Technical papers
will be restricted to 15 minutes plus a 5 minutes question time.
Follow the links for session details.
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Wednesday 27 November 2002
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Thursday 28 November 2002
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8:30 am
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Registration
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Registration
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9:00 am
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Guest Speaker: Prof. Glen
Bright
Mechatronics and
Robotics Research
Massey
University
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Guest Speaker: Dr. Dale
Carnegie
Physics and
Electronic Department
Waikato
University
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9:30 am
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Session 1: Learning
Systems
Chair: Daniela Rus, Dartmouth
College, USA
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Session 1: Robot Design
2
Chair: Karol Miller, University of
Western Australia
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10:50
am
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Coffee and
tea
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Coffee and
tea
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11:10
am
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Session 2:
Applications
Chair: Richard Templer, Industrial
Research
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Session 2:
Navigation
Chair: David Austin, Australian
National University
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12:30
pm
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Lunch / ARAA
meeting
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Lunch / Poster Session
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2:00 pm
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Session 3-1: Vision in Control
1
Chair: Peter Corke,
CSIRO
Session 3-2: Dynamics &
Control
Chair: Peter Ridley, University of
Queensland
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Session 3-1: Sensing &
Actuation 2
Chair: Andrew Russell, Monash
University
Session 3-2: HMI & Wireless
Control
Chair: Philip
McKerrow, University of Wollongong
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3:20 pm
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Coffee and
tea
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Coffee and
tea
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3:40 pm
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Session 4-1: Sensing &
Actuation 1
Chair: Bruce MacDonald, University
of Auckland
Session 4-2: Robot Design
1
Chair: Reg Dunlop, University of
Canterbury
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Session 4: Vision in Control
2
Chair: Ray Jarvis, Monash
University
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8:30 pm
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Conference dinner
� The Observatory Restaurant, Skytower
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Friday 29 November 2002
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10:00
am
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Visit Auckland
University Laboratory
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12:00
pm
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Visit IRL
Laboratory
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Wednesday 27 November 2002
Guest Speaker, 9:00 – 9:30
am
Prof. Glen Bright, Mechatronics and
Robotics Research Group, Massey University
– Mechatronics
Research at Massey University
Wednesday 9:30 am – 10:50 am
Session
1: Learning systems
Chair: Daniela
Rus, Dartmouth College, USA
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9:30 am
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An Environment for
Robot Learning
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Andrew
Russell
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9:50 am
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Performance
Metrics for Robot Coverage Tasks
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Sylvia Wong, Lee
Middleton and Bruce A. MacDonald
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10:10
am
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Producing Complex
Behaviours on Trajectory Velocity Learning Mobile Robots
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Koren
Ward
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10:30
am
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Online Learning of
Autonomous Helicopter Control
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Gregg Buskey,
Jonathan Roberts, Gordon Wyeth
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Wednesday
11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Session 2: Applications
Chair: Richard
Templer, Industrial Research
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11:10
am
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Robots in urban
search and rescue operations
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David Greer, Phillip McKerrow, Jo
Abrantes
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11:30
am
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Dragline Bucket
Carry Angle Control
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Peter
Ridley
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11:50
am
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Visual Servoing of
a Car-like Vehicle - An Application of Omnidirectional
Vision
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Kane Usher, Peter
Ridley and Peter Corke
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12:10
pm
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Innovative Robotic
Applications for Beef Processing
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Richard Templer,
Andrew Osborn, Arun Nanu, Keith Blenkinsopp and Werner
Friedrich
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Wednesday
2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Session 3-1: Vision in Control
1
Chair: Peter
Corke, CSIRO
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2:00 pm
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Mechatronic
Controller for Tele-Operated Camera Platform
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Sylvester Tlale,
Glen Bright, Johan Potgieter, Olaf Diegel
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2:20 pm
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Vectorized Machine
Vision Algorithms using AltiVec - Part 1
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Bing-Chang Lai,
Phillip John McKerrow and Jo Abrantes
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2:40 pm
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Terrain Imaging
and Perception using Millimetre Wave Radar
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S. Scheding, G.
Brooker, R. Hennessy, M. Bishop and A. Maclean
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3:00 pm
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Problems
Encountered in the Implementation of Tsai's Algorithm for Camera
Calibration
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Michael Tapper and
Phillip J. McKerrow and Jo Abrantes
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Wednesday 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Session 3-2: Dynamics and
Control
Chair: Peter
Ridley, University of Queensland
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2:00 pm
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Low-Cost Flight
Control System for a Small Autonomous Helicopter
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Jonathan M.
Roberts, Peter I. Corke & Gregg Buskey
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2:20 pm
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Computer
Simulation of Robot Closed-loop Dynamics for Force Control
Study
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Yueshi Shen and
Roy Featherstone
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2:40 pm
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Grasp Recognition
From Myoelectric Signals
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Simon Ferguson and
G Reg Dunlop
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3:00 pm
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Application of
Shared Telerobotic Control for Contour Following
Processes
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Patrick Lim,
Jeffery Yang, Nicholas Hildreth and Werner Friedrich.
