Adrian Bonchis

Adrian Bonchis

Robotics Control Specialist

Contact

PO Box 883
Kenmore Qld 4069

1 Technology Court
Pullenvale Qld 4069

Tel: 61 7 3327 4041
Mob: 0439 537 401
Fax: 61 7 3327 4455

Themes

  • Future Mining

Projects

  • Mine Automation and Sensing
  • Orica Automated Delivery System
  • Rio Tinto Rock Breaker
  • Shovel Load Assist

Science Area

  • Robotics

Academic Qualifications

2001 PhD University of Sydney, Systems and Control
1989 BEng Polytechnic Institute "Traian Vuia", Timisoara, Romania

Recent Professional Experience

2005-Present Project Leader, ICT Centre
2004-2005 Research Manager, Beeline Technologies P/L
2000-2004 Senior Control Systems Engineer, Beeline Technologies P/L
1997-2000 Postgraduate Research Student, University of Sydney
1994-1997 Factory Automation Engineer, Trimore Pty Ltd, Adelaide

Achievements & Awards

2003 R&DStart Grant, "Autonomous Vehicle for Agriculture", AUD2.4M.

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Books/Book chapters 0
Journal 2
Refereed Conference/Workshop 6
Technical/Client Reports 5
Invited Presentations 0
Patents 1

Grants

2003 R&DStart Grant, "Autonomous Vehicle for Agriculture", AUD2.4M.

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Bonchis, A., et al, Experiments in Autonomous Earth Moving, the 18th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 28 August - 3 September 2011, Milan, Italy.
Bonchis, A., Corke, P.I., Model Identification for Dragline Swing Assist Control Design, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, July 6-8, 2009, Saint-Malo, France
Bonchis, A.; Corke, P.I.; Rye, D.C., Experimental evaluation of position control methods for hydraulic systems, Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Volume 10, Issue 6, Nov. 2002 Page(s):876 - 882
Bonchis, A., Corke, P. I., Rye, D. C. Rye, and Ha, Q. P., Variable structure methods in hydraulic servo systems control Automatica, Volume 37, Issue 4 , April 2001, Pages 589-595
Bonchis, A., Corke, P.I., Rye, D.C., A pressure-based, velocity independent, friction model for asymmetric hydraulic cylinders, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 10-15 May, Volume 3, Page(s):1746 - 1751.
Ha, Q.P., Bonchis, A., Rye, D.C., Durrant-Whyte, H.F., Variable structure systems approach to friction estimation and compensation. Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 24-28 April, Volume 4, Page(s):3543 - 3549.
Bonchis, A., Rye, D.C., Corke, P.I., A Comparative Study of Variable Structure and Model Reference Adaptive Control for Hydraulic Servo Systems, Proceedings ACRA, Melbourne, August 2000, Pages 197-202.
Duff E., Taylor, T., Caris, C., Bonchis, A., Gunn, C. and Adcock, M.(2009) The Development of a Tele-Robotic Rock Breaker, in proceedings of 7th International Conference on Field and Service Robots (FSR 2009), Cambridge, MA, USA, July, 2009.

Number of citations

ISI 31
Google Scholar 137