Shared-space interactions between people and autonomous vehicles. This project aims to understand how autonomous vehicles in urban environments need to interact with the people that they share those spaces with. Autonomous vehicles that are able to operate in shared spaces, such as campuses and pedestrian zones, promise to improve urban life. However, their uptake depends heavily on public acceptance as they operate in close proximity to people. The project investigates whether people are more l ....Shared-space interactions between people and autonomous vehicles. This project aims to understand how autonomous vehicles in urban environments need to interact with the people that they share those spaces with. Autonomous vehicles that are able to operate in shared spaces, such as campuses and pedestrian zones, promise to improve urban life. However, their uptake depends heavily on public acceptance as they operate in close proximity to people. The project investigates whether people are more likely to trust the technology and feel safe if they are able to understand how the system makes decisions and to directly influence its behaviour. Outcomes are expected to promote safe behaviour around urban robotic applications and accelerate the uptake of autonomous systems in Australia’s cities. Read moreRead less
An advanced framework for multi-agent strategic interactions. Communication security protocols and computer algorithms are expressible in terms of strategic interactions between competing agents, which can be analyzed in a game theory setting. This project will exploit the recent advances in extending this game theory framework to multidimensional spaces, thereby strengthening the theoretical foundations. This will provide new insights into the working of algorithms, potentially improving futur ....An advanced framework for multi-agent strategic interactions. Communication security protocols and computer algorithms are expressible in terms of strategic interactions between competing agents, which can be analyzed in a game theory setting. This project will exploit the recent advances in extending this game theory framework to multidimensional spaces, thereby strengthening the theoretical foundations. This will provide new insights into the working of algorithms, potentially improving future secure key distribution. Multi-agent interactions in higher dimensional spaces are considered intractable using traditional matrix methods and this project will build on our exciting new breakthrough showing that such interactions are tractable using geometric multivectors.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220101249
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$468,582.00
Summary
Fusing wearables and advanced computational models for real world analysis. This project aims to solve a major technological problem: our inability to study human skeletal, muscular, and neural function in the real world. This project expects to, for the first time globally, integrate wearable sensors with neuromusculoskeletal computational models and artificial intelligence, and validate this technology. Expected project outcomes include an integrated system for future commercialisation and new ....Fusing wearables and advanced computational models for real world analysis. This project aims to solve a major technological problem: our inability to study human skeletal, muscular, and neural function in the real world. This project expects to, for the first time globally, integrate wearable sensors with neuromusculoskeletal computational models and artificial intelligence, and validate this technology. Expected project outcomes include an integrated system for future commercialisation and new understanding of how whole-body behavioural choices affect tissue mechanics during daily and sporting activities. Project outcomes should provide significant benefits, such as the ability to escape the laboratory to understand human performance for defence, sport, industrial, and health settings.Read moreRead less
A neural fuzzy fusion engine for human-machine autonomous systems. This project aims to develop an intelligent engine to adaptively fuse multiple trust-based information from various agents in human machine autonomous systems (HMAS). The project will develop new techniques to detect covert-state drift, model trustworthiness between humans and machines, and adaptively fuse information under various kinds of uncertainty and trust levels. These techniques will be integrated to produce a general fra ....A neural fuzzy fusion engine for human-machine autonomous systems. This project aims to develop an intelligent engine to adaptively fuse multiple trust-based information from various agents in human machine autonomous systems (HMAS). The project will develop new techniques to detect covert-state drift, model trustworthiness between humans and machines, and adaptively fuse information under various kinds of uncertainty and trust levels. These techniques will be integrated to produce a general framework to facilitate human-machine interaction and enable better collaborative decisions in HMAS. The outcomes will benefit human-centric automation systems in general and next-generation autonomous vehicles in particular, which will contribute to the Australian economy.Read moreRead less
RoboCrab: An integrative approach to the natural ecology of decision making. The project aims to analyse and model the sophisticated and context-dependent escape behaviour of fiddler crabs under both natural conditions and in controlled laboratory settings. A crucial problem for biology is to understand how animals can make adaptive decisions in natural, complex sensory environments; such understanding also has direct application to robotics. The project plans to examine the effects of eye stabi ....RoboCrab: An integrative approach to the natural ecology of decision making. The project aims to analyse and model the sophisticated and context-dependent escape behaviour of fiddler crabs under both natural conditions and in controlled laboratory settings. A crucial problem for biology is to understand how animals can make adaptive decisions in natural, complex sensory environments; such understanding also has direct application to robotics. The project plans to examine the effects of eye stabilisation and oscillation, record from key neural stages using naturalistic stimuli to derive precise algorithms, and integrate and test the results on a robot model – RoboCrab. This may provide new insight into the integration of low-level sensory input with behavioural decision making circuits and the evolution of escape behaviours.Read moreRead less
Energy efficient sensing, computing and communication. This research will study trade-offs in resource use: bandwidth, power, and computational capacity of systems of sensors such as cameras, radars, and distributed sensor networks based on a statistical mechanical theory of information processing, leading to practical algorithms to optimize resource use in the design of such systems.
