The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes (2014)
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Santoro, C., Babanova, S., Artyushkova, K., Atanassov, P., Greenman, J., Cristiani, P., …Ieropoulos, I. (2014). The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(36), 21796-21802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.09.167

© 2014 Cost-effective activated carbon (AC) material was investigated for the development of gas-diffusion cathode employed in membraneless single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFCs) treating different feeding solutions. The electrocatalytic activi... Read More about The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes.

Micro-porous layer (MPL)-based anode for microbial fuel cells (2014)
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You, J., Santoro, C., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Cristiani, P., Li, B., & Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Micro-porous layer (MPL)-based anode for microbial fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(36), 21811-21818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.07.136

© 2014 Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Two different anode materials, carbon veil (CV) and carbon cloth (CC), were modified with a micro-porous layer (MPL) in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). When the bi... Read More about Micro-porous layer (MPL)-based anode for microbial fuel cells.

Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould (2014)
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Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2014). Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/9/3/036016

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum is known to approximate a number of network problems via growth and adaptation of its protoplasmic transport network and can serve as an inspiration towards unconventional, material-based comp... Read More about Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould.

An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training (2014)
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Tzemanaki, A., Walters, P., Pipe, A. G., Melhuish, C., & Dogramadzi, S. (2014). An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training. International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 10(3), 368-378. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcs.1544

© 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Background: Over the past century, abdominal surgery has seen a rapid transition from open procedures to less invasive methods, such as robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS). This study aimed to investigate... Read More about An anthropomorphic design for a minimally invasive surgical system based on a survey of surgical technologies, techniques and training.

Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG (2014)
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Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2014). Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 5(3), 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2014.2339834

© 2014 IEEE. Emotion recognition from EEG signals allows the direct assessment of the 'inner' state of a user, which is considered an important factor in human-machine-interaction. Many methods for feature extraction have been studied and the selecti... Read More about Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG.

Water formation at the cathode and sodium recovery using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) (2014)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., Li, B., Cristiani, P., & Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Water formation at the cathode and sodium recovery using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 7, 187-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2014.05.001

Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) utilise biodegradable carbon compounds in organic waste to generate electric current. The aim of this work was to enhance MFC performance by using low cost and catalyst (platinum)-free cathode materials. The results showed... Read More about Water formation at the cathode and sodium recovery using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs).

Seeing by touch: Evaluation of a soft biologically-inspired artificial fingertip in real-time active touch (2014)
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Assaf, T., Roke, C., Rossiter, J., Pipe, T., & Melhuish, C. (2014). Seeing by touch: Evaluation of a soft biologically-inspired artificial fingertip in real-time active touch. Sensors, 14(2), 2561-2577. https://doi.org/10.3390/s140202561

Effective tactile sensing for artificial platforms remains an open issue in robotics. This study investigates the performance of a soft biologically-inspired artificial fingertip in active exploration tasks. The fingertip sensor replicates the mechan... Read More about Seeing by touch: Evaluation of a soft biologically-inspired artificial fingertip in real-time active touch.

Parameters characterization and optimization of activated carbon (AC) cathodes for microbial fuel cell application (2014)
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Santoro, C., Artyushkova, K., Babanova, S., Atanassov, P., Ieropoulos, I., Grattieri, M., …Schuler, A. J. (2014). Parameters characterization and optimization of activated carbon (AC) cathodes for microbial fuel cell application. Bioresource Technology, 163, 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2014.03.091

Activated carbon (AC) is employed as a cost-effective catalyst for cathodic oxygen reduction in microbial fuel cells (MFC). The fabrication protocols of AC-based cathodes are conducted at different applied pressures (175-3500. psi) and treatment temp... Read More about Parameters characterization and optimization of activated carbon (AC) cathodes for microbial fuel cell application.

Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications (2014)
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Karim, R., Ma, Y. L., Jang, M., Housden, R. J., Williams, S. E., Chen, Z., …Rhode, K. S. (2014). Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 38(4), 251-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2014.01.004

Surface flattening in medical imaging has seen widespread use in neurology and more recently in cardiology to describe the left ventricle using the bull's-eye plot. The method is particularly useful to standardize the display of functional informatio... Read More about Surface flattening of the human left atrium and proof-of-concept clinical applications.

