Category: Seminars

When: Thurs 11th of June, 1p Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: John Gardenier Title: How Now Lame Cow: Automatic Lameness Assessment for Dairy Cattle with 3D Sensors Abstract: Lameness in dairy cattle is a prevalent health issue impacting animal welfare and economic performance. Automatic lameness detection using 3D sensors is …

When: Thurs 4th of June, 1p Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Dr Asher Bender Title: Intelligent Robotic Non-Chemical Weeding Abstract: In this seminar I will present results from an industry research project with the Grains Research and Development Corporation: Intelligent Robotic Non-Chemical Weeding. Weeds compete with crop for nutrients, water …

When: Thurs 28th of May, 9a Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Asst Prof Matthew O’Toole, CMU Robotics Title: Imaging the World One Photon at a Time Abstract: The core component of any modern camera is its digital sensor, which forms images by collecting billions of photons traveling through the physical …

When: Tues 26th of May, 2p Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Wei Zhou Title: Analysing the Robustness of Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Vehicles Abstract: Intelligent systems require the capability to perceive and interact with the surrounding environment. Semantic segmentation, as a pixel-level classification task, is at the frontier of providing …

When: Thurs 21st of May, 1p Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Julie Stephany Berrio Perez Title: Long-term map maintenance pipeline for autonomous vehicles Abstract: One of the requirements for autonomous vehicles to be able to operate persistently in typical urban environments is to maintain high accuracy position information over time, in …

When: Thurs 7th of May, 11:00a Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Dhanoop Karunakaran Title: Efficient validation method for Highly Automated Vehicle to ensure safety Abstract: The wide-scale deployment of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) seems to be imminent despite many safety challenges that are yet to be resolved. It is well known …

When: Thurs 30th of Apr, 1:00pm Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Lachlan Toohey Title: Creating an AUV – Post-Mortem Abstract: Over the last few years the Marine Group has created an AUV from initial design concept through to a platform that has descended to 100m beneath the waves and captured …

When: Thurs 23rd of Apr, 1:00pm Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Robin Vujanic Title: Computationally Efficient Dynamic Traffic Optimisation Of Railway Systems Abstract: In this seminar, we discuss traffic optimisation for railway systems. These can be seen as multi-agent systems with movement constraints entailing logic conditions (e.g., precedence of utilisation of specific …

When: Thurs 16th of Apr, 1:00pm Where: Seminars have moved online, RSVP here. Speaker: Karan Narula Title: Two-Level Hierarchical Planning in a Known Semi-Structured Environment Abstract: The application of motion planning for autonomous vehicles has been primarily focused either in highly structured or unstructured environments. However, many environments in the real-world share the characteristics of both …

When: Thurs 9th of Apr, 1:00pm Where: Seminars have moved online, RSVP here. Speaker: Fredrik Westling Title: Tree crop analysis using mobile LiDAR: From light to pruning Abstract: Commercial fruit growers find it helpful to understand how their crops are growing on an orchard scale and tree scale. This enables them to make decisions regarding actions …