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Model project
improves airport security
 New software developed by a team of researchers
headed by Professor Saeid Nahavandi is revolutionising airport
security around the globe and helping make travel not only
safer but also more streamlined.
Professor Nahavandi, an expert in robotics and haptics as
well as computer modeling, is Director of the Centre of Intelligent
Systems, part of Deakin’s new Institute for Technology
Research and Innovation.
Professor Nahavandi’s dynamic team has developed an
innovative software platform — believed to be the first
of its kind in the world—that allows the simulation
of baggage-handling systems to determine how they would cope
with changes to airport security.
The software simulates the way a baggage handling system at
a typical airport would cope with upgrades to security systems,
taking into account individual airport infrastructure, flight
schedules and other variants.
“It allows us to run a simulation to see where bottlenecks
would occur, therefore helping airports to plan for upgrades
to security without creating huge problems with efficiency
and delays to passengers,’’
Professor Nahavandi
said.
A number of major international airports have already approached
Deakin to run simulations so that they could perform security
upgrades.
“Some major international airports we have been working
with wanted to put new screening security machines in and
we assisted them by looking at how it affected overall airport
systems,’’ Professor Nahavandi said.
“It helps airports plan to reduce costs and the risk
of making mistakes in terms of productivity and security if
they go ahead and make their planned changes,’’
he said.
"If you go ahead and change parts of the system without
having a simulation model of the environment, it can prove
very costly.
"For rapid simulation, the software platform was created
to cut down the time traditional systems would have taken
for a concept, such as a change of layout or putting in new
machines, to become an actual change. Information such as
flight schedules will go into the system, as will performances
of the subsystems or screening machines, as well as the rate
of failures.”
The team was also looking at systems for air cargo and passenger
screening, Professor Nahavandi said.
Professor Nahavandi said the software could also be used in
the manufacturing and healthcare sectors.
Previous stories on Professor Saeid Nahavandi:
http://www.gsdm.com.au/newsletters/deakin/july06/haptics.html
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