June 2026 - Visiting_residents - Australian Centre for Robotics

[Everybody at ACFR] Recall: Science workshop TSS - J19 visit
by Dai Bang Nguyen 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

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[Everybody at ACFR] Recall: Science workshop TSS - J19 visit
by Dai Bang Nguyen 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

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[Everybody at ACFR] Science workshop TSS - J19 visit
by Dai Bang Nguyen 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Hi All, Apology for short notice. There will be 3-4 staff from the Science workshop visiting J19 around coffee area on Tuesday 23rd of June . I may take them closer to each section of the lab but will keep a fair distance from project work and robots. Best regards, Bang Nguyen | Senior Mechatronics Technical Lead The University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering, Australian Centre for Robotics Robotics Laboratory J19 | 78-80 Abercrombie St, Chippendale | NSW | 2008 +61 2 9351 2156 | bang.nguyen(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:bang.nguyen@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au/> [A black background with a black square AI-generated content may be incorrect.] CRICOS 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] TODAY: ACFR Seminar Series - Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja: Physics-Driven Continuous and Differentiable Representations for Perception, Planning, and Learning
by Australian Centre For Robotics Administration 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

Hi everyone, A kind reminder about today's seminar as detailed below. A light lunch will be served from 12.30pm: Faculty of Engineering ACFR Seminar Series [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/44/a0/ac/85/83de99ae1318da0a…] [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/90/62/a1/a0/e806283be685b4d0…] Physics-Driven Continuous and Differentiable Representations for Perception, Planning, and Learning Presented by Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, at 1:00 pm AEST Venue: ACFR seminar area, J04 level 2 (Rose St Building<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/PZwZCQnMBZf31VQ83hMiocGOUqO?domain=t…>) Zoom ID: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/87306457455<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/WecCCROND2uRDY6JRhOsnc1HX7c?domain=t…> **RSVP by Tuesday 16 June for catering purposes. Accept this calendar invitation if you plan to attend the seminar in person and join us for a light lunch at approximately 12.30pm. Abstract: In this talk, I will first present our work on continuous distance fields for localisation, mapping, safe control, planning, rendering, grasping, human-robot interaction and multi-robot coordination using models that aim to approximate the solution of the regularised Eikonal equation. I will then turn to our work on continuous magnetic vector fields for active perception, localisation, and mapping, which rely on a divergence-free kernel. Finally, I will present our recent work on differentiable skill representations for learning by demonstration through deep reinforcement learning. Simulations and experimental results will demonstrate the performance of these representations. Bio: Teresa Vidal-Calleja is Professor and Research Director at the Robotics Institute at UTS. Her research spans robotics perception, unconventional sensing, SLAM, continuous mapping, and autonomous navigation, with applications across manufacturing, space, defence, construction, and logistics. She currently leads an ARC Discovery grant on flow field robotic perception and co-leads Program 1 of the Australian Robotics Centre. She is an IEEE Senior Member, Senior Editor for IROS, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics. She obtained her PhD in automatic control, computer vision, and robotics from the Technical University of Catalonia, and was a postdoctoral fellow at LAAS-CNRS and the ACFR before joining UTS. She has been a visiting academic at ETH Zürich, the German Aerospace Centre, and the Tokyo University of Science. [Register for Event >]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/f99FCVARKgC5nBJ75FQt1cE5gzq?domain=t…> [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/2e/8d/c7/1c/1c70baef8b350e38…] [Web Site]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/__bYCXLW2mUqPAQ1qc7CncWMHz_?domain=t…> [LinkedIn]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/g5HSCYW8NocNWY7QNHjF5cxtd0r?domain=t…> [X]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/R9jiCZY1NqiDqv6EDTMHwcBN1D0?domain=t…> [YouTube]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rI6mC1WLPxckAg41kuAIKcVYpfd?domain=t…> Copyright © 2026 The University of Sydney Please add acfr.admin(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:acfr.admin@sydney.edu.au> to your address book or senders safe list to make sure you continue to see our emails in the future. Cricos Code 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 Disclaimer<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/-W2xC2xMQziR2rYvRhpSJc5ppqA?domain=t…> | Privacy statement<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/6xXhC3QNPBiGg3kwGs9TRcQQscM?domain=t…> | Best regards, Sabrina Sabrina Asri | Senior Admin Officer The University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering, Australian Centre for Robotics Rose Street Building J04 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 2 9351 7126 | sabrina.asri(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:sabrina.asri@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au/> CRICOS 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] anechoic chamber in J17 - is it currently in use ?
by Matthew Geier 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

