Professor Stefan Willliams, Head of School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney visited Heriot-Watt University on Monday 13th May and delivered a seminar on Applications in Marine Imaging.
The practical realization of automated mobility, transport, and end-to-end logistics is burgeoning. Coordinated multi-vehicle systems are facilitating this new reality through the execution of task allocation, path planning, and formation control. In this talk, I shed some light on new challenges in these areas, and present insights that pertain to their scalability, robustness and privacy.
Bio
For more than three decades Roberto Pieraccini has been actively working towards the goal of building machines that can intelligently converse with humans using speech. The technologies that enable a machine to recognize the words of an utterance, understand its meaning, decide how to act on that, perform an action and generate a spoken message back to a user where very limited thirty years ago.
This workshop will bring together interested students, academics and industrial participants from the field of Cyber-Physical Systems. Overall the workshop will discuss how CPS is best described by the bringing together a variety of techniques and concerns. In particular, we will have invited speakers who will talk about human interfaces, speech-based interactions, assistive technologies, and modern perceptual systems including the use of machine learning.
The lecture is divided into two main parts: (i) an overview of mass market, commercially available robotic vacuum cleaner, the Dyson 360Eye, and (ii) a review of the history of the image based SLAM which provides the 'heart' of the navigation system for the 360Eye.
The 2018 cohort of RAS CDT students will be showcasing the research work being undertaken at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics through a series of demos and interactive sessions at the 2019 Edinburgh International Science Festival. The students will be based in the Learning Centre Level 2 in the National Museum of Scotland and they will be there from 10.00 - 17.00 hours on 11th - 15th April.
Martin will be presenting:
- Learning to Decompose and Disentangle Representations for Video Prediction. J. Hsieh, et al. (2018)
Abstract:
CST is making people, property and physical data collection safer with autonomous robotics. Mantis, our modular and accessible robotic vehicle collects data autonomously, monitoring and patrolling perimeters reliably with a variety of sensors and AI-driven plug-ins.
For large scale properties this provides reliable, accessible and integrated perimeter security.