Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Part 4 Exhibition Day 201214 September 2012

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4Tw

o and three stub tuners in coax and waveguide

Junyu Zhu

Matt B

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llan William

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ave power coupling to and energy distribution w

ithin an oven cavity.Lesley H

yRebecca Z

hangProf A

llan William

son16

Radio Propagation Modelling in H

ighly Irregular TerrainsD

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Dr M

ichael Neve

32Intelligent Tutoring System

for Electromagnetic Fields

Dora Xu

Gelin C

henD

r Gerard Row

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Intelligent Tutoring System for Electrom

agnetic RadiationZhichao Lin

Yajing LiuD

r Gerard Row

e114

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pact Waveguide B

ends for Industrial Microw

ave Applications

Sai N

arayanaShoaib K

hanProf A

llan William

son117

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ission LinesSam

YousifD

r Gerard Row

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Kwun C

heungJam

es Wong

Dr M

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imulation in N

on-Cartesian G

eometries

Zakhar Bastadjan

James O

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Dr M

ichael Neve

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ays of visualising frequency information in A

udio Signals

McA

damJun Ling

Dr C

atherine Watson

63Exploring M

odel-Based approaches for the D

esign of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Shing Z

huJunbo Zeng

Dr Partha Roop

83Intelligent w

ireless sensor network light controller

Yanbo Zhang

Yijun Hao

Dr S

tevan Berber

84Radio-frequency B

lock Design for C

DM

A signal transm

issionD

ong-ho JINH

yun Kim

Dr S

tevan Berber

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ireles Sensor N

etworks

David Fraser

Robert Gallichan

Dr S

tevan Berber

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ignal Processing Procedures in Radio TransceiversIvan W

alynetzJonathan W

orkman

Dr S

tevan Berber

87Bluetooth link to sm

art phoneSam

Bristow

Rachel TupouD

r Stevan B

erber108

Com

munications schem

es in local Microgrids

Xinw

ei Wang

Jack FangProf John B

oys124

Intelligent Tutoring System for Transm

ission LinesKaluachchigam

age JayatilakeD

r Gerard Row

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Intelligent Controllers for Photovoltaic System

sIgnus Ferreira

Johnny Song

Dr A

kshya Swain

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entation of controllers in delta-domain

Allan B

aiPeter W

angD

r Akshya Sw

ain73

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plementation of an application for D

elta Robot using nxtStudio

Heng-You Lin

Dr Partha Roop

57Bell controller interface

Jiwin H

oLisa Xue

Assoc. Prof B

ruce MacD

onald59

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panion robotShuchita Taneja

Divey Punj

Assoc. Prof B

ruce MacD

onald101

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are for diabetes patients to manage their illness as w

ell as reporting patients status back to their doctorH

aneesha Nim

magadda

Hasini Ratnasekera

Dr G

eorge Coghill

102Investigation into Im

proving Speech Synthesis for the H

ealthbotsJon C

olyerTim

EvansD

r Catherine W

atson119

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ent of vision and localisation capability for an autonomous robot : Part B

Paul LeeAonghas A

ndersonD

r George C

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