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Personal details

Name
Professor Gordon Wyeth
Discipline *
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Phone
+61 7 3138 2781
Fax
+61 7 3138 1507
Email
Location
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Identifiers and profiles
ORCID iD
Qualifications

PhD (University of Queensland), GCEd(HigherEd) (University of Queensland), BEng(CompSys)(Hons) (University of Queensland)

Professional memberships
and associations
  • Fellow, Engineers Australia
  • Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • Member, Australian Robotics and Automation Association
Keywords

Robotics, Computational Biology, Computer Vision

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

Queensland University of Technology

  • Executive Dean, Science and Engineering Faculty, June 2014 – Present
  • Head of School, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Jan 2012 – Jun 2014
  • Acting Head of School, Engineering Systems, Jun 2011 – Dec 2011
  • Professor of Robotics, Jan 2010 – Present

University of Nottingham

  • Visiting Professor, 2007

University of Queensland

  • Director, Robotics Laboratory, 1998 – 2009
  • Director, Mechatronic Engineering, 2004 – 2009
  • Senior Lecturer, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 2000 – 2009
  • Lecturer, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 1997 – 1999
  • Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1994 – 1996

Awards

  • Best Vision Paper: Milford M. And Wyeth G. (2012) SeqSLAM: Visual Route-Based Navigation for Sunny Summer Days and Stormy Winter Nights, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), March 2012.
  • Best Paper: Maddern W., Milford M. and Wyeth G. (2010) “Loop Closure Detection on a Suburban Road Network using a Continuous Appearance-based Trajectory”, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2010), December 2010.
  • Best Paper: Maddern W. and Wyeth G. (2008) “Development of a Hemispherical Compound Eye for Egomotion Estimation,” Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2008), Canberra, Australia, December 2008.
  • Runner-up Best Paper: M. J. Milford and  G. Wyeth (2007), “Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: a Bio-Inspired Engineering Perspective”, International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2007), Melbourne, Australia,  September 2007.
  • Best Paper: Prasser D. and Wyeth G.F. (2003) “Laboratory Vision System for Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping,” International Conference on  Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE2003) Brisbane, Australia, February 2003.

Professional Activities

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Chairman, Queensland Chapter, 2010 – 2011
  • President, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, 2004 – 2006
  • Vice President, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, 2002 – 2003
This information has been contributed by Professor Gordon Wyeth.

Teaching

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Robotics
  • Advanced Robotics and Control
  • Biorobotics
  • Instrumentation and Control
  • Automatic Control
  • Introduction to Control Engineering
  • Advanced Control Engineering
  • Electrical Energy and Measurements
  • Circuits, Signals and Systems
  • Advanced Games Programming
  • Neural Networks
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Project
  • Team Project I
  • Team Project II
  • Mechatronic System Design Project I
  • Mechatronic System Design Project II
This information has been contributed by Professor Gordon Wyeth.

Publications


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Research projects

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Title
ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (ACRV)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
CE140100016
Start year
2014
Keywords
Robotic Vision; Robotics; Computer Vision
Title
Human Cues for Robot Navigation
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP140103216
Start year
2014
Keywords
Autonomous Robots; Mapping and Navigation; Spatial Cognition
Title
Robotics for zero-tillage agriculture
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
LP110200375
Start year
2012
Keywords
Robotics; Broad Acre Agriculture; Zero Tillage; Weed Control
Title
Lifelong Robotic Navigation Using Visual Perception
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP110103006
Start year
2011
Keywords
Robotics; Computer Vision; Visual Mapping; Visual Navigation
Title
Talking with Robots: Evolving Grounded Language for Embodied Agents
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP0987078
Start year
2009
Keywords
Development Robotics; Human Robot Interaction; Evolution of Grounded Language
Title
Thinking Systems: Navigating Through Real and Conceptual Spaces
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
TS0669699
Start year
2006
Keywords

Supervision

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)