Navinda Kottege
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Publications

  • Benjamin Tam, Fletcher Talbot, Ryan Steindl, Alberto Elfes, Navinda Kottege, (2020), OpenSHC: A Versatile Multilegged Robot Controller, IEEE Access.
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  • Eranda Tennakoon, Thierry Peynot, Jonathan Roberts, Navinda Kottege, (2020), Probe-before-step walking strategy for multi-legged robots on terrain with risk of collapse, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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  • Russell Buchanan, Lorenz Wellhausen, Marko Bjelonic, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Navinda Kottege, Marco Hutter (2020), Perceptive whole-body planning for multilegged robots in confined spaces, Journal of Field Robotics.
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  • Russell Buchanan, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Marko Bjelonic, Lorenz Wellhausen, Marco Hutter, Navinda Kottege, (2019), Walking Posture Adaptation for Legged Robot Navigation in Confined Spaces, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  .
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  • Eranda Tennakoon, Navinda Kottege, Thierry Peynot, Jonathan Roberts, (2018), Safe terrain probing method for multi-legged robots operating on brittle surfaces, In proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2018.
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  • Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Ryan Steindl, Fletcher Talbot, Navinda Kottege, Ross Dungavell, Brett Wood, James Barker, Karsten Hoehn, Alberto Elfes (2018), Magneto: A Versatile Multi-Limbed Inspection Robot, In proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October, 2018.
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  • Marko Bjelonic, Navinda Kottege, Timon Homberger, Paulo Borges, Philipp Beckerle, Margarita Chli (2018), Weaver: Hexapod Robot for Autonomous Navigation on Unstructured Terrain, Journal of Field Robotics, 35(7), pp. 1063-1079, Wiley
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  • Benjamin Tam, Navinda Kottege, Branislav Kusy (2017), Augmented Telepresence for Remote Inspection with Legged Robots, In proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, NSW, Australia, December 2017.
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  • Thomas Molnar, Ryan Steindl, Navinda Kottege, Fletcher Talbot, Alberto Elfes (2017), Steep Terrain Ascension Controller for Hexapod Robots, In proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, NSW, Australia, December 2017.
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  • Marko Bjelonic, Timon Homberger, Navinda Kottege, Paulo Borges, Margarita Chli, Philipp Beckerle, (2017), Autonomous Navigation of Hexapod Robots With Vision-based Controller Adaptation, In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, May 2017.
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  • Huub Heijnen, David Howard, Navinda Kottege, (2017), A Testbed that Evolves Hexapod Controllers in Hardware, In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, May 2017.
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  • Alberto Elfes, Ryan James Steindl, Fletcher Talbot, Farid Kendoul, Pavan Sikka, Tom Lowe, Navinda Kottege, Marko Bjelonic, Ross Dungavell, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Marcus Hoerger, Benjamin Tam, David Rytz (2017),The Multilegged Autonomous eXplorer (MAX), In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, May 2017.
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  • Benjamin Tam & Navinda Kottege, (2016), Fall Avoidance and Recovery for Bipedal Robots using Walking Sticks. In proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation (ACRA), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 2016.
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  • Dylan Williamson, Navinda Kottege, & Peyman Moghadam, (2016), Terrain Characterisation and Gait Adaptation by a Hexapod Robot. In proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation (ACRA), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 2016.
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  • Marko Bjelonic, Navinda Kottege, & Philipp Beckerle, (2016), Proprioceptive Control of an Over-Actuated Hexapod Robot in Unstructured Terrain, In proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, Korea, October, 2016.
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  • Timon Homberger, Marko Bjelonic, Navinda Kottege, & Paulo Borges, (2016), Terrain-dependant Control of Hexapod Robots using Vision, In proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Tokyo, Japan, October 2016.
