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Dr David Gibson

Research

This page last updated on 19-Jun-2023

This page lists my current research projects at the Camborne School of Mines, as well as earlier projects that I undertook at the Mines Rescue Service, and some of my personal research interests.

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My Research Interests

In addition to the projects I am funded for at the moment – see Current Projects – I have a number of other personal research interests, as listed below. Notes on these topics might be added in due course (this note dated 27-Oct-2022).

• Radio antennas using high-permittivity ceramic tiles
• The use of a torus (or anapole) as a radio antenna
• Algorithms for creating conjugate gear profiles
• Ferro-electric materials for small power generators (energy harvesting)
• Virtual machines and threaded interpreters (microprocessor and compiler design)
• Properties of binary sequences (inverse sequences, single-channel Gray codes)
• Data-logging and monitoring in caves (especially as part of climate-change models - see External Activities)
• Chemical reactions between starches and sugars
• Construction of a portable time spinner ('procrastinator') and a symbol reader (An out-of-hours project - see my steampunk essay )

I also have an interest in collecting examples of "hoaxes" in physics. That is, people who disbelieve Maxwell, Einstein or Hawking, and who promote their unsubstantiated ideas counter to the principle of quod supplantandum, prius bene sciendum. I have half a dozen on my list now. Further reading: see Mateus Araújo's blog Crackpots in my Inbox

Recent Projects

INDIRES Newsletter 1 INDIRES Newsletter 2 INDIRES Newsletter 3

RFCS INDIRES Project: Information Driven Incident Response (INDIRES) Funding: RFCS Grant Agreement 748632 Grant recipient: consortium of industrial and academic partners including Camborne School of Mines Completion: June 2020 Website: indires.eu Principal team members at CSM: Mike Bedford, Prof Pat Foster, Dr David Gibson, Dr Declan Vogt Project objectives: to enable critical information to be gathered during a serious mining incident, without reliance on a mine's fixed power or communication network; and to aid personnel rescue and mine safety My main involvement: to investigate resilient forms of through-rock radio data communication using novel antenna structures and mesh networks Outcomes: Notes to be added in due course. (This note dated 4-Sept-2019) RFCS STAMS Project: Long-term stability assessment and monitoring of flooded shafts (STAMS) Funding: RFCR-CT-2015-00001 Grant recipient: consortium of industrial and academic partners, including Camborne School of Mines Completion: June 2018 Website: stams-rfcs.eu Principal team members at CSM: Mike Bedford, Prof John Coggan, Dr David Gibson, Project objectives: to develop multifunctional monitoring and inspection modules, and to design permanently installed sensors, to guarantee periodic and long-term continuous monitoring of flooded mine shafts. My main involvement: to assess the feasability of building an inductively-coupled array of sensors to function in low-cost underwater pressure-proof enclosures. Outcomes: Simple Enclosure is Waterproof to 400 Metres. Further notes to be added in due course. (This note dated 4-Sept-2019)

Earlier Projects

From 2003 to 2012 I was a Research Project Manager at the UK's Mines Rescue Service (MRSL). This table lists the research projects undertaken by MRSL and my involvement. Final Reports for all the RFCS-funded projects are available as free downloads from the European Commission's Europa Bookshop - just type the ISBN into the search box.