A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images (2014)
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Rhode, K. S., Rinaldi, C. A., O'Neill, M., Housden, R. J., King, A. P., Panayiotou, M., …Gill, J. (2014). A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images. Medical Physics, 41(7), 071901. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4881140

Purpose: Image-guided cardiac interventions involve the use of fluoroscopic images to guide the insertion and movement of interventional devices. Cardiorespiratory gating can be useful for 3D reconstruction from multiple x-ray views and for reducing... Read More about A statistical method for retrospective cardiac and respiratory motion gating of interventional cardiac x-ray images.

The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours (2014)
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O'Dowd, P., Studley, M., & Winfield, A. F. (2014). The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours. Evolutionary Intelligence, 7(2), 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-014-0112-8

We investigate the reality gap, specifically the environmental correspondence of an on-board simulator. We describe a novel distributed co-evolutionary approach to improve the transference of controllers that co-evolve with an on-board simulator. A n... Read More about The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours.

Novel system for real-time integration of 3-D echocardiography and fluoroscopy for image-guided cardiac interventions: Preclinical validation and clinical feasibility evaluation (2014)
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Arujuna, A. V., Housden, R. J., Ma, Y., Rajani, R., Gao, G., Nijhof, N., …Rhode, K. S. (2014). Novel system for real-time integration of 3-D echocardiography and fluoroscopy for image-guided cardiac interventions: Preclinical validation and clinical feasibility evaluation. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 2, https://doi.org/10.1109/JTEHM.2014.2303799

© 2015 IEEE. Real-time imaging is required to guide minimally invasive catheter-based cardiac interventions. While transesophageal echocardiography allows for high-quality visualization of cardiac anatomy, X-ray fluoroscopy provides excellent visuali... Read More about Novel system for real-time integration of 3-D echocardiography and fluoroscopy for image-guided cardiac interventions: Preclinical validation and clinical feasibility evaluation.

A variable compliance, soft gripper (2013)
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Giannaccini, M. E., Georgilas, I., Horsfield, I., Peiris, B. H. P. M., Lenz, A., Pipe, A. G., & Dogramadzi, S. (2014). A variable compliance, soft gripper. Autonomous Robots, 36(1-2), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-013-9374-8

Autonomous grasping is an important but challenging task and has therefore been intensively addressed by the robotics community. One of the important issues is the ability of the grasping device to accommodate varying object shapes in order to form a... Read More about A variable compliance, soft gripper.

Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob (2013)
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Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2014). Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob. Natural Computing, 13(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-013-9401-x

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is a well known and challenging combinatorial optimisation problem. Its computational intractability has attracted a number of heuristic approaches to generate satisfactory, if not optimal, candidate solutions. S... Read More about Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob.

The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution (2013)
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Groten, R., Feth, D., Klatzky, R. L., & Peer, A. (2013). The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 6(1), 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1109/ToH.2012.2

Recent developments strive for realizing robotic systems that not only interact, but closely collaborate with humans in performing everyday manipulation tasks. Successful collaboration requires the integration of the individual partner's intentions i... Read More about The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution.

Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module (2013)
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Passenberg, C., Glaser, A., & Peer, A. (2013). Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 6(4), 440-452. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2013.34

Haptic assistants augment user commands to facilitate manipulation and to increase task performance. The strength of assistance, also referred to as assistance level, is one of the main design factors. While existing implementations mainly realize fi... Read More about Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module.

Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks (2013)
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Stefanov, N., Passenberg, C., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2013). Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 43(4), 385-397. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2013.2257743

This paper introduces a computer-assisted teleoperation system, where the control over the teleoperator is shared between a human operator and computer assistance in order to improve the overall task performance. Two units, an action recognition and... Read More about Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks.

Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications (2013)
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Klatzky, R. L., Pawluk, D., & Peer, A. (2013). Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications. Proceedings of the IEEE, 101(9), 2081-2092. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2013.2248691

Perceiving the material properties of objects through touch is generally superior to the perception of shape. We review major material properties accessible through haptic interaction, along with theoretical accounts of the underlying perceptual proc... Read More about Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications.

Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system (2012)
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Steed, A., Steptoe, W., Oyekoya, W., Pece, F., Weyrich, T., Kautz, J., …Slater, M. (2012). Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 32(6), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2012.110

The Beaming project recreates, virtually, a real environment; using immersive VR, remote participants can visit the virtual model and interact with the people in the real environment. The real environment doesn't need extensive equipment and can be a... Read More about Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system.

Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum (2012)
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Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 7(1), 016009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/016009

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum exhibits complex morphological adaptation and amoeboid movement as it forages for food and may be seen as a minimal example of complex robotic behaviour. Swarm computation has previously been... Read More about Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum.