Automation and Robotics

Monash IRT facilitates advanced technologies and innovations for railways in robotics, drones, computer vision, and autonomous systems.

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.

Areas include:

• Automated inspection of inaccessible track areas such as cuttings, culverts or tunnels, even where GPS auto-locating signals are not available
• Visual, infrared, laser and other inspection techniques to identify issues
• Environmental mapping
• Automated inspection and maintenance of rollingstock components