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Visual features based boosted classification of weeds for real-time selective herbicide sprayer systems (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Recent years have shown enthusiastic research interest in weed classification for selective herbicide sprayer systems which are helpful in eradicating unwanted plants such as weeds from fields, minimizing the side effects of chemicals on the e... Read More about Visual features based boosted classification of weeds for real-time selective herbicide sprayer systems.

Vanishing point detection for visual surveillance systems in railway platform environments (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Visual surveillance is of paramount importance in public spaces and especially in train and metro platforms which are particularly susceptible to many types of crime from petty theft to terrorist activity. Image resolution of vis... Read More about Vanishing point detection for visual surveillance systems in railway platform environments.

A novel model and method based on Nash equilibrium for medical image segmentation (2018)
Journal Article

Accurate image segmentation is a very important task in medical image analysis as it can help us to better distinguish tumours from normal tissues. One of the important features of MRI images of glioma (a kind of brain tumour) is that the tumour shap... Read More about A novel model and method based on Nash equilibrium for medical image segmentation.

Inhibition of Surface Chemical Moieties by Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane: A Key to Understanding Oxygen Reduction on Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 American Chemical Society. The effect of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (Tris) on the activity of metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) platinum metal group-free (PGM-free) catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is studied. Electrochemical tes... Read More about Inhibition of Surface Chemical Moieties by Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane: A Key to Understanding Oxygen Reduction on Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts.

Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance (2018)
Journal Article

© Praminda Caleb-Solly, Sanja Dogramadzi, Claire A.G.J. Huijnen, and Herjan van den Heuvel. This article reports findings from a usability and user experience evaluations conducted in the last 2 years of a 4-year assistive robotics research project u... Read More about Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance.

A study of heuristic evaluation measures in fuzzy rule induction (2018)
Book Chapter

The rule induction process could be conceived as a search process,and hence an evaluation metric is needed to estimate the quality of rules found in the search space and to direct the search towards the best rule. The evaluation
measure is the most... Read More about A study of heuristic evaluation measures in fuzzy rule induction.

Special issue on: Machine vision for outdoor environments (2018)
Journal Article

Highlights

•Outdoor machine vision
•Unstructured environments
•New advanced hardware
•Artificial intelligence

3D-printable cathode electrode for monolithically printed microbial fuel cells (MFCs) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Biological fuel cells (BFCs) are an increasingly growing area of research as it beholds long-term sustainable advantages over conventional fuel cells. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are just one type of BFCs, which as the name implies, employ microbial... Read More about 3D-printable cathode electrode for monolithically printed microbial fuel cells (MFCs).

Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy (2018)
Thesis

Examination of the gastrointestinal(GI) tract has traditionally been performed using tethered endoscopy tools with limited reach and more recently with passive untethered capsule endoscopy with limited capability. Inspection of small intestines is on... Read More about Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy.

Ontologies in Aeronautics (2018)
Book Chapter

Avionics systems are getting increasingly sophisticated, airspaces are densely occupied, and aircraft are desired to fly in more adverse weather conditions. These conditions increase the complexity of Air TrafficManagement (ATM) as aviators and airsp... Read More about Ontologies in Aeronautics.

Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use dynamic meshing to perform CFD analyses of a NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a morphing trailing edge (TE) flap when it undergoes static and time-dependent morphing. The s... Read More about Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing.

PEE POWER® urinal II - Urinal scale-up with microbial fuel cell scale-down for improved lighting (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors A novel design of microbial fuel cells (MFC) fuelled with undiluted urine was demonstrated to be an efficient power source for decentralised areas, but had only been tested under controlled laboratory conditions. Hence, a field-tri... Read More about PEE POWER® urinal II - Urinal scale-up with microbial fuel cell scale-down for improved lighting.

Multi-instrument in-situ damage monitoring in quasi-isotropic CFRP laminates under tension (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Digital Image Correlation monitoring of the surface strains, microscopic in-situ observations of the micro-damage on the specimen edge and Acoustic Emission (AE) are utilized simultaneously during tension tests of quasi-isotropic carbon fibre... Read More about Multi-instrument in-situ damage monitoring in quasi-isotropic CFRP laminates under tension.

Core–shell PVA/gelatin nanofibrous scaffolds using co-solvent, aqueous electrospinning: Toward a green approach (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electrospinning (ES) of gelatin often requires cytotoxic organic solvents or acidic environments, which deteriorate cell recognition sites. In this study, aqueous, non-toxic, co-solvent ES was performed to obtain core–s... Read More about Core–shell PVA/gelatin nanofibrous scaffolds using co-solvent, aqueous electrospinning: Toward a green approach.

Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd A parallel algorithm is proposed for scalable generation of large-scale tetrahedral meshes. The key innovation is the use of a mesh-simplification based domain decomposition approach. This approach works on a background mesh with... Read More about Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach.

Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 Author(s). Process induced stresses inherently exist in fiber reinforced polymer composites particularly in thick parts due to the presence of non-uniform cure, shrinkage and thermal expansion/contraction during manufacturing. In order to incr... Read More about Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation.

Neural Network Approach to Solving Fully Fuzzy Nonlinear Systems (2018)
Book Chapter

The value of fuzzy designs improves whenever a system cannot be
validated in precise mathematical terminologies. In this book chapter, two types of neural networks are applied to obtain the approximate solutions of the fully fuzzy nonlinear system (... Read More about Neural Network Approach to Solving Fully Fuzzy Nonlinear Systems.

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 World Scientific Publishing Company. The effect of spanwise alternatively distributed strips (SADS) control on turbulent flow in a plane channel has been studied by direct numerical simulations to investigate the characteristics of large-scale... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control.

Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 COSPAR An S-band radio designed with commercial-grade components for the nanosatellites is functionally and thermally characterized for quiet transmission. The QPSK modulation impairments are minor over −20 °C to +50 °C at 24, 26, 28 and 30 dB... Read More about Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites.

Discrete-time sliding mode for building structure bidirectional active vibration control (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. In terms of vibrations along bidirectional earthquake forces, several problems are faced when modelling and controlling the structure of a building, such as lateral-torsional vibration, uncertainties surrounding the rigidity and... Read More about Discrete-time sliding mode for building structure bidirectional active vibration control.