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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 …

When: Wednesday 26th Feb, 1pm Where: Rose St Building (J04) upstairs seminar area. Speaker: Ms Jiayin Chen (UNSW) Title: Towards temporal information processing on near-term quantum computers Abstract: In this talk, I will give an overview of current efforts at UNSW at exploring temporal information processing on current near-term quantum computers for control-oriented applications such as …

When: Thurs 6th of Feb, 1:00pm Where: Rose St Building seminar area Speaker: Chihyung Jeon Title: Talking over the robot: A field study of strained collaboration in a dementia-prevention robot class in South Korea Abstract: I will present a case study of Silbot – a “dementia-prevention robot” – at a regional health center in South Korea, …

When: Tues 14th of December, 2:00pm Where: Rose St Building seminar area Speaker: Suda Bharadwaj Title: Assured Autonomy for Complex Systems Abstract: Over the last decade, there has been an explosion in the use of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence in our daily lives. As human reliance on autonomy grows, so do the consequences of autonomous …

When: Mon 16th of December, 1:30pm Where: Rose St Building seminar area Speaker: Tobias Bellmann Title: From Terramechanics to Flight Simulators – Robotic applications at the DLR Institute of System Dynamics and Control Abstract: The talk focuses on the robotics activities at DLR’s institute of system dynamics and control. Starting with a general overview on DLR’s …

When: Weds 11th of December, 4pm Where: Rose St Building seminar area Speaker: He Kong Title: Estimation of Dynamic Systems under Arbitrary Unknown Inputs Abstract: The topic of estimation of dynamic systems under arbitrary unknown inputs, also called unknown input decoupled estimation, has received much attention in the last few decades. This is due to …