In the News
Peter’s work with the Australian Antarctic Program has been highlighted in several news pieces over the last week.
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Paper Awarded
Title: H2 Controller Design for Multi-agent Systems with Markovian Switching Topologies
Authors: Cole Ballam, Aaron McFadyen and Daniel Quevedo
Award: Best Student Paper
High Commendation Award
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Congratulations
Congrats to AI/Robotics Teaching Team for winning the FoE Teaching Excellence Award
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Congratulations to our EOY retreat award winners
The following people were nominated and won individual awards: Scarlett Raine, Vicki Johnson, Dasun Gunasinghe, Riki Lamont, Benjamin Moshirian, Luis Mejias, David Hall, Dorian Tsai, Tobias Fischer, Ryan Malone, and Connor Malone.
The following were nominated and won joint awards: Nicolas Guillermo Marticorena Vidal and Krishan Rana.
The QCR Ambassadors were also awarded for their commitment to the Centre: Scarlett Raine, Somayeh Hussaini, Morgan Windsor, Thomas Tilley, Jordan Gleeson, Nicolas Marticorena Vidal, Alejandro Fontan Villacampa and Marisa Bucolo
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Paper Accepted
ConCS: A Continual Classifier System for Continual Learning of Multiple Boolean Problems
Trung B. Nguyen, Will N. Browne, and Mengjie Zhang
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Paper Accepted
UAV4PE: An Open-Source Framework to Plan UAV Autonomous Missions for Planetary Exploration
Julian Galvez-Serna, Fernando Vagegas, Shahzad Brar, Juan Sandino, David Flannery, Felipe Gonzalez
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The Robotic Vision Summer School 2023
The Robotic Vision Summer School 2023 runs for the 9th time 6 - 11 February 2023, Kioloa Coastal Campus, NSW (https://www.rvss.org.au/)
It covers the topics of Robotic Vision, Spatial Awareness, Visual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, +3 technical deep dives, in a very hands-on way including coding on real robots, and leaves lots of time for networking, chatting or simply fun at the beach and campfire. RVSS targets first-year HDR students and exceptional undergraduates.
We have an awesome lineup of speakers: Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Peter Corke, Tom Drummond, Richard Hartley, Hanna Kurniawati, Miaomiao Liu, Simon Lucey
Registrations are closed now, but RVSS will run again next year around the same time.
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Call for Applications
The call for Postdoc-NeT-AI 04/2023 is out! The focus of this edition – which will take place from 24 – 28 April 2023 – is on Generative Models in Machine Learning.
Twice a year, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) selects a group of outstanding postdoctoral researchers and experienced PhD candidates worldwide to participate in the Postdoctoral Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence (Postdoc-NeT-AI, daad.de/ainet). The fellowship includes a Virtual Networking Week from 24 – 28 April 2023 and a one-week travel stipend which can be flexibly planned. The latter will enable the fellows to personally connect with leading researchers and research institutions of their own choice from all over Germany.
The application deadline is on February 27, 2023. For more information and to apply go to daad.de/ainet/apply.
General program information is available at https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/postdocnet/about/.
If you have any question, please contact ainet@daad.de.
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Visitor Profile: Daniella Tola
We said goodbye to our visitor Daniella Tola from Aarhus University. Daniella had been visiting our lab from September 2022 working with Peter Corke and his program area in Physical Interaction. We did a quick interview with Daniella to hear about her experiences, read more below:
1. What was your favourite thing about doing as visit to the QCR lab?
All of the different opportunities at QCR: learning groups, workshops, etc. There are both work related events, allowing you to improve your skills in different areas, such as creating a personal website and CV writing, and also social events organized between the HDR students.
2. What did you learn?
A lot of different things, e.g. how well functioning and supportive the QCR team is, a better understanding of the current research being carried out in robotics, how important networking is.
3. Do you have any advice for others who want to visit QCR lab?
In general, I would just say don’t be shy and engage in the environment. Get to know what the others are working on, even if it’s not relevant for you now, it may be relevant someday.
Good luck Daniella and please come visit us again!
