PLANNING |
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| Towards Robotic Visual & Acoustic Stealth for Outdoor Dynamic Target Tracking Matthew Dunbabin (CSIRO), Ashley Tews (CSIRO) |
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| Path Planning with Maximum Expected Map Deformation Mark Whitty (University of New South Wales), Jose Guivant (University of New South Wales) |
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| Motion Planning of a Planar 3R Manipulator Utilising Fluid Flow Trajectory Generation Darwin Lau (University of Melbourne), Jonathan Eden (University of Melbourne), Denny Oetomo (University of Melbourne) |
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LIDAR SENSING |
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| Road Terrain Type Classification based on LMS Data Shifeng WANG (University of Technology, Sydney), Sarath Kodagoda (University of Technology, Sydney), Lei SHI (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| A Mutual Information Approach to Automatic Calibration of Camera and Lidar in Natural Environments Zachary J. Taylor (Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation), Juan Nieto (Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation) |
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| A Novel Approach to 3D Laser Scanning David Wood (Ocular Robotics), Mark Bishop (Ocular Robotics) |
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| Omni-VISER: 3D Omni Vision-Laser Scanner Usman Qayyum (Australian National University) |
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| Characterisation of the Victoria University Range Imaging System Benjamin Mark Moffat Drayton (Victoria University of Wellington), Dale A. Carnegie (Victoria University of Wellington), Adrian A. Dorrington (University of Waikato) |
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RGB-D SENSING |
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| Plane-based detection of staircases using inverse depth Titus Jia Jie Tang (Monash University), Wen Lik Dennis Lui (Monash University), Wai Ho Li (Monash University) |
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| Using Kinect for monitoring warehouse order picking operations Xingyan Li (University of Auckland), Ian Yen-Hung Chen (University of Auckland), Stephen Thomas (University of Auckland), Bruce A. MacDonald (University of Auckland) |
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| STALKERBOT: Learning to Navigate Dynamic Human Environments by Following People Liz Murphy (QUT), Peter Corke (QUT) |
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| Proximity Sensing and Reactive Control for Safe Manipulation Changmook Chun (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), Chansu Suh (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), Sungchul Kang (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) |
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| Improving the Performance of ICP for Real-Time Applications using an Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search Samuel Philip Marden (UNSW), Jose Guivant (UNSW) |
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UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES |
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| UAV Rendezvous: From Concept to Flight Test Daniel Briggs Wilson (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Ali Haydar Goktogan (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Salah Sukkarieh (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) |
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| Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling for High Performance Control of a Quadrotor Moses Bangura (ANU), Robert Mahony (ANU) |
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| Guidance, Navigation and Control of a Small-Scale Paramotor Jack Umenberger (The University of Sydney) |
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| 100Hz Onboard Vision for Quadrotor State Estimation Inkyu Sa (QUT), Peter Corke (QUT) |
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| Paper Plane: Towards Disposable Low-Cost Folded Cellulose-Substrate UAVs Paul EI Pounds (University of Queensland) |
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SLAM |
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| Laser-to-Radar Sensing Redundancy for Resilient Perception in Adverse Environmental Conditions Marcos Paul Gerardo Castro (Australian Centre of Field Robotics / University of Sydney), Thierry Peynot (Australian Centre of Field Robotics / University of Sydney) |
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| Image Salience Weighting for Improving Appearance-Based Place Recognition using a Supervised Classifier System Henry Williams (Victoria University of Wellington), Will Browne (Victoria University of Wellington), Michael Milford (Queensland University of Technology) |
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| CAT-GRAPH+: Towards Odometry-driven Place Consolidation in Changing Environments Stephanie M. Lowry (QUT), Gordon F. Wyeth (QUT), Michael J. Milford (QUT) |
