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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210101864
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$442,500.00
Summary
Unlocking Urban Airspace for Drone Transport. This project aims to accurately quantify the mid-air collision risk associated with low-altitude unmanned operations in urban airspace through the creation of new data-driven collision risk modelling techniques. Without such techniques, drone operations remain suppressed so their true potential cannot be realised. The collision risk models address this by providing the key missing knowledge that can underpin/enable vital unmanned traffic management ....Unlocking Urban Airspace for Drone Transport. This project aims to accurately quantify the mid-air collision risk associated with low-altitude unmanned operations in urban airspace through the creation of new data-driven collision risk modelling techniques. Without such techniques, drone operations remain suppressed so their true potential cannot be realised. The collision risk models address this by providing the key missing knowledge that can underpin/enable vital unmanned traffic management applications, including airspace design and the development of separation standards. This can ultimately enable greater access to urban airspace without compromising air safety such that we unlock the commercial and societal benefits of drone use and help modernise urban air transportation.
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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE200101128
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$399,235.00
Summary
Control and filtering of distributed systems with communication-scheduling. This project aims to develop an analysis and design framework to enhance the reliability of the next-generation advanced manufacturing systems with security vulnerability and communication scheduling. Reliable control and filtering of distributed systems is an emerging area of automation and control engineering in the tide of the 4th industrial revolution. Expected outcomes of this project include obtaining analysis crit ....Control and filtering of distributed systems with communication-scheduling. This project aims to develop an analysis and design framework to enhance the reliability of the next-generation advanced manufacturing systems with security vulnerability and communication scheduling. Reliable control and filtering of distributed systems is an emerging area of automation and control engineering in the tide of the 4th industrial revolution. Expected outcomes of this project include obtaining analysis criteria uncovering the effect from communication scheduling and cyber-attacks, and developing a novel framework based on co-design perspective to realize the distributed system design, while being applied in the cooperative control of various robots or manipulators in unmanned factories.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120102012
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Estimation and control algorithms over wireless networks. The use of wireless technologies in areas such as mobile communications has provided great benefits to society. Investigating estimation and control algorithms that are reliable when operating over the wireless environment will enable new technologies such as better management of Australia's water resources, and more fuel-efficient transportation.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101449
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$392,404.00
Summary
Robust Control and Filtering for Regulation of Flow in Implantable Rotary Blood Pumps. This project aims to derive and implement a novel, robust and non-invasive dynamical modelling, state estimation and physiological control to enable a left ventricular assist device to behave in a natural Frank-Starling like manner. The proposed multi-objective platforms will utilise sensorless feedback signals (measurements) from the left ventricular assist device to design a robust, adaptive and responsive c ....Robust Control and Filtering for Regulation of Flow in Implantable Rotary Blood Pumps. This project aims to derive and implement a novel, robust and non-invasive dynamical modelling, state estimation and physiological control to enable a left ventricular assist device to behave in a natural Frank-Starling like manner. The proposed multi-objective platforms will utilise sensorless feedback signals (measurements) from the left ventricular assist device to design a robust, adaptive and responsive control system that effectively controls the operation of the pump to meet the body's physiological needs, perturbations and to cope with changing physiological demands. This will allow, for example, heart failure patients to resume their normal daily lives and minimise the need for continuous supervision by clinical staff.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100879
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Design, modelling and advanced control of high performance nanopositioners for atomic force microscopy. A high-speed nanopositioner with nanoscale manoeuvring accuracy is used extensively in nanotechnology applications such as biological cell studies and nanomanipulation. This project seeks to address fundamental problems associated with the design and control of nanopositioners, which will subsequently benefit Australian nanotechnology research.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120102873
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Securing networked control and estimation systems and safeguarding critical infrastructure. The purpose of this project is to reduce the likelihood of success, and the severity of impact, of a cyber-attack against networked control and estimation systems operating within critical infrastructure. The outcome will be a suite of algorithms, tools and design considerations for networked, industrial, control systems that satisfy this purpose.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101604
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Novel role for the universal signalling molecule nitric oxide within biofilm communities and across a biofilm-host interface. Biofilms on wet surfaces and tissues cause major problems by resisting antimicrobials. This project aims at exploiting how natural host response control systems alleviate biofilm build up and can be used to control biofilms in a non-toxic fashion. Countless environmental and clinical applications will benefit from reduced usage of antibiotics.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220101527
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$420,000.00
Summary
Real-time control with safety guarantees: theory and applications . Modern network control systems, such as transport systems with self-driving cars, are becoming bigger, more complex and human-involved. The systems are usually equipped with intelligent devices, such as numerous sensing, fast processors and communication components. To adapt to this change and to benefit from these new intelligent devices, efficient algorithms for control and management need to be developed. This project aims to ....Real-time control with safety guarantees: theory and applications . Modern network control systems, such as transport systems with self-driving cars, are becoming bigger, more complex and human-involved. The systems are usually equipped with intelligent devices, such as numerous sensing, fast processors and communication components. To adapt to this change and to benefit from these new intelligent devices, efficient algorithms for control and management need to be developed. This project aims to develop novel optimisation-based control techniques, as well as efficient optimisation algorithms, for future control systems with an emphasis on distributed implementations, taking safety and real-time constraints such as limited computation and communication resources into consideration. Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100825
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$336,128.00
Summary
Evaluating interventions to prevent serious road traffic crashes. This project aims to advance knowledge on the prevention of road traffic crashes that result in serious injury or death. Road traffic injuries are the second leading cause of hospitalised injury and injury-related deaths in Australia, and are estimated to cost the economy $27 billion annually. This project will establish a data collection system that will evaluate existing and novel countermeasures to serious road traffic crashes. ....Evaluating interventions to prevent serious road traffic crashes. This project aims to advance knowledge on the prevention of road traffic crashes that result in serious injury or death. Road traffic injuries are the second leading cause of hospitalised injury and injury-related deaths in Australia, and are estimated to cost the economy $27 billion annually. This project will establish a data collection system that will evaluate existing and novel countermeasures to serious road traffic crashes. The outcome of this project will inform road safety policies and cost-effective countermeasures. Insights from the project can contribute to road safety improvements in Australia and a substantial reduction in the burden of fatal and non-fatal road traffic injury.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101062
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$360,000.00
Summary
A geometric approach to in-hand manipulation with rolling contact. This project aims to eradicate barriers to in-hand manipulation and design robot hands as dexterous and adaptable as the human hand. It will use the curvature theory of smooth surfaces and Lie Group theory to establish a coordinate-independent kinematic formulation of a robot hand with rolling contact and rectify the current singularity theory of in-hand manipulation. It will also use discrete differential geometry to establish a ....A geometric approach to in-hand manipulation with rolling contact. This project aims to eradicate barriers to in-hand manipulation and design robot hands as dexterous and adaptable as the human hand. It will use the curvature theory of smooth surfaces and Lie Group theory to establish a coordinate-independent kinematic formulation of a robot hand with rolling contact and rectify the current singularity theory of in-hand manipulation. It will also use discrete differential geometry to establish a discrete contact theory, which will be integrated into the proposed geometric framework to fully exploit modern tactile fingertips’ functionality. The expected outcome is robot hands with the dexterity and adaptability of the human hand.Read moreRead less