Research Facilities
The following Research Centres are currently undertaking R&D activties in defence and security:
Centre of Expertise in Phased Array
and Microwave Radar Systems (CEPAMiR)
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the University of Adelaide have signed an agreement to establish the Centre of Expertise in Phased Array and Microwave Radar Systems (CEPAMiR) within the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
The Centre will underpin efforts by DSTO and Australian industry to tackle practical engineering problems associated with the design, development and integration of the next generation phased array systems with application to radar, electronic warfare and satellite navigation.
For further details please contact:
Prof. Mike Liebelt
Director, CEPAMiR
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Adelaide, Australia, 5005
Tel: +618 8303 3057 Fax: +618 8303 4360
Founded in early 2005, the Centre of Expertise in Photonics is a new research initiative within the School of Chemistry venture & Physics at the University of Adelaide focusing on the area of soft glass optical fibres. The Centre is a joint venture between the University and the DSTO, and has also been supported by the SA state government. The Centre of Expertise in Photonics works closely with DSTO to develop new classes of optical fibre for defence applications. The Centre is closely linked with the Optics and Photonics group at the University of Adelaide. The Centre also collaborates with other academic groups (nationally and internationally) and with industry.
Research activities include:
- Optical glass development and fabrication
- Glass extrusion for structured preform development
- Soft glass fibre fabrication
- Microstructured fibre design
- Fabrication and glass flow modelling
- Novel nonlinear fibre development
- In-fibre proteomics and DNA analysis
- Fibres for chemical sensing
- Fibres for mid-IR laser delivery
- Fibre laser development
For further details please contact:
Prof Tanya Monro
Physics
The University of Adelaide, Australia, 5005
Tel: +618 8303 3955 Fax: +618 8303 4380
Photonics Brochure (pdf)
The Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health (CMVH) is an internationally-unique, academic, community and military partnership dedicated to innovatively seeking solutions to military and veterans’ health issues through research, education, e-health and public debate.
It is a collaboration of three major partners, The University of Queensland, The University of Adelaide and Charles Darwin University.
CMVH brings together military and veterans’ health experts - researchers, health practitioners and serving ADF personnel and Reservists - who, through their combined talent, expertise and experience, seek to better understand and propose practical solutions to the health issues facing Australia’s serving and former military men and women.
The Centre actively works towards a healthier future for Defence personnel and veterans through best practice information sharing, innovative and inclusive research, strong and meaningful dialogue with ex-service organisations and veterans generally.
Devoted to solving defence oriented research and development problems involving modelling, simulation, measurement and performance.
The aims of the centre are:
- To be a national focus for advanced defence communication and information networking research and development.
- To act as a major independent source of network and system design and analysis expertise for the defence industry by linking academic research to defence industry capability needs.
- To provide a guaranteed source of advanced capability in communications and information systems.
- To ensure the ongoing existence and growth of capability in defence communications networking through extended continuing education and training programs.
The Centre builds on the skills of its key staff and associates, who combined have over 100 years of industrial, government and academic experience in system and network modelling and analysis. This expertise, developed in leading industry and university laboratories in the USA, Europe and Australia, is uniquely placed to provide the cutting edge analysis needed for understanding the behaviour of networked systems, predicting their future performance, measuring outcomes and feeding that knowledge into future improvements. The CDCIN runs short-term courses on specialist topics, specifically designed to strengthen the skills of employees in the defence industry.
For Further details, contact:
Michael Rumsewicz
Director, Centre for Communications and Information Networking
University of Adelaide
Adelaide 5005
South Australia
Phone: 08 8303 6919, Email: michael.rumsewicz@adelaide.edu.au
The Centre aims to promote innovation and education in the use of computer-based technologies for the production and analysis of digital media. The goal is to link creative activity in the digital arts with cutting-edge enabling technologies in computer science. Potential fields of application include Film and Television Production, Computer Games Development, Urban Visualisation, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Video Security and Surveillance, Robotics, Data Visualisation and Human-Computer Interfaces.
The objectives of the Centre are:
- To foster growth in the digital content industry within the State. South Australia has the background of both creative and technical expertise necessary for a thriving industry based on the creation and analysis of digital content. The ability to bring together interdisciplinary teams to develop the solutions required by practitioners is essential for the growth of this industry.
- To provide a focus for education in the digital arts within the State. The Centre will provide a set of interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the area, as well as continuing education. These processes will be designed in consultation with industry in order to provide graduates with the skills most appropriate to their needs.
- To encourage innovation in digital content technologies. Innovation in this creative, technology-dependent area requires the concerted application of both artistic and scientific methodologies. The coordinated and interdisciplinary approach offered by the Centre is essential to producing commercially viable outcomes.
The objectives of the Centre are closely aligned to those outlined in South Australia’s Strategic Plan, and particularly to Objective 4: Fostering Creativity.
Current research areas include:
Geometric interpretation of video
Visual surveillance
Interactive Simulation and Visualisation
Three-dimensional data processing
For Further details, contact:
Dr Anton van den Hengel
Director, Australian Centre for Visual Technologies
University of Adelaide
Adelaide 5005
South Australia
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