Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) Solutions for Murray Gorge

Our CTO (Luke Cole) previously worked for Hemisphere GPS (orginally called BEELINE, and now bought out by AgJunction) as a "Robotics Engineer" implementing auto-guidance solutions for various quadbikes and agriculture tractors that was used by 100's of vehicles around the world.

For 10 years, starting as a teenager in 1998 - Luke Cole has also worked for leading research institutes and companies such as NICTA (now called CSIRO Data61), CSIRO, Seeing Machines and ANU Robotics System Lab (lead by Alex Zelinsky, who received a rare prestigious AO award in 2017 and was Defence Scientist of Australia from 2012 for 6 years). Luke's work included various autonomous mobile robot projects, involving computer vision, and even a self-driving car early 2000's. Back then OpenCV and ROS didn't exist, so we did a "roll-your-own" called VisLib and DROS comprised of 364,578 lines of code.

Lance Cole has also worked at NICTA and has a background of various hardware development, such as working for a contract company to the US millary (EOS), building the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS).

We have a combined 50 years of extensive experience with Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV's). Including cars, tractors, quadbikes and other custom ground-based vehicles.

COLETEK's team all has a background in vehicle automation, which have built a wide range of skills and technologies such as:

• Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)
• Path Planning, Goal Recognition
• Collision Avoidance
• Pattern Recognition
• Object Recognition
• Object Tracking
• Genetic Algorithms
• Neural Networks
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Probabilistic Robotics
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Optical Flow, Point Clouds
• Stereo Active Vision, Panoramic Cameras, Fisheye Lens/Camera, Log-polar Camera, Time of Flight Cameras, Camera Array
• 3D Reconstruction
• Manipulator, Biped and/or Quadped locomotion
• Sensor Fusion: GPS, LIDAR, IR, Ultrasonic, Vision
• PID Controllers, Cascade Control Loops, Fuzzy Logic
• Bayesian Filters, Particle Filters, Kalman Filters, Monte Carlo Methods

These technologies can be used for various applications such as:

• Production Line Object Recognition
• Production Line Automation
• Licence Plate Recognition
• Asset Tracking
• Kid Tracking
• Pedestrian Tracking
• Face Recognition
• Load Haul Dump Automation
• Agriculture Automation
• Robot Lawn Mower
• Forklift Automation
• Floor Cleaning Robot
• Home Land Security Robots

At COLETEK, we empower businesses in Murray Gorge and the Snowy Mountains region with innovative Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) solutions. Our expertise spans the entire lifecycle of your project, from initial discovery and design decisions through prototyping, iteration, integration, testing, and production-readiness planning.

Our team of experienced engineers understands the unique challenges of deploying AGVs in regional environments. We seamlessly collaborate with clients across metropolitan and remote locations, offering periodic design reviews and ongoing support to ensure seamless integration and optimal performance.

Whether you require a proof-of-concept study, prototype refinement, design review, or technical feasibility assessment, COLETEK is your trusted partner. We leverage our extensive experience in requirements capture, engineering trade-offs, integration planning, and testing to deliver robust and reliable AGV solutions tailored to your industry and deployment environment.

Our commitment to innovation has earned us recognition from esteemed organizations like the Good Design Awards. We are driven by a desire to collaborate with businesses like yours to harness the transformative power of automation and optimize your operational efficiency in Murray Gorge and beyond.

Contact COLETEK today to discuss your specific AGV needs and explore how our solutions can empower your business to achieve remarkable outcomes. Let’s build something remarkable together.