Publications (8)
The NUbots Team Description Paper 2015
Josiah Walker, Trent Houliston, Brendan Annable +9
The NUbots are an interdisciplinary RoboCup team from The University of Newcastle, Australia. The team has a history of strong contributions in the areas of machine learning and co…
FlexDM: Enabling robust and reliable parallel data mining using WEKA
Madison Flannery, David M Budden, Alexandre Mendes
Performing massive data mining experiments with multiple datasets and methods is a common task faced by most bioinformatics and computational biology laboratories. WEKA is a machin…
Comparing Computing Platforms for Deep Learning on a Humanoid Robot
Alexander Biddulph, Trent Houlistion, Alexandre Mendes +1
The goal of this study is to test two different computing platforms with respect to their suitability for running deep networks as part of a humanoid robot software system. One of…
Addressing the non-functional requirements of computer vision systems: A case study
Shannon Fenn, Alexandre Mendes, David Budden
Computer vision plays a major role in the robotics industry, where vision data is frequently used for navigation and high-level decision making. Although there is significant resea…
A Benchmark of Generative Methods for Zero-Shot Environmental Sound Classification
Ysobel Sims, Alexandre Mendes, Stephan Chalup
Zero-shot learning enables models to generalise to unseen classes using semantic information, bridging the gap between training classes and previously unseen test classes. While wi…
Maximising Throughput in a Complex Coal Export System
Mateus Rocha de Paula, Natashia Boland, Andreas Ernst +2
The Port of Newcastle features three coal export terminals, operating primarily in cargo assembly mode, that share a rail network on their inbound side, and a channel on their outb…
The Director: A Composable Behaviour System with Soft Transitions
Ysobel Sims, Trent Houliston, Thomas O'Brien +2
Software frameworks for behaviour are critical in robotics as they enable the correct and efficient execution of functions. While modern behaviour systems have improved their compo…
The NUbots Team Description Paper 2014
Josiah Walker, Trent Houliston, Brendan Annable +11
The NUbots team, from The University of Newcastle, Australia, has had a strong record of success in the RoboCup Standard Platform League since first entering in 2002. The team has…