Peter Corke

Peter I. Corke
Born (1959-08-24) 24 August 1959
Melbourne
Residence Brisbane, Australia
Nationality Australian
Fields Robotics
Computer Vision
Institutions Queensland University of Technology
CSIRO
University of Melbourne
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Thesis High-performance visual closed-loop robot control (1994)
Doctoral advisor M.C. Good
Known for Vision-based robot control, Field robotics
Notable awards IEEE Fellow
Website
petercorke.com

Peter Corke is an Australian roboticist known for his work on Visual Servoing, field robotics and the MATLAB Toolboxes for Robotics and Machine Vision. He is currently director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision , and a Professor of Robotics and Control at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). At QUT his research is concerned with robotic vision, flying robots[1] and robots for agriculture.[2]

He received Bachelor of Engineering, Masters of Engineering and PhD degrees from University of Melbourne in Australia[3] and is a Fellow of the IEEE.[4] He served as editor-in-chief[5] of the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine[6] from 2009 to 2013, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics[7]

After graduation in 1981 he worked at the University of Melbourne, first as a research assistant and later as a lecturer. His work was concerned with computer-aided control system design (CACSD) and real-time control implementation, and he taught digital control applications and computer architectures.

In 1984 he commenced with CSIRO where he worked on robotic force control for deburring, flexible manufacturing systems, and custom architectures of high-speed computer vision. He developed an open-source robot control system[8] and vision applications in food processing and for real-time traffic monitoring[9] He spent 9 months at the GRASP Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania in 1988/9 before returning to Australia and commencing his PhD on the topic of Visual Servoing. He co-authored an early tutorial paper[10] and later proposed the partitioned approach to visual control.[11]

In 1995 he moved to Brisbane and established a program of research into mining automation[12] focussed on Dragline excavators, rope shovels and load-haul-dump (LHD) units.[13] He founded the Autonomous Systems laboratory of the CSIRO ICT Centre, and served as Research Director from 2004–2007. From 2005–9 he worked on wireless sensor network technology, was a co-developer of the Fleck wireless sensor node,[14] and investigated applications to environmental monitoring and agriculture,[15] and virtual fencing.[16][17] He was a Senior Principal Research Scientist when he left to take up a chair at QUT in 2010.

Works

References

  1. ↑ "QUT researchers develop new surveillance robots". 4 November 2011.
  2. ↑ "Farm robots soon to be a reality". 18 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "QUT biography profile". Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "IEEE RAS Fellow Listing" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "First experience as EiC".
  6. ↑ "Robotics & Automation Magazine".
  7. ↑ "Journal of Field Robotics".
  8. ↑ Corke, P.; Kirkham, R. "The ARCL Robot Programming Systems". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.45.4558Freely accessible.
  9. ↑ "Safe-T-Cam". Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  10. ↑ Hutchinson, S.; Hager, G.; Corke, P. (October 1996), "A tutorial on visual servo control", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 12: 651–670, doi:10.1109/70.538972
  11. ↑ Corke, P.; Hutchinson, S. (August 2001), "A new partitioned approach to image-based visual servo control", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17: 507–515, doi:10.1109/70.954764
  12. ↑ Collis, Brad (2002). Fields of Discovery: Australia's CSIRO. Allen&Unwin. p. 336. ISBN 1-86508-602-9.
  13. ↑ McCabe, Bruce (27 June 2006), "Profit from our big bots to go offshore", The Australian
  14. ↑ "Fleck Wireless sensor node". Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  15. ↑ Corke, P.; Wark, T.; Jurdak, R.; Hu, W.; Valencia, P.; Moore, D. (November 2010), "Environmental wireless sensor networks", Proceedings of the IEEE, 98 (11): 1903–1917, doi:10.1109/JPROC.2010.2068530
  16. ↑ Butler, Z.; Corke, P.; Peterson, R.; Rus, D. (April 2004), "Virtual fences for controlling cows", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation: 14429–4436
  17. ↑ Douglas, Jeanne-Vida (6 December 2005), "Developer keeps computing 'til the cows come home", The Age
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