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SUMMARY:Fifteen Years of Field Robotics in Australia - Prof Hugh Durrant-W
 hyte FRS
DTSTART:20110415T130000Z
DTEND:20110415T140000Z
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CONTACT:Tim Regan
DESCRIPTION:Australia is a large\, sparsely populated\, resource rich coun
 try a long way from anywhere\; and is consequently the ideal place to do f
 ield robotics. The past decade has seen substantial technical development 
 and investment in large scale field robotics\, especially in civilian appl
 ications such as cargo handling\, mining\, agriculture and marine environm
 ents\; applications which are of central importance to the Australian econ
 omy. This talk will describe a number of technical advances in the areas o
 f navigation\, perception\, machine learning\, large platform control\, an
 d systems engineering that have enabled substantial progress in the ?scien
 ce? of field robotics and which have led to significant commercial applica
 tions. The talk will also aim to look forward to the next decade\, especia
 lly focusing on the development of machine learning methods for real-time 
 operation of robots in large-scale unstructured field environments and whe
 re the opportunities for future commercial developments will come from.
LOCATION:Small lecture theatre\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Av
 enue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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