Professor Javaan Singh Chahl

Professor of Sensor Systems UniSA STEM

Mawson Lakes Campus (SCT2-01)
tel +61 8 830 26803

email Javaan.Chahl@unisa.edu.au

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About me

Professor Javaan Chahl is DST Group Joint Chair of Sensor Systems and has been with UniSA since 2012. Prior to this, he served as the Professor of Aerospace (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) at RMIT University in Melbourne. Prior to this role, he was at the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group, with whom he still works closely. Professor Chahl earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience & Robotics at the Australian National University. Professor Chahl has published over 150 full length refereed articles and has been referenced by other researchers in his fields more than 3,000 times. His research provides ample evidence of his breadth of research expertise including Avionics for UAVs, operations analysis, flight trials, space exploration,... Read more

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In the media

Date	Title
16/08/2019	Drone Beats Ambulance in Race to Deliver First Aid to Patients, https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/drone-vs-ambulance-drone-wins
08/03/2018	Drone technology: What happens when good tech falls into the wrong hands?, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-08/drones-what-happens-when-good-tech-falls-into-the-wrong-hands/9524130
06/11/2017	There are health-tracking wearables for babies, too, https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/06/health/baby-technology-products-teching/index.html
28/09/2017	Drone detects heartbeat and breathing rates, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41427529

Research

Research themes

An age friendly world
Transforming industries

Research focus

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Optical Physics

Research

Projects

Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

HPRnet - Enhancing human performance in complex environments, Defence Science and Technology Group, 23/03/2017 - 23/05/2021
Vital Sign & Disease Detection at a Distance, Vital Intelligence Inc, 23/04/2020 - 23/10/2020
CERA 329 DeepRay Glider Robust Autonomy, Cwth Dept of Defence, 24/03/2017 - 31/05/2019
Robust State Estimators (RSE) for Dynamic Line Rating (DLR), Energy Networks Association Limited, 14/02/2017 - 14/02/2018
Nexus of Autonomy and Usability for micro UAS, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 31/03/2014 - 30/09/2017
Subsystems for Unmanned Systems studies - Phase 2, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 30/06/2016 - 30/06/2017
Evolutionary development of bio-inspired flapping wing aerial vehicle for trusted autonomy, Defence Science & Technology Organisation - Business & Commercialisation Office, 01/12/2016 - 30/06/2017
Alternate Navigation for Trusted Autonomy, Defence Science & Technology Organisation - Business & Commercialisation Office, 19/10/2016 - 01/05/2017
Chair of Sensor Systems, Cwth Dept of Defence - Defence Support Group, 01/12/2015 - 30/12/2016
Autonomous Navigation and System Management - DST Group, Defence Science & Technology Organisation - Business & Commercialisation Office, 08/12/2015 - 30/06/2016
Unmanned Autonomous System (UAS) sub-system studies, Cwth Dept of Defence - Defence Support Group, 01/11/2015 - 30/06/2016
Design and Build of a Flapping Wing-actuation System for Dragonfly-inspired MAVs, Sir Ross & Sir Keith Smith Fund, 17/06/2014 - 30/10/2015
DSTO - UniSA Joint Chair in Sensor System, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 30/04/2012 - 30/06/2015
Visual navigation without landmarks, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 01/09/2013 - 30/06/2015
Usability of micro UAS, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, 01/09/2013 - 30/11/2014
UAS Transition, Defence Science & Technology Organisation - Business & Commercialisation Office, 03/04/2013 - 31/03/2014

