Biography
Dr Damien Kee holds a PhD in Robotics and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his time at the University of Queensland, Damien was the team leader of the Humanoid Robot project that travelled to Japan to compete in RoboCup (2002), as well as the co-team leader of the Mechanical Engineering Student Robotic team that also travelled twice to Japan to compete in RoboCon (1999, 2000). He has built a wide variety of robots, from maze solving mice to humanoids, to robots that could dispense traffic cones.
Damien has been heavily involved with the RoboCup Junior competition since 2001, initially as a judge, and more recently as one of the QLD State competition technical organisers. In 2007, Damien was the Chair of the Organising Committee for the 2007 RoboCup Junior Australian Open that ran successfully with over 140 teams from 3 countries. He is on the RoboCup Junior Australian Committee and is the Australian representative to the RoboCup Junior International Committee.
Damien is a member of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Community Program, a group of approximately 50 people around the world who consult with LEGO to make the MINDSTORMS system a better product. He is also a contributor on the highly popular theNXTstep Blog (http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com), a website for LEGO MINDSTORMS users.
Since 2001, Damien has been a volunteer presenter for The Engineering Links Group running day long Mechatronics and Robotics workshops for senior school students interested in pursuing engineering at a tertiary level.
Damien holds a current 'Blue Card' issued by the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardians.
Professional Affiliations
RoboCup Junior Australia - Technical Committee Member, International Representative
RoboCup Junior Queensland - Committee Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE - Graduate Member
Conference Publications
- D. Kee, G. Wyeth, D. Turk "Guroo Humanoid Robot Project TDP Robocup 2005"In RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, Osaka, Japan, July 2005 Springer-Verlag, 2006(To appear.)
- D. Turk, D. Kee, C. Myatt, G. Wyeth "Fuzzy Associative Memory for Humanoid Robot Joint Control" Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005)
- D. Kee, G. Wyeth, J. Roberts "Biologically Inspired Joint Control for a Humanoid Robot" IEEE Conference on Humanoid Robots 2004, Los Angeles USA, November 11th 12th 2004
- D. Kee, G. Wyeth "Cerebellar Augmented Joint Control for a Humanoid Robot"RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004.
- Roberts J, Kee D, Wyeth G "Improved Joint Control using a Genetic Algorithm for a Humanoid Robot" Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA2003) December 1- 3 Brisbane 2003.
- Kee D, Wyeth G, "Cerebellar Joint Control for a Humanoid Robot" Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA2003) December 1- 3 Brisbane 2003.
- Wyeth G, Kee D, Yik TF, "Evolving a Locus Based Gait for a Humanoid Robot" International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems 2003 (IROS2003) October 27 - 31, Las Vegas 2003.
- Wyeth G, Kee D, "Distributed Control of Gait for a Humanoid Robot" RoboCup-2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
- Kee D, Wyeth G, Hood A, Drury A, "GuRoo: Autonomous Humanoid Platform for Walking Gait Research" Proceedings of the Conference on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE2003) February 18 - 20 , Brisbane 2003
- Wyeth G, Kee D, Wagstaff M, et al, "Design of an Autonomous Humanoid Robot" Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA '01), November 14-15, Sydney 2001