Swinburne University of Technology

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-09

Into the Darkness: Measuring the Properties of Dark Galaxies Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-08

Upcycling agriculture plastic waste to high value cross-linked... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-08

Active control of battery aging process for life extension Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-07

Steel Origami-Enabled Metaconcrete Composite Structures Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-07

Steel Origami-Enabled Metaconcrete Composite Structures Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-05

Moving With Robots: Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration and... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-05

Moving With Robots: Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration and... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-04

The Australian Emulation Network Phase 2 - Extending the Reach Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-04

The Australian Emulation Network Phase 2 - Extending the Reach Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-04

On processing and knowledge discovery in large dynamic multilayer... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-04

iSupport Digital intervention for CALD family carers and people living... Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-04

iSupport Digital intervention for CALD family carers and people living... Category: Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-04

On processing and knowledge discovery in large dynamic multilayer... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-03

Electromagnetically driven flows in electrolyte layers with free... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-03

Electromagnetically driven flows in electrolyte layers with free... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-03

Enhancing Australian Dark Matter Searches with Quantum Technology Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-03

Enhancing Australian Dark Matter Searches with Quantum Technology Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Advancing Epilepsy Surgery Eligibility and Outcome with Non-invasive 3D... Category: Medical Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Green fabrication of robust micro/nano hierarchical surface morphology. This project aims to fabricate coating material with robust micro/nano hierarchical structured surface in ambient conditions through mimicking natural biological processes. This study expects to generate knowledge for translating natural biological processes into cutting-edge sustainable and scalable low-cost manufacturing technique using biowaste, minerals and waste plastic through interdisciplinary approaches. Expected outcomes include potential next-generation environmentally friendly marine coating exhibiting self-cleaning and drag reduction. This should deliver significant economic and environmental benefits for maritime industry and contribute to further Australian standing in the field of circular economy. Field of research: 4005 - Civil Engineering Australia’s shipping industry represents 10% of the world’s sea trade and over 95% of Australian exports. Biofouling on ship hulls not only brings extra costs through fuel penalty ($10 billion per year globally), but also ecosystem damage through migration of invasive species. Traditional antifouling coating predominantly involves toxic nonspecific biocides, harming marine biodiversity. This project develops sustainable antifouling products through cutting-edge nanotechnology and biomimicry research. Outcomes will help advance the skill levels of current manufacturing industries, ensuring they remain competitive. Addressing biofouling will bring economic benefits to maritime industries, and environmental benefits to all Australians through reduced bio-contamination and protection of ecology. Findings on biomimicry solution to biofouling will be communicated to coating industries, maritime research organisations, advanced manufacturing research organisations, and government bodies to promote understanding of the novel technique and further collaboration for translation and adoption. Technologies developed through the project can contribute new manufacturing opportunities, enabling future growth in the marine, aviation, piping and renewables industries.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

