This research program explores how a robot interacts with the physical world. Most useful tasks that a robot does involves interacting in some way with the world, for example, grasping an object, turning a door handle, applying a grinding tool to a work piece, or a legged robot walking across the ground. In all cases the robot and the object exert forces on each other. Our researchers are exploring how to:
- control these interaction forces to achieve the desired result
- handle noisy sensor data
- transition from vision-mediated control to force-mediated control.
Projects
PhD Topics
Team
Led by Distinguished Professor Peter Corke
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Amelia Luu
Wildcat Robotics Field Engineer at CSIRO Data61
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Anthony Vanderkop
PhD Researcher
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Dr Chris Lehnert
Senior Lecturer, Program Lead Physical Interaction (Robotic Manipulation, Agricultural robotics, Vertical farming)
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Prof Felipe Gonzalez
Professor (UAV Navigation, Drones, Aerial Robotics, Game Theory, Ecology)
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Geoff Smith
Alumni (MPhil)
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Assoc Prof Jared Donovan
Associate Investigator
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Jeffrey Scheck
PhD Researcher
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Prof Jonathan Roberts
Professor (Field Robotics, Medical Robotics, Performance Robotics and Design Robotics, Cobots)
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Jordan Erskine
PhD Researcher
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Jordan Gleeson
PhD Researcher
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Justin Beri
PhD Researcher
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Dr Krishna Manaswi Digumarti
Lecturer (Soft robotics, Healthcare robotics, medical robotics)
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Prof Matthew Dunbabin
Professor (Environment Robotics, Marine Robotics, Autonomous Systems)
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Nidhi Homey Parayil
PhD Researcher
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Dist Prof Peter Corke
Adjunct Emeritus Distinguished Professor
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Dr Scarlett Raine
Research Fellow (Underwater Perception, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Marine Robotics)
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Assoc Prof Thierry Peynot
Associate Professor (Robotics and Space, Rovers, Mining, Terrain Traversability)
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Troy Cordie
Alumni