Pavan Sikka

Pavan Sikka

Team Leader (Software Engineering)

Contact

PO Box 883
Kenmore QLD 4069

Tel: 61 7 3327 4052
Fax: 61 7 3327 4455

Themes

  • Transformational Biology
  • P-Health
  • Transforming the Future Mines
  • Service Oriented Systems

Projects

  • Aerial Imaging Workflow
  • START-EXTEND
  • Mobile telepresence for museums

Science Area

  • Robotics

Academic Qualifications

1994 PhD University of Alberta (Canada), Robotics
1988 M Eng Indian Institute of Science (India), Computer Science
1985 B Tech Indian Institute of Technology (New Delhi, India), Elec Eng

Recent Professional Experience

2009-current Team Leader, ICT Centre
2005-2007 Project Leader, ICT Centre
2001 Software Engineer, Automation Group, CSIRO MS&T
1998 Real-time Programmer, Automation Group, CSIRO MS&T

Achievements & Awards

2003 Exploration and Mining One-CSIRO Award, Mining AutomationTeam
1999 One Off Reward, Load Haul Dump Team

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Books/Book chapters 0
Journal 2
Refereed Conference/Workshop 18
Technical/Client Reports 2
Invited Presentations 1
Patents 0

Science Citizenship

2007 TPC, International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad hoc Networks.
2006-2010 TPC, IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications.
2006 TPC, Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, Boston, USA.
2006 Reviewer, IPSN/SPOTS 2006
2005-2007 Reviewer, Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Hong Zhang, Pavan Sikka, and Steve Sutphen, "Tactile servo: control of touch driven robot motion", Experimental Robotics III, The Third International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 233-244, 1993.
Pavan Sikka and Brenan J. McCarragher, "Learning to Recognize Discrete State Transitions in Assembly", Proc. National Conference of the Australian Robot Association, Melbourne, 1995.
Steven Charlton, Pavan Sikka, and Hong Zhang, "Extracting Contact Parameters from Tactile Sensors Using Neural Networks", Proc. International Conference on Neural Networks, Perth, 1995.
Geir E. Hovland, Pavan Sikka and Brenan J. McCarragher, "Skill Acquisition from Human Demonstration Using a Hidden Markov Model", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, USA, 1996.
Pavan Sikka and Brenan J. McCarragher, "Monitoring Contact Using Clustering and Discriminant Functions", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, USA, 1996.
Pavan Sikka and Brenan J. McCarragher, "Rule-based Contact Monitoring using Examples Obtained by Task Demonstration", Proc. Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Japan, 1997.
Pavan Sikka and Brenan J. McCarragher, "Stiffness-based Understanding and Modeling of Contact Tasks by Human Demonstration", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1997.
Peter Corke, Pavan Sikka, Jonathan Roberts, and Elliot Duff, "DDX: A Distributed Software Architecture for Robotic Systems", Proc. Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, December 2004.
Pavan Sikka, Peter Corke, and Leslie Overs, "Wireless sensor devices for animal tracking and control", Proc. First IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, Tampa, Florida, November 2004.
P. Sikka and P. Corke and P. Valencia and C. Crossman and D. Swain and G. Bishop-Hurley, "Wireless Adhoc Sensor and Actuator Networks on the Farm", Proc. IPSN/SPOTS 2006.

Number of citations

ISI 8
Google Scholar 29