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Real-time feedback on older adults exercise: A socially assistive robot coaching system (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Physical exercise is crucial for promoting and maintaining the health of middle-aged and older adults. As the elderly population grows, effective coaching methods are increasingly necessary. Most current coaching systems lack clear reactive and objec... Read More about Real-time feedback on older adults exercise: A socially assistive robot coaching system.

Therapist's and robot's roles in robot-assisted interventions during JA therapies of children with ASD (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Joint Attention (JA) is a fundamental social interaction capability developed in early childhood by sharing a common focus point with others. However, this skill is commonly affected in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In this sense, so... Read More about Therapist's and robot's roles in robot-assisted interventions during JA therapies of children with ASD.

Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors (2024)
Journal Article

This study presents the evaluation of a robot telemedicine system used for initial diagnosis of patient with UK and Thai doctors. In a prior study, a set of user requirements for a robot telemedicine system were outlined based on a focus group with m... Read More about Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors.

Evaluating therapist representation techniques in mixed reality-based tele-rehabilitation exergames (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent advancements in technology have improved rehabilitation through tele-rehabilitation, offering flexible and personalized care with remote monitoring. Interactive "exergames" using eXtended Reality (XR) enhance treatment by combining traditional... Read More about Evaluating therapist representation techniques in mixed reality-based tele-rehabilitation exergames.

Evaluation of the impact of wind and gust turbulence on UAVs performance within urban environments session: UAM noise modelling and low-noise route planning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In urban environments, wind and gust modelling are crucial elements in optimizing UAV operations for last-mile deliveries and logistics. Therefore, understanding the characteristics of UAVs and the environment in which they operate is pivotal in unlo... Read More about Evaluation of the impact of wind and gust turbulence on UAVs performance within urban environments session: UAM noise modelling and low-noise route planning.

Universal bovine identification via depth data and deep metric learning (2024)
Journal Article

This paper proposes and evaluates, for the first time, a top-down (dorsal view), depth-only deep learning system for accurately identifying individual cattle and provides associated code, datasets, and training weights for immediate reproducibility.... Read More about Universal bovine identification via depth data and deep metric learning.

Development of a gamified Simon task for machine learning and eye-tracking analysis of cognitive performance in early dementia diagnosis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction

Technologies leveraging machine learning are enabling the creation of efficient methods for the early detection of age-related neurodegeneration outside of a lab environment. Combining cognitive assessments with eye movement analysis... Read More about Development of a gamified Simon task for machine learning and eye-tracking analysis of cognitive performance in early dementia diagnosis.

Accelerated proximal gradient method for systems with unknown structure using Volterra series (2024)
Journal Article

Systems with unknown structures widely exist in engineering practices. In this paper, a Volterra series is applied to approximate the dynamics of systems. Due to the special structure of the Volterra model, the approximated model has a high order and... Read More about Accelerated proximal gradient method for systems with unknown structure using Volterra series.

Numerical study of noise reduction on looped propeller blades with bio-inspired tubercles (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates the effect of looped propeller blades with bio-inspired sinusoidal leading-edge tubercles. CFD simulations were conducted using ANSYS Fluent, utilising a Detached Eddy Simulation viscous model combined with a Ffowcs William... Read More about Numerical study of noise reduction on looped propeller blades with bio-inspired tubercles.

Editorial: Autonomous (re)production, learning and bio-inspired robotics workshop (2024)
Journal Article

Sand bed river dynamics controlling microplastic flux (2024)
Journal Article

Microplastic contamination of river sediments has been found to be pervasive at the global scale and responsive to plastic and sediment bed properties, the flow regime and the river morphology. The physical controls governing the storage, remobilizat... Read More about Sand bed river dynamics controlling microplastic flux.

Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless... Read More about Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction.

IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We introduced IYOLO-FAM (Improved YOLOv8 with Feature Attention Mechanism) for detecting cow behaviours. By leveraging the robust YOLOv8 architecture improved with Feature Attention Mechanisms (FAM), Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks and data augmen... Read More about IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection.

Balanced multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring (2024)
Journal Article

In scenarios such as environmental data collection and traffic monitoring, etc., timely responses to real-time situations are facilitated by persistently accessing nodes with revisiting constraints using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, imba... Read More about Balanced multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring.

Design and evaluation of a novel variable-length stepped scarf repair technique using a cohesive damage model (2024)
Journal Article

The advantages of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs) are well established, but repairing CFRP components remains difficult and costly, posing challenges for industries like aerospace. This paper explores the design, modelling, inspection, and t... Read More about Design and evaluation of a novel variable-length stepped scarf repair technique using a cohesive damage model.

Making and knowledge exchange for repair and sustainability (2024)
Report

The MAKERS project at UWE Bristol enhances belonging among diverse engineering students through sustainability and repair activities, whilst tackling the Climate and Ecological Emergency in partnership with local communities.
Launched in 2023, a mo... Read More about Making and knowledge exchange for repair and sustainability.

Deep learning-based detection of surface and buried landmines (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Landmines are explosive weapons that can lie dormant for years and cause disastrous effects on the local populations, who often must learn to live with the threat of landmines. Clearing, or even simply identifying landmines, is dangerous and challeng... Read More about Deep learning-based detection of surface and buried landmines.

Performance enhancement of floating raft system by exploiting geometric nonlinearity and motion constraint in vibration isolators (2024)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a nonlinear vibration isolator with hybrid passive elements to mitigate the vibration transmission in floating raft systems. The proposed isolator employs a combination of a geometrically nonlinear linkage mechanism, an inerter, a... Read More about Performance enhancement of floating raft system by exploiting geometric nonlinearity and motion constraint in vibration isolators.

S-RAF: A simulation-based robustness assessment framework for responsible autonomous driving (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances, ensuring the robustness and safety of AI-driven systems has become paramount. However, varying perceptions of robustness among AI developers create misaligned evaluation metrics, complicating the a... Read More about S-RAF: A simulation-based robustness assessment framework for responsible autonomous driving.

Molecular displacement approach for the electrochemical detection of protein-bound propofol (2024)
Journal Article

Propofol is one of the principal drugs used for the sedation of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in intensive care units. The correct dosage of such sedative drugs is highly important, but current methods of determining infusion rates are l... Read More about Molecular displacement approach for the electrochemical detection of protein-bound propofol.