Nov 28 2013
A surveillance drone that can take a camera into places people can't go such as fire and emergency sites, and a robotic device that reacts to messages from your brain, are among the innovations of Swinburne University of Technology's brightest students for 2013.
These and other innovative projects will be on display at the Student Project Showcase being held at Swinburne's Hawthorn campus.
Each year Swinburne students undertake a professionally focused major project in the final stages of their studies, and those projects focus on investigating solutions to the problems facing organisations today.
"Swinburne is proud to showcase the work of its very best students in the disciplines of information and communication technology, engineering, design, science, business and digital media," Swinburne's Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Linda Kristjanson said.
"This is truly a superb exhibition of cutting-edge work by our up and coming innovators, and demonstrates the high calibre of work performed by Swinburne students, and how they have been using their inquisitive minds, technical knowledge and practical problem-solving skills.
"Innovation is not just about the design of the physical products, but the actual system itself and the products that are required to compliment those systems and services, and this can be seen in the projects that will be on display."
The Autonomous Surveillance Drone is a highly manoeuvrable quadcopter that can hover like a helicopter and is capable of carrying a camera to transmit a live video feed back to a control station. The high quality video feed can be transmitted up to 2.5 kilometres from the control station.
The drone can fly to locations using GPS co-ordinates set by the control station.
Another student innovation that will be on display is the Brain Controlled Interface Project - a robotic device that is controlled using EEG signals from the brain.
This enables the wearer to physically move objects on a board. Think left and the robot moves left, think right and the robot moves right.
Other innovative projects on display include a marketing strategy for French 3D modelling software company, Dassault Systemes, designed by business students. In the Information and Communication Technologies faculty students worked with Telstra to design an inexpensive solution to remotely controlled multimedia displays in the company's Telecommunications Museum.
What: Swinburne Student Projects Showcase 2013
When: 6pm-8pm. Monday, 2 December 2013.
Where: Advanced Technologies Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, 427 - 451 Burwood Road, Hawthorn.
Source: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/