Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) 2015 ANNUAL REPORT
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Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER)
2015 ANNUAL REPORT Cover photo: iStock, asteroid field, artist’s impression
Opposite page: (Top to bottom) - 2015 Off Earth Mining Forum - Mars ISRU project collaborators: Prof Andrew Dempster (UNSW), A/Prof Serkan Saydam (UNSW), Rene Fradet (NASA), Bob Shishko (NASA), Carlos Tapia Cortez (UNSW), Jeff Coulton (UNSW) - SMiLE project: Josh Brandt & Dr Barnaby Osrbone aboard a Novespace parabolic flight in Bordeaux - QB50 Project: Dr Barnaby Osborne, Dr Joon Wayn Cheong and John Lam examining a partially contstructed cubesat - QB50 Project: Dr Joon Wayn Cheong testing the CubeSense cameras about the UNSW EC0 cubesat
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Contents
Director’s Report 2 About ACSER 4 ACSER Objectives 4 ACSER Strategy 5 Supporters 6
Our Research 7 YEAR IN REVIEW: Projects 8 Off-Earth Mining 8 QB50 9 SMiLE 10 Reconfigurable Systems for Space 11 Biarri 12 GNSS Interference Detection and Localisation 13 Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) 14
Our Events 15 YEAR IN REVIEW: Workshops & Events 16 Launching CubeSats For and From Australia 19 Off Earth Mining Forum 21 ACSER Seminar Series 25 YEAR IN REVIEW: Other Highlights 26 Media & Publicity 30
Our Students 31 Undergraduate Education 32 BLUEsat 32 Honours Supervision 34 Taste of Research 35 Postgraduate Coursework & Resarch Practicums 36 Higher Degree Research 37 PhD Student Profiles 38
Our People 39 2015 Industry Partners and Collaborators 46
Governance 47
Publications 52
ACSER Annual Report 2015 1 Director’s Report
TThis is the fifth Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) annual report, covering our fifth full calendar year of operation, 2015. This was a year of consolidation and commencement of new projects.
In 2015, we were looking forward to launching our new ARC research projects, launching some of our satellites and payloads into space, and had the prospect of being moved out of the Electrical Engineering building.
In the previous year (2014), it had been important to stabilise the centre in the wake of the end of ASRP funding. In 2015, that process of stabilisation was confirmed as we did not lose any staff this year. This may seem a minor victory, but given the momentous drop in centre funding in 2013 and “holding the fort” during 2014, it meant that 2015 was a year where the centre could consolidate and start producing outputs from the various projects.
The QB50 and Biarri programs were again delayed, so launches for them are expected now in 2015, and for the SMiLE payload. Prof Dempstwer introducing NASA JPL’s Brian Muirhead at the 2016 OEMF Public Lecture on NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission. As 2015 drew to a close, QB50 was ready for final test and the Clancy Auditorium, 3 November 2015 Biarri Namuru GPS receiver payloads were awaiting integration in the US. Excitingly, the University of Sydney QB50 satellite that had withdrawn from the program was made viable again after intervention from ACSER and ANU, so we are now involved with two QB50 satellites.
The two projects related to locating GPS interference with our industrial partner GPSat Systems, Linkage “Protecting Critical Transport Infrastructure using Hybrid Approaches for Interference and Spoofer Detection and Localisation” and CTD “Geolocation of GPS RF Interference to Support Defence Operations” both commenced without delay and began producing results.
The two ARC projects that required recruitment, Linkage “Rapid Recovery from Radiation-induced Errors in Reconfigurable Hardware” and Discovery “Designing Radiation-Tolerant Reconfigurable Systems for Space” were both delayed, the Linkage due to signing the project agreements, and the Discovery because a fraction of the proposed funds were awarded and as a result the project team was reconfigured. Both had commenced by the end of the year with new staff appointed.
Our first major project with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “An Integrated Economic Model for ISRU in support of a Mars Colony” started and ended in 2015, with results reported at the Off-Earth Mining Forum. At the end of the year we are hoping to progress a project with NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, which would see a UNSW researcher and PhD student visiting NASA for a period of months in 2016.
Delta V, the space business accelerator, aimed to create a space business ecosystem in Sydney, had a frustrating year, unable to gain the first major investor or sponsor.
Events continued to be an area of impact for ACSER. The first large event was the “Launching Cubsats for and from Australia” workshop in April, which had 37 speakers in a packed schedule, presenting live from 9 countries, with over 100 people attending. The second major 2015 event was the Second Off-Earth Mining Forum. The first Forum was an incredible media success, and not surprisingly, that was not repeated. However, the Forum itself was much
2 ACSER Annual Report 2015 more focussed, with higher quality presentations, and a general agreement that water would be the first resource to be exploited. 36 presentations were made and over 90 people attended. Keynotes and public lectures were from Monica Grady (UK) on Rosetta, and Brian Muirhead (JPL) on the Asteroid Redirect Mission. A further significant public lecture was presented by Warwick Holmes, of the European Space Agency titled “The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission To Comet 67P”. We hosted talks by many Australian speakers as well as international visitors such as visitors from Harbin Engineering University (China), International Space University, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Switzerland), and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil).
We did make the move to the Material Sciences Building so life will be more difficult for the two years where we are well separated from our lab.
The coming year presents some interesting challenges, but optimistically, could see five launches for us (Biarri x 2, QB50x2 and SMiLE). A problem we’d like to have!
Professor Andrew Dempster Director Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research
NASA JPL’s Brian Muirhead at the 2016 OEMF Public Lecture on NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission. Clancy Auditorium, 3 November 2015
ACSER Annual Report 2015 3 About ACSER
The Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) was launched at the University of New South Wales on the 22 November 2010 by former astronaut Dr. Jan Davis. The centre aims to establish UNSW as a significant player in increasing Australia’s capabilities in space.
The centre draws on the huge expertise of Australia’s largest Engineering faculty. ACSER resides in the School of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW and interacts with most of the Schools in that Faculty: Mining Engineering, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering as well as the Engineering and Information Technology School of UNSW Canberra. Collaborations have been developed with the Faculties of Science, Business, Law, and Arts and Social Sciences. Future opportunities are being examined with Chemical Engineering.
Current projects include the QB50 cubesat program, where 50 cubesats are being developed around the world for ionospheric monitoring and also to carry payloads for the individual satellite developers. The Biarri project will carry ACSER GPS receivers on its cubesat constellation led by the US Air Force Research Laboratory. The new Masters in Satellite Systems Engineering has begun enrolling students.
ACSER regularly organises workshops and seminars on a range of space-related topics of interest to the wider space community. In 2013, ACSER hosted the world’s first Off-Earth Mining Forum, co-hosted the Australian Space Science Conference, hosted three external workshops, as well as several internal to UNSW.
The year ahead offers many opportunities and challenges, including delivery of outcomes in several projects, the relaunch of the SNAP Lab, and new research funding initiatives.
ACSER Objectives
Vision
To provide national leadership for Australian space engineering research.
Purpose
To develop space capabilities relevant to Australia’s needs through research, innovation and education.
4 ACSER Annual Report 2015 ACSER Strategy
ACSER Strategy
Our Vision To provide national leadership for Australian space engineering research.
To foster collaborations between researchers, industry and government and to nurture links between our national and international partners to achieve Australia’s space ambitions.
In pursuing the vision, ACSER upholds the principles underpinning its foundation.
Advance Australia’s space aspirations Enhance the reputation of UNSW Promote collaboration between the schools, faculties and campuses of UNSW
Our Purpose To develop space capabilities relevant to Australia’s needs through research, innovation and education.
Engage the Ensure Market Pursue Excellence & Educate Community Suitability Innovation
Promote collaborations Pursue programs and Create and transfer new Raise Australian between ACSER, groups activities that fit the knowledge in space awareness of issues and with space capabilities needs, expectations and capabilities, technologies developments in space, and the Australian market constraints of the and applications and educate a new for space services, domestic and international generation of space technologies and space markets. professionals. expertise.
Capabilities
Enable access to facilities for ACSER collaborators. Strengthen the ACSER expertise base through strategic recruitment and post-graduate education.
Resources
Develop a funding and operational model that guarantees ACSER’s long-term viability.
ACSER Annual Report 2015 5 Supporters
In 2015 we received external donations and sponsorships from GPSat, the National Space Society of Australia (NSSA), the Space Industry Association of Australia and Kea GNSS Ltd. Without the ongoing support of these companies we could not continue to bring researchers together to present and discuss ideas at the cutting edge of space technologies, nor could we offer outreach events to school groups and the wider community. We offer great thanks to these companies and organisations for their faith in what we do.
Internally we would also like to thank the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, the School of Mining Engineering, the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering who have assisted ACSER and the BLUEsat team both financially and with in- kind support throughout the year.
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Prof Andrew Dempster introducing a joint session at the concurrent 2015 Future Mining Conference and 2nd Off Earth Mining Forum at the Australian Technology Park (November 2015)
Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) representative David Ball standing in front of the SIAA banner whilst chairing a session at the 2nd Off Earth Mining Forum (November 2015)
6 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Our Research YEAR IN REVIEW: Projects
Off-Earth Mining Activities Off-Earth Mining Project: An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in A/Prof Serkan Saydam spent a significant proportion of Support of a Mars Colony his sabbatical (Jun-Dec 2015) visiting potential off-earth mining (OEM) collaborators and developing proposals for Funded by NASA’s Economic Research for Space ongoing research. This is in addition to the work on the Development, Emerging Space Office. project with NASA’s JPL, and the two events; the Future Mining Conference and the Off-Earth Mining Forum. Partners: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology As part of his travels, Serkan visited Caltech, MIT, Virginia Tech, Univ. Central Florida, NASA’s Jet Propulsion The project aimed to develop an integrated set of risk- Laboratory (CA), Kennedy Space Centre (FL), and based financial and technical models to evaluate multiple Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DC). He Off-Earth Mining scenarios. This quantitative, scenario- gave invited talks in the US on “An Integrated Economics based tool helps identify combinations of market variables, Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony” to NASA technical parameters, and policy levers that will enable SSERVI (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual the expansion of the global economy into the solar system Institute) CLASS (Centre for Lunar and Asteroid Sciences), and return economic benefits. As part of the project Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), four models were developed: Mars Colony Architectural Washington DC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Model, Extraction Process Model, Mars Infrastructure (MIT), Boston, MA, Swamp Works, Kennedy Space and Integrated Logistical Support Model and Economics Centre, NASA, Orlando, FL. He initiated MOUs with JPL/ Integration Model. UNSW Australia’s team was led by A/ Caltech, MIT, and UTEP. Prof Saydam, with Prof Dempster, Dr Coulton and Mr Tapia Cortez. The group involved developing multiple optimised He also produced the application “Comprehensive mining systems to extract water from the Mars surface. Modelling for Off-Earth Mining Optimization and Resource Processing” under the STTR scheme, i.e. a Government There are currently 5 students undertaking PhDs in research grant (CAT 3) with Easi, VTech and NASA KSC this area: 2 under Mechanical Engineering, 2 under ($174,975). Electrical Engineering and 1 in Mining Engineering.
8 ACSER Annual Report 2015 QB50 operational code written and deployed to the QB50 is a network 50 CubeSats that is due to be flight controller board; launched at the end of 2016 into a ‘string-of-pearls’ and integration of the configuration. The orbit will be a sun synchronous dawn- major subsystems into dusk orbit with a low starting altitude (400km) allowing a flight configuration. direct sampling of the thermosphere. The CubeSat The payload teams constellation will comprise a mix of atmospheric double have completed CubeSats and double or triple CubeSats for science and development of the technology demonstration. engineering and flight boards ready There are three Australian CubeSats being developed for integration. Several The QB50 mission patch, designed by Dr Barnaby Osborne to participate in this project, with UNSW providing one, versions of the flight ‘UNSW EC0’, as well as providing significant support to a structure, RAMSES, have second iNSPIRE-2. UNSW EC0 is a 2U CubeSat that will been produced, with the manufacturing process flinalised. host a ion/neutral mass spectrometer provide by MSSL The first stack integration and full functional testing was as well as incorporating three additional payload boards: completed, and the client payload, INMS (inertial neutral A new space GPS board (Kia) developed at UNSW; a mass spectrometer), was tested in both software and systems computer board (sel4Bit) running sel4, a robust hardware. microkernal operating system developed by NICTA; and a robust FPGA based systems computer board (RUSH). In 2015 the CubeSat design reached a final level These payloads will allow the investigation of two GPS of definition, and assembly and functional test was based remote sensing techniques, radio occultation progressed. The team is now well established in their and GPS reflectometry, as well as demonstration of a roles, and there is a good coverage of required skills. All variety of error correcting and fault tolerant algorithms up there are 28 UNSW and NICTA personnel working on on the systems computer boards. In addition to these the project. There has been $252,000 of cash committed payloads, UNSW EC0 also incorporates one of the first to the project, and this has leveraged a further $464,000 thermoplastic 3D printed satellite structures (RAMSES) to of in-kind contribution through labour and technology be flown in space. development.
During 2015 the UNSW QB50 project completed the BELOW: Dr Joon Wayn Cheong bing Assembly, Integration and Testing Review. The cubesat photographed by the CUBESENSE design progressed, with key developments in: algorithm Camera aboard the UNSW EC0 Cubesat developed for detumbling, pointing and tracking;
Undergraduate and Postgraduate coursework students engaing in a QB50 coding hackathon over the Easter Break. L - R: Shannon Green, Yiwei Han, Tim Broadbent, Daniel Sherratt
ACSER Annual Report 2015 9 SMiLE There are two partner organisations key to this project; 1. The International Space University (ISU) in France This project aims to carry out an experimental and 2. NanoRacks in the US. From these institutions investigation into the dynamics of droplet production in this project has a current team of four academics, one a reduced gravity environment onboard the International researcher and two undergraduates. However, this project Space Station (ISS). The experiment has been designed has been running for the past 5 years and has had the to interface with and occupy a 1U (11cm x 10cm x 10 cm) prior contribution of three other academics, 2 researchers slot in the nano labs rack provided by NanoRacks. The and 17 undergraduates over this time. Throughout the investigation will focus on clearly identifying the dynamics duration, the project has attracted $110,000 in real terms of a newly identified drop formation process present in leveraging approximately a further $255,000 in in-kind reduced gravity environments (akin to a dripping tap contributions. in reduced gravity). The experiment comprises a flow chamber (where the drops are formed and observed), Due to the compact and complex nature of this a syringe pump to provide the flow, two control valves, experiment, 3D manufacturing techniques are heavily two USB cameras and a microcontroller. The assembly employed to create complex components. The is housed in a rotating drum, allowing the system to be preparation of three versions (two flight models and spun and introducing a centrifugal force to separate the one engineering model) of the experiment has been fluid from the air in the flow chamber. Flow rate control completed. Functional testing of the key fluid systems allows adjustment of fluidic parameters such as Reynolds was carried out. and Weber number. Cameras monitor the fluid flow In partnership with CNES and ISU, the SMiLE team was into the chamber and provide the principle data output. able to test key technologies onboard the Novespace Outcomes from this investigation will be the experimental A310 parabolic flights (93 parabolas each 20-25second identification of the measure of the chaos present in this of 0g). The experiment was tested under of conditions system and a refinement of the understanding of the in microgravity and the centrifugal water system was transitions into and out of this flow regime. Applications verified. In addition a custom control board based on of this work are relevant to industries that rely on drop a Raspberry Pi was developed along with software on demand processes such as ink-jet, PCB, flexible designed to control the experiment in space. The launch electronics and genome printing. contract was reviewed by Nanoracks and ISU with experiment included in the launch manifest of the SpaceX CRS-11 mission. The project is aiming for a Q4 2016 handover of flight hardware for an expected February 2017 launch and operations.
