2023
Biddulph, A., Houliston, T., Mendes, A., Chalup, S. (2023). Stereo Visual Mesh for Generating Sparse Semantic Maps at High Frame Rates. In: Luo, B., Cheng, L., Wu, ZG., Li, H., Li, C. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14452. Springer, Singapore. [DOI]
T. O'Brien and Y. Sims (2023). Exploring GPT-4 for Robotic Agent Strategy with Real-Time State Feedback and a Reactive Behaviour Framework, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, Australia, 2023.
Y. Sims and T. Houliston (2023). The Director: A Composable Behaviour System with Soft Transitions. Preprint arXiv:2309.09248.
Doctoral Thesis. Daniel Ginn, 2023. Pose estimation neural networks in the context of the RoboCup Humanoid League. [NOVA]
2020
- M. Amos, R. Middleton, A. Biddulph and A. Mendes, Implementation and analysis of dynamic stability for bipedal robotic motion, 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Canberra, Australia, 2020, pp. 1950-1957. [DOI]
2019
Amos, M., Biddulph, A., Chalup, S., Ginn, D., Mendes, A., Paye, J., Sims, Y., Turner, P., Young, T. (2018). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2019.
Zahn, B., Fountain, J., Houliston, T., Biddulph, A., Stephan, C., Mendes, A. (2019). Optimization of robot movements using genetic algorithms and simulation.
2018
Amos, M., Biddulph, A., Chalup, S., Farrawell, L., Ginn, D., Houliston, T., Mendes, A., Paye, J., Turner, P., Young, T. (2018). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2018.
Ginn, Daniel & Mendes, Alexandre & Chalup, Stephan & Chen, Zhiyong. (2018). Sliding window bag-of-visual-words for low computational power robotics scene matching. 88-93. [DOI]
Houliston, Trent & Chalup, Stephan. (2018). Visual Mesh: Real-time Object Detection Using Constant Sample Density. [DOI]
Ginn D., Mendes A., Chalup S., Fountain J. (2018) Monocular ORB-SLAM on a Humanoid Robot for Localization Purposes. In: Mitrovic T., Xue B., Li X. (eds) AI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11320. Springer, Charm. [DOI]
Biddulph A., Houliston T., Mendes A., Chalup S.K. (2018) Comparing Computing Platforms for Deep Learning on a Humanoid Robot. In: Cheng L., Leung A., Ozawa S. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11307. Springer, Cham. [DOI]
Doctoral Thesis. Trent Houliston, 2018. Software architecture and computer vision for resource constrained robotics. [NOVA]
2017
Amos, M., Biddulph, A., Chalup, S., Farrawell, L., Fountain, J., Ginn, D., Houliston, T., King, R., Mendes, A., Turner, P., Josiah, W. (2017). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2017.
Doctoral Thesis. Josiah Walker, 2017. Improved similarity search for large data in machine learning and robotics. [NOVA]
2016
Houliston, T., Fountain, J., Sugo, A., Metcalfe, M., Mendes, A., Turner, P., Catt, E., Jackson, T., Mason-Roach, Z., Biddulph, A., Chalup, S. (2016). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2016.
Metcalfe, Mitchell & Annable, Brendan & Olejniczak, Monica & Chalup, Stephan. (2016). A study on detecting three-dimensional balls using boosted classifiers. [DOI]
Houliston, Trent & Fountain, Jade & Lin, Yuqing & Mendes, Alexandre & Metcalfe, Mitchell & Walker, Josiah & Chalup, Stephan. (2016). NUClear: A Loosely Coupled Software Architecture for Humanoid Robot Systems. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 3. [DOI]
Fenn, S., Mendes, A. & Budden, D.M. Machine Vision and Applications (2016) 27: 77. [DOI]
2015
Walker, J., Houliston, T., Annable, B., Biddulph, A., Fountain, J., Metcalfe, M., Sugo, A., Olejniczak, M., Chalup, S.K., King, R.A., Mendes, A., & Turner, P. (2015). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2015.
Houliston T., Metcalfe M., Chalup S.K. (2015) A Fast Method for Adapting Lookup Tables Applied to Changes in Lighting Colour. In: Almeida L., Ji J., Steinbauer G., Luke S. (eds) RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX. RoboCup 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9513. Springer, Charm [DOI]
2014
Walker, Josiah & Houliston, Trent & Annable, Brendan & Biddulph, Alex & Dabson, Andrew & Fountain, Jade & Johnson, Taylor & Johnson, Jordan & Metcalfe, Mitchell & Sugo, Anita & Chalup, Stephan & King, Robert & Mendes, Alexandre & Turner, Peter. (2014). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2014.