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2019	Fakhrulddin, SS, Gharghan, KS, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2019, 'An advanced first aid system based on an unmanned aerial vehicles and a wireless body area sensor network for elderly persons in outdoor environments', Sensors, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. -. Open access 7 5 101
2019	Gibson, K, Al-Naji, A, Fleet, J, Steen, M, Esterman, A, Chahl, J, Huynh, J & Morris, S 2019, 'Non-contact heart and respiratory rate monitoring of preterm infants based on a computer vision system: a method comparison study', Pediatric Research, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 738-741. Open access 5 4 24
2019	Rosser, K & Chahl, J 2019, 'Reducing the complexity of visual navigation: optical track controller for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles', Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1118-1140. 1
2018	Chin, YW, Ang, Z, Luo, Y, Chan, WL, Chahl, JS & Lau, GK 2018, 'Spring-assisted motorized transmission for efficient hover by four flapping wings', Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol. 10, no. 6, article no. 061014, pp. 1-12. 4 4
2018	Perera, A, Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human detection and motion analysis from a quadrotor UAV', 7th Sustainability in Aerospace Engineering and Technology, AEROTECH 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing, vol. 405, no. 1, article no. 012003, pp. 1-12. Open access 2 1

Chapters

Year	Output
2019	Kristan, M, Leonardis, A, Matas, J, Felsberg, M, Perera, AG, Chahl, J, Law, YW & He, Z and 147 other authors 2019, 'The sixth visual object tracking VOT2018 challenge results', Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, Springer, Germany, pp 3-53. 37
2019	Perera, AG, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2019, 'UAV-GESTURE: A dataset for UAV control and gesture recognition', Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, Springer, Germany, pp. 117-128. Open access 4
2013	Chahl, J & Mizutani, A 2013, 'Flight control using biomimetic optical sensors', in A Lakhtakia & RJ Martin-Palma (eds), Engineered biomimicry, Elsevier, US, ch. 9, pp. 221-245. 1 1

