Current Projects

Artemis: Real-time stream processing for Neonatal Intensive Care
"A Multi-Teir Sensor Network for Weather Risk Mitigation in Viticulture"
- Funding: Ontario Centres for Excellence (Nearing Approval)
- Investigators: Ramiro Liscano (PI), Terry Gillespie, Mike Eklund
- Partners: Weather Innovations, Inocybe Technologies, Cave Spring Cellars, Karlo Estates
"Information Technology for Assisted Living at Home" (External link to my old project page). Related links:
- Health Education Technology Research Unit
  - and it's Wiki space

Fourth year design projects:

Current students can edit their group pages here: Thesis Groups

Design of a Remote Underwater Vehicle Local users click here
- I have three students working to design and build an RUV which can operate to depths of at least 30 feet of water. The RUV must be design to allow for future medication include on-board processing to allow conversion to a AUV.
Design of an Actuation and Remote Operation System for a Two Wheeled Electric Vehicle Local users click here
- I cooperation with Prof Ruth Milman, the team of two students is working to design the steering and brake actuation and an electronic interface to the electric motor controller. Additionally, a low speed stability and safety mechanism must be designed to allow the vehicle to start and stop without falling over. “Training wheels” are not an acceptable solution as they degrade stability at higher speeds. The intermediate solution to be achieved in this project is to enable remote Radio Control (RC) operation of the vehicle with limited on-board processing.
Design of a thermal heat engine control system Local users click here
- The team of three students is working to design a microprocessor-based controller for the Marnoch heal engine experimental testbed. This will require design and implementation of the microprocessor controller, new actuators and sensors and a simulation model of Marnoch heat engine. This is a pilot project, and one aspect of the project could be the design of a manufacturing facility for the system.
Design of outdoor environmental monitoring sensing system Local users click here
- The team of two students is working to design a weather proof enclosure and an additional electronic sensor array for a wireless sensor device. The system is to record vineyard and relay this data back to a central system. The individual sensors will contain the radio based on wireless Mote technology but will require to withstand all climatic conditions and allow the a wired sensor array to connect externally to the device.

Past Projects

Darpa Urban Challenge, Sydney-Berkeley Driving Team (External link)
Vision based landing of autonomous helicopters (External link)
Aerial Pursuit Evasion Games (External link)

If you have local access, please feel free to see my wiki: EkWiki