Port-based modeling of human-robot collaboration towards safety-enhancing energy shaping control (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
safety-enhancing energy shaping control. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm

While collision detection and contact-related injury reduction in physical human-robot interaction has been studied intensively, safety issues in physical human robot collaboration (pHRC) with continuous coupling of human and robot(s) has received li... Read More about Port-based modeling of human-robot collaboration towards safety-enhancing energy shaping control.

A new interaction force decomposition maximizing compensating forces under physical work constraints (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schmidts, A. M., Schneider, M., Kühne, M., & Peer, A. (2016, May). A new interaction force decomposition maximizing compensating forces under physical work constraints. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm

In manipulation tasks interaction forces are often decomposed to be able to control robustness-reflective and accelerating forces separately. While this decomposition is typically performed for the synthesis of interaction forces to be applied for ex... Read More about A new interaction force decomposition maximizing compensating forces under physical work constraints.

Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces (2016)
Journal Article
Abu-Alqumsan, M., & Peer, A. (2016). Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036005

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. Spatial filtering has proved to be a powerful pre-processing step in detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials and boosted typical detection rates both in offline analysis and online SSVEP-based brain-co... Read More about Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces.

Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration (2016)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration. Bioresource Technology, 215, 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.004

© 2016 The Authors. This work reports on the novel formation of caustic potash (KOH) directly on the MFC cathode locking carbon dioxide into potassium bicarbonate salt (kalicinite) while producing, instead of consuming electrical power. Using potassi... Read More about Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration.

Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance (2016)
Journal Article
Geravand, M., Korondi, P. Z., Werner, C., Hauer, K., & Peer, A. (2017). Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance. Autonomous Robots, 41(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9553-5

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sit-to-stand (STS) transfers are a common human task which involves complex sensorimotor processes to control the highly nonlinear musculoskeletal system. In this paper, typical unassisted and assiste... Read More about Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance.

Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery (2016)
Thesis
Tzemanaki, A. Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/924040

Over the past century, abdominal surgery has seen a rapid transition from open procedures to less invasive methods such as laparoscopy and robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (R-A MIS). These procedures have significantly decreased blood loss,... Read More about Anthropomorphic surgical system for soft tissue robot-assisted surgery.

Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster (2016)
Journal Article
Assaf, T., Mayne, R., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2016). Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster. Biomimetics, 1(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics1010005

This work illustrates behavior patterns and trajectories of a bio-inspired artificial platform induced by a cellular automata (CA)-based control strategy. The platform embeds both CA control as physical electronic architecture and a distributed hardw... Read More about Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster.

Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture (2015)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., Li, B., Cristiani, P., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture. Water Research, 86, 108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2015.08.014

© 2015 The Authors. In Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), the recovery of water can be achieved with the help of both active (electro-osmosis), and passive (osmosis) transport pathways of electrolyte through the semi-permeable selective separator. The elec... Read More about Electro-osmotic-based catholyte production by Microbial Fuel Cells for carbon capture.

Second-order model for rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motors (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garcia Rochin, R., Kuehne, M., Santiesteban-Cos, R., Rubio Astorga, G. J., & Peer, A. (2015, November). Second-order model for rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motors. Paper presented at Humanoids, Seoul, Korea

Ultrasonic motors are compact actuators with high precision and high stall torque. They feature a friction-based actuation principle and offer an alternative to standard actuators such as direct current motors. However, their nonlinear dynamics, the... Read More about Second-order model for rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motors.

μAngelo: A Novel System for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tzemanaki, A., & Dogramadzi, S. (2015, July). μAngelo: A Novel System for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery. Presented at 2015 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference. Women in Robotics Workshop, Rome, Italy

The formable object: A 24-degree-of-freedom shape-rendering interface (2015)
Journal Article
Klare, S., & Peer, A. (2015). The formable object: A 24-degree-of-freedom shape-rendering interface. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 20(3), 1360-1371. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2014.2341630

© 2015 IEEE. Interacting with 3-D-shaped objects using bare hands represents a very intuitive way to explore object shapes and offers lots of new opportunities in the field of virtual reality and design. Only a few 3-D shape rendering interfaces are... Read More about The formable object: A 24-degree-of-freedom shape-rendering interface.

Fast catheter segmentation from echocardiographic sequences based on segmentation from corresponding X-ray fluoroscopy for cardiac catheterization interventions (2015)
Journal Article
Wu, X., Housden, J., Ma, Y., Razavi, B., Rhode, K., & Rueckert, D. (2015). Fast catheter segmentation from echocardiographic sequences based on segmentation from corresponding X-ray fluoroscopy for cardiac catheterization interventions. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(4), 861-876. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2014.2360988

© 2014 IEEE. Echocardiography is a potential alternative to X-ray fluoroscopy in cardiac catheterization given its richness in soft tissue information and its lack of ionizing radiation. However, its small field of view and acoustic artifacts make di... Read More about Fast catheter segmentation from echocardiographic sequences based on segmentation from corresponding X-ray fluoroscopy for cardiac catheterization interventions.

Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould (2015)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A. I., Sirakoulis, G. C., Georgilas, I. P., Papadopoulos, D. P., Kalogeiton, V. S., Kalogeiton, V., …Adamatzky, A. (2015). Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould. International Journal of General Systems, 44(3), 354-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2014.997527

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In all the living organisms, the self-preservation behaviour is almost universal. Even the most simple of living organisms, like slime mould, is typically under intense selective pressure to evolve a response to ensure thei... Read More about Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould.

Follicular DEAs for two-way tactile communication (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Knoop, L. E., Knoop, L. E., Rossiter, J., & Assaf, T. (2015). Follicular DEAs for two-way tactile communication. Proceedings of SPIE, 9430(January), 943027. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2085592

© 2015 SPIE. Follicular structures in skin combine sensing and actuation in a soft and compliant continuous surface. We have developed a tactile display device inspired by this structure, using a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA). DEAs allow for co... Read More about Follicular DEAs for two-way tactile communication.

Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, E. D., Assaf, T., Pearson, M. J., Rossiter, J. M., Dean, P., Anderson, S. R., & Porrill, J. (2015). Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 9(JUL), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2015.00005

© 2015 Wilson, Assaf, Pearson, Rossiter, Dean, Anderson and Porrill. The adaptive filter model of the cerebellar microcircuit has been successfully applied to biological motor control problems, such as the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), and to sensor... Read More about Biohybrid control of general linear systems using the adaptive filter model of cerebellum.

Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Santoro, C., Artyushkova, K., Gajda, I., Babanova, S., Serov, A., Atanassov, P., …Cristiani, P. (2015). Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs). International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40(42), 14706-14715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.07.054

© 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This study showed the electrochemical performance of different cathode electrodes tested on a ceramic separator functioning as a cation exchange membrane. Part... Read More about Cathode materials for ceramic based microbial fuel cells (MFCs).

The effects of wastewater types on power generation and phosphorus removal of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) with activated carbon (AC) cathodes (2014)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.