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Simon THOMPSON

Affiliation

Researcher
Digital Human Research Center
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

TEL: 03-3599-8514
FAX: 03-5530-2066
E-Mail: simon.thompson@aist.go.jp

Career

October 2002   Ph.D accepted by the Department of Systems Engineering, The Australian National University.
October 2002 Research Fellow (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Digital Human Laboratory.

Research Topics

  • Panoramic Vision for Mobile Robot Localisation
  • Biological Inspirations
  • Visual Landmarks for Local Position Estimation
  • Depth Estimation in Panoramic Scene (Bearing only SLAM)
  • Muliple Representations for Localisation
  • Global vs Local Position Estimation

  • Autonmous Mobile Robot Systems
  • Probablistic Sensor Fusion for Mapping and Localisation
  • Real Time Path Planning in Large Environments
  • 2.5 Dimensional Maps and Mapping in Non-Plannar Environments