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| Towards Brain-based Sensor Fusion for Navigating Robots Adam Jacobson (Queensland University of Technology), Michael Milford (Queensland University of Technology) |
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INFORMATION HANDLING |
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| Robocup Standard Platform League – rUNSWift 2012 Innovations Sean C. Harris (UNSW) |
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| Monte Carlo Sampling of Non-Gaussian Proposal Distribution in Feature-Based RBPF-SLAM Nina Marhamati (Advanced Robotics and Automated Systems, K. N. Toosi University of Technology), Hamid Taghirad (Advanced Robotics and Automated Systems, K. N. Toosi University of Technology), Kasra Khosoussi (Centre of Autonomous Systems, University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Novelty based Learning of Primitive Manipulation Strategies Ben Border (Monash University), R. Andrew Russell (Monash University) |
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| Building Large-Scale Occupancy Maps using an Infinite Mixture of Gaussian Process Experts Soohwan Kim (The Australian National University), Jonghyuk Kim (The Australian National University) |
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| Mutual Information Based Data Selection in Gaussian Processes for People Tracking Zulkarnain Zainudin (University of Technology Sydney), Sarath Kodagoda (University of Technology Sydney) |
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HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION AND ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS |
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| A Study of Feature Extraction Algorithms for Optical Flow Tracking Navid Nourani Vatani (University of Sydney), Paulo Borges (CSIRO ICT Centre), Jonathan Roberts (CSIRO ICT Centre) |
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| How People Naturally Describe Robot Behaviour James P. Diprose (The University of Auckland), Beryl Plimmer (The University of Auckland), Bruce A. MacDonald (The University of Auckland), John G. Hosking (Australian National University) |
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| A cooperative approach to the design of an Operator Control Unit for a semi-autonomous grit-blasting robot Stefan Lie (University of Technology Sydney) |
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| Skype: a communications framework for robotics Peter Corke (QUT), Kyran Findlater (QUT), Elizabeth Murphy (QUT) |
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| Teleoperation of a humanoid robot using full-body motion capture, example movements, and machine learning Christopher Stanton (University of Western Sydney), Anton Bogdanovych (University of Western Sydney) |
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ROBOT OPERATION |
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| jmeSim: An open source, multi platform robotics simulator Adam Haber (University of New South Wales) |
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| Sensor Selection Based Routing for Monitoring Gaussian Processes Modeled Spatial Phenomena Linh Van Nguyen (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Ravindra Ranasinghe (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Sarath Kodagoda (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) |
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| A Novel Approach to Automated Systems Engineering on a Multi-Agent Robotics Platform using Enterprise Con guration Testing Software Stephen Cossell (ScriptRock Inc.) |
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| Dynamic Modelling and Analysis of a Vectored Thrust Aerial Vehicle Wei Yuan (University of New South Wales), Hiranya Jayakody (University of New South Wales), Jayantha Katupitiya (University of New South Wales) |
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| Towards Reduced-Order Models for Online Motion Planning and Control of UAVs in the Presence of Wind Ashray A. Doshi (The University of Queensland), Surya P. Singh (The University of Queensland), Adam J. Postula (The University of Queensland) |
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CONTROL |
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| An Enhanced Dynamic Model for Mckiben Pneumatic Muscle Actuators Ruiyi Tang (University of Technology, Sydney), Dikai Liu (University of Technology, Sydney) |
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| Second-order Sliding Mode Control for Offshore Container Cranes Raja Mohd Taufika Raja Ismail (University of Technology Sydney), Quang Ha (University of Technology Sydney) |
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| Locally Weighted Learning Model Predictive Control for Elastic Joint Robots Christopher Lehnert (QUT), Gordon Wyeth (QUT) |
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VISION – OBJECT RECOGNITION |
