Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte

Professor Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte is known for his pioneering work on probabilistic methods for robotics. The algorithms developed in his group since the early 1990s permit autonomous vehicles to deal with uncertainty and to localize themselves despite noisy sensor readings (simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM).

From 1986-1995 Durrant-Whyte held positions at Oxford University. In 1995 he accepted a professorship at the University of Sydney, where he was director of the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) from 1999 to 2002. He currently holds the position of Research Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS), a joint venture between the ACFR and mechatronics groups at UTS and UNSW.

External links

* [http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/people/academic/hdurrant-whyte/ Personal page at ACFR (outdated)]
* [http://www.cas.edu.au/content.php/232.html?personid=24 Personal page at CAS]
* [http://www.cas.edu.au ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems]