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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 …

When: Mon, Sept 23rd 2019, 3:00p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Robotic Sampling in Outdoor Environments Abstract: In this talk I present my research on using techniques from reinforcement learning for efficiently sampling scientific data in large-scale outdoor environments. The techniques presented generate paths to efficiently measure and then …

When: Fri, Sept 20th 2019, 3:30p Where: Rose St Building Seminar Area Title: Robotics NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Abstract: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is famous for flagship space exploration missions such as the Mars rovers, the Cassini mission to Saturn and the Voyager spacecraft journeying beyond the solar system. While …

When: Thurs 19th Sept, 1pm. Where: Rose St Building seminar area Title: Learning robust LQ-controllers using application oriented exploration Abstract: This talk concerns the problem of learning robust linear quadratic (LQ) controllers, when the dynamics of the linear system are unknown. First, we propose a robust control synthesis method to minimize the worst-case LQ cost, with …