robotics/pg-eng-robotics

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Monash University

Postgraduate - Area of study

Students who commenced study in 2015 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirements; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

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Managing facultyFaculty of Engineering

Notes

  • Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Description

Combining a detailed understanding of mechanics and kinetics with electronics and computing, mechatronics is a dynamic and highly productive research area.

Monash's robotics and vision work is known the world over, especially for combining sophisticated computer algorithms with multiple types of sensor on novel hardware platforms, to create robots that are able to understand their environment in a way that they can make intelligent decisions when given new tasks to perform.

There are robots equipped with 360-degree vision, laser rangers, 360-degree sonar and odour sensors. Robots can assist the aged by interpreting their gestures, navigate through disaster sites, burrow underground, rescue divers, fly through the air, swarm like ants, generate maps, interpret changes and build up knowledge of the environment.

Units

For the sequence of units required to complete a given course in this area of study, refer to the Handbook entry for the relevant course.

Contact details

Relevant courses

  • 3292 Master of Engineering Science (Research)
  • 3291 Doctor of Philosophy*

* By research.