{"id":139,"date":"2022-10-01T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T10:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2022-10-10T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:45:20","slug":"research-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/research-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Current Research<\/h1>\n<h2>Research Areas<\/h2>\n<p>The Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/cdert\">CDERT<\/a>) conducts research in maritime autonomy, robotics, signal processing, AI\/ML and cyber systems.<\/p>\n<p>Aspects of our research activities are concerned with improving the robustness, reliability, and autonomy of Topcat. We are currently conducting research in three main areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Mission planning<\/li>\n<li>Control systems<\/li>\n<li>Object recognition and classification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This research has led to the ongoing development of state of the art predictive control systems and new mission planning algorithms which we will be testing out on TopCat in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-135\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-2048x1340.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-696x455.jpg 696w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-1068x699.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/maritime-robotx-challenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2022\/10\/topcat_beached-642x420.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Current Research Research Areas The Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training (CDERT) conducts research in maritime autonomy, robotics, signal processing, AI\/ML and cyber systems. Aspects of our research activities are concerned with improving the robustness, reliability, and autonomy of Topcat. We are currently conducting research in three main areas: Mission planning Control systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research - Maritime RobotX Challenge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research - Maritime RobotX Challenge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Current Research Research Areas The Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training (CDERT) conducts research in maritime autonomy, robotics, signal processing, AI\/ML and cyber systems. 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