P. Corke (CSIRO) gives talk at ETH on Sept. 29th

Peter Corke from the CSIRO will visit ETH on September 29-30.

He will give a seminar presentation on 

- Monday September 29, 

- at 16:15 

- in CLA E32.

Talk details:

Sensor network technology and applications

The talk will describe ongoing research in wireless sensor networks for large-scale outdoor environmental monitoring.  The talk will discuss recent deployments as well as the underlying technologies.  Active deployments include rainforests, agricultural, and a lake, and each has its own unique challenges.  The technologies include our own sensor network hardware node, operating system, remote procedure call framework and a lightweight Java virtual machine.  The talk will also describe very recent work on integrating a robotic boat with a floating sensor network.

Peter Corke is a Chief Research Scientist with the CSIRO ICT Centre. His research activities span machine vision, vision-based robot control, field robotics (with a focus on mining applications), real-time systems and sensor networks. He currently leads a cross-organizational research program in sensor networks, and prior to that he founded and led the Centre's Autonomous Systems laboratory. He holds B.Eng. and M.Eng.Sc. degrees, both in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D., all from the University of Melbourne. He is an adjunct professor in ITEE at the University of Queensland, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Robotics Research. He has held visiting positions at the CMU Robotics Institute, the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC and the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania.