Category: Seminars

When: Weds Nov 13th, 4p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Speaker: Kate Maguire-Rosier Title: Moving with robots: A review of dance performances involving human and robotic performers Abstract: This presentation focusses on artistic projects involving robots, specifically in the context of live dance performance. Following Naoko’s talk last week on her collaborative motion project, …

When: Fri Nov 1st 2019, 2:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Speaker: Elizabeth Ratnam, ANU Title: Creating a resilient carbon-neutral electricity grid Abstract: In recent years, a dramatic increase in electrical power generation from renewable energy sources has been observed in many countries. The grid-integration of customer-owned solar photovoltaics (PV) has been driven by government …

When: Weds, Oct 30th 2019, 4:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Speaker: Teja Digumarti Title: Semantic Segmentation and Mapping in Natural Environments Abstract: Research on 3D Reconstruction, Semantic Segmentation has made great progress over the past decade. However, a vast majority of this research is targeted towards human made environments like indoors and urban …

When: Weds, Nov 6th 2019, 4:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Robotics and society: An overview of current research projects Abstract: The talk will present the current projects undertaken under the “Robotics and Society” theme at the Sydney Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems. The Robotics and Society theme aims to explore the …

When: Thurs, Oct 24th 2019, 2:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: SLAM for Learning and Learning for SLAM Abstract: Decades of research in mutiview geometry have provided us with real-time dense monocular tracking and mapping systems which are capable of reconstructing high fidelity maps of the world around us. However, these geometric approaches …

When: Monday, Oct 21st 2019, 3:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Actively Articulated Wheel-on-Limb Mobility for Traversing Europa Analogue Terrain Abstract: Mobile, in-situ exploration of Europa’s rugged, icy surface holds the potential for enabling discovery across multiple geologic units outside the exhaust-contaminated landing zone. The spatial and compositional diversity of surface salts and …

When: Thurs, Oct 17th 2019, 1:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Estimating noise covariance in filters using autocovariance least squares Abstract: The extended Kalman filter is an extremely useful tool that is widely applied in robotics. In practice we often read the sensor noise covariance matrix off a datasheet and make some sort …

When: Thurs, Oct 10th 2019, 4:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Human/animal motion prediction and robotic path planning in dynamic environments Abstract: Fully autonomous and safe operations of intelligent platforms relies on an accurate understanding and prediction of the changing environment. This is especially true for scenarios such as campus, human-robot shared workspace, …

When: Weds, Oct 2nd 2019, 4p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation Abstract: The Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation (RTCMA) is an industry funded centre focussed on applying state of the art techniques in data fusion, machine learning, automation, perception and optimisation to real world mining problems …

When: Weds, Sept 25th 2019, 1:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Designing interactions between human and autonomous vehicles Abstract: This presentation reports on a multidisciplinary, collaborative effort that investigates the complex problem of how humans can safely interact with autonomous vehicles. The ITS group at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics have been …