PhD candidate Joshua Brandt with ACSER Supervisor Dr Barnaby Osborne during Zero-G testing aboard a parabolic flight run by Novespace, out of Bordeaux in October 2015
10 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Reconfigurable Systems for Space (RUSH)
The processing speed, cost and flexibility requirements of future satellite-based applications cannot be satisfied with conventional radiation-hardened processors or custom integrated circuits. SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide an opportunity for meeting these requirements with off-the-shelf hardware. The main challenge of using FPGAs for space applications is mitigating the effects of radiation-induced Single Event Upsets (SEUs).
The aim of the two projects supported in part by the Australian Research Council’s Linkage (LP140100328) and Discovery (DP150103866) Projects funding schemes is to develop key technology to enable off-the- shelf hardware to be customized for this use without compromising reliability. The projects will develop the design methods needed to implement a given set of satellite applications on a processing platform composed of application-specific soft processors and accelerator circuits hosted on conventional reconfigurable logic devices. Crucially, the solution architecture will be experiment. The payload board was designed and sufficiently hardened against radiation-induced errors built while the firmware was developed. The payload to meet reliability targets while satisfying performance supports two configurations, one looking at the efficacy and energy use constraints. During the course of these of recovering from radiation-induced SEUs using our projects, these techniques will be demonstrated and proposed modular recovery approach and another which tested in-orbit on the RUSH payload for the UNSW- uses the traditional scrubbing approach. The payload EC0 CubeSat which is a part of the international QB50 has been successfully integrated into the UNSW-EC0 CubeSat program funded by the European Union CubeSat bus and has passed the thermal and vacuum Framework project. environmental tests with flying colours. These will be followed by vibration tests in 2016 and subsequent During 2015 a part-time researcher was identified and shipment of the CubeSat for launch to Europe around appointed in late 2015 on the LP140100328 project and June 2016. a full-time researcher was identified and will take up his position early in 2016 on the DP150103866 project. Research work concentrated on the design and reliability aspects of the reconfiguration control network and its performance evaluation. In tandem with this, current research is looking at fault-tolerant reconfiguration network controller design. Research was also undertaken to reduce the overheads associated with using Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (DPR) to overcome configuration memory errors in TMR systems.
In addition to these, a considerable amount of activity has focused on the QB50 RUSH payload design and
ACSER Annual Report 2015 11 Biarri
Project Biarri is a 5-Eyes Cubesat mission in which a risk mitigation mission called Biarri Point in which a Australia has been working with the New Zealand, single spacecraft is deployed in October 2016, followed by Canada, the United Kingdon and the United States to deployment of the remaining three CubeSats in 2017 or explore cubesat formation flying, better understand the 2018 called Biarri Squad. drag and lift forces experienced by the CubeSats and verify the performance of the ACSER developed Namuru In the meantime, UNSW has signed a contract with DST V32R3A GPS receivers and the Electro Optic Systems Group to provide on-going support for the Namuru V32R3 (EOS) space situational awareness infrastructure. GPS receivers. This support will be vital once Biarri Point has been deployed and it becomes necessary to analyze With delivery of the four flight model Namuru GPS the performance of the receiver and undertake the various receivers to the Defence Science and Technology (DST) experiments designed for the mission. Group in late 2013 and assembly, integration and testing to taking place at the US Air Force Research Laboratories ACSER also continues to work with DST Group on (AFRL) in 2014 and early 2015, it was fully expected that additional projects. the Biarri mission spacecraft would have been deployed last year. However, as is often the case with such projects, the launch has been delayed.
The latest advice from DST Group is that the Biarri mission is to be split into two separate missions; namely
Namuru V3.2A GPS Receiver Board
12 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Interference Detection and Localisation (GEMS, GEMS – II and CTD)
GPS has become ubiquitous in daily life, to an extent of GEMS, which was developed as part of the earlier that the position, and often more importantly, the time ARC Linkage project with the same partners, to pinpoint delivered by GPS has become embedded in an increasing attempts to jam or fake GPS signals (spoofers), before number of critical systems. However, given their low either has serious consequences. received power levels, GPS signals are very susceptible to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) from either Research work to date concentrated on formulating intentional or unintentional sources. In addition to RFI, the 3D Angle of Arrival (AOA) based geo-localization of Spoofing attacks, where fake GPS signals are broadcast interference sources, and deriving the dilution of precision to trick the operation of a GNSS receiver, present a and Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) expressions serious threat to GNSS reliability and security. This which characterises the accuracy of the proposed vulnerability is aggravated as satellite navigation becomes approach. Furthermore, an estimator whose performance more central to the operation of airports, ports railways, approaches the CRLB is also developed. Another strand and communications systems. of work is concentrating on the joint AOA and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) based geo-localisation. During 2015 a research associate was identified and appointed to work on the follow on Australian Research 2015 also saw the Capability and Technology Council (ARC) sponsored Linkage project partnering Demonstrator (CTD) project successfully completing the with ACSER, the University of Adelaide and GPSat design review process and manufacture of the multi- Systems. This project aims to further extend the capability channel processing platform with extensive tests planned for 2016.
ACSER Annual Report 2015 13 Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)
Triggered by recent developments in vehicular safety,
t = 329 driverless vehicles etc., cooperative intelligent transport 150 Visible Good/Bad GPS Sat = 5/5 systems (C-ITS) has become a major research area. 100 Over the past decade ACSER has developed a strong heritage in multi-sensor integration for land navigation, as 50
0 evidenced by numerous high quality journal publications. North (m) ACSER has focussed on enhancing accuracy and -50 resilience of GNSS-based navigation in vehicular -100 applications by combining GNSS with other on-board -300 -200 -100 0 100 200 sensors. The exploitation of channel parameters from East (m) vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications has resulted in significant improvement in not only positioning accuracy but also availability, allowing resilient navigation in semi- 150 urban environments where typical standalone GPS receivers will intermittently fail. Expanding this idea to networked vehicles enhances the overall positioning 100 accuracy of the entire network of vehicles. Building Surface
Height (m) Neighboring Vehicle Target Vehicle 50 ACSER’s prominence in this field of research attracted Line of Sight Obstructed LOS the attention of Thales Alenia Space France (TAS), who Multipath Non LOS approached us to study the benefits of integrating Inertial 0 -150 -100 -50 0 50 100 150 Measurement Unit (IMU), GNSS and V2V sensors, and North (m) how redundancy in such multi-sensor integrations mitigate ABOVE: Modelling GPS signals that a vehicle (red box) sees from the signal distortions due to multipath and Non-Line-of- two perspective, a top view (top) and side view (bottom). The vehicle Sight by rejecting measurements from effected signals. can simultaneously observe both good (blue lines) and misleading (green and red lines) signals, resulting in poor positioning solution in The study attracted a €40,000 consultancy fee during environments with high rise buildings. 2014 from TAS and concluded that using non-conventional estimators can indeed significantly reduce positioning errors. Due to lack of funding, little progress was made on this project in 2015, however it is hoped that further investigations using a modified particle-filter to improve BELOW: A simulation of vehicles travelling in an urban environment capability in rejecting distorted signals can be carried out in with high rise buildings of various shapes. A vehicle (red) can share information with neighbouring vehicles (blue) in its vicinity, but not the future. vehicles (black) too far away.
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14 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Our Events YEAR IN REVIEW: Workshops & Events
Mr Peeter Wilkinson to the variety of missions, very European Space Agency specific procedures and standards have been adopted. The Project Controller for the Future Missions presentation will briefly introduce Office under the Science Programme the Brazilian Space Program, and how academic institutions (Cosmic Vision 2015-2025) manage to develop joint projects with the National Institute for 13 January 2015 Space Research (INPE). As a case study, the design flow and implementation of the communications subsystem of an on-board computer (OBC) will be presented.
The whole communications subsystem has been developed in a Brazilian university, under an INPE’s Mr Wilkinson, a UNSW Alumnus (and ex-BLUEsat contract by a consortium formed by two Brazilian Team), will provide an overview of ESA activity along with companies. The Telecommand/Telemetry (TC/TM) personal insights based on his 8 years of service with the subsystem has been designed according to the organisation. He is presently the Project Controller for the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems Future Missions Office under the Science Programme. (CCSDS) recommendations, and the European Space Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 is the current cycle of ESA’s Agency (ESA) standards. long-term planning for space science missions. It is the latest in a series of mechanisms through which ESA’s Prof. Eduardo Bezerra is a Researcher and Lecturer of science missions are implemented and provides the Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa stability needed for activities which typically take over two Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, where he is with the Department decades to go from initial concept to the production of of Electrical and Electronics Engineering since 2010. He scientific results. For more information on Cosmic Vision was formerly with the Faculty of Informatics, Catholic 2015–2025 visit the ESA website. University (PUCRS), Brazil, from 1996 to 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Sussex (Space Science Centre), England, Developing Projects in the Brazilian Space UK, in 2002. He is the author and co-author of papers Program Context: A Case Study in the published covering a broad range of scientific topics within Design and Implementation of a Critical the disciplines of Computer Engineering. His research Embedded System for Space Applications interests are in the areas of embedded systems, space applications, computer architecture, reconfigurable Prof. Eduardo Bezerra, Universidade Federal systems (FPGAs), software and hardware testing, fault de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil tolerance and microprocessor applications. At PUCRS, he was the head of the Embedded Systems Group (GSE) 5 March 2015 where he led and managed several research projects funded by Brazilian Government Agencies and also by the The Brazilian Space industry. In 2004 he set up a company named Innalogics Program started in at PUCRS Technological Park. 1961 as a government Innalogics is a spin-off of initiative named “Group GSE aiming the improvement for the Organisation of the of industry-university National Space Activities collaboration in the field of Commission” (GOCNAE). In all these years, in order to embedded systems design. cope with the deadlines and requirements associated
16 ACSER Annual Report 2015 THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY’S This event was proudly presented in a joint venture ROSETTA MISSION TO COMET 67P: between the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research and the UNSW Branch of the American Institute The first interplanetary space exploration of Aeronautics & Astronautics mission to successfully orbit and land a scientific probe on the surface of a comet more than 500 million km from Earth
Warwick Holmes, Avionics System Engineer & Former ESA Rosetta Team Member
3rd August 2015
Warwick Holmes is 53 years old, was born in Sydney and also lived in Adelaide and Canberra during his early years. Warwick attended Sydney University graduating with a Bachelor of Science and Electrical Engineering and later a Masters degree in Technology Management from UNSW. BLUEsat Mars Rover In Poland For the last 29 years Warwick has been working in Europe exclusively on the development of European Space The UNSW BLUEsat OWR Poland Team: Christopher Miller, Helena Kertesz, Yilser Kabaran, Agency spacecraft including: Scientific, Earth Observation, Daniel Krajsic, Harry Day Telecommunications, Navigation and Manned spacecraft programs. He is an Avionics System Engineer specializing 9th October in the integration and testing of spacecraft hardware and The BLUEsat Off-World Robotics team arrived back from software and project management. He was an ESA staff Poland where they competed in the European Rover member that worked on the Rosetta program for 5 years Challenge and came 15th out of 40 teams! Their Mars during the building, testing and launch phases of this analogue Rover competed with teams from India, USA and mission. Canada in several challenges, including remote control Warwick has performed five launch campaigns at the and rough terrain traversal. The team presented on their ESA launch base in French Guiana, South America, with Rover design and their journey to the European Rover the Ariane-3, Ariane-4, Ariane-5 and Soyuz-STB launch Challenge. The Rover itself made a guest appearance vehicles. He was designated as the “Spacecraft Support during the lecture! Team leader” (SST) responsible for giving the final “Go-for- BLUEsat Off-World Robotics is a student lead project Launch” call from French Guiana to the Flight Operations at UNSW that aims to design, build and operate Rovers Director in ESOC Germany to start the final automatic designed for the Moon, Mars and beyond. To date the launch countdown sequence of the Rosetta Mission on team has completed two major expeditions with two 2nd March 2004. models of rover, including the BLUEtongue Rover which The Rosetta spacecraft has been in interplanetary flight competed in the 2015 European Rover Challenge. through the solar system for more than 11 years traveling a total distance of 7 billion kilometres, four times around The OWR team consists of over 15 undergraduate the Sun to reach Comet-67P. Rosetta has achieved Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Science Engineers several “firsts” in space exploration history being the first and is part of the greater BLUEsat Undergraduate Space spacecraft to orbit and land a science probe directly onto Research group at UNSW. BLUEsat is currently recruiting the surface of a comet. any interested university students.
ACSER Annual Report 2015 17 18 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Launching CubeSats For and From Australia Workshop 1st April 2015 This event brought together international and domestic experts in small satellite mission design, construction and launch to examine the challenges of launching small satellites for Australia, and eventually from Australia. A varied cross section of stakeholders attended to discuss the current state of the art and constructive ideas for advancing Australia’s position in the space industry. Below is the list of speakers. Over 110 RSVPs were received for this event, far exceeding expectatins and indicating the level of interest their is in Australia for small-scale Space 2.0 ventures.
