Ken Taylor
Team Leader - Immersive Environments Group
Contact
Building 108, North Road, ANU Campus
Tel: 61 2 6216 7151
Email
Science Area
- Human Factors
Biography
Ken has a background in mechanical engineering and computer science. He has worked extensively in railways, in the mining industry and conducted research in teleoperation and mobile computing.
Key Skills
• Remote Control
• Web Services
• Mobile Computing
Professional Interests
• Infrastructure for Monitoring and Control
• Web Telerobotics
Professional Memberships
• Corporate Member Institution of Engineers, Australia
Academic Qualifications
| 2000 | PhD University of Western Australia, Web Telerobotics: Reducing Complexity In Robotics. |
| 1987 | University of NSW BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering |
Student Supervision
| 2008 | Ida Bagus Manuaba, Undergraduate Thesis, Udayana University |
| 2007 | Ariston Darmayuda, Undergraduate Thesis, Udayana University |
| 2006 | Ketut Sandiarsa, Undergraduate Thesis, Udayana University |
| 2006 | Made Joni Arta, Undergraduate Thesis, Udayana University |
| 2006 | Teddy Manturo Doctoral student, ANU |
| 2005 | Kevin Mayer Doctoral student, ANU |
| 2005 | Jun Ma Masters project, ANU |
| 2004 | Prabhath Chinthaka Waduge Masters project, ANU |
| 2004 | Adam Wood 4th year project, ANU |
| 2003 | Hailun Tan Masters project, ANU |
| 2002 | Kevin Mayer Engineering Honors Thesis, ANU |
| 2002 | Lukas Tan Engineering Honors Thesis, ANU |
| 2002 | Chris Day 4th year project, ANU |
| 2002 | Daniel Brogan 4th year project, ANU |
| 2002 | Thong Ma 4th year project, ANU |
| 2001 | James Sinclair Engineering Honors Thesis, ANU |
| 2000 | Colin Thomsen Engineering Honors Thesis, ANU |
Science Citizenship
| 2006 | Appointment as Honorary Research Fellow Udayana University, Indonesia |
| 2005 | Appointment as visiting Fellow at Australian National University |
| 2003-2005 | Teaching Teleoperation and Mobile Computing Course at Australian National University |
| 2002-2004 | Lecturing in XML and Web Services at ANU |
Top 10 Publications
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| Ken Taylor, John Ward, Vadim Gerasimov, and Geoff James; Sensor/Actuator Networks supporting Agents for Distributed Energy Management; First IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, Tampa, Florida 16th November 2004 |
| Kevin Mayer, Ken Taylor and Keith Ellis; Cattle Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks, The 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks, Cambridge Massachusetts, 8-10 November 2004 |
| Ken Taylor and Kevin Mayer; TinyDB by Remote; World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology, Austin, Texas, 3-6 December 2003. |
| Doug Palmer and Ken Taylor; Applying Enterprise Architectures and Technology To The Embedded Devices Domain; Workshop on Wearable, Invisible, Context-Aware, Ambient, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Adelaide, Australia. Conferences in Research and Prac |
| Kevin Mayer and Ken Taylor; An Embedded Device Utilising GPRS for Communications; International Conference On Information Technology and Applications, Bathurst, Australia, 25-28 November 2002. |
| Ken Taylor, Barney Dalton; Internet Robots - A new robotics niche; IEEE Robotics and Automation Vol. 7 No. 1 March 2000 pp 27-34 |
| Ken Taylor, Barney Dalton and James Trevelyan; Web Based Telerobotics, Robotica, vol.17, part 1; 1999; pp.49-57. |
| Kenneth Taylor and Barney Dalton, Issues in Internet Telerobotics, Presented at FSR'97 International Conference on Field and Service Robotics The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 8-10 December 1997. |
| Ken Taylor and James Trevelyan, Australia's Telerobot On The Web, Presented at 26th International Symposium On Industrial Robots Singapore 4-6 October 1995. |
| Ken Taylor and James Trevelyan, A Telerobot On The World Wide Web, Presented at the 1995 National Conference of the Australian Robot Association, Melbourne 5-7 July. |