Prof. Gamini Dissanayake
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Office Address:University of Technology,Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS), Sydney, Australia. |
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Gamini Dissanayake is the James N Kirby Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He graduated in Mechanical/Production Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He received his M.Sc. in Machine Tool Technology and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) from the University of Birmingham, England. He taught at University of Peradeniya, National University of Singapore and University of Sydney before joining UTS in 2002.At UTS, he founded the UTS Centre for Autonomous Systems; currently a team of seventy staff and students working in Robotics. His main contributions to robotics has been in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping, which has resulted in one of the most cited journal publications in robotics.He has also been involved in developing robots for a range of industry applications including cargo handling, disaster response, mining, infrastructure maintenance and aged care.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics), University of Birmingham, UK, 1985.
M.Sc. in Machine Tool Technology, University of Birmingham, UK, 1981.
B.Sc.(Eng.) in Mechanical/Production Engineering with First Class Honours and Gold Medal, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1977.
10/12/2020 – Adjunct Professor, School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
2017-10/12/2020; Distinguished Professor, School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
2016-10/12/2020; Joint Director, UTS Centre for Autonomous Systems
2003-2015; Director, UTS Centre for Autonomous Systems
2002-2016; Professor, School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
2003-2010; UTS Node Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia1993-2001; Senior Lecturer, School of Aeronautical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
1988-1993; Lecturer, School of Aeronautical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore1986-1988; Lecturer, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering
University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka1985-1986; Lecturer, Department of Production Engineering
1978-1980; Assistant Lecturer, Department of Production Engineering
IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2018
Mechatronic Engineering and Robotics
G. Dissanayake, P. Newman, H.F. Durrant-Whyte, S. Clark & M. Csobra. A solution to the simultaneous localisation and map building (SLAM) problem. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17(3):229–241, June 2001.
G. Dissanayake, S. Sukkarieh, E. Nebot & H. Durrant-Whyte. The aiding of a low cost, strapdown inertial unit using modelling constraints in land vehicle applications. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17(5):731–747, October 2001.
L. Zhao, S. Huang, Y. Sun, L. Yan, G. Dissanayake. ParallaxBA: Bundle adjustment using parallax angle feature parametrization. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 34(4-5):493-516, 2015.
S. Scheding, G. Dissanayake, E. Nebot & H. Durrant-Whyte. Autonomous navigation of an underground mining vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 15(1):85– 95, February 1999.
D. Abeywardena, S. Kodagoda, G. Dissanayake, R. Munasinghe, A drift free velocity estimator for quadrotor micro air vehicles, The IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 20 (4): 32-39, 2013.
S. Huang & G. Dissanayake. Convergence and consistency analysis for extended Kalman filter based SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 23(5):1036–1049, October 2007.
Z. Wang, S. Huang & G. Dissanayake. D-SLAM: A decoupled solution to simultaneous localization and mapping. International Journal of Robotics Research, 26(2):187–204, February 2007.
S.B. Williams, H. Durrant-Whyte & G. Dissanayake. Constrained initialisation of the simultaneous localisation and mapping algorithm. International Journal of Robotics Research, 22(7):541–564, July 2003.
L. Pedraza, D. Rodriguez-Losada, M. Fernando, G. Dissanayake & J. Valls Miro. Extending the limits of feature-based SLAM with b-splines. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 25(2):353–366, April 2009.
G. Dissanayake, C.J. Goh & N. Phan-Thien. Time-optimal trajectories for robot manipulators. Robotica, 9(2):131–138, April 1991.
