Seminar: Wilhelm Marais, 15th Oct, 1p

When: Thurs 15th of Oct, 1p AEST Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Wilhelm Marais Title: Coupled Control of Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems Abstract: Autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles are often fitted with one or more manipulators to increase the number of degrees of freedom of the system. This allows …

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 …

Seminar: Yongliang Qiao, 8th Oct, 1p

When: Thurs 8th of Oct, 1p AEST Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Yongliang Qiao Title: Deep learning based cattle welfare measurement for precision livestock farming Abstract: With the increasing consumption demand on livestock production, global livestock industry has to feed more animals with limited environmental resources and the shortage of …

Seminar: A/Prof Craig Jin, 2nd Oct, 1p

When: Fri 2nd of Oct, 1p AEST Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: A/Prof Craig Jin Title: Machine hearing tutorial from a microphone array viewpoint Abstract: This talk provides a tutorial overview for supporting machine hearing with microphone arrays and is targeted for those interested in adding microphone array processing to …

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 …

Seminar: Mehran Samavati, 24th Sept, 1p

When: Thurs 24th of Sept, 1p AEST Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Mehran Samavati Title: Development of a Material Movement Planning and Optimisation System for Rio Tinto Abstract: In the surface mining industry, material transportation management coordinates material movement through dynamically allocating trucks to transfer material from dig units to …

Seminar: Rami N. Khushaba, 17th Sept, 1p

When: Thurs 17th of Sept, 1p AEST Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Dr Rami N. Khushaba, PhD, M.Sc., B.Sc., Senior Member – IEEE Title: Myoelectric Pattern Recognition Using Recursive Spatial-Temporal Fusions: Building your own deep features representations Abstract: The design of pattern recognition-based neural interfaces has been heavily explored and …

Seminar: Konstantin Seiler, 9th Sept, 2p

When: Weds 9th of Sept, 2p AEST Where: This seminar will be presented online, RSVP here. Speaker: Dr Konstantin Seiler Title: Flow-achieving online planning and dispatching for open cut mines Abstract: In open cut mining, ore must be continuously transported between locations, which in the absence of conveyor systems is by a fleet of individual …

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 …

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