Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2009/10

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

June 22-23 2010

Programme of activities

Monday 21st June, 2010

6 p.m. Welcome get together and registration: Empire Hotel lobby.

Tuesday 22nd

9.15 Opening. University of Darussalam Chancellor Hall

9.30 - 11.00 Session 1

Comparison of Scanning Laser Range-Finders and Millimetre-wave Radar for Creating a Digital Terrain Map

Nick Hillier, Julian Ryde and Eleonora Widzyk-Capehart

Distributed Collaborative Immersive Virtual Reality Framework for Mining Industry

Tomasz P Bednarz, Eleonora Widzyk-Capehart, Con Caris and Leila Alem

Discussion: Ergonomics and the operator interface.

11.00 - 11.30 coffee break

11.30 - 1.00 pm Session 2

Collocated PD with Input Shaping for Trajectory Control and Sway Suppression of a Rotary Crane System

M.A. Ahmad, M.S. Ramli, R.M.T. Raja Ismail, R.E. Samin

Controlled damping of a 48-metre wide spray rig.

John Billingsley

Holistic control system design for large mobile irrigation machines

Alison McCarthy, Nigel Hancock and Steven Raine

1 pm Lunch

2.15 - 3.15 Session 3

ESRA – Electric Scooter Robot Arm

S. N. Cubero

Machine Vision Aided Locating for Microwave Heating Control of the Asphalt Pavement Maintenance Vehicle

Lei Zhang, Zhisheng Zhang, Qingshan Fu,  Jinfei Shi, Jun Liu,  Ruiqiong Zhou

3.15 – 3.30  Coffee

3.30 - 5 pm Session 4

The robot menagerie of Frank Nickols

Although the robotics lab is now closed, Frank will present an account of his many curious creature.

Tutorial 1

6.30 pm Evening get-together - informal meal

Wednesday 23rd

9.15 am  Session 5

Longwall Shearer Automation: From Research to Reality

David C Reid, Jonathon C Ralston, Mark T Dunn and David W Hainsworth

Evaluation of Non-Contact Odometry Sensing Methods for Skid Steered Vehicles

Mark T Dunn, Robert Zlot, David Prasser, Pavan Sikka, Jonathon C Ralston and David C Reid

A Suitable Q-Learning Policy for a Single Agent Foraging Task

Yogeswaran M. and Ponnambalam S. G.

10.45 Coffee break

11.15 a.m. Session 6

Tissue Parameter Estimation for a Mechatronic Probe Using Inverse Finite Element Analysis

Kiattisak Sangpradit1, Kaspar Althoefer and Lakmal Seneviratne

Mechatronic solutions for measuring disturbance levels within a cochlea.

M.Zoka Assadi, D.Proops, A.Reid, C.Coulson and P.N. Brett

Discussion on techniques for haptics

12.45 Lunch

2.00 p.m.  Session 7

Designing competitions to enhance mechatronic engineering education

S. N. Cubero

Discussion on Mechatronics Education.

3.00 p.m. coffee

3.15 Session 8

Tutorial 2 and discussion - vision techniques, future directions

5 p.m. close

6.30 Banquet