Peter Corke (born 24 August 1959) is an Australian roboticist known for his work on

Visual Servoing Visual servoing, also known as vision-based robot control and abbreviated VS, is a technique which uses feedback information extracted from a vision sensor (visual feedback) to control the motion of a robot. One of the earliest papers that talks abo ...

, field robotics, online education, the online Robot Academy and the Robotics Toolbox and Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB (matrix laboratory). He was the director of the

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Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, and currently is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor at

Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...

. His research is concerned with robotic vision, flying robots and farming robots. Corke is a Fellow of the

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and of the

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. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics, and a former member of the executive editorial board of The International Journal of Robotics Research.

Career

Corke received

Bachelor of Engineering A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a college graduate majoring in an engineering discipline at a higher education institution. In the United Kingdom, a Ba ...

, Masters of Engineering and

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

degrees from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public university, public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in the state ...

in Australia. In 1984 he worked at

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

, formerly the

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

, on robotics. He developed an open-source robot control system and vision applications in food processing and for real-time traffic monitoring. In 1995 he moved to Brisbane and established a program of research into mining automation focused on

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s, rope shovels and load-haul-dump ( load-haul-dump) units. In 1996, Corke co-authored an early tutorial paper and later proposed the partitioned approach to visual control. He served as Research Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory of CSIRO's Information and Communications Technology Centre (ICTC), from 2004 to 2007. From 2005 to 2009 he worked on

wireless sensor network Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...

technology, was a co-developer of the Fleck wireless sensor node, and investigated applications to

environmental monitoring Environmental monitoring is the processes and activities that are done to characterize and describe the state of the environment. It is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, and in many circumstances in which human activit ...

and agriculture, and virtual fencing. He was a senior principal research scientist when he left to take up a chair at the Queensland University of Technology in 2010. From 2009 to 2013, he served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE's ''Robotics & Automation'' magazine. He is currently the Chief Roboticist at Lyro Robotics.

Works

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References

External links

Peter Corke's personal website

QUT Robot Academy

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision

QUT CyPhy lab home page
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Corke, Peter Australian roboticists Fellows of the IEEE Academic staff of Queensland University of Technology 1959 births University of Melbourne alumni Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Living people