Theme 01
Robot learning and autonomous behaviour
Learning, control and adaptation grounded in experience with real robots.
Explore themeUNSW Computer Science and Engineering
Connecting artificial intelligence with robots that perceive, reason, learn and act.
CSE robotics spans learning, cognitive architectures, computer vision and interaction. Our research brings these perspectives together around the demands of autonomous behaviour in the physical world.
The themes below are entry points into related work across the School. For complete publication lists, follow our researchers’ UNSW profiles. Individual groups provide more detailed accounts of their projects and methods.
Theme 01
Learning, control and adaptation grounded in experience with real robots.
Explore themeTheme 02
Planning, knowledge representation and architectures for purposeful robot behaviour.
Explore themeTheme 03
Perception, interaction and autonomous behaviour aligned with human needs.
Explore themeTheme 04
Coordination, shared tasks and autonomous behaviour in physical testbeds.
Explore themeExplore the systems, demonstrations and selected publications documented by the CSE robotics group. These records describe earlier work and are labelled as historical.
Blackboard architectures and cognitive hierarchies connecting memory, world models and behaviour.
Learning from demonstration, explanation-based learning and reinforcement learning in robot locomotion and tool use.
Knowledge, action and belief in logical approaches to robot planning and execution monitoring.
Earlier work on 2D/3D position tracking, mapping and autonomous search-and-rescue robots.
Extending general game playing from abstract environments to embodied robot tasks.
A research proposal exploring how autonomous robot adaptation affects human trust.