Matthew Harker
Professeur
Research Area
- Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
Course
Supervision
- Algorithmes de contrôle optimal et commande prédictive pour les systèmes robotiques, par Marouane Cheikh
Hiver 2026 - Planification optimale de trajectoires pour robots manipulateurs en prenant en compte
la dynamique du système, par Nestor Fouefack
Hiver 2026
Publications
- Johannes Handler, Matthew Harker. 2025 « Real-time nonlinear quadratic trajectory tracking control for polynomial nonlinear systems ». IFAC-PapersOnLine vol. 59 , nº 19. p. 186-191
- Johannes Handler, Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2023 « Direct numerical solution of the LQR with input derivative regularization problem ». IFAC-PapersOnLine vol. 56 , nº 2. p. 4846-4851
- Johannes Handler, Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2020 « Multidimensional path tracking with global least squares solution ». IFAC-PapersOnLine vol. 53 , nº 2. p. 6189-6194
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2017 « Approximation of physical measurement data by discrete orthogonal eigenfunctions of linear differential operators ». Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering vol. 41 , nº 5. p. 804-824
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2017 « Numerical solution of the anomalous diffusion equation in a rectangular domain via hypermatrix equations ». IFAC-PapersOnLine vol. 50 , nº 1. p. 9730-9735
- Matthew Harker, Paul O’Leary. 2017 « Trapezoidal rule and its error analysis for the Grünwald-Letnikov operator ». International Journal of Dynamics and Control vol. 5 , nº 1. p. 18-29
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Roland Ritt, Michael Habacher, Katharina Landl, Michael Brandner. 2016 « Mining sensor data in larger physical systems ». IFAC-PapersOnLine vol. 49 , nº 20. p. 37-42
- Matthew Harker, Paul O’Leary. 2015 « Regularized reconstruction of a surface from its measured gradient field: Algorithms for spectral, tikhonov, constrained, and weighted regularization ». Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision vol. 51 , nº 1. p. 46-70
- Christoph Gugg, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2014 « Analytic multisource data fusion and its application to a large-scale optical PSD ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 63 , nº 5. p. 1116-1126
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2014 « Sylvester Equations and the numerical solution of partial fractional differential equations ». Journal of Computational Physics vol. 293. p. 370-384
- Florian Müller, Christian Kukla, Thomas Lucyshyn, Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath, Clemens Holzer. 2014 « Wireless in-mold melt front detection for injection molding: A long-term evaluation ». Journal of Applied Polymer Science vol. 131 , nº 11
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Marian Janko. 2014 « Instrumentation and surface modeling for the measurement of disks, circular- and cylindrical-strips ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 63 , nº 5. p. 1181-1189
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2013 « Direct regularized surface reconstruction from gradients for Industrial Photometric Stereo ». Computers in Industry vol. 64 , nº 9. p. 1221-1228
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2012 « A framework for the evaluation of inclinometer data in the measurement of structures ». IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement vol. 61 , nº 5. p. 1237-1251
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2010 « Discrete polynomial moments and Savitzky-Golay smoothing ». International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering vol. 4 , nº 12. p. 1993-1997
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Bernhard Mörtl. 2010 « Discrete polynomial moments and the extraction of 3-D embossed digits for recognition ». Journal of Electronic Imaging vol. 19 , nº 3
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2009 « Discrete polynomial moments for real-time geometric surface inspection ». Journal of Electronic Imaging vol. 18 , nº 1
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Paul Zsombor-Murray. 2008 « Direct type-specific conic fitting and eigenvalue bias correction ». Image and Vision Computing vol. 26 , nº 3. p. 372-381
- P. O'Leary, M. Harker, P. Zsombor-Murray. 2005 « Direct and least square fitting of coupled geometric objects for metric vision ». IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing vol. 152 , nº 6. p. 687-694
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2014 « Numerical solution of fractional order differential equations via matrix-based methods ». In Fractional calculus: Theory. p. 43-63. Nova Science Publishers
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2012 « Surface modelling using discrete basis functions for real-time automatic inspection ». In 3-D surface geometry and reconstruction: Developing concepts and applications. p. 216-264. IGI Global
- Matthew Harker. 2025 « Least-squares reconstruction of a 3D potential from its measured spatial velocity field ». Proceedings of the CSME-CFDSC-CSR 2025 International Congress (Montreal, QC, Canada, May 25-28, 2025)
