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DR CHRIS MANZIE



Contact Details

Organization: Mechanical Engineering
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.mame.mu.oz.au/people/staff/chris_manzie.html
Work: 83446731
Building: Mechanical Engineering
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2001

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award 31-Dec-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Compositional determination of liquefied petroleum gas: improving engine cold start performance in multipoint lpg-injected engines Chief Investigator FORD MOTOR COMPANY,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
LOW EMISSION, GAS TURBINE AIR COMPRESSOR (GTAC) DEMONSTRATOR Chief Investigator CASH RESEARCH SCREW COMPRESSORS PTY LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
EFFICIENT AND PRACTICAL HYDROGEN FUELLED VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES Chief Investigator DEPT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES - VIC Energy Technology Innovation Strategy (DEPT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT) 20/08/2007
Enhancing the fidelity of low-cost human-in-the-loop physical sailboat simulators Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
VIRTUAL SAILING PTY LTD
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008
Practical wall-turbulence drag reduction through adaptive control Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Extremum seeking control: analysis, design and applications Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
INTEGRATION OF ACTIVE RUDDER ON SAILING SIMULATOR Chief Investigator VIRTUAL SAILING PTY LTD 19/08/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Electromechanical Brake Modeling and Control: From PI to MPC
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 446-457
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A tool for the automation of simulation studies
    Year: 2008
    Event name: UKSim Tenth International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (EUROSIM/UKSim2008)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings. UKSim Tenth International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (EUROSIM/UKSim2008)
    Page numbers: 169-174
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Explicit Nonlinear MPC of an Automotive Electromechanical Brake
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 10758-10763
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Fuel Economy Benefits of Look-ahead Capability in a Mild Hybrid Configuration
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 5646-5651
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Fuel economy improvements for urban driving: Hybrid vs. intelligent vehicles
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Transportation Research Part C - Emerging Technologies
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-16
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  • Misfire-misfuel classification using support vector machines
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering
    Volume: 221
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1183-1195
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  • The forced response of choked nozzles and supersonic diffusers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
    Volume: 585
    Page numbers: 281-304
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Discrete time extremum seeking using stochastic perturbations
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3096-3101
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Robust control of an automotive electromechanical brake
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Fifth IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings for the Fifth IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A comparison of fuel consumption between hybrid and intelligent vehicles during urban driving
    Year: 2006
    Journal: J. Automobile Engineering
    Volume: 220
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 67-76
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Electromechanical brake control: limitations of, and improvements to, a cascaded PI control architecture
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 10th Mechatronics Forum Biennial International Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings 10th Mechatronics Forum Biennial International Conference
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Pennsylvania State University(State College)
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  • Optimization of cold start automotive fuel economy using a spark timing strategy
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3583-3588
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Trailer steering: an Australian research perspective and application for by-wire control
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions
    Conference Publication: Proceedings 9th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Pennsylvania State University(State College)
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Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A novel approach to coordinated stability control of vehicles
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Intelligent Vehicles and Road Infrastructure
    Conference Publication: Intelligent Vehicles and Road Infrastructure
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: SAE Australasia(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Control of an electromechanical brake for automotive brake-by-wire system with an adapted motion control architecture
    Year: 2005
    Event name: SAE 2004 Automotive Dynamics, Stability & Controls Conference and Exhibition
    Conference Publication: SAE 2004 Automotive Dynamics, Stability & Controls Conference and Exhibition
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 13-23
    Publisher: SAE International(Detroit)
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  • Indicated torque reconstruction from instantaneous engine speed in a six-cylinder SI engine using support vector machines
    Year: 2005
    Event name: SAE World Congress 2005
    Conference Publication: Electronic Engine Control 2005,SAE World Congress
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: SAE International(Detroit)
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  • Intelligent classification of engine misfire and misfuel using support vector machines
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Intelligent Vehicles and Road Infrastructure
    Conference Publication: Intelligent vehicles and road infrastructure
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: SAE Australasia(Melbourne)
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  • Modelling combustion variability in LPG injected engines for improved engine performance at idle
    Year: 2005
    Event name: SAE 2004 World Congress
    Conference Publication: SAE 2004 World Congress
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 13-23
    Publisher: SAE International(Detroit)
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  • On the potential for improving fuel economy using a traffic flow sensor network
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 2005 International Conference on Intelligent Sensing & information Processing
    Conference Publication: Procceedings of ICISIP - 2005
    Page numbers: 38-43
    Publisher: IEEE(Chennai)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Intelligent computing methods for indicated torque reconstruction
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 2004 Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks & Information Processing Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2004 Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks & Information Processing Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 259-264
    Publisher: IEEE Press(Melbourne)
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  • Linear and nonlinear acoustic behaviour of outlet nozzles
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: University of Sydney(Sydney)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A novel approach to disturbance rejection in idle speed control towards reduced idle fuel consumption
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering
    Volume: 217
    Issue: D8
    Page numbers: 677-690
    Publisher: Professional Engineering Publishing(Bury St Edmunds)
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  • Estimation of the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio in liquefied Petroleum gas injected engines
    Year: 2003
    Journal: SAE Transactions - Journal of Fuels & Lubricants
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1422-1428
    Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers(Warrendale)
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  • Modelling the effects of combustion variability for application to idle speed control in SI engines
    Year: 2003
    Journal: SAE Transactions - Journal of Fuels & Lubricants
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 2494-2503
    Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers(Warrendale)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An idle speed controller for reduced cyclic variability and fuel consumption
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The 12th International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineers
    Conference Publication: Motor Vehicles Towards Globalisation
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers(Bangkok)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Effects of moving the centers in an RBF network
    Year: 2002
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1299-1307
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  • Model predictive control of a fuel injection system with a radial basis function network observer
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
    Volume: 124
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 648-658
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A model predictive approach to disturbance rejection in idle speed control
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 4th Asian Control Conference
    Conference Publication: The 4th Asian Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1492-1497
    Publisher: The 2002 Asian Control Conference
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  • Air fuel ratio control in liquified petroloeum gas injected SI engines
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
    Conference Publication: 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control
    Page numbers: 1081-1086
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Gaussian networks for fuel injection control
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering
    Volume: 215
    Issue: D10
    Page numbers: 1053-1068
    Publisher: Professional Engineering Publishing(Bury St Edmunds)
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