Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Seminar Series 2012Part 4 Research Projects

Students will present formal 20 -minute presentations of their academic findings during this 2-day seminar.

6-7 September 2012

Seminar Venue

The Engineering Building,

20 Symonds St, Auckland

Room 403.401 to 403.408

For more information please refer to:

www.ece.auckland.ac.nz

Or contact Dr. George Coghill,

Part 4 Project Coordinator

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 89800

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Students will present formal 20-minute presentations of their academic findings during this 2-day seminar.

DAY 01

DAY 02

CONTROL SYSTEMS

Room 403.401

CHAIR: Dr Nitish PatelAssessor 1: Dr Akshya SwainAssessor 2: Dr Stevan Berber

31 Next Generation Electro-Analytical Diagnostic Device Tyson Cabral & Sunny Kamella

79 Bit -Stream Control of a Brushed DC Motor Jamie Pye & John Moredo

80 Bit - Stream Drives for Brushless DC and Stepper Motors Moon Kim & Devin Barry

MORNING TEA

EMBEDDED SYSTEMSCHAIR: Prof Zoran SalcicAssessor 1: Dr Bernard GuilleminAssessor 2: Dr Mark Andrews

22 Automated Lab- On -Chip Platform for Microfluidics Biochemistry Experiments Samuel Hiew & Johnny Yeh

44 Collaborative Reactive Robots Using NXT and SystemJ Chanisha Somatilaka & Michael Standen104 Wireless Embedded Control for Household Appliances Mohammad Hadi & Cyrus Daji

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMSCHAIR: Dr Dariusz KacprzakAssessor 1: Dr Kevin WangAssessor 2: Assoc. Prof Bruce MacDonald

103 Lighting Sky City Tower Tahmeed Khan & Mohammad Rahsepar

116 Lighting Design of an Urbanised Tunnel Sunky Zhang & Mohit Phadnis

120 LED Luminaire Lighting Design for The University of Auckland’s Recreation Centre Vasanthan Pathmanathan & Justin Eiman

POWER ELECTRONICSCHAIR: Assoc. Prof Patrick HuAssessor 1: Assoc. Prof Udaya MadawalaAssessor 2: Prof John Boys

55 A Hybrid Supercapacitor and Battery Energy Storage System for Biomedical Implants Yee You & Beverly Chen56 Capacitively Coupled Power Transfer Interface Michael Ren & Seho Kim

112 Contactless Power Adaptor So’o Fagamalo & Marvin Randle

RADIO SYSTEMSCHAIR: Dr Michael NeveAssessor 1: Prof Allan WilliamsonAssessor 2: Dr Gerard Rowe

15 Electromagnetic Field Simulation in Non-Cartesian Geometries Zakhar Bastadjan & James O’Donoghue16 Radio Propagation Modelling in Highly Irregular Terrains Douglas Quensell

84 Radio-Frequency Block Design for CDMA Signal Transmission Hyun Kim & Dong-Ho JIN

CONTROL SYSTEMS

CHAIR: Dr Akshya SwainAssessor 1: Dr Nitish PatelAssessor 2: Prof Sing -Kiong Nguang

68 Intelligent Controllers for Photovoltaic Systems Johnny Song & Ignus Ferreira69 Design and Implementation of Controllers in Delta -Domain Peter Wang & Allan Bai

107 Smart Loads for Smart Grids Zhicheng Lei and Xintian Fan

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

CHAIR: Dr Morteza Biglari -AbhariAssessor 1: Prof Zoran SalcicAssessor 2: Dr Oliver Sinnen

26 SystemC Modelling of a Multi- Core System Lyall Hamilton & Eric Chiu45 Body Area Sensor Network for Health Monitoring Shiksha Sridhar & Jervis Ferreira

64 Developing an IOS Application for the Navico Marine System Xiangyu Zhang & Sean Marriott

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

CHAIR: Dr Duleepa ThrimawithanaAssessor 1: Dr Burkhard WuenscheAssessor 2: Dr Catherine Watson

2 An Investigation Into the Properties of Spiking Neural Networks Eddie Loeffen & Rhys Llewellyn

24 Video- Based Tracking of Team of Robots in Confined Environment Chris Miller-Sang & Anthony Balmes

27 Fault Detection of Photovoltaic (PV) Arrays Zoe Zhong & David Wang

63 Exploring Model-Based Approaches for the Design of Intelligent Transportation Shing Zhu & Junbo Zeng

LUNCH

CHAIR: Assoc. Prof Grant CovicAssessor 1: Assoc. Prof Udaya MadawalaAssessor 2: Dr Stevan Berber

30 Roadway Pads for IPT Roadway Systems Thuvaraka Thiruchelvam & Rose Thomas

54 Development of a 3D Wireless Power Charging Circuit Terrence Ibasco & Mikhal De Jesus

81 Design Of A Portable 50W Bi -Directional IPT System Yijing Guo & Eric Dai

90 IPT Lighting Control Lucky Shah & Bhavish Kumar

POWER ELECTRONICS

CHAIR: Prof Allan WilliamsonAssessor 1: Dr Michael NeveAssessor 2: Dr Dariusz Kacprzak

