Senior Lecturer: Gordon F. Wyeth PhD, GCEd, BE (Hons)
Office : Room 302, Axon Building.
Email : wyeth@itee.uq.edu.au
Phone : (+61 7) 3365 3770
FAX : (+61 7) 3365 4999
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Electrical Engineering , University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD. 4072,
Australia.
Research
My main research interests are in biological inspiration for robot design. Most recently, we developed a system for robot navigation based on the rodent brain, called RatSLAM. This system has been demonstrated autonomously learning the layout of natural, unstructured environments from the robot's cameras and performing efficient goal directed navigation based on the learnt layout. The lessons learnt in the course of the project have significant implications for the biological models that we used as a starting point for the project, and our current studies are focussed on bringing our results back to the biology arena. We are now working at broadening the application of the core components of the RatSLAM system to problems in evolution in language and conceptual mapping. I have also applied biological principles to other robotic domains such trajectory learning for limb control and helicopter flight.
I spent several years competing in RoboCup robot soccer, most notably with the F180 team, the RoboRoos. My team also developed a 1.2m tall humanoid, GuRoo, which was demonstrated in 2005 to walk autonomously to a full size football and kick it.
All of my research has a strong emphasis on proving the work on real robots in real environments. My team constructs many of the robots in house, and we have built strong mechatronic expertise over the years.
Teaching
ENGG7300 - BioRobotics (NEW in 2008 - Open to engineering postgraduate students with limited places for engineering undergraduate students)
ELEC2004 - Circuits, Signals and Systems
METR4202/7202 - Advanced Control and Robotics
Undergraduate Thesis (Topics for 2008 now available) - staff access
Mechatronics
I am the Deputy Program Director and Academic Advisor for Mechatronic Engineering.
- Program Description
- Bachelor of Engineering Rules
- Master of Engineering Rules
- Mechatronic Engineering Course List (Undergraduate) (This is the full engineering list - scroll down for Mechatronic Engineering)
- Mechatronic Engineering Course List (Postgraduate)
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