Milestone |
Milestone Name |
Lead Partner |
M.9.1 |
Advertise new recruits |
UOW/DSL/TUDA |
M.9.2 |
Consortium agreement signed |
UoW |
M.9.3 |
Setup project web server |
UoW |
M.9.4 |
Project start-up meeting at UoW |
UoW |
M.9.5 |
Gather air-coupled phased array requirement (tech/economic) |
UoW |
M.3.1 |
Study air-coupled electronic hardware requirements |
DSL |
M.10.2 |
Visits to School (x 8) |
UoW/TUDA |
M.10.1 |
Exhibit at the Big Bang Fair 2014 (x1) |
UoW |
M.1.1 |
Air-coupled array transducer Models |
UoW/Elster/TUDA |
M.1.2 |
Compare various transducers developed (e.g. CMUT vs EDAT) |
UoW/TUDA |
M.10.3 |
Visits to university by looked after children (x 4) |
UoW |
M.10.4 |
Special days for hands-on activity for bright students from the big bang fair (x1) |
UoW |
M.5.1 |
Compare various DSP techniques for flow |
TUDA |
M.2.1 |
Prototype air-coupled array transducers |
UoW/Elster/TUDA |
M.3.2 |
Bench top low frequency phased array controller (PAC) hardware |
DSL |
M.3.3 |
Test PAC hardware performance |
DSL |
M.4.1 |
Complete air-coupled phased array system |
UoW |
M.2.2 |
Characterize prototype air-coupled array transducers |
UoW/TUDA |
M.4.2 |
Characterize air-coupled phased array system in the laboratory |
UoW |
M.2.3 |
Benchmark various array transducer performance |
UoW/TUDA |
M.5.2 |
Develop DSP algorithms |
TUDA |
M.5.3 |
Implement DSP in hardware |
TUDA |
M.8.1 |
Develop & test portable low frequency PAC electronics boards |
DSL |
M.7.1 |
Optimize phased array system (including transducer and electronics) |
UoW |
M.8.2 |
Develop phased array based flow product |
Elster |
M.6.1 |
Test air-coupled phased array system in flow loop |
Elster/TUDA |
M.8.3 |
Characterize phased array flow product performance |
Elster |
M.9.6 |
Feasibility study on potential applications other than flow and NDE |
UoW |