Speaker Name Organisation Topic/Presentation Title Speaker Name Organisation Topic/Presentation Title Andrew ACSER, UNSW Space 2.0 Barnaby ACSER, UNSW UNSW QB50 Project Dempster Osborne Tim Parsons Delta-V The Delta-V Space Start-Up Joe Khachan & University of i-INSPIRE and Related Accelerator Iver Cairns Sydney Instrument and Spacecraft Projects at the University of Craig Clark Clyde Space Sydney (remotely) (UK) Matthew Tetlow Adelaide SUSat Attitude Determination Michiel van Innovative Getting ‘Down Under’ up – University and Control Bolhuis Solutions Considerations on launching (remotely) In Space nano-satellites Anthony Horton Australian The Australian Space Eye: ultra- (Netherlands) Astronomical faint astronomy imaging from Observatory space Davide Masutti Von Karman Investigating the Middle and (remotely) Institute Lower Thermosphere using Brad E. Tucker ANU A Space or High-altitude (Belgium) a Cubesat Constellation: the Ultraviolet CubeSat (SHUCS) QB50 Mission and its Particular Challenges Stuart OzQube-1 OzQube-1 - Australia's First McAndrew PocketQube Satellite Chantal Gauss Team GAUSS Alternative Launch Cappelletti Launch Solutions (Video) (remotely) Services Solange Cunin Quberider A new level of access to space (Brazil) Lindsay RAAF Woomera Rebooted - Building Campbell Woomera Test Our Next-Generation National Tim Parsons Delta-V The Delta V Cubesat Program (remotely) Range Test Range Capability (Video) / (Slides only) Roz Cook Space Overview of the Space Activities Russell Boyce UNSW UNSW Canberra’s spacecraft Coordination Act Canberra flight capability development and Office (SCO) planned missions Donna Lawler Optus Cubesats: how do I get my David Lingard Defence Cubesat Experimentation at the driver’s licence? (Part 1) Science and DSTO Technology Elias Aboutanios ACSER, UNSW Cubesats: how do I get my Organisation driver’s licence? (Part 2) (DSTO) Peter Beck Rocket Lab The Electron Launch Vehicle Mike Petkovic Advanced Advanced Instrumentation (remotely) (NZ) (Video) Instrumentation Technology Centre Technology Onno C. J. Nammo AS Launch Opportunities For and Centre (AITC), Verberne & (Norway) From Australia (Video) ANU Kolbjørn Blix Dahle (remotely) Jason Held Saber Mission Control for the 21st Astronautics Century Brett Burford AU Launch Future Launcher Technologies Services Christine ANU Development of Australian cold Charles gas and electric thrusters for Carlos Munoz ZARM Technik Liquid Propulsion for Cubesats CubeSats Moya/Peter AG (Germany) and Hybrid Sounding Rockets Rickmers (Video) / (Slides only) John Heath UNSW Maximising Utility With Tertiary (remotely) School of Payloads: Vibration and Mechanical and Structural Testing of 3D Printed Robert Swiss space S3 – Affordable and recurrent Manufactuing Material in Space Feierbach and Systems access to space (Video) Engineering Richard Joye (Switzerland) (remotely) Thien Nguyen BLUEsat, Tracking Aircraft via Low Earth UNSW Orbit CubeSat constellations Robert Brand Project Destination Mars 2022 - Project ThunderStruck ThunderStruck Andreas University of UoN Cubesat Project: Affordable Antoniades Newcastle Hardware for Education and Randa Milliron Interorbital NEPTUNE 5: Interorbital Exploration (remotely) Systems (USA) Systems' Dedicated Small- Satellite Launcher (Video) Tom PocketQube PocketQube (Video) Walkinshaw (Alba Orbital) John Moody Spaceport Emerging Spaceplane Technology (remotely) (UK) Australia for Orbital Nanosat Launches
ACSER Annual Report 2015 19 20 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Off Earth Mining Forum
4 - 6 November 2015
In November 2015, ACSER hosted the 2nd Off Earth The two other keynotes for the OEMF also gave those Mining Forum jointly with the UNSW School of Mining keynotes as public lectures in the Clancy auditorium on Engineering at the Australian Technology Park. the UNSW campus: “Landing on a Comet: ESA’s Rosetta Mission” delivered by Prof Monica Grady CBE, Professor The first Off-Earth Mining Forum (OEMF) at UNSW of Planetary and Space Sciences, Open University, and Australia’s Kensington campus in February 2013 was “The Asteroid Redirect Robotic and Crewed Missions” by an extraordinary event. Media coverage had a reach Brian Muirhead, NASA ARRM Project Manager. of over 8 million people across the world, with radio coverage in the UK and US, newspaper coverage in The forum hosted speakers from across the spectrum India and New Zealand and coverage by all Australian of off-earth mining issues: missions, resources, mining television networks. The second Off-Earth Mining Forum technologies, robotics, automation, instrumentation, legal did not have the same media penetration but was more impediments, business risks, and ethical considerations. significant, both in terms of attendees and the degree to Participation was welcomed from active domestic and which the research directions have settled. international researchers, as well as interested parties from industry, government and the public. The OEMF (chaired by Prof Andrew Dempster and A/ Prof Serkan Saydam) was co-located with the third Over 80 people attended with 35 invited speakers (no International Future Mining Conference (FMC), also papers), including 2 keynotes, 3 plenary speakers, 5 chaired by A/Prof Serkan Saydam. The aim was for the panelists, and 7 presentations streamed over the internet. two communities to mix freely – the technology-active The sponsors were the Space Industry Association of members of the mining industry and those interested in Australia, UNSW Faculty of Engineering, UNSW School space resources. This was achieved in a number of ways, of Mining Engineering, and UNSW School of Electrical including half a day of joint sessions (i.e. both events in Engineering and telecommunications. It resulted in 29 a single room), including the keynote address “Space media stories, estimated to have a PR value of $118k. Exploration and Mining – A Potential Common Journey” delivered by René Fradet, Deputy Director, Engineering With the area developing rapidly, we plan for the third and Science Directorate, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. forum to be held in 2017.
PUBLIC LECTURE: TUESDAY 3RD NOVEMBER Prof Monica Grady Open University UK 6:30pm, Clancy Auditorium UNSW Kensington Campus
PRE-FORUM EVENT: WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER Opening Night Welcome Cruise in conjunction with the Future Mining Conference
PUBLIC LECTURE: THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER
Brian Muirhead NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 6:30pm, Clancy Auditorium UNSW Kensington Campus
ACSER Annual Report 2015 21 Off Earth Mining Forum Schedule of Speakers 4 - 6 November 2015
DAY 1: THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER Registration Desk Opens 8am
SESSION TIME SPEAKER NAME ORGANISATION TOPIC
Event Welcome & Session Chairs: Prof Andrew Dempster & Prof Serkan Saydam (Australian Centre for Space Engineering 8:45 – 9:10 Joint Session Research & UNSW School of Mining Engineering) #1 with the Deputy Director, NASA Future Mining 9:10 – 9:50 René Fradet Space Exploration and Mining - A Potential Common Journey JPL Conference Swamp Works - A New Approach to Develp Space Mining and Resource Robert Mueller & Main Theatre 9:50 – 10:15 NASA JPL Extraction Technologies at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre: Prospecting, Laurent Sibelle Excavation, Load, Haul and Dump for In Situ Resource Utilisation 10:15 – 10:40 Morning Tea 10:40 – 11:05 Robert Shishko NASA JPL An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony Joint Session A Multilayer Three-dimensional Index Tool for Recursive Block Models 11:05 – 11:30 Craig Lindley CSIRO #2 with the Supporting Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Mine Planning Future Mining UNSW Australia (ACSER Trajectory Design and Economic Analysis of Asteroid Mining Missions to Conference 11:30 – 11:55 Scott Dorrington / School of MME) Asteroid 2014 EK24 Main Theatre S Ata, G Bournival 11:55 – 12:20 UNSW Australia Resource Recovery in Space and M Manefield 12:20 – 13:10 Lunch 13:10 – 13:15 Introduction & Session Chair: David Ball Chad Anderson 13:15 – 13:25 Space Angels Network Moon Prospect: The Business Case For Lunar Infrastructure (via internet)
13:25 – 13:45 Dr Jeff Coulton UNSW Business School Studies in costing off-earth mining projects Business & Economy Dr Roger Launius Smithsonian National Air 13:45 – 14:00 Historical Analogues Theatrette 6B (via internet) and Space Museum Level 1 The Australian Centre Dr Thom van for Sustainable Mining 14:00 – 14:20 Dooren and Dr Practices (UNSW) & The ethics of off-earth mining: expanding the discussion Matthew Kearnes Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (UNSW)
14:20 – 14:25 5-minute Break
Dr Philip Metzger UCF Florida Space 14:25 – 14:40 Rules for Space Mining Radicals (via internet) Institute
Prof Steven Western Sydney Common Heritage or Common Law?: Legal Regulation of the Exploitation of 14:40 – 15:00 Freeland University Natural Resources in Outer Space
Dept of Archaeology, Dust mitigation in lunar mining and the implications for cultural heritage 15:00 – 15:20 Dr Alice Gorman Flinders University management
Thorbjørn Waal Oxford Brookes CSR in Space: Corporate Social Responsibility Principles for the Space 15:20 – 15:40 Lundsgaard University Industries (via internet) 15:40 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea Session Chair: Prof Andrew Dempster Keynote Professor of Planetary Prof Monica Grady Speaker 16:00 – 16:30 and Space Sciences, Landing on a Comet: ESA’s Rosetta Mission CBE Open University
16:30 – 16:50 Prof Ian Wright Open University, UK Off-Earth Mining: the Rosetta Experience Missions Australian National 16:50 – 17:05 Prof Trevor Ireland JAXA’s Hayabusa Mission Update Theatrette 6B University Level 1 17:05 – 17:15 Closing Remarks: Prof Andrew Dempster
17:15 Day End
22 ACSER Annual Report 2015 DAY 2: FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER Registration Desk Opens 8am
SESSION TIME SPEAKER NAME ORGANISATION TOPIC
8:45 – 8:50 Introduction & Session Chair: Prof Serkan Saydam Keynote Speaker 8:50 – 9:30 Brian Muirhead NASA ARRM Project Manager The Asteroid Redirect Robotic and Crewed Missions
Prof Ian Crawford Department of Earth and Planetary 9:30 – 9:50 Lunar resources (via internet) Sciences, Birkbeck College London Lunar Resources Theatrette 6B 9:50 – 10:10 Kyle Acierno ispace technologies Lunar Resource Exploitation with Swarm Rovers Level 1 Dr Kris Zacny 10:10 – 10:30 Honeybee Robotics Lunar Resource Prospector Drill System (via internet)
10:30 –10:50 Morning Tea Jim Keravala 10:50 – 11:05 Chief Operating Officer & Architect, Shackleton Energy Company Inc Plenary (via internet) Speakers 11:05 – 11:35 Mark Sonter Board Member, Deep Space Industries Theatrette 6B Level 1 11:35 – 11:55 Andrew Barton Director of Technical Operations for Google Lunar XPRIZE, XPRIZE Foundation
Panel 11:55 – 12:25 PANEL: “Kickstarting the Off Earth Mining Business” - Panel participants to be announced shortly Session
12:25 Lunch
Session Chair: Dr Naomi Tsafnat
13:10 – 13:25 Carlos Tapia Cortez UNSW School of Mining Engineering Water Extraction - Mars’ Mining Model (WEM³)
UNSW Mechanical & Manufacturing Opportunistic flyby characterisation of Earth passing 13:25 – 13:40 William Crowe Engineering / Australian Centre for asteroids Student Space Engineering Research Sessions
Christoper Miller & UNSW BLUEsat/UNSW Mechanical & Theatrette 6B 13:40 – 13:55 BLUEsat and the BLUEtongue Rover Level 1 Yilser Kabaran Manufacturing Engineering
Investigating Selective Laser Sintering as a Manufacturing 13:55 – 14:10 Lachlan Colley UNSW School of Mining Engineering Method for Creating Mine Infrastructure in Off-Earth Mines
UNSW Mechanical & Manufacturing Microbial Resource Extraction on Asteroids: Occupying the 14:10 – 14:25 Michael Klas Engineering / Australian Centre for Niche Space Engineering Research 14:25 – 14:45 Afternoon Tea Session Chair: Dr Tim Parsons Rock Mechanics & Explosives The Rock Mechanics of Space with Respect to Potential 14:45 – 15:05 Dr Leslie Gertsch Research Center, Missouri University Space Mining Methods of Science and Technology Advances in Development of Asteroid Mining Concepts: 15:05 – 15:25 Mark Sonter Deep Space Industries Target Selection, Regolith Modelling and Resource Definition
15:25 – 15:45 Dr Jonathan Clarke Mars Society Australia Mining Mars Novel Technologies 15:45 – 15:50 5-minute Break Theatrette 6B Session Chair: Dr Tim Parsons Level 1 15:50 – 16:10 Dr Ruslan Puscasu University of Queensland Non-selective underground mining methods of extraction
The Responsive Space Operations Center: The Next 16:10 – 16:30 Dr Jason Held Saber Astronautics Generation of Mission Control System Architectures Enabled by Pulsed Cathodic Arc 16:30 – 16:50 Patrick Neumann Neumann Space Pty Ltd Thrusters 16:50 – 17:00 Closing Remarks: Prof Andrew Dempster & Prof Serkan Saydam
17:00 Forum Ends
ACSER Annual Report 2015 23 24 ACSER Annual Report 2015 ACSER Seminar Series
ACSER’s lunch-time seminar series plays an important role in achieving several of its aims: outreach, engagement within and without the faculty and university, mentoring of staff, and research training for postgraduate students. The series kept up its momentum in 2015 with audiences of up to 50 people at some events, including not just staff and students from UNSW, but also attracting students from other universities and interested people from industry and the wider community. Title Speaker/s Date Investigating Fluidized Granular Flow Behaviour under Martian Mr Siddharth Pandey, Doctoral Researcher Wednesday, 4 Surface Conditions for a Pneumatic Regolith Acquisition System Space Systems Engineering SEIT-UNSW February 2015 Canberra
satellite time synchronization systems based on remotely Mr Xiaobo GU, ACSER PhD Practicum Wednesday, 6 disciplined VCXOs student February 2015 Advancement in Space Science, Technology and Exploration: Is it Mr Sanat Biswas, ACSER PhD Candidate & Wednesday, 11 Beneficial and Necessary? 2014 IAF Emerging Space Leader February 2015 Embedded Systems for Space Applications at UFSC/Brazil Prof. Eduardo Bezerra, Universidade Federal Monday, 16 de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil February 2015 Bistatic Radar using signals of Opportunity Mr Cameron Cooke, ACSER Thesis Student Tuesday, 10 March 2015 BLUEsat Stratospheric Balloon Testing: Serving UNSW space Ian Bartlett, BLUEsat President Thursday, research activities by providing a vehicle for testing space systems 12 March 2015 and space hardware in near-space conditions System Engineering of a Martian Ice Miner for In Situ Resource Mr Thierry De Roche, UNSW School of Monday, Utilization in Support of a Mars Colony Mining & Ecole Polytechnique Federale De 16 March 2015 Lausanne Arkaroola Mars Robot Challenge Expedition Dr Jon Clarke, Mars Society Australia 18 March 2015 *Joint event with the Australian Centre for Astrobiology Development of a space habitat simulator: SHEE - Self-deployable Dr Barnaby Osborne, ACSER / International Thursday, 26 Habitat for Extreme Environments Space University March 2015 Find out about Saber’s story as a space engineering startup Dr Jason Held, Saber Astronautics / UNSW Tuesday, 14 in Australia, and their journey to modernize the way the space April 2015 industry conducts Mission Control LaunchBox is an educational programme intended to put CubeSat Flavia Tata Nardini, LaunchBox Tuesday, 28 technologies inside Australian Schools April 2015 Cooperative Positioning A/Prof Feng Shen, College of Automation, Tuesday, 12 Harbin Engineering University (China) & May 2015 Visiting Fellow, ACSER UNSW ACSER IGNSS Presentations 9 July 2015 Modelling and Mitigating Multipath and NLOS for Cooperative Dr Joon Wayn Cheong (ACSER Research Associate) Positioning in Urban Canyons Autonomous Physical Time Synchronization Method for Dr Eamonn Glennon (ACSER Senior Research Associate) Navigation Systems Results from kea V4.1 FPGA-based GPS Receiver Dr Eamonn Glennon (ACSER Senior Research Associate) Performance Testing Detecting the Presence of Spoofers using Multipath Detection Ms Laure Demicheli (ACSER Practicum exchange student) Techniques An Efficient Secondary Code Transition Cancellation Mr Vinh Tran (ACSER PhD candidate) Correlator for Fast MultiGNSS Acquisition Programmable Custom Multi-Core Architectures for Multi- Mr Vinh Tran (ACSER PhD candidate) Constellation GNSS Receiver ProtoSAT: Educational Satellite Hardware Andreas Antoniades, Obelisk Systems Friday, 4th September 2015 The Australian Space Eye Dr Lee Spitler, Macquarie University & Monday, Australian Astronomical Observatory 19th October
ACSER Annual Report 2015 25
LEFT: ACSER Seminar Presentations throughout 2014 YEAR IN REVIEW: Other Highlights
Fly me to the USA Global Space Balloon Challenge
In January Andrew Dempster, Eamonn Glennon and April 2015 Kevin Parkinson (the GPS “receiver team”) visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In these pictures, On the back of their 2014 success in winning “Best you can see them i) with the full-sized Curiosity replica Experiment” at the Global Space Balloon Challenge, used for simulating the rover’s exploration of Mars, a team of six comprised of UNSW PhD students and and ii) with Rene Fradet and Bob Shishko to discuss graduates (mainly from Mechanical Engineering) off-earth mining. designed and launched a high altitude balloon as part of the 2015 Challenge. It reached 34,000 meters and tested a novel, passively solar heated, payload container. The test was a success despite weather conditions outside of the expected range. Media coverage was wide ranging, including local media and university media: • http://www.nvi.com.au/story/3015827/gunnedah-the- view-from-space/ • https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/ high-altitude-balloon-provides-foray-final-frontier
They also visited Space X at their Hawthorne, CA headquarters.
