College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Tip-Tilt Mirror Control System for Partial Image Correction at UC Mount John Observatory
(IEEE, 2021)Astronomical images captured by ground-based telescopes, including at University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory, are distorted due to atmospheric turbulence. The major constituents of atmospheric distortion are ... -
A Wavefront Sensorless Tip/Tilt Removal method for Correcting Astronomical Images
(IEEE, 2021)Images of astronomical objects captured by groundbased telescopes are distorted due to atmospheric turbulence. The phase of aberration is traditionally estimated by wavefront sensors (WFS). This information is utilised ... -
On the growth of locally interacting plants: differential equations for the dynamics of spatial moments
(ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER, 2013)Ecologists are faced with the challenge of how to scale up from the activities of individual plants and animals to the macroscopic dynamics of populations and communities. It is especially difficult to do this in communities ... -
Gamification and SQL
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021)<jats:p>Gamification, defined as the integration of game elements into non-gaming environments, is a promising approach to increase student engagement, motivation, and performance in Computer Science and Software Engineering ... -
Automated defect detection and decision-support in gas turbine blade inspection
(MDPI AG, 2021)© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Background—In the field of aviation, maintenance and inspections of engines are vitally important in ensuring the safe functionality of fault-free aircrafts. There ... -
Team role adoption and distribution in engineering project meetings
(MDPI AG, 2020)© 2020 by the authors. Team communication plays a vital role in engineering management, however, there is a paucity of work that examines how team roles emerge as a response to the communicative processes between participants. ... -
On the Product of Elements with Prescribed Trace
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020)© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. This paper deals with the following problem. Given a finite extension of fields and denoting the trace map from to by, for which elements in, and, in, is it possible ... -
Is Agile Not Agile Enough? A Study on How Agile is Applied and Misapplied in the Video Game Development Industry
(2021)Video games have become the most dominant and successful entertainment industry worldwide; however, many video game development (VGD) projects and studios struggle to succeed. At present, there are no commonly accepted ... -
Seismic performance assessment of a base isolated building.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Recent studies have demonstrated the practical usage of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PEERPBEE) framework to quantify performance measures, such as monetary losses and ... -
Design and evaluation of techniques to improve user comfort during prolonged use of virtual reality.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Virtual Reality (VR) has become a consumer technology, and as such has spread to include many different applications at work, home, school and play, for multiple kinds of users. However, using conventional immersive ... -
Ultra-high temperature electrolysis of molten oxides : titanium extraction from ironmaking slag.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis is a comprehensive study of ironmaking slag produced from titanomagnetite concentrates and its use as a molten electrolyte for titanium metal extraction. The electrolysis of ironmaking slag, the largest by-product ... -
Using mixed reality for asymmetric remote collaboration in a room-scale workspace.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The primary goal of this thesis is to use Mixed Reality (MR) technology to enhance remote collaboration in a room-scale workspace. One of the fundamental requirements for remote collaborative system design is to help the ... -
The mechanical behaviour of gravel-rubber mixtures : insights from dem numerical investigations.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)An innovative 'Eco-rubber geotechnical seismic-isolation foundation system’ has been proposed to help address New Zealand’s waste tyres problem. This foundation system combines gravels with granulated tyre chips to take ... -
Segmentation of substantia nigra and red nucleus in MRI images : application to Parkinson’s disease.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Accurate segmentation of substantia nigra (SN) and red nucleus (RN) is challenging, yet important for understanding health problems like Parkinson’s disease (PD). This thesis proposes robust algorithms to segment SN and ... -
Sediment management for catchments with hydropower dams under uncertainty in future projections.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The sustainability of hydropower reservoirs in catchments undergoing rapid development in the Mekong River Basin depends on the projected level of sedimentation. Excess sedimentation of reservoirs can be mitigated by using ... -
Network level defenses for software-defined internet of things.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Internet of Things (IoT) has become a point of attraction to the industry and academia recently. The IoT is becoming popular because of the lesser prices and easy availability of smart devices. The IoT network consists of ... -
Non-Uniform Suction Control of Flow around a Circular Cylinder
(Elsevier BV, 2020)In the present study, numerical investigations were performed with optimisation to determine efficient non-uniform suction profiles to control the flow around a circular cylinder in the range of Reynolds numbers ... -
Effects of a microscale ridge on dynamic wetting during drop impact
(Informa UK Limited, 2020)High-speed imaging of water drop impacts on a polymer surface have been used alongside two-dimensional Lattice Boltzmann simulations to investigate the conditions under which a spreading lamella submerges a small surface ... -
Electrode–skin impedance compensation for improved bioelectrical signal acquisition
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Stroke is the third leading cause of disability worldwide, commonly removing a subject’s independence. However, physical therapy can assist a subject in regaining their lost functionality. Modern physical therapy is ...