Seminar: My attempts to synchronise sensors, 22nd Feb, 1:00pm

When: Thursday 22nd of February, 1:00pm AEDT

Where: This seminar will be partially presented at the ACFR lab lvl 4 conference room (J18) and partially online via Zoom. RSVP

Speaker: Dr Mao Shan

Title: My attempts to synchronise sensors

Abstract:

The talk is more of a technical one sharing the effort undertaken in both past and current projects to achieve synchronisation of perception sensors for intelligent vehicles and infrastructure. Sensor synchronisation is widely recognised as a technical challenge when building robotic platforms. Data misalignment caused by asynchronous sensory data acquisition leads to performance degradation in sensor fusion. This talk will guide you through different hardware and software options available for synchronising popular perception sensors, notably cameras and lidars, to hopefully save you trouble when selecting the appropraite perception sensors for building your own platforms.

Bio:

Dr Mao Shan finished his PhD study with the ITS group at ACFR in 2014. Following his graduation, he worked as a Research Associate at ACFR until 2016, after which he transitioned to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, to work on a smart wheelchair project as a Research Fellow. In 2017, he returned to the ITS group at ACFR. Since then, he has been involved in a few interesting research projects focusing on autonomous vehicles, V2X, and smart infrastructure. His research interests include sensor fusion, cooperative perception, autonomous systems, V2X communication.