Staff profile

Dr Robert James Ross

Associate Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Electronic Engineering

Beth Gleeson Building, Room 441, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B.CS(Hons), B.EE(Hons), PhD (La Trobe)

Membership of professional Associations

IEEE

Area of study

Electronic Engineering

Brief Profile

Roberts research is related to robotics and mechatronics. His PhD involved autonomous imaging of car undercarriages using a catadioptric imaging system mounted on a mobile robot platform. He has also been researching in novel optical flow algorithms used in robot localisation and navigation.

Teaching Units

EMS1EP - Engineering Project

ELE2MDD - Microprocessors and Digital Design

ELE5OPN - Optical Networks

Recent Publications

R.Ross, A. Martchenko, J. Devlin. "A 3-Degree of Freedom Binary Search Pose Estimation Technique." IN PRESS: Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, 2012

R. Ross, J. Devlin, and A. de Souza-Daw. "VUIR: A Vehicle Undercarriage Inspection Robot." Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 2012.

R. Ross, J. Devlin, and A. de Souza-Daw. "Mobile Robot Mosaic Imaging of Vehicle Undercarriages using Catadioptric Vision." In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS2012).

R. Ross, J. Devlin and S. Wang. "Toward Refocused Optical Mouse Sensors for Outdoor Optical Flow Odometry," Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.12, no.6, pp.1925-1932, June 2012

R. Ross, J. Devlin, and A. de Souza-Daw. "Catadioptric Vehicle Undercarriage Imaging with Visual Path Planning." In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA2011).

R. Ross and J. Devlin, "Vehicle Tyre Parameterisation using Binary Search Thresholding and Contour Fitting.” IEEE International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications, (IB2COM2011).

R. Ross and J. Devlin. "Analysis of real-time velocity compensation for outdoor optical mouse sensor odometry." (ICARCV2010).

Research projects

UIR - Undercarriage Imaging Robot