Dr Pauline Pounds
Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
+61 7 336 52883
Journal Articles
Routray, Prasanna K., Subudhi, Debadutta, Sakcak, Basak, LaValle, Steven M., Pounds, Pauline and Manivannan, M. (2024). Separating Intrinsic and Extrinsic Responses of Whisker Sensors Using Accelerometer. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24 (21), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/jsen.2024.3452206
Ramezani, Milad, Wang, Liang, Knights, Joshua, Li, Zhibin, Pounds, Pauline and Moghadam, Peyman (2023). Pose-graph attentional graph neural network for lidar place recognition. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 9 (2), 1182-1189. doi: 10.1109/lra.2023.3341766
Balayla, Jacques, Pounds, Pauline, Lasry, Ariane, Volodarsky-Perel, Alexander and Gil, Yaron (2021). The Montreal Criteria and uterine transplants in transgender women. Bioethics, 35 (4), 326-330. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12832
Deer, William and Pounds, Pauline E. I. (2019). Lightweight whiskers for contact, pre-contact, and fluid velocity sensing. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4 (2) 8641341, 1978-1984. doi: 10.1109/lra.2019.2899215
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Deer, Will (2018). The safety rotor-an electromechanical rotor safety system for drones. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3 (3), 2561-2568. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2811842
Davis, Edwin and Pounds, Paul E. I. (2017). Direct sensing of thrust and velocity for a quadrotor rotor array. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2 (3) 7855755, 1360-1366. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2668471
Heath, Scott, Durantin, Gautier, Boden, Marie, Hensby, Kristyn, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Olsson, Ola, Weigel, Jason, Pounds, Paul and Wiles, Janet (2017). Spatiotemporal aspects of engagement during dialogic storytelling child-robot interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4 (JUN) 27. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2017.00027
Claus, Andrew P., Verrel, Julius, Pounds, Paul E. I., Shaw, Renee C., Brady, Niamh, Chew, Min T., Dekkers, Thomas A. and Hodges, Paul W. (2016). A new method for sudden mechanical perturbation with axial load, to assess postural control in sitting and standing. Journal of Biomechanics, 49 (7), 1141-1148. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.02.039
Davis, Edwin and Pounds, Paul (2016). Passive position control of a quadrotor with ground effect interaction. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1 (1) 7370916, 539-545. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2514351
Driessens, Scott and Pounds, Paul (2015). The triangular quadrotor: a more efficient quadrotor configuration. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 31 (6) 7295615, 1517-1526. doi: 10.1109/TRO.2015.2479877
Pounds, Paul and Singh, Surya (2015). Samara: biologically inspired self-deploying sensor networks. IEEE Potentials, 34 (2) 7054018, 10-14. doi: 10.1109/MPOT.2014.2359034
Pounds, Paul (2015). Teaching mechatronics with tuned problem-based projects. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (1), 41-58. doi: 10.7158/D14-002.2015.20.1
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2014). Stability of helicopters in compliant contact under PD-PID control. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 30 (6) 2363371, 1472-1486. doi: 10.1109/TRO.2014.2363371
Swensen, John P., Nawroj, Ahsan I., Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2014). Active cells for redundant and configurable articulated structures. Smart Materials and Structures, 23 (10) 104003, 104003. doi: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/10/104003
Pounds, Paul E. I., Bersak, Daniel R. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2012). Stability of small-scale UAV helicopters and quadrotors with added payload mass under PID control. Autonomous Robots, 33 (1-2), 129-142. doi: 10.1007/s10514-012-9280-5
Pounds, P., Mahony, R. and Corke, P. (2010). Modelling and control of a large quadrotor robot. Control Engineering Practice, 18 (7), 691-699. doi: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2010.02.008
Pounds, Paul E. I., Mahony, Robert E. and Corke, Peter I. (2009). Design of a static thruster for microair vehicle rotorcraft. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 22 (1), 85-94. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2009)22:1(85)
Conference Papers
Böhm, Peter, Pounds, Pauline and Chapman, Archie C. (2023). Feature extraction for effective and efficient deep reinforcement learning on real robotic platforms. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 29 May - 2 June 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icra48891.2023.10160862
Böhm, Peter, Pounds, Pauline and Chapman, Archie C. (2022). Low-cost real-world implementation of the swing-up pendulum for deep reinforcement learning experiments. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2022), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 6-8 December 2022. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.
