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Dr Pauline Pounds

Associate Professor

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
pauline.pounds@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52883

Overview

Research Interests

  • Drone design
    How do we make drones that fly longer? Farther? More efficiently? Carry heavier payloads? Quieter? Safer? All of the above?
  • Bipedal Robot Locomotion
    How can we build bipedal robots with the advanced capabilities shown by cutting-edge walking machines, but at a fraction of the cost?
  • Embodied intelligence
    How do we build robots that use the nature of their electromechanical construction to do innately smart things but without a big brain? Can we make drones that passively avoid obstacles and reject gust disturbances? Can we make sensors that connect to very low-level control to allow robots to perform tasks safely without expensive processing?
  • Disposable drones
    How can we build drones cheaply enough that you could throw them away when you're done with them? How do we deploy them or steer them to their target without expensive systems onboard? How do we make those drones biodegrade or break down to avoid polluting the environment when they're done their mission?
  • Exoskeletons
    How do we build performance-enhancing exoskeletons for search and rescue or warehouse applications that don't tire the wearer out?

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University
  • Bachelor of Engineering, Australian National University

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  • Feature extraction for effective and efficient deep reinforcement learning on real robotic platforms

    Böhm, Peter, Pounds, Pauline and Chapman, Archie C. (2023). Feature extraction for effective and efficient deep reinforcement learning on real robotic platforms. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 29 May - 2 June 2023.

  • Low-cost real-world implementation of the swing-up pendulum for deep reinforcement learning experiments

    Böhm, Peter, Pounds, Pauline and Chapman, Archie C. (2022). Low-cost real-world implementation of the swing-up pendulum for deep reinforcement learning experiments. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2022), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 6-8 December 2022. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.

  • Training directional locomotion for quadrupedal low-cost robotic systems via deep reinforcement learning

    Böhm, Peter, Chapman, Archie and Pounds, Pauline (2022). Training directional locomotion for quadrupedal low-cost robotic systems via deep reinforcement learning. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2022) , Brisbane, QLD Australia, 6-8 December 2022. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.

  • Non-blocking asynchronous training for reinforcement learning in real-world environments

    Bohm, Peter, Pounds, Pauline and Chapman, Archie C. (2022). Non-blocking asynchronous training for reinforcement learning in real-world environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981333

  • Rotor array synergies for aerial modular reconfigurable robots

    Moshirian, Benjamin and Pounds, Pauline E.I. (2022). Rotor array synergies for aerial modular reconfigurable robots. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9982034

  • Towards multidimensional textural perception and classification through whisker

    Routray, Prasanna Kumar, Kanade, Aditya Sanjiv, Tiwari, Kshitij, Pounds, Pauline and Muniyandi, Manivannan (2022). Towards multidimensional textural perception and classification through whisker. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 14-15 November 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ROSE56499.2022.9977409

  • Pain and Spinal Postural Control: Does Lumbar Pain, Anticipation of Lumbar Pain, or Limb Pain Alter the Neuromuscular and Mechanical Responses to Sudden Axial Load?

    Chang, Shantel, Mohammad Jamil, Ridhwan, Tucker, Kylie, Verrel, Julius, Pounds, Pauline and Claus, Andrew (2019). Pain and Spinal Postural Control: Does Lumbar Pain, Anticipation of Lumbar Pain, or Limb Pain Alter the Neuromuscular and Mechanical Responses to Sudden Axial Load?. Australian Pain Society, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 7-10 April 2019.

  • Towards the Tiny Giant Robot - a low-cost gyroscopically stabilised biped

    Deer, William and Pounds, Pauline (2018). Towards the Tiny Giant Robot - a low-cost gyroscopically stabilised biped. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2018), Lincoln, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2018. Australia: Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.

  • Designing for robust movement in a child-friendly robot

    Taufatofua, Jonathon, Heath, Scott, Ramirez-Brinez, Carlos Andres, Sommer, Kristyn, Durantin, Gautier, Kong, Wilson, Wiles, Janet and Pounds, Pauline (2018). Designing for robust movement in a child-friendly robot. 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 1-5 October 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593414

  • PiRat: an autonomous framework for studying social behaviour in rats and robots

    Heath, Scott, Ramirez-Brinez, Carlos Andres, Arnold, Joshua, Olsson, Ola, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Pounds, Pauline, Wiles, Janet, Leonardis, Eric, Gygi, Emanuel, Leija, Estelita, Quinn, Laleh K. and Chiba, Andrea A. (2018). PiRat: an autonomous framework for studying social behaviour in rats and robots. 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 1-5 October 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594060

  • Mechanical perturbation of spinal postural control with sudden axial load demonstrates different timing of trunk muscles in sitting versus standing

    Young, A., Tucker, K., Verrel, J., Pounds, P. and Claus, A. (2017). Mechanical perturbation of spinal postural control with sudden axial load demonstrates different timing of trunk muscles in sitting versus standing. International Society of Biomechanics XXVI Congress, Brisbane / Brisbane Convention Centre, 23-27 July 2017.