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2021	Oudah, M, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2021, 'Elderly care based on hand gestures using kinect sensor', vol. 10, no. 1, article no. 5, pp. 1-25. Open access
2020	Chin, Y-W, Kok, JM, Zhu, Y-Q, Chan, W-L, Chahl, JS, Khoo, BC & Lau, G-K 2020, 'Efficient flapping wing drone arrests high-speed flight using post-stall soaring', Science Robotics, vol. 5, no. 44, pp. -. 1 346
2020	Chitsaz, N, Marian, R & Chahl, J 2020, 'Experimental method for 3D reconstruction of Odonata wings (methodology and dataset)', PLoS One, vol. 15, no. 4, article no. e0232193, pp. 1-18. Open access 4 3 2
2020	Chitsaz, N, Marian, R, Chitsaz, A & Chahl, JS 2020, 'Parametric and statistical study of the wing geometry of 75 species of odonata', Applied Sciences (Switzerland), vol. 10, no. 15, article no. 5389, pp. 1-17. Open access 1 1
2020	Jumat, NA, Ogunwa, TT, Abdullah, EJ, Chahl, J, Romli, FI & Abdul Majid, DL 2020, 'Flapping actuation using temperature feedback control of coated shape memory alloy actuators', Microsystem Technologies: Micro and Nanosystems Information Storage and Processing Systems, online, pp. 1-13.
2020	Mahmood, MF, Mohammed, SL, Gharghan, SK, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2020, 'Hybrid coils-based wireless power transfer for intelligent sensors', Sensors, vol. 20, no. 9, article no. 2549, pp. 1-25. Open access 1
2020	McIvor, B & Chahl, J 2020, 'Energy efficiency of linear electromagnetic actuators for flapping wing micro aerial vehicles', Energies, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1-12. Open access 1
2020	Munadhil, Z, Gharghan, S, Mutlag, AH, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2020, 'Neural network-based Alzheimer's patient localization for wireless sensor network in an indoor environment', IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 150527-150538. Open access 2
2020	Oudah, M, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2020, 'Hand gesture recognition based on computer vision: a review of techniques', Journal of Imaging, vol. 6, no. 8, article no. 73, pp. 1-29. Open access 2
2020	Oudah, M, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2020, 'Hand gestures for elderly care using a microsoft kinect', Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 197-204. Open access
2020	Perera, AG, Khanam, F-T-Z, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2020, 'Detection and localisation of life signs from the air using image registration and spatio-temporal filtering', Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1-22. Open access 1 1 27
2020	Perera, AG, Law, YW, Ogunwa, TT & Chahl, J 2020, 'A multiviewpoint outdoor dataset for human action recognition', IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, in press, pp. 1-9. 1
2019	Al-Naji, A, Al-Askery, AJ, Gharghan, SK & Chahl, J 2019, 'A system for monitoring breathing activity using an ultrasonic radar detection with low power consumption', Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1-17. Open access 6 3 4
2019	Al-Naji, A, Perera, AG, Mohammed, SL & Chahl, J 2019, 'Life signs detector using a drone in disaster zones', Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 20, pp. 1-12. Open access 5 6 152
2019	Al-Naji, A, Tao, Y, Smith, I & Chahl, J 2019, 'A pilot study for estimating the cardiopulmonary signals of diverse exotic animals using a digital camera', Sensors, vol.19, no. 24, article no. 5445, pp.1-14. Open access 94
2019	Fakhrulddin, SS, Gharghan, KS, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2019, 'An advanced first aid system based on an unmanned aerial vehicles and a wireless body area sensor network for elderly persons in outdoor environments', Sensors, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. -. Open access 7 5 101
2019	Gharghan, SK, Fakhrulddin, SS, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2019, 'Energy-efficient elderly fall detection system based on power reduction and wireless power transfer', Sensors, vol. 19, no. 20, article no. 4452, pp. 1-18. Open access
2019	Gibson, K, Al-Naji, A, Fleet, J, Steen, M, Esterman, A, Chahl, J, Huynh, J & Morris, S 2019, 'Non-contact heart and respiratory rate monitoring of preterm infants based on a computer vision system: a method comparison study', Pediatric Research, vol. 86, no. 6, pp. 738-741. Open access 5 4 24
2019	Gibson, K, Al-Naji, A, Fleet, J-A, Steen, M, Chahl, J, Huynh, J & Morris, S 2019, 'Noncontact heart and respiratory rate monitoring of preterm infants based on a computer vision system: protocol for a method comparison study', JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 8, no. 8, article no. e13400, pp. 1-9. Open access 1 11
2019	Khanam, F-T-Z, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2019, 'Remote monitoring of vital signs in diverse non-clinical and clinical scenarios using computer vision systems: a review', Applied Sciences (Switzerland), vol. 9, no.20, article no.4474, pp. 1-32. Open access 9 5 4
2019	Perera, A, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2019, 'Drone-action: an outdoor recorded drone video dataset for action recognition', Drones, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1-16. Open access 5 3
2019	Rosser, K & Chahl, J 2019, 'Reducing the complexity of visual navigation: optical track controller for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles', Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1118-1140. 1
2018	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji & Chahl, J 2018, 'Detection of cardiopulmonary activity and related abnormal events using Microsoft Kinect sensor', Sensors, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1-17. Open access 7 5 4
2018	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji & Chahl, J 2018, 'Remote optical cardiopulmonary signal extraction with noise artifact removal, multiple subject detection & long-distance', IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 11573-11595. Open access 7 21
2018	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Chahl, J & Lee, SH 2018, 'Cardiopulmonary signal acquisition from different regions using video imaging analysis', Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 117-131. 4 4 4
2018	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Lee, SH & Chahl, J 2018, 'An efficient motion magnification system for real-time applications', Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 585-600. 8 5
2018	Chin, YW, Ang, Z, Luo, Y, Chan, WL, Chahl, JS & Lau, GK 2018, 'Spring-assisted motorized transmission for efficient hover by four flapping wings', Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol. 10, no. 6, article no. 061014, pp. 1-12. 4 4
