BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:AUS Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT ORGANIZER;CN=Australian Centre For Robotics Administration;SENT-BY="mailto:s abrina.asri@sydney.edu.au":mailto:acfr.admin@sydney.edu.au ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=everybody: mailto:everybody@acfr.usyd.edu.au ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=students@a cfr.usyd.edu.au:mailto:students@acfr.usyd.edu.au ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN='academics -meeting@acfr.usyd.edu.au':mailto:academics-meeting@acfr.usyd.edu.au ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=seminars@a cfr.usyd.edu.au:mailto:seminars@acfr.usyd.edu.au ATTACH:CID:image002.png@01DCFCAD.B1950F30 DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:Faculty of Engineering\n\n\nACFR Seminar Series\ n[https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/44/a0/ac/85/83de99ae1318d a0add393c81.png]\n[https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20260614/90/62/a1 /a0/e806283be685b4d065bc82ba.jpg]\nContinuous and Differentiable Represent ations for Perception\, Planning\, and Learning\n\nPresented by Professor Teresa Vidal-Calleja\nDate: Thursday\, 18 June 2026\, at 1:00 pm AEST\nVen ue: ACFR seminar area\, J04 level 2 (Rose St Building)\nZoom I D: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/87306457455\n\n**RSVP by Tuesd ay 16 June for catering purposes. Accept this calendar invitation if you p lan to attend the seminar in person and join us for a light lunch at appro ximately 12.30pm.\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn this talk\, I will first present our work on continuous distance fields for localisation\, mapping\, safe contr ol\, planning\, rendering\, grasping\, human-robot interaction and multi-r obot 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 rec ent work on differentiable skill representations for learning by demonstra tion through deep reinforcement learning. Simulations and experimental res ults will demonstrate the performance of these representations.\n\nBio:\n\ n\nTeresa 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 ap plications across manufacturing\, space\, defence\, construction\, and log istics. She currently leads an ARC Discovery grant on flow field robotic p erception 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 fr om the Technical University of Catalonia\, and was a postdoctoral fellow a t LAAS-CNRS and the ACFR before joining UTS. 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