Research projects

Please note that this Research Projects directory has been identified for future retirement and may not be up to date.

For the latest information on the various projects that are underway in our College, please refer to the local information shared on the School of Engineering, School of Computing, and School of Cybernetics sites.

99 project

Project namesort descending Area Theme
3D fitting optimisation
3D scanning/depth technology for indoor applications (Use case – Logistic): 2 student
Active noise control over space using Spherical Harmonic Domain/Wave Domain Signal Processing (SONY) Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Active sound control and noise reduction over space Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Adaptive Spot Welding Control
Advanced audio noise characterization and filtration for accelerated Automated Speech Recognition Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Advanced multicrystalline silicon for high efficiency solar cells (PhD project)
AI Planning for Cyber Red-Teaming
Ammonia-based energy storage
ASTRI: Heliostat capital cost reduction
ASTRI: Improving performance of high-temperature receivers
Atomically thin opto-electronic devices (LED, solar cells) and/or mechanical devices based on novel two dimensional nano-materials
Bladed receivers with active airflow control
Building Australia's Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure
Camera-based heart rate estimation: 1 student
Characterisation and Modelling of silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell
Characterisation of concentrator surfaces using deflectometry
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of 2-dimensional organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors
Clathrate hydrate cold storage for solar air conditioning
Community-focused Flood Mitigation and Warning Systems
CONSORT: Consumer Energy Systems Providing Cost-Effective Grid Support
Cutting-edge laser processing techniques for bifacial silicon solar cells (PhD project)
Driving increased efficiency and reliability in silicon photovoltaics - from ingots to modules
Dynamic hand gesture recognition for medical application: 1 student
Engineers Without Borders 30+ Projects available
Entangled Quantum Photon Sources based on Optical nonlinearities in 2D crystals
Exploring Checkpointing for Java on Persistent Memory
Extension of entanglement analysis to obtain topological descriptors
Flood intelligence systems for rural communities
Formally Verified Vote Counting: The case of Fractional Transfer Values
Hand gesture recognition from virtual hand data
High-density hydrogen storage by novel nanomaterials (PhD Project)
High-tech Biodiversity Rescue Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
High-temperature sodium-based energy collection and storage
High-temperature solar thermal energy storage via manganese-oxide based redox cycling
Household Water Treatment in Timor-Leste
Human-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle interactions: Making drones talk and listen Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Humanitarian Engineering
Humanitarian Engineering Education
Hydrogenation of defects in high efficiency n-type silicon solar cells (PhD project)
Improving search engine efficiency with emerging memory and storage
In-bed human pose analysis (multimodal data visible, thermal and pressure): 3 students
Kinetic and rheological studies of CO2 semi-clathrate hydrates for cold storage air-conditioning systems
Low-cost carbon based electrode for solar cells
Luminescence studies of thin films in silicon photovoltaics (PhD project)
Measurement of high-flux irradiation
Medical image segmentation
Metallised encapsulant for silicon PV modules: A path to reduced LCOE for PV
Micro-/Nano-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS/NEMS) based novel biomedical devices
Model predictive control of in point focus solar thermal systems
Modeling & Measurement of Head Related Transfer Function
Multi-modal analysis of human behaviour: 2 student
Multi-scale engineering of durable absorber coatings for solar thermal power
Multi-spectral image analysis and segmentation
My Project
Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation
New approaches to impurity gettering in silicon solar cells by deposited films (PhD project)
Next Generation Industrial Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells
Novel applications of sub-band-gap absorption and emission in silicon solar cells (PhD project)
Novel characterisation techniques for next generation solar cells
Novel passivated polysilicon contacts for high-efficiency solar cells (PhD project)
Novel passivated polysilicon contacts using printable dopants (PhD project)
Optical design of high-flux solar simulators
Optimizing the Multicore Processor for Search and Analytics
Optoelectronic properties of novel 2-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
Pharmacological systems modelling, identification and control for anaesthesia applications
Photogrammetric characterisation of concentrator surfaces
Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communications
Planar microphone array for spatial audio recording Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Plasmonic hot-electron technologies for nanoscale energy conversion
Prevention of Human fall events in hospital settings: 1 student
Privately owned public space: Noise cancellation over multiple regions Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Radiative characterisation of fibrous materials
Radiative characterisation of small heterogeneous particles
Radiative spectroscopy characterisation of participating media
Radiative transfer in multi-component media
Ranking Wikidata items based on a keyword query
Resilient energy systems
Robust AI Planning for Hybrid Systems
Semantic segmentation in forested environments: 1 student
Software Engineering in R Programming
Solar Cooling Using Ejectors
Solar fuels by water splitting
Solar Hydrogen
Solar production of ammonia
Solar thermal gasification of coal
Solar thermochemical CO2 capture via calcium-oxide looping
Solar thermochemical CO2 capture via calcium-oxide looping
Spatial Sound Control for Testing Multi-channel Audio Devices Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Spectral PL for fundamental properties of silicon and other PV materials (PhD project)
Supercritical-water gasification of biomass
The Big Sleep ACT
The cocktail party problem: Advancing binaural localisation techniques Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Thermal transport by design for fast and efficient solar thermochemical fuel production
Transient thermal transport phenomena in reacting particles
TRNSYS performance simulations of small scale absorption chiller systems in Australia
Underwater image segmentation
USASEC: Improved high-temperature receivers for dish concentrators
X-ray imaging of free-falling particles

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