Heon, SP, Hughes, KA, Hunt, ER, Ingram, DJ, Jackson-Mills, G, Jowett, K, Keitt, TH, Kloepper, LN, Kramer-Schadt, S, Labisko, J, Labrosse, F, Lawson, J, Lecomte, N, de Lima, RF, Littlewood, NA, Marshall, HH, Masala, GL, Maskell, LC, Matechou, E, Mazzolai, B, McConnell, A, Melbourne, BA, Miriyev, A, Nana, ED, Ossola, A, Papworth, S, Parr, CL, Payo-Payo, A, Perry, G, Pettorelli, N, Pillay, R, Potts, SG, Prendergast-Miller, MT, Qie, L, Rolley-Parnell, P, Rossiter, SJ, Rowcliffe, M, Rumble, H, Sadler, JP, Sandom, CJ, Sanyal, A, Schrodt, F, Sethi, SS, Shabrani, A, Siddall, R, Smith, SC, Snep, RPH, Soulsbury, CD, Stanley, MC, Stephens, PA, Stephenson, PJ, Struebig, MJ, Studley, M, Svátek, M, Tang, G, Taylor, NK, Umbers, KDL, Ward, RJ, White, PJC, Whittingham, MJ, Wich, S, Williams, CD, Yakubu, IB, Yoh, N, Zaidi, SAR, Zmarz, A, Zwerts, JA & Davies, ZG 2025, 'Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1031-1042. 10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9
Hajzer, SP, Jones, D, Labrosse, F & Shaw, P 2024, Agent-Based Passing Place Management on Single-Track Roads Using the UK Highway Code. in HAI 2024 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. HAI 2024 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 441-443, 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 24 Nov 2024. 10.1145/3687272.3690911
Fearn, T, Labrosse, F & Shaw, P 2022, Smart wheelchairs: Visual perception pipeline to improve prediction of user intention. in UKRAS22 Conference “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” Proceedings. UK-RAS Network, pp. 18-19. 10.31256/Ad3Ko8T
Shaw, P, Labrosse, F, Wilson, M, Jones, D, Akanyeti, O, Fearn, T, Holthaus, P, Coughlan, J-L & Knight, M 2022, #UKRAS22: The 5th UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference. UKRAS22 Conference "Robotics for Unconstrained Environments" Proceedings, UK-RAS Network. 10.31256/ha9ys9d
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