Jonathan Tapson
Background
I am a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Cape Town. My research interests are in intelligent
systems, including sensor networks and neural networks. I also occasionally develop new sensors, some
of which have been patented and commercially produced.
Some Recent Publications
2006: G. Goldswain and J.
Tapson, Kernel ridge
regression for volume fraction prediction in electrical impedance tomography,
Meas. Sci. Technol. 17, 2711-2720,
(2006).
2006: J. Tapson, Supercritical Stability in a Sonar
Receiver Circuit, presented at IEEE ISCAS ’06 in May 2006.
2006: J. Tapson, Enhanced detection in resonant sensors
using a self-tuned supercritical Hopf bifurcation, in submission to Proc.
SAIEE.
2005: J. Tapson and J.R. Greene, Plant data visualization using non-negative matrix
factorization, Presented at IFAC World Congress, Prague 2005.
2004: D. Stuart-Watson and J. Tapson, A Novel Force-Feedback
Accelerometer / Seismometer Based on a Tuning Fork Sensor, Rev. Sci. Instrum.,
75 (9), 3045-3049, (2004).
2003: D. Stuart-Watson and J. Tapson, A Simple Force Balance Accelerometer /
Seismometer Based on a Tuning Fork Displacement Sensor, Proc. 1st
African Control Conference, Cape Town, 2003.
2002: A.B. Mann, J. Tapson, D. van Heerden, A.C. Lewis, D. Josell and
T.P. Weihs, Apparatus to
measure wafer curvature for multilayer systems in a vacuum furnace, Rev.
Sci. Instrum., 73 (4), 1821-1827, (2002).
2001: G. Teague, J. Tapson and Q. Smit, Neural
network reconstruction for tomography of a gravel-air-seawater mixture,
Meas. Sci. Technol. 12, 1102-1108, (2001).
Some Recent PhD Graduates From My Research Group
2006: David Stuart-Watson, PhD Thesis:
A Simple
Force Feedback Accelerometer Based on a Tuning Fork Displacement Sensor.
2003: Gavin Teague, PhD Thesis: Mass Flow Measurement of Multi-Phase Mixtures by Means of Tomographic Techniques. Gavin currently works for Peralex.
Start-Up Companies
The following companies have spun out of our research group in the last
few years:
Hot Platinum www.hotplatinum.com
Cell-life www.cell-life.org
Motornostix www.motornostix.com