Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Seminar Series 2014Part IV Research ProjectsVisit our department and see the future of technology. Final year students will present their academic findings on electrical, electronic, computer systems and software engineering during this two-day seminar.

11-12 September 2014

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Room 1.401 Room 3.401 Room 3.402 Room 3.403 Room 3.407Chair: Kevin I-Kai Wang Assessors: Mark Andrews, Waleed Abdulla

Chair: Sing Nguang Assessors: Akshya Swain, Nitish Patel

Chair: Grant Covic Assessors: Nasser Giacaman, Avinash Malik

Chair: Gerald Weber Assessors: Beryl Plimmer, Burkhard Wuensche

Chair: Michael Neve Assessors: Kevin Sowerby, Bernard Guillemin

9.00 am 1 Parking management system Team: Tony Fu, Stephanie Liao

5 Contactless interconnection of photovoltaic panels Team: Lei Wei, Shengkai Ji

90 A high frequency bi-directional IPT system Team: Regan Trow, Corin Roland

29 A mobile App for tracking objects Team: Elliot Colquhoun, Kate West-Walker

61 Fractal geometries applied to wire antennas

Team: Dong Li, Allister Collinge

9.30 am 47 RF-based localisation for indoor warehouse environment Team: Danny Kwok, Jose Catapang

20 Physical activity monitoring through wireless wearable devices Team: Steven Liu, Hanson Li

91 A Contactless EV charging system Team: Paul Oh, Jeff Jeong

32 Server observer and data aggregator Team: Victor Xiv

62 Fractal geometries applied to inverted F antennas Team: Asanka Opata Kankanange, Karan Singh

10.00 am

74 High voltage power cable rating evaluation Team: Ziao Wei, Taesung Kim

26 Designing pacemakers using precision timed architectures Team: Hammond Pearce, Nathan Allen

113 Multiphase pad for wireless charging of EVs and robotic systems Team: Brooke Watene, Ming-Hsiang Ko

33 Android-integrated 6LoWPAN wireless sensor and actuator networks for the internet of things applications Team: Ashwin Rajamohan, Shivank Dubey

83 Microwave filter fabrication using additive manufacturing, Team: Rohit More, Priya Mittal

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Room 1.401 Room 3.401 Room 3.402 Room 3.403 Room 3.407Chair: Oliver Sinnen Assessors: Udaya Madawala, Duleepa Thrimawithana

Chair: Jing Sun Assessors: Nirmal-Kumar Nair, Sing Nguang

Chair: Gill Dobbie Assessors: Catherine Watson, Bernard Guillemin

Chair: Rashina Hoda Assessors: Nasser Giacaman, Momen Bahadornejad

Chair: Bruce MacDonald Assessors: Waleed Abdulla, Mohan Sridharan

11.00 am 75 Arc Flash-A statistical basis for risk analysis, Team: Ash Young, Jane Kasmara

52 Altitude and attitude sensing of the Gough Stewart platform Team: Jonathan Pullon, Endrico Bester

103 Smart flow-rate sensor Team: Elliot Buckley, Itay Ben Dom

4 Leak detection on buried pipelines Team: Ping-Kang Ho, Puna Walker

51 Inertial navigation and attitude sensing Team: Kevin Shin, Neil Blake

11.30 am 79 Smart Meter enabled control of existing and future household loads, Team: Muntdhar Al-Yassiri, Subin Mathew

69 Measuring power consumption of PCI Express boards Team: Simon Attwood, Nathan Martin

104 Convex shape from silhouette in real-time Team: Shreyas Mahanta, Jordan Smith

6 An investigation of high reluctance pads Team: Matthew Pearce, Jamie Gawith

55 A virtual reality driving simulator for intelligent transportation systems Team: Haihao Zhang, Josh Archer

12.00 pm 81 Reliability assessment for distribution utilities in smart grid Team: Gaurav Khire, Brian Ruvas

89 A laser deflection system Team: Patrin Illenberger, Steven Ruddell

105 Vision system design and calibration system Team: Swapnil Karnik, Zenon Colaco

10 An electronic cricket scoreboard Team: Amrutha Viswakarma, Sujata Roy

65 FPGA-based platform for internet of industrial things Team: Manu Sharma, Dez Packwood

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Chair: Duleepa Thrimawithana Assessors: Udaya Madawala, Kevin I-Kai Wang

Chair: Robert Sheehan Assessors: Michael Neve, Gerard Rowe

Chair: Ian Warren Assessors: Momen Bahadornejad, Mark Andrews

Chair: Catherine Watson Assessors: Akshya Swain, Avinash Malik

Chair: Zoran Salcic Assessors: Partha Roop, Stevan Berber

2.00 pm 86 Smart micro-grid prototype using OPAL-RT, Labview, and CompactRio Team: Shrey Bharat, Gurvinder Dhillon

13 Design and development of WSNs with multiple sensors Team: Jimmy Lin, Emily Ng

77 How much does posture or movement change a person’s speech? Approach 1 Team: James Chun, Yun Sun Yim

110 Automation of a mechanical rig for dynamic powering of Evs Team: Xun Cui, Dave Allan

34 Body area wireless sensor network for real-time characterization of human gait Team: Arjhun Shivakuma, Jason Padarath

2.30 pm 37 Wideband channel measurements, data processing, channel modelling and simulation Team: Andy Lu, Zoe Huang

