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Position | Senior Research Scientist |
| Torsten.Mertz(at)csiro.au | ||
| CSIRO page | CSIRO Profile | |
| Phone | +61 7 3327 4123 | |
| Fax | +61 07 3327 4455 | |
| Room | QCAT |
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| Bio | ||
| Torsten Merz studied "Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences" at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and graduated 1995 with the degree of "Diplom-Informatiker". From 1995 to 2000, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Pattern Recognition at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). In 2000, he completed a doctoral thesis on the topic of model-based analysis of interference patterns and received a doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. From 2001 to 2005 he was with the Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems Division of the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University (Sweden). He joined the division as a Postdoc and later became assistant professor in AI robotics. He was head of the Perception and Control Group which, among others, developed an avionics system for an autonomous mini-helicopter. In 2006, he joined CSIRO's Autonomous Systems Laboratory. Currently, he is leading the development of an aerial robot for power line inspection and he is involved in the establishment of the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA). |
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| Research Interest | ||
| More here | ||
| Publications | ||
| Available here | ||
Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation