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  • Joshua Christie and Navinda Kottege, (2016), Acoustics based Terrain Classification for Legged Robots. In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2016, pp. 3596-3603
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  • Philipp Sommer, Branislav Kusy, Raja Jurdak, Navinda Kottege, Jiajun Liu, Kun Zhao, Adam McKeown, & David Westcott (2015), From the Lab into the Wild: Design and Deployment Methods for Multi-Modal Tracking Platforms, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (In press), September, 2015
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  • Lincoln Phillips, Christopher Berry-Porter, Navinda Kottege, Matthew D'Souza, & Montserrat Ros (2015), Machine Learning Based Acoustic Sensing for Indoor Room Localisation Using Mobile Phones. In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), Auckland, New Zealand, Dec 08-10, 2015
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  • Navinda Kottege, Raja Jurdak, Frederieke Kroon, & Dean Jones (2015), Automated Detection of Broadband Clicks of Freshwater Fish using Spectro-Temporal Features. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(5)
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  • Navinda Kottege, Callum Parkinson, Peyman Moghadam, Alberto Elfes & Surya P. N. Singh (2015), Energetics-Informed Hexapod Gait Transitions. In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, WA, USA, May 26-30, 2015
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  • Raja Jurdak, Alberto Elfes, Branislav Kusy, Ashley Tews, Wen Hu, Emili Hernandez, Navinda Kottege & Pavan Sikka (2015), Autonomous Surveillance for Biosecurity, Trends in Biotechnology, 33(4), pp. 201-207
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  • Marcus Hoerger, Navinda Kottege, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Alberto Elfes & Peyman Moghadam (2014), Real-time Stabilisation for Hexapod Robots. In proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Marrakech and Essaouira, Morocco, June 15-18, 2014
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  • Graeme Best, Peyman Moghadam, Navinda Kottege, & Lindsay Kleeman (2013), Terrain Classification Using a Hexapod Robot. In proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Sydney, NSW, Australia, December 2013. ISBN: 978-0-9807404-4-8
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  • Prasant Misra, Navinda Kottege, Branislav Kusy, Diethelm Ostry, & Sanjay Jha (2013), Acoustical Ranging Techniques in Embedded Wireless Sensor Networked Devices. Transactions on Sensor Networks, 10(1), ACM, ISSN: 1550-4859.
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  • Raja Jurdak, Philipp Sommer, Branislav Kusy, Navinda Kottege, Christopher Crossman, Adam McKeown, David Westcott (2013), Camazotz: Multimodal Activity-Based GPS Sampling. In proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), ACM, New York, NY, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4503-1959-1
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  • Navinda Kottege, Felix Schill, Alexander Bahr, & Uwe R. Zimmer (2013), Underwater Robot Swarms: Challenges & Opportunities. In S. Kernbach (Ed.), Handbook of Collective Robotics - Fundamentals & Challenges, pp. 115-126, Singapore: Pan Stanford. ISBN: 978-9-814-31642-2
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  • Navinda Kottege, Raja Jurdak, Frederieke Kroon, & Dean Jones (2012). Classification of Underwater Broadband Bioacoustics Using Spectro-Temporal Features, In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet), ACM, New York, NY, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4503-1773-3
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  • Benjamin Croker & Navinda Kottege (2012), Using feature vectors to detect frog calls in wireless sensor networks. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 131(5), pp. EL400-EL405. ISSN: 0001-4966
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  • Tim Wark, Damien O'Rourke, Navinda Kottege, Wen Hu, & Darren Moore (2012), Opportunities for multimedia environmental sensor networks. IEEE Communications Society MMTC E-Letter, 6(12), pp. 5-8.
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  • Prasant Misra, Diethelm Ostry, Navinda Kottege, & Sanjay Jha (2011), TWEET: An envelope detection based broadband ultrasonic ranging system. In proceedings of the ACM international conference on modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems (MSWiM), Miami, FL, 31 October - 4 November, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4503-0898-4.
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  • Navinda Kottege & Uwe R. Zimmer (2011), Underwater acoustic localization for small submersibles, Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue: State of the Art in Maritime Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles, Part 2, 28(1), pp. 40-69, January 2011, Wiley. ISSN: 1556-4967.
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  • Navinda Kottege (2009), Underwater Acoustic Localisation in the context of Autonomous Submersibles, College of Engineering and Computer Science, PhD thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June 2009.
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  • Navinda Kottege & Uwe R. Zimmer (2008), Cross-correlation Tracking for Maximum Length Sequence Based Acoustic Localisation, In proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Canberra, ACT, Australia, December, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-646-50643-2.
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  • Navinda Kottege & Uwe R. Zimmer (2008), Acoustical Methods for Azimuth, Range and Heading Estimation
    in Underwater Swarms, In proceedings of Acoustics ’08, Paris, France, 29 June - 4 July 2008. ISBN: 978-2-9521105-4-9.
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  • Navinda Kottege & Uwe R. Zimmer (2008), MLS-based, Distributed Bearing, Range, and Posture Estimation for
    Schools of Submersibles, Experimental Robotics, Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 39, pp. 377-385, February 2008, Berlin; Heidelberg, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-77456-3.
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  • Navinda Kottege & Uwe R. Zimmer (2007), Relative Localization for AUV Swarms, In proceedings of the International Symposium on Underwater Technology ’07 , Tokyo, Japan, 17 - 20 April, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-4244-1207-2.
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  • Navinda Kottege & Uwe R. Zimmer (2006), Acoustical Localization in Schools of Submersibles, In proceedings
    of IEEE/OES Oceans ’06
    , Singapore, 16 - 19 May, 2006. ISBN: 978-1-4244-0138-3.
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  • Navinda Kottege & D.U.J. Sonnadara (2004), Virtual robot arm control model, In proceedings of the 20th
    Technical session of the Institute of Physics
    , Sri Lanka, March 2004.