Dr Hugh Kennedy

Adjunct Associate Professor UniSA STEM

Mawson Lakes Campus ()
tel +61 8 830 26582

email Hugh.Kennedy@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Over the last 15 or so years, I have mostly worked in the Defence sector on the design, development, integration and maintenance of a variety of electro-optic (EO), radio-frequency (RF) and acoustic sensor systems and technologies.

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Research

Research focus

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Aerospace Engineering
Computer Software

Highlights

Cybernetics,Mechatronics, Robotics,Automation, Control,Computers,Sensors,Filters

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Kennedy, HL 2025, 'Recursive Optimal Filters for Smoothing and Prediction with Instantaneous Phase and Frequency Estimation Applications', Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, online, pp. 1-36. Open access
2016	Kennedy, HL 2016, 'An adaptive digital filter for noise attenuation in sampled control systems', International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 928-938. Open access 2 2
2016	Kennedy, HL 2016, 'Digital Filter Designs for Recursive Frequency Analysis', Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers, vol. 25, no. 2, article no. 1630001. Open access 2 2
2016	Kennedy, HL 2016, 'Maximally flat IIR Smoothers with repeated poles and a prescribed delay', IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 64, no. 19, pp. 4975-4986. 12 11
2015	Kennedy, H 2015, 'Recursive digital filters with tunable lag and lead characteristics for proportional-differential control', IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 2369-2374. Open access 17 11
2015	Kennedy, HL 2015, 'Multidimensional digital smoothing filters for target detection', Signal Processing, vol.114, pp. 251-264. Open access 17 12
2014	Kennedy, HL 2014, 'Multidimensional digital filters for point-target detection in cluttered infrared scenes', Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 23, no. 6, article no. 063019, pp. 1-11. Open access 8 8
2014	Kennedy, HL 2014, 'Powerful test statistic for track management in clutter', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 207-223. 4 4
2013	Kennedy, HL 2013, 'Mixture reduction techniques and probabilistic intensity models for multiple hypothesis tracking of targets in clutter', Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 884-896. 5 4
2012	Kennedy, HL 2012, 'Fusion of possibly biased location estimates using Gaussian mixture models', Information Fusion, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 214-222. 6 5
2012	Kennedy, HL, Scott, W & Cook, SC 2012, 'Data association and geolocation for electronic support systems', Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1765-1769. 2 2
2011	Kennedy, HL 2011, 'Efficient velocity filter implementations for dim target detection', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 2991-2999. 39 32
2008	Kennedy, HL 2008, 'Clutter-based Test Statistics for Automatic Track Initiation', Acta Automatica Sinica, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 266-273. 7

Conferences

Year	Output
2016	Kennedy, HL 2016, 'Optimal design of digital anticipatory servomechanisms with good noise immunity', 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), IEEE, pp. 28-33. Open access 2 4
2015	Kennedy, H 2015, 'Application of fading-memory polynomial filters to the control of an electric motor', IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), IEEE, pp. 1327-1333. Open access 1
2015	Kennedy, H 2015, 'Improved IIR Low-Pass Smoothers and Differentiators with Tunable Delay', International Conference on Digital Image Computing : Techniques and Applications (DICTA), IEEE, pp. 1-7. Open access 8 2
2015	Kennedy, H 2015, 'Numerical derivation of fading-memory polynomial and sinusoidal filters for discrete-time control systems', IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), IEEE, pp. 1735-1742. Open access 1
2015	Kennedy, HL 2015, 'Parallel software implementation of recursive multidimensional digital filters for point-target detection in cluttered infrared scenes', 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, pp. 1086-1090. Open access 1
2013	Badriasl, L, Kennedy, H & Finn, A 2013, 'Effects of coordinate system rotation on two novel closed-from localization estimators using azimuth/elevation', 16th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2013), IEEE Press, pp. 1797-1804. 19 14
2011	Kennedy, HL 2011, 'Mixture reduction techniques for multiple hypothesis tracking of targets in clutter', in D Nandagopal (ed.), 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011), IEEE, pp. 413-418. 3
2010	Kennedy, HL 2010, 'On the benefits of using real data and low-level languages in the design and development of data processing algorithms for military sensor systems', in Peter Nikoloff (ed.), SETE 2010: Meeting the Challenges of Introducing Complex Capability, Systems Engineering Society of Australia.
2008	Kennedy, HL 2008, 'Comparison of MHT and PDA track initiation performance', in Bevan Bates,, International Conference on Radar 2008, IEEE, pp. 508-512. Open access 5
2008	Kennedy, HL 2008, 'Controlling Track Coalescence with Scdaled Joint Probabilistic Data Association', in Bevan Bates,, International Conference on Radar 2008, IEEE, pp. 440-445. Open access 18
2008	Kennedy, HL 2008, 'Spatio-temporal Whitening of Imaging Sensor Data Streams Using Three-Dimensional Linear Prediction ', 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE, pp. 265-270.

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Organisation	Country
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Control Systems,Digital Signal Processing

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Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Design of cost-effective navigation sensors: reduced sample square-root cubature kalman filter for IMU and laser range finder concept	Completed
Three-dimensional target motion analysis using passive measurements	Completed
Three-dimensional travel-time acoustic atmospheric tomography using unmanned aerial vehicles	Completed

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