2018	Gharghan, SK, Mohammed, SL, Al-Naji, A, Abu-AlShaeer, MJ, Jawad, HM, Jawad, AM & Chahl, J 2018, 'Accurate fall detection and localization for elderly people based on neural network and energy-efficient wireless sensor network', Energies, vol. 11, no. 11, article no. 2866, pp. 1-32. Open access 19 14 3
2018	Liu, H & Chahl, JS 2018, 'A multispectral machine vision system for invertebrate detection on green leaves', Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 150, pp. 279-288. 9 8
2018	Liu, H, Lee, S-H & Chahl, JS 2018, 'Registration of multispectral 3D points for plant inspection', Precision Agriculture, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 513-536. 8 7
2018	Perera, AG, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human pose and path estimation from aerial video using dynamic classifier selection', Cognitive Computation, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1019-1041. Open access 7 5 2
2018	Perera, AG, Law, YW, Al-Naji, A & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human motion analysis from UAV video', International Journal of intelligent Unmanned Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 69-92. 3 3 3
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji & Chahl, J 2017, 'Contactless cardiac activity detection based on head motion magnification', International Journal of Image and Graphics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-18. 8 4
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji & Chahl, J 2017, 'Simultaneous tracking of cardiorespiratory signals for multiple persons using a machine vision system with noise artifact removal', IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, vol. 5, article no. 1900510, pp. 1-10. Open access 12 10
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Gibson, K & Chahl, J 2017, 'Remote sensing of physiological signs using a machine vision system', Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 396-405. Open access 15 6
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Gibson, K, Lee, S-H & Chahl, J 2017, 'Real time apnoea monitoring of children using the Microsoft Kinect sensor: a pilot study', Sensors, vol. 17, no. 2, article number 286, pp. 1-15. Open access 32 25 6
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Gibson, K, Lee, SH & Chahl, J 2017, 'Monitoring of cardiorespiratory signal: principles of remote measurements and review of methods', IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 15776-15790. Open access 34 28 6
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Lee, S-H & Chahl, J 2017, 'Quality index evaluation of videos based on fuzzy interface system', IET Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 292-300. 18 12 4
2017	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Perera, AG & Chahl, J 2017, 'Remote monitoring of cardiorespiratory signals from a hovering unmanned aerial vehicle', BioMedical Engineering OnLine, vol. 16, article no. 101, pp. 1-20. Open access 25 21 128
2017	Liu, H, Lee, S-H & Chahl, JS 2017, 'A multispectral 3D vision system for invertebrate detection on crops', IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-14. Open access 10 7
2017	Liu, H, Lee, S-H & Chahl, JS 2017, 'An evaluation of the contribution of ultraviolet in fused multispectral images for invertebrate detection on green leaves', Precision Agriculture, vol.18, no. 4, pp. 667-683. Open access 7 5
2017	Liu, H, Lee, S-H & Chahl, JS 2017, 'Transformation of a high-dimensional color space for material classification', Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 523-532. Open access 8 8
2016	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji & Chahl, J 2016, 'Noncontact heart activity measurement system based on video imaging analysis', International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 31, no. 2, article no. 1757001, pp. 1-21. 14 9 4
2016	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji & Chahl, J 2016, 'Remote respiratory monitoring system based on developing motion magnification technique', Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 29, pp. 1-10. 28 22
2016	Chahl, J 2016, 'Optical flow and motion detection for navigation and control of biological and technological systems', Journal of Modern Optics, online, pp. 1-18. 2
2016	Dawadee, A, Chahl, J & Nandagopal, D 2016, 'An algorithm for autonomous aerial navigation using landmarks', Journal of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 29, no. 3, article no. 04015072, pp. 1-27. 5 2
2016	Liu, H, Lee, S-H & Chahl, JS 2016, 'A review of recent sensing technologies to detect invertebrates on crops', Precision Agriculture, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 635-666. Open access 22 19 1
2015	Chahl, JS 2015, 'Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) research opportunities', Aerospace, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 189-202. Open access 14 11 2
2015	Kok, J-M & Chahl, J 2015, 'Optimisation of a dragonfly-inspired flapping wing-actuation system', World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. Proceedings, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1495-1502.
2015	Rosser, K, Pavey, K, FitzGerald, N, Fatiaki, A, Neumann, D, Carr, D, Hanlon, B & Chahl, J 2015, 'Autonomous chemical vapour detection by micro UAV', Remote Sensing, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 16865-16882. Open access 16 4 1
2014	Chahl, JS 2014, 'Three biomimetic flight control sensors', International Journal of intelligent Unmanned Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 27-39. 3 1
2014	Kok, JM & Chahl, J 2014, 'Systems-level analysis of resonant mechanisms for flapping-wing flyers', Journal of Aircraft: Devoted to Aeronautical Science and Technology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1833-1841. 7 4
2013	Chahl, JS 2013, 'Range and egomotion estimation from compound photodetector arrays with parallel optical axis using optical flow techniques', Applied Optics, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 368-375. Open access 5 6
2013	Dawadee, A, Chahl, J, Nandagopal, D & Nedic, Z 2013, 'Illumination, scale and rotation invariant algorithm for vision-based UAV navigation', International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1359003.1-1359003.36. 4 3
2012	Chahl, J & Mizutani, A 2012, 'Biomimetic attitude and orientation sensors', IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 289-297. 73 54
2008	Garratt, M & Chahl, JS 2008, 'Vision-based terrain following for an unmanned rotorcraft', Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 25, no. 4-5, pp. 284-301. 75 59