Böhm, Peter, Chapman, Archie and Pounds, Pauline (2022). Training directional locomotion for quadrupedal low-cost robotic systems via deep reinforcement learning. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2022) , Brisbane, QLD Australia, 6-8 December 2022. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.
Bohm, Peter, Pounds, Pauline and Chapman, Archie C. (2022). Non-blocking asynchronous training for reinforcement learning in real-world environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981333
Moshirian, Benjamin and Pounds, Pauline E.I. (2022). Rotor array synergies for aerial modular reconfigurable robots. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9982034
Routray, Prasanna Kumar, Kanade, Aditya Sanjiv, Tiwari, Kshitij, Pounds, Pauline and Muniyandi, Manivannan (2022). Towards multidimensional textural perception and classification through whisker. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 14-15 November 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ROSE56499.2022.9977409
Korte, Jessica, Newton, Jacob, Goel, Rudraksh and Pounds, Pauline (2020). Physical requirements for Auslan robots and avatars: “Handy” hands. CoEDL Fest, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 3-6 February 2020. ARC CoEDL.
Chang, Shantel, Mohammad Jamil, Ridhwan, Tucker, Kylie, Verrel, Julius, Pounds, Pauline and Claus, Andrew (2019). Pain and Spinal Postural Control: Does Lumbar Pain, Anticipation of Lumbar Pain, or Limb Pain Alter the Neuromuscular and Mechanical Responses to Sudden Axial Load?. Australian Pain Society, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 7-10 April 2019.
Deer, William and Pounds, Pauline (2018). Towards the Tiny Giant Robot - a low-cost gyroscopically stabilised biped. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2018), Lincoln, New Zealand, 4-6 December 2018. Australia: Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.
Taufatofua, Jonathon, Heath, Scott, Ramirez-Brinez, Carlos Andres, Sommer, Kristyn, Durantin, Gautier, Kong, Wilson, Wiles, Janet and Pounds, Pauline (2018). Designing for robust movement in a child-friendly robot. 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 1-5 October 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593414
Heath, Scott, Ramirez-Brinez, Carlos Andres, Arnold, Joshua, Olsson, Ola, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Pounds, Pauline, Wiles, Janet, Leonardis, Eric, Gygi, Emanuel, Leija, Estelita, Quinn, Laleh K. and Chiba, Andrea A. (2018). PiRat: an autonomous framework for studying social behaviour in rats and robots. 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 1-5 October 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594060
Young, A., Tucker, K., Verrel, J., Pounds, P. and Claus, A. (2017). Mechanical perturbation of spinal postural control with sudden axial load demonstrates different timing of trunk muscles in sitting versus standing. International Society of Biomechanics XXVI Congress, Brisbane / Brisbane Convention Centre, 23-27 July 2017.
Davis, Edwin and Pounds, Paul E.I. (2016). Direct thrust and velocity measurement for a micro UAV rotor. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016, ACRA 2016, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5-7 December 2016. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.
Pounds, Paul, Potie, Timothy, Kendoul, Farid, Singh, Surya, Jurdak, Raja and Roberts, Jonathan (2016). Automatic distribution of disposable self-deploying sensor modules. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Marrakech, Morocco, 15-18 June 2014. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-23778-7_35
Wiles, Janet, Worthy, Peter, Hensby, Kristyn, Boden, Marie, Heath, Scott, Pounds, Paul, Rybak, Nikodem, Smith, Michael, Taufotofua, Jonathon and Weigel, Jason (2016). Social cardboard: pretotyping a social ethnodroid in the wild. 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7-10 March 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451841
Hensby, Kristyn, Wiles, Janet, Boden, Marie, Heath, Scott, Nielsen, Mark, Pounds, Paul, Riddell, Joshua, Rogers, Kristopher, Rybak, Nikodem, Slaughter, Virginia, Smith, Michael, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Worthy, Peter and Weigel, Jason (2016). Hand in hand: tools and techniques for understanding children's touch with a social robot. 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand, 7-10 March 2016. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2016.7451794
Davis, E., McKay-Lowndes, W., Gonano, D., Hansen, S. and Pounds, P. (2016). Towards the stackrotor: aerodynamics, construction, dynamics and control of a vertical stacked-rotor configuration for indoor heavy-lift helicopter robots. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016, ACRA 2016, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 5-7 December 2016. Australasian Robotics and Automation Association.
