Staff Profile
Phil Valencia
Research Engineer
Autonomous Systems Laboratory
CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane
Contact Details
Queensland Centre for Advanced technolgies (QCAT)
1 Technology Court
Pullenvale,
QLD 4069
PO Box 883 Kenmore,
QLD 4069
Telephone: +61 7 3327 4581
Fax: + 61 7 3327 4455
E-mail: Phil Valencia
Telephone: + 61 7 3327 4136
Fax: +61 7 3327 4455
Key Skills
Finishing a double degree
(BEng/BIT) at
QUT in 2001, my final year project was developing a single
camera solution for a corridor navigating robot. This interest was
sparked from working on a “sumo robot” I worked on the previous
year. From then, and probably before, I have had an affinity for
robotics, intelligence and how to merge the two.
I first worked at CSIRO
as a summer vacation student in 1999/2000 and later returned as a
full time research engineer in 2001. Initially I worked on vision
processing for gesture based computer interaction before joining the
real-time time facial recognition project. Shortly after this in
2002, I became involved in the
Ageless Aerospace Vehicle project (AAV) and started
investigating Multi-Agent System (MAS) and Complex Systems Science
(through
CSIRO CSS) as methods for engineering robust solutions for
structural health monitoring. My work on the AAV was shifted into
the
Smart Spaces project, which focussed on the philosophy of
engineering distributed intelligence and control, which was used by
the AAV. Through the Smart Spaces project my attention was expanded
to include distributed sensing and actuation for environmental
resource management which is an important topic within
Australia. However, it wasn’t until I
moved to the
ICT Autonomous Systems Lab (CSIRO ICT ASL) in Queensland during
2004, that I had the opportunity to work with
deployed environmental sensor networks which has been a real
buzz.
The
Queensland portion of the CSIRO ICT ASL has a
strong robotics history of applying automated and robotic solutions
to the real world. Inspired by the surrounding robotics and having a
reasonable background in complex systems, I was inspired to begin
PhD studies at the
University of Queensland on how to engineer distributed
solutions through the symbiosis between swarm robots and intelligent
environments (sensor networks). I have managed to wrangle
Dr Peter Corke and
Dr Hussein Abbass as my supervisors which is extraordinary
benefit to me since together their wealth of experience spans pretty
much all facets of my research. I have also managed to position
myself with the
ARC Centre for Complex Systems directed by
Prof Peter Lindsay who provides me with additional mentorship
while at the UQ campus. Interestingly, 4 years after working on a
corridor navigating robot, I find myself surrounded by a fleet of
small robotic toy cars which will soon be navigating around the
corridors. (..admittedly I have grander plans for these than just
wondering the corridors)
I also am a keen advocate
of increasing the exposure of maths and science to students from
K-12 and try to convey that a science/research career is fulfilling
and fun. To this end I have been on
Channel 10’s Totally Wild children’s educational TV show (for
AAV and
Science Reporter for a Day) and have a segment in an upcoming
episode of
SCOPE children’s science educational TV show. I have also
provided interviews and demonstrations for the
CSIRO Discovery Centre,
Careers in Science (ANSTO publication), Cheez TV and talks to
various schools.
Professional Interests
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Distributed Intelligence and Control
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Wireless ad hoc Sensor Networks
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Real-time Vision Processing
Professional Memberships
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Member IEEE
(Computation Intelligence Society, Computing Society)
Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering
(Electronic Engineering) / Bachelor of Information Technology (QUT
2001)
Publications
2005
- Engineering Self-organising Systems: Methodologies and Applications,
ISBN:3-540-26180-X
Part III: Self-assembly and Robots “Directed Self-assembly of
2-Dimensional Mesoblocks Using Top-Down/Bottom-Up Design” pp 154 - .
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-147-22-50493394-0,00.html
Geoff Poulton, Ying Guo, Geoff James, Phil Valencia, Vadim Gerasimov
and Jiaming Li
-
Self-organising Hierarchies in Sensor and Communication Networks.
Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Don Price, Philip Valencia, Mark
Foreman, Anthony Farmer. To appear in The Artificial Life Journal – special issue on Dynamic Hierarchies, 2005
2004
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On Connectivity of Reconfigurable Impact Networks in Ageless
Aerospace Vehicles. Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang, Mark Foreman, Philip Valencia, Don
Price, Geoff Poulton. To appear in Special Issue – Journal on
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2004.
- Designing stable structures in a multi-agent self-assembly system.
Ying
Guo, Geoff Poulton, Geoff James, Phil Valencia, Vadim Gerasimov, and
Jiaming Li. Accepted for the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), Beijing
September 2004.