Conferences

Year	Output
2020	Lefik, A, Chahl, JS & Marian, R 2020, 'Concept instrumentation for flapping wing UAVs and MAVs', AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019): HUMS - 11th Defence Science and Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS 2019): ISSFD - 27th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD), Engineers Australia, pp. 406-411. Open access
2020	Porumb, I, McIntyre, T, Marian, R, Dogancay, K & Chahl, J 2020, 'Experimental characterization of a small internal combustion aero engine', AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019): HUMS - 11th Defence Science and Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS 2019): ISSFD - 27th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD), Engineers Australia, pp. 192-196. Open access
2020	Rosser, K, Kok, J, Chahl, J & Bongard, J 2020, 'Sim2real gap is non-monotonic with robot complexity for morphology-in-the-loop flapping wing design', International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020, IEEE, article no. 9196539, pp. 7001-7007.
2019	Chitsaz, N, Marian, R & Chahl, J 2019, 'Bio-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicles material properties and evolutionary fabrication', AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019): HUMS - 11th Defence Science and Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS 2019): ISSFD - 27th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD), Engineers Australia, pp. 425-430. Open access
2019	Chitsaz, N, Yap, N, Marian, R & Chahl, J 2019, 'An introduction to the real based method for 3D aerodynamic analysis of the insect flyers at low reynolds numbers', Joint Congress of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and CFD Society of Canada, Western University, pp. 24-28. Open access
2019	Marian, R, Campbell, D, Jin, Z, Stumptner, M & Chahl, J 2019, 'Challenges in implementing industry 4 laboratories and learning factories in academia', 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), IEEE, pp. 506-510. Open access
2019	Marian, R, Campbell, D, Jin, Z, Stumptner, M & Chahl, J 2019, 'Critical infrastructure for industry 4 laboratories and learning factories in academia', 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), IEEE, pp. 556-560. Open access
2019	Marian, R, Doğançay, K, McIntyre, T, Porumb, I & Chahl, J 2019, 'Modelling of a small internal combustion aero engine', AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019): HUMS - 11th Defence Science and Technology (DST) International Conference on Health and Usage Monitoring (HUMS 2019): ISSFD - 27th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD), Engineers Australia, pp. 198-203. Open access
2019	Mohammed, SL, Al-Naji, A, Farjo, MM & Chahl, J 2019, 'Highly accurate water level measurement system using a microcontroller and an ultrasonic sensor', The 2nd International conference of sustainable applied techniques, Institute of Physics Publishing, vol. 518, article no. 042025, pp. 1-10. Open access 2
2019	Perera, AG, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2019, 'Cross-correlation-based robust object tracking in aerial videos', AIAC18: 18th Australian International Aerospace Congress (2019), Engineers Australia, pp. 222-228. Open access
2019	Rosser, K & Chahl, J 2019, 'Wave scale, speed and direction from airborne video of maritime scene', IEEE, article no. 8946116, pp. 1-7. 1
2018	Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Perera, AG & Chahl, J 2018, 'Remote measurement of cardiopulmonary signal using an unmanned aerial vehicle', 7th Sustainability in Aerospace Engineering and Technology, AEROTECH 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing, vol. 405, no. 1, article no. 012001, pp. 1-11. Open access 4 3
2018	Chahl, JS & Liu, H 2018, 'Bioinspired invertebrate pest detection on standing crops', SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2018, SPIE, vol 10593, pp. 1-15. Open access
2018	Perera, A, Ali Abdulelah Al-Naji, Law, YW & Chahl, J 2018, 'Human detection and motion analysis from a quadrotor UAV', 7th Sustainability in Aerospace Engineering and Technology, AEROTECH 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing, vol. 405, no. 1, article no. 012003, pp. 1-12. Open access 2 1
2016	Kok, J & Chahl, J 2016, 'Design and manufacture of a self-learning flapping wing-actuation system for a Dragonfly-inspired MAV', 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, pp. 1-17. 5
2016	Lee, Y & Chahl, J 2016, 'Design and implementation of a vision-based hovering and feature tracking algorithm for a quadrotor', 6th Innovation in Aerospace Engineering and Technology, AEROTECH 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing, vol. 152, no. 1, article no. 012015, pp. 1-9. Open access 3
2016	Lucas, MA & Chahl, JS 2016, 'Challenges for biomimetic night time sky polarization navigation', in RJ Martin-Palma et al. (eds), 2016 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE, SPIE, vol. 9797, article no. 979702, pp. 1-12. Open access
2015	Carr, D, Chahl, J, Hanlon, B, Rickard, N, Khan, A & Mansell, T 2015, 'The impact of digital diffusion and adaptation on Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS)', 16th Australian Aerospace Congress, Engineers Australia, pp. 73-80.
2015	Chahl, J, Lucas, M, Rosser, K & Maguire, P 2015, 'Kinetic energy does not quantify the safety of personnel and materiel impacted by small UAS', 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC16), Engineers Australia, pp. 81-86.
2015	Dawadee, A, Chahl, J & Nandagopal, N 2015, 'A Method for Autonomous Navigation of UAVs using Landmarks', 16th Australian Aerospace Congress, Informit, pp. 146-152.
2015	Dudley, SR, Rosser, KA & Chahl, J 2015, 'Antenna System Optimisation of UAS Datalinks', in Singh, R (editor), 16th Australian Aerospace Congress, Informit, pp. 159-166.
2015	Dudley, SR, Rosser, KA & Chahl, J 2015, 'Mitigation of multi-path interference in UAS datalinks', Proceedings – Fourth Australasian Conference on Unmanned Systems, Australian Association for Unmanned Systems, pp. 1-6. Open access
2015	Ellis, A, Mizutani, A & Chahl, J 2015, 'Equivalence of magnetometer calibrations and soft iron magnetic field characterisation', 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress, Informit, pp. 167-172.
2015	Kok, JM & Chahl, JS 2015, 'A low-cost simulation platform for flapping wing MAVs', in A Lakhtakia, M Knez & R MartÃn-Palma (eds), Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2015, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 9429, article no. 94290L. Open access 13 5
2015	Kok, JM & Chahl, JS 2015, 'Effects of uneven stroking on the aerodynamic efficiency of a Dragonfly-inspired wing-actuation system', 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress, Engineers Australia, pp. 310-317.
2015	Rosser, K, Drobik, J, Hanlon, B & Chahl, JS 2015, 'Closed-loop alternate navigation demonstration: bi-lateral UAS program', 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress, Engineers Australia, pp. 460-468.
2015	Rosser, K, Fatiaki, A, Ellis, A, Mizutani, A & Chahl, JS 2015, 'Micro-autopilot for research and development', 16th Australian International Aerospace Congress, Engineers Australia, pp. 173-183.
2014	Chahl, J & Mizutani, A 2014, 'Dragonfly hover is primarily mediated by vision', Bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication 2014, SPIE, vol. 9055, article no. 905516, pp. 1-5. Open access
2014	Chahl, JS & Dawadee, A 2014, 'Towards an optical aircraft navigation system', in FI Romli & DL Majid (eds), 5th AEROTECH conference, Trans Tech Publications, vol. 629, pp. 321-326.
2014	Chahl, JS 2014, 'Alternate optical range finder geometries', IEEE Region 10 Symposium, IEEE Press, article no. 6862999, pp. 68-72.
2014	Chahl, JS 2014, 'Optical flow on a linear compound array', Bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9055, article no. 90550B, pp. 1-6. Open access
2014	Khurana, M & Chahl, J 2014, 'Optimization of the leading edge segment of a corrugated wing', in A Lakhtakia & RJ Martín-Palma (eds), Bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication, SPIE, article no. 905517, pp. 1-8. Open access 2 2
2014	Kok, J & Chahl, JS 2014, 'Resonance versus aerodynamics for energy savings in agile natural flyers', Bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9055, article no. 905504, pp. 1-9. 2 1
