- CDMRG - Australian Centre for Robotics

01 October
by Ed Bray 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, James will be presenting Rao-Blackwellized POMDP Planning by J Lee, N Ahmed, KH Wray, Z Sunberg. Afterwards, we'll read through RA-L, Volume 11, papers 1 — 50 (that's page 1 if you view 50 papers per page at this link): https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/dDKMCp81lrtOzDBvGFPfqtGoOmJ?domain=i… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/DY4yCq71mwfkOWozDhXhNtE2J_F?domain=d… The next presenters after this will be: - 08 October: Milan - 15 October: TBC See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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24 September
by Ed Bray 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

Hi everyone, No CDMRG tomorrow due to a field trial for the Navantia project. Normal service will resume next week! Thanks, Ed -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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17 September
by Ed Bray 14 Sep '25

14 Sep '25

This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, John will be presenting Improved Object Search in Perceptually Degraded Search and Rescue by himself (his Capstone project!). Afterwards, we'll read through AuRo, Volume 49, Issue 3: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SbYvCROND2u5M8DM5F9fyt1P833?domain=l… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xhnDCVARKgCgW1nWgTzhotEYb8M?domain=d… The next presenters after this will be: - 24 September: Cancelled due to field trial - 01 October: James See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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10 September
by Ed Bray 07 Sep '25

07 Sep '25

This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, Ed will be presenting Hybrid Decentralization for Multi-Robot Orienteering with Mothership-Passenger Systems by NL Butler, GA Hollinger. Afterwards, we'll read through T-RO, Volume 41, papers 50 — 100 (that's page 2 if you view 50 papers per page): https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lFSnCxngwOfx6D2BBc8fqtycU8i?domain=i… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/tTmZCyojxQTLvKlJJHMhMtxrLA6?domain=d…<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/tTmZCyojxQTLvKlJJHMhMtxrLA6?domain=d…> The next presenters after this will be: - 17 September: John - 24 September: James See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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03 September CANCELLED
by Ed Bray 02 Sep '25

02 Sep '25

Hi everyone, Unfortunately, I hear we'll be rather down on numbers this week, so let's cancel and postpone Milan's presentation for next week instead. Thanks, Ed -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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03 September
by Ed Bray 31 Aug '25

31 Aug '25

This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, Milan will be presenting Regret-Based Sampling of Pareto Fronts for Multiobjective Robot Planning Problems by A Botros, N Wilde, A Sadeghi, J Alonso-Mora, SL Smith. Afterwards, we'll read through T-RO, Volume 41, papers 50 — 100 (that's page 2 if you view 50 papers per page): https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kao8C4QOPEilvmKmLFOfZt45W7K?domain=i… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1QOvC5QPXJi6DxLxqIOhKtkXU4d?domain=d… The next presenters after this will be: - 10 September: Ed - 17 September: TBC See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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27 August
by Ed Bray 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

(Apologies for the late email, I've been rather busy with FORV the past few days!) This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, Kosta will be presenting Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats by Aengus Lynch et al. https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/e-vcCOMKzVTv8O89XhEfMsGom99?domain=a… Afterwards, we'll read through IJRR, Volume 44, Issue 3: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/b1nkCP7LAXf3w6wrmU0hQsx7H5s?domain=j… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/fhCYCQnMBZfoQRQEqHMijsGSD71?domain=d… The next presenters after this will be: - 03 September: Milan - 10 September: TBC See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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20 August
by Ed Bray 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, Nick will be presenting Algorithms with Predictions by Michael Mitzenmacher: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/jOkjCL7EwMfQg29pKSBf5syabDr?domain=y… Afterwards, we'll read through T-FR, Volume 2, papers 1 — 25: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xXiYCMwGxOtzLY30XSkhLs80Wg7?domain=i… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_GLsCNLJyQUjQp3r7CjiGsyn45s?domain=d… The next presenters after this will be: - 27 August: Kosta - 03 September: Milan See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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13 August
by Ed Bray 11 Aug '25

11 Aug '25

This Wednesday at 12:30pm in CB11.09.215, Ed will be giving a talk about Inter-Robot Communications with ROS2, including discussion of two papers: * Zenoh: Unifying Communication Storage and Computation from the Cloud to the Microcontroller by A Corsaro et al. * Performance Comparison of ROS2 Middlewares for Multi-robot Mesh Networks in Planetary Exploration by LP Chovet et al. Afterwards, we'll read through AuRo, Volume 49, Issue 2: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/UGuoC1WLPxcqGLQwWILfRsVzoH8?domain=l… Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/O7PZC2xMQzi830DoyH1hvs5Jw5K?domain=d… The next presenters after this will be: - 20 August: Nick - 27 August: Kosta See you all there! -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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06 August CANCELLED
by Ed Bray 04 Aug '25

04 Aug '25

Hi everyone, As I mentioned last week, I was planning on presenting myself this Wednesday, but I'll actually have to work from home while my wife recovers from foot surgery. Since there were no takers for the last minute presentation slot, we'll cancel this meeting and reconvene next week. Thanks, Ed -- Ed Bray (he/him/his) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Robotics Institute School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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