Doctoral Thesis. Aaron Wong, 2014. Implementing sensory perception and affect on humanoid robots using applications of manifold learning. [NOVA]
Doctoral Thesis. Steven Nicklin, 2014. Multiple hypothesis methods for robot self localisation. [NOVA]
2013
Annable, B., Budden, D., Calland, S., Chalup, S., Fenn, S., Flannery, M., Fountain, J., King, R., Mendes, A., Metcalfe, M., Nicklin, S., Turner, P., Walker, J. (2013). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2013.
Fountain J., Walker J., Budden D., Mendes A., Chalup S.K. (2013) Motivated Reinforcement Learning for Improved Head Actuation of Humanoid Robots. In: Behnke S., Veloso M., Visser A., Xiong R. (eds) RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII. RoboCup 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Annable B., Budden D., Mendes A. (2013) NUbugger: A Visual Real-Time Robot Debugging System. In: Behnke S., Veloso M., Visser A., Xiong R. (eds) RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII. RoboCup 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Budden, David & Walker, Josiah & Flannery, Madison & Mendes, Alexandre. (2013). Probabilistic gradient ascent with applications to bipedal robotic locomotion. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA.
Budden D., Mendes A. (2013) Unsupervised Recognition of Salient Colour for Real-Time Image Processing. In: Behnke S., Veloso M., Visser A., Xiong R. (eds) RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII. RoboCup 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Budden D., Prokopenko M. (2013) Improved Particle Filtering for Pseudo-Uniform Belief Distributions in Robot Localisation. In: Behnke S., Veloso M., Visser A., Xiong R. (eds) RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII. RoboCup 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Flannery, Madison & Fenn, Shannon & Budden, David. (2013). RANSAC: Identification of Higher-Order Geometric Features and Applications in Humanoid Robot Soccer. [arXiv]
Masters Thesis. Peter Turner, 2013. Ad-hoc wireless MESH network implementation for rescue robots. [NOVA]
2012
Budden, D., Chalup, S., Fenn, S., King, R., Mendes, A., Nicklin, S., Reitveld, J., Walker, J. (2012). The NUbots Team Description Paper 2012.
Budden D., Fenn S., Mendes A., Chalup S. (2012) Evaluation of Colour Models for Computer Vision Using Cluster Validation Techniques. In: Chen X., Stone P., Sucar L.E., van der Zant T. (eds) RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI. RoboCup 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7500. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg [DOI]
Budden D., Fenn S., Walker J., Mendes A. (2012) A Novel Approach to Ball Detection for Humanoid Robot Soccer. In: Thielscher M., Zhang D. (eds) AI 2012: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Doctoral Thesis. Jason Kulk, 2012. Improved humanoid robot movement through impact perception and walk optimisation. [NOVA]
2011
Nicklin, Steven & Bhatia, Shashank & Budden, David & King, Robert & Kulk, Jason & Walker, Josiah & Wong, Aaron & Chalup, Stephan. (2011). The NUbots' Team Description for 2011.
Wong, Aaron & Chalup, Stephan & Bhatia, Shashank & Jalalian, Arash & Kulk, Jason & Ostwald, Michael. (2011). Humanoid Robots for Modelling and Analysing Visual Gaze Dynamics of Pedestrians Moving in Urban Space.
2010
- Nicklin, Steven & Bhatia, Shashank & Henderson, Naomi & King, Robert & Kulk, Jason & Wilson, Joshua & Wong, Aaron & Chalup, Stephan. (2010). The NUbots' Team Description for 2010.
2009
Chalup, S., Henderson, N., King, R., Kulk, J., Nicklin, S., Wong, A. (2009). The 2009 Nubots Team Report.
Wiklendt, Lukasz & Chalup, Stephan & Seron, M.M.. (2009). Simulated 3D Biped Walking with an Evolution-Strategy Tuned Spiking Neural Network. Neural Network World. 19. 235-246.
2008
Buckley, A., Chalup, S., Henderson, N., King, R., Kulk, J., Middleton, R., Nicklin, S., Tang, S., Wong, A. (2008). The NUManoids' Team Description for 2008.
Henderson, Naomi & Nicklin, Steven & Wong, Aaron & Kulk, Jason & Chalup, Stephan & King, Robert & Middleton, R.H. & Tang, Shekman & Buckley, Alexander. (2008). The 2008 NUManoids Team Report.
Henderson, Naomi & King, Robert & Chalup, Stephan. (2010). An Automated Colour Calibration System using Multivariate Gaussian Mixtures to Segment HSI Colour Space. Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008.
Wong, Aaron & Chalup, Stephan. (2008). Sound-scapes for Robot Localisation through Dimensionality Reduction. Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008.
