Ph.D researcher at UNSW
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Research Area Map deformation metrics Path planning in deformable maps The Action Selection Problem with dense data Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) Cooperation between MAVs and UGVs Indoor localisation and mapping using MAVs

MAVSTAR

In the first half of this year, my efforts were focussed on MAVSTAR where I was the leader of the UNSW team at the IMAV09 competition held in Pensacola, Florida. We won third place in the indoor flight competition and were awarded best paper and best presentation at the event. Previously I was responsible for the development of a team of UGVs which are able to navigate using GPS and display a video feed at 1km range (LoS). The end result was gaining the award of "Best UGV Performance" from MAV08.

Qualifications

BE (Mechanical) (Medal) / BSc (Computer Science) at UNSW
Undergraduate Thesis completed December 2007 entitled "Design and Development of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) for Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Support"
Supervisor: Dr. T. Furukawa

Publications

Book Chapter

Jose Guivant, Mark Whitty and Alicia Robledo, "Robust Global Urban Localization Based on Road Maps", Robot Localization, InTech Education and Publishing, ISBN 978-953-7619-38-1

Journal Papers

Lin Chi Mak, Makoto Kumon, Mark Whitty, Jayantha Katupitiya and Tomonari Furukawa, "Design and development of the Micro Aerial Vehicles and their Cooperative Systems for Target Search and Tracking", International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles (IJMAV), Multi-Science, UK, 22 pages, in print [View online]
Lin Chi Mak, Mark Whitty and Tomonari Furukawa, "A localisation system for an indoor rotary-wing MAV using blade mounted LEDs", Sensor Review, Emerald, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 125-131, 2008 [View online]

Conference Papers

Mark Whitty, Jose Guivant, "Efficient path planning in deformable maps", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St Louis, 2009
Mark Whitty, Lin Chi Mak, et al., "Development of the MAVSTAR Micro Aerial Vehicle and Base Station for IMAV09," 4th US - European workshop and flight competition for micro air vehicles (IMAV09), Pensacola, USA, Jun. 1-5 June, 2009. (Best Paper Award) [View online]
Lin Chi Mak, Makoto Kumon, Mark Whitty, et al., "Design and development of the Micro Aerial Vehicles for Search, Tracking And Reconnaissance (MAVSTAR) for MAV08", Proc. first US‐Asian demonstration and assessment of micro‐aerial and unmanned ground vehicle technology, 2008 (Submitted).
Lin Chi Mak, Mark Whitty, Tomonari Furukawa, "A localisation system for an indoor rotary-wing MAV using blade mounted LEDs", International Journal Sensor Review, Emerald, March 2008.
Pratley A., Whitty M., "Engineering heritage into 21st Century Students", National Engineering Heritage Conference, 2007.
Pratley A., Whitty M., "Engineering students for the 21st century – analysis of pathways of engagement", ConnectED 2007 International Conference On Design Education, 2007.

My Erdos number is 6
Paul Erdos-Bela Bollobas-Jonathon R. Partington-James Lam-Shuo Dong Huang-Tomonari Furukawa-Mark Whitty

UGV ready for action: One of MAVSTAR's 4 UGVs on the ground in Agra, India

Undergraduate thesis poster