Development of globally optimal solutions to simultaneous localisation and mapping for robot navigation. Building robots that can operate on their own is one of the potentially transformational technologies of this century. This project will develop algorithms that are well understood and robust to allow the deployment of robots in environments populated with people and in search and rescue operations where global positioning system is not available.
Multi-scale recognition: generating meaning from multi-resolution data. The next generation of robots will be able to precisely recognise objects to reason about the world. This project will develop robust recognition systems that will aid robots in providing assistance in populated urban areas as well as in monitoring underwater environments for marine biodiversity preservation.