In September, Space Industry Association of Australia Andrew Dempster (SIAA) Annual General Meeting and Serkan Saydam were back November at JPL again to 2015 discuss off-earth mining, seen For the 2nd here with Aussie year in a row Dr Rob Reid and ACSER played his asteroid robot host to an SIAA Executive Meeting and the Annual “Hedgehog”. General Meeting. We’re please to announce that Prof Dempster was relected to the SIAA Executive Council.
26 ACSER Annual Report 2015 15th Australian Space Research IGNSS 2015 on the Sunshine Coast Conference (ASRC), UNSW Canberra 13 - 16 July 2015 29 September - 1 October 2015 Another year and another big contingent of ACSER This was the ninth ASRC jointly sponsored and speakers at the IGNSS Symposium. This year we organised by the National Committee for Space and were fortunate enough to have our French practicum Radio Science (NCSRS) and the National Space student (Laure Demicheli) present in Australia while Society of Australia (NSSA), with the support of the the conference was on and we were proud to support Australian Space Research Institute (ASRI) and the her attendance and paper presentation at the event. Mars Society of Australia AMEC.
In 2015 ACSER team members contributed no less than 10 presentations and posters to the conference, covering topics such as the UNSW QB50 satellite project, Off Earth Mining, BLUEsat’s Mars Rover Project, UAVs, and our own Kea GPS receiver. Prof Dempster also ran a special Off Earth Mining session plus a Q & A as a prelude the forthcoming Off Earth Mining Forum in Novermber 2015.
IGNSS2015 ACSER Delegates, L-R: Vinh Tran, Prof Andrew Dempster, Dr Craig Roberts, Prof Chris Rizos, Dr Eamonn Glennon, Laure Demicheli, Dr Joon Wayn Cheong
66th Annual International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, Israel Off Earth Mining Presentation 12 - 16 October 2015 May 2015 ACSER rewewed its status as a member of the International Prof Dempster and A/Prof Saydam were invited to Astronautical Federation and was present to the Global Change and Energy Sustainability again fortunate enough to be Initiative at the Australian Deptartment of Defence in represented at the Congress by staff and students Canberra. affiliated with ACSER, namely Dr Naomi Tsafnat and PhD students William Crowe and Scott Dorrington (all from the School of Mechanical Engineering).
We also congratulate UNSW canberra student Siddharth Pandey who won a 2015 Emerging Space Leaders grant for his research in the field of off-earth mining. That’s the second UNSW winner in as many years, riding on the back of ACSER PhD student Sanat Biswas winning in 2014. More: http://www.iafastro.org/2015-emerging-space- leaders-esl-grant-programme/
ACSER Annual Report 2015 27 Optus Groundstation Visit UNSW Open Day
August 2015 September 2015
BLUEsat students arranged a field trip to tour the This was the first year the ACSER participated in secure operations at the Optus Groundstation located Open Day with BOTH the Schools of Mechanical in Belrose, on the northern outskirts of Sydney. They Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Volunteers kindly offered ACSER staff and QB50 team members discussed our many research projects with high an opportunity to join in (on the proviso that we could school students and their parents, passing around the drive them!). Both fun and educational for the team, QB50 3D printed model, while BLUEsat performed a it provided yet another opportunity to strengthen ties balloon demonstration. between UNSW and Optus, with one of our QB50 and Masters in Satellite Systems students snapping up a rare graduate position in the Groundstation not long after this tour.
28 ACSER Annual Report 2015 ION GNSS+ 2015 in Tampa, USA UNSW PhD Student wins 2015 Move an Asteroid Competition 16 - 18 September 2015 18 October 2015 Prof Dempster presented a paper on behalf of our PhD student Sanat Biswas, this was received quite well UNSW Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering and generated plenty of discussion after the session PhD student William Crowe has been awarded concluded. Similarly, Prof Dempster chaired a session first place in the 2015 Space Generation Advisory featuring a paper on our work with GPSat, which also Council Move an Asteroid competition held in attracted questions and follow up leads afterwards. conjunction with 2015 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) and Space Generation Congress In 2015 the Australian contingent was failry small, Prof (SGC) in Jerusalem. Dempster being only one of six Australian delegates, amongst others from other Australian universities, The competition challenged students and young industry and goverment. professionals worldwide to come up with original ideas relating to Near Earth Objects (NEOs), with each entrant required to submit a technical paper of up to ten (10) pages long, describing their design. Submissions were sought regarding any of the following topics: • Safe deflection of an Earth-bound NEO • NEO study, characterisation and detection • Global NEO impact warning system • NEO resource utilisation • Proposals/concepts for NEO missions aiming at planetary defence, exploration, resource utilisation • NEO impact consequences • NEO education programs and strategies
Put simply, William’s proposition was to visit asteroids that come very close to the Earth, rather than travel great distances over many years to reach those that are far away.The prize included transport and entry to the 2015 IAC and SGC, including the opportunity to present the winning paper.
We congratulate William on a fantastic job!
ACSER Annual Report 2015 29 Media & Publicity
As expected, ACSER media attention in 2015 was dominated by the 2nd Off Earth Mining Forum in November, however a steady inflow of general media enquiries seeking expert comment on all space-related matters shows that we are maintaining, if not growing, our reputation as national leaders in space.
2015 Media Coverage:
• High-altitude balloon provides foray into final frontier (UNSW Newsroom, 15th April 2015) • Space treaties are a challenge to launching small satellites in • Mining in space could cost less than building a gas plant, orbit (The Conversation, 17th April 2015) Hong Kong Economic Journal (6 Nov 2015) • ISS Progress Comes Crashing Back to Earth (Radio • Mining in space could cost less than a gas plant , Moneyweb Interview with Prof Dempster on 2SER 107.3FM, 7th May (South Africa) (6 Nov 2015) 2015) • Deep space mining seen costing $27 billion, or half the price • Homemade satellites herald new age for Australian space of huge Aussie gas terminal, The Japan Times (6 Nov 2015) industry (Radio Interview with Prof Dempster on ABC World • Mining in space could cost less than a gas plant, TODAY Today (ABC Radio National, ABC Local), 22nd June 2015) (Singapore) (6 Nov 2015) • Mining the moon could make space travel to Mars a • At $27 billion, mining in space could cost less than a gas possibility (Radio Interview with Prof Dempster on ABC World plant , Reading Eagle (USA) (8 Nov 2015) Today (ABC Radio National, ABC Local), 21 July 2015) • At $27 billion, mining in space could cost less than a gas • Mining That’s Out of This World (Radio Interview with Prof plant, Chicago Tribune (USA) (8 Nov 2015) Dempster on 2SER 107.3FM, 7th August 2015) • Mining in space could cost less than an Earth gas plant , The • Space mining is closer than you think, and the prospects are Daily Herald (USA) (8 Nov 2015) great (The Conversation, 7th August 2015) • At $27 Billion, Mining in Space Could Cost Less Than a Gas • Is Spending on Space a Giant Waste? (The Ethics Centre, Plant, New Delhi Television (9 Nov 2015) 7th August 2015) • Space mining might cost less than a gas plant on Earth, The • Space Mining (Radio Interview with Prof Dempster on ABC Herald (USA) (9 Nov 2015) Radio National: Late Night Live, 1st September 2015) • At $27 billion, mining in space could cost less than a gas • Future Mining Conference and Off-Earth Mining Forum, plant , Tulsa World (USA) (9 Nov 2015) Mining Chronicle (Australia) (1 Nov 2015) • Mining in space cheaper than setting up a gas plant, Times of • Interview with Monica Grady, Open University UK, ABC Radio India (9 Nov 2015) National (3 Nov 2015) • Intriguingly, costs of mining in space found to be in reach, • Future Mining Conference 2015, National Resources Review Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (USA) (9 Nov 2015) (4 Nov 2015) • Mining in space a steal at a mere $27B, National Post • Space mining conference begins in Sydney, Australian Mining (Canada) (9 Nov 2015) (4 Nov 2015) • Space mining might cost less than a gas plant on Earth, Salt • 3rd International Future Mining Conference kicks off in Lake Tribune (USA), (10 Nov 2015) Sydney, Australian Manufacturing (4 Nov 2015) • At $27 billion, mining in space could cost less than a gas • Space mining conference begins in Sydney, Mining Industry plant, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia), (11 Nov 2015) Today (4 Nov 2015) • At $27B, mining in space could cost less than a gas plant on • Interview with Rene Fradet, JPL, ABC RN Drive (5 Nov 2015) Earth, The Bulletin (USA), (12 Nov 2015) • Interview with Brian Muirhead, JPL, Macquarie Radio • Auf den Mond schießen oder in den Hut stecken: Die 10 (national) (5 Nov 2015) ungewöhnlichsten Investments, Das Investment Magazine • At $27 Billion, Mining in Space Could Cost Less Than a Gas (Germany) , (13 Nov 2015) Plant, Bloomberg (6 Nov 2015) • US senate passes space mining bill, Australian Mining, (19 • At $27b, mining in space could cost less than Gorgon gas Nov 2015) plant, UNSW finds, The Sydney Morning Herald (6 Nov • Space Mining Opens Door To Mars Missions, The Huffington 2015) Post, (25 Nov 2015) • Mining in space could cost less than a gas plant, TreeAngle (Indonesia) (6 Nov 2015) • Mining in space could cost less than a gas plant , Mineweb Full list with links available from: (South Africa) (6 Nov 2015) acser.unsw.edu.au/acser-in-the-news
30 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Our Students Undergraduate Education
BLUEsat
The BLUEsat Group is a collection of undergraduate The club also celebrated the relaunch of their website in students at UNSW Australia dedicated to creating easy-to- 2015 and a renewed social media focus. Their affiliation access space technology. with the new Michael Crouch Innovation Centre has attracted new attention and new talent to the group. The mission of the group is to take on practical space engineering projects and in doing so, give undergraduate Satellite Project engineering students hands-on experience on space technology. The group is currently undertaking four In 2015, the BLUEsat projects Satellite team participated in the • Development of a satrospheric balloon vehicle for Canadian Satellite scientific experiments Design Challenge • Design of a CubeSat for entry into the Canadian participating and Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) presenting in design review sessions • Construction of a Mars Rover for entry into the in Winnipeg and Vancouver. The team European Rover Challenge (ERC) then consolidated efforts into reviewing • Construction of a Groundstation for communicating their satellite’s system architecture, after with satellites, in particular the UNSW EC-0 QB50 which the team started developing and satellite building a 2-unit CubeSat power system from scratch. Club History Ground Station BLUEsat was started in 1997 as the Basic Low-Earth Orbit UNSW Experimental Satellite (BLUEsat) project, In 2015, five BLUEsat technicians gained their amateur aimed at designing, building and launching the first radio lisences, and with the help of the St George undergraduate satellite in Australia. With the completion Wireless club, developed and implemented a ground and demonstration of our first prototype in early 2013, the station for ACSER’s QB50 project. Group expanded its operations to include research into emerging CubeSat technologies, off-world rovers and near space experimental platforms.
From 2010 BLUEsat was taken under the wing of the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research.
Stratospheric Balloon Testing
BLUEsat’s stratospheric testing initiative sends high- altitude sounding balloons up to 30,000m with a suite of tracking and telemetry sensors to facilitate the near-space
32 ACSER Annual Report 2015 testing of flight hardware, as well as a state-of-the-art to what would be separation mechanism to ensure flight control. The flights experienced on are also used for high altitude experiments for academic the surface of the groups within UNSW. moon or Mars.
After an inaugural launch in late 2014, the Balloon Off World Robotics team conducted several launches in 2015, successfully (OWR) was formed launching and recovering two balloons from the during the starting Muswellbrook region, and one from Temora. Footage weeks of the first from the flights has become a prominent component of student semester BLUEsat’s branding. of 2014 and after only several months has deigned and built their very first rover “Buttercup”. In 2014 this rover and a team of four flew to Arkaroola to take part in the Mars Robot Challenge.
On the back their success at Arkaroola, in 2015, the BLUEsat OWR team became the first Australian team to qualify for the European Rover Challenge in Poland. They competed and placed 15th out of 40 international teams, a considerable achievement considering the small team size and relative inexperience. The team is currently redesigning the rover for entry into the 2016 ERC.
Off World Robotics
The BLUEsat Off-World Robotics group provides an opportunity for students to develop robotic systems with a particular focus on extra-terrestrial exploration. In the long term the group aims to develop a versatile rover, capable of performing a variety of tasks in an environment similar
ACSER Annual Report 2015 33 Honours Supervision
ACSER projects have made an exciting and enriching contribution to the range of fourth year thesis topics available to UNSW Engineering students. In particular, the QB50 cubesat satellite project has provided a wide range of topics for students to study with both practical applications and accessible testing materials.
Projects currently span the Schools of Mining Engineering, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Electrcial Engineering and Telecommunications. Listed below are the students and topics supervised by ACSER staff and affiliates.
