ACFR Papers at ICRA 2024

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers and presentations at the flagship robotics conference IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), to be held in Yokohama, Japan 13- 17 May: The Importance of Coordinate Frames in Dynamic SLAM Jesse Morris, Yiduo Wang and Viorela Ila Most Simultaneous …

ACFR Papers at ICRA 2023

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers and keynote at the flagship robotics conference IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), to be held in London May 29 – June 2: Improving benthic classification using resolution scaling and SymmNet Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Heather Doig, Oscar Pizarro and …

ACFR Papers at ACC 2022

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers at the American Control Conference Conference Program – ACC 2022 (a2c2.org), to be held in Atlanta June 8 -10: Learning Stable Koopman Embeddings Fletcher Fan, Bowen Yi, David Rye, Guodong Shi, and Ian R. Manchester In this paper, we present a new …

Congratulations to Julie Stephany Berrio Perez who has satisfied the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Stephany Berrio Perez has successfully completed her PhD thesis, entitled “Scene understanding and map maintenance for autonomous vehicles applications”. The work was supervised by Professor Eduardo Nebot and Dr Stewart Worrall. Congratulations Stephany! Two of the main challenges to enable vehicles to operate autonomously in urban streets are scene understanding and long-term localisation. This thesis …

Congratulations to Professor Stefan Williams for receiving a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research at The University of Sydney.

The Vice-Chancellors Awards are now in their fifth year. These awards celebrate the outstanding contributions of our academic and professional staff to teaching, research and service, leadership, mentorship, and industry and community engagement. Sixty individuals and teams from across the University have been recognised for their outstanding efforts through the 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. …

Congratulations to Steven Potiris who has satisfied the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Steven Potiris has successfully completed his PhD thesis, entitled “Robust and Efficient Individual Plant Mapping of Vegetable Crops”. The work was supervised by Professor Salah Sukkarieh and Dr Asher Bender. Congratulations Steven! Crop mapping can provide phenotype data for breeding research. To provide phenotyping data for individual plants,  a system must be able to detect …

Looking for an Australian Summer research project with us? The Engineering Vacation Research Internship Program applications are now live, deadline is 14 October 2020.

Our Engineering Vacation Research Internship Program is designed to provide valuable research experience and is open to those students interested in pursuing a research career at a university or in industry. The Summer Research Program will run for 8 weeks from 14 December 2020 until 19 February 2021 (excluding the University’s closedown period). Below is …

Naoko Abe has received a grant from The Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) Inc.

Centre researcher Naoko Abe has successfully received a grant from The Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) Inc for her project “Australia-France Forum on Human-Machine Relationship”. Australia-France Forum on Human-Machine Relationship is a gathering at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in order to discuss novel technologies deployed in Australia and France …

Congratulations to Nathan Wallace who has satisfied the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Nathan Wallace has successfully completed his PhD thesis, entitled “Energy-aware Planning and Control of Off-road Wheeled Mobile Robots”. The work was supervised by Professor Salah Sukkarieh, Dr Andrew Hill , Dr He Kong and Dr Zhe Xu. Congratulations Nathan! Abstract: In modern agriculture, many of the tasks necessary for the smooth operation of a farm …

Congratulations to John Gardenier who has satisfied the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

John Gardenier has successfully completed his PhD thesis, entitled “How Now Lame Cow: Automatic Lameness Assessment for Dairy Cattle with 3D Sensors”. The work was supervised by Dr Mitch Bryson, James Underwood, Dr Mehala Balamurali and Dr Cameron Clark. Congratulations John! Abstract: Lameness in dairy cattle is a prevalent health issue impacting animal welfare and …

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