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Examples of new Discovery Projects in 2012 - New South Wales
Discovery Projects totalling $75 065 831 covering 260 projects
University of Technology, Sydney
Development of globally optimal solutions to simultaneous localisation and mapping for robot navigation (DP120102786)
Summary: Building robots that can operate on their own is one of the potentially transformational technologies of this century. This project will develop algorithms that are well understood and robust to allow the deployment of robots in environments populated with people, and in search and rescue operations where global positioning systems are not available.
Chief Investigator: Dr Shoudong Huang
ARC funding: $320 000
University of Sydney
Galactic Archaeology: a new probe of the cold dark matter paradigm (DP120104562)
Summary: The project capitalises on Australia's technological leadership in carrying out wide-field surveys, and on Australia's intellectual leadership in stellar astronomy and galactic archaeology. HERMES is the new Anglo-Australian Telescope instrument that will keep Australians competitive in a field that is set to explode in the coming decade.
Chief Investigator: Professor Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn
ARC funding: $330 000
University of Wollongong
Carbon dioxide sequestration more than 3.7 billion years ago and the oldest climate cycles (DP120100273)
Summary: More than 3.7 billion years ago atmospheric greenhouse CO2 was sequestered into limestone sedimentary rocks deposited in ice-free oceans. Why then, with the 30-25 per cent cooler sun in those times, was our earth not frozen over? Solving the oldest climate problem will give the deepest-time perspective to the earth's changing climate feedback loops.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Allen P Nutman
ARC funding: $250 000
University of New South Wales
Universal game-playing systems for randomised and imperfect-information games (DP120102023)
Summary: This project will develop an artificial intelligence system that you can tell the rules of any new game and that then all by itself learns to play that game. The innovative aspect is that our system will be able to handle games with elements of chance, like dice, and where some information is hidden, as for example in most card games.
Chief Investigator: Professor Michael Thielscher
ARC funding: $321 619
University of Sydney
The role of chlorophyll f in photosynthesis (DP120100286)
Summary: The knowledge of energetic limits of oxygenic photosynthesis will provide opportunities for improving the efficiency of photosynthesis by using a wider range of the solar spectrum. This project aims to understand the roles of newly discovered chlorophyll f in central photoreactions and its biosynthesis.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Min Chen
ARC funding: $520 000
