Student research opportunities

SLAM for Forest Navigation

Project Code: CECS_808

This project is available at the following levels:
Engn4200, Engn R&D, Honours, Summer Scholar, Masters, PhD

Supervisor:

Outline:

Navigation through forest is a challenging task due to lack of reliable navigational aid such as GPS and high cluttered and unstructured environment. The aim of this project is to investigate SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) based navigation for hexa-copter flyer. In particular, it will look into modelling tree trunks to be useful for the tracking. A stereo-vision camera will be used together with an inertial sensor to estimate the robot and tree states. Experiences on Matlab and estimation theory such as Kalman filtering are required.

Contact:

Dr Jon Kim