Autonomous Systems

Technology to enable trusted inter-operation between humans and swarms of autonomous systems and platforms. Shepherding is the ability to guide, influence or reshape a group of autonomous systems towards a goal with optimised efforts to the shepherd and the group.

Design is a value-driven activity, although the ethical, legal and social values often remain implicit and unarticulated. We specialise in teasing out these values with a unique methodology to build robot/AI, cyber and human enhancement systems that are more effective, efficient and better accepted by users, clients and the public.

Trusted autonomy is a game-changing area of defence research centred on understanding and engineering the interaction space between humans and machines.

Developing interpretable data mining, machine learning and deep learning algorithms—as well as designing systems and interfaces—to enable novel ways of human-machine interactions, including an improved understanding of challenges such as trust, explainability and resilience that improve human-autonomy partnership.

Persistent autonomous operation of commercial-grade field vehicles such as agricultural tractors, bulldozers and other mining vehicles, military vehicles and civil construction vehicles.

A unique laboratory that aims to investigate the travel choice behaviour of car drivers. It is the world’s first laboratory in which multiple human drivers are able to drive around and interact in a single, virtual world.