The authors

Peter, Remo and Witek at MathWorks Lakeside campus, June 2023

Peter Corke is a robotics educator and researcher. He is known for his work in vision-based control and field robotics, as well as open-source robotics software and educational resources such as the QUT Robot Academy. He is a distinguished professor emeritus at the Queensland University of Technology, Chief Roboticist at LYRO Robotics, technical advisor to Emesent. He started using MATLAB in 1986, has been a consultant to MathWorks, and spent a sabbatical at MathWorks, Lakeside in 2018. He was the Australian University Teacher of the Year in 2017 and is a fellow of the IEEE, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and the Australian Academy of Science. He holds a B.Eng and M.Eng.Sci. in electrical engineering, and PhD in mechanical engineering, all from the University of Melbourne.

Witold Jachimczyk manages the Computer Vision and Automated Driving development teams at MathWorks. He worked on the Image Processing Toolbox™ prior to leading the development of Computer Vision Toolbox™ and Automated Driving Toolbox™. Before MathWorks, he worked at Data Translation developing machine vision software and at Polaroid on embedded systems. Witek holds a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Remo Pillat is the MathWorks development manager for the robotics & autonomous systems team, which focuses on providing a set of robust algorithms and simulation tools for autonomous ground vehicles, robot manipulators, and UAVs. Prior to joining MathWorks, Remo’s research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) focused on multisensor fusion, state estimation, and environment modelling for autonomous ground vehicles. He was the chief software engineer for UCF’s self-driving car and responsible for vehicle control as well as real-time obstacle detection and tracking.