Department of Mechanical Engineering

Part IV Research Projects

Display Day 2016

Thursday 20 October3 – 5pm

Thursday 20 October

DESIGN & INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (Manufacturing Systems Lab, Room 403.301, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleLucien Koefoed Jayanth Miranda Modelling activity exception handling patterns in product development

Aymen Jaballah Billy Shu-Chen Lin Management of Design Change

Alvee Alam Jae Jung Computational Design of Robotic Arm for 3D Printing

Mark Chapman Tristan Ware Fused deposition modelling of rehabilitation knee brace

Zane Gell Christopher Wong Further development of fused deposition modelling process, production and assembly methods

Sheng Cao Wayne Tse Intelligent Window for a Cyber-Physical Machine Tool

Sang Hyun Kim Tsubasa Kubota Direct Digital Manufacturing Using an Industrial Robot

Jan Marcelo Zhiwei Sun Further Development of the Plagiocephaly Helmet

Niclas von Ahsen Sze Man Yau Simplification of HMI and SCADA systems through use of VR

Isma Fildza Hazry Ismail Ahmad Jamaludin Development and Analysis of Concentric Magnetic Gear Prototype

MECHATRONICS I (Mechatronics Projects Lab, Room 403.504)

Student 1 Student 2 Project titleCanangama Jayatissa Christopher Rammell Soft-bodied Distributed Surface-elevated Hospital Bed

Harry Hebden Jang Su Ryu Soft tissue robotics for pine tree shoot culture

Matthew Martin Dillan Patel A stretchable Electrical Impedance Tomography based tactile sensor

Ke Xin Sun Hsin Chao Yu In Vivo Tool-tip Spinal Nerve Detection in MISS Using Raman Spectroscopy

Samuel Logan Nathan Roa Upper Limb Exoskelton- Gravity Balancing

Raniera Paniora-Hepi Alexandra Pereyaslavets Acute Stroke Gait Rehabilitation Robot

Daylin Alvares Aman Mehta Robotic Pediatric Gait Trainer

Akshay Khatri Jared Pickery-Jordan Neural-Prosthetic for Stroke/SCI Rehabilitation

Sarah Ewington Rachel Mosen Intelligent Objects for Rehabilitation Gaming

Kwun Fung Cheung Tony Shi Design and manufacture of a soft robotic actuator to assist in back rehabilitation

Ashley Gifford Craig Tims Advanced Tools for Urban Search and Rescue – 3D Void Mapping Borescope

Corina Pilbrow Mandeep Rajinder Longitudinal Vehicle Speed Control Using a Robotic Driver

Henry Conquer Alexei Yachine Prediction of Surface Friction for Two Wheeled Robots

MECHATRONICS II (Mechatronics Teaching Lab, Room 403.513)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleBlair Duncan Luke Sawyers Improving an Existing Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Device

Yifang Hou Rongze Ma Advanced Brain Computer Interface for Gaming and Control of Robot

Lite Kim Yinan Xu New Upper Limb Robots for Rehabilitation

Sarah Manoharan Karan Purohit Online Ankle Disability Assessment techniques for Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation Training

Xiting Sun Liang Wang 3D Photopolymer printing - Characterisation and Improvement

Bhuvan Garg Foo Shing Wong National Instruments Autonomous Robotic Competition (NIARC) - Build, Test, Deploy andCompete

Nitish Lobo Manmeet Singh Wireless Pesticide Spray Drift Sensor System

Nishita D'Silva Hayden Ng Neonatal CPR Pressure Sensing Gloves

Emily Hunter Luke Jennings Strain Sensor Control of a Gripping Hand Assistive Device

Sean Petersen Jeremiah Teo Chang National Instruments Autonomous Robotic Competition

Oscar Moosman Mitesh Patel EMG-Driven Interface for a Lower Limb Exoskeleton

Charles Bridger Geoffrey Zink Object Tracking using Mounted Sensors for Augmented Reality

Hung Nguyen Linda Yassi Development of a 3D Printing Cyber-Physical System

Panchanok Ngoksakda Qijia Peng Optimal Path Planning for 3D Printers

ACOUSTICS (Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titlePok Hin Loh Aaron Yeoh Speech enhancement on audio recording using UAVs

Nicholas de Wit Elise Everall Noise source localisation using mobile robots carrying microphone arrays

Ngoc Duy Minh Cao Shivam Jakhu Design of masking sound using reverberation for keeping speech privacy

Craig Horide Andrew O'Connor Tunable Resonant Devices for Control of Noise Transmission

Emlyn Perry Daniel Smith Acoustic levitation device

Daniel Cato Benjamin Hosking UAV rotor noise

MECHANICS OF MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING (Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleDaniel Kjestrup Samuel Wrait Replication of Elastic Energy Retention in Bounding Marsupials

Katja Mirkovic David Robinson Computer Model of Design Coordination

Amy Leong Carmen Szeto Design and manufacture of temporary shelters

Hunter Scott Dalong Ye-Lee Development of non-destructive methods to evaluate injectability and compressibility of automotive carbon fibre preforms