Abeywardena, Dinuka, Pounds, Paul, Hunt, David and Dissanayake, Gamini (2015). Design and development of ReCOPTER: an open source ROS-based multi-rotor platform for research. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, Australia, 2-4 December 2015. Canberra, ACT, Australia: The Australian National University.
Worthy, Peter, Boden, Marie, Karimi, Arafeh, Weigel, Jason, Matthews, Ben, Hensby, Kristyn, Heath, Scott, Pounds, Paul, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Smith, Michael, Viller, Stephen and Wiles, Janet (2015). Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot. OZCHI '15, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838793
Davis, Edwin, Spollard, James and Pounds, Paul (2015). Passive height stability and trajectory repeatability of a quadrotor maneuvering in ground effect with regulated voltage bus. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2015), Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2-4 December 2015. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ARAA.
Naldi, Roberto, Pounds, Paul, De Marco, Simone and Marconi, Lorenzo (2015). Output tracking for quadrotor-based aerial manipulators. American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, United States, 1-3 July 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ACC.2015.7171003
Swensen, John P., Nawroj, Ahsan I., Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2014). Simple, scalable active cells for articulated robot structures. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, 31 May - 7 June 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907012
du Plessis, Jaco and Pounds, Paul E. I. (2014). Rotor Flapping for a Triangular Quadrotor. Australiasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 2-4 December 2014. Melbourne, VIC Australia: The University of Melbourne.
Singh, Surya P. N., Kurniawati, Hanna, Pounds, Paul E. I., Freakley, Craig, Wilson, Wayne and Arvier, Louise (2014). Soundly located: programmable sounds to assist localization in visual impaired sport. 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, United States, 14-18 September, 2014.
Pounds, Paul E. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2014). Aerial grasping from a helicopter UAV platform. 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), New Delhi, India, 18-21 2010. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-28572-1_19
Page, Jared R. and Pounds, Paul E. I. (2014). The quadroller: modeling of a UAV/UGV hybrid quadrotor. 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, United States, 14-18 September 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943249
Driessens, Scott and Pounds, Paul (2013). Towards a more efficient quadrotor configuration. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, Tokyo, Japan, 3-8 November 2013. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696530
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Singh, Surya P. N. (2013). Integrated electro-aeromechanical structures for low-cost, self-deploying environment sensors and disposable UAVs. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-10 May 2013. Washington, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631210
Singh, Surya, Pounds, Paul and Kurniawati, Hanna (2013). I-ball: A programmable sporting aid for children with a visual impairment to play soccer. 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., 21-26 July 2013. Heidelberg Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39188-0_63
Valdes, Samuel, Urza, Ignacio, Pounds, Paul E. I. and Singh, Surya (2012). Samara: low-cost deployment for environmental sensing using passive autorotation. Robotic: Science and Systems VII (RSS2012), Sydney, Australia, 9-13 July 2012.
Pounds, Paul E. I. (2012). Paper plane: towards disposable low-cost folded cellulose-substrate UAVs. 2012 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Wellington, New Zealand, 3-5 December 2012. Sydney, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA).
