Where
P421 (The Kindler Theatre)Science and Engineering Centre (P Block)
Cost
FreeHow can robots sense the world in which they operate?
One of the great challenges in the development and applications for robotics is sight. If we are going to maximise the potential of robotics they need to be able to navigate through a great variety of terrains and environments and be operational in all sorts of weather.
Distinguished Professor Peter Corke will introduce you to how robots sense the world and how, in the future, they might see the world as we do. He will cover the remarkable human sense of vision, where that sense came from and what it can do, as well as the challenges involved in trying to replicate this for robots.
Speaker
Distinguished Professor Peter Corke
Acknowledgements
ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision
Bio
Distinguished Professor Peter Corke is a distinguished professor of robotic vision at QUT and director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. He wrote the textbook Robotics, Vision & Control, authored the MATLAB toolboxes for Robotics and Machine Vision, and created the online educational resource: QUT Robot Academy. Corke has spent the last 15 years developing field robotic systems and sensor networks. Field robots are robots applied to applications such as mining, agriculture, construction, environmental and infrastructure monitoring. This include robots that fly (also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs) and operate underwater (also known as autonomous underwater vehicles or AUVs).