Year & Semesters Name School Supervisors Topic
S2 2014 - S1 2015 John Heath III MME Nathan Kinkaid In-Situ Structural Testing of a 3D-Printed Satellite
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Lewis Cowper MME Nathan Kinkaid Investigation of the minimal structure of a satellite assembled on-orbit
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Lingxiao Li MME Nathan Kinkaid The application of electric propulsion on asteroid mining
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Fiona Keniry MME Nathan Kinkaid Electromagnetic launch systems for assisting in the launch of payloads into orbit
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Scott Lee MME Nathan Kinkaid Identifying the accessibility of asteroids for asteroid mining
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Vikas Sewani EET Joon Wayn Cheong Developing a Multicore GNSS Receiver on an FPGA
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Yishi Sun EET Andrew Dempster Monitoring space junk using optical telescopes in space
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Xiaotong Huang EET Andrew Dempster Live video imaging wireless transmission from UAV
S2 2014 - S1 2015 David Reid MME Naomi Tsafnat, Barnaby QB50 material outgassing testing of PEEK Osborne
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Marty Deaker MME Naomi Tsafnat, Barnaby In-situ testing of the structural characteristics of a Osborne novel cubesat structure
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Jaryl Sim MME Naomi Tsafnat, Barnaby QB50 Satellite Ground Station Upgrade Osborne
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Thomas Hile MME Naomi Tsafnat, Barnaby Thermal analysis and design for QB50 Osborne
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Shogan Aversa- MME Naomi Tsafnat, Barnaby Automated Satellite Tracking System for QB50 Druesne Osborne, Ediz Cetin
S2 2014 – S1 Aykan Ermis EET Ediz Cetin, Garth Pearce Space based solar power 2015
S2 2014 – S1 Elle Xiao Wang EET Elias Aboutanios 2015
S2 2014 - S1 2015 Gavin Baxter MME Ediz Cetin, Garth Pearce 3D Printing of Functional Structures for Space Applications
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Cameron Cooke EET Andrew Dempster, High Dynamics GNSS Receiver Eamonn Glennon
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Zi Teng (Jason) EET Andrew Dempster, GPS Timing Receiver Wang Eamonn Glennon
34 ACSER Annual Report 2015 continued....
Year & Semesters Name School Supervisors Topic
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Richard Croker EET Andrew Dempster, GPS on a tumbling spacecraft Eamonn Glennon
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Chun-Kan Leung EET Ediz Cetin Space Based Tracking of Aircraft on CubeSats
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Vincent Si Hua EET Ediz Cetin Energy Scavenging and Harvesting for Mobile Ngu Devices
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Zhengyuan Chen EET Ediz Cetin Evaluation of Mismatch Effects in TI-ADC Converters for SDR
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Divya Jindal MME Ediz Cetin, Garth Pearce 3D Printing of Functional Structures for Space Applications S1 2015 - S2 2015 Johannes De MME Ediz Cetin, Garth Pearce Feasibility Study of a Near-Earth Asteroid Mining Hoop Operation using Energy/Mass Balance
S1 2015 – S2 Lachlan Colley MINE Serkan Saydam Investigating Selective Laser Sintering as 2015 a Manufacturing Method for Creating Mine Infrastructure in Off Earth Mines
S1 2015 - S2 2015 Chris Josifovski MME Naomi Tsafnat, Jason Integrating Performance Outcomes of Space Mission Held Control Operators with Idealised Software S1 2015 - S2 2015 Shannon Green EET Joon Wayn Cheong A Low-Resource Viterbi Decoder for the Namuru GNSS Receiver S2 2015 - S1 2016 Nathan Doyle MME Naomi Tsafnat Design of crewed mission to Mars
S2 2015 - S1 2016 Bo Chen EET Andrew Dempster, Ediz ADS-B Receiver Cetin
S2 2015 - S1 2016 Yue Xi EET Andrew Dempster, Ediz AIS Receiver Cetin
S2 2015 - S1 2016 Patrick V EET Ediz Cetin Stereo Vision and Character Recognition for the Raspberry Pi
S2 2015 - S1 2016 Tong Wu CSE Oliver Diessel, Ediz Cetin Reliable Reconfiguration Control Processor
Taste of Research
Our staff have also particpated in offering Taste of Research projects and Science Without Borders projects over the summer to local and international undergraduate students.
Program Year/ Name School Supervisor/s Topic or Title Semester (of Student)
Taste of Research Nov 2014 – Yue Kang EET Oliver Diessel/ Real-time Programming for the RUSH QB50 Feb 2015 Ediz Cetin Payload Science Without Nov 2014 – Jessé EET/Brazil Ediz Cetin/ Oliver FPGA Configurations for the RUSH QB50 Borders Feb 2015 Barreto Diessel Payload
Taste of Research Nov 2015 – Fen Hei EET Thien Nguyen/ Attitude Determination and Control Systems Feb 2016 (Kevin) Hung Elias Aboutanios for Stratospheric Balloons Taste of Research Nov 2015 - Divya Jinda MME John Page Space Hedgehog Swarms for Asteroid Feb 2016 Exploration
ACSER Annual Report 2015 35 Postgraduate Coursework and Rsearch Practicums
Master of Engineering Science (Satellite Systems Engineering) In 2014, the University replaced the 8539 Master of recommended structure for full time study is listed below. Engineering Science Extension program with the 8338 The masters also saw a coordinated advertising campaign Master of Engineering Science program. Therefore the with the help of the Faculty. This led to applications and ELECSS8539 stream was revised to fit the new program subsequently enrolments. The number of enrolments and the new stream is now called the ELECOS8338 currently is around 9. Efforts are continuing to advertise Master of Engineering Science in Satellite Systems the program. In 2015 we ran the AERO9500, ELEC9762, Engineering (the ELECOS8338 Satellite Systems AERO9610 courses again, and ELEC9764 and ELEC9781 Engineering stream). The ELECOS8338 stream now Supervised Reading (in place of of ELEC9765) for the first comprises 8 core courses, 4 electives and a project. The time.
SEMESTER 1 SEMSTER 2
4 core courses: 4 core courses:
1. AERO9500 Space Systems Architectures and 1. ELEC9764 The Ground Segment and Space Orbits Operations
2. ZEIT8012 Space Systems Engineering 2. AERO9610 The Space Segment
3. ELEC9762 Space Mission Development 3. ZEIT8013 Space Applications 1
4. ELEC9765 Space Law and Radio Regulations 4. GMAT9765 Space Applications 2 (although this will eventually become either a Civil or Electrical course).
SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 2 Electives, year-long project 2 Electives, year-long project
Other Postgraduate Coursework Thesis Supervision
Program Year/ Name School Supervisor/s Topic or Title Semester MEngSc S2 2014 - Yingliang EET Ediz Cetin/ Planning for Space-based Solar Power (Electrical Eng.) S1 2015 Nie Garth Pearce Stations
International Postgraduate Research Students on Exchange Supervised by ACSER Staff and Affiliates in Space-Engineering Topics Student Program Type School Dates / ACSER Funded Topic Supervisor/s Duration Scholarship/ Stipend PhD Practicum (Beihang 1 year, Inter-Satellite Timing Andrew Xiaobo GU EET University, China) 2014 - 2015 Synchronisation Dempster
PhD Practicum (Beihang 1 year, Pai WANG EET University, China) 2015 - 2016
Masters Practicum, École Detecting the Presence of Andrew Laure 6 months, Nationale de l’Aviation EET $6000 Spoofers using Multipath Dempster, DEMICHELI Feb - Jul 2015 Civile (ENAC) Detection Techniques Ediz Cetin
36 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Higher Degree Research
Postgraduate Research Students in Space Engineering Supervised or Co-Supervised by ACSER Staff and Affiliates
Student Program School Commen- ACSER Topic Supervisor/s Type cement/ Funded End Scholarship/ Year Stipend Xiangrong Array signal processing for interference Elias Aboutanios, PhD EET 2011-2105 Wang mitigation in GNSS applications Andrew Dempster Masters by Kai Zhao EET 2012 - 2015 Andrew Dempster Research $25,000 / Vaidhya Masters by EET 2012-2015 year for 3 Andrew Dempster Mookiah Research years Jendi Robust Optimisation of Launch Vehicle PhD MME 2012-2015 Garth Pearce Kepple Structures
Joshua Dynamics and Control of a Chaotic Barnaby Osborne, PhD MME 2013 Brandt Dripping Regime in Reduced Gravity Naomi Tsafnat $25,000 / Sanat Real-time On-board Satellite Navigation Andrew Dempster, PhD EET 2013 year for 3 Biswas using Multi-GNSS Receiver Li (Lily) Qiao years Scott PhD EET 2013 GNSS Reflectometry Andrew Dempster O’Brien
Vinh Tran PhD EET 2013 Andrew Dempster
Madeleine Moving Target Detection and Tracking PhD EET 2014 Elias Aboutanios Sabordo using Radar in Heterogeneous Clutter
Scott Trajectory design for asteroid mining Nathan Kinkaid, PhD MME 2014 Dorrington missions John Olsen Nathan Kinkaid, William Characterising asteroids using PhD MME 2014 John Page and Crowe spacecraft swarms John Olsen Off Earth Mining Carlos Tapia PhD MINE 2014 Water Extraction - Mars’ Mining Model Serkan Saydam Cortez (WEM³) Benjamin Positioning and navigating spacecraft PhD EET 2015 Andrew Dempster Southwell near asteroids Autonomous navigation of spacecraft Arunkumar PhD EET 2015 near an asteroid utilising Simultaneous Andrew Dempster Rathinam Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)
Over 150 email enquiries from around the world were received during 2015 regarding PhD topics listed on the ACSER PhD website:
acser.usnw.edu.au/phd-opportunities
ACSER Annual Report 2015 37 PhD Student Profile: Mr Sanat Biswas PhD Student Profile: Mr Tuan Vinh Tran
Sanat Biswas is a PhD student in Vinh Tran is a PhD candidate in the the School of Electrical Engineering School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales University of New South Wales (UNSW). He received BE (2010) (UNSW). He received B.Eng. in Instrumentation and Electronics (2007) in Computer Science from Jadavpur University and and M.Sc. (2009) in Information M. Tech (2012) in Aerospace Processing and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute from the School of Information of Technology Bombay. Sanat and Communication Technology, is currently associated with Australian Centre for Space Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Currently. He Engineering Research (ACSER) and Satellite Navigation is currently associated with Australian Centre for Space and Positioning (SNAP) Laboratory. He has been Engineering Research (ACSER) and Satellite Navigation awarded the Emerging Space Leaders Grant 2014 by the and Positioning (SNAP) Laboratory. International Astronautical Federation. Research profile Research Profile Vinh’s research focus is dynamically configuration and Sanat’s research focus is non-linear estimation techniques programmable baseband receiver design for multi-GNSS for on-board space vehicle navigation using GNSS signals. He has developed a pipeline programmable receivers. He has developed two new fast Unscented baseband correlator that can dynamically configure to Kalman Filter (UKF) algorithms called the Single process 16 GPS L1 C/A, 8 BEIDOU B1I, 4 GALIELO Propagation Unscented Kalman Filter (SPUKF) and the E1 or 1 GPS L5/GALILEO E5 channels. Combining the Extrapolated Single Propagation Unscented Kalman Filter advantage of the hardware interleaving technique and (ESPUKF). These algorithms can reduce the processing the proposed dynamically configurable MAV decimator, time of the UKF upto 90 percent. The application of the the proposed pipeline correlator implemented on the SPUKF and ESPUKF is not limited to space vehicle Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA reduces resources utilization from position estimation and can be applied to any non-linear 15.2% to 94.6% and power consumption from 16.2% to estimation problems where the UKF can be used. 65.7% compared to the corresponding conventional digital correlator. Besides that, he also developed a hardware- Contact based model that accurately evaluates the effect of the sampling frequency, front-end filter bandwidth, Doppler Sanat K. Biswas frequency, and the received signal to noise ratio on the Postgraduate Research Student Australian Center for Space Engineering Research correlation output as well as the Delay Locked Loop (DLL) School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications tracking error. This result can be used as a guideline Kensington Campus, Building G17 for sampling frequencies and coherent integration time The University of New South Wales selection for GNSS receiver design. E: [email protected] Contact
Vinh Tran, Postgraduate Research Student Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, Kensington Campus, Level 6, Material Science Building, University of New South Wales. Email: [email protected]
38 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Our People Our People
Academic Staff Dr Aboutanios is currently conducting research in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Professor Andrew Dempster global navigation satellite systems, radar target detection, is Director of the Australian biologically inspired signal processing, and theoretical Centre for Space Engineering signal processing. He is also active in the research of Research (ACSER) in the School teaching methodologies and course design. In particular, of Electrical Engineering and Dr Aboutanios has developed a new course on electrical Telecommunications at the engineering design. He currently has a large grant to University of New South Wales develop a new masters program in satellite systems (UNSW). He has a BE and engineering. He also has an active interest in satellite MEngSc from UNSW and a PhD technology and in particular cubesats. He has secured from University of Cambridge in efficient circuits for signal money for and initiated UNSW’s involvement in the processing arithmetic. In the late 80s he was system European QB50 project, which aims to launch 50 engineer and project manager for the first GPS receiver cubesats into low earth orbit in 2015. developed in Australia and has been involved in satellite navigation ever since.