- Dimitar Ninevski, Paul O'Leary, Anika Terbuch, Matthew Harker. 2025 « Optimal node placement for constrained polynomial interpolation ». 14th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) (Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2025) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Anika Terbuch, Dimitar Ninevski, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Manfred Mücke. 2024 « Extended Rayleigh-Ritz Autoencoder with distribution-free statistics ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Glasgow, UK, May 20-23, 2024) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Johannes Handler, Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2023 « Time-domain model matching under general norms via sparse matrix methods ». 12th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) (Budva, Montenegro, June 06-10, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Johannes Handler, Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath, Mathias Rollett. 2023 « Noniterative model predictive control with soft input constraints for real-time trajectory tracking ». American Control Conference (ACC) (San Diego, CA, USA, May 31-June 02, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2023 « System identification with non-uniformly sampled and intermittent data in the Internet of Things ». International Conference on Applied Electronics (AE) (Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sept. 06-07, 2023) IEEE
- Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath, Johannes Handler. 2023 « Optimal control of state-space systems with hard bounds on control inputs and state variables ». 12th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) (Budva, Montenegro, June 06-10, 2023) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Matthew Harker, Johannes Handler, Gerhard Rath. 2022 « Coordinated trajectory tracking as an inverse problem with applications to collaborative robotics ». 11th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) (Budva, Montenegro, June 07-10, 2022) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2022 « System identification under general norms for linear parameter varying state-space systems via sparse matrix methods ». IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) (Narvik, Norway, Jan. 09-12, 2022) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Tomas Skovranek, Matthew Harker, Igor Podlubny, Paul O'Leary, Ivo Petras. 2020 « Unified software interface for numerical evaluation of integrals and derivatives of fractional order ». 21st International Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC) (High Tatras, Slovakia, Oct. 27-29, 2020) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Goran Stojanoski, Dimitar Ninevski, Gerhard Rath, Matthew Harker. 2020 « A novel method for solving an optimal control problem for a numerically stiff independent metering system ». Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC) (Gold Coast, Australia, Nov. 26-27, 2020) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Paul O’Leary. 2019 « Analytic approach to finding lines in images and estimating their uncertainty ». ICGG 2018 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics : 40th Anniversary (Milan, Italy, Aug. 03-07, 2018) Springer
- Matthew Harker, Paul O’Leary. 2019 « Geometric fitting, registration and identification for large sets of spatial measurement data ». ICGG 2018 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics : 40th Anniversary (Milan, Italy, Aug. 03-07, 2018) Springer
- Paul O’Leary, Roland Ritt, Matthew Harker. 2019 « Constrained polynomial approximation for inverse problems in engineering ». Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering. Volume 2: Numerical Modelling in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, NME (Ghent, Belgium, Aug. 28-29, 2018) Springer
- Roland Ritt, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2019 « Simultaneous approximation of measurement values and derivative data using discrete orthogonal polynomials ». IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems (ICPS) (Taipei, Taiwan, May 06-09, 2019) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Roland Ritt, Paul O’Leary, Christopher Josef Rothschedl, Ahmad Almasri, Matthew Harker. 2019 « Hierarchical decomposition and approximation of sensor data ». Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering. Volume 2: Numerical Modelling in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, NME (Ghent, Belgium, Aug. 28-29, 2018) Springer
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Lea Plessing, Patrick Hergan, Ewald Fauster. 2018 « Real-time tensor polynomial approximation of crosshatch measured geometric surface data ». IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement (Houston, TX, USA, May 14-17, 2018) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2018 « Discrete inverse problem approach to path tracking in state space form ». International Conference on Applied Electronics (Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sept. 11-12, 2018) IEEE Computer Society
- Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2018 « Global least squares for time-domain system identification of state-space models ». 7th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, MECO 2018 - Including ECYPS 2018 (Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2018) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Werner Kollment, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Thomas Klunsner, Sven Eck. 2018 « Force and acoustic emission measurements for condition monitoring of fine blanking tools ». IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement (Houston, TX, USA, May 14-17, 2018) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Gerhard Rath, Matthew Harker. 2017 « Global least squares solution for LTI system response ». International Conference on Applied Electronics (Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sept. 05-06, 2017) IEEE Computer Society
