Brief Description:

This research will bring enormous benefits to Australian community by significantly reducing the environmental impact of civil infrastructure maintenance operations, and improving the working conditions of maintenance workers by minimising their exposure to dust containing hazardous materials. Bridges are a key link that supports rural communities. Besides the 426 steel road bridges in NSW, many hundreds steel road/rail bridges and other steel infrastructure in Australia need regular paint stripping and repainting. Australia will gain significant economic and health benefits from commercialising the advanced technologies developed by this project, and become a world leader in developing autonomous systems for infrastructure maintenance.

Brief Description:

This project will lift the productivity of container terminals by enabling the effective deployment of autonomous vehicles in large numbers. The project outcomes of practically deployable and scalable algorithms, realised as live software, will significantly enhance Patrick Stevedores Holdings' world leading technology and the potential of such automation systems to revolutionise material handling around the globe. Beyond the benefits of technology commercialisation, the project will also benefit Australia economically through extending its leading role in developing autonomous systems for material handling, enhancing the frontier technologies for building Australian industries, and alleviating looming capacity constraints.

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The new concept of application oriented, integrated, system level design will relieve the constraints formerly applied to appliances by motors and give appliance designers full freedom to pursue the best appliance functions. The new platform will become a powerful tool for designing advanced drive systems of new materials, novel topologies, low cost and high performance, and shorten significantly the period of new product development. The energy savings achieved by using efficient systems will contribute significantly towards the reduction of greenhouse gas emission.

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This project will significantly enhance the application of limited resources by enabling networks to concurrently address the requirements of multiple users. This will increase the affordability of new services, extend user and community access to network assets, and provide better capability to remote, harsh or hostile environments. In turn, this will provide significant competitive advantage, not only to those individuals, companies and industries who’s operations will access these frontier technologies, but also for companies developing and delivering these services, eg the project’s outcomes will find immediate application in bushfire fighting, underwater and marine surveillance, agricultural monitoring and mining exploration.