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AWTA Ltd
Wool & Textile Testing Instruments and Materials Handling Automation.
Developing the metrological basis and system controls for measurement instrument manufacture, system design of materials handling equipment. Metrology, Mechanical, Electronics, Software Design.
CSIRO
CSIRO is Australia's largest public funded research agency with capabilities directed to supporting Australia's economic, social and environmental challenges. The CSIRO ICT Centre, in partnership with Flagships and other Divisions, provide embedded solutions to address these challenges, undertaking pure and applied research in sensors, sensor networks, communications, signal processing and a broad base of application prototypes. As a research agency, CSIRO has a flexible engagement model including targeted collaborations, licensing programs and fee-for-service research activities.
CSIRO considers industries on a case by case basis, and therefore the value-add for each industry is diverse. Examples include researching industry challenges, increasing productivity and efficiency, improving Australia's ability to compete in targeted international markets, improving environmental and social outcomes, and engagement with industry leaders and SMEs to address specific applications. Once the suitability of technology prototypes is verified, CSIRO utilises industrial partnerships to deliver sustainable long-term impact.
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Deakin University - Centre for Intelligent Systems Research
ISR primarily deals with complex problems that cannot be solved with 'Commercial Off The Shelf' technology. Working in the Automotive, Military, Manufacturing and Education areas, ISR has 53 full time research engineers and is headquartered at Deakin University in Geelong Victoria.
The Centre's vision is to provide methodologies and tools to extend the capability of human decision makers and operators in the domain of infrastructure, security and defence, through increased autonomy of data collection, analysis and actuation. We develop semi-autonomous systems, described abstractly as those with the ability to perceive, reason and act, with either reduced or no human intervention.
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Flinders University - Flinders Medical Devices & Technologies
Flinders Medical Devices and Technologies (FMDAT) is a uniquely multi-disciplinary research network that aims to be the national research leader in the medical devices industry.Location
Griffith University - Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory
Griffith University's Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory (ICSL) is an internationally prominent research hub for embedded real-time control systems design and development. Its expertise spans the areas of design, development and prototyping of embedded real-time control & decision making systems and their applications to: intelligent vehicles, automotive and transport systems, intelligent road infrastructure, industrial automation, mechatronics, and intelligent robots.
Products and services include: R&D resources, hardware/software developers, system integration, education provider and consultant.
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La Trobe University - Centre for Technology Infusion
The Centre's vision is to be a driver in the knowledge-based economy by creating a lively and state-of-art environment for academic and commercially relevant research, innovation and development targeted towards high impact and strategic growth areas in ICT sector.
The Centre for Technology Infusion is a newly established Research and Product Realisation Centre located at the University's R&D Park. The Centre's objectives are to: engage in translational research, innovation & product realisation; transition the outcomes of research and innovation into public and private sector; and provide access to infrastructure and technologies for research, innovation and commercialisation.
Core research activities of the Centre are in micro-technology, nano-electronics, wireless systems and sensors, RF/analogue/ASIC, embedded systems, SoC design and test. The Centre has established industry standard design and test facilities namely, Microsoft Centre, Home Automation Innovation Centre and Hardware Product Realisation Centre and is also partner in the National Networked TeleTest Facility for Integrated Systems (MNRF) and the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (NCRIS).
One of the strategic priorities of the Centre is to develop collaborative relationships across faculties and with the stakeholders including universities, research institutes and business.
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NICTA
In embedded systems, NICTA has world class expertise in three areas:
1. Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems (ERTOS)
For over 10 years, under the leadership of Prof. Gernot Heiser, the University of New South Wales and NICTA have grown one of the world's leading real time embedded operating systems efforts. The NICTA ERTOS group are creating a verified open-source microkernel using methodologies and tools developed in the NICTA Formal methods group in Kensington and the Logic and Computation group in Canberra. One of NICTA's most successful research programs, the ERTOS activity has resulted in a spinout company, OK Labs, trained many students and grown an operating systems research community around the University.