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Past Events
Brisbane Robotics & Space Sundowner
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Past Events
QCR End of Year Retreat
Check out The Year that Was video here
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Welcome to Assoc Prof Laurianne Sitbon
Please welcome our newest Chief Investigator A.Prof Laurianne Sitbon!
Laurianne will be co-leading the fifth QCR Program - Human Interaction with A.Prof Jared Donovan and A.Prof Markus Rittenbruch.
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Welcome to Assoc Prof Markus Rittenbruch
Please welcome our newest Associate Investigator Markus Rittenbruch!
Markus will be co-leading the fifth QCR Program - Human Interaction with A.Prof Jared Donovan and Dr Laurianne Sitbon.
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Welcome to Cameron Coombe
New HDR Student working with Will & Nico on the Abstract Reasoning Corpus, together with CSIRO.
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Science, Mechatronics/Environmental
2017 - 2021
Activities and societies: QUT Robotics Club
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Welcome to Dr Krishna Manaswi Digumarti
Krishna has commenced as a Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics and has a background in soft material robotics.
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Welcome to Janet Danaher
Welcome to Janet who is the new Executive Assistant for Michael and Peter.
She has over 20 years of experience in finance and office support in Australian university sectors.
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Welcome to Ehab Salem
Ehab has commenced a 6-month secondment from DSTG, hosted by Thierry, as part of DSTG’s NAVIGATE program.
Ehab is a Mechatronics engineer with a Masters of Business Law (Innovation) interested in developing skills in robotics research.
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Farewells
Farewell to Ben Talbot who has obtained a job at Emesent.
Ben has been a wonderful team member and friend and will be missed.
We hope to still see him around at events.
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Farewell to David Hall - he will start his new role at CSIRO in 2023.
We wish him the best of luck!
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Diversity
Use of inclusive language
Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition unless they are relevant and valid. When coding terminology is used, we recommend to avoid offensive or exclusionary terms such as "master", "slave", "blacklist" and "whitelist". We suggest using alternatives that are more appropriate and (self-) explanatory such as "primary", "secondary", "blocklist" and "allowlist". These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.
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Local Averaging for Consensus Over Communication Links with Random Dropouts
RC Ballam, A McFadyen, DE Quevedo - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9956891
DGBench: An Open-Source, Reproducible Benchmark for Dynamic Grasping
B Burgess-Limerick, C Lehnert, J Leitner, P Corke - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9981670
Innovation-Based Remote State Estimation Secrecy with no Acknowledgements
JM Kennedy, JJ Ford, DE Quevedo, F Dressler - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08234, 2022
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.08234.pdf
UAV4PE: An Open-Source Framework to Plan UAV Autonomous Missions for Planetary Exploration
J Galvez-Serna, F Vanegas, S Brar, J Sandino… - Drones, 2022
https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/6/12/391
Unscrewed autonomous marine vessels tests the limits of maritime safety frameworks
F Humphries, R Horne, M Olsen, M Dunbabin… - WMU Journal of Maritime …, 2022
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13437-022-00295-x
Hyperdimensional Feature Fusion for Out-of-Distribution Detection: Supplementary Material
S Wilson, T Fischer, N Sünderhauf, F Dayoub
https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2023/supplemental/Wilson_Hyperdimensional_Feature_Fusion_WACV_2023_supplemental.pdf
Forest Traversability Mapping (FTM): Traversability estimation using 3D voxel-based Normal Distributed Transform to enable forest navigation
F Ruetz, P Borges, N Suenderhauf, E Hernández, T Peynot- 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9981401
An Architecture for Reactive Mobile Manipulation On-The-Move
B Burgess-Limerick, C Lehnert, J Leitner, P Corke - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06991, 2022
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.06991.pdf
Robotic Vision for Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration: A Survey and Systematic Review
N Robinson, B Tidd, D Campbell, D Kulić, P Corke - ACM Transactions on Human …, 2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3570731
In situ slip estimation for mobile robots in outdoor environments
P Nourizadeh, F Stevens McFadden, W Browne – Journal of Field Robotics 2022
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