Department of Mechanical Engineering
Part IV Research Projects
Display Day 2016
Thursday 20 October3 – 5pm
Thursday 20 October
DESIGN & INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (Manufacturing Systems Lab, Room 403.301, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleLucien Koefoed Jayanth Miranda Modelling activity exception handling patterns in product development
Aymen Jaballah Billy Shu-Chen Lin Management of Design Change
Alvee Alam Jae Jung Computational Design of Robotic Arm for 3D Printing
Mark Chapman Tristan Ware Fused deposition modelling of rehabilitation knee brace
Zane Gell Christopher Wong Further development of fused deposition modelling process, production and assembly methods
Sheng Cao Wayne Tse Intelligent Window for a Cyber-Physical Machine Tool
Sang Hyun Kim Tsubasa Kubota Direct Digital Manufacturing Using an Industrial Robot
Jan Marcelo Zhiwei Sun Further Development of the Plagiocephaly Helmet
Niclas von Ahsen Sze Man Yau Simplification of HMI and SCADA systems through use of VR
Isma Fildza Hazry Ismail Ahmad Jamaludin Development and Analysis of Concentric Magnetic Gear Prototype
MECHATRONICS I (Mechatronics Projects Lab, Room 403.504)
Student 1 Student 2 Project titleCanangama Jayatissa Christopher Rammell Soft-bodied Distributed Surface-elevated Hospital Bed
Harry Hebden Jang Su Ryu Soft tissue robotics for pine tree shoot culture
Matthew Martin Dillan Patel A stretchable Electrical Impedance Tomography based tactile sensor
Ke Xin Sun Hsin Chao Yu In Vivo Tool-tip Spinal Nerve Detection in MISS Using Raman Spectroscopy
Samuel Logan Nathan Roa Upper Limb Exoskelton- Gravity Balancing
Raniera Paniora-Hepi Alexandra Pereyaslavets Acute Stroke Gait Rehabilitation Robot
Daylin Alvares Aman Mehta Robotic Pediatric Gait Trainer
Akshay Khatri Jared Pickery-Jordan Neural-Prosthetic for Stroke/SCI Rehabilitation
Sarah Ewington Rachel Mosen Intelligent Objects for Rehabilitation Gaming
Kwun Fung Cheung Tony Shi Design and manufacture of a soft robotic actuator to assist in back rehabilitation
Ashley Gifford Craig Tims Advanced Tools for Urban Search and Rescue – 3D Void Mapping Borescope
Corina Pilbrow Mandeep Rajinder Longitudinal Vehicle Speed Control Using a Robotic Driver
Henry Conquer Alexei Yachine Prediction of Surface Friction for Two Wheeled Robots
MECHATRONICS II (Mechatronics Teaching Lab, Room 403.513)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleBlair Duncan Luke Sawyers Improving an Existing Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Device
Yifang Hou Rongze Ma Advanced Brain Computer Interface for Gaming and Control of Robot
Lite Kim Yinan Xu New Upper Limb Robots for Rehabilitation
Sarah Manoharan Karan Purohit Online Ankle Disability Assessment techniques for Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation Training
Xiting Sun Liang Wang 3D Photopolymer printing - Characterisation and Improvement
Bhuvan Garg Foo Shing Wong National Instruments Autonomous Robotic Competition (NIARC) - Build, Test, Deploy andCompete
Nitish Lobo Manmeet Singh Wireless Pesticide Spray Drift Sensor System
Nishita D'Silva Hayden Ng Neonatal CPR Pressure Sensing Gloves
Emily Hunter Luke Jennings Strain Sensor Control of a Gripping Hand Assistive Device
Sean Petersen Jeremiah Teo Chang National Instruments Autonomous Robotic Competition
Oscar Moosman Mitesh Patel EMG-Driven Interface for a Lower Limb Exoskeleton
Charles Bridger Geoffrey Zink Object Tracking using Mounted Sensors for Augmented Reality
Hung Nguyen Linda Yassi Development of a 3D Printing Cyber-Physical System
Panchanok Ngoksakda Qijia Peng Optimal Path Planning for 3D Printers
ACOUSTICS (Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titlePok Hin Loh Aaron Yeoh Speech enhancement on audio recording using UAVs
Nicholas de Wit Elise Everall Noise source localisation using mobile robots carrying microphone arrays
Ngoc Duy Minh Cao Shivam Jakhu Design of masking sound using reverberation for keeping speech privacy
Craig Horide Andrew O'Connor Tunable Resonant Devices for Control of Noise Transmission
Emlyn Perry Daniel Smith Acoustic levitation device
Daniel Cato Benjamin Hosking UAV rotor noise
MECHANICS OF MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING (Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleDaniel Kjestrup Samuel Wrait Replication of Elastic Energy Retention in Bounding Marsupials
Katja Mirkovic David Robinson Computer Model of Design Coordination
Amy Leong Carmen Szeto Design and manufacture of temporary shelters
Hunter Scott Dalong Ye-Lee Development of non-destructive methods to evaluate injectability and compressibility of automotive carbon fibre preforms
Joshua MoodyTimothy Rutledge Development of 3D sandwich composites for automotive applications; materials and
manufacturing
Jed Applegate Danella Young Manufacturing defects in the production of advanced composites by RTM; Effects of Defects
Karan Deva Matthew Small Improving quality of complex 3D components for the manufacture of high performance carbon fibre yacht masts
Matthew Battley Evan Simmers Design and Analysis of a Lightweight Composite CubeSat Deployer
Varun Patel Moganraj Subramaniam Effect of Blowing Agent on the Mechanical Performance of Biochar Based Wood/Polypropylene Composites
Sebastian Colson Nicholas Zeniou Maraetai Dam Penstock Seismic Analysis
Jiajing Hu Callum Ryall Effect of processing parameters on the bond strength of polymer metal laminates
Pernilla Scott Naphon Suriyasin Understanding Biomimetic Gecko-like Adhesion - How does it work?
