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3 projects funded by industry (S$2.67million)
• Integrated Antenna Array System for Millimetre Wave
Electronically Scanned radar (Delphi Automotive). PI - Prof
Lu Yilong
• NTU-NI Wireless Research Programme (National
Instruments). PI – Prof Ting See Ho
• Digital TV Signal Survey (Mediacorp Singapore). PI
- Prof Soong Boon Hee
NTU-MINDEF Protective Technology Research Centre
(PTRC)
Director: Professor Pan Tso-Chien
Mission
The threefold mission of PTRC is:
• To spearhead research efforts in developing advanced
protective technology;
• To provide scientific and engineering solutions to meet the
national needs in weapons and defence systems; and
• To address emerging national challenges for both
government and industry in the field of protective technology
and homeland security.
Research Focus
PTRC focuses its activities on three functional areas:
(1) Research and Development
(2) Education and Training
(3) Technology Transfer
The functional areas comprise the following activities:
• Conducting focused R&D programmes in dynamic
and weapon effects on buildings and infrastructures
• Establishing collaborations with local and foreign
universities, research centres, and industries
• Effecting technology transfer
• Maintaining a resource centre
• Providing specialised advisory services
Research Facilities
The Protective Engineering Laboratory housed in the School
of Civil and Environmental Engineering is designed to conduct
dynamic load testing of full-scale structural components. The
laboratory has a system of L-shaped reaction walls with
multi-cell design, a large shake table that can stimulate
earthquake ground motions, and many dynamic actuators of
various capacities to support protective engineering research.
Highlights of Research Activity
NTU-MINDEF Protective Technology Research Centre was
established on 29 September 1998 via a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Defence
(MINDEF) and NTU. Under the strong leadership of Professor
Pan Tso-Chien, PTRC has developed into the leading centre
of excellence in underground technology and rock
engineering, as well as building security. This is prominently
reflected in PTRC’s contribution of essential technologies
towards the engineering as well as the construction of
underground ammunition facilities. Besides building up
PTRC’s strength in underground technology and rock
engineering, the PTRC research team has also completed a
milestone study on the response of high-rise commercial
buildings to blast loading. The study results have not only
helped identify the R&D needs for building protections in the
post-911 era, but also provided the basis from which a
national programme on building protection was initiated.
Associated with this, PTRC/NTU has signed an MOU with the
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in February 2010 to provide a
general framework for collaboration on education, research
and development and technical consultancy projects in
Building Security.
Robotics Research Centre (RRC)
Director: Associate Professor Gerald Seet Gim Lee
Mission
• To consolidate, focus and accelerate robotics
research activities within the University;
• To bring together researchers in the area of robotics
into a conducive environment equipped with
state-of-the-art research facilities;
• To cooperate with industrial partners and
government agencies in fields of strategic
importance to robotics;
• To provide consultancy services to the local
industry in robotics and related areas.
Research Activities
The Centre emphasises its research on:
• Customised robotic solution for hazardous applications;
• Domain applications: underwater robotic vehicles,
underwater imaging, mixed-multi agent collaboration,
biomedical manipulation and sensing;
• Mobile robotic “hardware-in-loop” simulation.
The Robotics Research Centre (RRC) was formed in May
1994, as an inter-school centre of the Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. Today RRC has equipment assets of
over S$5 Million and research grants amounting to
S$10Million. The RRC remains firmly focused on intelligent
robotic systems in specialised application. The RRC provides
modern state-of-the-art equipment and a stimulating
environment for those who are participating in research
activities. Research facilities include high speed imaging and
laser illumination system, complex mobile robot systems,
industrial manipulators, dynamic simulation and analysis
software, suite of sensors and mobile platforms, including the
Segway HT and MRP, and the ARGO ATRV.
The centre is consulted by defence and industrial sectors for
robotic/mechatronic solutions. It has graduated over 60
M.Eng. and Ph.D. researchers, and currently supports over 40
researchers. It addition, it hosts research attachments of
students from various countries including; Korea, France,
Switzerland, India and Poland. The RRC has become
synonymous with robotics research and application in
Singapore and the region.
VIRTUS – IC Design Centre of Excellence
Director: Professor Atila Alvandpour
Vision
To become a global IC design power hub for creative and
innovative excellence.
Mission
To provide the highest quality in education and create
leading-edge research in IC design so as to shore up future
new research areas and industries.
Research Activities
The centre comprises 5 research groups, namely,
• Analog, mixed-signal, power management and data
converters :
Op-amps and instrumentation amplifiers, baseband
amplifiers, comparators, multipliers, voltage references,
power-control circuits, regulators & dc-dc converters;
continuous-time & discrete-time filters; non-linear analog
circuits, synthesizers, PLLs; power management circuits;
Nyquist-rate and oversampling A/D and D/A converters;
sample-and-hold circuits.