2026 Peter Corke: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	88	672	652	15	15	530	37278
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	88	317	308	11	11	526	37155

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
2019 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
2008 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to visual-based robot control and its applications to field robotics

Overview

Peter Corke is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with a significant focus on control and automation within robotics.

The main fields of study for Peter Corke include:

Engineering
Computer Science

Within these fields, their research covers subfields such as:

Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

The core topics in Peter Corke's work focus on various aspects of robotics and automation, including:

Robot Manipulation and Learning
Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Peter Corke has contributed multiple recent papers on robotics and related technologies. Notable publications include:

Semantics for Robotic Mapping, Perception and Interaction: A Survey (2020), published in Foundations and Trends in Robotics
Robotic Vision for Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration: A Survey and Systematic Review (2022), published in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
A Survey on Terrain Traversability Analysis for Autonomous Ground Vehicles: Methods, Sensors, and Challenges (2022), published in Field Robotics
NEO: A Novel Expeditious Optimisation Algorithm for Reactive Motion Control of Manipulators (2021), published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Run-Time Monitoring of Machine Learning for Robotic Perception: A Survey of Emerging Trends (2021), published in IEEE Access

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Peter Corke include:

Witold Jachimczyk
Remo Pillat
Jesse Haviland
Akansel Cosgun
Feras Dayoub

The common venues where Peter Corke has published work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Journal of Field Robotics
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Foundations and Trends in Robotics

Peter Corke has also authored several books published by Springer Nature and Springer Science+Business Media, including:

Robotics, Vision and Control (2023)
Robotics and Control (2021)
Robotic Vision (2021)
Computer Vision Systems (2023)

Awards received by Peter Corke include:

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2019)
IEEE Fellow (2008), for contributions to visual-based robot control and its applications to field robotics

Best Publications

A tutorial on visual servo control

S. Hutchinson;G.D. Hager;P.I. Corke

4854
Citations
Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in MATLAB

Peter Corke

2159
Citations
Multirotor Aerial Vehicles: Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Quadrotor

R. Mahony;V. Kumar;P. Corke

1743
Citations
A robotics toolbox for MATLAB

P.I. Corke

1464
Citations
Visual Place Recognition: A Survey

Stephanie Lowry;Niko Sunderhauf;Paul Newman;John J. Leonard

1153
Citations
Data collection, storage, and retrieval with an underwater sensor network

I. Vasilescu;K. Kotay;D. Rus;M. Dunbabin

875
Citations
Modelling and control of a large quadrotor robot

Paul Pounds;Robert Mahony;Peter Corke

786
Citations
Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks

Peter Corke;Tim Wark;Raja Jurdak;Wen Hu

647
Citations
A new partitioned approach to image-based visual servo control

P.I. Corke;S.A. Hutchinson

628
Citations
The limits and potentials of deep learning for robotics

Niko Sünderhauf;Oliver Brock;Walter J. Scheirer;Raia Hadsell

568
Citations
VISUAL CONTROL OF ROBOT MANIPULATORS – A REVIEW

Peter I. Corke

551
Citations
TRAFFIC CAMERA MONITORS VEHICLE MOVEMENT AND PREDICTS WHEN VEHICLE WILL BE IN POSITION TO ACQUIRE IMAGE

Auty Glen William;Corke Peter Ian;Dunn Paul Alexander;Macintyre Ian Barry

546
Citations
Transforming Agriculture through Pervasive Wireless Sensor Networks

T. Wark;P. Corke;P. Sikka;L. Klingbeil

535
Citations
Closing the Loop for Robotic Grasping: A Real-time, Generative Grasp Synthesis Approach

Douglas Morrison;Juxi Leitner;Peter Corke

501
Citations
Visual Control of Robots: High-Performance Visual Servoing

Peter I. Corke

472
Citations
Robotics, Vision and Control

Peter Corke

471
Citations
Monitoring Animal Behaviour and Environmental Interactions Using Wireless Sensor Networks, GPS Collars and Satellite Remote Sensing

Rebecca N. Handcock;Dave L. Swain;Greg J. Bishop-Hurley;Kym P. Patison

449
Citations
Modelling and control of a quad-rotor robot

Paul Pounds;Robert Mahony;Peter Ian Corke

440
Citations
Learning robust, real-time, reactive robotic grasping:

Douglas Morrison;Peter Corke;Jürgen Leitner

438
Citations
An Introduction to Inertial and Visual Sensing

Peter Corke;Jorge Lobo;Jorge Dias

416
Citations
Brief Nonlinear control of the Reaction Wheel Pendulum

Mark W. Spong;Peter Corke;Rogelio Lozano

385
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Upcroft Queensland University of Technology

Robert Mahony Australian National University

Daniela Rus MIT

Michael Milford Queensland University of Technology

Wen Hu University of New South Wales

Mohammed Bennamoun University of Western Australia

Niko Sünderhauf Queensland University of Technology

François Chaumette University of Rennes

Seth Hutchinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Conrad Sanderson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

External Links

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