Experience
Luke Cole is a member of the
Queensland University of Technology
(QUT) Engineering Course Advisory Group and
Engineers Australia
(membership # 2274590).
Hemisphere GPS -
Robotics Engineer
[ From February 2009 ]
Implementing autonomous solutions
for industrial equipment such as agriculture and mining trucks.
NICTA -
Research Assistant / Robotics Engineer
[ January 2004 - December 2008 ]
Designing and implementing various circuits and software for
robots (e.g.
InsectBot)
and researching vision-based approaches for mobile robots.
LAT -
Embedded Programmer / Mechatronics Engineer
[ November 2006 - February 2008 ]
Developing location aware technology for needs such as asset
tags and man down systems. Work involved embedded programming,
mechatronics technician and lead Linux network systems admin.
CSIRO ICT Centre -
Mechatronics Engineer
[ October 2005 - May 2006 ]
Working with the "Connecting People Team" designing
and implementing a video conferencing AirHockey
game along with technical support during demonstrations at
CeNTIE 2005 and CeBIT 2006.
Sweden Robotics Lab visit
[ July 2003 ]
Invited to
Centre for Autonomous Systems,
Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm, Sweden. Developed a trivial speech recognition system
in 1.5 weeks.
Seeing Machines -
Causal Technician
[ July 2002 & September 2003 ]
Soldered and assembled defused IR torches for using cameras at
night, during one week of July 2002. Installed car secondary
power supply system for on-board car computers, during one week
of September 2003.
RSISE,
ANU -
Technician
[ December 2000 - December 2003 ]
Working with the "Robotics System Lab" team.
Implemented the hardware designs for all of the labs projects,
along with the setup and maintenance of the workshop over 3
years. One major project was the development of the Smart Car
research platform.
RSISE,
ANU -
Non-remunerate Casual Technical Assistant
[ 1998 & 1999 high school holidays ]
Working with the "Robotics System Lab" team. Designed
and implemented a thruster testing unit and a leak detected
circuit for the Kambara submersible robot
during two separate weeks of 1998 and 1999 high school
holidays.
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Technical Skills
Below are outlined Luke Cole's primary technical skills.
Summary:
- Autonomous Robot Navigation: Primary experience is
indoor localisation via a particle filter and LIDAR and/or
Ultrasonic/IR and/or Vision; outdoor localisation via particle
filter and vision; and outdoor localisation via Kalman filter
and GPS/DMU; and path planning via Vector Field Histogram; and
collision avoidance via Dynamic Window Approach
- Computer/Machine Vision: Primary experience is with
Optical Flow, Object Recognition, Face Recognition, Hough
Transforms, Template Matching using either OpenCV or DROS VisLib (which I personally
wrote for DROS)
- Actuator/Motor Control: Primary experience is
closed or open loop control of DC Motors, Servos, Linear
Actuators (Mechanical and Hydraulic) via PWM and some sensor
feedback.
- Control Theory: PIDs, Cascade Control Loops, System
Indentification, Modelling, etc
- Filters: Particle Filter, Kalman Filter, Low/High
Pass Filter
- Computer Networking: Berkeley Sockets,
Winsocks
- Computer IO Interfacing: Parallel Port, RS-232,
RS-422, USB, I2C, PCI
- Linux Kernel Programming: Patches, Device
Drivers
- Embedded Programming: Keil, Visual DSP, Microchip
PIC, Atmel, Altera and Xilinx and was co-author and sole
maintainer of PICPrg, a Linux
parallel port PIC programmer
- Web Development: LAMP, Ajax, W3C Standards, Web
Spiders/Bots, jQuery (including
jQuery UI and other plugins),
jSON, Google Maps API, Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I was
also the author of phpSite,
a PHP/MySQL framework to easily build advanced websites)
- Automated Hardware/Software Testing: Primary
experience is to automatic check all production RF products
comply with ACMA regulations ; and continuous rebooting and
logging/graphing statistics for numerous production
products
- Programming Paradigms: Object Oriented, Procedural
and Concurrent Programming (e.g. qt signals/slots)
- Software Development Processes: Agile, Waterfall,
XP and UML Coding standards and documentation: wiki's,
Doxygen, Atlassian toolkit (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye,
Crucilbe, Bamboo)
- Largest OpenSource software project worked: with
apart from Linux kernel 2.4, 2.6: DROS
364,578 LOC (mostly a object oriented architecture)
Programming:
I personally like to primarily develop using Emacs under Linux.
