Biography
Jan Carlo is one of the founding fathers of modern counter-swarming. He has been an affiliate of Centre for a New American Security in Washington D.C., where he contributed with his insights into the field. He has also written a handbook on the topic for Australian Defence.
Jan Carlo's major research interests are in the areas of swarm robotics, swarm intelligence, counter swarming and the "brain of IoT". He has devised novel technology for swarms of UAVs, unmanned ground vehicles and climbing robots. Jan Carlo has published work at several international conferences and in high level journals. He has also managed projects for defence, industry and academia.
Read more on Jan Carlo's profileKnowledge areas
Swarm robotics, swarm intelligence, counter swarming and "brain of IoT".
Publications
A Comparison of Clustering vs YOLO for Drone Swarm Centroid Detection
Nisha Kumari, Kevin Lee, Chathu Ranaweera, J Barca
(2024), pp. 1-6, ICRAE 2023 : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering 2023, Singapore, Singapore, E1
Visually Detecting Drones in Drone Swarm Formations Topologies
N Kumari, K Lee, C Ranaweera, J Barca
(2024), Vol. 839, pp. 21-30, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, E1
Adversarial scenarios for herding UAVs and counter-swarm techniques
B Mendívez Vásquez, J Barca
(2023), Vol. 41, pp. 1436-1451, Robotica, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Grammatical Evolution with Adaptive Building Blocks for Traffic Light Control
J Gaddam, J Barca, T Nguyen, M Angelova
(2023), pp. 1-10, CEC 2023 : Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, Illinois, E1
A review of UAV swarm-based detection of a dynamic contamination plume
S Borazjani, J Kennedy, J Barca, S Crase
(2023), pp. 99-105, MODSIM 2023 : Proceedings of the 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Darwin, N.T., E1-1
A survey of dynamic parameter setting methods for nature-inspired swarm intelligence algorithms
H Phan, K Ellis, J Barca, A Dorin
(2020), Vol. 32, pp. 567-588, Neural computing and applications, Cham, Switzerland, C1
What Is Known from a Network? Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Pandemics in the Digital Age
Kelsie Nabben, Marta Poblet, Jan Barca
(2020), Arlington, Va., A6
An efficient RANSAC hypothesis evaluation using sufficient statistics for RGB-D pose estimation
I Senthooran, M Murshed, J Barca, J Kamruzzaman, H Chung
(2019), Vol. 43, pp. 1257-1270, Autonomous robots, New York, N.Y., C1
Data transfer via UAV swarm behaviours: Rule generation, evolution and learning
Phillip Smith, Robert Hunjet, Aldeida Aleti, Jan Barca
(2018), Vol. 6, pp. 35-57, Australian journal of telecommunications and the digital economy, Aspendale, Vic., C1-1
Yathindu Hettiarachchige, Asad Khan, Jan Barca
(2018), Vol. 23, pp. 54-63, Biologically inspired cognitive architectures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1
Multi-object tracking of swarms with active target avoidance
Y Hettiarachchige, A Khan, Jan Barca
(2018), pp. 1204-1209, ICARCV 2018 : Proceedings of the 2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, E1
Search and tracking in 3D space using a species based particle swarm optimizer
A Farid, S Egerton, J Barca, M Kamal
(2018), pp. 155-160, I2CACIS 2018 : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Control and Intelligent Systems, Shah Alam, Malaysia, E1
Adaptive multi-objective search in a swarm vs swarm context
A Moltajaei Farid, S Egerton, J Barca, M Kamal
(2018), pp. 3641-3646, SMC 2018 : Making of a human-centered cyber world : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Miyazaki, Japan, E1
Data ferrying with swarming UAS in tactical defence networks
Robert Hunjet, Bradley Fraser, Thomas Stevens, Laura Hodges, Karina Mayen, Jan Barca, Madeleine Cochrane, Ricardo Cannizzaro, Jennifer Palmer
(2018), pp. 6381-6388, ICRA 2018 : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Qld., E1-1
Network topology inference in swarm robotics
Bruno Mendivez Vasquez, Jan Barca
(2018), pp. 7660-7666, ICRA 2018 : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Qld., E1-1
A low cost omnidirectional relative localization sensor for swarm applications
Anton Kohlbacher, Jens Eliasson, Kevin Acres, Hoam Chung, Jan Barca
(2018), pp. 694-699, WF-IoT 2018 : Smart cities and nations : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things, Singapore, E1-1
Hyper-heuristic online learning for self-assembling swarm robots
S Yu, A Aleti, J Barca, A Song
(2018), Vol. 10860, pp. 167-180, ICCS 2018 : Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, Wuxi, China, E1-1
