The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 05/12/2019 at 12:45 in room G.03 (pastries will be served). Todor Davchev, Daniel Gordon will be speaking.
Speaker: Todor Davchev
Title: Robust Skill Acquisition with Residual Policy Learning
Abstract:
Concentric tube robots are continuum robots that can navigate the human body to reach deep seated anatomical locations. This talk will describe computational methods to design concentric tube robots for given surgical tasks and anatomical constraints. It will proceed to discussing the challenges in real time kinematics estimation and dexterity evaluation, and will conclude with a demonstration of how new controllers can improve their usability and safety and bring them closer to clinical realisation.
Bio:
Topic: Agriculture Robotics in Australia: from R&D to Commercialisation.
Abstract: This presentation will look at the R&D activity in Ag robotics at the ACFR over the last 15 years and its application to improving agriculture productivity. The presentation will discuss the research and challenges in air and ground robotics in agriculture, the operational trials conducted across Australia, and the challenges in commercialisation of the technology.
Abstract
Centre Academics, Dr Mauro Dragone and Dr Christian Dondrup presented at one of the sessions at the 2019 Digital Health and Care Fest on Thursday 21st November.
Title
Some Research on SLAM Problems
Abstract
The Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) consists of 90 researchers in Robotics. In this talk, I will first introduce some of the research projects of UTS:CAS. Then I will present some of the research on mobile robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem conducted at UTS:CAS. In particular, this talk will cover some SLAM algorithms developed at UTS:CAS and some insights into the fundamental nonlinear structure of the SLAM problems.