On processing and knowledge discovery in large dynamic multilayer networks. Multilayer networks contain rich and dynamic interaction information among objects spanning multiple aspects. Properly processing these networks and exploring cohesive information within find many applications and bring challenges as well. This project aims to devise efficient strategies for processing large and dynamic multilayer graphs and investigate different effective methods for searching different cohesive groups in various applications. The theoretic outcomes of this project will set the foundation for building cutting-edge technology for effectively modelling and efficiently searching/tracking interested information in large dynamic multilayer networks and contribute to theoretical foundations in big graph data management. Field of research: 4605 - Data Management and Data Science Many significant applications in Australia, such as financial systems, ecological systems, and epidemiological surveillance systems, are accumulating huge volumes of data containing rich and dynamic interaction information among objects spanning multiple aspects, which are better to be represented and processed as multilayer networks. Effectively modelling and efficiently searching and maintaining cohesive multilayer groups from multilayer networks are essential for providing the insights and values of this big graph data and bring great challenges and unprecedented opportunities for Australia. This project aims to fill in the research gap for reaching practical and scalable solutions for real-time processing and analysis of large-scale and dynamic multilayer networks. It will contribute to big data analytics of important cohesive multilayer group information from multilayer networks for different applications and bring considerable economic, social, and environmental benefits to Australia. The techniques, algorithms, and prototype systems developed in this project can be deployed to facilitate the smart use of big multilayer graph data in many advanced real applications across the nation, including business, society, environment, government, etc.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Into the Darkness: Measuring the Properties of Dark Galaxies. A fundamental prediction of cosmology is that galaxies without stars, Dark Galaxies, should exist. This project aims to exploit the new era in radio observations with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, combining its deep radio imaging with optical wavelengths, to identify large numbers of Dark Galaxies. With this first-ever sample of Dark Galaxies, and employing innovative techniques, the project will produce fundamental new knowledge, answering outstanding questions about galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter itself. National benefits include inspiring the next generation of STEM students and scientists, while further enhancing Australia's international reputation in cutting-edge Astrophysics. Field of research: 5101 - Astronomical Sciences This project will study a sample of Dark Galaxies and thus advance our fundamental knowledge in astronomy and astrophysics. The project will employ state-of-the-art technology and innovative techniques, generating a unique database that will be used by scientists both in Australia and around the world. The project will help to train the next generation of astrophysicists in advanced skills to take advantage of Australia's multi-million dollar investments in large telescopes, supercomputers and our developing space industry. They will also develop skills relevant to the new knowledge economy, such as simulations on high performance computers and image analysis. The project will help to attract students into STEM subjects and careers, providing a long-term outcome that has cultural, economic and social benefits for the country. Research outcomes will be disseminated beyond academia via outreach activities and social media.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Moving With Robots: Advancing Human-Robot Collaboration and Communication. The use of collaborative robots by people in arts, social and health settings has the potential to improve their economic situation and their quality of life through increasing safe and cost-effective options for engagement, care and support. However, one of the barriers to adoption is how to achieve safe and trusted contact support for robots who are physically interacting with people in collaborative and assistive roles. Through choreographed interactions with movement experts, this project expects to generate machine learning strategies to understand how people and robots can reliably and fluently move together. Expected outcomes of this project include innovative methods for robot learning to improve shared movement quality. Field of research: 3605 - Screen and Digital Media Robots continue to transform many areas of the Australian economy, particularly the manufacturing and resources commercial sectors. However, in areas of society that require complex physical contact between people and robots, such as social, cultural, health and assistive settings, there are challenges to the integration and uptake of robots due to the trust, safety and comfort of human-robot collaborations. Leveraging the unique and innovative platform of dance to investigate the embodied nature of physical interactions, this project aims to develop a critical understanding of how people and robots can move fluently together even through complex physical interactions. We will use machine learning to develop new ways for a person and robot to smoothly move together and have complex physical interactions including contact and support. These are crucial abilities for robots supporting people in social, cultural and assistive settings and will have important benefits to support increased robotic uptake in these areas. The new interaction methods will generate dance performances for a human and robot that can be shown in theatres and galleries, showcasing new ways for people and robots to move together. Providing a reliable and effective framework for better collaborative movement between people and robots will increase safety, trust and comfort for people, and better physical adaptability for robots, placing the Australian robotics sector at the forefront of robotic innovation.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Electromagnetically driven flows in electrolyte layers with free interfaces. This project aims to understand electromagnetically driven flows in thin deformable layers. It expects to develop an analytical description of electrolyte flows required by microstirring and metallurgical applications. Expected outcomes include the development of new non-intrusive precision-controlled methods for manipulating fluids when mechanical intervention is impossible due to aggressive environment or extreme confinement. This should provide significant benefits to advance Australia’s hi-tech microfluidic and metal recycling industries. Field of research: 4901 - Applied Mathematics The Australian microfluidic sector, including innovative technologies, prototypes and lab-on-a-chip devices, has been estimated to be worth over $10B in 2024 and is expected to almost double by 2028. Yet the expansion of this industry may face a difficulty because common mechanical fluid manipulation approaches are not suitable for applications such as in pharmaceutics due to the need of handling accurately very small fluid volumes or because of the presence of chemically aggressive media. This project aims to develop a versatile framework for easy-to-control non-intrusive electromagnetic (EM) fluid flow forcing methods for use in micromixing, micropumping and targeted chemical delivery. This study will generate a better understanding of how EM driven film and shallow layer flows behave in various geometric configurations and how they are influenced by different wall conditions. It will suggest novel ways of optimising the operation of existing microfluidic devices and build a prototype experimental apparatus capable of inducing complex EM-driven flows. Research outcomes will pioneer new technological principles for developing next-generation applications benefiting the Australian microfluidic industry and its end-users. To promote our study beyond academia and to explore the opportunity of commercialisation, we will engage with CSIRO and Australian National Science Agency with the partnership proposal in their research production initiative under the microfluidics scheme.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

