Year at a Glance

2020

YEAR AT A GLANCE

OVER $7 MILLION IN RESEARCH INCOME 6 NEW EXTERNALLY FUNDED (CATEGORY 2-4) PROJECTS COMMENCED 2 CATEGORY 1 RESEARCH PROJECTS AWARDED 4 PhD COMPLETIONS 17 COMMENCING HDR STUDENTS

114% OF FULL YEAR CATEGORY 2-4 FUNDING TARGET REACHED 129% OF FULL YEAR CATEGORY 1 FUNDING TARGET REACHED 78% OF JOURNAL ARTICLES IN Q1 & Q2 JOURNALS 86% OF JOURNAL ARTICLES IN ARWU

(ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD UNIVERSITIES)

2020

CON t EN t S

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 2 Year at a Glance 4 Chairperson’s Report 6 Director’s Report 8 Discovery in the world of uncertainty 10 IISRI Early Career Researchers and

Higher Degree Research Students leading the way 16 Research and Collaboration highlights 28 Defence Research Highlights 29 2020 PhD Completions 30 Board Members 2020

31 Executive Team 2020 32 Honours and Awards 33 Financial Summary 34 Publications 2020

IISRI EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS AND HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH STUDENTS 11 Hi-fidelity motion simulator awarded 12 An update from Dr Parham Mohsenzadeh Kebria,

Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow 13 Research in the space environment 14 Learning-based model predictive control for autonomous vehicle

RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION HIGHLIGHTS 16 $6 million Australian Army funding drives Deakin's autonomous vehicle research 18 IISRI delivers high-fidelity motion simulators using advanced motion cueing algorithms. 20 IISRI Researchers develop 3D digital twin for carbon revolution 22 Tracking satellites in motion 23 Tinnitus objective detection using brain imaging 24 iPupilX monitoring our childrens harmful habits 26 Unlocking the art of teleoperation

DEFENCE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 28 Sovereign capability on the agenda at Deakin's Defence and Security Symposium