- CDMRG - Australian Centre for Robotics

March 13
by Andre Nunez 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Hi everyone, Tomorrow at 3pm, CB11.09.215, Mason will be presenting "Textile Anomaly Detection: Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art for Automated Quality Inspection of Carpet" https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ntENCgZ0N1iqzjoKviNIQW7?domain=ssl.l…. Afterwards, if time permits, lets read through Volume 4 of Field Robotics (link below): https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rCuQCjZ1N7iYxwBDztRvGPD?domain=mail.… See you all there!

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6 March
by Andre Nunez 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm at CB11.09.215, Jen will be doing a practice run of her CA3. Title: Sparse belief space planning for active perception Abstract: To make smart and safe decisions in dynamic and unstructured environments, robots must have accurate estimates of target systems that are relevant to their task. These target systems may be other entities, environmental features or landmarks. Active perception, or the planning of sensing trajectories to reduce uncertainty in estimates of target states is then crucial for good decision making. Estimates are often represented as probability density functions over the space of physical target states, or beliefs. Planning over the space of possible such probability distributions is known as belief space planning and is a popular approach for active perception, as it facilitates the direct addressal of uncertainty while planning. However, belief space is a continuous space of prohibitively large dimension. It is often infeasible to find optimal sensing trajectories in the real-time requirements of robotics by planning in belief space. As such, research in recent decades has focused on finding suboptimal solutions to belief space planning problems in feasible time frames. Motivated by this research, this thesis interrogates how structures inherent to common active perception problems – active target tracking and environmental monitoring – can be exploited for efficient belief space planning. For each problem setting we show how structure admits sparse belief spaces for planning sensing trajectories. Evaluations of proposed methods demonstrate that these sparse belief spaces lower the computational complexity of planning while maintaining rich information regarding the target state. Moreover, performance guarantees associated with planning over the proposed belief spaces are provided. Afterwards, if time permits, lets read through Volume 4 of Field Robotics (link below): https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GMocCL7EwMfkG9pwlTB5mY3?domain=mail.… See you all there!

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28 Feb
by Andre Nunez 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm, at CB11.09.215 James will be presenting "Near-Optimal Area-Coverage Path Planning of Energy-Constrained Aerial Robots With Application in Autonomous Environmental Monitoring" (2021) by Jensen-Nau, Hermans and Leang. Afterwards, let's read through Volume 43 Issue 3 (the 2024 March Issue) of IJRR: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/KtQmC71R2NTzDg9K9F8MAl9?domain=journ… See you there!

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CDMRG
by Andre Nunez 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

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21 Feb
by Andre Nunez 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm at CB11.09.309 (room change this week) I will be presenting "Scalable Global Optimization via Local Bayesian Optimization" by Eriksson, Pearce, Gardner, Turner & Poloczek (2019). Afterwards let's read through IJRR Volume 43, Issue 2 since we didn't get time last week. See you all there.

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February 14
by Andre Nunez 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm at CB11.12.113, Brian will be presenting a summary of his work as a postdoc at UTS. Pizza will be provided! Afterwards, if time permits, let's read through Volume 43 Issue 2 of IJRR: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nl5GC2xMQziVwMxp5CnXF41?domain=journals.s… See you all there!

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February 7
by Andre Nunez 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm, at CB11.12.113, Ed will be presenting "Solving Multi-Agent Target Assignment and Path Finding with a Single Constraint Tree" by Yimin Tang, Zhongqiang Ren, Jiaoyang Li, and Katia Sycara: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4UR8CP7LAXf0x3WNBFze4XW?domain=arxiv.org. Afterwards, let's read through Volume 47, Issue 8 of Autonomous Robots: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/T6UYCQnMBZfXWoOlnIP4lWv?domain=link-sprin… See you all there!

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Missing water bottle?
by Andre Nunez 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Hi everyone, I think someone left their water bottle at the room yesterday, I received the following message today: "There is a drink bottle that has been left behind in the Medium Meeting room - it's a metal bottle that is silver on the top half and blue on the bottom half. If it belongs to someone that attended yesterday, could you please let them know to collect it at Level 12 Reception by the end of the week, otherwise it will be handed into Lost & Found."

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January 31
by Andre Nunez 28 Jan '24

28 Jan '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm at CB11.12.102 (the usual room is booked out for the foreseeable future), Felix will be presenting "Shortest Paths in Graphs of Convex Sets" by Marcucci et al. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/H9bpC2xMQziV9xLE4unJjZg?domain=arxiv.org Afterwards, let's read through Volume 9 Issue 3 of Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL). https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wT1yC3QNPBiXE8jRPtqqeCF?domain=ieeexplore… See you all there!

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24 Janaury
by Andre Nunez 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

Hi everyone, This Wednesday at 3pm, at CB11.09.215 (the normal room was booked out) Kosta will be presenting: Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World by Adamkiewicz et al. (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ng4qCp81lrt9k6v6EcPa3Vo?domain=ieeexplore…), as well as a brief introduction to NeRFs - NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis by Mildenhall et al. (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-fFXCq71mwf1Bwzw6hXov42?domain=arxiv.org). Afterwards, let's read through Volume 1 of Issue 43 of IJRR - https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EdCuCr81nytrMJ1J3S4O4Ix?domain=journals.s…. See you there!

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