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Smart Industries : Design and Development of Mechatronic and Cyber-Physical Systems
ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
Dr S Veera Ragavan Senior Lecturer PhD
Research expertise : Factory Automation , System Integration , Embedded Systems , Software Development , Industry 4.0
E : veera . ragavan @ monash . edu T : + 603 5514 6236
Operation and Planning under High Penetration of Renewable Energy : Towards Flexible and Resilient Smart Grid
Dr Tan , Wen Shan Lecturer PhD
Research expertise : Power System Operation and Planning , Renewable Energy Integration , Energy Storage , Peer-To-Peer Energy Trading , Demand Response , Blockchain , Artificial Intelligent .
E : tan . wenshan @ monash . edu T : + 603 5514 5616
The Fourth Industrial Revolution ( Industry 4.0 ) has kick-started a growing product development trend , which tends to blend electro-mechanics , digital electronics , distributed control , intelligence , the internet , and cloud computing elements into a single integrated system , popularly known as “ Mechatronics Systems ”. Recently , a subset of mechatronic products and systems – characterized by concurrent , dynamic and real-time interactions among subsystems from “ Cyber ” and “ Physical ” domains – are being increasingly called Cyber- Physical Systems ( CPS ). CPS , like Mechatronics systems , need to be designed as “ a whole ”.
Modern civilizations have always required some form of clean , abundant , and cheap supply of renewable energy such as solar and wind generation , in order to prosper socially and economically . Recent years , solar generation is getting wide acceptance among Malaysian community . Integration of intermittent renewable generation into smart grids has not only increased the complexities in power system operations , but also magnified the need for balancing and , therefore , short-term flexible resources to maintain system reliability . In contrast , secure and reliable electric power grid operation is important to social wellbeing . Natural disasters such as flood , hurricane , earthquake and etc ., may cause blackout , which increase the needs of resilience smart grid .
Design synthesis and design automation have become difficult problems as existing methods account only for signal and not energy interactions . Model-driven development can overcome design synthesis and end-to-end design automation problems . CPS system design has implications beyond its traditional domains such as smart transportation systems , smart factories , homes , smart buildings and community , smart energy systems and remote monitoring systems . Today it extends even to healthcare , cyber-physical biochip , and wearable devices .
Currently , I am focus on various optimization frameworks for smart grid with renewable energy integration , which cover stochastic generation scheduling , peer-topeer energy trading , microgrid , virtual power plant , smart home and smart building , transportable energy storage , as well as resilience-based smart grid operation .
Mechatronic drive train with regenerative braking for energy scavenging and optimisation
Development of services-based telematics framework for intelligent coordination of mobile assets for smart cities .
Peer-to-Peer energy trading
Smart grid with hurricane weather moving trajectory
R E S E A R C H E R P R O F I L E 2022 / 2023