Improving road safety: advanced hybrid vehicle-based technology for monitoring driver drowsiness. Innovative technology geared towards reducing road accidents and fatalities (for improving public health) will constitute major socio-economic benefit to Australia. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau notes fatigue as a major cause of road accidents (2006). The World Health Organisation dedicated World Health Day 2004 to road safety and emphasized the importance of combating fatigue ('Road Safety ....Improving road safety: advanced hybrid vehicle-based technology for monitoring driver drowsiness. Innovative technology geared towards reducing road accidents and fatalities (for improving public health) will constitute major socio-economic benefit to Australia. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau notes fatigue as a major cause of road accidents (2006). The World Health Organisation dedicated World Health Day 2004 to road safety and emphasized the importance of combating fatigue ('Road Safety is no Accident'). This research will develop an innovative driver drowsiness detecting technology. With drowsiness attributable to substantial road fatalities, this technology aims to reduce this emotional and socio-economic burden on the community, contributing to national and community benefit by providing a safer road environment.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0453561
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$336,706.00
Summary
Integrated Precision Machining of Complex Profiles. High precision and high speed machining is of central importance to the development of a wide range of frontier technologies such as precision manufacturing, nano-materials fabrication, semiconductor and composite processing, vehicle production and steel structure manufacturing. The research significance has been well established by the world-leading projects and achievements. The proposed facility has distinct features and capability of high l ....Integrated Precision Machining of Complex Profiles. High precision and high speed machining is of central importance to the development of a wide range of frontier technologies such as precision manufacturing, nano-materials fabrication, semiconductor and composite processing, vehicle production and steel structure manufacturing. The research significance has been well established by the world-leading projects and achievements. The proposed facility has distinct features and capability of high loop-stiffness, high repeatability, universal profiling, organic integration of key machining operations, and great flexibility of both low and high speeds. These unique characteristics will enable the innovative development of many research programs which will otherwise be impossible to achieve.Read moreRead less
The development of novel and tunable metamaterials. Metamaterials are designed materials with properties that cannot be found in nature. This project uses a new disruptive design that allows broadband metamaterials to be made using mass production techniques. The design opens up a range of new applications in environmental and medical sensing, improved security screening and active devices.
Preparing for the next generation global navigation satellite system era: developing and testing new user and reference station receiver designs. The gross accumulated benefits of the widespread adoption of Gnss technology in the mining, agriculture and construction sectors alone by 2030 could be between $66B and $126B, primarily due to improvements in Gnss machine guidance systems - energy savings, reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, improved agricultural practices, etc. The national benefit ....Preparing for the next generation global navigation satellite system era: developing and testing new user and reference station receiver designs. The gross accumulated benefits of the widespread adoption of Gnss technology in the mining, agriculture and construction sectors alone by 2030 could be between $66B and $126B, primarily due to improvements in Gnss machine guidance systems - energy savings, reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, improved agricultural practices, etc. The national benefit would be enormous if the project could help facilitate the rapid and orderly introduction into Australia of high accuracy multi-constellation Gnss positioning technology. This project would also enable Australian researchers and industry to build up expertise in new Gnss signals and techniques, all crucial for supporting a local industry for next generation navigation products and services.Read moreRead less