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Research Archive

Published and in-progress work on safety-critical control, from constrained formation control of mobile robots to safe manipulation under uncertainty.
RESEARCH ARCHIVE

Constrained torque-level formation control via consensus FBL-MPC

2026, TAROS (published Oct 2026)

Torque-level formation control for differential-drive robots. A consensus MPC on feedback-linearised dynamics, posed as a convex program that solves in real time.

MPCSOCPFeedback linearisationMulti-agentFormation control
RESEARCH ARCHIVE

Safety-critical adaptive impedance control via Nonsmooth CBFs

2026, CDC (under review)

Adaptive impedance control for a 7-DOF manipulator with formal safety guarantees under state and input limits, deployed on KINOVA and Franka arms.

Control Barrier FunctionsAdaptive controlIT2 FuzzyLyapunovQP
IN PROGRESS
RESEARCH ARCHIVE

High-order multi-constrained safety filters for linear systems

In progress

Stability analysis and design of high-order, multi-constrained safety filters for linear systems.

Safety filtersStability analysisLinear systems
SECTOR 02

Mission Records

Robots and control systems built end to end, from control design and simulation through electronics to working hardware.
HERO PROJECT
MISSION RECORD

Tessellate: distributed formation control platform

Oct 2025

A Python platform for distributed formation control of nonholonomic robots. Consensus MPC on feedback-linearised dynamics, solved as a Second-Order Cone Program at 60 Hz.

PythonMPCSOCPcvxpyA*PySide6Swarm
IN PROGRESS
MISSION RECORD

Double Inverted Pendulum: hybrid swing-up and stabilisation

Apr 2025 to present

Simulation and hybrid control of a cart-mounted double inverted pendulum across all four equilibrium configurations, with a hardware build under way.

MATLABCasADiSliding modeEnergy controlHybrid systemsRaspberry Pi
ESP INNOVATIVE FEATURES PRIZE
MISSION RECORD

Autonomous Line-Following Robot

Sep 2022 to Jun 2023

A battery-powered buggy that follows a track, climbs an 18-degree incline, turns 180 degrees on a Bluetooth command and stops at the end of the line. Three PID loops on an STM32.

STM32C++PIDCustom PCBBLEMATLAB/Simulink
MISSION RECORD

Autonomous Maze-Solving Buggy

Oct 2021 to May 2022

An Arduino buggy that solves mazes on its own, using ultrasonic sensing and a PID loop.

ArduinoPIDUltrasonic sensingAutonomy
IN PROGRESS
MISSION RECORD

Robotic Poker Player & Dealer

Sep 2025 to present

An autonomous poker system on an SO-101 robot arm. Dual-camera vision, a ROS 2 control stack and game-theory decision making.

ROS 2Computer visionYOLOv8CasADiLQRSO-101
SECTOR 03

Field Operations

Weekend robotics and software builds under time pressure, with several first-place finishes and one honest hardware failure.
1ST PLACE
FIELD OPERATION

AME × Quanser Robotics Hackathon

Nov 2025

First place. The only interface to the QArm was direct joint-angle control, so we derived the inverse kinematics geometrically and validated it on a digital twin before touching the real arm.

Inverse kinematicsQArmPyBulletPython
1ST PLACE
FIELD OPERATION

SwarmHack

Jun 2022

Best team solution. A distributed algorithm that gathers any number of randomly moving robots into a single cluster.

PythonROSSwarm roboticsDistributed algorithms
1ST PLACE
FIELD OPERATION

Greater Uni Hackathon: Quant Trading Challenge

Nov 2025

First place in the algorithmic-trading track with a market-making bot. The win took 60 percent of the prize pool.

Algorithmic tradingMarket makingPythonQuant
2ND PLACE
FIELD OPERATION

Hack-a-Bot 2025: Ice9 'Mona Delivery' Challenge

Mar 2025

Second place. A vision pipeline that drives a robot through a line maze from one overhead camera, planning the shortest path and steering in real time.

OpenCVArUcoDijkstraSkeletonisationArduino
3RD PLACE
FIELD OPERATION

Attack on Football (GUH Bet365 Challenge)

Nov 2022

Third place. A Vue.js app that pulls live football data from an API and presents it in real time.

