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Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2003

Table of Contents

Applications


Robots for pre-orientation and interaction of toddlers and preschoolers who are blind
B Bartlett, V Estivill-Castro, S Seymon & A Tourky
Video 1
Driver assistance: contemporary road safety
Andrew Dankers, Luke Fletcher, Lars Petersson & Alexander Zelinsky
Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5
Karlsruhe surgical robotics research
Jorg Raczkowsky, Sascha Dauber, Dirk Engel, Harald Hoppe, Werner Korb, Oliver Schorr, Stefan Hassfeld & Heinz Worn
Video 1, Video 2
DNA analysis using a portable robotic instrument
Daksh Sadarangani, Bruce Macdonald, Allen G Rodrigo & David Saul



Walking Robots


Automatic gait optimisation for quadruped robots
Min Sub Kim & William Uther

Control of a heavyweight biped robot in the frontal plane
Joe Cronin, Richard Willgoss & Robin Ford

Cerebellar joint compensation for a humanoid robot
Damien Kee & Gordon Wyeth

Improved joint control using a genetic algorithm for a humanoid robot
Jonathan Roberts, Damien Kee & Gordon Wyeth



Multi-Robot Teams


Achieving cooperation in a distributed multi-robot team
Mark M Chang & Gordon Wyeth

Production rules as chromosomes of GA for robotic swarm applications
Kai Wing Tang & Ray A Jarvis

Behavioural approach for multi-robot exploration
Haye Lau

Graphical simulation and visualisation tool for a distributed robot programming environment
Felix-Etienne Trepanier & Bruce A MacDonald

Classifying an opponent’s behaviour in robot soccer
David Ball and Gordon Wyeth



Vision


Creating composite images for estimation the effectiveness of mobile robot coverage algorithms
Sylvia C Wong, Lee Middleton & Bruce A MacDonald

Representation and learning of visual information for pose recognition
David Prasser & Gordon Wyeth

Fusion of multimodal visual cues for model-based object tracking
Geoffrey Taylor & Lindsay Kleeman
VIdeo 1
An ordered list approach to real-time line detection based on the hough transform
Chris Madden & Robert Mahony

Red is the new black – or is it ?
David Austin & Nick Barnes
Video 1, Video 2


Sensors I


Wind sensor and robotic model wasp development
David Harvey, Tien-Fu Lu & Michael Keller

Naïve physics for effective odour localisation
Gideon Kowadlo & R Andrew Russell

Chemical source location and the RoboMole project
R Andrew Russell

Object location and recognition using whisker sensors
R Andrew Russell & Jaury Adi Wijaya



Vision and Programming


A survey of robot programming systems
Geoffrey Biggs & Bruce MacDonald

Sensing for visual homing
Kane Usher, Matthew Dunbabin, Peter Corke & Peter Ridley

Performance of temporal filters for optical flow estimation in mobile robot corridor centring and visual odometry
Chris McCarthy & Nick Barnes

Techniques for improving vision and locomotion on the sony AIBO robot
Michael J Quinland, Stephan K Chalup & Richard H Middleton



Navigation


HOMER – a high speed robot for indoor exploration
Nathan Wilson, Matt Rozyn & Michael Andrews

Combining wavefront propagation and possibility theory for autonomous navigation in an indoor environment
Cindy Leung & Adel Al-Jumaily

High precision GPS guidance of mobile Robots
Richard Willgoss, Vivian Rosenfeld & John Billingsley

Short-safe compromise patch for mobile robot navigation in a dynamic unknown environment
Sardjono Trihatmo & R A Jarvis

Covert path planning for autonomous robot navigation in known environments
Mohamed Marzouqui & Ray Jarvis

On robotic path planning using rapidly exploring random trees
Zoltan Deak Jnr & Ray Jarvis



Outdoor Robots


Submarine dynamic modelling
Peter Ridley, Julien Fontan & Peter Corke

Submarine automatic control
Peter Ridley, Julien Fontan & Peter Corke

Terrain aided underwater navigation – a deeper insight into generic monte carlo localization
Alexander Bachmann & Stefan B Williams

Helicopter automation using a low-cost sensing system
Gregg Buskey, Jonathan Roberts, Peter Corke & Gordon Wyeth

A helicopter named Dolly – Behavioural cloning for autonomous helicopter control
Gregg Buskey, Jonathan Roberts & Gordon Wyeth



Manipulators


On-line singularity avoidance, collision detection and task level programming utilizing a world model
Per Cederberg, Magnus Olsson & Bunnar Bolmsjo

The effect of ill-conditioned inertial matrix on controlling robot manipulator
Yueshi Shen & Roy Featherstone

New ways of generate better configurations using geometric features
Antonio Benitex & Daniel Vallejo

A chattering-free variable structure controller for tracking of robotic manipulators
Tri V M Nguyen, Q P Ha & Hung T Nguyen



Robots in Agriculture


Control of industrial robots for meat processing applications
Zeng Li, Peter Ring, Kym MacRae & Andrew Hinsch

A new approach to detech the cutting position for a robotic beef carcass scribing system
Zeng Li & Andrew Hinsch

Machine vision system for counting macadamia nuts
Mark Dunn & John Billingsley

Modular decentralized control of fruit picking redundant manipulator
Timothy R Vittor, Richard A Willgoss & Tomonari Furukawa



Localisation and Mapping


A Hybrid approach to finding cycles in hybrid maps
Margaret E Jefferies, Wenrong Weng, Jesse T Baker, Michael C Cosgrove & Michael Mayo

Three-Dimensional robotic mapping
Ian Mahon & Stefan B Williams

Line-based SMC SLAM method in environment with polygonal obstacles
David C K Yuen & Bruce A MacDonald

Bearing-only SLAM in indoor environments using a modified particle filter
N M Kwok & G Dissanayake

Six Dof D-SLAM
Lee Ling (Sharon) Ong, Matthew Ridley, Jong-Hyuk Kim, Eric Nettleton & Salah Sukkarieh
Video 1
Hippocampal models for simultaneous localisation and mapping on an autonomous robot
Michael Milford & Gordon Wyeth



Sensors II


Tracking people with networks of heterogeneous sensors
Alex Brooks & Stefan Williams

Active monocular fixation using the log-polar sensor
Albert Yeung & Nick Barnes

Uncertainty of line segments extracted from static SICK PLS laser scans
Albert Diosi & Lindsay Kleeman

Proximity Identification and tracking for mining automation
Garry Einicke