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| Terrain Toe and Crest Feature Detection and Labelling for Autonomous Mining Johan Norberg (Linkoping University), Paul Thompson (The University of Sydney), Eric Nettleton (The University of Sydney), Hugh Durrant-Whyte (The University of Sydney) |
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| A Robotic System for Steel Bridge Maintenance: Field Testing Gavin Paul (Center for Autonomous Systems / University of Technology, Sydney), Stephen Webb (Center for Autonomous Systems / University of Technology, Sydney), Dikai Liu (Center for Autonomous Systems / University of Technology, Sydney), Gamini Dissanayake (Center for Autonomous Systems / University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Real-World Automation: New Capabilities for Underground Longwall Mining Peter Reid (CSIRO), Mark Dunn (CSIRO), David Reid (CSIRO), Jonathon Ralston (CSIRO) |
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BIO-INSPIRED AND LEGGED ROBOTICS |
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| Adaptable Gait Generation for Autotomised Legged Robots Gustavo Schleyer (Monash University), R. Andrew Russell (Monash University) |
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| Probabilistic Models versus Discriminate Classifiers for Human Activity Recognition with an Instrumented Mobility-Assistance Aid Mitesh Patel (University of Technology Sydney), Rami Khushaba (University of Technology Sydney), Jaime Valls Miro (University of Technology Sydney), Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology Sydney) |
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| A Constructive Spiking Neural Network for Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Control Toby Asher Lightheart (University of Adelaide), Steven Grainger (University of Adelaide), Tien-Fu Lu (University of Adelaide) |
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| iRat: Intelligent Rat Animat Technology David Ball (The University of Queensland), Scott Heath (The University of Queensland), Gordon Wyeth (Queensland University of Technology), Janet Wiles (The University of Queensland) |
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| Egomotion Estimation with a Biologically-Inspired Hemispherical Camera William Maddern (Queensland University of Technology), Gordon Wyeth (Queensland University of Technology) |
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CONTROL |
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| Modelling and Stability Control of Two-Wheeled Robots in Low-Traction Environments Daniel R. Jones (University of Auckland), Karl A. Stol (University of Auckland) |
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| Accurate Object Throwing by an Industrial Robot Manipulator Wilhelm August (Karsruhe Institute of Technology / Institute of Process Control and Robotics), Steffen Waeldele (Karsruhe Institute of Technology / Institute of Process Control and Robotics), Bjoern Hein (Karsruhe Institute of Technology / Institute of Process Control and Robotics), Heinz Woern (Karsruhe Institute of Technology / Institute of Process Control and Robotics) |
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| Admittance mode framework for haptic teleoperation of hovering vehicles with unlimited workspace Felix Schill (ANU), Xiaolei Hou (ANU), Robert Mahony (ANU) |
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| Modelling, Simulation and Control of an Electric Unicycle David Caldecott (University of Adelaide), Andrew Edwards (University of Adelaide), Matthew Haynes (University of Adelaide), Miroslave Jerbic (University of Adelaide), Andrew Kadis (University of Adelaide), Rhys Madigan (University of Adelaide), Zebb Prime (University of Adelaide), Benjamin Cazzolato (University of Adelaide) |
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SYSTEMS AND PLANNING |
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| Modeling the contact between a rolling sphere and a compliant ground plane Morteza Azad (ANU), Roy Featherstone (ANU) |
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| Bounded Anytime Deflation Thomas L. P. Allen (ACFR) |
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| A Concentric Network Algorithm for Spatial Reuse in Networked Robotics Victor Kuo (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Robert Fitch (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) |
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| Relative-Value-Based Randomness Algorithm for Swarm Robots Working in Heterogeneous Environments Tuan A. Phan (Monash University), R. Andrew Russell (Monash University) |
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| PICARSO – Programmable Interface Controller With Autonomous Robotic Spraying Operation Ian Hooi (The University of Adelaide), Samuel Oosterholt (The University of Adelaide), Sven Paschburg (The University of Adelaide), Joyce Phan (The University of Adelaide), Neil Yeoh (The University of Adelaide), Benjamin Cazzolato (The University of Adelaide) |
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LOCALISATION AND MAPPING |
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| An Active Visual Loop Closure Detection and Validation System for Topological SLAM Wen Lik D Lui (Monash University), Raymond Jarvis (Monash University) |
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| Loop Closure Detection on a Suburban Road Network using a Continuous Appearance-based Trajectory William Maddern (Queensland University of Technology), Michael Milford (Queensland University of Technology), Gordon Wyeth (Queensland University of Technology) |
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| Accurate Large-Scale Bearing-Only SLAM by Map Joining Adizul Ahmad (University of Technology Sydney), Shoudong Huang (University of Technology Sydney), Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology Sydney) |
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| Improving Recall in Appearance-Based Visual SLAM using Visual Expectation Michael Milford (Queensland University of Technology), Gordon Wyeth (Queensland University of Technology) |