  • Automatic distribution of disposable self-deploying sensor modules

    Pounds, Paul, Potie, Timothy, Kendoul, Farid, Singh, Surya, Jurdak, Raja and Roberts, Jonathan (2016). Automatic distribution of disposable self-deploying sensor modules. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Marrakech, Morocco, 15-18 June 2014. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-23778-7_35

  • Direct thrust and velocity measurement for a micro UAV rotor

    Davis, Edwin and Pounds, Paul E.I. (2016). Direct thrust and velocity measurement for a micro UAV rotor. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016, ACRA 2016, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5-7 December 2016. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.

  • Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot

    Hensby, Kristyn, Wiles, Janet, Boden, Marie, Heath, Scott, Nielsen, Mark, Pounds, Paul, Riddell, Joshua, Rogers, Kristopher, Rybak, Nikodem, Slaughter, Virginia, Smith, Michael, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Worthy, Peter and Weigel, Jason (2016). Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot. 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7-10 March 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451794

  • Social cardboard: pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild

    Wiles, Janet, Worthy, Peter, Hensby, Kristyn, Boden, Marie, Heath, Scott, Pounds, Paul, Rybak, Nikodem, Smith, Michael, Taufotofua, Jonathon and Weigel, Jason (2016). Social cardboard: pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild. 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7-10 March 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451841

  • Towards the stackrotor: aerodynamics, construction, dynamics and control of a vertical stacked-rotor configuration for indoor heavy-lift helicopter robots

    Davis, E., McKay-Lowndes, W., Gonano, D., Hansen, S. and Pounds, P. (2016). Towards the stackrotor: aerodynamics, construction, dynamics and control of a vertical stacked-rotor configuration for indoor heavy-lift helicopter robots. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016, ACRA 2016, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5-7 December 2016. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.

  • Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot

    Worthy, Peter, Boden, Marie, Karimi, Arafeh, Weigel, Jason, Matthews, Ben, Hensby, Kristyn, Heath, Scott, Pounds, Paul, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Smith, Michael, Viller, Stephen and Wiles, Janet (2015). Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot. OZCHI '15, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838793

  • Design and development of ReCOPTER: an open source ROS-based multi-rotor platform for research

    Abeywardena, Dinuka, Pounds, Paul, Hunt, David and Dissanayake, Gamini (2015). Design and development of ReCOPTER: an open source ROS-based multi-rotor platform for research. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, Australia, 2-4 December 2015. Canberra, ACT, Australia: The Australian National University.

  • Output tracking for quadrotor-based aerial manipulators

    Naldi, Roberto, Pounds, Paul, De Marco, Simone and Marconi, Lorenzo (2015). Output tracking for quadrotor-based aerial manipulators. American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, United States, 1-3 July 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ACC.2015.7171003

  • Passive height stability and trajectory repeatability of a quadrotor maneuvering in ground effect with regulated voltage bus

    Davis, Edwin, Spollard, James and Pounds, Paul (2015). Passive height stability and trajectory repeatability of a quadrotor maneuvering in ground effect with regulated voltage bus. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2015), Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2-4 December 2015. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ARAA.

  • Aerial grasping from a helicopter UAV platform

    Pounds, Paul E. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2014). Aerial grasping from a helicopter UAV platform. 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), New Delhi, India, 18-21 2010. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-28572-1_19

  • Rotor Flapping for a Triangular Quadrotor

    du Plessis, Jaco and Pounds, Paul E. I. (2014). Rotor Flapping for a Triangular Quadrotor. Australiasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 2-4 December 2014. Melbourne, VIC Australia: The University of Melbourne.

  • Simple, scalable active cells for articulated robot structures

    Swensen, John P., Nawroj, Ahsan I., Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2014). Simple, scalable active cells for articulated robot structures. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 31 May - 7 June 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907012

  • Soundly located: programmable sounds to assist localization in visual impaired sport

    Singh, Surya P. N., Kurniawati, Hanna, Pounds, Paul E. I., Freakley, Craig, Wilson, Wayne and Arvier, Louise (2014). Soundly located: programmable sounds to assist localization in visual impaired sport. 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, United States, 14-18 September, 2014.

