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Over summer of 2025 I worked in a team of four on developing a proof of concept for the SUPERIOT research project.

SUPERIOT was a Horizon Europe project which aimed to develop a truly sustainable and highly flexible internet of things (IoT) system based on the dual-mode use of optical and radio communications, combined with the exploitation of printed electronics technology.

We decided to work in collaboration with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, using their DOTS robots to demonstrate that the SUPERIOT smart tags could improve the efficiency of a swarm intralogistics usecase.

The idea was that by attaching smart tags (which the robots talk to over BLE) to box carriers we could ensure that boxes that had been waiting for longer would be prioritised - reducing the tail latency. This would be really useful for perishable goods such as food or medicine. We managed to achieve a tail latency reduction in both simulation and a physical experiment (paper coming soon!).

You can see a demo video below (TUI interface and most of the ROS2 robot controller programmed by myself).