His current research interests are in satellite navigation receiver design and signal processing, areas where he Core Research Team has seven patents, and new location technologies. He is Dr Barnaby Osborne is leading the development of space engineering research at currently an Academic Fellow ACSER. at UNSW in spacecraft engineering with research
interests in CubeSats, hybrid Dr Elias Aboutanios is a Senior Lecturer with the The and solid propulsion, space School of Electrical Engineering composites, microgravity and Telecommunications. He physics and microgravity facility received his BE in Electrical design. Prior to his appointment Engineering from UNSW in at UNSW he was the field leader for the Astronautics 1997 and his PhD from UTS in and Space Systems group at Kingston University in 2002. His PhD research was the UK. Additionally he has worked as a testing and on the estimation of frequency instrumentation engineer, research and design engineer for the frequency tracking for and space engineering consultant. communications with a low earth orbit satellite. From 2003 to 2007 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Digital Communications at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Ediz Cetin is a Senior where he conducted research on space-time adaptive Research Associate at the processing for radar target detection. Since 2007 he has Australian Centre for Space been a senior lecturer at UNSW. His research interests Engineering Research (ACSER), include: University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his B.Eng. • Signal and Image Processing (Hons) degree in Control and • Radar and sonar signal processing Computer Engineering and • Statistical and multidimensional signal processing Ph.D. degree in Unsupervised • Parameter Estimation Adaptive Signal Processing for • Signal Detection
40 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Wireless Receivers from the University of Westminster, received his PhD from UNSW where he cracked the London, United Kingdom. His research interests Locata pseudolite positioning system’s code and derived encompass interference detection and localization, fault- hybrid conventional/Collective Detection algorithm. His tolerant reconfigurable circuits for space applications, other research interests in the GNSS field include weak adaptive techniques for RF impairment mitigation signal acquisition, A-GPS, GNSS/pseudolite integrated for communications and Global Navigation Satellite signal processing, GNSS interference and spoofing. He Systems (GNSS) receivers and design and low-power authored more than 15 peer-reviewed publications. implementation of digital circuits. Dr Lingkan (George) Gong is currently a Research Dr Eamonn Glennon’s first Associate with the Australian Centre for Space employment in the Australian Engineering Research, in a research team under the Space Industry occurred 18 School of Computer Science and Engineering (UNSW). months after he graduated from UNSW with a B.Sc in Computer Science and BE (Hons I) in Electrical Engineering when he started work at Canberra based Support Staff Auspace Ltd. There he worked Cheryl Brown is the on what was Australia’s very administrator for the Australian first GPS receiver and has not looked back since. This Centre for Space Engineering work continued when the GPS technology was sold to Research, looking after all Melbourne based Sigtec Pty Ltd and SigNav Pty Ltd was aspects of Centre operations founded. At SigNav he was responsible for much of the such as marketing and events, firmware that forms the core of a GPS receiver, including finance and HR. She also has a development of GPS related algorithms and customisation hand in overseeing the BLUEsat of that firmware for applications ranging from tracking student space-projects society, taxis using GPS combined with dead-reckoning through of which she was a founding to putting GPS receivers into phone handsets and high member in her undergraduate days at UNSW in the 90s. precision GPS timing. During his time at SigNav, he After leaving a BSc in Physics and Astronomy to pursue also completed part time a MEngSc and a PhD in GPS Arts majors in Philosophy and The History and Philosohpy signal processing. Following completion of his PhD he of Science, she worked a variety of roles in the not-for- commenced work at UNSW where he continues to work profit sector before commencing with UNSW Engineering on the UNSW FPGA based GPS receiver, with the aim of in student services in 2007. In 2011 she left that role to customising it for operation in cubesats and other space travel across Europe, Russia & Mongolia. She returned related applications. to Sydney after a year to concentrate on completing a Masters in Ancient World Studies at Sydney University Dr Joon Wayn Cheong is while working part time with UNSW Built Environment, currently a Research Associate performing assorted admin roles and assisting the at the School of Electrical Associate Dean (Education). Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW) where Cheryl joined the Australian Centre for Space Engineering he is currently developing Research at the start of 2014 as their sole administrator. the firmware for the space- She continues to pursue her love of history and travel, qualified Namuru family of participating her first archaeological dig on the Greek GPS/GALILEO integrated island of Andros in October 2014. receivers under the Garada and QB50 project. He
ACSER Annual Report 2015 41 Affiliated Research Staff Dr Mazher Choudhury is currently working at the School Professor Chris Rizos is of Civil and Environmental Professor of Geodesy and Engineering as a Research Navigation, School of Civil & Associate. He obtained his Environmental Engineering, PhD from UNSW where he the University of New South investigated and analysed Wales (UNSW), Sydney, the potentiality of Locata Australia. Chris is president of Positioning Systems into the International Association of deformation monitoring system. Currently he is involved Geodesy (IAG), a member of in investigating real-time precise point positioning using the Executive and Governing Board of the International multi GNSS observations. Previously he was involved GNSS Service (IGS), and co-chair of the Multi-GNSS in testing the space qualified FPGA-based multi GNSS Asia Steering Committee. Chris is a Fellow of the IAG, a Integrated receiver for the GARADA Formation Flying. His Fellow and current president of the Australian Institute of research interests include land as well as space based Navigation, a Fellow of the U.S. Institute of Navigation, GNSS positioning and navigation, multi-GNSS integration and an honorary professor of Wuhan University, algorithms for navigation, GNSS data analysis procedure China. Chris has been researching the technology and and improvement of testing procedure for receivers, applications of GPS and other navigation/positioning Locata integration with GNSS. systems since 1985, and is an author/co-author of over 600 journal and conference papers. Dr Garth Pearce is a researcher in Aerospace Engineering, Dr Craig Roberts is a Senior specialising in aerospace Lecturer majoring in Surveying/ structures & composite materials. GPS/ Geodesy in the Surveying Garth’s interest in space and Geospatial Engineering research began with a concept group at the School of Civil and for a composite, inflatable and Environmental Engineering, rigidisable boom structure for University of New South Wales, volume limited payloads. He has Sydney, Australia. He graduated co-supervised a number of honours and masters research from the South Australian projects with ACSER investigating the rigidisable boom Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Surveying concept as well as more exotic topics; functional additive in 1988. He began his career as a private surveyor in manufacture in space and space-based solar power. Adelaide and has since worked as a Geodetic Engineer at UNAVCO, USA involved with GPS for geodynamic studies Dr Nathan Kinkaid earned in Nepal, Ethiopia, Argentina and Indonesia. He worked his PhD in Mechanical as a scientific assistant at the GeoForschungsZentrum, Engineering from the University Germany where his main focus was orbit determination of California, Berkeley in 2004. and prediction for a number of geodetic research He subsequently worked for 3 satellites. He completed his PhD thesis on volcano years in the Structural Dynamics monitoring using low-cost GPS networks in March 2002. Department of the Aerospace He has lectured at RMIT University in Melbourne for two Corporation where he performed years. His current research interests involve implications research and oversight tasks of datum modernisation and leveraging CORS in support of national security space programs. Nathan infrastructure for practical application to surveying and joined the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing geospatial information. Engineering at UNSW in 2007, and his current research interests include off-earth mining, on-orbit assembly of spacecraft, operation of swarms of spacecraft and bicycle
42 ACSER Annual Report 2015 dynamics. He is currently supervising 2 PhD students who Engineering Department from 1990-2000. His teaching collaborate with ACSER on off-earth mining topics and is areas have included Aerospace Design, Flight Dynamics involved in the design of in-situ structural tests for UNSW's and Simulation, while his research has covered Simulation, QB50 satellite. Flight Track Development (Qantas PhD.) and Swarms. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in aerospace Dr Naomi Tsafnat is a Lecturer engineering at Kingston Polytechnic with research interests in Aerospace Engineering where focused on Aerospace Policy Studies with the NASA she teaches orbital mechanics Commercial Office, and Military/Civil Conversions. and spacecraft engineering. Her current research projects include Associate Professor Serkan the design of asteroid capture Saydam received his BSc, MSc and bio-mining missions, and the and PhD degrees in Mining study of bio-mimetic approaches Engineering from the Dokuz to aerospace engineering. Dr Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey Tsafnat has worked in the US at Lockheed Martin Missiles and completed his Postdoctoral and Space in satellite thermal design and analysis, Fellowship at the University of and was involved in various projects with NASA Ames Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Research Center. Dr Tsafnat supervises a PhD student South Africa. Serkan joined the and several undergraduate honours thesis students in School of Mining Engineering as a Senior Lecturer in 2006 space engineering projects, including QB50 and SMiLE. and was recently promoted to Associate Professor. He currently holds two ARC Linkage Projects and one ACARP Dr John Olsen is a Lecturer with research grants worth of over $4 million on Ground Control the School of Mechanical and area. In addition, he has recently sucessfully established Manufacturing Engineering. His a research collaboration with NASA’s JPL. His fields of research interests include: research include mine planning & design, new mining • Turbulence. methods and ground control. • Simulation philosophy. • Swarms. Dr Oliver Diessel gained a • Co and Trigeneration systems. B.Math. and BE in Computer • Hybrid vehicles. Engineering with Honors in 1990 • Combined heat & power systems. and a PhD in Computer Science • Thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. in 1998 from the University of • Entropy generation minimisation and exergy analysis. Newcastle, NSW. From 1986– • The simulation of gas turbine engines, power stations, 1990 he was a Trainee Engineer reciprocating piston engines, refrigeration systems, and from 1991–1992 he was a living systems, entropy, etc. Systems Engineer with Tomago- based Allco Steel Constructions. He joined UNSW as a Mr John Page moved to a Senior lecturer following postdoctoral research from 1998–2000 at Lecturer post at the University the University of South Australia. Since then, he has been of New South Wales in 1987 a Senior Researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA), where he has; been responsible an Assistant Professor at UNSW Asia in Singapore, and for design and simulation, was become a Senior Lecturer, primarily involved in teaching the founding Chairman for digital systems and conducting research into the design, the Aviation program, was a application and support of dynamically reconfigurable founding member for the Co- hardware. Oliver has had visiting appointments at CalTech operative Research Center and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in 2003 and for Aerospace Structures and headed the Aerospace Harbin Institute of Technology since 2014.
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2015 Visiting Fellows INS integrated navigation system. From May 2014 to May 2015, he is a visiting academic with the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) at Dr Nagaraj C Shivaramaiah the University of New South Wales (UNSW). During is currently a researcher his visiting, he worked on the Cooperative Positioning with the Colorado Centre for in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) which was Astrodynamics Research at the based on fusing the measurements of Global Positioning University of Colorado, Boulder. System (GPS), Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) and Inertial He is also a visiting fellow at Navigation System (INS). the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, UNSW Sydney where he was involved in the ASRP funded Garada project during 2011-2014. He is also a research consultant at his own consulting firm GNSS LABS and an advisor to Sensus Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore an indoor navigation start-up. His current research interests include multi-GNSS receiver design and development, systems engineering and signal processing for wireless communication and navigation technologies at large. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society.
Ryan J. R. Thompson is a PhD graduand at the School of EET, UNSW, Australia. He received his BEng in Electrical Engineering Laure Demicheli, from the same university in 2008. practicum student His current research activities from École Nationale de are focused on the localization l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), France of Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) that impacts ground-based GNSS augmentation systems. He is now working out of the ACSER officers for ACSER’s industry partner GPSat on a number of collaborations.
Dr Feng Shen is an associate professor with the College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, China. He received his PhD in 2009 from Harbin Engineering University. He Gu Xioabo, developed the signal acquisition practicum student and tracking of the Spread from Beihang University (left) spectrum receiver for the GPS with Dr Shen Feng, ground-based augmentation systems. His research Visiting Acadmic interests include BOC signal tracking, and GNSS/ from Harbin University (right)
44 ACSER Annual Report 2015 2014 Team Photo 2015 ACSER Team ACSER 2015 dt, Ms Lingling (Lily) Shi, Sharmila Kayastha, Mr Chun-Kan Leung, William Huynh, Benjamin Southwell, Mr Daniel Sherratt n, Mr Sanat Biswas, Mr Soumen Das, Mr James Bultitude, Mr Tim Broadbent, Mr John Lam, Mr Yiwei Han, Mr Mark Yeo, Mr Shannon Green, Cameron Cooke Yeo, Han, Mr Mark Yiwei Broadbent, Mr John Lam, Tim n, Mr Sanat Biswas, Soumen Das, James Bultitude, Ms Cheryl Brow Mr Joshua Bran
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46 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Governance ACSER Governance
Steering Committee
Responsible for ensuring the objectives of the Centre are pursued and implemented.
This Committee is comprised of internal UNSW executive as listed below.
Professor Andrew Dempster is Director of Professor Mark Hoffman is the Dean of UNSW the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Engineering. Prior to his current appointment, Research (ACSER) at the University of New Mark was the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor South Wales (UNSW). He is also Director of (Research) and also held the positions of Research in the School of Surveying and Spatial Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Information Systems and Director of Postgraduate Science and Head of its School for Materials Research in the Faculty of Engineering. He has Science and Engineering for six years. a BE and MEngSc from UNSW and a PhD from University of Cambridge in efficient circuits for Professor Hoffman was the Presiding Member signal processing arithmetic. of the University’s Committee on Research from 2010-13. He holds a BE (1989) and PhD (1994) Andrew was system engineer and project from the University of Sydney and Masters of Business and Technology manager for the first GPS receiver developed in Australia in the late 80s from the University of New South Wales. and has been involved in satellite navigation ever since. He is leading the development of space engineering research at ACSER. Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah is Head of School of Electrical Engineering Professor Russell Boyce holds the position of and Telecommunications, University of New Chair for Space Engineering at UNSW Canberra, South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Professor where he leads the UNSW Canberra Space Ambikairajah’s research interests include speech Research effort. He brings to this role a research enhancement, speaker recognition, language approach developed throughout 25 years in the recognition, emotion detection and biomedical field of hypersonics, coupling computational and signal processing. He has authored and co- experimental research with flight testing, most authored more than 250 conference and journal recently via the SCRAMSPACE scramjet flight papers, and is also a regular reviewer for several experiment program which he led as Chair for IEEE, IET and other journals and conferences. He Hypersonics at the University of Queensland. was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the inaugural APSIPA Summit and Professor Boyce also chairs the Australian Conference in 2010. For his contributions to speaker recognition research, Academy of Science’s National Committee for Space and Radio he was invited as a Visiting Scientist to the Institute of Infocomms Science, sits on the Executive Council of the Space Industry Association Research (A*STAR), Singapore in 2009, where he is currently a Faculty of Australia, and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Associate. Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Professor Boyce’s current research He received his BSc(Eng) degree from the University of Sri Lanka and focus is mainly in the arena of Space Situational Awareness. received his PhD degree in Signal Processing from Keele University, UK. He was appointed as Head of Electronic Engineering and later Dean Professor Chris Tinney is head of the of Engineering at the Athlone Institute of Technology in the Republic Exoplanetary Science at UNSW research group of Ireland from 1982 to 1999. His key publications led to his repeated within the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, in appointment as a short-term Invited Research Fellow with the British the School of Physics. My research interests Telecom Laboratories, U.K., for ten years from 1989 to 1999. are centered on “exoplanets” (planets that orbit other stars), as well as the very cool low-mass Professor Ambikairajah received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching “star-like” bodies known as brown dwarfs (which Excellence in 2004 for his innovative use of educational technology, share many properties with exoplanets). The the School Awards for Teaching Excellence in 2003, and Academic study of both these classes of object tell us how Management in 2001. He is a currently an APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer stars and planets form and evolve, which is for the 2013-14 term. He is a Fellow and a Chartered Engineer of the IET key to understanding how prevalent habitable UK and Engineers Australia and is a Member of the IEEE and APSIPA. environments are near the Sun, throughout the Galaxy and elsewhere in the Universe. I have worked at Observatories and Universities in Australia, Europe and the USA, and carry out my research with in concert with collaborators across Australia, Europe, the UK, USA and Chile. In accordance with the outcomes of the 2014 Centre He has a PhD in Astronomy (California Institute of Technology, 1992) and a Review by the Centres Secretariat, it was resolved BSC Hons in Physics (University of Sydney, 1987). that after 2014 the ACSER Management Committee
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk is a would be replaced with a Steering Committee to bring Professor of Geology, with 28 years of mapping Centre governance in line with UNSW Guidelines. and research experience in a variety of structurally complex Precambrian terrains. His main interest Two Steering Committee Meetings were held in 2015. is on the early history of the Earth and he has developed an international reputation for my Following are the dates and attendees, with the work on Archean tectonics and the geological December meeting representing the final assembly of settings of early life on Earth. More recently, as Chair of the Precambrian Subcommission of the this Committee. International Commission on Stratigraphy, he has commenced a wholescale review of Precambrian 2nd June 2015 3rd December 2015 stratigraphy with the aim of revising the Precambrian timescale. His particular skills are mapping and the ability to integrate a wide range of Prof Mark Hoffman (Chair) Prof Russell Boyce geological data into 4-D models, from the craton to micrometre scale. Prof Russell Boyce Prof E. Ambikairajah Prof Van Kranendonk is also the Assistant Director of the Australian Centre Prof E. Ambikairajah Prof Martin Van for Astrobiology, co-leader of IGCP-SIDA Project 599 “The Changing Early Earth”, and Core Member of the International Precambrian Research Prof Chris Tinney Kranendonk Centre of China, as well as being on the editorial boards of Precambrian Prof Andrew Dempster Prof Andrew Dempster Research, Geology, Astrobiology, and Episodes.
48 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Advisory Committee
Responsible for providing feedback on the strategy and direction of the Centre.
