CRC for Plant Biosecurity - Felipe Gonzalez

UAVs take centre stage at innovation showcase

CRICHTONA — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:59:32 +0000

On Wednesday 7 December the CRCNPB took part in the AusIndustry Innovation in Australia showcase in Brisbane.

At the showcase the CRCNPB displayed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which was quite dramatic when hung in the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre.

With the UAV hanging high above the CRCNPB stand, it helped to draw a lot of interest to the stand, including from the former Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, the Hon Kim Carr.

UAVs play an integral role in the CRCNPB’s Flying Spore Traps project (CRC30032).

CRCNPB staff members Max Knobel and Andrew Crichton were joined on the stand by researchers from QUT who work on the project, Felipe Gonzalez, Richard Glassock and Federica Solda.

It was a delicate process hanging the UAV in the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre.

CRCNPB Communications Manager, Max Knobel, discusses UAVs with Minister Kim Carr.

The UAV hangs above the CRCNPB stand.

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Development of an autonomous unmanned aerial system to collect time-stamped samples from the atmosphere and localize potential pathogen sources

CRICHTONA — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:49:28 +0000

Development of an autonomous unmanned aerial system to collect time-stamped samples from the atmosphere and localize potential pathogen sources

Performance Analysis of Flying Spores Detection System for Plant Biosecurity Management

CRICHTONA — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:17:57 +0000

Dr Felipe Gonzalez

VANMEURSA — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:49:01 +0000

My name is Dr Felipe Gonzalez and my role at CRC for National Plant Biosecurity is joint project manager and primary investigator on the CRC30032: Flying Spore Traps project.

I completed my PhD in Aeronautical Engineering at The University of Sydney in 2006, my research area is multi-disciplinary design optimisation. I have published five journal papers, three book chapters and 28 refereed conference papers on the topic.

I am originally from South America and the thing I miss the most is my family.

Living in Brisbane is fantastic, good friends and really good research and academic environment at both Queensland University of Technology and Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation.

My favourite or ideal holiday destination is anywhere because I seem to always find new ways and culture wherever I go.

In my spare time, I enjoy leisure time with my family and learning to fly.

At the moment I am reading the bizarre mix of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Dynamics of Flight: Stability and Control by Bernard Etkin.

If money was no option, I would resolve poverty.

A quality I would most like to be remembered for is perseverance.