Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009
Table of Contents
RANGE SENSING |
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| Online
Density Reduction Algorithm for Non-homogenous Multidimensional
Datasets with Sequential Input
Narek Melkumyan (ACFR, The University of Sydney), Eduardo Nebot (ACFR, The University of Sydney), Eric Nettleton (ACFR, The University of Sydney) |
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| Automatic
Segmentation of 3D Laser Point Clouds by Ellipsoidal Region
Growing
Frederick Pauling (University of Queensland), Michael Bosse (CSIRO ICT Centre), Robert Zlot (CSIRO ICT Centre) |
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| Real time
Hand Gesture Recognition using a Range Camera
Zhi Li (Monash University), Ray Jarvis (Monash University) |
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PLANNING |
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| Large Scale
Path Planning for an Underwater Glider in Ocean
Currents
Dushyant Rao (University of Sydney), Stefan B. Williams (University of Sydney) |
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| Optimal
Mission Path Planning (MPP) For An Air Sampling Unmanned Aerial
System
Luis Felipe Gonzalez (ARCAA/QUT), DongSeop Lee (CIMNE/UPC), Rodney Walker (ARCAA/QUT), Jacques Periaux (ARCAA/QUT) |
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| UAV based
search for a radio tagged animal using particle
filters
Andre Posch (Institute of Flight Mechanics and Control, Universitat Stuttgart), Salah Sukkarieh (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney) |
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| Multiple
Waypoints Trajectory Planning with Specific Position,
Orientation,Velocity and Time using Geometric Approach for A
Car-like Robot
Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim (The University of Adelaide), Tien-Fu Lu (The University of Adelaide) |
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| 3D Path
Planning for a Rotary Wing UAV using a Gaussian Process Occupancy
Map
Seng Keat Gan (Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), The University of Sydney, Australia), Kwangjin Yang (Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), The University of Sydney, Australia), Salah Sukkarieh (Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), The University of Sydney, Australia) |
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COMPUTER VISION I |
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| External
Cameras & A Mobile Robot: A Collaborative Surveillance
System
Punarjay Chakravarty (Monash University), Ray Jarvis (Monash University) |
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| Obstacle
Avoidance in Cluttered Environments using Optic
Flow
Matthew Garratt (University of New South Wales - Canberra), Allen Cheung (University of Queensland) |
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| Large scale
visual odometry using stereo vision
Andres Hernandez-Gutierrez (ACFR, The University of Sydney), Juan I. Nieto (ACFR, The University of Sydney), Teresa Vidal-Calleja (ACFR, The University of Sydney), Eduardo Nebot (ACFR, The University of Sydney) |
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| FPGA
Implementation of an Optic Flow Sensor using the Image
Interpolation Algorithm
Matt Garratt (UNSW@ADFA), Andrew Lambert (UNSW@ADFA), Thomas Guillemette (UNSW@ADFA) |
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SLAM |
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| 3D Landmarks
Extraction from a Range Imager Data for SLAM
Jianguo Jack Wang (UTS), Gibson Hu (UTS), Shoudong Huang (UTS), Gamini Dissanayake (UTS) |
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| A new
observation model for B-Spline SLAM
Minjie Liu (University of Technology, Sydney), Shoudong Huang (University of Technology, Sydney), Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Augmenting
RatSLAM using FAB-MAP-based Visual Data
Association
William P Maddern (University of Queensland), Arren Glover (University of Queensland), Michael J Milford (University of Queensland), Gordon F Wyeth (University of Queensland) |
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| Covariance
Visualisations for Simultaneous Localisation and
Mapping
Alex Kozlov (University of Auckland), Bruce MacDonald (University of Auckland), Burkhard Wunsche (University of Auckland) |
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MACHINE LEARNING |
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| Q-Learning
for Navigation Control of an Autonomous Blimp
Yiwei Liu (University of wollongong), Zengxi Pan (University of wollongong), David Stirling (University of wollongong), Fazel Naghdy (University of wollongong) |
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| Efficient
Learning of Motion Patterns for Robots
Stephan Sehestedt (ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems), Sarath Kodagoda (ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems), Alen Alempijevic (ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems), Gamini Dissanayake (ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems) |
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| Spectral
Feature Selection for Automated Rock Recognition using Gaussian
Process Classification
Hang Zhou (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney), Sildomar T. Monteiro (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney), Peter Hatherly (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney), Fabio Ramos (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney), Eric Nettleton (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney), Florian Oppolzer (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney) |
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| Evaluation of
Gaussian Processes for Large Scale Terrain
Modeling
Shrihari Vasudevan (ACFR, University of Sydney), Fabio Ramos (ACFR, University of Sydney), Eric Nettleton (ACFR, University of Sydney), Hugh Durrant-Whyte (ACFR, University of Sydney) |
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| Modelling
Affordances for the Control and Evaluation of Intrinsically
Motivated Robots
Kathryn Merrick (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy), Thomas Scully (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy) |
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MANIPULATORS |
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| Characterisation of the Novint Falcon Haptic
Device for Application as a Robot Manipulator
Steven Martin (Queensland University of Technology), Nick Hillier (CSIRO) |
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| Vision
Strategies for Robotic Manipulation of Natural
Objects
Chee Kit Wong (Industrial Research Limited), Patrick P.K. Lim (Industrial Research Limited), Roger Clist (Industrial Research Limited), Raymond ShuHe Liu (Industrial Research Limited) |
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| Novel 3-DOF
Reconfigurable Spherical Motion Generator with Unlimited