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VISION AND SENSING I |
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| A Robust Structure and Motion Replacement for Bundle Adjustment Shane Mitchell (University of Queensland), Michael Warren (University of Queensland), David McKinnon (Queensland University of Technology), Ben Upcroft (University of Queensland) |
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| Coordinated Steering for an Uncalibrated Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Array Surya Singh (University of Sydney), Kit Axelrod (University of Sydney) |
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| Characterisation of Low-cost Optical Flow Sensors Ronald Ping Man Chan (University of Auckland), Aamir H. Mulla (University of Auckland), Karl A. Stol (University of Auckland) |
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| Reliable Automatic Camera-Laser Calibration Abdallah Kassir (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Thierry Peynot (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) |
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| Manipulator-based Grasping Pose Selection by means of Task-Objective Optimisation David Richards (University of Technology, Sydney), Gavin Paul (University of Technology, Sydney), Stephen Webb (University of Technology, Sydney), Nathan Kirchner (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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INTELLIGENT ROBOTS |
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| Robots, Communication, and Language: An Overview of the Lingodroid Project Ruth Schulz (The University of Queensland), Arren Glover (Queensland University of Technology), Gordon Wyeth (Queensland University of Technology), Janet Wiles (The University of Queensland) |
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| Semantic Grid Map Building LEI SHI (University of Technology, Sydney), Sarath Kodagoda (University of Technology, Sydney), Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Grounding Actions in Visuo-Haptic Space using Perception-Action Networks Arren Glover (Queensland University of Technology), Ruth Schulz (University of Queensland), Gordon Wyeth (Queensland University of Technology), Janet Wiles (University of Queensland) |
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| RoboCup Standard Platform League – rUNSWift 2010 Jayen Ashar (UNSW), David Claridge (UNSW), Brad Hall (UNSW), Bernhard Hengst (University of New South Wales), Hung Nguyen (UNSW), Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW), Adrian Ratter (UNSW), Stuart Robinson (UNSW), Claude Sammut (UNSW), Benjamin Vance (UNSW), Brock White (UNSW), Yanjin Zhu (UNSW) |
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UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES |
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| UAV Attitude Control using the Visual Horizon Saul Thurrowgood (University of Queensland), Richard J. D. Moore (University of Queensland), Daniel Bland (University of Queensland), Dean Soccol (University of Queensland), Mandyam V. Srinivasan (University of Queensland) |
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| A Synthesizable Hardware Evolutionary Algorithm Design for Unmanned Aerial System Real-Time Path Planning Jonathan Kok (Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation/Queensland University of Technology), Luis Felipe Gonzalez (Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation/Queensland University of Technology), Rodney Walker (Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation/Queensland University of Technology), Neil Kelson (High Performance Computing & Research Support/Queensland University of Technology), Timothy Gurnett (High Performance Computing & Research Support/Queensland University of Technology) |
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| Terrain Following using Wide Field Optic Flow Evan Slatyer (ANU), Robert Mahony (ANU), Peter Corke (QUT) |
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| Towards Grasping with a Helicopter Platform: Landing Accuracy and Other Challenges Paul E I Pounds (Yale University), Aaron M Dollar (Yale University) |
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| Attitude Observability of a Loosely-Coupled GPS/Visual Odometry Integrated Navigation Filter Damien Dusha (Queensland University of Technology), Luis Mejias (Queensland University of Technology) |
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HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION |
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| Robust and Efficient People Detection with 3-D Range Data using Shape Matching Daniel Hordern (CAS), Nathan Kirchner (CAS) |
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| Torso Detection and Tracking using a 2D Laser Range Finder Zulkarnain Zainudin (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka), Sarath Kodagoda (University of Technology, Sydney), Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Pedestrian Detection for Driver Assist and Autonomous Vehicle Operation using Offboard and Onboard Sensing Paulo Borges (CSIRO), Robert Zlot (CSIRO), Ashley Tews (CSIRO) |
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| RobotAssist – a Platform for Human Robot Interaction Research Nathan Kirchner (CAS), Alen Alempijevic (CAS), Sonja Caraian (CAS), Robert Fitch (CAS), Daniel Hordern (CAS), Gibson Hu (CAS), Gavin Paul (CAS), David Richards (CAS), Surya Singh (CAS), Stephen Webb (CAS) |
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VISION AND SENSING II |
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| Robust Manipulability-Centric Object Detection in Time-of-Flight Camera Point Clouds Sonja Caraian (University of Technology, Sydney), Nathan Kirchner (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Graphcut-based Interactive Segmentation using Colour and Depth cues HU HE (The University of Queensland), David McKinnon (Queensland University of Technology), Michael Warren (The University of Queensland), Ben Upcroft (The University of Queensland) |
