Outputs (10)

Digital thread: The missing link (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An area where model-driven engineering methodologies offer the potential to accelerate digital engineering in different development phases is the connectivity of models and lifecycle activities via a digital thread. However, we need to understand how... Read More about Digital thread: The missing link.

Framework for developing digital twin prototypes (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents an agile co-simulation framework for developing digital twin prototypes of novel flying vehicles. The framework enables rapid assessment of flying vehicles' performance and flying dynamics in the early stages of their design cycle... Read More about Framework for developing digital twin prototypes.

Dock-to-dock multimodal freight transportation in coastal regions (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Dock to Dock (D2D) project defines the primary infrastructure for future electric freight transport solutions between coastal cities, in particular the energy infrastructure (battery charging/hydrogen refuelling) required for ground vehicles, and... Read More about Dock-to-dock multimodal freight transportation in coastal regions.

Environmental analysis and optimisation of an in-orbit shape memory alloy deployment mechanism (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study presents the analysis and optimisation of a novel deployment mechanism that utilises the shape memory effect inherent in Nickel-Titanium alloys, namely Nitinol. The mechanism is currently designed to secure and deploy solar panels on board... Read More about Environmental analysis and optimisation of an in-orbit shape memory alloy deployment mechanism.

The Design of a 3U CubeSat to Monitor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch following a Systems Engineering Approach (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper proposes a novel application of a CubeSat to help tackle one of the most alarming calamities in the present time, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). One of six similar accumulations of garbage across the world’s oceans, the GPGP is wi... Read More about The Design of a 3U CubeSat to Monitor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch following a Systems Engineering Approach.

Targeting global environmental challenges by the means of novel multimodal transport: Concept of operations (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Novel modes of transport form the basis of environmentally friendly and economically efficient transport system of the future. This paper introduces the feasibility study of a Dock to Dock (D2D) use case, combining aspects of route development and in... Read More about Targeting global environmental challenges by the means of novel multimodal transport: Concept of operations.

Observing and tracking the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The subtropical waters between Hawaii and California are currently infested with an accumulation of plastic estimated to be twice the area of Texas, otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This paper presents a novel CubeSat missio... Read More about Observing and tracking the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Indoor positioning using auto sextant (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 IEEE. This paper reports on the construction of an automated mechatronic sextant utilized in determining positions relative to multiple observed objects in open spaces. The design is based on the basic principles of the conventional mariner's... Read More about Indoor positioning using auto sextant.

A low cost testbed and test-design methodology for nanosatellite sub-/systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. The architecture of a software-driven testbed is discussed. The test setup has been developed as measurement and instrumentation system to functionally verify and thermally validate the communication subsystems designed and manufactured... Read More about A low cost testbed and test-design methodology for nanosatellite sub-/systems.

Rapid, automated test, verification and validation for CubeSats (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From the experiences learned in the ZA-CUBE-1 mission, bringing up of a small-scale mission assurance facility is reported. The first of a series of actions envisaged to accomplish the facility is achieving functional test and verification, and the s... Read More about Rapid, automated test, verification and validation for CubeSats.