43 Designing a wireless ambient intelligence infrastructure Team: Bashar Dawood, Zhenya Yaroshenko

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Room 1.401 Room 3.401 Room 3.402 Room 3.403 Room 3.407Chair: Kevin I-Kai Wang Assessors: Rashina Hoda, Partha Roop

Chair: Oliver Sinnen Assessors: Kevin Sowerby, Robert Sheehan

Chair: Catherine Watson Assessors: Gill Dobbie, Ian Warren

Chair: Andrew Luxton-Reilly Assessors: Burkhard Wuensche, Christof Letteroth

Chair: Robert Amor Assessors: Gerald Weber, Ewan Tempero

9.00 am

19 Read my fingertips, Team: Varshil Udani, Luke Harries

12 Building a cloud based manufacturing system, Team: Suraksha Sathyanarayana Setty, Humaa Yaqoob

36 FPGA-based configurable gateway for heterogeneous wireless sensor network, Team: Tejas Parnerkar, Diwakar Somu

68 Circuit sketching and electronic log book on android tablet Team: David Yan, Simar Kalra

28 App game for blind people Team: Theo Thompson, Benjamin Jones

9.30 am 73 Visual debugging of Java code Team: Ho Yeung Chin, Khan Ho

70 Scheduling algorithm comparison in Java Team: Eddie Chae, Kyle Jung

66 A web system for managing used textbooks Team: Taylor Li, Wilson Zheng

92 Extending a tablet based programming environment for children Team: David Haden, Sara Metz

54 A new toolbox for API mashups Team: Kartik Andalam, Kirushi Arunthavasothy

10.00 am100 Geolocation services

Team: Linda Chin, Apple Zhang

119 A real-time distributed hardware monitoring framework Team: Santhan Kusam Venkata, Jahnavi Bharadwaj

120 Wireless wearable devices interfaced with smartphones Team: Yueh-Lun Lee, Bob Luo

97 Student time - a cross platform mobile study tracking tool Team: Anneke Smitheram, Peter Kang

82 Tabletop game (software App) Team: Tom Hulme, John Lambert

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Chair: Duleepa Thrimawithana Assessors: Mohan Sridharan, Momen Bahadornejad

Chair: Mark Andrews Assessors: Stevan Berber, Bernard Guillemin

Chair: Bruce MacDonald Assessors: Udaya Madawala, Nasser Giacaman

Chair: Rashina Hoda Assessors: Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Beryl Plimmer

Chair: Robert Sheehan Assessors: Sathiamoortly Manoharan, Christof Letteroth

11.00 am 2 Development of a high-density DC-DC converter for fuel-cell applications Team: Alistair Dumper, Eric Zhu

3 Video cameras on quadcopter wirelessly transmitted, stitched and output on an Oculus Rift, Team: Dylan Snow, Ruane Seumanutafa

21 Robot software framework for multiple robot platforms Team: Christopher Lee, Yoon Ho Im

15 Android app for electronic lab management Team: Tae Youn, Henry Lee

96 Game for learning Te Reo Team: George Chang, SunKee Hong

11.30 am 39 Automatic daylight control for LED luminaires Team: Jasmine Poon, Muhammad Noor Fadzili

25 Traffic signal timing data visualisation Team: Mark Tooley, Surbhi Sharma

24 Robot soccer competition system, Team: Erqian Zhang

17 User programmable kiosk Team: Shreya Shah, Georgina Wood

101 Refactoring on a tablet Team: Raoul Dcunha, Wasiq Kashkari

12.00 pm 57 Intelligent controllers for wind energy systems Team: Almo Wong, Horace Lee

46 Adjustable size & shape laser beam Team: David Chen, Marco Benitez

49 Control of a delta robot, Team: Eric Lin, Anirvan Bhaduri

27 Phone automation App Team: Dhanish Semar Shahul, Ted Chen

102 Controlling the desktop with keyboard and gaze Team: Ken Neth Yeoh, Charindu Weerasinghe

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Chair: Nirmal-Kumar Nair Assessors: Grant Covic, Stevan Berber

Chair: Robert Amor Assessors: Sing Nguang, Oliver Sinnen

Chair: Kevin Sowerby Assessors: Nitish Patel, Bruce MacDonald

Chair: Sathiamoortly Manoharan Assessors: Jing Sun, Ewan Tempero

Chair: Mohan Sridharan Assessors: Gerard Rowe, Michael Neve

2.00 pm 80 Standards based testing of solar PV inverters, Team: Nick Carson, Rhett Calvert

117 Mobile app for on-site construction coordination Team: James Mcarthur, Mikhail D’Souza

108 NI autonomous robotics competition 2014 - project 1 Team: Brook Dyer, Matthew Boyes

106 Planning tool for coursework scheduling Team: Janodya Moonamale, Amruth Akoju

94 Allocating channels in wireless networks using game theory Team: Luke Boyes, Josephina Cheong

2.30 pm 109 NI autonomous robotics competition 2014 - project 2 Team: Kirsten Johnston, Briony Forsberg

114 Automatic configuration of GSM networks in disaster recovery situations Team: Chris Wiggins, Eden Choi

Day 2 12 September 2014

Seminar Series 2014Dates: Thursday 11 & Friday 12 September

time: 9am - 3pm (Open to public)

Venue: Faculty of Engineering Rooms 401.401, 403.401, 403.402, 403.403 and 403.407. 20 Symonds Street, Auckland

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

For more information on this event visit: http://www.ece.auckland.ac.nz/en/for/current-students/undergraduate-students/part-iv-projects.html

Phone: 09 373 7599 ext 88198