Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2019

Programme of activities

The map showing the way to the social events is pasted at the end.

Monday December 2 2019

6 p.m. Welcome get together and registration - see map below of how to get to McGregor College

In McGregor College dining hall with hot drinks and snacks.

Tuesday 3rd December

9 a,m, Registration desk open

9:25 Opening Welcome on behalf of USQ

9.45 - 10.45  Session1 Vision  and optical sensing

The design of optical sensing needles for tactile sensing and tissue identification at needle tip

Object Detection on Train Bogies Using Structured Light Scanning

Method for detecting breaking rate of ganoderma lucidum spore powder based on machine vision

10:45-11:10 Refreshment Break

11:10-12:30 pm  Session 2 Agriculture Applications 1

Identifying research priorities – keys to successful mechatronic and data-dependent applications in the Australian sugarcane industry

ROS for Agricultural Robotics: A Common Middleware Perspective

Vision-based Detection and Counting of In-field Fruits with Fully Convolutional Network

A pragmatic automated site-specific weed management system using unmanned aerial vehicle

12.30 - 1.45 pm Lunch

1.45 - 2.30 Session 3 -Keynote 1

Food automation feeding the world

Professor Koorosh Khodabandehloo

BMC Devon UK

2.30 - 3.10 Session 4  Robotics and Devices 1

Fabrication and Characterization of 3D Printed Microfluidics

A Modified Bresenham Algorithm for Control System of FDM Three-dimensional Printer

3:10-3:35 Refreshment Break

3:35 - 4:35 pm Session 5 Robotics and Devices 2

Design and experimental study on the self-balancing foot device

Dynamic Characteristics Analysis and Optimization Design of Cross-beam Assembly in 3D Printer

Design and experimental Research of Automatic Tightening Method of Rubber Strip on the Side of Office Screen Panel

Depart McGregor College at 5:00pm for Dinner at Downs Steam *see map below

5:30pm- 9:30pm Dinner at Downs Steam

Wednesday 4th Dec 2019

9.30 - 10.50 am Session 6 Sensing Methods and Actuation

Dynamic simulation of linear objects with friction on  2D surface

A highly adaptable embedded platform for sEMG acquisition

Challenges in robotic soft tissue manipulation - Problem identification based on an interdisciplinary case study of a teleoperated painting robot in practise

Modeling of lens based on dielectric elastomers coupling with hydrogel electrodes

10.50-11:15 Refreshment Break

11.15 - 12.15 Session 7 Agriculture Applications 2

Mechatronics for a LiDAR-based Mobile Robotic Platform for Pasture Biomass measurement

Vision guidance with a smart-phone

A high-speed camel dung collection machine

12:15 - 12.45 pm  Introduction to M2VIP 2020

12:45 pm - 2.00 Lunch

2:00-2:45 Session 8  Keynote 2

The keynote will focus on two technologies (LASC & ExScan), and how these  are now playing a critical role in the evolution of mining (specifically coal) while helping to improve safety, sustainability and reducing environmental impacts.

Peter Reid,  (Mineral Resources, Pullenvale)

2:45-3:10 Refreshment Break

3:10- 4.10 pm Session 9 Industrial Processes and Products

A General Monitoring Method for the State of Spandex Based on Fuzzy Evaluation and Its Application

Study on the Type Identification of Cheese Yarn Based on Low-Resolution Pictures

Research on high feeding speed system of L-valve rods based on two-in-one device

Leave McGregor College by 4:30 pm for the Aussie Barbecue  *see map below.

5:00  Aussie Barbecue on the edge of the Great Dividing Range

Casual dress, be prepared to join in the singing with music.

9 p.m. Return to McGregor College

Thursday 5th

9:30am – 10:30 Session 10 Robotics and Devices 2

A Scene Feature Based Eye-in-Hand Calibration Method for Industrial Robot

A trajectory planning for a five degree of freedom vertically downward assistive feeding robotic arm using linear path with parabolic blend

Structure design and closed-loop control of a modular soft-rigid pneumatic lower limb exoskeleton

10:30 - 10:55 Refreshment Break

10:55 - 11:55 pm Session 11 Robotics and Devices 3

Discussion of soft tissue manipulation for the harvesting of Ovine offal

Robots for Complex Cutting Operations  in Beef Processing

Microbial Electrochemical Sensors to Detect Volatile Fatty Acids in Anaerobic Digestion

11:55  -  12.30 p.m. Conference Round-up discussion

12:30 p.m.  - 2:00  Lunch

2:00 - 3:15 pm Visit to the Centre for Agricultural Engineering

3:15 pm Refreshment Break

4:00pm End of Conference