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Machine learning for understanding and predicting behaviour
Understanding behaviour and predicting events is a core machine learning task, and has many applications in areas including computer vision (to detect or prediction actions in video) and signal processing (to detect events in medical signals).While a large body of research exists exploring these tasks, a number of common challenges persist including:capturing variations in how behaviours or events appear across different subjects, such that predictions can be accurately made for previously unseen subjectsmodelling and incorporating long-term relationships, such as previously …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Signal processing with small BOM
Signal processing applications in RADAR, electronic surveillance, and communications systems are regularly developed and deployed on *field programmable gate arrays* (FPGA).FPGAs are common because of their strong computational performance and flexibility.This performance and flexibility comes at a cost.The cost of commonly used FPGA such as Xilinx's Zynq and Ultrascale SoCs range between several hundreds to several tens of thousands of dollars.Complete systems deployed with these chips range from several thousands to several hundreds of thousands of dollars.Such cost is often …
- Study level
- Honours
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Affordable underwater acoustic communications
Communication is an enabling technology for underwater systems such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), sensor networks, and diver support equipment. These systems cannot use radio frequency (RF) links, because radio waves are heavily absorbed by water, and poor visibility rules out optical links. Only acoustic communication is suitable. The underwater acoustic channel is bandwidth-limited, slow, and degraded by multipath, Doppler, and noise, making underwater modems a demanding signal processing and embedded systems problem.Commercial underwater modems exist but are expensive and …
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- Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
mmWave radar interface and signal processing system
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar systems are widely used in applications such as automotive sensing, robotics, and industrial automation for object detection, range estimation, and velocity measurement.In this project, students will design and implement a complete interface to a commercial mmWave radar module using either an FPGA platform or an NVIDIA Jetson embedded system. The project will include low-level hardware/software interfacing as well as basic radar signal processing to extract meaningful information from the radar data.
- Study level
- Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Re-localisation in natural environments
Re-localisation in robotics involves the process of determining a robot's current pose, consisting of its position and orientation. This can either be within a previously mapped and known environment (i.e. prior map) or relative to another robot in a multi-agent setup. Re-localisation is essential for enabling robots to perform tasks such as autonomous monitoring and exploration seamlessly, even when they encounter temporary challenges in precisely tracking their location in GPS-degraded environments. For instance, consider the 'wake-up' problem, where a robot …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
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