Welcome to the Precision Mechatronics Lab at the University of Newcastle
Conferences
Paszkal’s Visit to Newcastle
It has been a fun 3 months working and learning from Paszkal on CFD modelling using OpenFoam. We had also done some interesting experiments together in the lab and will [...]
IEEE International Conference On Mechatronics – Loughborough, UK, March 15-17, 2023
IEEE International Conference On Mechatronics - Loughborough, UK, March 15-17, 2023. IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics 2023 (IEEE ICM 2023) continues a series of biennial conferences dedicated to recent and [...]
News
IEEE International Conference On Mechatronics – Loughborough, UK, March 15-17, 2023
IEEE International Conference On Mechatronics - Loughborough, UK, March 15-17, 2023. IEEE International Conference on [...]
Soft Robotic Manta Rays
PhD student Matheus Xavier introduces his research on soft robotic manta rays for low-impact exploration [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seminars
IEEE International Conference On Mechatronics – Loughborough, UK, March 15-17, 2023
IEEE International Conference On Mechatronics - Loughborough, UK, March 15-17, 2023. IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics 2023 (IEEE ICM 2023) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recent Publications
Adaptive piezoelectric shunt damping Proceedings Article
In: Proc. SPIE Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials -- Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, San Diego, CA, 2002.
Series-parallel impedance structure for piezoelectric vibration damping Proceedings Article
In: Proc. SPIE International Symposium on Smart Materials, Nano, and Micro-Smart Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2002.
Optimization and implementation of multi-mode piezoelectric shunt damping systems Journal Article
In: IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 87–94, 2002.
Subspace-based system identification for an acoustic enclosure Journal Article
In: Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Vibration & Acoustics, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 414–419, 2002.
Power harvesting from piezoelectric transducers Miscellaneous
Patent, 2002.
New method for multiple-mode shunt damping of structural vibration using a single piezoelectric transducer Proceedings Article
In: Proc. SPIE International Symposium on Smart Structures -- Damping & Isolation, pp. 239–250, New Port Beach, CA, 2001.