22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona 2011

Sun, Surf and Automation: A Decade of Field Robotics in Australia

author: Hugh Durrant-Whyte, NICTA, Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence
published: Aug. 23, 2011, recorded: July 2011, views: 202

Slides

Slides
0:00	Sun, Surf and Automation: Fifteen Years of Field Robotics in Australia
0:21	Picture
1:25	Three Key Ideas in Field Robotics
3:36	AutoStrad
3:47	AutoStrad: Automated Container Handling
5:03	AutoStrad: Integrity and Systems
6:11	Persistence and Integrity
6:49	Datasets
7:13	Use of Mutual Information
8:02	Decentralised Data Fusion
8:07	Oxford 1990: DDF, Early SLAM
9:08	Decentralised Modular Control (1992)
9:41	UAV Demonstrations of DDF [2000-2007]
10:28	UAV/DDF: Systems Engineering
11:24	DDF in Operation
12:27	DDF System and Design
13:02	Example: Future Cooperative UAVs
13:33	Environment
13:53	Two Vehicle Flight Demonstration (2006)
16:45	DDF Outcomes
17:01	DDF as a Graphical Model
17:51	Cooperative Localisation Example
18:25	Cooperative Localisation Model
18:51	Implementation via Sparse Matrix Algebra
19:07	Red Robot Test Bed
19:15	Four-Platform Example
19:33	Recognising Natural Features
19:54	Using NLDR for Feature Modelling
20:40	Weed Identification from UAVs
21:41	Sub-Sea SLAM
22:01	Autonomous Marine Systems
23:08	Sub-sea SLAM
24:22	Post-SLAM Stereo Survey Reconstruction
25:32	IMOS – 5 Nodes and 11 Facilities
25:51	IMOS AUV Facility
26:08	Surveys on the Great Barrier Reef
26:28	Bag of Features Representation
26:35	Nocturnal Cuttlefish Camouflage
26:58	Tasmania 2008 – O’Hara Reef
27:26	Mine Automation - 1
27:49	Mine Automation - 2
28:22	The Initial Strategy (1995-00)
29:07	Safety is a priority in mining
29:34	Components for Automation
29:56	Mm-wave Radar Development
30:15	Rio Tinto Centre for Mine Automation (RTCMA)
30:54	Mine Automation Program
31:43	Architecture = Information and Control
32:00	Mine Picture Compilation (MPC)
32:34	Equipment Automation
32:48	MPC-Spatial Information Fusion
33:25	MPC-Geology Information Fusion
34:00	MPC-Geometry-Geology Fusion
34:34	Drill Rig in Operation
37:15	Auto Truck Trials
38:09	Capturing the Prize
38:40	Next Directions in Field Robotics
39:16	Multi-Sensor Perception
39:44	Cooperative Operations
40:37	HRI: An application in Media Art
41:30	The Next Ten Years
42:46	ACFR and NICTA

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Research work focuses on robotics and sensor networks. His work in applications includes automation in cargo handling, surface and underground mining, defence, unmanned flight vehicles and autonomous sub-sea vehicles.