4 Two And Three Stub Tuners In Coax And Waveguide Matt Boggs & Junyu Zhu

6 Microwave Power Coupling to and Energy Distribution within an Oven Cavity Lesley Hy & Rebecca Zhang

32 Intelligent Tutoring System for Electromagnetic Fields Dora Xu & Gelin Chen

108 Communications Schemes in Local Microgrids Jack Fang & Xinwei Wang

RADIO SYSTEMS

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

CHAIR: Prof Sing-Kiong NguangAssessor 1: Dr Dariusz KacprzakAssessor 2: Dr Morteza Biglari-Abhari35 Lighting Controller for Dirty Environments Matthew Ye & Jin Liu

36 RGB Lighting Control Using Power- Line Communication Wei-Hao Chen & Desmond Chan

87 Intertial Navigation And Attitude Sensing Zelin Ma & Robin Liang

115 Alignment and Object Sensing of Wireless EV Charging Systems Ya-Ting Wang & Renuka Manokaran

CHAIR: Dr Burkhard WuenscheAssessor 1: Prof Gill DobbieAssessor 2: Dr. Beryl Plimmer65 Life-Sketch - A Sketch-Based Tool for Modelling Interactive Virtual Environments Zane Moser & Camille Nicodemus

67 DiaBEATis – An Educational Computer Game Helping Diabetes Suffers to Cope and Control Diabetes Robert Power & Shafqat Bhuiyan94 Hyperspectral Dirt Classification Zeus Engineer & Hudson Tooley

IMAGE PROCESSING AND VISUALISATION TECHNIQUES

INTERNET APPLICATIONS

CHAIR: Dr Nirmal NairAssessor 1: Dr Akshya SwainAssessor 2: Dr Michael Neve

48 Power Systems Distribution Network Low Voltage Design Software Saddat Shamsuddin & Samantha -Lee Ford

50 Evaluating Potential of Using Domestic Hot Water for Managing Distributed Solar PV Generation Michael Bastow & Junpeng Li

53 Developing Cable Sizing Application for Electrical CAD Software Kazuki Baker & Darren Jurgens

109 Modelling a System Operator Swapnil Kothare & Daniel Samuel

POWER SYSTEMS

CHAIR: Assoc. Prof Bruce MacDonaldAssessor 1: Assoc. Prof Patrick HuAssessor 2: Dr Catherine Watson52 Robot Wireless Charging Station Jackman Lin & Abhilash Kamineni

57 Bell Controller Interface Lisa Xue & Jiwin Ho

59 Companion Robot Shuchita Taneja & Divey Punj

ROBOTICS

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMSCHAIR: Dr Dariusz KacprzakAssessor 1: Prof John BoysAssessor 2: Assoc. Prof Patrick Hu

71 LED Luminaires with Emergency Battery Pack Shaun Lim & Girish Sharma

72 Litz Wire Losses Reya Jacob & Purathany Palany

78 A Curve Tracer for Standard Electronic Semiconductor Components Rieke Aucamp & Lavinia Raj

IMAGE PROCESSINGCHAIR: Prof Robert AmorAssessor 1: Dr Mark AndrewsAssessor 2: Assoc. Prof Ewan Tempero

18 Personal Home Designer Chloe Lee & Ji Kang

60 Enhanced Facility Management with Mobile and Location-Aware Services Jong Song & Dominic Kim

66 MoneyWizard – A Computer Game Supporting Financial Education Gideon Steinberg & Arthur Chang

CHAIR: Dr George Coghill Assessor 1: Dr Rashina HodaAssessor 2: Assoc. Prof Bruce MacDonald

119 Camera Based Object Handling and its Implementation on an Autonomous Robot Paul Lee & Aonghas Anderson

121 Camera Based Navigation and its Implementation on an Autonomous Robot Tim Fanselow & Chris Lamb

73 Design and Implementation of an Application for Delta Robot Using NxtStudio Heng-You Lin

ROBOTICSCHAIR: Dr. Bernard GuilleminAssessor 1: Dr Duleepa ThrimawithanaAssessor 2: Dr. Oliver Sinnen

28 Comparative Performance of Perceptually - Based Acoustic Parameters for Forensic Voice Comparison Tiffany Liu & Annie Lu

29 Investigation Into Text-Independent Forensic Voice Comparison Jin Kwon & Guan Tay

37 Touch Screen Controlled Audio Mixing Device Xian Rare- Lee & Ben Lawrence

SIGNAL PROCESSINGCHAIR: Prof Gill DobbieAssessor 1: Dr Nasser GiacamanAssessor 2: Dr Ian Warren

13 Notable - Clever Note Taking Application Hengjie Wang & Jordan Thoms

122 Programming Automated Interaction with Web-Based Games as a Motivator For Computing Education (Part A) Matthew Spencer & Ceya Rao

123 Programming Automated Interaction with Web-Based Games as a Motivator for Computing Education (Part B) Samuel Boychuk

