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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evolutionary robotics as a modelling tool in evolutionary biology (2024)
Journal Article

The use of evolutionary robotic systems to model aspects of evolutionary biology is well-established. Yet, few studies have asked the question, “What kind of model is an evolutionary robotic system?” This paper seeks to address that question in sever... Read More about Evolutionary robotics as a modelling tool in evolutionary biology.

Insights and experiences of sustainability decision-making by construction clients (2024)
Journal Article

Sustainable practices can only be successful when key stakeholders (e.g. client, designer, main contractor, subcontractors, etc.) are in support of achieving them as shared values. The common goal of improving sustainable practices can be embedded in... Read More about Insights and experiences of sustainability decision-making by construction clients.

Prediction of ultimate strain in anchored CFRP laminates using machine learning (2024)
Journal Article

Anchorage of carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP) laminates externally bonded to concrete by CFRP spike anchors effectively prevents the unfavourable debonding failure mode in strengthened concrete beams. However, the strain and strength enhanceme... Read More about Prediction of ultimate strain in anchored CFRP laminates using machine learning.

Editorial: Human-centered solutions and synergies across robotic and digital systems for rehabilitation (2024)
Journal Article

Editorial on the Research Topic Human-centered solutions and synergies across robotic and digital systems for rehabilitation s The growing need for effective, personalized, clinically compliant, and engaging rehabilitation-based on methodologies for... Read More about Editorial: Human-centered solutions and synergies across robotic and digital systems for rehabilitation.

Development and validation of a new approach to assess the seismic vulnerability of masonry structures based on the CARTIS form (2024)
Journal Article

Towards a unified framework for software-hardware integration in evolutionary robotics (2024)
Journal Article

The discrepancy between simulated and hardware experiments, the reality gap, is a challenge in evolutionary robotics. While strategies have been proposed to address this gap in fixed-body robots, they are not viable when dealing with populations and... Read More about Towards a unified framework for software-hardware integration in evolutionary robotics.