Dr Jonathan Paxman

MPhil, PhD(Cambridge)

Position: Lecturer
Room: 533B, Building 204 || Telephone: +61 8 9266 7304 || Fax: +61 8 9266 2681
Email: j.paxman@curtin.edu.au

Teaching Experience

• Mechatronic Project 234
• Automatic Control 321
• Mechatronic Project 491/493

Research Interests

• Innovative sensor systems for the inspection of vertical shafts in underground mines
• Developing and interpreting 3D perception for autonomous and remote systems
• Mapping, localisation and planning for mobile robots
• Stability analysis for switching control systems

Professional Experience

• Team Leader for RoboCup Rescue Competition in 2005 and 2006 (3rd place 2005, 2nd place Autonomous category 2006)
• Reviewer for top professional journals (Journal of Field Robotics, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, International Journal of Control, IMechE Journal of Systems and Control)

Industry Experience

• Consultant for Meat and Livestock industry
• Research collaborations with Cambridge MIT Institute, NSW Fire Rescue Service

Selected Recent Publications

• G. Dissanayake, J. Paxman et. al., "Robotics for Urban Search and Rescue", International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2006.
• W. Kadous, S. Kodagoda, J. Paxman et. al., "RobocupRescue Robot League Team CASualty", Robocup 2006, Bremen, Germany 2006.
• W. Kadous, S. Kodagoda, J. Paxman et. al., "RobocupRescue Robot League Team CASualty", Robocup 2005, Osaka, Japan 2005.
• W. Bath and J. Paxman, "UAV Localisation and Control Through Computer Vision", Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, Australia 2005.
• J. Paxman and G. Vinnicombe, "Stability of Reset Switching Systems". European Control Conference, Cambridge, UK 2003. (invited session)
• J. Paxman and G. Vinnicombe. "Optimal transfer schemes for switching controllers". IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia 2000.