This Committee is comprised of the following internal UNSW executive and external industry members:
Dr David Williams is a member of the CSIRO Donna Lawler is a commercial satellite lawyer for Executive Team and is CSIRO’s Group Optus and a member of the International Institute Executive – Information Sciences – a role that of Space Lawyers. She has provided legal advice sees him lead CSIRO’s research in: astronomy, on all aspects of the Optus Satellite business digital productivity and services, mathematics, since joining Optus in 1999, and has had key statistics and information and communication involvement in the build and launch programmes technologies. Prior to his CSIRO role, Dr Williams for six satellites, including the negotiation of was the Chief Executive of the United Kingdom satellite purchase and launch contracts on behalf Space Agency which funds UK involvement in of Optus and its parent company SingTel. During civil space programs from the science of the more than a decade in the satellite industry, universe to broadcast satellite developments. Donna has secured the use of orbital slots, advised on risk, liability and insurance issues for space-related projects and negotiated satellite capacity contracts with Australian broadcasters, Professor Chris Rizos is currently Head of international satellite operators and government entities, including the the School of Surveying & Spatial Information NBN. She has published papers on Space Law topics and is a regular Systems at the University of New South Wales, guest lecturer in Space Law at several universities locally and overseas. Sydney, Australia. Chris has been researching the technology and applications of GPS since 1985, and established over a decade ago the Satellite Mr Michael Davis was appointed the Chair of Navigation and Positioning group at UNSW, the SIAA in 2013 bringing with him a wealth today the largest academic GPS/GNSS and of experience as a legal practitioner in the wireless location technology research laboratory Australian space industry and other sectors. A in Australia. Chris is the President of the graduate of the Master of Space Studies program International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and a at the International Space University, he has member of the Executive and Governing Board of the International GNSS been involved in a wide range of space related Service (IGS). Chris is currently Chair of the working group developing the pursuits including chairing the Advisory Board strategic plan for GNSS for Australia. of the UniSA institute of Telecommunications Research, attending UN and ITU space meetings, representing Australian and overseas Dr Nick Stacy was born in Adelaide Australia.He clients involved in commercial launch, satellite and other space-related received a B.E. from the University of Adelaide projects, co-authoring policy submissions on behalf of the association in 1984, a M.S. from Stanford University in 1985 and organising the 2004 ISU Space Studies Program and the 2011-2013 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1993, all Southern Hemisphere Summer Space Programs in Adelaide. in Electrical Engineering.He worked at Arecibo Observatory from 1985 to 1986 and at British Aerospace Australia from 1987 to 1989.His work has included the acquisition and analysis of Mr Kirby Ikin is a global leader in commercial Arecibo Observatory radar observations of the space development with advanced negotiation, Moon and the analysis of Arecibo and Magellan risk management, and analytical skills. At Asia radar data of Venus. He joined the Australian Pacific Aerospace Consultants, he advises the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in 1993 where he is a aerospace industry and national governments radar specialist working in the field of imaging radar signal processing and on finance, insurance, market analysis, project backscatter analysis primarily using the Ingara airborne radar system. management and launch services. This includes a feasibility study for an Australian spaceport, satellite valuation, and analysis of the regional applications for a new satellite-based service. Kirby earlier created a new aerospace division within a major insurer (GIO Space), managed the commercial operations of a project to create a breakthrough service to extend the profitable working lives of communications satellites (Orbital Recovery Ltd in the UK), and is Chairman of the Board of the National Space Society, one of the world’s leading space advocacy organizations.
The last Advisory Committee Meeting was held in 2014. Following is the list of attendees.
11th December 2014 Kirby Ikin (chair) Donna Lawler Chris Rizos Andrew Dempster
ACSER Annual Report 2015 49 Centre Grant Funding
The following grants cover funding received by ACSER during 2015. In addition to below, there were a number of carried over funds from grants relating to existing projects.
Grant Project Research Topic Partners Granting Awarded ACSER’s Period Organisation Amount Portion
The development of new techniques to process multi GPsat Systems Defence Compatibility 2015 frequency time difference of Australia, Science and & Technology to arrival and spoofer data sets Defence Science $300,000 $300,000 Technology Dempnstrator 2017 to support the geolocation and Technology Organisation of GPS RF interference for Organisation defence operations.
Designing Radiation-Tolerant Reconfigurable Systems for School of 2015 Space Australian ARC Discovery Computer Science to Investigators: Research $340,300 $340,300 Project and Engineering 2017 ADempster (ACSER), Council (CSE) ODiessel (CSE), ECetin (ACSER)
2015 Rapid Recovery from Australian ARC Linkage General Dynamics to Radiation-induced Errors in Research $321,899 $321,899 Project New Zealand 2017 Reconfigurable Hardware Council
Protecting Critical Transport 2015 Infrastructure using Hybrid GPSat Systems, Australian ARC Linkage to Approaches for Interference University of Research $505,087 $365,654 Project 2019 and Spoofer Detection and Adelaide Council Localisation
Collaborative Nav/Com/Ins coupling Thales Intelligent Thales Alenia €40,000 €40,000 2014 techniques Alenia Space Transport Space (France) ($58,080) ($58,080) Demonstrator (France) Systems Defence Science & Biarri 2011 - 2015 BIARRI GPS Receiver BAE Systems Technology $282,000 $282,000 Organisation (DSTO)
An International Network of QB50 2013 - 2015 UNSW UNSW $75,000 $75,000 50 CubeSats
An International Network of UNSW Faculty QB50 2013 - 2015 UNSW $45,000 $45,000 50 CubeSats of Engineering
2011 - 2014 ACSER Centre (account UNSW UNSW $600,000 $600,000 Support Funds closed 2015)
Preliminary development Go8 - of a propulsion and GN&C 2016-2018 Germany Joint subsystem capable of RAPID3 (awarded in ZARM, Germany Research $20,118 $20,118 providing orbital correction 2015) Cooperation and de-orbiting manoeuvres Scheme on a CubeSat
50 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Entity ACSER - Aus Ctr Space Engineering Res Year 2015 MonthFinancial Cycle ReportJan - Dec
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Aus Ctr Space Engineering Res
Statement of Financial Performance 2015 2014 2013 Difference 2016 Budget For the Year Ended December 2015 Note $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 % $'000 REVENUE Research Revenue: 1 563 203 447 360 177% 510 Donations & Bequest - Draw downs 32 - - 32 - 40 UNSW Contributions 50 421 616 (371) -88% - Faculty Contributions 2 48 36 56 (22) -63% (20) Other Restricted Revenue 3 ------Commercial Activity - Fees for Service - - 13 - - - Sundry Other Revenue - (0) 4 0 -100% 20 Total Revenue 693 659 1,137 (1) 0% 550
EXPENSE Salaries, Oncosts and other staff costs 476 448 1,102 28 6% 546 Scholarship Stipends 41 58 43 (17) -29% 50 Contract & Consulting Services 23 42 8 (19) -44% 7 Repairs and Maintenance - 0 0 (0) -100% - Consumables 124 54 69 70 129% 34 Travel 47 38 152 9 24% 18 Equipment Non Capitalised 3 0 31 3 1128% 14 Entertainment 1 6 4 (5) -88% 10 Marketing 2 1 2 1 107% 1 Miscellaneous Expenses 47 (27) 195 39 -145% 7 Total Non-People Costs 289 172 504 81 47% 142
Total Expenses 764 620 1,606 109 18% 688
TOTAL CONTRIBUTION - SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) $ (71) $ 39 $ (469) (110) -283% $ (138)
Depreciation 16 15 4 1 8% -
SURPLUS / (DEFICIT) after Depreciation $ (88) $ 24 $ (474) (112) -465% $ (138)
Cashflow Funded Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) - 112 30 (112) -100% -
NOTES: 1 Revenue in Advance will be noted in Creditors & Other Liabilities. Research Revenue generated (cash basis). $ 571 $ 103 $ 469 468 Category 1 Research Revenue therein 412 - - 412 2 UNSW Budget model includes other revenue items Teaching Revenue - - - - - Block Grants - - $ 146 - - Indirect Cost Recoveries $ 31 $ 17 $ 193 14 82% - 3 Other Research Revenue includes internal fund transfers. 4 Restricted Funds - Cash at year end $ 271 $ 359 $ 543 (88) Aus Ctr Space Engineering Res 5 Funds available in Division of Advancement $ 44 $ 42 -
Statement of Financial Position 2015 2014 2013 As at December 2015 Note $000 $000 $000 UNSW Australia Internal Cash 6 260 95 167 Accounts Receivable 7 30 0 0 Sundry Assets - - - Investments - - - Property Plant & Equipment 8 124 140 43 Creditors and Other Liabilities 1 15 0 117 NET ASSETS $ 399 $ 235 $ 93
NOTES: 6 Statements are prepared on UNSW Accounting principles - Operating & Strategic funds adjusted revenue 7 UNSW has central provisions in respect of payments made to employees and taxation. Such provisions will not be reflected in this Centre's Statement of Financial Position. 8 Cash balance includes the GST centralised daily on Debtor and Creditor balances. Report provided by Cheryl Brown 9 Accounts Receivable are gross value - inclusive of applicable GST. Approved with amendments by 10 Property Plant & Equipment is depreciated over the expected useful life of the asset. 11 UNSW Division of Advancement holds donated funds centrally. Draw down of funds Faculty Management Accountant to the Centre is reflected in the Statement of Financial Performance. Hanny Lie on 6 June 2016
ACSER Annual Report 2015 51 Publications Publications
Book Chapters JIANG, W., LI, Y., RIZOS, C., 2015. An optimal data fusion algorithm based on the triple integration of PPP-GNSS, INS and terrestrial ranging system. In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 342 “Chinese Satellite Navigation Conference 2015 Proceedings Vol. III”, (Eds.) J. Sun, J. Liu, S. Fan, X. Lu, Springer, Chapter 43, 493-505, conf. Xi’an, P.R. China, 13-15 May. YANG, L., LI, Y., RIZOS, C., 2015. A WIFI/INS indoor pedestrian navigation system augmented by context feature. In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 342 “Chinese Satellite Navigation Conference 2015 Proceedings Vol. III”, (Eds.) J. Sun, J. Liu, S. Fan, X. Lu, Springer, Chapter 66, 767-780, conf. Xi’an, P.R. China, 13-15 May.
Journal Articles BOORER, P., ROBERTS, C., 2015. Kinematic Positioning using a Robotic Total Station as applied to Small Scale UAVs, Journal of Spatial Science (submitted 13 March 2015, accepted 29 June 2015) doi: 10.1080/14498596.2015.1068232 CHOY, S., HARIMA, K., LI, Y., CHOUDHURY, M., RIZOS, C., WAKABAYASHI, Y., KOGURE, S., 2015. GPS precise point positioning with the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System LEX augmentation corrections. Journal of Navigation, Royal Institute of Navigation, 68(4), 769-783. DEMPSTER, A.G., CETIN, E., 2016. “Interference localization for satellite navigation systems”, invited paper, IEEE Proceedings, vol. 104, no. 6, pp. 1318-1326. GRASSI, M., CETIN, E., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Enabling orbit determination of space debris using narrowband radar”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol 51 no 2, pp1231-1240, DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2015.140129 GU, X., CHANG, Q., GLENNON, E.P., XU, B., DEMPSTER, A.G., WANG, D., WU, J., 2015. “An Autonomous Satellite Time Synchronization System Using Remotely Disciplined VC-OCXOs”, Sensors, vol 15 no 8, pp17895-17915; doi:10.3390/s150817895 JIANG, W., LI, Y., RIZOS, C., 2015. Locata precise point positioning for kinematic maritime applications. GPS Solutions, 19, 117-128, DOI: 10.1007/s10291-014-0373-9. JIANG, W., LI, Y., RIZOS, C., 2015. Precise indoor positioning and attitude determination using terrestrial ranging signals. Journal of Navigation, Royal Institute of Navigation, 68(2), 274-290, DOI: 10.1017/S0373463314000551. KLAS, M., TSAFNAT, N., DENNERLEY, J., BECKMANN, S., OSBORNE, B., DEMPSTER, A.G., MANEFIELD, M., 2015. Biomining and methanogenesis for resource extraction from asteroids. Space Policy. doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2015.08.002. NGUYEN, PX., SAYDAM, S., 2015. “Applicability of shock heating and freezing on regolith found on asteroids for exploration drilling” MEA Journal of Research Projects Review 2014 AusIMM. 21-26. NGUYEN, T.H., TSAFNAT, N., CETIN, E., OSBORNE, B., DIXON, T.F., 2015. “Low-Earth orbit satellite constellation for ADS-B based in-flight aircraft tracking”, Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 95 – 108. SARWAR, A., RIZOS, C., GLENNON, E.P., 2015. Performance of the high sensitivity open source multi-GNSS assisted GNSS reference server. Journal of Applied Geodesy, 9(2), 81-100, 10.1515/jag-2014-0022. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ jag.2014.9.issue-2/jag-2014-0022/jag-2014-0022.xml SHEN, F., CHEONG, J.W., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “An ultra-wide bandwidth-based range/GPS tight integration approach for relative positioning in vehicular ad hoc networks”, Measurement Science and Technology, vol 26, no 4, doi:10.1088/0957- 0233/26/4/045003 STANAWAY, R., ROBERTS, C.A., 2016. A high-precision deformation model to support geodetic datum modernisation in Australia. In “IAG 150 Years”, (Eds.) C. Rizos, P. Willis, IAG Symposia Series Vol.142, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-319-24603- 1, 149-157, IAG Scientific Assembly, Potsdam, Germany, 1-6 September 2013. TRAN, V.T., SHIVARAMAIAH, N.C., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2016. “Feasibility analysis of baseband architectures for multi-GNSS receivers”, GPS Solutions, online: DOI 10.1007/s10291-016-0542-0 YANG, L., LI, Y., JIANG, W., RIZOS, C., 2015. Locata network design & reliability analysis for harbor positioning. Journal of Navigation, Royal Institute of Navigation, 68(2), 238-252. YANG, Y., YUE, X., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2016. “GPS-based onboard real-time orbit determination for LEO satellites using consider Kalman filter”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol 52, no 2, pp 769 - 777, doi: 10.1109/TAES.2015.140758 YU, K., RIZOS, C., BURRAGE, D., DEMPSTER, A.G., ZHANG, K., MARKGRAF, M., 2014. An overview of GNSS remote sensing. EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, 134, DOI:10.1186/1687-6180-2014-134. YU, K., RIZOS, C., BURRAGE, D., DEMPSTER, A.G., ZHANG, K., MARKGRAF, M., 2014. Editorial: GNSS remote sensing. EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, 158, DOI:10.1186/1687-6180-2014-158.
PhD Thesis JIANG, W., 2015. Seamless Positioning Through the Integration of Satellite, Terrestrial Ranging and Inertial Technologies. PhD Thesis, School of Civil & Env Eng, UNSW, http://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=UNSWORKS&docId=unsworks_36466.
