Autonomous Cars

Professor Milford conducts interdisciplinary research at the boundary between robotics, neuroscience and computer vision and is a multi-award winning educational entrepreneur. His research models the neural mechanisms in the brain underlying tasks like navigation and perception to develop new technologies in challenging application domains such as all-weather, anytime positioning for autonomous vehicles. He is also one of Australia’s most in demand experts in technologies including self-driving cars, robotics and artificial intelligence, and is a passionate science communicator. He currently holds the position of Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, as well as Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and Chief Investigator at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision.

Rob Mahony is a Professor in the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University and has been a Chief Investigator with the Centre since its inauguration in 2014. His research interests are in non-linear systems theory with applications in robotics and computer vision.

He wrote the seminal paper providing a clear exposition of non-linear complementary filters on the special orthogonal group for attitude estimation; an enabling technology in the early development of quadrotor aerial robotic vehicles.  He was the first to provide a principled analysis for using optical flow of control of aerial robotic vehicles and was a coauthor on the first experimental paper that demonstrated landing of a quadrotor vehicle on a textured but featureless moving surface.  In 2016, Rob was named a Fellow of the IEEE, recognising his contribution to the control aspects of aerial robotics.

Gavin graduated from QUT with a Bachelor in Games and Interactive Entertainment (Software Technology) in 2011, and a Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours I) in 2014. He was previously a PhD student within the Robotics and Autonomous Systems group at QUT with Frederic Maire. Gavin returned to QUT in 2017 as a software engineer on the humanoid robotics project. In his role he worked on expanding the general capabilities of the Pepper robot, primarily through the use of vision, whilst also working to assist both researchers and students within the Centre and wider QUT community in utilising Pepper within their own research.

In August 2019, Gavin joined the Centre as a research engineer and is based in the Centre headquarters at QUT.

I graduated with a Bachelor of Mechatronics from QUT in 2009 and a former PhD student at the original QUT Cyphy Lab with Gordon Wyeth and Peter Corke. I rejoined QUT and the Centre in February 2016 as a research engineer to assist with the engineering requirements as the Centre grew. Within the group I work on a huge range of projects from general day to day robot maintenance such to software development or electrical design work.

James Mount holds an Honours Degree in Mechatronics Engineering and is a current Robotics PhD Candidate at the Queensland University of Technology. His research on vision-based localisation is applicable to several domains, including self-driving vehicles. Improving education through the use of robotics is an additional interest of his.

He has also built several robots throughout his career, some for his studies, others just for enjoyment. These robots include line followers, soccer bots, automated RC cars with vision systems, as well as other various smaller projects including timing gates. He also successfully ran a KickStarter Campaign that delivered educational robots at the end of 2016.