Peter Corke: Australian Robotic Vision (Feature Length Documentary)

This biography of Australian roboticist, distinguished professor Peter Corke, follows the development of robotics through the career of this remarkable pioneer and of his colleagues since the early 1990s.

Born in 1959, Peter Corke is known for his work on Visual Servoing, field robotics, online education, the online Robot Academy and the Robotics Toolbox and Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB (matrix laboratory). He has been the director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, and a Distinguished Professor of Robotic Vision at Queensland University of Technology. His research is concerned with robotic vision, flying robots and farming robots. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Professor Corke is a founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics, and a former member of the executive editorial board of The International Journal of Robotics Research.

For those who purchase the documentary on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/petercorke there is a collection of extended interviews with Prof Corke and other colleagues featured in the film providing an in-depth history of robotics development in Australia.

Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes
Subtitles: English
Release: 8th January, 2022
Production: Perfekt Studios
Director: Matthew Dahlitz
Director of Photography: Jachin Dahlitz

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Peter Corke's childhood
04:30 Building electronics and coding
06:05 Peter at University
08:42 Peter at CSIRO
14:10 University of Pennsylvania
15:39 Getting a PhD & moving to Brisbane
17:20 Jon Roberts
22:04 Automating mining equipment
27:27 Paper on visual servoing
29:08 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
32:03 Gordon Wyeth
35:02 Autonomous aircraft
40:36 Navigation like a hippocampus
44:58 Environmental monitoring
49:25 Peter in Paris to write
52:10 Mapping
57:45 QUT Robotics
01:08:07 Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
01:12:30 Amazon Robotics Challenge
01:17:39 Peter's University of the Year award
01:20:30 Close
01:22:54 End Credits