Publications

bipedal robots

Fall avoidance and recovery for bipedal robots

For humanoid robots to replace humans in dangerous environments, they require a robust fall prevention system that can detect falls, prevent major damage and recover back up to continue on with the task.

Weaver: Hexapod robot with 5DoF limbs for navigating on unstructured terrain

We introduce a novel hexapod robot, Weaver, which has five joints per leg and 30 degrees of freedom overall.

The Zebedee scanner in action at Fort Lytton

Paper: Zebedee: Design of a Spring-Mounted 3-D Range Sensor with Application to Mobile Mapping

Zebedee: Design of a Spring-Mounted 3-D Range Sensor with Application to Mobile Mapping Three-dimensional perception is a key technology for many […]

Paper: Continuous 3D scan-matching with a spinning 2D laser

Continuous 3D scan-matching with a spinning 2D laser Scan-matching is a technique that can be used for building accurate maps […]