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Research interests
Alan Hunter is a Senior Lecturer in mechanical engineering and integrated mechanical / electrical engineering at Bath, and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. His research interests are in underwater acoustics, signal processing, imaging, and machine intelligence. He is particularly interested in applications in underwater remote sensing using sonar and marine robotics.
Alan is a member of the University of Bath's Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory, the Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC@Bath), and the Centre for Space, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Science. He is also a Member of the Institute of Acoustics (IoA), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
Biography
Alan was born in New Zealand and studied at the University of Canterbury (NZ), obtaining a BE(Hons I) degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 2001 and a PhD on synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) in 2006. He left New Zealand for Europe in 2007.
For the next three years, Alan was a research associate at the University of Bristol, where he worked with ultrasonic arrays for non-destructively inspecting engineering components. Here, he developed auto-focusing algorithms for imaging the interiors of objects with complex geometries and material properties.
In 2010, he moved to the Netherlands and spent four years as a defence scientist at TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Research) in The Hague. At TNO, he developed underwater technologies for the Royal Dutch Navy, including sub-sediment imaging sonar, diver detection sonar, and autonomous naval mine-hunting systems.
Before returning to England in 2014, Alan spent three months in La Spezia, Italy as a visiting scientist at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE). During this time, he developed precision micro-navigation algorithms for SAS imaging of the seafloor over repeated passes.
Research areas
Willing to supervise doctoral students
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Underwater acoustics
- Synthetic aperture sonar imaging of the seafloor
- Low-frequency broadband acoustic scattering
- Non-destructive inspection using ultrasonic arrays
- Marine robotics and autonomous systems
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Projects
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IAA - OCEAN2020: Realtime Detection of Underwater Targets from the Autonaut Autonomous Surface Vehicle
Hunter, A., Blondel, P. & Wilson, P.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
6/04/20 → 31/03/21
Project: Research council
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KTP with Seiche Water Technology Group Limited
30/03/20 → 29/03/23
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Multispectral Synthetic Aperture Sonar Data Products
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1/01/20 → 31/05/21
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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IAA 322 - Multispectral sonar transducers for the Kraken-Thuderfish underwater drone
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/06/18 → 30/09/19
Project: Research council
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Large-scale laboratory measurements of underwater wave profiles
1/06/17 → 31/05/18
Project: Research-related funding
Research output
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Array Processing of Neural Signals Recorded from the Peripheral Nervous System for the Classification of Action Potentials
Metcalfe, B., Hunter, A. J., Graham-Harper-Cater, J. & Taylor, J., 1 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 347, 108967.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High-resolution, large-scale laboratory measurements of a sandy beach and dynamic cobble berm revetment
Blenkinsopp, C. E., Bayle, P. M., Conley, D. C., Masselink, G., Gulson, E., Kelly, I., Almar, R., Turner, I. L., Baldock, T. E., Beuzen, T., McCall, R. T., Rijper, H., Reniers, A., Troch, P., Gallach-Sanchez, D., Hunter, A. J., Bryan, O., Hennessey, G., Ganderton, P., Tissier, M. & 2 others, , 20 Jan 2021, In: Scientific Data. 8, 1, 22.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A dataset of action potentials recorded from the L5 dorsal rootlet of rat using a multiple electrode array
Metcalfe, B., Hunter, A., Graham-Harper-Cater, J. & Taylor, J., 31 Dec 2020, In: Data in Brief. 33, 106561.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Breaking wave imaging using lidar and sonar
Bryan, O., Bayle, P., Blenkinsopp, C. & Hunter, A. J., 31 Jul 2020, In: IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 45, 3, p. 887-897 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low-frequency ocean acoustics - measurements from the Lofoten-Vesterålen Ocean Observatory, Norway
Garibbo, S., Blondel, P., Heald, G., Heyburn, R., Hunter, A. J. & Williams, D., 2020, In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 40, 12 p., 040001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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Dataset for "Breaking Wave Imaging using Lidar and Sonar"
Blenkinsopp, C. (Creator), Hunter, A. (Creator), Bayle, P. M. (Creator) & Bryan, O. (Creator), University of Bath, 20 Mar 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00623
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