INTERNET APPLICATIONS

SOFTWARE TOOLS

CHAIR: Dr Nasser GiacamanAssessor 1: Dr Burkhard WuenscheAssessor 2: Dr Christof Lutteroth11 Inhibitors of Parallelisation on Mobile Devices Conrad Johansson & Ajay Parbhu

92 A Pascal Compiler for ARM-Based Microcontrollers Kwun Cheung & James Wong

93 A Mobile App to Automate Hospital Tasks Using Speech Recognition Hanu Sharma & Alexander Blinder

CHAIR: Dr Gerard RoweAssessor 1: Dr Morteza Biglari-AbhariAssessor 2: Dr Nitish Patel34 Intelligent Tutoring System for Electromagnetic Radiation Zhichao Lin & Yajing Liu

87 Bluetooth Link to Smart Phone Sam Bristow & Rachel Tupou

114 Compact Waveguide Twists and Bends for Industrial Microwave Applications Sai Narayana & Shoab Khan

117 Intelligent Tutoring System for Transmission Lines (A) Sam Yousif

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

CHAIR: Dr George CoghillAssessor 1: Dr Ian WarrenAssessor 2: Prof Gill Dobbie97 Mobile Appointment Manager Jae Kim & In-Hwan Kim

100 Secure Patient Smartphone App which Communicates Back To Health Care Provider (Doctor) Jesub Kim & Arvie Carpio

101 Software for Diabetes Patients to Manage Their Illness as well as Reporting Patients Status Back to their Doctor Haneesha Nimmagadda & Hasini Ratnasekera

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONSCHAIR: Dr Nirmal NairAssessor 1: Dr Bernard GuilleminAssessor 2: Dr Chris Smaill49 Assessing Ground Fault Neutraliser (GFN) Deployment and Benefits in 11 KV Electricity Network Qixun Phan & Mengyun Rao88 Smart Grid Protection and Automation Platform Rishi Narayan & Aamir Kapasi

118 Intelligent Controllers for Power Systems Rohit Testali & Varun Mallavarapu

111 Electro-mechanical Design of Rigid & Strain Busbar Systems Shaun Mccarthy

POWER SYSTEMS

CHAIR: Dr Catherine WatsonAssessor 1: Dr Duleepa ThrimawithanaAssessor 2: Dr Kevin Wang

38 Speech Measure Parameters June Chin & Justine Hui

40 New Ways of Visualising Frequency Information in Audio Signals McAdam & Jun Ling102 Investigation Into Improving Speech Synthesis for The Healthbots Tim Evans & Jon Colyer113 Black Ice Detector Peter Simons & Chris Baddock

SIGNAL PROCESSING

CHAIR: Prof Zoran SalcicAssessor 1: Dr Robert Sheehan Assessor 2: Mr Colin Coghill23 Android, SystemJ and Reactive Intelligent Applications Jamie Lin & De Kai Lu

43 Interactive and Multi-Touch Based Early Childhood Education Software Application Jason Greenwood & Bridget Beh

89 Refactoring Slideshows Simon Liu & Remy Lim

SOFTWARE TOOLS

CHAIR: Dr Stevan BerberAssessor 1: Dr George CoghillAssessor 2: Dr Chris Smaill83 Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network Light Controller Yanbo Zhang & Yijun Hao

85 Precise Positioning in Wireless Sensor Networks Robert Gallichan & David Fraser

86 Visualisation of Signal Processing Procedures in Radio Transceivers Jonathan Workman & Ivan Walynetz

124 Intelligent Tutoring System for Transmission Lines (B) Kaluachchigamage Jayatilake

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

CHAIR: Assoc. Prof Ewan TemperoAssessor 1: Dr Rashina HodaAssessor 2: Dr Nasser Giacaman3 A Cecil/SSO Companion App for iPhone and iPad Leanne Won & Christian Sheehan-Lowry

12 Adventure Story a Mobile Application for Class Field Trips Keerthana Puppala & Rishika Mukerjee20 Gaze Aware Web Browser James Hong & Gen Li

51 Fast Code Clone Detection in Java Alice Wang & Xiliang Chen

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

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Room 403.402 Room 403.403 Room 403.407 Room 403.408

CHAIR: Dr Rashina HodaAssessor 1: Dr Jing SunAssessor 2: Dr Christof Lutteroth9 School OASIS Project – Date-Driven Factoids Matt Insull & Danny Smith

10 A New Physics Engine For OpenSim Jonathan Wrigley & Andrei Legkodimov

77 Mobile Web Interface for Faculty of Engineering Penkman & Dae Hong Kim

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9.30-9.55am

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11.30-11.55am

12-12.25pm

12.30-1pm

2-2.25pm

2.30-2.55pm

3-3.25pm

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MORNING TEA

LUNCH

9-9:25 am

9.30-9.55am

10-10.25am

11-11.25am

11.30-11.55am

12-12.25pm

12.30-1pm

2-2.25pm

2.30-2.55pm

3-3.25pm

3.30-4pm