• Projects at JCU and/or Cairns:

  • Colin Lemmon (JCU IT discipline) and I have worked on packet routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks:
    • Boundary Mapping and Boundary State Routing (BSR) in Ad-Hoc Networks, Colin Lemmon and Phillip Musumeci, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7 no. 1 January 2008 (abstract);
    • Cooperative Behaviour of Location Aware Nodes in Ad-hoc Networks, Colin Lemmon and Phillip Musumeci, IEEE-DEST 2007, February 2007, Cairns, Australia. (abstract) (refereed)
    We have also investigated geographic coordinate data updates (with data compression) and trust management in Ad Hoc Networks.

  • Ben Guy (Urban Circus), Nic Bidwell (JCU IT discipline), and I have considered how games engine technology might apply to city (or built environment) planning:
    • GamePlan: Serious Gaming for Place Making, Ben Guy, Nicola Bidwell, and Phillip Musumeci, 2nd Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, November 2005, Sydney, Australia. (ACM portal) (refereed)

  • Cairns JCU IT discipline staff (previously School of IT) have collaborated in the use of games in IT education:
    • Creativity in the Cane Fields: Motivating and Engaging IT Students through games, Colin Lemmon, Nicola Bidwell, Marion Hooper, Chris Gaskett, Jason Holdsworth and Phillip Musumeci, 2nd Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in Computer Science Education. (Feb 2007, refereed)

• Projects at RMIT and/or Melbourne:

  • Genevieve Coath (RMIT) and I have worked on image analysis algorithms for RoboCup. Some of our work to produce a RoboCup vision system that was not dependent on known object colouring is described in:
    • Adaptive Arc Fitting for Ball Detection in RoboCup, Genevieve Coath and Phillip Musumeci, Australian Pattern Recognition Society, WDIC2003 (Brisbane February 2003). ISBN: 0-9580255-2-5 (refereed)
    News May 2007: Genevieve has completed a PhD in the Dynamic Systems and Control Group, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Uni of Melbourne.

  • I have led small industrial R&D teams developing Ultra High Speed Continuous Paper Inkjet Printers.
    • Phillip Musumeci, Multi Layer Continuous Paper Printer, International Patent Number WO011244, publication date 22-Feb-2001 (various translations).
    Other info: project team and time-lines (for a 6-layer printer using a Form Flo collator and a 200 feet/minute 1-layer printer presented at the Dusseldorf 2000 DRUPA trade show using a Dimuken paper transport system); XAAR inkjet print heads (Cambridge UK); core team members who completed PhD study are Evan Greensmith (ANU Systems Engineering 2005) and James Webb (UNSW/ADFA Electrical Engineering 2009).

• Other Interests:

  • Regional Creative Industries: As a member of a creative industries working party within the cluster group program of the Cairns Regional Economic Development Corporation, survey questions were developed to measure current (2006) CI activity. Analysis by Cummings Economics led to the report The Ideas Economy: Creative Industries - their size, worth and impact in Far North Queensland in May 2008.

  • Optimal Filtering and Array Processing: My PhD (Optimal Array Processing for Seismic Inversion, ANU, supervisor Darrell Williamson) developed 2-d/3-d array processing algorithms and 1-d seismic inversion algorithms for use in tomographic analysis of earth structures. Selected papers:
    • Fast Design of Optimal Array Filters, Phillip Musumeci, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Adelaide, Australia, pp.V509-V512, April 1994. ISBN 0-7803-1775-0;
    • P. Musumeci and D. Williamson, Optimum Two-Dimensional Array Filters, Proceedings of the 1989 Australian Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, Adelaide, Australia, pp.373-376, April 1989;
    • D. Williamson, P. Agathoklis, and P. Musumeci, Discrete Modelling for Solving One-Dimensional Inversion on Finite Media, IEEE CDC Proceedings, Austin, Texas, USA, pp.1892-1896, December 1988;
    • D. Williamson, K.L. Teo, and P.C. Musumeci, Optimum FIR Array Filters, IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-36, no. 8, pp.1211-1222, August 1988;

  • Image Coding: I have worked in a team performing research on coding algorithms that efficiently handle digital image sequences at different (but related) spatial resolutions from HDTV to videophones. This collaborative work involved ADFA, Telstra, Siemens, with Australian Government support, and was based at ADFA, Canberra.
    • J. Arnold, M. Cavenor, P. Musumeci and C. Sholl, "Coding Scheme for Flexible Interworking of Video Services on B-ISDN", Packet Video Workshop, 1991.

  • Modern Control Applications: I worked with Bob Bitmead in the ANU Systems Engineering Department on design and implementation of optimal control algorithms to control speed of steam turbines driving sugar milling units. This work led to better quality of control from less actuator use, allowing the plant to run more productively. This collaborative work involved ANU Systems Engineering and Bob Bitmead (now at UCSD Mech and Aerospace Eng), the CSR sugar mill at Ingham (also the site of trials), and was funded by CSR.
    • Phillip Musumeci and Bob Bitmead, LQG Control of Sugar Cane Crushing, ANU and CSR Report, 1990.

  • Microprocessor/DSP Real-time Systems: Application areas include mechanical harvesters, automotive body flexing analysis (Ford/RMIT), audio compression and embedded unix (Trio Datacom), fire station monitoring (CFA), reptile monitoring (JCU).

Dec 2008