B Arts (Music), B Electronic Eng, M Philosophy, PhD
Professor, Griffith School of Engineering
Contact details for Professor Ljubo Vlacic
Research expertise
Professor Vlacic's research interests, and contributions to research, span the areas of control systems, decision theory, intelligent control and computer & systems engineering and the application of these methodologies to industrial automation, mechatronics, intelligent robotics, autonomous systems, manufacturing, computer and communication systems, knowledge management and intelligent vehicles & transport systems.
Current teaching areas
- Control Systems
- Digital Control Systems Engineering
- Industrial Affiliates Program 1
Publications
Professor Vlacic is the co-author of two research monographs, co-editor of several books and co-author of over 100 journal articles, conference papers and book-chapters. Among them
- Julian Kolodko and Ljubo Vlacic 2005, Motion Vision: Design of Compact Motion Sensing Solutions for Autonomous Systems Navigation, The Institution of Electrical Engineers (subsequently the Institution of Engineering and Technology), London, United kingdom ISBN 0 86341 453 2.
- Toby J. Myers, Tony Noel, Michel Parent and Ljubo Vlacic 2005, 'Autonomous Motion of a Driverless Vehicle operating among Dynamic Obstacles', in Procedings of the 44th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Los Alamitos, CA..
- Daniel Thomas and Ljubo Vlacic 2005, 'TeamMate: Computer Game Environment for Collaborative and Social Interaction', in Proceedings of the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO'05), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Nagoya, Japan.
- Julian Kolodko and Ljubo Vlacic 2004, 'Fusion of Range and Vision for Real-Time Motion Estimation', in 2004 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, NJ.
- Kolodko and Ljubo Vlacic 2003, 'Cooperative Autonomous Driving at the Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory', in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Intelligent Systems: Putting A I into Practice, vol.18, no.4, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., United States.
- Jonathan Baber, Ljubo Vlacic, Tony Noel and Michel Parent (2003), 'Personal Rapid Transportation in Cities', in Computing and Control Engineering, vol.14, no.4, Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom.
- Hitchings, M., Lj Vlacic (2001) and V. Kecman (2001). Intelligent Control. In the book of Vlacic, Harashima and Parent (Eds.) Intelligent Vehicles: Theory and Applications, Butterworth & Heinemann, UK.,Pages.289-327.