Opinion and features
Creating the future of medical technology in South Africa
World Creativity and Innovation Day is celebrated annually on 21 April. In an opinion piece for the Mail & Guardian, Prof Sara Grobbelaar from the Department of...
Engineering and technology
Enhancing Customer Engagement in E-commerce: Improving E-Marketing Open Rates through Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
Marketing is a cornerstone of business success. Its aim is straightforward: to generate revenue by promoting, selling, and distributing products or services to...
Engineering and technology
The Development of a Smart Monitoring System for Solar PV Plants by Employing AES-encrypted LoRa Wireless Sensor Networks
Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is a cornerstone of sustainable energy solutions. Yet, ensuring the efficiency and reliability of large-scale solar...
Engineering and technology
Open-Set Learning with Augmented Category by Exploiting Unlabelled Data (Open-LACU)
The rapid growth of real-world datasets, whether in computer vision, audio processing, or medical diagnosis, demands robust and flexible classifiers. One key...
Engineering and technology
Development and Verification of an Electro-Mechanical Docking Mechanism for Flight
Space exploration increasingly relies on small satellites, particularly nanosatellites like CubeSats, to carry out various missions. As the number of CubeSats...
Engineering and technology
Inverter Control to Mitigate Voltage Unbalance on Low Voltage Electricity Networks
In many rural parts of South Africa, power is delivered using single-wire earth-return systems that originate from three-phase networks. This electrification...
Engineering and technology
Mapping Real-World Objects into Virtual Reality to Facilitate Interaction using 6DoF Pose Estimation
Virtual reality (VR) has been studied for decades, but only recently has it reached the kind of mainstream visibility that fuels intensive R&D. In this thesis...
Engineering and technology
Faculty of Engineering Students to Represent South Africa at Global Space Competition
Seven postgraduate students from the Faculty of Engineering have been selected to represent South Africa at the Mission Idea Contest (MIC), a global space...
Engineering and technology
SUMediPose: A 2D-3D pose estimation dataset
Biomechanical research has long faced a significant challenge: obtaining precise human movement data. Highly accurate marker-based motion capture systems are...
Engineering and technology
Wireless Dendrometer and Environmental Sensing System for Tree Growth Monitoring
Here's what keeps forestry researchers up at night: How do you monitor thousands of trees across vast plantations when a single commercial dendrometer costs...