Peter Corke

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 in 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

• Robotics, Vision & Control. Springer. 2011. ISBN 978-3-642-20143-1. 
• Visual Control of Robots: High-Performance visual servoing. Research Studies Press (John Wiley). 1996. ISBN 0-86380-207-9. 
• "Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB". Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
• "Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB". Retrieved 8 September 2013. 

External links

• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision
• QUT CyPhy lab home page
• Publications on Google Scholar
• Publications on DBLP

References