Research

We develop foundational and applied research for a broad range of domains including; agriculture, advanced manufacturing, mining, biodiversity and biosecurity, environmental research and monitoring, cultural heritage and online learning.

IShot: Local Descriptor for Robust Place Recognition using LiDAR Intensity

Place recognition is a challenging problem in mobile robotics, especially in unstructured environments or under viewpoint and illumination changes. Most LiDAR-based […]

Paper: PaintCloud: 3D point cloud colourisation

IROS 2018 paper: PaintCloud: 3D point cloud colourisation PaintCloud is a 3D point cloud colourisation method that brings colour to […]

El Pais: The ‘Big Brother’ of the Amazon

On 5th June, the Spanish newspaper El Pais published an article (in Spanish) about the Providence Project and the work […]

Providence Project: protecting biodiversity using data

Project Providence The CSIRO Scope has just published a full story on the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group team's recent trip to […]

Legged Robot traversing uneven terrain in QCAT workshop

Darwinian evolution as the basis of robot design process

David Howard, one of the Research Scientists at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at CSIRO Data61 recently wrote an […]

Paper: Map-Aware Particle Filter for Localization

Paper ICRA2018: Map-Aware Particle Filter for Localization This work presents a method to improve vehicle localization by using the information from […]

Paper: DELIGHT: An Efficient Descriptor for Global Localisation using LiDAR Intensities (May 2018)

Paper ICRA2018: DELIGHT: An Efficient Descriptor for Global Localisation using LiDAR Intensities. Place recognition is a key element of mobile robotics. It can […]

Paper: Complementary Perception for Handheld SLAM

Paper ICRA2018: Complementary Perception for Handheld SLAM We present a novel method for mapping general three-dimensional environments, where sufficient geometric […]

ICRA2018 Technical Site Tour

ICRA2018 Technical Site Tour: CSIRO’s Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT) Labs Date: 21 May 2018 Time: 9:00am departure from Brisbane Convention […]

ICRA2018 Workshop on Autonomous Robot Design

Aims and Scope This workshop focuses on technologies that allow robots to be designed by software. This workshop aims to […]