Workspace
Shiu Hang Ip (Monash University), Chao Chen (Monash University), Denny Oetomo (The University of Melbourne) |
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COMPUTER VISION II |
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| Assessment of
Off-road Traversability using Linear Discriminant Analysis in Dense
Disparity Space
Sameera Kodagoda (National University of Singapore), Guo Dong (Defence Science Organisation (DSO) National Laboratories), Yan Chye Hwang (Defence Science Organisation (DSO) National Laboratories), Ong Sim Heng (National University of Singapore) |
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| Feasibility
of UAV Based Optical Tracker for Tracking Australian Plague
Locust
Nazifa Tahir (ACFR University of Sydney), Graham Brooker (ACFR University of Sydney) |
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| A Vision
Based Target Detection System for Docking of an Autonomous
Underwater Vehicle
Frederic Maire (School of IT, QUT), David Prasser (CSIRO ICT Centre), Matthew Dunbabin (CSIRO ICT Centre), Megan Dawson (Faculty of BEE, QUT) |
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| FPGA Based
Real-time Color Discrimination Design for Ubiquitous
Robots
Ying-Hao Yu (University of Technology,Sydney), Ngai M Kwok (The University of New South Wales), Quang Ha (University of Technology,Sydney) |
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COMMUNICATIONS & SOFTWARE SYSTEMS |
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| Towards A
Parallel Wireless Radio Communication Architecture for Modular
Robots
Victor Kuo (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Robert Fitch (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) |
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| Realtime
Debugging for Robotics Software
Luke F. Gumbley (The University of Auckland), Bruce A. MacDonald (The University of Auckland) |
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| A
Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator for Distributed
Robotics
Ritesh Lal (ACFR), Robert C Fitch (ACFR) |
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| Quantitative
information in sematectonic stigmergy for swarm
robots
Tuan Phan (Monash University), Andy Russell (Monash University) |
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CONTROL |
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| The
Development of a Mechatronic Control System for Modular
Reconfigurable Machine Tools
Jared Padayachee (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Glen Bright (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Louwrens J Butler (University of KwaZulu-Natal) |
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| Trajectory
Based Autonomous Vehicle Following using a Robotic
Driver
Martin D Spencer (The University of Auckland), Daniel R Jones (The University of Auckland), Martin Kraehling (Hamburg University of Technology), Karl A Stol (The University of Auckland) |
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| A Study of
Soft Contact Models in Simulink
Pouyan Taghipour Bibalan (Australian National University), Roy Featherstone (Australian National University) |
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| Balance
Control of a Simulated Inverted Pendulum on a Circular
Base
Lukasz Wiklendt (The University of Newcastle, Australia), Stephan Chalup (The University of Newcastle, Australia) |
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HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACES & BIOMIMETICS |
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| Automatic
Calibration of a Spiking Head-Direction Network for Representing
Robot Orientation
Peter Stratton (Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland), Michael J Milford (Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland), Janet Wiles (School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland), Gordon F Wyeth (School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland) |
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| Improved EIT
drive patterns for a robotics sensitive skin
David Silvera Tawil (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), David Rye (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Mari Velonaki (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) |
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| Expressive
speech for a virtual talking head
Xingyan Li (University of Auckland), Catherine I Watson (University of Auckland), Aleksandar Igic (University of Auckland), Bruce A MacDonald (University of Auckland) |
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| Texture
Recognition by Tactile Sensing
Nawid Jamali (UNSW), Philip Byrnes-Preston (UNSW), Rudino Salleh (UNSW), Claude Sammut (UNSW) |
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SENSING |
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| On the
development of a hyperspectral library for autonomous mining
systems
Sven Schneider (University of Sydney), Richard J. Murphy (University of Sydney), Sildomar T. Monteiro (University of Sydney), Eric Nettleton (University of Sydney) |
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| Towards
Discrimination of Challenging Conditions for UGVs with Visual and
Infrared Sensors
Christopher Brunner (ACFR, The University of Sydney), Thierry Peynot (ACFR, The University of Sydney), James Underwood (ACFR, The University of Sydney) |
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| TASTI 2
Searches for Chemicals in the Presence of
Obstacles
R. Andrew Russell (Monash University) |
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SYSTEMS |
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| An Inspection
and Surveying System For Vertical Shafts
Jared Le Cras (Curtin University), Jonathan Paxman (Curtin University), Brad Saracik (Curtin University), Andrew Jarosz (Curtin University) |
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| Semi-Autonomous Robots for
RoboCupRescue
Raymond K Sheh (UNSW), Adam H Milstein (UNSW), Matthew J McGill (UNSW), Rudino Salleh (UNSW), Bernhard Hengst (UNSW), Claude Sammut (UNSW) |
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| An Autonomous
Surface Vehicle for Water Quality Monitoring
Matthew Dunbabin (CSIRO), Alistair Grinham (University of Queensland), James Udy (Seqwater) |
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| Automated
Variable Resistance System for Upper Limb
Rehabilitation
anda M Peattie (University of Canterbury), Agnetha Korevaar (University of Canterbury), Joshua P Wilson (University of Canterbury), Brad Sandilands (University of Canterbury), XiaoQi Chen (University of Canterbury), Marcus King (IRL) |
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| Improving
Augmented Reality Visualisation for Mobile Robot
Development
Daniel Brooker (Inro Technologies Ltd.), Toby Collett (Inro Technologies Ltd.), Andrew Evan Graham (Inro Technolgoies Ltd.) |
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