ACRA 2005 Programme

General Information

Conference Registration

Registration will begin at 8:00am Monday 5 December. The registration desk is located on level 1 of the Computer Science and Engineering building (K17).

Conference Location

All sessions will be held in the Rupert Myers lecture theatre (M15). The theatre is equipped with a data projector and a built-in PC running Windows and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Lunch

A light lunch will be provided  as part of the registration

Monday Evening Barbecue

Weather permitting, we will have a barbecue on Monday Evening, on the Physics Lawn just outside the Rupert Myers lecture theatre.

Banquet

The Conference banquet will be at the Centennial Park restaurant on Tuesday night, starting around 7:30pm. Buses will take attendees from UNSW to the restaurant.

ARAA Annual General Meeting

The ARAA will hold its annual general meeting at lunch time on Wednesday in the Rupert Myers Lecture Theatre.

Mechatronics Discipline Heads Meeting

A meeting of Mechatronics discipline heads will be held on Wednesday at 13:20 (in parallel with the conference session) in the Level 1 seminar room in the CSE building.

Programme


Monday, 5 December 2005

08:00 - 09:00
Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Opening Remarks
09:00 - 09:20
On specifying reactivity in robotics
Geoffrey Biggs & Bruce MacDonald
09:20 - 09:40
Player 2.0: Toward a Practical Robot Programming Framework
Toby H. J. Collet, Bruce A. MacDonald & Brian Gerkey
09:40 - 10:00
DDXVIDEO: A Lightweight Video Framework for Autonomous Robotic Platforms
Elliot Duff
10:00 - 10:20
Framework for the Long-Term Operation of a Mobile Robot via the Internet
Shervin Emami, Gordon Wyeth, Michael J. Milford, David P. Prasser
10:20 - 10:40
Development of an Integrated Robotic Programming Environment
Luke Gumbley & Bruce A MacDonald
10:40 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:20
Congregation Behaviour in a Robot Swarm Using Pheromone Communication
Anies Hannawati Purnamadjaja & R. Andrew Russell
11:20 - 11:40
Robot Communication via Substrate Vibrations
Ari Silvola & R. Andrew Russell
11:40 - 12:00
Experiments on the Audio Frequency Response of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
Yee Harn Teh & Roy Featherstone
12:00 - 12:20
Face Recognition with CTFM Sonar
Kok Kai Yoong & Phillip McKerrow
12:20 - 12:40
Small-scale Aeroelastic Rotor Simulation, Design and Fabrication
Paul Pounds & Robert Mahony
1240 - 1340
Lunch
13:40 -14:00
Face and Pose Recognition for Robotic Surveillance
Karl B. J. Axnick & Ray Jarvis
14:00 - 14:20
Toward Robust Image Detection of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish for Autonomous Population Monitoring
Ryan Clement, Matthew Dunbabin & Gordon Wyeth
14:20 - 14:40
Texture and Distinctness Analysis for Natural Feature Extraction
Kai-Ming Kiang, Richard Willgoss & Alan Blair
14:40 -  15:40 Demonstrations
15:40 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 16:20
RDRVision - Learning vision recognition with Ripple Down Rules
Kim Cuong Pham & Claude Sammut
16:20 - 16:40
Fast Posture and Ob ject Recognition using Symmetries
Nathan Lovell
16:40 - 17:00
Obstacle Detection using Optical Flow
Toby Low & Gordon Wyeth
17:00 - 17:20
Panoramic Horizon Recognition
David Rawlinson & Ray Jarvis
17:20 - 17:40
Is the Sun Too Bright in Queensland? An Approach to Robust Outdoor Colour Beacon Detection
Ashley Tews, Jonathan Robert, Jonathan Roberts & Kane Usher
19:00 - 21:00
Barbecue


