Peter Corke

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Peter I. Corke
Born (1959-08-24) 24 August 1959 (age 64)
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Known forVision-based robot control, Field robotics
AwardsIEEE Fellow, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
Computer Vision
InstitutionsQueensland University of Technology
CSIRO
University of Melbourne
ThesisHigh-performance visual closed-loop robot control (1994)
Doctoral advisorM.C. Good
Websitepetercorke.com

Peter Corke FAA (born 24 August 1959) is an Australian roboticist known for his work on Visual Servoing, field robotics, online education, the online Robot Academy and the Robotics Toolbox and Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB (matrix laboratory). He is currently director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, and a Distinguished Professor of Robotic Vision at Queensland University of Technology. His research is concerned with robotic vision, flying robots and farming robots.

Corke is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[1] He is a founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics,[2] and a former member of the executive editorial board of The International Journal of Robotics Research.

Career[edit]

Corke received Bachelor of Engineering, Masters of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Melbourne in Australia.[3]

In 1984 he worked at CSIRO, formerly the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, on robotics. He developed an open-source robot control system[4] and vision applications in food processing and for real-time traffic monitoring.[5][6]

In 1995 he moved to Brisbane and established a program of research into mining automation[7] focused on Dragline excavators, rope shovels and load-haul-dump (load-haul-dump) units.[8] In 1996, Corke co-authored an early tutorial paper[9] and later proposed the partitioned approach to visual control.[10] He served as Research Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory of CSIRO's Information and Communications Technology Centre (ICTC), from 2004 to 2007.[11][12]

From 2005 to 2009 he worked on wireless sensor network technology, was a co-developer of the Fleck wireless sensor node, and investigated applications to environmental monitoring and agriculture,[13] and virtual fencing.[14][15] He was a senior principal research scientist when he left to take up a chair at the Queensland University of Technology in 2010.[16][17][18]

From 2009 to 2013, he served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE's Robotics & Automation magazine.[19]

Works[edit]

  • Robotics, Vision & Control (2nd ed.). Springer. 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-54412-0.
  • 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 978-0-86380-207-2.
  • "Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB". Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  • "Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB". Retrieved 8 September 2013.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "IEEE RAS Fellow Listing" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Journal of Field Robotics".
  3. ^ "QUT biography profile". Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. ^ Corke, P.; Kirkham, R. "The ARCL Robot Programming Systems". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.45.4558.
  5. ^ Kassler, Michael (1 December 1994). ""Robosorter": A system for simultaneous sorting of food products". Assembly Automation. 14 (4): 18–20. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000004214. ISSN 0144-5154.
  6. ^ Kassler, Michael; Corke, Peter I.; Wong, Paul C. (1 December 1993). "Automatic grading and packing of prawns". Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 9 (4): 319–333. doi:10.1016/0168-1699(93)90049-7. ISSN 0168-1699.
  7. ^ Collis, Brad (2002). Fields of Discovery: Australia's CSIRO. Allen&Unwin. p. 336. ISBN 978-1-86508-602-6.
  8. ^ McCabe, Bruce (27 June 2006), "Profit from our big bots to go offshore", The Australian
  9. ^ Hutchinson, S.; Hager, G.; Corke, P. (October 1996), "A tutorial on visual servo control", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 12 (5): 651–670, doi:10.1109/70.538972, S2CID 1814423
  10. ^ Corke, P.; Hutchinson, S. (August 2001), "A new partitioned approach to image-based visual servo control", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17 (4): 507–515, doi:10.1109/70.954764, S2CID 18899160
  11. ^ Douglas, Jeanne-Vida (6 December 2005). "Developer keeps computing 'til the cows come home". The Age. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Our people". Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  13. ^ Corke, P.; Wark, T.; Jurdak, R.; Hu, W.; Valencia, P.; Moore, D. (November 2010), "Environmental wireless sensor networks", Proceedings of the IEEE, 98 (11): 1903–1917, doi:10.1109/JPROC.2010.2068530, S2CID 17865564
  14. ^ Butler, Z.; Corke, P.; Peterson, R.; Rus, D. (April 2004), "Virtual fences for controlling cows", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation: 14429–4436
  15. ^ Douglas, Jeanne-Vida (6 December 2005), "Developer keeps computing 'til the cows come home", The Age
  16. ^ McCosker, Amy (17 July 2013). "Farm robots soon to be a reality". ABC Rural. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  17. ^ "QUT researchers develop new surveillance robots – QUT News". Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  18. ^ "Online courses put life in robot pilot". www.theaustralian.com.au. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  19. ^ Corke, P. (March 2010). "First Experience as EiC [From the Editor's Desk]". IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine. 17 (1): 2–119. doi:10.1109/MRA.2010.935800. ISSN 1070-9932.

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