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Wednesday
3:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Session 4-1: Sensing &
Actuation 1
Chair: Bruce MacDonald, University
of Auckland
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3:40 pm
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Sensorless Force
Estimation for Robots with Friction
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John W.L Simpson, Chris D Cook,
Zheng Li
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4:00 pm
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A Robust,
Sensitive and Economical Tactile Sensor for a Robotic
Manipulator
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Greg Hellard and
R. Andrew Russell
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4:20 pm
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Interacting with a
Sensor Network
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Ron Peterson and
Daniela Rus
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4:40 pm
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A Comparison
Between Extended Kalman Filtering and Sequential Monte Carlo
Technique for Simultaneous Localisation and Map-building
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David C.K. Yuen
and Bruce A. MacDonald
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Wednesday 3:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Session 4-2: Robot Design 1
Chair: Reg Dunlop,
University of Canterbury
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3:40 pm
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Improved Mecanum
Wheel Design for Omni-directional Robots
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Olaf Diegel,
Aparna Badve, Glen Bright, Johan Potgieter, Sylvester
Tlale
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| 4:00
pm |
A Nitinol
Wire Actuated Stewart Platform |
G Reg
Dunlop and Angelo C Garcia |
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4.20 pm
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Six-Dimensional
Visualization of End-Effector Pose Using Color Spaces
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Joshua D. Petitt
and Karol Miller
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Thursday 28 November 2002
Guest Speaker, 9:30 – 10:50
am
Dr. Dale Carnegie, Physics and
Electronics Department, Waikato University
– Robotics
Research at Waikato University
Thursday 9:45 am – 11:05 am
Session 1: Robot Design
2
Chair: Karol
Miller, University of Western Australia
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9:30 am
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Mechatronics for
Designing Intelligent Machines
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W.L. Xu and G.
Bright
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9:50 am
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An Articulated Six
Wheel Drive Robot for Very Rough Terrain Navigation
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Ray
Jarvis
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10:10
am
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Mechatronic
Modular Design of an Apparatus for PC board Inspection
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Sylvester Tlale;
Glen Bright; Peter Xu; Johan Potgieter
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10:30
am
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Design of a
Four-Rotor Aerial Robot
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P. Pounds, R.
Mahony and J. Roberts
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Thursday 11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Session 2: Navigation
Chair: David
Austin, Australian National University
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11:10
am
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Automation of an
Underground Mining Vehicle using Reactive Navigation and
Opportunistic Localization.
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Elliot S. Duff,
Jonathan M. Roberts and Peter I. Corke
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11:30
am
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Autonomous
Recharging for Mobile Robotics
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Kirill Kouzoubov
and David Austin
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11:50
am
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Driver Assistance
based on Vehicle Monitoring and Control
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Lars Petersson,
Nicholas Apostoloff and Alexander Zelinsky
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12:10
pm
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Field Navigation
of Mobile Robots
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Andrew B. Lintott
and Lan Le Ngoc
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Thursday 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Poster Session
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The Engineering of
an Automated and Portable DNA Analysis System
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Daksh
Sadarangani
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Developing
Intelligent Robots using Computer Game Engines
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F�lix
Tr�panier
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Thursday 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Session 3–1: Sensing and Actuation
2
Chair: Andy
Russell, Monash University
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2:00 pm
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Sensing Airflow by
a Humanoid Robot
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R. Andrew
Russell
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2:20 pm
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Object Exploration
using Whisker Sensors
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Jaury A. Wijaya
and R. Andrew Russell
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2:40 pm
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Modelling of a
novel rotary pneumatic muscle
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N. Yee and G.
Coghill
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3:00 pm
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Grasping Unknown
Objects with a Humanoid Robot
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Geoffrey Taylor
and Lindsay Kleeman
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Thursday 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Session 3-2:
HMI / Wireless Control
Chair: Philip
McKerrow, University of Wollongong
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2:00 pm
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Human-to-robot
skill transfer through haptic rendered environment
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Y. Chen, and F.
Naghdy
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2:20 pm
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Wireless network
control for internet manufacturing
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Johan Potgieter;
Glen Bright; W.L.Xu; Olaf Diegel and Sylvester
Tlale
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2:40 pm
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Design of a
Web-Based Tele-Programming Interface for Mobile Robots
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David
Austin
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3:00 pm
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Internet control
of a Domestic Robot using Wireless LAN
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Johan Potgieter,
Glen Bright, Olaf Diegel, and Sylvester Tlale
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Thursday 3:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Session 4: Vision in control
2
Chair: Ray Jarvis,
Monash University
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3:40 pm
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FastSLAM: Real
Time Implementation in Outdoor Environments
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Juan Nieto, Jose
Guivant and Eduardo Nebot.
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4:00 pm
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3D Vision for
Large-Scale Outdoor Environments
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Dorian J. Spero
and Ray A. Jarvis
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4:20 pm
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Bearing-Only SLAM
using Colour-based Feature Tracking
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Trevor Fitzgibbons
and Eduardo Nebot
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