Staff Profile
Cedric Pradalier
Research Scientist
Robotics
Autonomous Systems Laboratory
CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane
Contact Details
CSIRO ICT Centre,
Queensland Centre for Advanced technologies (QCAT)
1 Technology Court
Pullenvale, QLD 4069
PO Box 883 Kenmore,
QLD 4069
Australia
E-mail: Cedric.Pradalier@csiro.au
Telephone: +61 7 3327 4131
Fax: +61 2 6116 4455
Overview
In summary, I am a computer scientist, educated in a French engineering school,
with a special interest in outdoor mobile robotics.
Key Skills
- Engineering degree in Computer science and applied
mathematics, 2001 (ENSIMAG, Engineering school, part of the French
university INPG)
- Masters and PhD in Computer Science specialized in
Imaging, Computer vision and Robotics, from INPG as well.
- PhD at INRIA Grenoble (France): "Intentional navigation for
a mobile robot": work on autonomy functions of the CyCab autonomous
car: low level, localisation, environment mapping, obstacle
avoidance, bayesian fusion....
Professional Interests
- Mobile robotics, with real robots in real environment, in
real time!
- Perception processing and understanding
- Bio-inspired robotics (even if it is not my current
thread of research)
Publications
- Simultaneous Localization
and Mapping using the Geometric Projection Filter and Correspondence
Graph Matching
C. Pradalier and S. Sekhavat,
Journal of Advanced Robotics, 2004
- Autonomous Navigation of
a Bi-steerable Car : Experimental Issues
J.Hermosillo, C.Pradalier and S.Sekhavat and C.Laugier
Machine Intelligence and Robotic Control Journal, 2004
- Bayesian Occupancy Filtering for Multi-target Tracking:
an Automotive Application
C. Coué, C. Pradalier, C.
Laugier, T. Fraichard and P. Bessière
Int. Journal of Robotics Research, 2006
Plus some conference papers in major robotics conferences: especially
ICRA and IROS
Videos
- Parking Assistance Demonstration on the ANU Smart Car. Work
implemented by CSIRO ICT Centre, Autonomous System Lab in the
context of a collaboration with ANU and NICTA: Download
the video in
MPEG or
DivX (better quality)
The vehicle is partially
automated: once the driver has defined the parking lot on a touch
screen, the vehicle plans a steering profile to perform a reverse
parking maneuver. The driver keep controlling the speed and gear
box while the steering is fully autonomous. This makes the
application safe and reliable, and the driver keeps the
responsibility for the maneuver. In some respect this application
can be seen as the future of power steering.
Other Links
My personal web page, with draft version of pre-CSIRO publications
and tools for running Linux on a iBook... just here.
|