ACSER Annual Report 2015 53 Refereed Conference Papers BARUT, R.A., TRINDER, J.C., RIZOS, C., 2015. Investigation of the Izmit Earthquake with Interferometric SAR, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning and geophysical seismic modelling. 15th Australian Space Research Conf., Canberra, Australia, 29 September-1 October. BISWAS, S., QIAO, L., CHOUDHURY, M., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Application of a Fast Unscented Kalman Filtering Method to Satellite Position Estimation using a Space-borne Multi-GNSS Receiver,” in ION GNSS+, 2015. BRANDT, J.D., OSBORNE, B., BARBER, T., CETIN, E., WELCH, C., TSAFNAT, N., 2015. Design And Drop Tower Testing Of A Liquids Experiment Investigating The Chaotic Dripping Regime In Low Gravity Conditions. IAC-15,A2,3,6,x31131, 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2015 CETIN, E., DIESSEL, O., GONG, L., 2015. “Improving Fmax of FPGA circuits employing DPR to recover from configuration memory upsets”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1190 – 1193, May, 2015 CHEONG, J.W., GLENNON, E., DEMPSTER, A., 2015. “Modelling and Mitigating Multipath and NLOS for Cooperative Positioning in Urban Canyons”, Proc IGNSS, 14-16 July 2015, Gold Coast, Australia. CHOUDHURY, M., RIZOS, C., 2015. Precise point positioning from combined GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou. IGNSS Symp., Gold Coast, Australia, 14- 16 July, Paper 43, http://www.ignss.org/Conferences/PastConferencePapers/2015ConferencePastPapers/2015PeerReviewedPapers/tabid/147/Default. aspx. CROWE, W.J., BENNETT, S., PAGE, J.R., OLSEN, J., KINKAID, N., 2015. "The potential for games engines to simulate dynamics about an asteroid", SimTect 2015, Adelaide, 17 Aug 2015 - 21 Aug 2015. Proceedings editors: Monaghan M. Simulation Australasia. CROWE, W.J., KINKAID, N., OLSEN, J., PAGE, J.R., 2015. "Robotic swarms as means to autonomously and rapidly characterise small celestial bodies", 14th Australian Space Research Conference, Adelaide, 29 Sep 2014 - 01 Oct 2014. Proceedings editors: Short W, Cairns I. Proceedings of the 14th Australian Space Research Conference. 147-155. 20 May 2015 CROWE, W.J., OLSEN, J., PAGE, J.R., KINKAID, N., 2015. "Small body mass estimation from spacecraft swarm dynamics", International Astronautical Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, 12 Oct 2015 - 16 Oct 2015. DONNELLY, N., CROOK, C., STANAWAY, R., ROBERTS, C., HAASDYK, J., RIZOS, C., 2015. A Two-Frame National Spatial Referencing System Accounting for Geodynamics. In proceedings of IAG Commission 1 Symposium 2014: Reference Frames for Applications in Geosciences (REFAG2014). 13-17 October, Kirchberg, Luxembourg. (in press). DORRINGTON, S., KINKAID, N., OLSEN, J., 2015. Trajectory Design and Economic Analysis of Asteroid Mining Missions to Asteroid 2014 EK24, Proceedings of Third International Future Mining Conference, Sydney, November 2015 HARIMA, K., CHOUDHURY, M., RIZOS, C., KOGURE, S., 2015. Transmission of augmentation corrections using the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System for real-time precise point positioning in Australia. FIG Working Week, Sofia, Bulgaria, 17-21 May, http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/ fig_proceedings/fig2015/papers/ts05g/TS05G_harima_choudhury_et_al_7915.pdf. HARIMA, K., CHOY, S., KOGURE, S., CHOUDHURY, M., RIZOS, C., 2015. Pilot study on the use of Quasi-Zenith Satellite System as a GNSS augmentation system for high precise positioning in Australia. IGNSS Symp., Gold Coast, Australia, 14-16 July, Paper 50, http://www.ignss.org/ Conferences/PastConferencePapers/2015ConferencePastPapers/2015PeerReviewedPapers/tabid/147/Default.aspx. KLAS, M., TSAFNAT, N., BECKHAM, S., MANEFIELD, M., 2015. Biomethanation for In-Situ Fuel Generation on Near-Earth Objects. IAC- 15,A1,6,6,x29623, 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2015 PAGE, J.R., CHI, T-Z., O’NEIL, D., 2015. "Self-Organised Swarms; A Technology for Aerospace", 16th Australian International Congress, Melbourne, Vic, 23 Feb 2015 - 26 Apr 2015. The proceedings of the 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress. RMIT Informit. 30 Mar 2015 SAYDAM, S., SHISHKO, R., CORTEZ C.T., DE ROCHE, T., FRADET, R., COULTON, J., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “An Integrated Risk-based Financial and Technical Models to Evaluate Possible Mining Scenarios on Mars' Surface”, The Third International Future Mining Conference, Sydney, 04 Nov 2015 - 06 Nov 2015. AusIMM. pp305-311. SAYDAM, S., CORTEZ, C.T., DE ROCHE, T., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “An Evaluation of MarsWater Extraction Mission”, Proc 26th Annual General Meeting & Conference of the Society of Mining Professors (SOMP), June 21st – June 26th 2015, pp75-82 SAYDAM, S., SHISHKO, R, TAPIA CORTEZ, C.A., DE ROCHE, T., DEMPSTER, A., FRADET, R., COULTON, J., 2015. “An Integrated Risk-based Financial and Technical Models to Evaluate Possible Mining Scenarios on Mars' Surface”. The Third International Future Mining Conference, Sydney, 04 Nov 2015 - 06 Nov 2015. Proceedings editors: Saydam S, Mitra R. The Third International Future Mining Conference. AusIMM. 305-311. 04 Nov 2015 SAYDAM, S., TAPIA CORTEZ, C., DE ROCHE, T., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “An Evaluation of Mars Water Extraction Mission”. 26th Annual General Meeting & Conference, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, 21 Jun 2015 - 26 Jun 2015. Proceedings editors: Mischo H, Drebenstedt C. WIRmachenDRUCK GmbH, Backnang. 75-82. 21 Jun 2015. STANAWAY, R., ROBERTS, C., RIZOS, C., DONNELLY, N., CROOK, C., HAASDYK, J., 2015. Defining a Local Reference Frame using a Plate Motion Model and Deformation Model, Proceedings of IAG Commisison 1 Symposium 2014: Reference Frames for Applications in Geosciences (REFAG2014), 13-17 October, Kirchberg, Luxembourg (in press). TRAN, V.T., SHIVARAMAIAH, N.C., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “A pipeline dynamically configured GNSS baseband circuit,” in Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology. ACM SoICT, December 2015, pp. 187–194. TRAN, V.T., SHIVARAMAIAH, N.C., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “An efficient secondary code transition cancellation correlator for fast multi-GNSS acquisition,” in Proceedings of the IGNSS Symposium on GPS/GNSS. IGNSS, July 2015. TRAN, V.T., SHIVARAMAIAH, N.C., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Programmable custom multi-core architectures for multi- constellation GNSS receiver,” in Proceedings of the IGNSS Symposium on GPS/GNSS. IGNSS, July 2015. TRAN, V.T., SHIVARAMAIAH, N.C., DIESSEL, O., DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “A programmable multi-GNSS baseband receiver”, Proc IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2015, pp1178 - 1181, DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7168849 V. T. TRAN, N. C. SHIVARAMAIAH, AND A. G. DEMPSTER, “A pipeline dynamically configured GNSS baseband circuit,” in Proc ACM SoICT, Dec 2015, pp. 187–194. W. CROWE, KINKAID, N., 2015. "Strategy for flybys of numerous Earth passing asteroids", 15th Australian Space Research Conference. ZHAO K, LI B, DEMPSTER AG, “A new approach of real time step length estimation for waist mounted PDR system”, Proc 2014 International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Network, (WCSN 2014), IEEE, 400-406. 16 Mar 2015
54 ACSER Annual Report 2015 Abstract-refereed Conference Papers BRANDT, J.D., OSBORNE, B., BARBER, T., CETIN, E., WELCH, C., TSAFNAT, N., 2015. “Design and drop tower testing of a liquids experiment investigating the chaotic dripping regime in low gravity conditions”, 66th International Astronautical Congress, October 2015 CHOUDHURY, M., LI, Y., RIZOS, C., 2015. Test report of L1-SAIF experiment. IGNSS Symp., Gold Coast, Australia, 14-16 July, Paper 42, http://www. ignss.org/Conferences/PastConferencePapers/2015ConferencePastPapers/2015NonPeerReviewedPapers/tabid/148/Default.aspx. CROWE, W., 2015. "Small body mass estimation from spacecraft swarm flyby dynamics", which was an abstract-reviewed paper at IAC 2015 and just had me affiliated with ACSER DORRINGTON, S., KINKAID, N., OLSEN, J., 2015. Trajectory Opportunities to Arjuna-type Asteroids for Asteroid Mining Missions, 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, September 2015 HOMAINEJAD, N., BITTNER, R., RIZOS, C., 2015. Application of UAS as a Mobile Mapping Technology. 9th Int. Symp. on Mobile Mapping Technology, Sydney, Australia, 9-11 December. HOMAINEJAD, N., RIZOS, C., 2015. Application of multiple categories of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in different airspaces for bushfire monitoring and response. UAV-g Int. Conf. on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics, Toronto, Canada, 30 Aug – 2 September. ISPRS Archives Vol.XL-1/W4, C. Armenakis (Ed), 55-60, http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-1-W4/index.html KLAS, M., 2015. Microbial Resource Extraction on Asteroids: Occupying the Niche. 2nd Off Earth Mining Forum, Sydney Australia, November 4-6, 2015 SAYDAM, S., 2015. “An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony”. NASA SSERVI (Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute)
Abstract-refereed Conference Presentations PHILLIPS, M., 2015. "Development of a low-cost Software-Defined-Radio based student groundstation"ASRC 2015 MILLER, C., KABARAN, Y., 2015. "A review of steering with Rocker Bogie chassis design" ASRC 2015
Non-refereed Conference Papers SHISHKO, R., FRADET, R., SAYDAM, S., CORTEZ, C.T., DEMPSTER, A.G., COULTON, J., 2015. “An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony — Initial Status Report”, AIAA SPACE 2015 Conference and Exposition, 31 Aug-2 Sep 2015, Pasadena, California
Opinion DEMPSTER, A.G. “Let’s talk about the space industry in Australia’s election campaign”, The Conversation, 27 June, 2016 DEMPSTER, A.G. “Is Spending on Space a Giant Waste?”, The Ethics Centre, ethics.org.au, 7 Aug 2015 DEMPSTER, A.G. “Space mining is closer than you think, and the prospects are great”, The Conversation, 7 Aug 2015
Submitted/Accepted BISWAS, S.K., QIAO, L., DEMPSTER, A.G. “A Novel a priori State Computation Strategy for Unscented Kalman Filter to Improve Computational Efficiency,” Submitted to IEEE transactions on Automatic Control, 2015 SHEN, F., CHEONG, J.W., DEMPSTER, A.G. “An UWB-based range/GPS tight integration approach for relative positioning in VANETs", Measurement Science and Technology. (Revised submission: 26 Jan 2015) TRAN, V.T., SHIVARAMAIAH, N.C., DEMPSTER, A.G. “Feasibility analysis of baseband architectures for multi-gnss receivers,” submitted to GPS Solution, 2015.
ACSER Annual Report 2015 55 Invited Lectures DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Spaceup Sydney" July 25 DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Cubesats – where are we?”, SADIG workshop Sydney 1 April DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Off-Earth Mining – The Great Engagement”, OEMF DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Off-Earth Mining: The Market? DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Off-Earth Mining: The State of Play” ASRC 2015, 30 Sep DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Positioning Research at ACSER” CAESIE Indoor Event 6 Mar DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “SBAS as critical infrastructure”, SBAS workshop Canberra, Mar DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Space Engineering Research at ACSER”, Aerospace Futures 11 July DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Space Engineering Research at ACSER”, INTERSECT, April DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Space Engineering Research at ACSER”, JPL Jan DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Space Engineering Research at ACSER”, NSSA Mar DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Space Engineering Research at ACSER”, Space X Jan DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. “Space no Longer the Final Frontier: Australia in the changing space sector” Global Change and Energy Sustainability Initiative Seminar, 26 May 2015, Canberra RIZOS, C., 2015. GPS – Past, Present & Future. Invited pres. at the RAN Navigational Display Systems Forum, HMAS Watson, Sydney, Australia, 11 September. RIZOS, C., 2015. Precise GNSS Positioning & Geodetic Services. Keynote presentation at South East Asian Survey Congress, Singapore, 30 July. RIZOS, C., 2015. Precise GNSS Positioning: Not Just a Niche Technology. Pres. at the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG) Experts Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 14-18 December. RIZOS, C., 2015. Some Developments in Satellite Navigation – The Rise & Rise of GNSS. Pres. meeting of the Master Mariners, Nautical Institute & Australian Institute of Navigation, Sydney, Australia, 12 August. RIZOS, C., 2015. The Threat to Space Based Service (for PNT Applications). Pres., joint seminar of the Australian Defence Force Capability Development Group and the Australian Institute of Navigation, “Civil/Military Operations in a SATNAV/SATCOM Degraded Environment”, Canberra, Australia, 22 May. RIZOS, C., 2015. Developments in GNSS Navigation – Trends & Mega Trends. Pres. meeting of the Australian Institute of Navigation, Sydney, Australia, 30 March. RIZOS, C., 2015. Precise GNSS Positioning – Past, Present & Future. Lecture pres. at Korea Aerospace University, Hwajeon, South Korea, 12 November. RIZOS, C., 2015. The International GNSS Service (IGS) in a Multi-Constellation World. Invited presentation, Xi’an, P.R. China, 12 May. RIZOS, C., FISHER, S., NEILAN, R.E., 2015. The IGS Real-Time Service: A Spur to Innovation. Pres. at 10th Meeting of the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2-6 November. RIZOS, C., KUTTERER, H., NEILAN, R., PEARLMAN, M., 2015. The GGOS Initiative to Improve Disaster Early Warning & Response. Invited pres. in session “U2 Integrated Disaster Risk Science: Accounting for Extremes”, 26th IUGG General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 June. ROBERTS, C., 2015. Factors affecting GNSS heighting, ISNSW Southern Group seminar, Bowral, June 19. ROBERTS, C., 2015. GNSS practice in the rural cadastral environment, SA Surveyors Board workshop, June 27. SAYDAM, S. AND DEMPSTER, A.G., 2015. Invited by Australian Defence Force, Strategic Communications, Global Change and Energy Sustainability Initiative in Canberra in 26 May 2015 to give a speech on Off-Earth Mining Research. SAYDAM, S., 2015. “An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony”. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, USA. 13th October 2015. SAYDAM, S., 2015. “An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony”. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. 15th October 2015. SAYDAM, S., 2015. Invited by Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) 9-13 May 2015, Montreal Canada to give a speech on Off-Earth Mining Research. SHISHKO, R., FRADET, R., SAYDAM, S., DEMPSTER, A.G., COULTON. J., 2015. “An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony”, AIAA Space 2015. 31 August – 2 September 2015, Pasadena, CA. SHISHKO, R., FRADET, R., SAYDAM, S., DEMPSTER, A.G., COULTON. J., 2015. “An Integrated Economics Model for ISRU in Support of a Mars Colony”, CLASS (Centre for Lunar and Asteroid Sciences) Seminar series. 19th Nov, 2015. TSAFNAT, N., 2015. International Space University, Strasbourg France, October 2, 2015. Invited lecture on Space Systems Engineering.
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