ICT are proposing a major network upgrade/outage for J17 on Saturday the 29th of August. The chamber has several network sockets that will have no connectivity for the day. I'm pretty sure nothing is active in the chamber at this time, but does any one know of any equipment plugged into the network of ours down there (it will need to be reconfigured for Sydnet 6) or if an experiment that needs network connectivity would be in progress on the 29th of August. Please let me know, so I can give the ICT project manager the go-ahead (or not if there will be an adverse impact for an in-progress experiment that can't be worked around) from the ACFR side. Thanks. -- Matthew Geier IT systems admin and support Australian Centre for Robotics University of Sydney _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] Seminar: Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja - Physics-Driven, Continuous and Differentiable Representations for Perception, Planning, and Learning
by Sabrina Asri 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

Faculty of Engineering ACFR Seminar Series [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/44/a0/ac/85/83de99ae1318da0a…] [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/90/62/a1/a0/e806283be685b4d0…] Physics-Driven Continuous and Differentiable Representations for Perception, Planning, and Learning Presented by Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, at 1:00 pm AEST Venue: ACFR seminar area, J04 level 2 (Rose St Building<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Eup_Cvl1rKi2n9pZwsZcWcQ_gMY?domain=t…>) Zoom ID: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/87306457455<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/PBABCwV1vMfAEjJnltBfycJzXVF?domain=t…> **RSVP by Tuesday 16 June for catering purposes. Accept this calendar invitation if you plan to attend the seminar in person and join us for a light lunch at approximately 12.30pm. Abstract: In this talk, I will first present our work on continuous distance fields for localisation, mapping, safe control, planning, rendering, grasping, human-robot interaction and multi-robot coordination using models that aim to approximate the solution of the regularised Eikonal equation. I will then turn to our work on continuous magnetic vector fields for active perception, localisation, and mapping, which rely on a divergence-free kernel. Finally, I will present our recent work on differentiable skill representations for learning by demonstration through deep reinforcement learning. Simulations and experimental results will demonstrate the performance of these representations. Bio: Teresa Vidal-Calleja is Professor and Research Director at the Robotics Institute at UTS. Her research spans robotics perception, unconventional sensing, SLAM, continuous mapping, and autonomous navigation, with applications across manufacturing, space, defence, construction, and logistics. She currently leads an ARC Discovery grant on flow field robotic perception and co-leads Program 1 of the Australian Robotics Centre. She is an IEEE Senior Member, Senior Editor for IROS, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics. She obtained her PhD in automatic control, computer vision, and robotics from the Technical University of Catalonia, and was a postdoctoral fellow at LAAS-CNRS and the ACFR before joining UTS. She has been a visiting academic at ETH Zürich, the German Aerospace Centre, and the Tokyo University of Science. [Register for Event >]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/8sLpCxngwOf95lnjES3h9cyRqdq?domain=t…> [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/2e/8d/c7/1c/1c70baef8b350e38…] [Web Site]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/HLx9CzvkyVCxY1QzWfpsVc9BC3_?domain=t…> [LinkedIn]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/4_A3CANpgjCnKQL5pIPtOcGi2Vm?domain=t…> [X]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kjcxCBNqjlCMXGpNWf9uwc2JiCW?domain=t…> [YouTube]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/D4VDCD1vlpTnL9NZYIjCXcjB0id?domain=t…> Copyright © 2026 The University of Sydney Please add acfr.admin(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:acfr.admin@sydney.edu.au> to your address book or senders safe list to make sure you continue to see our emails in the future. Cricos Code 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 Disclaimer<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/TtZbCE8wmrtg87Vj4SrFlc7bx5u?domain=t…> | Privacy statement<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/dJkmCGv0oyC0N7K93slHDcBwFIp?domain=t…> | _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] Seminar: Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja - Continuous and Differentiable Representations for Perception, Planning, and Learning
by Sabrina Asri 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