2013	Chahl, J & Mizutani, A 2013, 'Automatic calibration of magnetic field and acceleration sensors using homogeneous coordinates', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 212-220.
2013	Chahl, J & Mizutani, A 2013, 'Integration and flight test of a biomimetic heading sensor', in RJ Martín-Palma & A Lakhtakia (eds), Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2013, SPIE, vol. 8686, paper no. 86860X, pp. 1-11. 4 3
2013	Chahl, J, Burke, M, Rosser, K & Mizutani, A 2013, 'Development and closed loop flight test of a UAV guided by a polarisation compass', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 1-10.
2013	Chahl, J, Burke, M, Rosser, K & Mizutani, A 2013, 'Flight test of a polarisation compass integrated into an unmanned aerial vehicle autopilot', IFAC IEEE/RAS/EA Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles: 8th IAV 2013, International Federation of Automatic Control, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 23-27.
2013	Chahl, J, Dorrington, G & Mizutani, A 2013, 'The dragonfly flight envelope and its application to micro UAV research and development', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 278-287. 1
2013	Chahl, J, Giese, S, Carr, D & Maguire, P 2013, 'Aerospace vehicle research opportunities supporting current and future unmanned aircraft capabilities', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 255-262.
2013	Chahl, J, Rosser, K & Mizutani, A 2013, 'Axially displaced optical flow sensors for measuring and controlling the landing height of a UAV', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 221-227.
2013	Dawadee, A, Chahl, J & Nandagopal, D 2013, 'A method for landmark extraction for autonomous vision based navigation of UAVs', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 268-277.
2013	Giese, S, Carr, D & Chahl, J 2013, 'Implications for unmanned systems research of military UAV mishap statistics', 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), IEEE Press, pp. 1191-1196. 16 12
2013	Khurana, M & Chahl, J 2013, 'A computational fluid dynamic study of a bioinspired corrugated aerofoil for micro air vehicles', 15th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC15), Australian International Aerospace Congress, pp. 126-140.
2013	Khurana, M & Chahl, JS 2013, 'Bioinspired corrugated airfoils for micro air vehicles', in RJ Martín-Palma & A Lakhtakia (eds), Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication 2013, SPIE, vol. 8686, article no. 86860X, pp. 1-11. 4
2013	Maguire, P, Giese, S, Carr, D & Chahl, JS 2013, 'Unmanned aircraft systems capability research priorities', 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), IEEE Press, article no. 6629550, pp. 708-712.
2012	Chahl, JS 2012, 'Unmanned aerial systems platform research prognosis', in R Varatharajoo et al. (eds), AEROTECH IV - 2012, Trans Tech Publications, vol. 225, pp. 555-560.
2011	Chahl, J, Rosser, K & Mizutani, A 2011, 'Bioinspired optical sensors for unmanned aerial systems', in RJ Martin-Palma & A Lakhtakia (eds), Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, SPIE, vol. 7595, article no. 797503, pp. 1-11. 6 2
2011	Chahl, J, Rosser, K & Mizutani, A 2011, 'Polarisation compassing for UAV navigation', 14th Australian International Aerospace Congress, Engineers Australia, ch. 27, pp. 266-275.
2011	Chahl, J, Rosser, K & Mizutani, A 2011, 'Vertically displaced optical flow sensors to control the landing of a UAV', Conference on Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, SPIE, vol. 7975, article no. 797518, pp. 1-6. 4 2
2011	Mizutani, A, Rosser, K & Chahl, J 2011, 'Semiautomatic calibration and alignment of a low cost, 9 sensor inertial magnetic measurement sensor', Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, SPIE, vol. 7975, article no. 797517, pp. 1-8. 5 3
2011	Mizutani, A, Rosser, K & Chahl, J 2011, 'Semiautomatic calibration of a strap-down attitude and heading reference system', in (eds), AIAC14: Fourteenth Australian Aeronautical Conference, Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division and Engineers Australia, pp. 41-48.
2009	Do, QV, Jain, L & Chahl, JS 2009, 'An Agent-Based Simulation Architecture for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles', in Dr. Elyssebeth Leigh, SIMTECT 2009, Simulation Industry Association Of Australia, pp. 249-253.

