Study level

  • PhD

Faculty/School

Faculty of Engineering

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Supervisors

Distinguished Professor Peter Corke
Position
Adjunct Professor
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering

Overview

Sorting waste or recyclables is an important but unpleasant job, currently done by specialised machinery and humans for the hard bits.  What are the core challenges that could be done by "robots that see". This is a challenging problem in perception, dynamic path planning and control.

Skills and experience

Looking for candidates with some or all of the following experience:

  • robot arm kinematics and dynamics
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • hands-on mechatronic design
  • simulation
  • coding.

Contact

Contact the supervisor for more information.