Adaptive data transfer methods via policy evolution for UAV swarms
Phillip Smith, Robert Hunjed, Aldeida Aleti, Jan Barca
(2017), pp. 1-8, ITNAC 2017 : Proceedings of the 2017 27th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, Melbourne, Vic., E1-1
Xinran Wang, David Green, Jan Barca
(2017), pp. 1399-1405, AIM 2017 : Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Munich, Germany, E1-1
Search and tracking algorithms for swarms of robots: a survey
Madhubhashi Senanayake, Ilankaikone Senthooran, Jan Barca, Hoam Chung, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Manzur Murshed
(2016), Vol. 75, pp. 422-434, Robotics and autonomous systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1
Distributed formation control of networked mobile robots in environments with obstacles
Whye Seng, Jan Barca, Y Şekercioğlu
(2016), Vol. 34, pp. 1403-1415, Robotica, Cambridge, Eng., C1-1
A 3D line alignment method for loop closure and mutual localisation in limited resourced MAVs
Ilankaikone Senthooran, Jan Barca, Hoam Chung
(2016), pp. 1-6, ICARCV 2016 : Proceedings of the 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Phuket, Thailand, E1-1
Relative localization with computer vision and UWB range for flying robot formation control
B Ramirez, H Chung, H Derhamy, J Eliasson, J Barca
(2016), pp. 1-6, ICARCV 2016 : Proceedings of the 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Phuket, Thailand, E1-1
An efficient pose estimation for limited-resourced MAVs using sufficient statistics
Ilankaikone Senthooran, Jan Barca, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Manzur Murshed, Hoam Chung
(2015), pp. 3735-3740, IROS 2015 : Gateway to the era of robots : Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, E1-1
Autonomous formation selection for ground moving multi-robot systems
Shuang Yu, Jan Barca
(2015), pp. 54-59, AIM 2015 : Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Busan, South Korea, E1-1
A distributed framework for supporting 3D swarming applications
Ghazaleh Sadrollah, Jan Barca, Asad Khan, Jens Eliasson, Ilankaikone Senthooran
(2014), pp. 1-5, ICCOINS 2014 : Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, E1-1
Jan Barca, Y Sekercioglu
(2013), Vol. 31, pp. 345-359, Robotica, Cambridge, Eng., C1-1
Distributed formation control in cluttered environments
Whye Leon Seng, Jan Barca, Y Sekercioglu
(2013), pp. 1387-1392, 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Wollongong, N.S.W., E1-1
Controlling formations of robots with graph theory
J Barca, A Sekercioglu, A Ford
(2013), Vol. 194 AISC, pp. 563-574, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, E1-1
Exploring sensor gloves for teaching children sign language
K Ellis, J Barca
(2012), Vol. 2012, pp. 1-8, Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, C1-1
Noise filtering of new motion capture markers using modified K-means
J Barca, G Rumantir, R Li
(2008), Vol. 96, pp. 167-189, Studies in Computational Intelligence, C1-1
A modified K-means algorithm for noise reduction in optical motion capture data
Jan Barca, Grace Rumantir
(2007), pp. 1-5, ICIS 2007 : Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Melbourne, Vic., E1-1
A new illuminated contour-based marker system for optical motion capture
Jan Barca, Grace Rumantir, Raymond Li
(2006), pp. 1-5, Proceedings of the 2006 Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, E1-1
Augmenting the human entity through man/machine collaboration
J Barca, R Li
(2006), 2006 IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics, ICCC, E1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Cooperative Swarm Behaviour Generation for Multi-Platform, Multi-Target Surveillance.
Dr Jan Carlo Barca
DSTO Grant - Research - Defence Science & Technology Organisation
- 2020: $44,000
- 2019: $6,819
Counter Swarming: review and scoping study
Dr Jan Carlo Barca
DSTO Grant - Research - Defence Science & Technology Organisation
- 2020: $51,035
- 2019: $9,000
Enabling software architectural resilience and proactive adaption with real-time distributed contextual intelligence.
Prof Arkady Zaslavsky, A/Prof Kevin Lee, Dr Jan Carlo Barca
DSTO Grant - Research - Defence Science & Technology Organisation
- 2020: $98,781
Distributed Context Awareness in a Dynamic and Network Challenge Environment.
Prof Arkady Zaslavsky, A/Prof Kevin Lee, Dr Ali Hassani, Dr Jan Carlo Barca
DSTO Scholarship - Defence Science and Technology Organisation
- 2023: $35,000
- 2022: $35,000
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report