Rachel Ang Sebastien Demaret Understanding Mechanical Metamaterials and Cloaking
Jack Darin Samuel Davis Characterisation of Composite Materials for NZ Building Code Compliance
Stephanie Higgins Mark Sutherland Is it possible to turn used coffee ground into engineering materials?
Mohd Idris Muhammad Zuhairi Mohd Aliashak
The Potential of Rice Husk as Grinding Wheel
Rory Martin Nicholas Townsend Design, Development and Commissioning of a Lab-scale Gas Fired Rotational Moulding Machine and Evaluation of Moulding Efficiency
Georgia Craies Nicola Kendall Optimising Gelatin Aerogel Maufacture for Multiscale Porosity
Timothy Hawkey Alexander Kool Development of additive manufacturing techniques for composites
Aaron Boot Patrick Lalor Non-destructive inspection methods for composite helicopter blades
THERMOFLUIDS (Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleRohan Krishnan Emily Munro The Dynamic Stall Behaviour of an RG-15 Aerofoil for a UAV with Ice Accretion on the Wing
Tobias Su'a Scott Woodd A novel ducted wind turbine for the city environment
Jennifer Mackay Samuel Rowsell Aerodynamics of a rugby ball
Brodie Arbuckle George Hitchcock Coanda effect Airblast sprayer for agricultural spraying
Derek Blaikie Blair Ramsdale Model aircraft aerodynamic characterisation
Muhamad Baharun Muhammad Azib Suhaimee Efficiency of Solar Wall Collectors
Pranaya Thaker Kieran Woods Development of a CFD Model for a Formula SAE Race Car in Cornering
William Cobb Haydon James Flow over asymmetric spinnakers
Anand Vallabh Henry Yan The dynamic behaviour of leading edge vortices
Nigel Baker Wilhelm Vaeluaga Interference between yachts when crossing on opposite tacks
Daniel Keeling Foss Shanahan Investigation into the Magnus Effect produced by various Rotating Blade Designs
Neha Bennet Kenneth Mascarenhas Calibrate the new Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at the Newmarket Campus
Sam Bullock Timothy Neate Aerodynamics of kites
Thomas Attwood Kevin Dateling Investigate the relationship between vehicle speed, fuel consumption and emissions rates
Nicholas Ansley Alexander Mitchell Investigate the relationship between NOX, NO2 and NO emissions
DYNAMICS AND CONTROL (MDLS Lab, Room 403.319, Level 3)Student 1 Student 2 Project titleYifeng Su Xiang Wang UAV for Tree Canopy Sampling
Perzaan Mehta Shreyank Patil Modelling and Control of Underwater Actuators for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Jared Green Anthony Pang A Test Rig for Robotic Driver Mechanical Testing and Simulation
Dave D'Sa Melody Farishta Wireless Programming and Control of VEX Robots for a Remote Teaching Lab
David Robinson Matthew Young Skydiver Tracking for Autonomous Filming
Andrew Alder Dylan Prole Autonomous Tuning of Multirotor UAVs
Theodor Drissner-Devine Logan Porter Multrotor UAV for Tower Inspection
Yan Gao Narasimha Yellapantula Investigations of wind turbine drive-train models for improving reliability and closed-loopperformance
Ryan Ennor Michael Van der Zanden Wind tunnel pressure measurement corrections
Shane Eade Mark Gilmour "Free to Caster": The effects of vehicle geometry on the behaviour of an indirect steering system
Zhiwei Han Peter Sefont The design, manufacture, and testing of a shock absorber dynamometer for Formula SAE
Max Olson Craig Piggott Increasing the acceleration performance of a Formula SAE race car
Hazril Hamzah Muhammad Jasmon Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers with Energy Harvesting Capability
Douglas Grant Yiqiang Zhu Self-powered heart rate monitoring device by harvesting energy from human motion
Liangqiu Wang Temperature sensor powered by nonlinear energy harvesting
Samuel Daysh Thomas Simson Rowing performance measurement
Faculty of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering20 Symonds St, Aucklandwww.mech.auckland.ac.nz
Display areaEngineering Building20 Symonds Street, Auckland Mechatronics Teaching Lab, Room 403.513Mechatronics Project Lab, Room 403.504MDLS Lab, Room 403.319Manufacturing Systems Lab, Room 403.301Leech Study Area, Rooms 402.303B/C/D - Level 3
Parking18 Grafton Road (Owen G Glenn Building)