2. Embedded Computer Vision - Real Time Dynamic Scene Understanding
In Computer Vision, under the leadership of Prof. Richard Hartley, NICTA has grown a world-class capability, with a reputation as one of the top 5 groups in the world in algorithms for Dynamic Scene Understanding. Combining this with our expertise in smart camera design and the mapping of vision algorithms to hardware, we have the ability to develop advanced visual sensor networks that can detect, track and understand objects in scenes. These networks have applications in emergency response, security and surveillance as well as in traffic monitoring and flow control, crowd management, situational awareness and even augmented reality and the bionic eye.
3. Wireless Systems on a Chip
In NICTA's research group in Melbourne, Victoria, a team led by Prof. Stan Skafidas has developed millimetre wave wireless communications expertise for future ultra-high speed Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN). Stan has created a lab of researchers who have developed the world's first fully integrated wireless radio at 60GHz in low cost CMOS technology. This technology will provide multi-gigabit per second wireless links to replace high definition TV cables, gigabit Ethernet LANs and other personal area communications.
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Silanna
Silanna provides foundry services to customers wishing to design on Silicon-on-Sapphire. The company also supplies III-V epiwafers.
We offer three levels of service:
- Production Foundry; offering a complete service for wafer fab and outsourced test, package and assembly services upto moderate volumes.
- Fast Affordable Prototyping; offering quick turn arounds with minimal mask costs for low volumes.
- Epiwafers; high purity AlN, GaN or AlGaN epiwafers on Silicon or Sapphire.
Silicon-on-Sapphire services are available in a choice of two processes (0.25µm and 0.5µm), each with 3 variants.
Some of the advantages of using Silicon-on-Sapphire for your chip designs include:
- Easy integration of RF, digital, mixed signal, passives and EEPROM on a single chip.
- High frequency RF (>10GHz) CMOS
- High Q integrated inductors (>40 at 2GHz for a 5nH inductor)
- Very high linearity transistors (+38dBm IP3 mixers)
- Excellent isolation
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University of New South Wales - School of Computer Science and Engineering - Embedded Systems Laboratory
The Embedded Systems Laboratory at the University of New South Wales (ESL@UNSW) is a leading research group in the area of embedded systems. Our research covers a diverse field of topics including processor security, power analysis, cache simulation, memory placement problems, network packet matching, resource sharing for functional units, memory architecture, Network-on-Chip (NoC) design, dynamic reconfiguration, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design and Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) design. The group comprises seven academics and many postgraduate research students. In addition to our research, we also perform training within both the University and Industry. We hope to expand this capability in future years.
Research output from the group has been demonstrated at many leading international conferences and journals. Our research and collaboration with industry partners has led to publication of books, patents and book chapters. ESL@UNSW has also sought out and received funding of several million dollars from the Australian Research Council and industry partners. ESL@UNSW has access to and has developed proficiency in use of many tools for the design and analysis of embedded systems. These include the Synopsys toolset, Xilinx ISE, Synplicity, Modelsim, ASIPMeister and Tensilca tools for creation and optimisation of Application Specific Instruction-set Processors (ASIPs).
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University of New South Wales - School of Computer Science and Engineering - Reconfigurable Computing
Reconfigurable computing is concerned with adapting a system's hardware and software architecture to dynamic changes in energy or resource availability and performance requirements. The main challenge is to find creative solutions to on-line design problems. Specific areas of interest include: the specification and automatic synthesis of optimised dynamic hardware configurations; run-time environments and support for dynamically reconfigurable systems; and optimising applications using reconfigurable technology.
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University of Queensland - School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering - Ubiquitous Computing
This group deals with issues that arise as the global computing infrastructure becomes pervasive and interconnected. It also deals with new technologies which will assist in realising such a ubiquitous, globally communicative information environment.
The interests of staff within this group are wide-ranging including wireless computing, pervasive computing, organic computing (computers that self-configure, self-organise, self-adapt and self-heal), embedded computing (invisible computers inside devices), reconfigurable computing, context-aware computers (that respond to a changing environment), mobile computing and interaction design (i.e. interaction between computers and humans).
