Phillip is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Computer Science at the University of Wollongong. He has developed an Intelligent Robotics Laboratory as part of the Centre for Intelligent Software. His research interests include ultrasonic sensing for mobile robot navigation. He is currently developing a Quadrotor helicopter for indoor aerial robotics.
Articles
Classifying still faces with ultrasonic sensing (with K. K. Yoong), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
The echo of a chirp of ultrasonic energy from an object contains information about the...
Classifying surface roughness with CTFM ultrasonic sensing (with B. J. Kristiansen), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2006)
Roughness is a characteristic of a surface that is a function of its geometry. Ultrasonic...
Teaching content creation with programming, Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2005)
Multimedia is an art form that uses computers as a means of personal expression. However,...
Plant acoustic density profile model of CTFM ultrasonic sensing (with N. Harper), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2001)
Many applications require the sensing of plants. When an ultrasonic sensor insonifies a plant, the...
Simulating ultrasonic sensing with the lattice gas model (with S. M. Zhu and S. New), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2001)
People have difficulty understanding ultrasonic sensing because they cannot see sound. The purpose of simulation...
Presentations
Developing real time applications with Java based Sun SPOT (with L. Chen and Q. Lu), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
Most researchers develop real-time applications with C, including programming hardware with C and using a...
Acoustic Flow, Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
As an echolocating sensor moves through an environment the pattern of echoes reflected by objects...
A software architecture for mobile robot navigation, Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2008)
Directed sensing poses the problem of sensing in specific directions in synchronisation with robot motion...
Perceiving A Corridor With CTFM Ultrasonic Sensing (with S. M. Antoun), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
When deprived of sight humans adapt and use other senses for navigation. Most rely on...
The design of a tethered aerial robot (with D. Ratner), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)
This paper describes the design and modeling of a robot that swings on the end...