All Outputs (243)

Airborne artificial intelligence in the wild (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

MAVs, UAVs, Drones, Quads, call them what you will. A set of technologies has converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and cost, which has created a new industry and colossal interest from many parties who see both opportunities and threats.... Read More about Airborne artificial intelligence in the wild.

Home activity monitoring using low resolution infrared sensor array (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract. Action monitoring in a home environment provides important information for health monitoring and may serve as input into a smart home environment. Visual analysis using cameras can recognise actions in a complex scene, such as someones livi... Read More about Home activity monitoring using low resolution infrared sensor array.

Effects of salt water on the ballistic protective performance of bullet-resistant body armour (2018)
Journal Article

Bullet-resistant body armour is used by law enforcement agencies and military personnel worldwide, often in inclement weather. Some fibre types used in body armour perform poorly when wet, resulting in a reduced level of protection; this is why most... Read More about Effects of salt water on the ballistic protective performance of bullet-resistant body armour.

Dual encoding for abstractive text summarization (2018)
Journal Article

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based sequence-to-sequence attentional models have proven effective in abstractive text summarization. In this paper, we model abstractive text summarization using a dual encoding model. Different from the previous work... Read More about Dual encoding for abstractive text summarization.

Analyses of parasitic capacitance effects and flicker noise of the DAC capacitor array for high resolution SAR ADCs (2018)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper analyses the effects of parasitic capacitances of unit capacitors on the accuracy and the noise performance of the DAC capacitor array in a SAR ADC, showing that thermal noise of the array dec... Read More about Analyses of parasitic capacitance effects and flicker noise of the DAC capacitor array for high resolution SAR ADCs.

Design and development of a novel controller for robust attitude stabilisation of an unmanned air vehicle for nuclear environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study presents two new robust nonlinear control algorithms based on the theory of time-varying sliding mode control (TVSMC) strategy to stabilize the attitude of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for nuclear decommissioning applications. Constant... Read More about Design and development of a novel controller for robust attitude stabilisation of an unmanned air vehicle for nuclear environments.

Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language (2018)
Book

This book describes CoSMoS (Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation), a pattern-based approach to engineering trustworthy simulations that are both scientifically useful to the researcher and scientifically credible to third parties. This approach e... Read More about Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments: A Pattern Language.

Manufacturability of AlSi10Mg overhang structures fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The main advantage of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is its use for directly manufacturing metal components with highly complex geometries. But the LPBF manufacture of overhang structures, also known as downward-facing surfaces, i... Read More about Manufacturability of AlSi10Mg overhang structures fabricated by laser powder bed fusion.

Assessment of the oil scoop capture efficiency in high speed rotors (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019 by ASME. Experimental research was conducted into a scooped rotor system that captures oil from a stationary jet and directs it through passages within the shaft to another axial location. Such a system has benefits for delivering oil via unde... Read More about Assessment of the oil scoop capture efficiency in high speed rotors.

Optimal distribution power system reconfiguration using Genetics Algorithms and Branch exchange method (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper uses Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and the branch exchange method to solve the optimal reconfiguration in radial distribution systems subject to power loss reduction that determine the optimal switches. The GA is a relatively powerful intellige... Read More about Optimal distribution power system reconfiguration using Genetics Algorithms and Branch exchange method.

Computer Assisted Method to Detect Common Student Errors (CESs) in Engineering Mathematics using the Dewis e-Assessment System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On vibration transmission in oscillating systems incorporating bilinear stiffness and damping elements (2018)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the dynamic characteristics and vibration transmission behaviour of a single oscillator and also coupled oscillators incorporating both bilinear stiffness and bilinear damping elements. Both harmonic balance analytical approxi... Read More about On vibration transmission in oscillating systems incorporating bilinear stiffness and damping elements.

The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Lemaignan et al. The study of the fine-grained social dynamics between children is a methodological challenge, yet a good understanding of how social interaction between children unfolds is important not only to Developmental and Social Psycho... Read More about The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics.

Recent advances in intelligent-based structural health monitoring of civil structures (2018)
Journal Article

This survey paper deals with the structural health monitoring systems on the basis of methodologies involving intelligent techniques. The intelligent techniques are the most popular tools for damage identification in terms of high accuracy, reliable... Read More about Recent advances in intelligent-based structural health monitoring of civil structures.

Broad-leaf weed detection in pasture (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Weed control in pasture is a challenging problem that can be expensive and environmentally unfriendly. This paper proposes a novel method for recognition of broad-leaf weeds in pasture such that precision weed control can be achieved with reduced her... Read More about Broad-leaf weed detection in pasture.

Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. This paper explores the question of ethical governance for robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. We outline a roadmap-which links a number of elements, including e... Read More about Ethical governance is essential to building trust in robotics and artificial intelligence systems.

Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow (2018)
Journal Article

© TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this research work was to find the best arrangement of nozzles inside the chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow. An existing design of the nozzle arrangement was used as the ref... Read More about Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow.

CFD simulation of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine at low tip speed ratios (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a three-straight-bladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) operating at a wind speed of 9 m/s and low Tip Speed Ratio (TSR) ranging from 1.44 to 3.3. The turbine blade has NACA 0021... Read More about CFD simulation of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine at low tip speed ratios.

Open innovation: The challenge of integrating knowledge in bi-national projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose – This paper seeks to evaluate the professional culture factors that are present in knowledge integration mechanisms in two selected open innovation cases.
Design/methodology/approach – In-depth case studies were conducted in two different e... Read More about Open innovation: The challenge of integrating knowledge in bi-national projects.

A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recently, there are growing interests of using Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) to harvest wind energy from low wind speed in urban areas to relatively high wind speed in offshore wind farms. Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) has been known to hav... Read More about A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application.