- Multi-agent self-assembly simulation environment.
Vadim
Gerasimov, Ying Guo, Geoff James, Geoff Poulton, Phil Valencia. 3rd
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS-2004), New York, July 2004.
- Directed self-assembly of 2-dimensional Meso-blocks using
Top-down/Bottom-up design. Geoff
Poulton, Ying Guo, Geoff James, Phil Valencia, Vadim Gerasimov, and
Jiaming Li. Second International Workshop on Engineering
Self-Organising Applications (ESOA 2004), New York, July 2004.
- Designing enzymes in a multi-agent system based on a genetic
algorithm. Geoff
Poulton, Ying Guo, Phil Valencia, Geoff James, Mikhail Prokopenko,
and Peter Wang. The 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous
Systems, Amsterdam Netherlands (IAS-8), March 2004.
- Designing self-assembly for 2-dimensional building blocks.
Ying
Guo, Geoff Poulton, Phil Valencia, and Geoff James. In Engineering
Self-Organising Systems: Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software
Engineering, LNAI 2977, pp. 75-89, Springer, February 2004.
2003
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An Integrated Health Monitoring System for an Ageless Aerospace
Vehicle.
D.
Price, A. Scott, G. Edwards, A. Batten, A. Farmer, M. Hedley, M.
Johnson, C. Lewis, G. Poulton, M. Prokopenko, P. Valencia, P. Wang. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Structural Health
Monitoring, Stanford, September 2003.
- Concepts for an Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring System. Review
of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation.
D. Abbott, B. Doyle, J.B. Dunlop, A.J. Farmer, M. Hedley, J.
Herrmann, G.C. James, M.E. Johnson, B. Joshi, G.T. Poulton, D.C.
Price, M. Prokopenko, T. Reda, D.E. Rees, D.A. Scott, P. Valencia,
D. Ward and J.G. Winter. Vol. 22, pp.1606-14 (eds. D.O. Thompson and
D.E. Chimenti), American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings
Vol. 657, 2003.
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Self-organising Impact Boundaries in Ageless Aerospace Vehicles.
Howard Lovatt, Geoff Poulton, Don Price, Mikhail Prokopenko, Phil
Valencia and Peter Wang. In Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent
Systems (AAMAS-2003), Melbourne, July 2003.
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Self-reconfigurable Sensor Networks in Ageless Aerospace Vehicles.
Peter Wang, Philip Valencia, Mikhail Prokopenko, Don Price, and
Geoff Poulton. In Proceedings of the 11th International
Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR-03), Portugal, July 2003.
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Designing self-assembly for 2-dimensional building blocks.
Ying
Guo, Geoff Poulton, Phil Valencia, and Geoff James. First
International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA
2003), Melbourne July 2003. Expanded version of paper accepted for
publication in the ESA03 post-proceedings volume.
2002
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Development and Evaluation of Sensor Concepts for Ageless Aerospace
Vehicles. Threats and Measurands.
D.
Abbott, S. Cunningham, G. Daniels, B. Doyle, J. Dunlop, D. Economou,
T. Farmer, D. Farrant, C. Foley, B. Fox, M. Hedley, J. Herrmann, C.
Jacka, G. James, M. Johnson, B. Martin, G. Poulton, D. Price, T.
Reda, G. Rosolen, A. Scott, P. Valencia, D. Ward, J. Winter, A.
Young. NASA technical report NASA/CR-2002-211772, Langley Research
Center, Hampton, Virginia, 2002.
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Development and Evaluation of Sensor Concepts for Ageless Aerospace
Vehicles. Development of Concepts for an Intelligent Sensing System.
D.
Abbott, B. Doyle, J. Dunlop, T. Farmer, M. Hedley, J. Herrmann, G.
James, M. Johnson, B. Joshi, G. Poulton, D. Price, M. Prokopenko, T.
Reda, D. Rees, A. Scott, P. Valencia, D. Ward, J. Winter. NASA
technical report NASA/CR-2002-211773, Langley Research Center,
Hampton, Virginia, 2002.
- Concepts for an Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring System. D. Abbott, B. Doyle, J. Dunlop, T. Farmer, M. Hedley, J. Herrmann,
G. James, M. Johnson, B. Joshi, G. Poulton, D. Price, M. Prokopenko,
T. Reda, D. Rees, A. Scott, P. Valencia, D. Ward, J. Winter.
Proceedings of 29th Annual Review of Quantitative Nondestructive
Evaluation (QNDE 2002) Conference, American Institute of Physics,
July 2002.
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