New Model Predictive Control Design Methods. Automatic computer control is fundamental to sustaining a wide range of manufacturing, mineral processing, chemical processing, and other industries vital to the Australian economy. Furthermore, the efficiency, profitability, and environmental impact of these operations is directly linked to the quality of this computer control. In many situations, even a few percent improvement in automatic control delivers dividends measured in many millions of doll ....New Model Predictive Control Design Methods. Automatic computer control is fundamental to sustaining a wide range of manufacturing, mineral processing, chemical processing, and other industries vital to the Australian economy. Furthermore, the efficiency, profitability, and environmental impact of these operations is directly linked to the quality of this computer control. In many situations, even a few percent improvement in automatic control delivers dividends measured in many millions of dollars. This project will develop design tools allowing for more sophisticated, high performance control to be more widely employed. This will deliver the potential for economic and environmental benefits and energy savings to be achieved across a range of industries.Read moreRead less
Uncertain Systems Theory applied to Nonlinear Robust Control and Filtering. Feedback control systems are becoming increasingly important in manufacturing industry, the automotive industry, defence applications as well as in many non-industrial applications such as the management of the environment or the economy. By developing new techniques for the design of high performance robust nonlinear controllers and filters which are widely applicable in industrial applications, this project will help m ....Uncertain Systems Theory applied to Nonlinear Robust Control and Filtering. Feedback control systems are becoming increasingly important in manufacturing industry, the automotive industry, defence applications as well as in many non-industrial applications such as the management of the environment or the economy. By developing new techniques for the design of high performance robust nonlinear controllers and filters which are widely applicable in industrial applications, this project will help make existing industrial technologies more efficient and make new industrial technologies feasible. Moreover, the research training carried out in the project will add to available a pool of experts in the areas of robust nonlinear control and filtering. Read moreRead less
Joint System Identification for Point Processes and Time-series. In various application areas such as neurophysiology, earthquake modeling, price spikes in electricity markets, the data of interest are point processes (aka sequences of events) or combinations of point processes and analog signals. To understand the underlying subject of interest we need to be able to extract the maximum information from these observation sequences. The current tools for doing this are very limited. This resear ....Joint System Identification for Point Processes and Time-series. In various application areas such as neurophysiology, earthquake modeling, price spikes in electricity markets, the data of interest are point processes (aka sequences of events) or combinations of point processes and analog signals. To understand the underlying subject of interest we need to be able to extract the maximum information from these observation sequences. The current tools for doing this are very limited. This research program will develop the complex signal processing and system methodology needed to create a suitable tool set.Read moreRead less
Using Mathematics to Maximize the Efficiency of Shared Infrastructure in Australia's Coal Export Supply Chain. Port Waratah Coal Services operates the world's largest coal export terminal, servicing about 14 coal mining companies in the Hunter Valley, NSW. It is responsible for around $15 billion in annual export income for Australia. The coal supply chain is a complex operation, hampered by bottlenecks in critical shared infrastructure. Such limitations are estimated to cost Australia about $2 ....Using Mathematics to Maximize the Efficiency of Shared Infrastructure in Australia's Coal Export Supply Chain. Port Waratah Coal Services operates the world's largest coal export terminal, servicing about 14 coal mining companies in the Hunter Valley, NSW. It is responsible for around $15 billion in annual export income for Australia. The coal supply chain is a complex operation, hampered by bottlenecks in critical shared infrastructure. Such limitations are estimated to cost Australia about $2 billion pa in lost sales. This project will support the design of new infrastructure and processes to ensure an efficient supply chain. The new science resulting will benefit other coal operations in Australia, and potentially other bulk goods supply chains.Read moreRead less
Robust State Estimation of Complex Multi-Object Systems. Conceptual advances will be made in the area of robust state estimation of complex systems. New design rules will be developed and published in the top international journals and major international conferences. The main benefit of this project will be its direct applications to industrial control problems in the military equipment and manufacturing industries, bio-engineering, and automobile industry. We also build a world class research ....Robust State Estimation of Complex Multi-Object Systems. Conceptual advances will be made in the area of robust state estimation of complex systems. New design rules will be developed and published in the top international journals and major international conferences. The main benefit of this project will be its direct applications to industrial control problems in the military equipment and manufacturing industries, bio-engineering, and automobile industry. We also build a world class research group at the University of New South Wales to focus attention on multi-object state estimation. There will be increased capacity for contract research, international collaboration with leading researchers in the area and high quality Ph.D. graduates in the field of Systems and Control.Read moreRead less
