It was great to hear about PhD research projects going on at UQ in Engineering Postgraduate Conference (EPC) last week. Very well organized conference.
Moe gave an invited talk 12-12:30 24th of May on Fibre Optic Shape Sensing and Soft Robotics at ICRA2018 room M3 (ICRA 2018 workshop Soft Robotics for Rehabilitation Applications: Design, Material and Control https://amirjafari9.wixsite.com/armlab/icra-2018-workshop .
Moe was accepted and actively attended UQ IDEA hub program, a 6 week workshop focusing on entrepreneurial skills with the most successful Australian entrepreneurs and business leaders. https://www.facebook.com/UQIdeaHub/
Moe did a full day workshop at Brisbane Capital startup hub, FISHBURNERS. It was so much fun and learned so many new skills. A highly suggested workshop on design thinking 💭
Improving availability and maintenance of conveyor belt systems using smart sensing technologies
Abstract The mining industry is still a major part of today’s growing economy despite recent fluctuations in commodity prices, stricter environmental regulations and more complex and remote mineral deposits. The mining companies, while being mindful of these challenges, need to embrace advanced technologies to improve their operations, productivity and safety. Accurate information about condition of assets can assist downstream processes to maximise output by optimising their maintenance strategy. Smart sensing technologies can provide real-time information from integrity of physical assets such as underground tunnels, electrical or mechanical equipment. The main challenge is that adding additional monitoring systems may potentially increase the maintenance issues, complexity and cost. It must, however, be noted that incorporating new sensing technologies is essential to maintain efficient and safe operation of large conveyor systems with thousands of bearings. Sensing systems are now robust, being proven to be more reliable and can be used on large in-plant and long overland systems. The advanced sensing and automation technologies have proven to maximise asset availability and increase uptime and capacity. Full PAPER can be downloaded here Moe attended Prof Albert Stolow (Max Plank-uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, Univeristy of Ottawa) on Coherent Raman Microscopy at MPL, Erlangen. The techniques used in the research are great lesson fro other spectroscopy and sensing applications. more details on MPL website here
3d of May 2017 Journal club presentation of Prof Russel's division was given by Moe on the topic “Towards Distributed Spectroscopic Gas Sensing: Pulsed Photothermal Interferometry in Hollow-core Fibres”.
Main paper of the topic: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39410 supplementary papers on the topic: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.001789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.003025 https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2016.2628092 We were privileged to host Mr Bruce Robertson at FOSAL today to discuss future of fibre optic and Photonic sensors for mining industry.
Bruce is a Queensland Mining Engineer with extensive experience in underground coal operations and technical management. He has strong interests in mining research and tertiary minerals industry education. His specialties are, but limited to: Underground coal mining ; gas management; new technology; research. Gareth Kennedy, Director of the Mine Safety Technology and Research Centre at Simtars recently attended the 2nd International Conference Fibre-optic and Photonic Sensors for Industrial and Safety Applications (OFSIS2017) held at the University of Queensland.
Photo attached [left to right: Dr Saiied Aminossadati (UQ), Prof David Cliff (UQ), Dr Gareth Kennedy (Simtars), Dr Mohammad Amanzadeh (UQ)] Original Article published by Simtars Click Here |
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