Peter Corke

Who is Peter Corke?

Peter Corke is an Australian roboticist known for his work on Visual Servoing, field robotics and the MATLAB Toolboxes for Robotics and Machine Vision. He is currently director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision, and a Professor of Robotics and Control at Queensland University of Technology. At QUT his research is concerned with robotic vision, flying robots and robots for agriculture.

He received Bachelor of Engineering, Masters of Engineering and PhD degrees from University of Melbourne in Australia and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine from 2009 to 2013, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics

After graduation in 1981 he worked at the University of Melbourne, first as a research assistant and later as a lecturer. His work was concerned with computer-aided control system design and real-time control implementation, and he taught digital control applications and computer architectures.

In 1984 he commenced with CSIRO where he worked on robotic force control for deburring, flexible manufacturing systems, and custom architectures of high-speed computer vision.