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Contact: luke.fletcher@anu.edu.au INFOENG SEMINAR SERIES Colloquium series
Serafina - an underwater systems initiative on a constant journey between open waters and academic pondsDr. Uwe Zimmer (InfoEng RSISE, ANU & Dpt.Eng, FEIT, ANU.)DATE: 2006-03-10 TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00 LOCATION: RSISE Seminar Room, ground floor, building 115, cnr. North and Daley Roads, ANU ABSTRACT: Robotics research is frequently presented in the media as one of two cliches: it's either factory floor automation (usually building cars), or miracle-projects solving the aging-problem of the western world with Jetsons-family humanoids. It is fortunately so much more than that: In the presenters view, any automated, closed-loop, physical interaction (usually of a certain minimal complexity) qualifies as robotics. A modern subway train, the new Boing 787, a modern skyscraper, contemporary surgery, active sensor networks, or a simple ticket collection machine in the Toyko train system (which accepts, evaluates, and writes tickets of different sizes, thickness, in any orientation, and even a mixed stack of those in a matter of a few hundred milliseconds), construction site automation, space exploration, etc. pp. all qualify to be considered for our research, which thus needs to be almost by definition multi-disciplinary and multi-modal.
The Serafina team picked an unreasonably, outrageously complex real world problem (most of those are), identified central issues, and wove a net of research, application, education, and real-world interaction around them. The presentation will highlight some kernel problems (and approaches to them in the Serafina project) and will prepare the ground for talks by other team-members to follow in coming months.
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