Automating real-time feedback in virtual reality training through data mining. This project will use data mining techniques to develop a real-time feedback system that can be used in virtual reality training environments. This system will not only improve trainees' learning, it will also lead to more efficient use of virtual reality training in industries such as aviation, aerospace, mining, health and emergency services.
Coding for Distributed Storage: Fundamental Limits and Code Designs. Applications such as file sharing, large-scale scientific projects, and social networking are fuelling the need for reliable and sustainable distributed storage systems. This project aims to develop the theory and the code designs for next-generation storage systems that are specifically optimised for the storage needs in such applications. This project is well placed to provide cost-effective, home-grown solutions for Australi ....Coding for Distributed Storage: Fundamental Limits and Code Designs. Applications such as file sharing, large-scale scientific projects, and social networking are fuelling the need for reliable and sustainable distributed storage systems. This project aims to develop the theory and the code designs for next-generation storage systems that are specifically optimised for the storage needs in such applications. This project is well placed to provide cost-effective, home-grown solutions for Australia's future data centre needs. Its potential immediate benefits are: contribution to the knowledge base and fundamental capabilities in storage systems; practical codes tailor-made for different storage applications; IP creation and commercialisation; and, education of future Australian academic and industrial innovators.Read moreRead less
Pushing the digital limits in quantum simulation for advanced manufacturing. This Project aims to enhance the power of high-tech quantum simulators to meet the demands of computer-modelling intensive industries such as drug and vaccine design and new energy. Aligned to Australia’s innovation agenda and Advanced Manufacturing priority, the Project expects to maximise the performance of near- and mid-term quantum simulations using innovative quantum programming techniques related to digitisation a ....Pushing the digital limits in quantum simulation for advanced manufacturing. This Project aims to enhance the power of high-tech quantum simulators to meet the demands of computer-modelling intensive industries such as drug and vaccine design and new energy. Aligned to Australia’s innovation agenda and Advanced Manufacturing priority, the Project expects to maximise the performance of near- and mid-term quantum simulations using innovative quantum programming techniques related to digitisation and control. Expected outcomes include: better understanding of limits in industry-scale quantum computers and improved error mitigation techniques. This should generate long-term productivity increases across a range of important sectors of the Australian economy that benefit from access to more powerful computer modelling.Read moreRead less
Readying Wireless Networks for Future Communications Systems: From Ubiquitous Computing to the Internet of Things. This project aims to prepare wireless networks for future communications systems, by improving the data transmission rates of wireless networks, through developing new coding schemes based on the synergy of noisy-channel coding and index coding. This will allow wireless networks, used in conjunction with the fibre-optic National Broadband Network, to support future high-data-rate an ....Readying Wireless Networks for Future Communications Systems: From Ubiquitous Computing to the Internet of Things. This project aims to prepare wireless networks for future communications systems, by improving the data transmission rates of wireless networks, through developing new coding schemes based on the synergy of noisy-channel coding and index coding. This will allow wireless networks, used in conjunction with the fibre-optic National Broadband Network, to support future high-data-rate and ubiquitous communication services. This project aims to produce new theoretical results in the field of communication theory, and efficient practical coding schemes for wireless communications.Read moreRead less