There are active research teams working in a range of areas including:
Reconfigurable Computing, Sensor Networks, Context-Aware Computing and Interaction Design.
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University of South Australia - School of Computer and Information Science - Wearable Computer Lab
The Wearable Computer Lab performs research in a number of areas, mostly wearable computers, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Our lab was started in 1998 and since then has grown into being a major contributor to the research in the department, with a number of research staff, postgraduate students, and undergraduate students.
Over the years we have developed a number of ground breaking research projects. In 1998 we began the Tinmith mobile augmented reality project, which has now developed into a 3D modelling system that a user can take outdoors to create and interact with objects and buildings. The same hardware platform was then used to implement a modified version of Quake to allow players to fight virtual monsters while mobile outdoors in ARQuake. For truly wearable applications, we have also performed research into the embedding of electronic devices into textiles and clothing for next generation E-Suits. We perform a variety of research into AR, VR, 3D, and UI.
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University of Sydney - School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Research activities undertaken by the school cover all major areas of electrical engineering.
They attract competitive funding from a range of sources, and School's links with industry have been strengthened by funding from sources including NEC, Ericsson, BT, EnergyAustralia, ABB, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Powercor, and other national and international companies where our graduates are highly appreciated for their expertise, creativity and leadership.
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University of Sydney - School of Information Technologies - Computer Human Adapted Interaction (CHAI)
Pervasive computing has the potential to improve our lives in many ways. It can support augmented cognition and life-long memories: providing people with ready access to pertinent information about themselves from their own data stores will enable them to expand their effective cognition and knowledge beyond what they would otherwise remember. Life-long learning is another potential benefit, with the possibility that we can learn precisely when and where we need to, with learning resources delivered just for us, taking account of our existing knowledge and preferred ways of learning. To achieve such benefits, we need to ensure users can control their personal data and its use and we need to be able make that information available when and where people need it.
CHAI is exploring personalisation that enables the user to scrutinise and control the whole personalisation process. Another dimension of CHAI research is in novel pervasive computing interfaces such as tabletop interaction and pervasive appliances that are embedded in the environment to serve very specific functions.
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University of Western Australia - Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
In 1991 the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems was established as a centre for excellence within the University of Western Australia by founding director Professor Yianni Attikiouzel. In 2003, Associate Professor Thomas Braunl took over as director of CIIPS.
CIIPS today comprises a number of different research groups, covering all IT areas from software design, hardware design, intelligent systems, robotics, speech recognition and biomedical systems. Special emphasis is on engineering system design, developing complete working systems that are of interest for industrial applications.
The Centre combines an active teaching program with both pure and applied research to provide an environment in which innovative theoretical developments are rapidly implemented using current technologies to provide solutions to a range of real-world problems.
CIIPS has made significant advances in the development of novel intelligent systems technologies and has earned recognition both nationally and internationally.
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University of Wollongong - School of Electrical Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
The curricula underlying the degrees offered by this School have been developed and regularly reviewed to ensure their effectiveness in producing graduates of high quality and value to industry. Graduates from our degrees have in-depth discipline knowledge, the necessary skills, innovation and creativity to formulate and solve problems through scientific and intuitive methods. They approach engineering analysis, design and management systematically; work effectively in a multidiscipline and multicultural environment; and have an understanding of their responsibilities as professional engineers with full commitment to the Engineers Australia Code of Ethics. They have the necessary skills and enthusiasm to pursue life-long learning and professional development.
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Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) - Centre for Computational Prototyping
VPAC, a leading, independent Advanced Computing R&D service provider, is a not for profit registered research agency established in 2000 by a consortium of Victorian Universities including Deakin, La Trobe, Monash, RMIT, Swinburne University of Technology, The University of Melbourne, University of Ballarat and the Victorian University.
VPAC provides expert services, training and support in Advanced Computing as well as professional R&D services in the application of Advanced Computing in the fields of Engineering, Geophysics, Health, Life Sciences, Spatial Information and Grid Computing.
Our aim is to help Australian researchers utilise Advanced Computing to create innovations that will place Australia at the forefront of scientific research and development.