- Gerhard Rath, Matthew Harker, Emil Zaev. 2017 « Direct numerical solution of stiff ODE systems in optimal control ». 6th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, MECO 2017 - Including ECYPS 2017 (Bar, Montenegro, June 11-15, 2017) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Roland Schmidt, Paul O'Leary, Roland Ritt, Matthew Harker. 2017 « MEMS based inclinometers: Noise characteristics and suitable signal processing ». IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Turin, Italy, May 22-25, 2017) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Werner Kollment, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Uwe Osberger, Sven Eck. 2016 « Towards condition monitoring of railway points: Instrumentation, measurement and signal processing ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Taipei, Taiwan, May 23-26, 2016) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Bernhard Radler, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Thomas Lucyshyn. 2016 « Non-contact measurement of circular surfaces via photometric stereo in polar coordinates ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Taipei, Taiwan, May 23-26, 2016) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Gerhard Rath, Matthew Harker. 2016 « Direct numerical solution of optimal control problems ». 5th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, MECO 2016 - Including ECyPS 2016, BIOENG.MED 2016, MECO: Student Challenge 2016 (Bar, Montenegro, June 12-16, 2016) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Roland Schmidt, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2016 « Precision inclinometer measurement system with a wireless gateway ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Taipei, Taiwan, May 23-26, 2016) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Christoph Gugg, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Gerhard Rath. 2015 « An algebraic framework for the real-time solution of inverse problems on embedded systems ». IEEE 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, IEEE 7th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security and IEEE 12th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, HPCC-CSS-ICESS (New York, NY, USA, Aug. 24-26, 2015) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Michael Habacher, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2015 « Binocular approach to 3D pose measurement with auto-calibration ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Pisa, Italia, May 11-14, 2015) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2015 « MATLAB® toolbox for the regularized surface reconstruction from gradients ». Twelfth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision (Le Creusot, France, June 03-05, 2015) SPIE
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Christoph Gugg. 2015 « An inverse problem approach to approximating sensor data in cyber physical systems ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Pisa, Italia, May 11-14, 2015) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Christoph Gugg. 2015 « Sensor-data analytics in cyber physical systems from Husserl to data mining ». Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks SENSORNETS (Angers, France, Feb. 11-13, 2015) SciTePress
- Christoph Gugg, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2014 « Virtual calibration environment for a-priori estimation of measurement uncertainty ». IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 05-07, 2014) IEEE Computer Society
- Michael Habacher, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2014 « Self-calibrating optical 3D pose measurement device for offshore sites ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Montevideo, Uruguay, May 12-15, 2014) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Christoph Gugg, Paul O'Leary. 2014 « WiP abstract: Model based design for the real-time solution of inverse problems in cyber-physical systems ». ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) (Berlin, Germany, Apr. 14-17, 2014) IEEE Computer Society
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2014 « Polynomial accurate numerical fractional order integration and differentiation ». International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA) (Catania, Italy, June 23-25, 2014) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Paul O'Leary, Christoph Gugg, Matthew Harker, Gerhard Rath. 2014 « Mathematical model and software architecture for the solution of inverse problems involving sensor arrays ». IEEE Sensors (Valencia, Spain, Nov. 02-05, 2014) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2014 « Inverse boundary value problems with uncertain boundary values and their relevance to inclinometer measurements ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Montevideo, Uruguay, May 12-15, 2014) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Christoph Gugg, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2013 « Structural deformation measurement via efficient tensor polynomial calibrated electro-active glass targets ». Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications VI (Burlingame, CA, USA, Feb. 03-07, 2013) SPIE
- Christoph Gugg, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2013 « Large scale optical position sensitive detector ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) (Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 06-09, 2013) Institute of electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Michael Habacher, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Johannes Golser. 2013 « Machine vision system for the control of tunnel boring machines ». Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications VI (Burlingame, CA, USA, Feb. 03-07, 2013) SPIE
- Marian Janko, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2013 « Instrumentation for the 3D measurement of circular disks and the quantification of warpage ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) (Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 06-09, 2013) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- F. Müller, P. O'Leary, G. Rath, C. Kukla, M. Harker, T. Lucyshyn, C. Hölzer. 2013 « Resonant acoustic sensor system for the wireless monitoring of injection moulding ». Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - SENSORNETS (Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 19-21, 2013) SciTePress