I have used IDE's such as Netbeans, Eclipse, MPLAB and Microsoft
Visual Studio, which can be "useful" from time to time,
however one can still do it all in Emacs. IDE's can be useful
when the project is OO and has many average programmers, that
may come and go. But I don't believe the developing environment
really matters, only progress from good/smart programmers.
[ cite: "Where
are the wise men?",
"Emacs vs Eclipse" forum discussion ]
- Complied: C/C++, Java, Doxygen
- Interpreted:
[tc|c|ba]sh, Expect, Perl, Python, PHP, ASP, Javascript,
Gnuplot, Octave, Scilab, Matlab
- Assembly: ASM (PIC, 8051), Hi-Tech PICC[18], CCS,
CC5X, VHDL
- Markup: Latex, HTML, XML, CSS
- Database: SQL (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL)
- Version Control: CVS, RCS, Subversion (SVN), git
- Build Tools: GNU Make, CMake, A-A-P
- Debugging Tools: Valgrind, GDB and IDE tools such
as MPLAB
Computer Security Techniques (aka Ethical Hacking):
- Honeypots
- IRC Bots / Botnets
- Wireless WEP and WPA cracking (primary experience: Aircrack-ng)
- Man-In-The-Middle Attack (primary experience: arpspoof,
dnsspoof, webmitm, sshmitm)
- Password Cracking (primary experience: crack-md5, fcrackzip,
pdfcrack, medussa, john, hydra, and other personally written
SSH / FTP / HTTP / Telnet / VNC brute force attack scripts using
large dictionaries)
- Tunnelling and back-connect techniques (via SSH and/or Netcat)
- Cross-site Scripting (XSS), Remote File Intrusion (RFI),
Local File Intrusion (LFI), SQL Injection
- Firewalling (via iptables) and firewall logging (via psad
and/or Snort)
- Data Recovery
- Vulnerability / Penetration testing (primary experience:
Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, BackTrack, Nikto, Scapy, Packit)
- Network monitoring (primary experience:
tcpdump, IPTraf, tcpick, pktstat, nast,
dSniff, Ethereal, EtherApe, Htop, Netflow, fail2ban, Snort,
psad)
- Virus Detection / Protection (primary experience: ClamAV,
ClamWin, Rootkit Hunter, Check Rootkit, Norton Anti-virus)
- TCP/IP Packet Analysis, Information Gathering.
Networking:
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- Linux/Windows vulnerability testing and virus detection
- Software and hardware setup of complex high security
wired/wireless topologies (e.g. design/setup of DMZ's)
- Remote Management (via SSH, RealVNC, LogMeIn and/or PCAnywhere)
- Setup and Management of Services:
- Linux LDAP Server
- Linux Exim 3.x/4.x Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
- Linux Courier Incoming Mail Server (IMAP[S]/POP[S])
- Linux Apache 1.x/2.x Web Server (HTTP[S])
- Linux Bind 9.x Domain Name System (DNS)
- Linux Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Linux SQL Database (mySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Linux Network File System (NFS)
- Linux Windows Networking (Samba)
- Windows Active Directory (AD)
Operating Systems:
- GNU/Linux (primary experience: Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat)
- UNIX
- Mac OSX
- Windows, DOS
- VirtualBox
- VMWare
Electrical:
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for some of Luke Cole's Protel circuits.
- CAD (Protel, OrCAD)
- Digital/Analog (and basic RF) Circuit Design
- PCB/Veroboard Design/Implementation
- Soldering (Surface Mount, Hole Through)
- Special Cable Construction
- Testing, Debugging, Repairing
- Tricks of the Trade
Mechanical:
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for some of Luke Cole's Pro/E computer models.
- CAD (Pro/E, Pro/Mechanica, Strand7, Solid Works)
- Machining (Lathe, Mill)
- Welding (Electric Arc, Oxy/Acetylene and Tig)
- Power/Hand Tools
- Hand Skills
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