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| Unaided Stereo Vision Based Pose Estimation Michael D Warren (University of Queensland), David McKinnon (Queensland University of Technology), He Hu (University of Queensland), Ben Upcroft (University of Queensland) |
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| Kelp Detection in Highly Dynamic Environments Using Texture Recognition Aymeric Denuelle (University of Burgandy), Matthew Dunbabin (CSIRO) |
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MECHANISMS |
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| Design and Analysis of 4-DOF Cable-Driven Parallel Mechanism Darwin Lau (University of Melbourne), Trevor Hawke (University of Melbourne), Louis Kempton (University of Melbourne), Denny Oetomo (University of Melbourne), Saman Halgamuge (University of Melbourne) |
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| Inverse Control of a Piezoelectric Actuator for Precise Operation of a Micro-motion Stage Jayesh Minase (University of Adelaide), Tien-Fu Lu (University of Adelaide), Ben Cazzolato (University of Adelaide), Steven Grainger (University of Adelaide) |
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| An innovative digital charge amplifier to reduce hysteresis in piezoelectric actuator Mohsen Bazghaleh (The university of Adelaide), Steven Grainger (The university of Adelaide), Benjamin Cazzolato (The university of Adelaide), Tien-Fu Lu (The university of Adelaide) |
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NAVIGATION |
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| Practical application of pseudospectral optimization to robot path planning Steven Martin (QUT / CSIRO), Nick Hillier (CSIRO), Peter Corke (QUT / CSIRO) |
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| Autonomous Navigation using a Real-Time 3D Point Cloud Mark Whitty (The University of New South Wales), Stephen Cossell (The University of New South Wales), Kim Son Dang (The University of New South Wales), Jose Guivant (The University of New South Wales), Jayantha Katupitiya (The University of New South Wales) |
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| Pseudo Priority Queues for Real-Time Performance on Dynamic Programming Processes Applied to Path Planning Alicia Robledo (UNSW), Guivant Jose (UNSW) |
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| Probabilistic Resurvey Mission Planning Cheng Fang (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney), Stefan B. Williams (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney) |
ACRA 2010
Event Details
Dec 2010
Brisbane, Australia
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Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2010
Gordon Wyeth and Ben Upcroft (editors)
1-3 December, 2010
Brisbane, Australia
ISBN 978-0-9807404-1-7
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2010 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 2010
And welcome to Brisbane! I am delighted to once again chair ACRA, the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation. In 1999, Jon Roberts and I chaired the first of the modern series of ACRA conferences – the conference had run six times before that under various different names. It is a real pleasure to see that the conference has been run in much the same form every year since our first effort, and seems to be reaching a higher and higher standard every year. The ACRA proceedings 1999 – 2009 published 495 papers which have been cited 1135 times between them, giving the conference a highly credible impact factor of 2.3. ACRA continues to be a highly inclusive and friendly conference that delivers great value for the Australian and New Zealand robotics community, and indeed to the broader international robotics community.
This year we have an exceptional program of technical presentations thanks to the hard work of our Program Chair, Ben Upcroft. The Programme Committee accepted 52 full papers for presentation and publication after a review process in which full manuscripts were reviewed by at least three committee members. The accepted papers were drawn from the 69 papers submitted – a new record for submissions to ACRA. Twelve papers have been nominated as contenders for the Best Student Paper, with the decision to be made during the conference based on both the students’ papers and oral presentations. The IEEE Queensland Chapter has provided a $500 prize for the winner.
For the first time this year, the proceedings will be made available to the conference attendees on a USB memory stick. Attendees can mark-up their copies of the proceedings during the presentation, and re-use the memory stick after the conference – once they have safely stored their copy of the proceedings of course! As in previous years, we will be maintaining the proceedings online at the ARAA website (www.araa.asn.au) as well as a downloadable copy of the memory stick image.
In addition to the technical paper programme, the programme includes the Annual General Meeting for the ARAA, live robot demonstrations, and plenty of social opportunities (thanks to Michael Milford) for Australasian and international robotics researchers to network and develop cross-institutional links. There will be many opportunities to learn, to teach and to share, and I look forward to spending a fascinating three days with you at QUT!
Gordon Wyeth, General Chair
Organisation
Sponsoring OrganisationsAustralian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) IEEE Queensland Chapter ChairGordon Wyeth
Queensland University of Technology Programme Committee
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Local Volunteers
| William Maddern Queensland University of Technology |
Arren Glover Queensland University of Technology |
Inkyu Sa Queensland University of Technology |
Steven Martin Queensland University of Technology |
| Chris Lehnert Queensland University of Technology |
Michael Warren University of Queensland |
Proceedings Compilation
Michael Warren
University of Queensland
University of Queensland