- Amir Badshah, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Daniel Tscharnuter. 2012 « Strain analysis by regularized non-rigid registration ». Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications V (Burlingame, CA, USA, Jan. 22-26, 2012) SPIE
- Richard Neumayr, Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Johannes Golser. 2012 « New approaches to machine vision based displacement analysis ». IEEE I2MTC - International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings (Graz, Austria, May 13-16, 2012) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- C. Steiner-Luckabauer, P. O'Leary, M. Harker. 2012 « Discrete local basis functions as ringing free filter as a trace by trace algorithm for ground roll removing ». 74th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2012 Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2012: Responsibly Securing Natural Resources (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 04-07, 2012) European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE
- C. Steiner-Luckabauer, P. O'Leary, M. Harker. 2012 « Discrete local polynomial basis functions as an alternative to filter seismic data ». 74th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2012 Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2012: Responsibly Securing Natural Resources (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 04-07, 2012) European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE
- Amir Badshah, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2011 « Gram polynomial image decimation and its application to non-rigid registration ». Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV (San Francisco, CA, USA, Jan. 23-27, 2011) SPIE
- Amir Badshah, Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Christian Sallinger. 2011 « Non-rigid registration for qualitiy control of printed materials ». Tenth international conference on quality control by artificial vision (Saint-Étienne, France, June 28-30, 2011) SPIE
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2011 « Least squares surface reconstruction from gradients: Direct algebraic methods with spectral, Tikhonov, and constrained regularization ». IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Colorado Springs, CO, USA, June 20-25, 2011) IEEE Computer Society
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2011 « Polynomial approximation: An alternative to windowing in Fourier analysis ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (HangZhou, China, May 10-12, 2011) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Johann Golser. 2011 « Direct discrete variational curve reconstruction from derivatives and its application to track subsidence measurements ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (HangZhou, China, May 10-12, 2011) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- C. Steiner-Luckabauer, P. O'Leary, M. Harker. 2011 « Discrete local basis functions and their application to seismic data ». 73rd European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2011: Unconventional Resources and the Role of Technology. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2011 (Vienna, Asutria, May 23-27, 2011) Society of Petroleum Engineers
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Richard Neumayr. 2010 « Savitzky-Golay smoothing for multivariate cyclic measurement data ». IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) (Austin, TX, USA, May 03-06, 2010) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Richard Neumayr. 2009 « Profile measurement via circle-line spline fitting ». IEEE Intrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) (Singapore, Singapore, May 05-07, 2009) Institute of Electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2008 « Least squares surface reconstruction from measured gradient fields ». 26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (Anchorage, AK, USA, June 23-28, 2008) Institute of electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker. 2008 « An algebraic framework for discrete basis functions in computer vision ». 6th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) (Bhubaneswar, India, Dec. 16-19, 2008) Institute of electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker, Taweepol Suesut. 2008 « Combined polynomial and periodic moments for the analysis of measured 3D surfaces ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Victoria, BC, Canada, May 12-15, 2008) Institute of electrical and Electonics Engineers Inc.
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Mihaela Stefan Kharicha, Sven Eck. 2007 « Calibration, measurement and error analysis of optical temperature measurement via laser induced fluorescence ». IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (Warsaw, Poland, May 01-03, 2007) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2006 « First order geometric distance (The Myth of Sampsonus) ». BMVC - Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 04-07, 2006) British Machine Vision Association, BMVA
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary. 2005 « Computation of homographies ». British Machine Vision Conference (Oxford, UK, Sept. 05-08, 2005) British Machine Vision Association, BMVA
- Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary, Paul Zsombor-Murray. 2005 « Incremental matrix orthogonalization with an application to curve fitting ». Computational Imaging III (San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 16-20, 2005) SPIE