Tuesday, 6 December 2005

09:00 - 09:20
Predicting Grasp Inertia with a Geometric Model
Gideon Kowadlo, Jason Friedman & Tamar Flash
09:20 - 09:40
Fast Global Reflectional Symmetry Detection for Robotic Grasping and Visual Tracking
Wai Ho Li, Alan M. Zhang & Lindsay Kleeman
09:40 - 10:00
Passivity-based Control of Robot Manipulators Sub ject to Constraints
Khoi B Ngo & Robert Mahony
10:00 - 10:20
Automated Vehicle Stability Control for Articulated  Vehicles
Bradley Stevenson & Peter Ridley
10:20 - 10:40
Motion Analysis for Decentralized Control of  N-Module Hyper-Redundant Manipulators
Timothy Vittor & Richard Willgoss
10:40 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 11:20
Fuzzy Associative Memory for Humanoid Robot Joint Control
Doug Turk, Damien Kee, Chris Myatt & Gordon Wyeth
11:20 - 11:40
Non-monotonic Reasoning for Localisation in RoboCup
David Billington, Vlad Estivill-Castro, Rene Hexel & Andrew Rock
11:40 - 12:00
Pursuit Games in Obstacle Strewn Fields Using Distance Transforms
Ray Jarvis & Mohamed Marzouqi
12:00 - 12:20
Integration of Planning and Control in Robotic Formations
V.T. Ngo, A.D. Nguyen & Q.P. Ha
12:20 - 12:40
Path planning for a Parking Assistance System: Implementation and Experimentation
C. Pradalier, S. Vaussier & P. Corke
1240 - 1340
Lunch
13:40 -14:00
Active Object Discovery for Communicating with Humans
Claire D’Este & Claude Sammut
14:00 - 14:20
Applying ISOMAP to the Learning of Hyperspectral Image
X. Rosalind Wang, Suresh Kumar, Tobias Kaupp, Ben Upcroft and Hugh Durrant-Whyte
14:20 - 14:40
A Flexible Human-Robot Team Framework for Information Gathering Missions
Shaun Brown, Jake Toh and Salah Sukkarieh
14:40 - 15:40 Demonstrations
15:40 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 16:20
Using political science voting models to determine weightings in multi-objective decision problems
Andrea Abel & Salah Sukkarieh
16:20 - 16:40
Controlling formations of multiple mobile robots with inter-robot collision avoidance
H.M. Ha, A.D. Nguyen & Q.P. Ha
16:40 - 17:00
Quantitative Modeling of Multi-Agent Systems
Jason Held & Salah Sukkarieh
17:00 - 17:20
Multiple Robot Path Planning Strategies for Bush Fire Fighting
Ray Jarvis & Kai Wing Tang
17:20 - 17:40
Control of Contour Formations of Autonomous Vehicles by General Curve Evolution Theory
Shahab Kalantar, Uwe R. Zimmer
19:00 - 21:00
Banquet


Wednesday, 7 December 2005

09:00 - 10:00
Invited Talk: Beyond Geometric Mapping
Henrik Christensen
10:00 - 10:20
Break
10:20 - 10:40
Part Tracking, Routing and Scheduling of Products for Mass Customization
Priyen Naidu, Glen Bright & O Diegel
10:40 - 11:00
Autonomous Pesticide Spraying Robot for use in a Greenhouse
Philip J. Sammons, Tomonari Furukawa & Andrew Bulgin
11:00 - 11:20
CASTER: A Robot for Urban Search and Rescue
Mohammed Waleed Kadous, Raymond Ka-Man Sheh & Claude Sammut
11:20 - 11:40
Advanced Airflow Modelling Using Naive Physics for Odour Localisation
Gideon Kowadlo & R. Andrew Russell
11:40 - 12:00
Experience Mapping: Producing Spatially Continuous Environment Representations using RatSLAM
Michael Milford, David Prasser & Gordon Wyeth
12:00 - 12:20
Uncertainty Analysis of a Landmark Initialization Method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Henry Huang, Frederic Maire & Narongdech Keeratipranon
12:20 - 13:20
Lunch (ARAA AGM)
13:20 - 13:40
Bearing-Only SLAM for an Airborne Vehicle
Mitch Bryson & Salah Sukkarieh
13:40 - 14:00
Towards Robust Airborne SLAM in Unknown Wind Environments
Jonghyuk Kim & Salah Sukkarieh
14:00 - 14:20
UAV Localisation & Control Through Computer Vision
William Bath & Jonathan Paxman
14:20 - 14:40
Break
14:40 - 15:00
Decentralised Data Fusion with Particles
Lee-Ling Ong, Ben Upcroft, Matthew Ridley, Tim Bailey, Salah Sukkarieh & Hugh Durrant-Whyte
15:00 - 15:20
Tightly Coupled INS/GPS with Bias Estimation for UAV Applications
Michael George & Salah Sukkarieh
15:20 - 15:40
3D Sensing Framework for Outdoor Navigation
Roman Katz, Narek Melkumyan, Jose Guivant, Tim Bailey & Eduardo Nebot
15:40 - 16:00
Adaptive Sensing for Localisation of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Paul Rigby & Stefan B. Williams
16:00 - 16:20
A Monocular Vision Based Localizer
Zhengzhi Zhang and K. R. S. Kodagoda