Modelling and estimation techniques for the transmission and control of Tuberculosis with new and existing vaccines. Most Tuberculosis in Australia is seen in foreign-born people. Australia has an important role in providing leadership in the Asia-Pacific region in Tuberculosis control, which will have flow-on benefits to TB control in this country. Using mathematical models, this project will assess the use of vaccines for Tuberculosis in the developing world. Rising levels of extremely drug r ....Modelling and estimation techniques for the transmission and control of Tuberculosis with new and existing vaccines. Most Tuberculosis in Australia is seen in foreign-born people. Australia has an important role in providing leadership in the Asia-Pacific region in Tuberculosis control, which will have flow-on benefits to TB control in this country. Using mathematical models, this project will assess the use of vaccines for Tuberculosis in the developing world. Rising levels of extremely drug resistant infections make this a timely and important study with significant policy implications, both externally and in the Australian context. Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0668549
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$280,000.00
Summary
Major upgrade of the computing hardware and software for the widely used BioManager bioinformatic service. ANGIS has been an Australian national facility for bioinformatics since 1991, now with over 4000 users across 150 university schools or departments, government departments, hospitals and research institutes. The grant will provide the computer upgrade and software support needed to handle the enormous increases in database size and complexity and expand the service into new areas of bioinfo ....Major upgrade of the computing hardware and software for the widely used BioManager bioinformatic service. ANGIS has been an Australian national facility for bioinformatics since 1991, now with over 4000 users across 150 university schools or departments, government departments, hospitals and research institutes. The grant will provide the computer upgrade and software support needed to handle the enormous increases in database size and complexity and expand the service into new areas of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is critical to much of modern biology, and the improvements will enhance research and data analysis in many areas of research, leveraging more value from the research being undertaken by users. Read moreRead less
Robust estimation of cardiac output and oxygen consumption from simple non-invasive physiological variables. We aim to develop robust mathematical and physiological models to estimate cardiac output and oxygen consumption of an exercising individual from simple non-invasive physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiration, body temperature and body movement (using multiple triaxial accelerometers).
The models developed will provide a better understanding of the human cardiovascular s ....Robust estimation of cardiac output and oxygen consumption from simple non-invasive physiological variables. We aim to develop robust mathematical and physiological models to estimate cardiac output and oxygen consumption of an exercising individual from simple non-invasive physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiration, body temperature and body movement (using multiple triaxial accelerometers).
The models developed will provide a better understanding of the human cardiovascular system response to exercise, and could be incorporated as part of a closed loop control system for cardiac pacemakers and/or heart assist devices.
Outcomes will include increased scientific knowledge, new robust models of the exercising cardiovascular /respiratory / thermoregulatory system and advanced biomedical instrumentation.
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Decentralized Control Problems for Networked Systems. The conceptual advances to be made in the area decentralized control of networked systems.
New design rules for decentralized control in networked systems will be developed and published in the top international journals and major international conferences.
Also, a contribution of the project will be to produce high quality Ph.D. graduates in this area of control theory.
A Bayesian framework for frequency domain identification. The national and social benefits of the project will be reflected
through the application recognition of the research work in the various industry and research community; and also through our international collaboration. The national and social benefits are also delivered by producing specialized researchers and engineers in systems and control engineering. These people include the research students who will participate in and learn f ....A Bayesian framework for frequency domain identification. The national and social benefits of the project will be reflected
through the application recognition of the research work in the various industry and research community; and also through our international collaboration. The national and social benefits are also delivered by producing specialized researchers and engineers in systems and control engineering. These people include the research students who will participate in and learn from the proposed project.Read moreRead less