This research program addresses the fundamental problem of how a robot or autonomous vehicle uses perception to create maps and calculate and track 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; how understanding context and semantics can enhance performance; how lifelong reliability can be achieved as the world continually changes; the relationship to neurological structures and behavioural mechanisms used in animal and human navigation; and how new perception technologies can be applied to this problem.
This program will build on already considerable industry collaborations in high value sectors including mining, defence and look to expand into logistics, construction, space and remote operations. An extensive program of societal engagement will continue built on a large number (50+ per annum) of public or sector-based talks, workshops, media, and large-scale engagement activities with the public.
Projects
- A baseline dataset for performance evaluation of visual detection and classification techniques in mining environments
- Novel autonomous robotic weed control to maximise agricultural productivity
- Autonomous Mission Planning, Navigation and Geological Feature Recognition using UAVs (Drones)
- Contextual Hazard Detection
- Learning Robotic Navigation and Interaction from Object-based Semantic Maps
- NeuroSLAM
- Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation
- Reliability in Deep Machine Learning and Uncertainty for Object Detection
- Scene Understanding and Semantic SLAM
- Semantic Mapping for Robotic Maintenance
- Surface Crack Detection and Localisation for Automated Underground Mine Void Characterisation
- UAV Navigation using semantic cues
Team
Led by Associate Professor Niko Sünderhauf
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Ahmed Abbas
PhD researcher
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Dr Benjamin Talbot
Research Fellow
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Dr Bilal Arain
Research Fellow
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Chandrama Sarker
PhD Researcher
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Dr David Hall
Research Fellow
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Dimity Miller
PhD Researcher
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Faris Azhari
PhD Researcher
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Dr Feras Dayoub
Senior Lecturer
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Frank Loewenich
MPhil Researcher
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Dr Frederic Maire
Senior Lecturer
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Dr Haoyang Zhang
Research Fellow
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Joseph West
PhD Researcher
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Kieren Astin-Walmsley
MPhil Researcher
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Krishan Rana
PhD Researcher
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Lachlan Nicholson
PhD Researcher
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Melih Guenes Minareci
Research Fellow
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Assoc Prof Niko Suenderhauf
Program Lead (Visual Learning & Understanding), Associate Professor
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Olga Moskvyak
PhD Researcher
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Phil Hawkins
PhD Researcher
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Quazi Maruf Rahman
PhD Researcher
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Mr Rohan Smith
Research Engineer
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Samuel Wilson
PhD Researcher
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Serena Mou
PhD Researcher
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Sophie Taylor
PhD Researcher
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Dr Suman Bista
Research Fellow
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Vibhavari Dasagi
PhD Researcher
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William Hooper
PhD Researcher