Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte
Hugh Durrant-Whyte | |
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| Born | Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte 6 February 1961 |
| Nationality | British and Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania University of London |
| Known for | Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) |
| Awards | M. A. Sargent Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford The University of Sydney |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard P. Paul |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | sydney |
Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte FRS FAA (born 6 February 1961) is a British-Australian engineer and academic. He is known for his pioneering work on probabilistic methods for robotics. The algorithms developed in his group since the early 1990s permit autonomous vehicles to deal with uncertainty and to localize themselves despite noisy sensor readings using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).