Peter Corke
Chief Roboticist at Lyro Robotics
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolPeter Corke is a veteran roboticist with 18 years of focused experience bridging advanced robotics research and industry, currently serving as Chief Roboticist at Lyro Robotics while holding emeritus and founding roles across academia and startups in Queensland, Australia. He led large multidisciplinary programs—most notably as Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision—and has a track record of translating vision, control and path-planning research into deployed systems and advisory roles for industry and government. A prolific educator, he has taught robotics at scale via MOOCs and university courses and founded initiatives like the QUT Robot Academy and Robotic Vision Summer School to grow talent nationally. Peter is an active open-source maintainer of the widely used Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB and Python, contributing core path-planning, geometry and visualization fixes that underpin research and teaching workflows. His work spans from Antarctic robotic deployments and aerial robotics to deep-learned control and very low-light imaging, reflecting a rare mix of field-tested systems engineering and foundational research. He holds a PhD in engineering and combines decades of hands-on development with strategic leadership in both not-for-profit and commercial robotics ventures.
18 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Castlemaine High SchoolThe University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (17)
robotics10
geometry10
python10
matlab10
algorithm9
algorithms9
pathfinding9
numerical-methods7
graph-theory7
imshow6
opencv6
ipython6
colorbar6
numpy6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
petercorke/robotics-toolbox-matlab
Feb 2012 - Sep 2020
Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 1060 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB. Their contributions involved optionally returning a handle to a teach window and improving type checking in Simulink related modules. The user also made significant changes to the path planning methods, with changes to the path() method to reflect changes in PGraph, along with the ability to create animation using the Animate class, indicating a focus on core functionality and user interface enhancements. Moreover, the user showed a strong interest in fixing multiple bugs and error conditions, indicating an emphasis on improving the robustness of the codebase.
matlab-toolboxkinematicsroboticsmobile-robotsmatlab
petercorke/robotics-toolbox-python
Mar 2008 - Jan 2023
Robotics Toolbox for Python
Role in this project:Developer
DeveloperContributions:844 commits, 17 PRs, 287 pushes in 15 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter's commits primarily focus on addressing mesh path handling issues, suggesting work within the robot geometry and path planning domains. They are modifying code related to a robot base frame as well as addressing issues related to the proper functionality of a robotic system, and implementing functionality relating to a new type of mesh. The changes span multiple files, indicating contributions to the core functionality of the robotics toolbox.
robotics-simulationkinematicspythonroboticstoolbox
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