Inspiration, journey, workforce, and experiences. Join us in the hangar as we chat to Warrant Officer of the Air Force Ralph Clifton about what inspired and influenced him, his journey to where he is today, and what superhero he would be.
Workforce, culture, leadership, identity and connection. Join us in the hangar as we chat to Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Rob Chipman, AM, CSC, about his journey to becoming Chief of Air Force, his experiences in the role and the future.
In this talk, we present initial findings of the world-first airborne Neuromorphic Event Based Sensor (EBS) on-board the Defence Experimentation Airborne Platform for enhancing remote sensing for urban and maritime surveillance.
This presentation will discuss the rationale behind the need for alternative jet fuels, the advantages/challenges associated in their uptake and the development of a modular demonstrator kit for producing ‘drop-in’ alternative jet fuels from indigenous feedstock.
This presentation will focus on small toy drones, which can be called “IEDs in the sky” and analyze the current situation in which it is becoming difficult for airbase-based warfare and traditional air defence systems to cope with.
This talk examines methods of relative orbit determination using angles-only measurements of objects in Low Earth Orbit, as exemplified using the M2 cubesat mission.
This talk will give an overview over handpicked projects on materials design, advanced microscopy and modelling of manufacturing processes for modern aerospace alloy parts.
This presentation covers verification methods applied for low-cost satellite projects (currently 5 satellites in orbit) at UNSW Canberra Space
This presentation will explore developments in Cubesats, Space Domain Awareness, SATCOM and in-orbit artificial intelligence at the UNSW Canberra Space, which is one of the largest concentrations of space researchers in Australia with about 30 academic and professional engineering staff covering all necessary engineering disciplines and with access to the necessary facilities to enable end-to-end space mission capability.
We propose to use the aerodynamic forces generated by a drone’s rotors and interactions between the air and surrounding surfaces during flight as a sensor to drive a collison avoidance algorithm causing the aircraft to pitch or roll away from nearby objects through entirely passive means.
This presentation will comprise an overview of the current status of Australia’s Hydrogen industry and will showcase selected examples of recent activities across the Mission’s pillars, including technological developments in areas relevant to innovation and resilience in air and space power.
In future high-end warfighting contingencies capability needs that are currently met in months or years must be met be within days. In this presentation, NX will share the results from an exercise in which an example high-end capability had a solution designed, produced, tested and delivered in a week.
In this presentation, CASG NX will explain how it has facilitated key Industry 4.0 changes for Defence through its Agile approach and partnerships.
This talk provides an update of the work conducted at UNSW Canberra Space to address the challenges in the LEO domain through combining light curves collected by the Falcon Telescope Network (FTN) with GPU accelerated ray tracing techniques that are benchmarked against truth data obtained from the RAAF-funded M2-A, M2-B, and M2 Pathfinder missions.
In this presentation, we discuss how to understand behaviour shaping and influence of swarm systems using livestock mustering, which can be used for smart autonomous systems design philosophy, swarm agent models, and centre of influence techniques.
In this talk, we outline the principles for capturing the value of disruptive innovations, in order to aid the Defence Cooperative Research Centre to award research grants to rightful winners; nurture emerging leaders and entrepreneurs; encourage ambition with risk appetite; find novel solutions to needs and demonstrate; create, capture and manage a complex portfolio of trade-able sovereign IP; build more high-tech Australian jobs; and support industry’s partnership with Defence.
In this talk, two categories of pathways for alternative fuels are considered: (1) commercially available solutions that could be adapted and progressed immediately to a demonstration/pilot; (2) and those that require further development over the next five years.
This talk presents a unique microfabrication technique using microstructured light patterns to produce shark-skin inspired “riblet” microstructures for reducing skin-friction drag experienced by aircraft.
This presentation dicusses the virtual trade framework which enables defence to rapidly adapt to merging technologies and skillsets. Virtual Trades are intended to complement the existing mustering framework by incentivising the establishment of emerging skillsets and providing a talent pool to meet future needs.
In order to ensure a resilient spacecraft production (e.g. Buccaneer Main Mission), we present our efforts to develop testing methodologies such as: space thermal testing using a thermal vacuum chamber, magnetometer testing using a Helmholtz cage, life cycle testing using external radiation chambers, and attitude control testing using a hemispherical air bearing table and Helmholtz cage.
To improve space traffic management and mitigate the collisional orbital risk, we propose to combine optical observations with passive radio frequency measurements to increase the determination accuracy of orbiting satellites.
This presentation will focus on an upcoming mission referred to as the Buccaneer Main Mission (BMM) that will launch a 6U CubeSat into low Earth orbit to explore new approaches for calibrating the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN).
In this talk, I will discuss how RAAF leveraged Additive Manufacturing to engage academia with the RAAF workforce to bring about an innovative environment to materialise future capabilities and disruptive thinking.
This talk will discuss the drivers and challenges for Australia’s ambitions for the growth of the space sector, which is predicated on the availability of a qualified (e.g. graduates in the STEM disciplines) and experienced workforce.
This talk discusses the development and implementation of a satellite digital twinning framework tailored to support the design, testing and operation of complex space missions (e.g. RAAF-funded M2 satellite mission) with multi-domain (air, sea, land) integrations.
This presentation outlines the novel approach taken to passively stabilise the RAAF funded M2 CubeSat formation after an spring impulse was used to separate the spacecraft from a conjoined state.
This talk will discuss projects at the Jericho Smart Sensing Laboratory that utilises physical layer sensor technology, particularly sensors based on photonics and acoustics with data fusion, to deliver a network of interconnected smart sensors forming an Internet of Defence Things (IoDT) prototype.
In this talk, we propose a Quantum time-transfer as an alternative technology that could be deployed for secure point-to-point synchronisation to mitigate potential cyber threats such as GPS denial, jamming or spoofing of satellite systems.
We present a human-AI-teaming dashboard which synthesises sensor data output, camera sensors, and mission data as well as adaptive interface to support agile mission planning such as formalising mission goals that are communicated to the machine and other machines to execute the mission.
This talk discusses the development of a high-altitude balloon to carry payloads (such as sensors and electronics) to: obtain the telemetry data; capture the visible light and thermal imagery; and transfer data to the other balloons and the ground station via the radio communication network; effectively using the balloon for persistent surveillance, remote sensing, bushfire monitoring, and emergency service support.