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2011). UAV rotorcraft in compliant contact: stability analysis and simulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, United States, 25-30 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048847
Pounds, Paul E. I., Bersak, Daniel R. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2011). Grasping from the air: hovering capture and load stability. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shangai, China, 9-13 May 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980314
Pounds, Paul E. I., Bersak, Daniel R. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2011). Practical aerial grasping of unstructured objects. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA 2011), Woburn, MA, United States, 11-12 April 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753489
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron (2010). Hovering stability of helicopters with elastic constraints. ASME 2010 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC2010), Boston, United States, 12-15 September 2010. New York, United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. doi: 10.1115/DSCC2010-4166
Pounds, Paul and Dollar, Aaron (2010). Aerial Grasping from a Helicopter Platform. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Delhi, India, 18-21 December 2010.
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Dollar, Aaron M. (2010). Towards grasping with a helicopter platform: landing accuracy and other challenges. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane Australia, 1-3 December 2010. Brisbane, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association (ARAA).
Pounds, Paul and Mahony, Robert (2009). Design principles of large quadrotors for practical applications. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 12-17 May 2009. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152390
Pounds, Paul, Hamel, Tarek and Mahony, Robert (2007). Attitude control of rigid body dynamics from biased IMU measurements. 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, United States, 12-14 December 2007. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers). doi: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434173
Pounds, Paul, Mahony, Robert and Corke, Peter (2007). System identification and control of an aerobot drive system. Conference on Information Decision and Control, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 12-14 February 2007. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): Piscataway, NJ, United States. doi: 10.1109/IDC.2007.374542
Pounds, P., Mahony, M. and Corke, P. (2006). Modelling and control of a quad-rotor robot. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Auckland New Zealand, 6-8 December 2006.
Pounds, Paul and Mahony, Robert (2005). Small-scale aeroelastic rotor simulation, design and fabrication. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 5-7 December 2005.
Pounds, Paul, Mahony, Robert, Gresham, Joel, Corke, Peter and Roberts, Jonathan (2004). Towards dynamically favourable Quad-Rotor aerial robots. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra Australia, 6-8 December 2004. Canberra A.C.T. Australia: ANU.
Pounds, P., Mahony, R., Hynes, P. and Roberts, J. (2002). Design of a four-rotor aerial robot. Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Auckland New Zealand, 27-29 November 2002.
Creative Works
McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Pounds, Pauline, Donaldson, James, Mann, Charlotte and Boden, Marie (2022). Wondrous Machines: Hero of Alexandria's Ancient Automata. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.
McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Gerolemou, Maria, Galluzzo, Gabriele, Boden, Marie, Pounds, Pauline and Mann, Charlotte (2022). Wondrous Machines Opening Event. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.
Patents
Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2022). Force sensing device. AU2017365703B2.
Pounds, Pauline Edith Iyan (2021). Gyroscopically stabilised legged robot. 17299213.
Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2021). Force sensing device. CN110023730B.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2021). A rotorcraft. AU2014344813B2.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2021). A rotorcraft. EP3063064B1.
Pounds, Pauline Edith Iyan (2021). Safety rotor. 11027831.
Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2020). Force sensing device. EP3545277A4.
Pounds, Pauline (2020). Gyroscopically stabilised legged robot. WO2020113262A1.
Pounds, Paul Edward Ian (2020). Safety rotor. WO2017008107A1.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2019). Container venting system. 10,490,791.
Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2019). Force sensing device. 16463110.
Pounds, Paul Edward Ian and Linsdley, Ted (2019). Gimbal stabilized components for remotely operated aerial vehicles. US10409293B1.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2019). Failover navigation for remotely operated aerial vehicles. US10394240B1.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2019). Battery status and failure detector. US10270137B1.
Pounds, Paul E. I. and Lindsley, Ted (2019). Augmented radar camera view for remotely operated aerial vehicles. US10228691B1.
Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2018). Force sensing device. WO2018094454A1.
Pounds, Paul E.I. and Lindsley, Edward (2018). Positioning hovering objects for docking. US9862504B1.
Pounds, Paul E. I. (2017). Battery failure venting system. US9806310B1.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2017). Apparatus for replenishing a vehicle energy source. US9764652B2.
Pounds, Paul E. I. (2017). Vehicle replenishment. US9577445B2.
Pounds, Paul E.I. (2015). A rotorcraft. WO2015061857A1.