Wiklendt, Lukasz & Chalup, Stephan & Seron, M.M.. (2008). Quadratic Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neural Network Tuned with an Evolution-Strategy for a Simulated 3D Biped Walking Controller. Proceedings - 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2008. 144 - 149. [DOI]
2007
Quinlan, M.J., Nicklin, S.P., Henderson, N., Fisher, R.L., Chalup, S.K., Middleton, R.H., & King, R.N. (2007). The NUbots' Team Description for 2007.
Chalup, Stephan & L. Murch, Craig & J. Quinlan, Michael. (2007). Machine Learning With AIBO Robots in the Four-Legged League of RoboCup. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on. 37. 297 - 310. [DOI]
Lawrence, Chris & Dickinson, Michael R. & Chalup, Stephan. (2007). Designing Charm: Harnessing the Affective Power of Form in Robotic Development.
Henderson N., King R., Middleton R.H. (2007) An Application of Gaussian Mixtures: Colour Segmenting for the Four Legged League Using HSI Colour Space. In: Visser U., Ribeiro F., Ohashi T., Dellaert F. (eds) RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI. RoboCup 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg [DOI]
2006
Quinlan, M.J., Nicklin, S.P., Henderson, N., Fisher, R.L., Knorn, F., Chalup, S.K., Middleton, R.H., & King, R.N. (2006). The 2006 NUbots Team Report.
Chalup, S.K., Dickinson, M., Fisher, R.L., Middleton, R.H., Quinlan, M.J., & Turner, P. (2006). Proposal of a kit-style robot as the new standard platform for the four-legged league.
Chalup, S.K., Obst, O., Quinlan, M.J. (2006). Towards Autonomous Strategy Decisions in the RoboCup Four-Legged League.
J. Quinlan, Michael & Chalup, Stephan. (2006). Impact of tactical variations in the RoboCup four-legged league. [DOI]
2005
- Quinlan, M., Nicklin, S., Hong, K., Henderson, N., Young, S., Moor, T., Fisher, R., Douangboupha, P., Chalup, S., Middleton, R., King, R.: The 2005 NUbots Team Report. Technical Report, University of Newcastle (2005)
2004
Chalup, S.K., Middleton, R.H., King, R.B., Andy, L., Li, Y.H., Moore, T.N., Murch, C.L., & Quinlan, M.J. (2004). The 2004 NUbots Team Report.
J. Quinlan, Michael & Chalup, Stephan & Middleton, R.H.. (2004). Application of SVMs for Colour Classification and Collision Detection with AIBO Robots. 16.
Murch, Craig L. & Chalup, Stephan. (2004). Combining Edge Detection and Colour Segmentation in the Four-Legged League.
Chalup, Stephan & L. Murch, Craig. (2004). Machine Learning in the Four-Legged League. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 37. 723-728. [DOI]
Seysener C.J., Murch C.L., Middleton R.H. (2004) Extensions to Object Recognition in the Four-Legged League. In: Nardi D., Riedmiller M., Sammut C., Santos-Victor J. (eds) RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. RoboCup 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Middleton, R.H. & Freeston, Michaela & McNeill, Leonie. (2004). An Application of the Extended Kalman Filter to Robot Soccer Localisation and World Modelling. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 37. 10.1016/S1474-6670(17)31190-4. [DOI]
2003
Chalup, Stephan & Coleman, Oliver & N. Freeston, Michaela & Middleton, R.H. & L. Murch, Craig & J. Quinlan, Michael & J. Seysener, Christopher & D. Shanks, Graham. (2003). The NUbots' Team Description for 2003.
Bunting, Jared & Chalup, Stephan & Freeston, Michaela & McMahan, Will & Middleton, R.H. & Murch, Craig & Quinlan, Michael & Seysener, Christopher & Shanks, Graham. (2003). Return of the NUbots! The 2003 NUbots Team Report.
Quinlan M.J., Murch C.L., Middleton R.H., Chalup S.K. (2003) Traction Monitoring for Collision Detection with Legged Robots. In: Polani D., Browning B., Bonarini A., Yoshida K. (eds) RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII. RoboCup 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. [DOI]
Quinlan, M.J., Chalup, S.K., & Middleton, R.H. (2003). Techniques for Improving Vision and Locomotion on the Sony AIBO Robot.
2002
- Chalup, S.K., Creek, N., Freeston, L., Lovell, N.G., Marshall, J., Middleton, R., Murch, C.L., Quinlan, M., Shanks, G., Stanton, C., & Williams, M. (2002). When NUbots Attack! The 2002 NUbots Team Report.