Faculty of Engineering ACFR Seminar Series [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/44/a0/ac/85/83de99ae1318da0a…] [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/90/62/a1/a0/e806283be685b4d0…] Continuous and Differentiable Representations for Perception, Planning, and Learning Presented by Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, at 1:00 pm AEST Venue: ACFR seminar area, J04 level 2 (Rose St Building<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Eup_Cvl1rKi2n9pZwsZcWcQ_gMY?domain=t…>) Zoom ID: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/87306457455<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/PBABCwV1vMfAEjJnltBfycJzXVF?domain=t…> **RSVP by Tuesday 16 June for catering purposes. Accept this calendar invitation if you plan to attend the seminar in person and join us for a light lunch at approximately 12.30pm. Abstract: In this talk, I will first present our work on continuous distance fields for localisation, mapping, safe control, planning, rendering, grasping, human-robot interaction and multi-robot coordination using models that aim to approximate the solution of the regularised Eikonal equation. I will then turn to our work on continuous magnetic vector fields for active perception, localisation, and mapping, which rely on a divergence-free kernel. Finally, I will present our recent work on differentiable skill representations for learning by demonstration through deep reinforcement learning. Simulations and experimental results will demonstrate the performance of these representations. Bio: Teresa Vidal-Calleja is Professor and Research Director at the Robotics Institute at UTS. Her research spans robotics perception, unconventional sensing, SLAM, continuous mapping, and autonomous navigation, with applications across manufacturing, space, defence, construction, and logistics. She currently leads an ARC Discovery grant on flow field robotic perception and co-leads Program 1 of the Australian Robotics Centre. She is an IEEE Senior Member, Senior Editor for IROS, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics. She obtained her PhD in automatic control, computer vision, and robotics from the Technical University of Catalonia, and was a postdoctoral fellow at LAAS-CNRS and the ACFR before joining UTS. She has been a visiting academic at ETH Zürich, the German Aerospace Centre, and the Tokyo University of Science. [Register for Event >]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/8sLpCxngwOf95lnjES3h9cyRqdq?domain=t…> [https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/2e/8d/c7/1c/1c70baef8b350e38…] [Web Site]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/HLx9CzvkyVCxY1QzWfpsVc9BC3_?domain=t…> [LinkedIn]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/4_A3CANpgjCnKQL5pIPtOcGi2Vm?domain=t…> [X]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/kjcxCBNqjlCMXGpNWf9uwc2JiCW?domain=t…> [YouTube]<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/D4VDCD1vlpTnL9NZYIjCXcjB0id?domain=t…> Copyright © 2026 The University of Sydney Please add acfr.admin(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:acfr.admin@sydney.edu.au> to your address book or senders safe list to make sure you continue to see our emails in the future. Cricos Code 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 Disclaimer<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/TtZbCE8wmrtg87Vj4SrFlc7bx5u?domain=t…> | Privacy statement<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/dJkmCGv0oyC0N7K93slHDcBwFIp?domain=t…> | _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] J19 Tour - Monday 15 June 3-4pm
by Annette Karydis 12 Jun '26

