Biography
Stephen Webb was a PhD student at the University of New South
Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia from 2004 to 2008. Earlier he obtained his B.Sc
(Hons) in Computer Science from UNSW and then spent twenty
year growing a software company from start-up before returning to
UNSW in 2004. His interests now focus on robotics research into
useful techniques for the integration of sensor data into a control
system and using optimisation methods to select the task specific
optimal action for autonomous operation.
Qualifications
- 2008 PhD: Mechatronic Engineering, University of NSW, Sydney Australia
- 1980 Bsc(Hons): Computer Science, University of NSW, Sydney Australia
PhD Thesis
"Belief Driven Autonomous Manipulator Pose Selection for Less Controlled Environments", UNSW, 2008.
Publications
Journal Articles
Stephen Webb and Tomonari Furukawa, "Belief Driven Manipulator Visual Servoing in Less Controlled Environments", Advanced Robotics, Vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 547-572, 2008.
Conference Papers
Stephen Webb and Tomonari Furukawa, “Belief Driven Manipulator Control for Integrated Searching and Tracking,” 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ‘06), pp. 4983-4988, Beijing, October 9-16, 2006.
Gavin Paul, Dikai Liu, Nathan Kirchner, Stephen Webb. "Safe and efficient autonomous exploration technique for 3d mapping of a complex bridge maintenance environment". International Symposium on Automation & Robotics in Construction, pp. 99-104, Kochi, Kerala, India., September 19-21, 2007
