In a world first, an undersea robot has dispersed microscopic baby corals (coral larvae) to help scientists working to repopulate parts of the Great Barrier Reef during this year’s mass coral spawning event. Six weeks after winning the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s $300,000 Out of the Blue Box Reef Innovation Challenge, Southern Cross University’s Professor […]
Testing New Tech In Cars Of The Future
Early warnings about pedestrians crossing a signalised intersection, red light violations and traffic queues are just some of the latest advanced vehicle warning systems being evaluated by QUT researchers. The Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot, Australia’s largest on-road field trial to test and evaluate Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) vehicle safety technologies is being delivered by […]
Closing The Loop For Robotic Grasping
Roboticists at QUT have developed a faster and more accurate way for robots to grasp objects, including in cluttered and changing environments, which has the potential to improve their usefulness in both industrial and domestic settings. The new approach allows a robot to quickly scan the environment and map each pixel it captures to its grasp quality […]
Visual Semantics Enable High-Performance Place Recognition From Opposing Viewpoints
QUT researchers have developed a new way for robots to see the world from a more human perspective, which has the potential to improve how technology, such as driverless cars and industrial and mobile robots, operates and interacts with people. In what is believed to be a world first, Ph.D. student Sourav Garg, Dr. Niko […]
Eco-Driving and Safe Driving Technology to Save Lives, Environment and Money
Road safety researchers at QUT are developing innovative in-vehicle technology to improve safety and save dollars at the petrol pump, and are looking to test it out on Brisbane drivers. Atiyeh Vaezipour, from QUT’s Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q), has designed an in-car device that aims to persuade drivers to adopt a […]
Hands-Free Just As Distracting As Handheld Mobile Phone Use Behind The Wheel
Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, despite one being illegal and the other not, a QUT road safety study has found. Dr Shimul (Md Mazharul) Haque, from QUT’s School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment and Centre for Accident Research & Road […]
Oil Recycled from Discarded Tires Gives a Cleaner Diesel Blend
QUT’s Professor Richard Brown and PhD student Farhad Hossain tested the oil’s emissions and output at QUT’s Biofuel Engine Research Facility. Professor Brown said that when the oil was blended with diesel it was found to produce a fuel with reduced emissions and no loss of engine performance. “Globally, 1.5 billion tonnes of tyres are […]
People (Not Tech) Will Drive Success of Autonomous Vehicles
As the world moves closer to autonomous and self-driving vehicles, road safety experts are turning from technology to psychology to better understand the road to safer mobility, according Professor Narelle Haworth, director of QUT’s Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q). Professor Haworth launched the 2016 International Conference on Traffic and Transport […]
Green Still a Dream, Petrol Tipped to Drive Australian Car Market in 2030
Smart Car Cyberattack Warning: Research Finds Flaws In Security Systems
How Australia acts today will determine the security and safety of driverless cars, autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport systems in the future, with Queensland University of Technology (QUT) academics warning there is a risk of in-vehicle cyber attack without appropriate safeguards. QUT information security expert Dr Ernest Foo presented his paper at the 2015 Australasian […]