A Bio-Inspired Climbing Robot for Cleaning and Painting Internal Surfaces of the Arches in the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Project Member(s): Liu, D., Waldron, K., Paul, G., Dissanayake, G., Ranasinghe, R.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Roads and Maritime Services (formerly known as RTA) (Roads and Maritime Services)

Start year: 2015

Summary: Variation approved 12/04 to extend end date from 31/03/18 to 15/07/18. RMS funding reduced from AUD500,000 to AUD490,000 Variation (for phase 2) extend end date from 15/07/18 to 30/06/19 RMS funding increased by $335,115

Publications:

Quin, P, Nguyen, DDK, Vu, TL, Alempijevic, A & Paul, G 2021, 'Approaches for Efficiently Detecting Frontier Cells in Robotics Exploration.', Frontiers Robotics AI, vol. 8, pp. 616470-616470.
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Katuwandeniya, K, Ranasinghe, R, Dantanarayana, L, Dissanayake, G & Liu, D 1970, 'Calibration of a Rotating Laser Range Finder using Intensity Features.', ICARCV, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, IEEE, Singapore, Singapore, pp. 228-234.
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Quin, P, Paul, G & Liu, D 2017, 'Experimental Evaluation of Nearest Neighbor Exploration Approach in Field Environments.', IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng., vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 869-880.
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Paul, G, Liu, L & Liu, D 1970, 'A novel approach to steel rivet detection in poorly illuminated steel structural environments', 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 1-7.
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Ranasinghe, R & Kodagoda, S 1970, 'Spatial prediction in mobile robotic wireless sensor networks with network constraints', 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 1-6.
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Paul, G, Quin, P, To, AWK & Liu, D 1970, 'A sliding window approach to exploration for 3D map building using a biologically inspired bridge inspection robot', 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2015 IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), IEEE, Shenyang, China, pp. 1097-1102.
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Paul, G, Quin, P, Yang, C-HJ & Liu, D 1970, 'Key feature-based approach for efficient exploration of structured environments.', ROBIO, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE, Zhuhai, China, pp. 90-95.
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FOR Codes: Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Robotics and Mechatronics (excl. Automotive Mechatronics), Transport Engineering, Road Infrastructure and Networks, Machinery and Equipment not elsewhere classified, Rail Infrastructure and Networks, Manufacturing robotics, Machinery and equipment, Ground transport

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.