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| Visual Sea-floor Mapping from Low Overlap Imagery using Bi-objective Bundle Adjustment and Constrained Motion Michael Warren (Queensland University of Technology), Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology), Oscar Pizzaro (University of Sydney), Stefan Williams (University of Sydney), Ben Upcroft (Queensland University of Technology) |
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| Automated species detection: An experimental approach to kelp detection from sea-floor AUV images Michael S. Bewley (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Bertrand Douillard (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Navid Nourani-Vatani (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Ariell Friedman (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Oscar Pizarro (Australian Centre for Field Robotics), Stefan B. Williams (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) |
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| Matching Objects across the Textured–Smooth Continuum Ognjen Arandjelovic (Deakin University) |
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| Towards an Efficient and Robust Optic Flow Algorithm for Robotic Applications Juan David Adarve Bermudez (Australian National University), Li Wusen (Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Robert Mahony (Australian National University), David Austin (MadJ innovations) |
ACRA 2012
Event Details
Dec 2012
Wellington, New Zealand
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Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2012
Dale Carnegie (General Chair) and Will Browne (Program Chair)
3-5 December, 2012
Wellington, New Zealand
ISBN 978-0-9807404-3-1 ISSN 1448-2053
All full papers submitted to ACRA 2012 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 2012 at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW)
The School of Engineering and Computer Science at VUW is delighted to host the 2012 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation. We welcome this opportunity to again network with an extraordinarily talented group of researchers and hope that this conference provides the opportunity for attendees to establish new collaborations, renew past acquaintances and share strategies for tapping into increasingly scare funding opportunities. The social and industrial needs of robotics and automated systems have never been greater, and Australasian research and industrial institutions are perfectly placed to exploit niche, lowmedium volume, high profit market opportunities. This is a message that our Governments and funding bodies often fail to hear.
As you have come to expect from an ACRA conference, this year the conference has attracted a number of superb submissions. All submissions were subjected to a rigorous peer review process, with each full paper reviewed by at least three members of the 37 Member program committee. A total of 44 full papers from Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Korea were accepted for presentation and publication. The minimum recommendation for an accepted paper was 3 (out of 5), which corresponds to no reviewers recommending any form of rejection. Indeed, many of the rejected papers were of very high quality and would easily be accepted to most international conferences. We have shortlisted five papers for the Best Student Paper prize. Judging will take place during the conference and will be based on the written paper. The winner will be announced at the conference banquet. For your convenience, the proceedings are available to conference attendees on a USB memory stick. As with previous years the ACRA proceedings are freely published online at the ARAA website to promote wide dissemination of the research and encourage citations of ACRA papers. In addition to the schedule of technical papers, the programme also includes the Annual General Meeting for the ARAA and multiple social events.
Finally, we could not possibly host you in New Zealand without subjecting you to a variety of our local venues and beverages. We have endeavoured not to make any of the morning conference starts so early that you cannot fully enjoy our evening events. We trust you will enjoy the social activities as much as you will the technical discussions.
The ACRA 2012 Organising Committee,
Will Browne (Program Chair)
Christopher Hollitt (Local Chair)
Dale Carnegie (General Chair)
Organisation
Sponsoring Organisations
Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc.
Victoria University of Wellington
General Chair
Dale Carnegie
Victoria Univerity of Wellington
Program Chair
Will Browne
Victoria University of Wellington
Local Chair
Chris Hollitt
Victoria University of Wellington
Programme Committee
Alen Alempijevic
Ali Bab-Hadiashar
David Ball
John Billingsley
Mike Bosse
Graham Brooker
Damien Browne
Mitch Bryson
XiaoQi Chen
Peter Corke
Gamini Dissanayake
Tom Drummond
Matthew Dunbabin
Robert Fitch
Jose Guivant
Quang Ha
Wai Ho Li
Shoudong Huang
Jay Katupitiya
Jonghyuk Kim
Lindsay Kleeman
Sarath Kodagoda
Wen Lik-Dennis-Lui
Dikai Liu
Tien-Fu Lu
Bruce MacDonald
Robert Mahony
Chris McCarthy
Michael Milford
Reza Moheimani
Simon O’Callaghan
Denny Oetomo
Maurice Pagnucco
Thierry Peynot
Oscar Pizarro
Jonathan Roberts
Andrew Russell