Key Research Outputs
Key Research Outputs of SWARM
The 3-year NICTA-DSTO project SWARM was completed in October 2008.- The scheduled milestones have all been achieved.
- Significant number of control and localization algorithms for various DSTO-defined problems developed
- Some of these algorithms tested at DSTO-Edinburgh for caompatibility in practical use and data from flight trials processed by our localization algorithms.
- More than 100 relevant publications (about 40 of which are journal articles/book chapters and the rest being papers in prestigious international conferences) by project members published/accepted/submitted.
- Joint papers between NICTA and DSTO.
- Joint papers between NICTA Canberra and Sydney.
- Positive evaluations of NICTA work by DSTO end-user have been obtained.
- International plenary speaker invitations for 06 and 07 in area related to project.
Highlights (SWARM)
The project attracted international attention and recognition. The attention received by the project led to the principal team members winning a research grant award (AOARD-09-4136) from the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, US Air Force.
An NICTA-enhanced PhD graduate, Dr. Changbin (Brad) Yu, received an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Australian Research Council based on the outstanding results obtained while undertaking his thesis work within the SWARM project.
Project Leader (Prof. Brian Anderson) was invited to deliver plenary/invited talks on this project at a number of international conferences and invitation-only workshops. As a result of a plenary talk at the IEEE CCA 2006, an invitation for a cover page article was sent by the Editor of IEEE Control System Magazine.
Papers from the SWARM project have been published in leading international conferences in the areas of systems and control, signal processing, networks and communication, applied mathematics, etc.
A paper appearing in the Asian Journal of Control, (J.M. Hendrickx, C. Yu, B. Fidan, and B.D.O. Anderson, "Rigidity and persistence for ensuring shape maintenance of multi-agent meta formations," Asian Journal of Control, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 131-143, March 2008.) won the 2006-2008 Best Paper Award.
Key Research Outputs of SWARM-II to Date
The 3-year NICTA-DSTO project SWARM-II follows on from the first SWARM project and will span the period from January 2009 until December 2011.- All of the scheduled milestones for year 1 have been achieved.
- Target de-interleaving research conducted by Dr. Sam Drake (DSTO), Prof. Brian Anderson (NICTA/ANU) and Dr. Changbin Yu (ANU) has resulted in a paper in Applied Physics Letters. This work has led to a number of patent applications and is currently being investigated in practice by DSTO scientists.
- Positive evaluations by DSTO scientists.
- Joint papers between NICTA and DSTO.
- Joint papers between NICTA Canberra and Sydney.
- International plenary speaker invitations for 2010 in area related to project.
Highlights (SWARM-II)
The project has already attracted international attention and recognition (following on from the recognition of its predecessor SWARM).
Project Leader (Prof. Brian Anderson) has been invited to deliver plenary/invited talks on this project at a number of international conferences and invitation-only workshops.
Papers from the SWARM-II project have been published in leading international conferences in the areas of systems and control, signal processing, networks and communication, applied mathematics, etc.