Joshua MoodyTimothy Rutledge Development of 3D sandwich composites for automotive applications; materials and

manufacturing

Jed Applegate Danella Young Manufacturing defects in the production of advanced composites by RTM; Effects of Defects

Karan Deva Matthew Small Improving quality of complex 3D components for the manufacture of high performance carbon fibre yacht masts

Matthew Battley Evan Simmers Design and Analysis of a Lightweight Composite CubeSat Deployer

Varun Patel Moganraj Subramaniam Effect of Blowing Agent on the Mechanical Performance of Biochar Based Wood/Polypropylene Composites

Sebastian Colson Nicholas Zeniou Maraetai Dam Penstock Seismic Analysis

Jiajing Hu Callum Ryall Effect of processing parameters on the bond strength of polymer metal laminates

Pernilla Scott Naphon Suriyasin Understanding Biomimetic Gecko-like Adhesion - How does it work?

Rachel Ang Sebastien Demaret Understanding Mechanical Metamaterials and Cloaking

Jack Darin Samuel Davis Characterisation of Composite Materials for NZ Building Code Compliance

Stephanie Higgins Mark Sutherland Is it possible to turn used coffee ground into engineering materials?

Mohd Idris Muhammad Zuhairi Mohd Aliashak

The Potential of Rice Husk as Grinding Wheel

Rory Martin Nicholas Townsend Design, Development and Commissioning of a Lab-scale Gas Fired Rotational Moulding Machine and Evaluation of Moulding Efficiency

Georgia Craies Nicola Kendall Optimising Gelatin Aerogel Maufacture for Multiscale Porosity

Timothy Hawkey Alexander Kool Development of additive manufacturing techniques for composites

Aaron Boot Patrick Lalor Non-destructive inspection methods for composite helicopter blades

THERMOFLUIDS (Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleRohan Krishnan Emily Munro The Dynamic Stall Behaviour of an RG-15 Aerofoil for a UAV with Ice Accretion on the Wing

Tobias Su'a Scott Woodd A novel ducted wind turbine for the city environment

Jennifer Mackay Samuel Rowsell Aerodynamics of a rugby ball

Brodie Arbuckle George Hitchcock Coanda effect Airblast sprayer for agricultural spraying

Derek Blaikie Blair Ramsdale Model aircraft aerodynamic characterisation

Muhamad Baharun Muhammad Azib Suhaimee Efficiency of Solar Wall Collectors

Pranaya Thaker Kieran Woods Development of a CFD Model for a Formula SAE Race Car in Cornering

William Cobb Haydon James Flow over asymmetric spinnakers

Anand Vallabh Henry Yan The dynamic behaviour of leading edge vortices

Nigel Baker Wilhelm Vaeluaga Interference between yachts when crossing on opposite tacks

Daniel Keeling Foss Shanahan Investigation into the Magnus Effect produced by various Rotating Blade Designs

Neha Bennet Kenneth Mascarenhas Calibrate the new Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at the Newmarket Campus

Sam Bullock Timothy Neate Aerodynamics of kites

Thomas Attwood Kevin Dateling Investigate the relationship between vehicle speed, fuel consumption and emissions rates

Nicholas Ansley Alexander Mitchell Investigate the relationship between NOX, NO2 and NO emissions

DYNAMICS AND CONTROL (MDLS Lab, Room 403.319, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleYifeng Su Xiang Wang UAV for Tree Canopy Sampling

Perzaan Mehta Shreyank Patil Modelling and Control of Underwater Actuators for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Jared Green Anthony Pang A Test Rig for Robotic Driver Mechanical Testing and Simulation

Dave D'Sa Melody Farishta Wireless Programming and Control of VEX Robots for a Remote Teaching Lab

David Robinson Matthew Young Skydiver Tracking for Autonomous Filming

Andrew Alder Dylan Prole Autonomous Tuning of Multirotor UAVs

Theodor Drissner-Devine Logan Porter Multrotor UAV for Tower Inspection

Yan Gao Narasimha Yellapantula Investigations of wind turbine drive-train models for improving reliability and closed-loopperformance

Ryan Ennor Michael Van der Zanden Wind tunnel pressure measurement corrections

Shane Eade Mark Gilmour "Free to Caster": The effects of vehicle geometry on the behaviour of an indirect steering system

Zhiwei Han Peter Sefont The design, manufacture, and testing of a shock absorber dynamometer for Formula SAE

Max Olson Craig Piggott Increasing the acceleration performance of a Formula SAE race car

Hazril Hamzah Muhammad Jasmon Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers with Energy Harvesting Capability

Douglas Grant Yiqiang Zhu Self-powered heart rate monitoring device by harvesting energy from human motion

Liangqiu Wang Temperature sensor powered by nonlinear energy harvesting

Samuel Daysh Thomas Simson Rowing performance measurement

Faculty of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering20 Symonds St, Aucklandwww.mech.auckland.ac.nz

Display areaEngineering Building20 Symonds Street, Auckland Mechatronics Teaching Lab, Room 403.513Mechatronics Project Lab, Room 403.504MDLS Lab, Room 403.319Manufacturing Systems Lab, Room 403.301Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D - Level 3

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