Peter Corke

Fellow

Region 10 (Asia and Pacific)
Australia

Address

Australia

Biography

Peter is Professor of Robotics and Control at QUT.  Previously was a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO where he founded and led the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and the wireless sensor networks transformational capability platform.

He is well known for his research on vision-based control, field robotics and wireless sensor networks. He currently leads the sensors and sensor networks theme, and was the former (and founding) research director of the Autonomous Systems laboratory.

He received a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1981. He worked within the Department for one year as a Research Assistant and two years as a lecturer whilst completing a Masters degree. He developed and taught two new fourth-year courses two spanning the areas of: Modern computer system hardware advanced operating system concepts and software techniques, real-time computer systems and applications, graphical display systems, and introduction to computer systems.

In 1984 he joined the CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology in Melbourne and worked on a variety of projects involving robotics, high-speed machine vision, machine control, and real-time software systems. He developed custom chips for a video-rate image-processing system subsequently licensed to Vision Systems, and was the technical lead on the SafeTCam project. During this period he completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne with a thesis on the topic of high-performance visual control of machines. That research work led to the publication of a book "Visual Control of Robots", Research Studies Press, 1997.

In late 1994 he moved to the Division's Brisbane laboratory to lead the mining equipment automation group within a CRC. He and the growing team worked on industry funded projects such as the automation of underground haulage vehicles, rock bolters and explosive loaders, and open-pit excavators such as draglines and shovels. After various divisional mergers and changes he and the robotics group became part of the CSIRO ICT Centre in early 2004. The robotics team and two other research groups (complex systems and medical imaging) were joined to become the Autonomous Systems laboratory. The lab has grown significantly while diversifying into fields such as UAVs, AUVs, and wireless sensor networks.

He has held visiting positions at the GRASP laboratory at U.Pennsylvania, the Coordinated Science Lab at U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Field Robotics Centre at Carnegie-Mellon University.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine, the author of the Robotics Toolbox for Matlab, member of IEEE RAS AdCom, the editorial boards of the Int. J. Robotics Research and the Springer STAR series, founding editor of the J. Field Robotics, former IEEE RAS distinguished lecturer, a member of the permanent program committee for the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, and past President of the Australian Robotics & Automation Association.

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