{"id":4724,"date":"2010-10-29T06:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/pothole-days-are-numbered\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:37","slug":"pothole-days-are-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/pothole-days-are-numbered\/","title":{"rendered":"Pothole days are numbered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as technology he will present at Univation<\/strong><\/a> may one day let trucks feed data on poor roads back to maintenance managers, Curtin Professor of Mining Engineering Roger Thompson<\/strong><\/a> hopes feedback from the event will ease the invention’s transition to market.<\/p>\n

Professor Thompson says systems like the Real-time Haul Road Condition Monitoring one he will showcase next week at Univation will one day be integral to mine maintenance and centralised fleet control.<\/p>\n

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Professor Roger Thompson will present at Univation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He says there are no real-time systems on the market which feed what a truck is “feeling” on mine site roads through to maintenance managers.<\/p>\n

However, a prototype has been developed that integrates accelerometer and sensing technologies with vehicle control and suspension to detect anomalies in road surfaces to a sensitivity of 50mm.<\/p>\n

“Why not let the truck tell us what’s wrong with the road as it drives along?” Professor Thompson posed.<\/p>\n

“It’s closing the link in road maintenance between what the vehicle feels and what needs to be done to fix the road.”<\/p>\n

Professor Thompson said that some companies were interested in harnessing the technology for specific applications.<\/p>\n

But further work was needed to broaden its applicability to a range of road and vehicle types.<\/p>\n

This included the possibility of adapting the tool to instantly reporting potholes on public roads.<\/p>\n

He said that events like Univation<\/strong><\/a> would help in this process of product development.<\/p>\n

“One of the aims is to better communicate what’s happening at the University to industry,” Professor Thompson said.<\/p>\n

He said that university innovators could also benefit from industry feedback on what applications of technology were important to the business community.<\/p>\n

“That will help us understand where the real market value lies, to get a better idea of where we’re adding value as opposed to just solving a (theoretical) problem,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s really about alignment of the research with corporate goals.<\/p>\n

“I think Univation<\/strong><\/a> is an opportunity to deliver some more information to a slightly higher level person in an organisation so they can learn what’s being developed or researched in their area.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curtin professor hopes to banish potholes to the backblock of history, with a little help from Univation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:14:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}