Welcome to the Precision Mechatronics Lab at the University of Newcastle

We are multidisciplinary group of electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and physicists developing new mechatronic and robotic technologies for fabrication, imaging, and health care

Conferences

Micromechatronic Systems at IFAC World Congress, 2020

Join us for the open track sessions on Modeling, Identification, Estimation and Control in Micromechatronic Systems, at IFAC World Congress 2020, in Berlin, Germany. Organizers: Prof Helon Vicente Hultmann Ayala, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio [...]

News

Soft Robotic Manta Rays

PhD student Matheus Xavier introduces his research on soft robotic manta rays for low-impact exploration in sensitive underwater environments. Watch the video. https://youtu.be/BAN7ZxoomYo

Dr Michael Ruppert elected as Fresh Scientist for 2021

Doctor Michael Ruppert has been announced as one of the 2021 Fresh Scientists. This program is run by Science in Public and aims to upskill Early Career Researchers into science communicators. Michael is an Early Career [...]

Matheus Xavier Wins School Heat of the 3 Minute Thesis

Matheus from the Precision Mechatronics Lab wins the school heat at the University of Newcastle of the 2021 3 Minute Thesis Competition.   With his talk titled "Soft Medical Robots: A Bioinspired Revolution" - Matheus [...]

Seminars

Harm Schepens: Ultrasonic Orthopaedic Implant Release

Date & Venue Wednesday, 11 December 2019, 02:00pm EF122  Abstract In order to recover from fractures suffered in the limbs, intramedullary (IM) rods are inserted into the bone marrow canal. When in place, the IM [...]

Publications

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M. R. P. Ragazzon; S. Messineo; J. T. Gravdahl; D. M. Harcombe; M. G. Ruppert

The Generalized Lyapunov Demodulator: High-Bandwidth, Low-Noise Amplitude and Phase Estimation Journal Article

In: IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2022.

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The Generalized Lyapunov Demodulator: High-Bandwidth, Low-Noise Amplitude and Phase Estimation

M. S. Xavier; C. D. Tawk; A. Zolfagharian; J. Pinskier; D. Howard; T. Young; J. Lai; S. Harrison; Y. K. Yong; M. Bodaghi; A. J. Fleming

Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review of Design, Fabrication, Modeling, Sensing, Control and Applications Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 59442-59485, 2022, ISSN: 2169-3536.

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Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review of Design, Fabrication, Modeling, Sensing, Control and Applications

C. Jidling; A. J. Fleming; A. G. Wills; T. B. Schon

Memory efficient constrained optimization of scanning-beam lithography Journal Article

In: Optics Express, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 20564–20579, 2022, ISSN: 1094-4087.

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Memory efficient constrained optimization of scanning-beam lithography

M. S. Xavier; A. J. Fleming; Y. K. Yong

Nonlinear Estimation and Control of Bending Soft Pneumatic Actuators Using Feedback Linearization and UKF Journal Article

In: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 1919-1927, 2022, ISSN: 1083-4435.

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Nonlinear Estimation and Control of Bending Soft Pneumatic Actuators Using Feedback Linearization and UKF

Linlin Li; A. J. Fleming; Y. K. Yong; S. S. Aphale; LiMin Zhu

High Performance Raster Scanning of Atomic Force Microscopy Using Model-free Repetitive Control Journal Article

In: Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 173, no. 109027, 2022, ISSN: 0888-3270.

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High Performance Raster Scanning of Atomic Force Microscopy Using Model-free Repetitive Control
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