This research program addresses the fundamental problem of how a robot or autonomous vehicle uses perception to create maps and calculates and tracks its location in the world. Research questions include addressing how:
- the appearance of a place changes in relation as a function of time, season, weather, viewpoint and environment type
- understanding context and semantics can enhance performance
- lifelong reliability can be achieved as the world continually changes
- the relationship to neurological structures and behavioural mechanisms are used in animal and human navigation; and how new perception technologies can be applied to this problem.
This research program builds on already considerable industry collaborations in high-value sectors including mining and defence. We look to expand into logistics, construction, space and remote operations.
We are continually building on our extensive engagement program of over 50 public and sector-based talks, workshops, media, and large-scale events each year.
Projects
PhD Topics
Team
Program Lead: Professor Michael Milford
Deputy: Professor Felipe Gonzalez
Key Research Fellows: Dr Tobias Fischer
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Dr Adam Hines
Research Fellow
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Ahmad Khaliq
PhD Researcher
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Dr Alejandro Fontan Villacampa
Research Fellow
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Prof Andry Rakotonirainy
Professor
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Brandon Richard Webster
Visiting Researcher (Fulbright Scholar from University of Notre Dame)
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Connor Malone
PhD Researcher
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Dr Dorian Tsai
Research Associate
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Prof Felipe Gonzalez
Professor
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Dr Fernando Vanegas Alvarez
Research Fellow
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Garima Samvedi
Senior Research Engineer
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Gokul B. Nair
PhD Researcher
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Dr James Mount
Senior Research Engineer (Robotics & Autonomous Systems)
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Prof Jennifer Firn
Professor
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Josh Buckley
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Julian Galvez-Serna
PhD Researcher
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Maceon Knopke
Research Assistant
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Prof Michael Milford
Director, Program Lead (Perception & Localisation), Professor, ARC Laureate Fellow
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Ming Xu
PhD Researcher
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Natasha Goucher
Research Assistant
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Owen Claxton
Research Assistant
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Samuel Heymans
PhD Researcher
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Scarlett Raine
PhD Researcher
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Prof Sebastien Glaser
Professor, Intelligent Transport Systems
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Sebastien Boiteau
PhD Researcher
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Son Tung Nguyen
PhD Researcher
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Dr Tobias Fischer
Lecturer and Chief Investigator