1. Robotics Systems
- Vehicle Carried Road Texture Depth (RTD) Measurement System
The system is able to measure the RTD from the back of a moving vehicle with speeds of up to 80 kp.h., on both wheel-paths and in-between in a continuous fashion. and produce the measurement results together with other relevant information such as the GPS coordinates of the location of measurement, vehicle speeds and road conditions in a standard format required by the client. It has been adopted by Fulton Hogan in their road projects in New Zealand and Australia.
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
The multi-rotor UAV system is designed for the New Zealand environment with potential payload of 2kg. The on-board UAV controller runs under the embedded Linux OS with the supports of multiple sensors (IMU, vision sonar, laser scanner, GPS) , communication and actuator driver modules. It can be reconfigured to cater for the needs of different applications. An indoor UAV testing stand is designed for the calibration of sensors and the test of control algorithms.
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Monitoring New Zealand Native Bees — A Collaborative Approach using Image Analysis
This research is focused on developing a simple and reliable method to monitor New Zealand’s native bees through analysis of the images of the bees and their nests.
Project leader: A/Professor Loulin Huang, project link
Participating staff and PhD /ME students: Dr John Collins, Dr Xuejun Li, Dr Robert Yang, Dr Barbara Bollard-Breen
2. Soft Robotics
Project leader: Dr. Martin Stommel, project link
3. Biomedical Imaging
Project leader: A/Professor Hamid Gholamhosseini, project link
Participating staff and PhD students: Dr Shereen Afifi, Dr Mohammad Norouzifard
4. Intelligent Surveillance
Project leader: A/Professor Wei Qi Yan, project link
Research staff and PhD students: Mr Jia Lu, Ms Xiaoxu Liu
5. Hyperspectral Imaging for Food Industry
Project leader: Dr Marlon M.Reis (AgResearch), project link
Research staff and PhD students: Dr Wei Qi Yan, Dr Mahmoud Al-Sarayreh
6. Computer Vision on Portable Smart Devices
Project leader: Dr Minh Nguyen, project link
Participating staff and PhD students: Mr Huy Le, Ms Arpita Dawda
7. Deep Learning
Project leader: Wei Qi Yan
Participating staff and PhD students: Mr Jia Lu, Mr Ding Yue, Mr Nidhi Gowdra, Mr Sajith Jamal, Dr Rivindu Perera, Dr Akbar Ghobakhlou, Dr Ji Ruan, Dr Renu Choudhary, Professor Ajit Narayanan, Professor Edmund Lai
8. Multimedia Signal Processing and Applications
Project leader: Professor Edmund Lai
Participating staff and PhD students: Dr Jing Ma, Dr Wei Qi Yan
9. Wireless localisation and VANET
Project leader: Dr Xuejun Li
Participating staff and PhD students: Dr Xuejun Li, Prof. Peter Chong
10. Autonomous Vehicles
Project leader: Mr Yanqiang Li (Joint LAB of AUT & SDAS)
Participating staff and PhD students: Mr Yue Ding, Mr Jia Lu, Mr Y. Wang
11. Artificial Intelligence
Project leader: Professor Ajit Narayanan
Participating staff and PhD students: Dr Ji Ruan, Mr Yue Ding.
12. Cybersecurity using AI
Project leader: Professor Ajit Narayanan
Participating staff and PhD students: Dr Bobby Yang, Dr Wei Qi Yan, Mr Alex Zhu.
13. Natural Language Processing
Project leader: Dr Parma Nand
Participating staff and PhD students: Dr. Rivindu Perera