Diluka Moratuwage

Diluka Moratuwage

I am a lecturer and researcher at CQUniversity, based in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia.

About Me

Dr. Diluka Moratuwage is a Lecturer in Industrial Automation at the School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University (CQU), based at the Gladstone Marina campus. He obtained his PhD in Mobile Robotics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

His research spans artificial intelligence, multi-robot coordination, mobile robot navigation, multi-robot SLAM, multi-target tracking and sensor fusion, and computer vision. He is currently exploring multi-agent reinforcement learning, drone-based localisation systems, and robotic automation for environmental monitoring applications.

Career History

Prior to joining CQU, Dr. Moratuwage held research positions at:

  • University of Technology Sydney (UTS) — Research Fellow (2023–2024)
  • Curtin University — Research Associate & Associate Lecturer (2019–2022)
  • Universidad de Chile — Postdoctoral Researcher (2018–2019)
  • Nanyang Technological University — Postdoctoral Researcher (2015–2018)
  • Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre — Autonomous Vehicle Technologies (2013–2015)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Mobile Robotics), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014)
  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2006)

Selected Grants

  • ARC Linkage Grant (2020) — Collision Avoidance in Shipping Lanes via Intelligent Sensor Data Fusion — AUD 568,000 (Chief Investigator) View Grant
  • Defence Science Centre Collaborative Research Grant (2020) — Automatic Searching and Tracking of Anomalous Ground Signals from a Satellite Constellation — AUD 142,920 (Chief Investigator) View Announcement
  • Fondecyt Research Grant (2019) — Improving Robot Trajectory Estimation in RFS-SLAM — AUD 24,000 (Chief Investigator)
  • ST-Engineering–NTU Corporate Laboratory Grant (2015–2018) — Collaborative Exploration of Unstructured Environments — SGD 1,000,000 (Key Investigator)

Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi-Robot Coordination and Planning
  • Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)
  • Drone-Based Localisation and Navigation
  • Multi-Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion
  • Computer Vision

For a full list of publications, visit my Google Scholar page.