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Collaborations

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Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Adelaide Zoo	AUSTRALIA
Alrafidain University College	IRAQ
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	CHINA
Czech Technical University in Prague	CZECH REPUBLIC
Defence Science and Technology Group	AUSTRALIA
Defence Science and Technology Organisation	AUSTRALIA
Department of Defence	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Islamic Azad University	IRAN
Linköping University	SWEDEN
Middle Technical University	IRAQ
Nanyang Technological University	SINGAPORE
National Chiao Tung University	TAIWAN
National University of Singapore	SINGAPORE
Odonatrix Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Odonatrix Pty. Ltd.	AUSTRALIA
Qingdao University of Technology	CHINA
RMIT University	AUSTRALIA
Universiti Putra Malaysia	MALAYSIA
University of Birmingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Ljubljana	SLOVENIA
University of Mosul	IRAQ
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Vermont	UNITED STATES

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Fellow Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS)	2017
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2017
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2017
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2017
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2017
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2017
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2016
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2016
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2016
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2016
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2016
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2015
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2015
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2015
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2015
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2015
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2014
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2014
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2014
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2014
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2014
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2013
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2013
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2013
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2013
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2013
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2012
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2012
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2012
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2012
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2012
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2011
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)	2011
Member International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)	2011
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2011
Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	2011
Member Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)	2010
Member Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)	2010

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Adaptive guidance and control for smart aero propulsion	Current
Aerodynamic optimization of the bio-inspired corrugated flapping wing	Current
Alternate aerial navigation technologies with inspiration from insects	Current
Behavioural navigation; an alternative to coordinate frames	Current
Biomimetic insect antennae for terrain perception with legged robots	Current
Biomimetic processing of direction signals	Current
Contactless vital signs monitoring based on computer vision systems	Current
Development of industry 4 living laboratories in education and research	Current
Flight performance and control of flapping wing systems	Current
Human detection and physiological parameters measurement in UAVs for search and rescue missions	Current
Low resolution reflectance and radiation based aerial navigation aiding techniques	Current
Neuro-Science inspired artificial cognitive computing system: a hierarchical temporal memory and neuromorphic spiking neural networks approach	Current
Optimising asset management in complex stochastic flow networks	Current
Realisation of an operationally viable dragonfly inspired, flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)	Current
Secure Autonomous System Architectures for a Hyperconnected World	Current
System design and development of a Dragonfly inspired micro air vehicle	Current
The importance of digital technology and daptation within recent conflict innovation	Current
Viability and real world performance envelope of passive acoustic sense detect and avoid for small UAVs	Current
Active wing control in a dragonfly-inspired micro air vehicle	Completed
Airborne navigation over terrain using vision	Completed
Computer vision for remote cardiorespiratory monitoring	Completed
Human motion analysis from drone video	Completed
Machine vision for detection of invertebrates on crops	Completed
Modeling of cognitive function during audio distracted driving using EEG	Completed
Towards intelligent missile guidance by applying the multi-layer perceptron	Completed

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