The Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications brings together electronic engineering expertise with biomechanists, geophysicists and educators, to develop small, low-cost, portable, unobtrusive and intelligent sensors with a range of industry partners including the Australian Institute of Sport and the Queensland Academy of Sport. Applications include gait analysis, elite athlete monitoring and in-class monitoring. Athlete monitoring technologies developed by the Centre have been applied to swimming, rowing, running, and cricket and snow sports.
The Queensland Microtechnology Facility is a strategic research unit of Griffith University, with support from the Queensland State Government through the Smart State Research Facilities Funding Initiative. The Queensland Microtechnology Facility is developing new semi-conductor and MicroElectroMechanical Systems technologies. The Facility houses specialist water fabrication equipment, physical and electrical test laboratories and secure areas for researchers and commercial partners. Researchers at the Queensland Microtechnology Facility have already developed extensive intellectual property on semiconductor memories, exploiting the properties of silicon carbide. Their large memory capability promises to revolutionise mobile phones and palm computer devices.
The Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems is committed to developing intelligent technologies with diverse capabilities and the ability to behave collaboratively. It provides an innovative and stimulating environment for research and training in advanced computing, sensing, signal processing, control and decision-making techniques to create effective, user-friendly products that enhance life. Researchers of the Institute have successfully tested the world???s first driverless vehicles, which can act autonomously and in cooperation with each other and read road and traffic conditions via onboard sensors. The Institute developed the sensors, communication, control and cooperative decision making algorithms in the vehicles, in conjunction with the prestigious French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. Digital Signal Processing algorithms also developed by the Institute are now used in mobile telephones world-wide for image and speech transmission in addition to face, writing, speech and speaker recognition.