Study level

  • PhD

Faculty/School

Faculty of Engineering

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Supervisors

Distinguished Emeritus Professor Peter Corke
Position
Adjunct Professor
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering

Overview

Mobile manipulators have been proven helpful for individual manipulation tasks but slow for larger-scale logistical tasks. This project investigates how several robots (mobile manipulators and mobile robots) can cooperate to complete a task efficiently (this could be considered a travelling salesman problem with moving depots).

  • Agriculture: The mobile manipulator picks the produce while the mobile robots transfer to produce between collection points.
  • Clean up Australia Day 2019: Collecting rubbish from natural environments. Mobile manipulators collect rubbish and transfer it to mobile robots, which then transfer it to collection points.
  • Warehouse: The mobile manipulator picks and places objects from/to warehouse shelves while mobile robots provide object delivery.

Contact

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