About Me

I joined Cogent in September 2009 as a PhD research student after completing a Masters by Research degree in Electronics Engineering. The research focused on the development of an embedded wireless data acquisition and monitoring system for an autonomous ground vehicle. Prior to that, I graduated from Coventry University in 2007 with a BEng Honours degree in Electronic Technology.

Research Interests

My Master's research project looked into the development of an embedded wireless data acquisition and monitoring system for an autonomous ground vehicle. The research involved both electronic hardware development for the autonomous vehicle, and software development for obstacle avoidance and navigation for the autonomous vehicle.

The hardware development phase involved the design of electronic circuits which interfaced various sensors and actuators on the vehicle to microcontrollers. A variety of sensors were interfaced to the vehicle to acquire speed of the wheels, distance of vehicle from obstacles, and wireless device was used for data transmission.

Software was developed for data acquisition, wireless data transmission, remote data logging, obstacle avoidance, navigation and speed control.  Application development for remote data logging was PC based, and allowed transmitted data from the microcontroller to be received and stored on hard disk for further analysis.

Extensive experiments performed on the vehicle showed that the design was able to acquire and transmit/ receive data wireless from a remote PC/PDA. In addition, the obstacle avoidance and navigation algorithm implemented on the vehicle allowed the vehicle to successfully avoid obstacles and navigate.

My current research focuses on activity monitoring and contextualization for assisted living environments. The goal is to use a variety of intelligent sensors in the design of a wireless network system that will perform real time analyses of acquired data and provide feedback and warnings to the user.