sity of wollongong), David Stirling (University of wollongong), Fazel Naghdy (University of wollongong) | |
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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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.) |
ACRA 2009
Event Details
Dec 2009
Sydney, Australia
Joining ARAA
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Individual application Organisation applicationACRA 2009
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009
Steve Scheding (editor)
December 2 – 4, 2009
Sydney, Australia
ISBN 978-0-9807404-0-0
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2009 will undergo a peer-review process. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers who will give detailed comments. If the submission is accepted, the authors will submit a revised (“camera-ready”) version that takes into account this feedback. The review process is managed by the program chair of the conference.
All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.
Welcome to ACRA 2009
ACRA, the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, is the annual conference for the Australian Robotics and Automation Association, and Australia and New Zealand’s leading forum for work in all areas of robotics and automation. ACRA attracts researchers and practitioners from around Australia and New Zealand, and an increasing number of roboticists from overseas. The work presented at ACRA 2009 is highly relevant to current interests in international robotics research. ACRA has an Australasian robotics flavour, with an emphasis on field robotics, autonomous systems, and applications in the primary industries that continue to form the basis of the Australian and New Zealand economies in the 21st century.
We have endeavoured to ensure a balanced programme: maintaining a high standard of quality, while being inclusive of the up and coming students and junior researchers in the Australasian robotics community. The Programme Committee accepted 48 full papers for presentation and publication after a review process in which full manuscripts were reviewed by at least two committee members. The accepted papers were drawn from 66 papers submitted in total. In keeping with recent trends, the primary medium for the proceedings is CD-ROM, and we will be maintaining the proceedings online at the ARAA website:www.araa.asn.au. In addition to the technical paper programme, the programme includes the Annual General Meeting for the ARAA, and plenty of social opportunities for Australasian and international robotics researchers to network and develop cross-institutional links.
We hope you enjoy your time at the conference and that you come away knowing a little bit more, having met and discussed robotics issues with a colleague, having attended a paper session, or having had a quiet technical debate over dinner. To all, we warmly welcome you to ACRA 2009, and to Sydney.
Steve Scheding – ACRA General Chair
Sildomar Takahashi Monteiro & Thierry Peynot – ACRA Paper Chairs
Sydney, December 2009
on behalf of the Programme Committee.
Organisation
Sponsoring Organisations
ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS)
Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR)
Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation (RTCMA)
Chair
The University of Sydney
Paper Chairs
The University of SydneyThierry Peynot
The University of Sydney
Programme Committee
Ali Bab-Hadiashar Swinburne University |
Nick Barnes National ICT Austalia |
John Billingsly University of Southern Queensland |
Mike Bosse CSIRO |
XiaoQi Chen University of Canterbury |
Gamini Dissanayake University of Technology Sydney |
Matthew Dunbabin CSIRO |
Roy Featherstone Australian National University |
Matthew Garratt Australian Defence Force Academy |
Jonghyuk Kim Australian National University |
Lindsey Kleeman Monash University |
Sarath Kodagoda University of Technology Sydney |
Dikai Liu University of Technology Sydney |
Tien-Fu Lu University of Adelaide |
Bruce MacDonald University of Auckland |
Robert Mahony Australian National University |
Karol Miller University of Western Australia |
Reza Moheimani University of Newcastle |
Eduardo Nebot University of Sydney |
Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales |
Himanshu Pota Australian Defence Force Academy |
Jonathan Roberts CSIRO |
Andrew Russell Monash University |
Claude Sammut University of New South Wales |
Bijan Shirinzadeh Monash University |
David Stirling University of Wollongong |
Karl Stol University of Auckland |
Salah Sukkarieh University of Sydney |
James Trevelyan University of Western Australia |
Ljubo Vlacic Griffith University |
Rodney Walker Queensland University of Technology |
Wenhui Wang University of Canterbury |
Stefan Williams University of Sydney |
Gordon Wyeth University of Queensland |
Peter Xu Massey University |