Autonomous service robots in a multi-agent based system for household and industrial environments. This project addresses fundamental research issues required to develop autonomous mobile robots for intelligent cleaning services. As an interdisciplinary project spanning the fields of robotics, mechatronics and AI, it offers potential benefits in bringing robots into less-structured human environments. Robots performing autonomous cleaning (including hazardous waste and spillage) and security tas ....Autonomous service robots in a multi-agent based system for household and industrial environments. This project addresses fundamental research issues required to develop autonomous mobile robots for intelligent cleaning services. As an interdisciplinary project spanning the fields of robotics, mechatronics and AI, it offers potential benefits in bringing robots into less-structured human environments. Robots performing autonomous cleaning (including hazardous waste and spillage) and security tasks in both household and industrial environments has tremendous national/community benefits in cost and time savings, improved efficiency and safety, and facilitating hazardous or labour intensive tasks. Other benefits include research training, strengthening Australia's R&D position in key innovative technologies, and creating jobs and exports.Read moreRead less
Intelligent Robotics for Pharmaceutical Formulation Development. This project aims to transform the labour and time-intensive process of drug formulation development by optimising the process workflow, through collaboration between biochemists and the proposed intelligent and scalable robotic system. This project expects to enable the robot to leverage the expert knowledge of the biochemists while automating rote tasks. The expected outcome of this project is an intelligent robot that can collab ....Intelligent Robotics for Pharmaceutical Formulation Development. This project aims to transform the labour and time-intensive process of drug formulation development by optimising the process workflow, through collaboration between biochemists and the proposed intelligent and scalable robotic system. This project expects to enable the robot to leverage the expert knowledge of the biochemists while automating rote tasks. The expected outcome of this project is an intelligent robot that can collaborate with human coworkers to accelerate drug formulation. This should provide significant benefits by lowering drug costs and the development time of new drugs. Read moreRead less
Robotic Inspection and Safe Removals of Suspicious/Abandoned Luggage. Abandoned luggage 'discovered' at airports and other sites by iOmniscient's video surveillance system maycontain explosive, dangerous chemicals or lethal biological agents. This project is about using sensor equipped robots to inspect this luggage by x-ray and other means (e.g.: ultrasound or electromagnetic sensors) and then, if appropriate, to remove it to a safe disposal area so as to minimise the risk to others sharing th ....Robotic Inspection and Safe Removals of Suspicious/Abandoned Luggage. Abandoned luggage 'discovered' at airports and other sites by iOmniscient's video surveillance system maycontain explosive, dangerous chemicals or lethal biological agents. This project is about using sensor equipped robots to inspect this luggage by x-ray and other means (e.g.: ultrasound or electromagnetic sensors) and then, if appropriate, to remove it to a safe disposal area so as to minimise the risk to others sharing this public space and those personnel responsible for security operations. iOmniscient Pty.Ltd., as the industrial partner, clearly has a commercial interest in the success of this project and thus is strongly motivated to support it.Read moreRead less
Robotic Vehicles for Fire Fighting and Emergency Services Support. The use of robots to support humans in bushfire fighting, search and rescue missions, civil disaster operations and terrorist apprehension (including hostage rescue) can save lives, minimise injury and improve security. This project aims at providing such capabilities and to deploy them in modes from direct teleoperation to fully autonomous operation as the situation dictates, in full partnership with the Victorian Country Fire A ....Robotic Vehicles for Fire Fighting and Emergency Services Support. The use of robots to support humans in bushfire fighting, search and rescue missions, civil disaster operations and terrorist apprehension (including hostage rescue) can save lives, minimise injury and improve security. This project aims at providing such capabilities and to deploy them in modes from direct teleoperation to fully autonomous operation as the situation dictates, in full partnership with the Victorian Country Fire Authority.Read moreRead less
Consumer-centric Adaptive Quality-assured Cloud Services Brokerage. This project aims to create a consumer-centric brokerage solution for managing cloud service provision. This aims to ensure consumers can receive cloud services that best satisfy their quality requirements in the most cost-effective manner in the presence of constant changes in performance and cost of cloud services available from different cloud providers. The intended outcome is a novel cloud brokerage framework and the associ ....Consumer-centric Adaptive Quality-assured Cloud Services Brokerage. This project aims to create a consumer-centric brokerage solution for managing cloud service provision. This aims to ensure consumers can receive cloud services that best satisfy their quality requirements in the most cost-effective manner in the presence of constant changes in performance and cost of cloud services available from different cloud providers. The intended outcome is a novel cloud brokerage framework and the associated mechanisms for proactive identification, prevention and mediation of cloud service-level agreement violation in the best interest of the cloud users. The findings of the project will support enterprises across Australian economy in shifting from traditional IT systems to the ubiquitous cloud computing that has already been recognised as a core enabling IT technology in addressing the societal challenge of lifting productivity and economic growth in a rapidly changing world economy.Read moreRead less
Decision making for lifetime affordable and tenable city housing. This project will study home buying decisions and outcomes and use this to provide new insights into housing affordability and liveability. The project will develop an innovative software tool for Australia's home buyers to explore affordability and liveability during home buying, and agent-based modelling of scenarios for urban development futures.
Enabling small businesses to more cost-effectively use big data on cloud computing platforms. This project will invent a new generic cost model for managing big data in cloud computing. This model will enable agent-based, innovative data management technologies to reduce the cost of storage, computation and bandwidth consumption in the cloud. Outcomes will enable small businesses to use big data in cloud computing more cost effectively.
Integrating and automating testing in multi-agent system development. This research will provide mechanisms that facilitate easier and more thorough testing of multi-agent systems. Multi-agent technology is extremely powerful and can save businesses substantial time and effort in developing complex systems. Automated testing will ensure that systems built using this technology are more robust, and will also enable substantial savings in time required for testing. Multi agent systems are notorio ....Integrating and automating testing in multi-agent system development. This research will provide mechanisms that facilitate easier and more thorough testing of multi-agent systems. Multi-agent technology is extremely powerful and can save businesses substantial time and effort in developing complex systems. Automated testing will ensure that systems built using this technology are more robust, and will also enable substantial savings in time required for testing. Multi agent systems are notoriously difficult to test, due to their complexity. However the approaches used in this project will enable intelligent generation of test cases that are potentially difficult, and also generation of test cases that are based on specified functionality.Read moreRead less
Tools, methodologies and reasoning support for developing companion-toy modules. This project investigates building of modules for an intelligent Toy which can be customised and adapted over time by add-on modules. Intelligent interactive toys are growing in popularity, and the ability for such a toy to develop over a prolonged lifetime, is both a sound business idea and a mechanism for extending the useful life of the Toy.
Complex Decision Making in Intelligent Agent Systems. This project will bring benefit in that it will increase the ability of autonomous computer systems to make complex decisions in dynamic environments. As the use of intelligent autonomous technology is increasing, from smart air-traffic control systems to personal digital assistants to internet software agents, there is also increased demand for more sophisticated reasoning. This is showing in a range of applications such as autonomous vehicl ....Complex Decision Making in Intelligent Agent Systems. This project will bring benefit in that it will increase the ability of autonomous computer systems to make complex decisions in dynamic environments. As the use of intelligent autonomous technology is increasing, from smart air-traffic control systems to personal digital assistants to internet software agents, there is also increased demand for more sophisticated reasoning. This is showing in a range of applications such as autonomous vehicles and equipment, scheduling and resourcing, and business processing. This project will contribute to provide such capabilities to existing technology. It will also assist the Australian Partner Organisation to stay at the forefront internationally in this fast moving area.Read moreRead less