12 Jun '26

Hi All We are expecting a large cohort of senior academics from various institutes to visit the J19 lab next Monday 15 June between 3-4pm. Mitch will be hosting this group. Due to the size of the group, we won't be moving around the lab during this visit. Please ensure that all items are either appropriately hidden or displayed as appropriate. Kind Regards Annette Annette Karydis | Operations Manager The University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering, Australian Centre for Robotics Rose Street Building J04 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 2 9351 8146 | +61 419 207 097 annette.karydis(a)sydney.edu.au. <mailto:annette.karydis@sydney.edu.au.%20> | sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au/> CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. [A black background with a black square AI-generated content may be incorrect.] CRICOS 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] J18/J19
by David Hickling 11 Jun '26

11 Jun '26

Hi All There is some leftovers from the Wellbeing Lunch – Push-Up Challenge it is now in the fridge in J19 kitchen Cheers David David Hickling Administrative and Technical Assistant The University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering Australian Centre for Robotics Level 2, Sydney Robotics Lab J19 74-80 Abercrombie St Chippendale 2008 NSW M 0404 349 074 | T 02 8627 8279 sydney.edu.au/acfr<http://sydney.edu.au/acfr> _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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[Everybody at ACFR] Reminder: Please RSVP for Wellbeing Lunch!
by Australian Centre For Robotics Administration 11 Jun '26

11 Jun '26

Hi everyone, Just a quick reminder to please accept the calendar invite for our Wellbeing Lunch so we can confirm catering numbers. If you have dietary requirements, please let us know here<https://forms.office.com/r/mE0VeMreih?origin=lprLink>. This lunch is part of our participation in the Push-Up Challenge and is a great chance to pause, connect with colleagues, and continue conversations about mental health and wellbeing while supporting Lifeline. We'd love to see as many people there as possible - thanks for taking a moment to RSVP! Thank you! Best regards, Sabrina Sabrina Asri | Senior Admin Officer The University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering, Australian Centre for Robotics Rose Street Building J04 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 2 9351 7126 | sabrina.asri(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:sabrina.asri@sydney.edu.au> | sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au/> CRICOS 00026A TEQSA PRV12057 This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. -----Original Appointment----- From: Australian Centre For Robotics Administration <acfr.admin(a)sydney.edu.au> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 3:00 PM Subject: Wellbeing Lunch - Push-Up Challenge When: Thursday, 11 June 2026 12:30 PM-1:30 PM (UTC+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney. Where: Level 2, Seminar Area, J04 Rose Street Building:; https://maps.app.goo.gl/PUJdbB9oUTtg5fLr8 Hi everyone, Please join us for a Wellbeing Lunch as part of our participation in the Push-Up Challenge. With the challenge underway, this is a great opportunity to pause, connect with colleagues, and continue the conversation around mental health and wellbeing in our workplace. As part of our challenge, we are also raising funds for our nominated organisation, Lifeline, supporting vital mental health and crisis support services. Donations are welcome and appreciated via https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraiser/USydPushUpChallenge Date & Time: Thursday, 11 June 12.30 - 1.30 pm Location: Seminar area, J04 Rose St Building<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/upXTCxngwOf9O9BJJINcVUybI0C?domain=t…> **Please accept this calendar invite to assist with catering numbers. If you have dietary restrictions, please let us know here<https://forms.office.com/r/mE0VeMreih?origin=lprLink>. Whether you've been counting every push-up or cheering others on, please join us! Over lunch, we'll: * Check in on how everyone is going during the challenge * Celebrate the effort and momentum so far * Connect with colleagues in a relaxed, informal setting * Continue conversations around wellbeing and supporting one another Taking time to connect and look after our wellbeing-together-makes a difference! [cid:image001.jpg@01DCF81C.8E889240] [cid:image002.jpg@01DCF81C.8E889240] [cid:image003.png@01DCF81C.8E889240] An initiative led by the Australian Centre for Robotics (ACFR) and the Faculty of Engineering Operations Team. _______________________________________________ Everybody mailing list -- everybody(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au To unsubscribe send an email to everybody-leave(a)acfr.usyd.edu.au

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