The Australian Emulation Network Phase 2 - Extending the Reach. This project aims to extend the reach of the Australian Emulation Network, conserving born digital artefacts and making them accessible for research purposes. High value collections from university archives and the GLAM sector requiring legacy computer environments will be targeted. The project expects to generate new knowledge across media arts, design, and architecture. Expected outcomes include stabilising and providing researchers with emulated access to born digital cultural artefacts, sharing legacy computer environments across the network, and expanding the Australian software preservation Community of Practice, building skills in preserving and emulating digital cultural artefacts across an expanded set of domains and institutions. Field of research: 3605 - Screen and Digital Media The project aims to extend national emulation infrastructure, more than doubling the size of the existing Australian Emulation Network by adding 22 new institutional nodes. This addresses the national challenge of preserving and accessing Australia’s born digital heritage. Born digital heritage faces several forms of obsolescence. Consequently, much born digital material has not been collected, is inaccessible because of its reliance on legacy computing environments, and at risk of loss. The project will provide the tools and skillsets required so that professionals in the university and Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum (GLAM) sectors have confidence in collecting, preserving and emulating complex digital artefacts. Securing digital heritage materials and making these available to the researchers who need access to them promises to deliver new knowledge in the inter-related fields of digital art, design, and creative practice, delivering research with social and cultural benefits. Making emulation infrastructure available to more national and state institutions will improve access to digital collections in keeping with the national cultural policy, and ensure that the benefits extend well beyond academia to the wider public. This investment will ensure a sustainable, resilient network that can address the needs of diverse collections across the nation, including in regional areas.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2025 · 2025-01

Active control of battery aging process for life extension. This project aims to extend the lifetime of battery energy storage systems for power grids by developing innovative approaches to control the battery aging process at a cell level. The project expects to utilise digital twin technology, integrating a deep learning model with an electrochemical model, to predict the impact of operating conditions on battery aging and regulating these conditions to control the aging process and extend battery life. The expected outcomes include longer battery life, reduced downtime, and increased throughput of battery energy storage systems. This should provide significant benefits to battery energy storage manufacturing and support Australia’s transition to sustainable power grids. Field of research: 4004 - Chemical Engineering This project aims to enhance the longevity of battery energy storage systems (BESSs), which are critical to supporting Australia’s transition to sustainable power grids integrated with renewable energy sources. Due to intermittent nature of renewable energy, BESSs are essential for maintaining stable and resilient power grids. A major challenge in the BESSs is aging of battery cells, which impacts both performance and lifespan. By addressing the aging process at a cell level, the project will develop innovative strategies to control battery aging, thereby extending battery life, reducing operational downtime, and increasing system throughput. The project’s outcomes will significantly benefit Australia in various ways. Economically, it is expected to lower the cost of BESSs by 10-20%, making energy storage solutions more cost-effective and accessible. Environmentally, the project will reduce the impact of battery production and disposal by extending battery life. Commercially, it will strengthen Australia’s leadership in advanced energy storage technologies, promoting growth in the domestic manufacturing sector and creating high-skilled jobs. To maximise the research’s impact, we will actively collaborate with industry stakeholders and energy sector leaders to ensure the swift adoption of our solutions. Partnerships with battery manufacturers, renewable energy providers, and grid operators will help translate the research into practical and commercial applications.