Vue.jsREST APIFront-end
FIELD OPERATION

Hack-a-Bot 2026: Ice9 Swarm Challenge

Mar 2026

Coordinating up to three MONA robots from a shared arena camera to push a trolley across the arena. The system worked in simulation, and hardware faults kept it off the arena floor.

SwarmComputer visionESP32MONAArUco
SECTOR 04

Service Record

A year of FPGA engineering at Altera and a research post in robotics for nuclear decommissioning.
SERVICE RECORD

FPGA Hardware Engineer, Altera (Intel PSG)

Jul 2023 to Aug 2024

A year in industry. Implemented Google's Snappy compression in FPGA hardware with a 10 percent better ratio and 30 percent higher average speed, and redesigned a duplicate MAC-address search for an order-of-magnitude efficiency gain.

SystemVerilogFPGARTL designNIOS VPython
SERVICE RECORD

Robotics Research Assistant, RAICo Programme

Aug 2025 to Apr 2026

Adaptive impedance control for nuclear decommissioning, deployed on 7-DOF KINOVA and Franka arms with formal stability and safety guarantees.

Adaptive controlCBFsKINOVAFrankaLyapunovQP
SECTOR 05

Commendations

Recognition collected along the way, from national exam results to university and professional-body awards.
COMMENDATION RECORD

Outstanding Achievement Award

2025

The University of Manchester's award for exceptional all-round performance, placing in the top 0.5 percent of the graduating cohort.

University of ManchesterTop 0.5%
COMMENDATION RECORD

Best in EEE Department & Best Final-Year Project

2025

First prize for the best overall performance in the cohort, and the prize for the best final-year project, EEE Department, University of Manchester.

1st prizeBest project
COMMENDATION RECORD

Top 10 in the Faculty of Science & Engineering

Recognised among the top 10 students across the Faculty of Science & Engineering for academic achievement.

Faculty award
COMMENDATION RECORD

IET Future Talent Award (Boost Scholarship)

2024

A merit scholarship from the Institution of Engineering & Technology for high-achieving students on IET-accredited degrees.

IETMerit scholarship
COMMENDATION RECORD

Stellify Award

2023

The University of Manchester's flagship social-responsibility award, earned alongside the degree.

Social responsibilityLeadership
COMMENDATION RECORD

School of Engineering PGR Scholarship

Jan 2026

A fully-funded doctoral studentship for PhD research at the University of Manchester.

Fully fundedPhD
COMMENDATION RECORD

Top in Nigeria, Cambridge AS-Level Physics

2020

Cambridge Outstanding Learner Award for the highest mark in Nigeria in Cambridge International AS-Level Physics.

CambridgeNational top
SECTOR 06

Training Record

Formal training, from mechatronic engineering to doctoral research in control.
TRAINING RECORD

PhD, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Apr 2026 to present (expected 2030)

University of Manchester. Safety-critical Control Barrier Function methods for multi-agent autonomous systems. Fully funded.

University of ManchesterControl Barrier FunctionsFully funded
TRAINING RECORD

BEng (Hons) Mechatronic Engineering with Industrial Experience

Jul 2021 to Jul 2025

University of Manchester. First-Class Honours, top 0.5 percent of the cohort. Dissertation on safety-critical consensus-based formation control of distributed mobile robots.

First-Class HonoursTop 0.5%
TRANSMISSION ARCHIVE

Mission Log

2026
Initiated PhD research in safety-critical multi-agent control.
2026
Formation-control paper accepted to TAROS. CDC paper under review.
2025
Robotics Research Assistant (RAICo). Graduated First-Class, top 0.5%.
2025
Won the AME × Quanser hackathon and the GUH Quant challenge.
2024
IET Future Talent (Boost) Scholarship. Completed the year in industry at Altera/Intel.
2023
Built the award-winning line-following robot. Began the FPGA role at Altera.
2022
Won SwarmHack with a 100% robot-aggregation algorithm.
2021
Completed a robotics internship at Createc.
2020
Top in Nigeria in Cambridge AS-Level Physics.