Vision & Control
Strategic Research Programme

Research Areas

Locomotion and kinematics

• Legged systems
• Tetherless dynamical mechanical systems

Algorithms

• Control of different locomotion systems
• Cooperative motion planning

Modular mechanical systems

• Dexterous and reconfigurable
• Parallel control
• Group behaviour

New algorithms for processing noisy images

• Medical and industrial images and signals
• Organ and tumour identification and location
• Vision in unstructured environment

Computed integrated medicine

• Image guided surgery
• Augmented-reality
• Radioactive Iodine dispensing system
• Web-base patient monitoring station
• Telemedicine -- Beyond monitoring and diagnostics

Vision systems with improved robustness and real-time performance

• Active vision -- Controlling the parameters of vision system for the efficiency and robustness
• Parallelism and vectorisation techniques -- To optimise the execution time of vision algorithms
• Smart cameras with embedded processors