Dikai Liu Research Team

Research Team

Research Students Graduated

Dr. Gavin Paul, “Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Complex 3D Environments by Means of a 6DOF Manipulator”, PhD, graduated in January 2010;
Dr. Dalong Wang, “A Generic Force Field Method for Robot Real-time Motion Planning and Coordination”, PhD, graduated in October 2009;
Dr. Nathan Kirchner, “Exploiting Laser and Capacitive Ranging Sensors’ Behaviour to Identify Material Type”, PhD, graduated in July 2009;
Ms. Tianran Ren, “Generation of Effective Sand-blasting Trajectory for an Autonomous Robot in Steel Bridge Maintenance”, Master (by research) in Mechatronics, graduated in 2008;

Current Students:

Mr Phillip Quin, "Biologically inspired climbing robot"
Mr David Pagano, "Biologically inspired climbing robot"
Mr Youbing Wang, "Haptic based human-robot interaction"
Mr. Ruiyi Tang, "Physical human-robot interaction";
Mr. Andrew To, "Vision based exploration and mapping of complex 3D environment";
Mr. Marshall Yuan, “coordination and control of a large fleet of autonomous straddle carriers in automated container terminals”;
Mr. Marc Carmichael, “Physical human robot interaction”;
Mr. Pholchai Chotiprayanakul, “Human robot interaction by means of haptic robotics”;
Mr. Asela Kulatunga, “Coordination and control of a large fleet of autonomous vehicles in dynamic and complex material handling environments”
Mr. Stefan Lie, "Interface design for human-robot interaction"

Awards won by students:

Dean’s Prize, Gregory Peters, “UTS RVC: The Design and Construction of a Prototype Climbing Robot”, Dec. 200
Best student paper award, P. Chotiprayanakul, D.K. Liu, D. Wang, G. Dissanayake (2007), “A 3-dimensional force field method for robot collision avoidance in complex environments”, Proceedings of the 24^th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2007), 19-21 September 2007, Kochi, Kerala, India, pp139-145.
Best Innovation Prize, Nathan Kirchner, “Bridge maintenance robotic arm: capacitive sensor for obstacle ranging in particle laden air”, 2007 Engineering Research Showcase, Faculty of Engineering, UTS, 6 June 2007.
Best Poster Prize, Brad Skinner, “Classification of human EEG using genetic-based learning wheelchair control”, 2007 Engineering Research Showcase, Faculty of Engineering, UTS, 6 June 2007.
Best paper award, N. Kirchner, D.K. Liu and G. Dissanayake, “Bridge maintenance robotic arm: capacitive sensor for obstacle ranging in particle laden air”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction 2006 (ISARC 2006), October 3-5, 2006, Tokyo, Japan, pp596-601.