  • The quadroller: modeling of a UAV/UGV hybrid quadrotor

    Page, Jared R. and Pounds, Paul E. I. (2014). The quadroller: modeling of a UAV/UGV hybrid quadrotor. 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, United States, 14-18 September 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943249

  • I-ball: A programmable sporting aid for children with a visual impairment to play soccer

    Singh, Surya, Pounds, Paul and Kurniawati, Hanna (2013). I-ball: A programmable sporting aid for children with a visual impairment to play soccer. 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., 21-26 July 2013. Heidelberg Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39188-0_63

  • Integrated electro-aeromechanical structures for low-cost, self-deploying environment sensors and disposable UAVs

    Pounds, Paul E. I. and Singh, Surya P. N. (2013). Integrated electro-aeromechanical structures for low-cost, self-deploying environment sensors and disposable UAVs. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-10 May 2013. Washington, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631210

  • Towards a more efficient quadrotor configuration

    Driessens, Scott and Pounds, Paul (2013). Towards a more efficient quadrotor configuration. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, Tokyo, Japan, 3-8 November 2013. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696530

  • Paper plane: towards disposable low-cost folded cellulose-substrate UAVs

    Pounds, Paul E. I. (2012). Paper plane: towards disposable low-cost folded cellulose-substrate UAVs. 2012 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Wellington, New Zealand, 3-5 December 2012. Sydney, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA).

  • Samara: low-cost deployment for environmental sensing using passive autorotation

    Valdes, Samuel, Urza, Ignacio, Pounds, Paul E. I. and Singh, Surya (2012). Samara: low-cost deployment for environmental sensing using passive autorotation. Robotic: Science and Systems VII (RSS2012), Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2012.

  • Grasping from the air: hovering capture and load stability

    Pounds, Paul E. I., Bersak, Daniel R. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2011). Grasping from the air: hovering capture and load stability. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shangai, China, 9-13 May 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980314

  • Practical aerial grasping of unstructured objects

    Pounds, Paul E. I., Bersak, Daniel R. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2011). Practical aerial grasping of unstructured objects. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA 2011), Woburn, MA, United States, 11-12 April 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753489

  • UAV rotorcraft in compliant contact: stability analysis and simulation

    Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2011). UAV rotorcraft in compliant contact: stability analysis and simulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, United States, 25-30 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048847

  • Aerial Grasping from a Helicopter Platform

    Pounds, Paul and Dollar, Aaron (2010). Aerial Grasping from a Helicopter Platform. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Delhi, India, 18-21 December 2010.

  • Hovering stability of helicopters with elastic constraints

    Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron (2010). Hovering stability of helicopters with elastic constraints. ASME 2010 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC2010), Boston, United States, 12-15 September 2010. New York, United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. doi: 10.1115/DSCC2010-4166

  • Towards grasping with a helicopter platform: landing accuracy and other challenges

    Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2010). Towards grasping with a helicopter platform: landing accuracy and other challenges. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane Australia, 1-3 December 2010. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA).

  • Design principles of large quadrotors for practical applications

    Pounds, Paul and Mahony, Robert (2009). Design principles of large quadrotors for practical applications. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 12-17 May 2009. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152390

  • Attitude control of rigid body dynamics from biased IMU measurements

    Pounds, Paul, Hamel, Tarek and Mahony, Robert (2007). Attitude control of rigid body dynamics from biased IMU measurements. 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, United States, 12-14 December 2007. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434173

  • System identification and control of an aerobot drive system

    Pounds, Paul, Mahony, Robert and Corke, Peter (2007). System identification and control of an aerobot drive system. Conference on Information Decision and Control, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 12-14 February 2007. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): Piscataway, NJ, United States. doi: 10.1109/IDC.2007.374542

  • Modelling and control of a quad-rotor robot

    Pounds, P., Mahony, M. and Corke, P. (2006). Modelling and control of a quad-rotor robot. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Auckland New Zealand, 6-8 December 2006.

  • Small-scale aeroelastic rotor simulation, design and fabrication

    Pounds, Paul and Mahony, Robert (2005). Small-scale aeroelastic rotor simulation, design and fabrication. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 5-7 December 2005.

  • Towards dynamically favourable Quad-Rotor aerial robots

    Pounds, Paul, Mahony, Robert, Gresham, Joel, Corke, Peter and Roberts, Jonathan (2004). Towards dynamically favourable Quad-Rotor aerial robots. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra Australia, 6-8 December 2004. Canberra A.C.T. Australia: ANU.

  • Design of a four-rotor aerial robot

    Pounds, P., Mahony, R., Hynes, P. and Roberts, J. (2002). Design of a four-rotor aerial robot. Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Auckland New Zealand, 27-29 November 2002.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Tiny Giant Robot 2: First Steps

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Fast Parallelized & Asynchronous Methods for Simulating Autonomous Differential Games

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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