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Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III. An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans (2012)
Journal Article
Lallée, S., Pattacini, U., Lemaignan, S., Lenz, A., Melhuish, C., Natale, L., …Dominey, P. F. (2012). Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III. An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 4(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAMD.2012.2199754

Robots should be capable of interacting in a cooperative and adaptive manner with their human counterparts in open-ended tasks that can change in real-time. An important aspect of the robot behavior will be the ability to acquire new knowledge of the... Read More about Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III. An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans.

On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems (2012)
Journal Article
Bjerknes, J. D., & Winfield, A. F. (2012). On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_31

This paper challenges the common assumption that swarm robotic systems are robust and scalable by default. We present an analysis based on both reliability modelling and experimental trials of a case study swarm performing team work, in which failure... Read More about On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems.

Multi-block high-order dns code development for jet in turbulent cross-flow simulation (2012)
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Castagna, J., & Yao, Y. (2012). Multi-block high-order dns code development for jet in turbulent cross-flow simulation. Journal of Algorithms and Computational Technology, 6(4), 593-621. https://doi.org/10.1260/1748-3018.6.4.593

A multi-block high-order finite-difference direct numerical simulation (DNS) code has been developed for studying turbulent flows over complex geometries. A global mapping technique is adopted and applied to a multi-block domain arrangement, in which... Read More about Multi-block high-order dns code development for jet in turbulent cross-flow simulation.

Dynamic deflectometry: A novel approach for the on-line reconstruction of specular freeform surfaces (2012)
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Wedowski, R. D., Atkinson, G., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2012). Dynamic deflectometry: A novel approach for the on-line reconstruction of specular freeform surfaces. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 50(12), 1765-1778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2012.07.003

The dynamic inspection and reverse engineering of specular freeform surfaces is a challenge so far largely unsolved. Products produced in high quantities in industrial environments are still inspected manually which is labour intensive, expensive, mo... Read More about Dynamic deflectometry: A novel approach for the on-line reconstruction of specular freeform surfaces.

Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system (2012)
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Steed, A., Steptoe, W., Oyekoya, W., Pece, F., Weyrich, T., Kautz, J., …Slater, M. (2012). Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 32(6), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2012.110

The Beaming project recreates, virtually, a real environment; using immersive VR, remote participants can visit the virtual model and interact with the people in the real environment. The real environment doesn't need extensive equipment and can be a... Read More about Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system.

Tensile properties and microstructural characteristics of indirect rheoformed A356 aluminum alloy (2012)
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Bolouri, A., Bae, J. W., & Kang, C. G. (2013). Tensile properties and microstructural characteristics of indirect rheoformed A356 aluminum alloy. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 562, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2012.10.099

The effects of rheoforming parameters such as the rheoforming temperature and pressure on the tensile properties of H-shaped components were examined. An H-shaped component is useful for practical investigation into the influence of different wall th... Read More about Tensile properties and microstructural characteristics of indirect rheoformed A356 aluminum alloy.

Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room (2012)
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Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(4), 317-333. https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2012005093

Numerical simulation of airflow in an indoor environment has been carried out for forced, natural, and mixed convection modes, respectively, by using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach of solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equat... Read More about Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room.

Single end feeder arcing fault location using mutual inductance (2012)
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Alamuti, M. M., & Nouri, H. (2012). Single end feeder arcing fault location using mutual inductance. European Transactions on Electrical Power, 22(8), 1136-1145. https://doi.org/10.1002/etep.633

Impedance-based fault location methods to date are able to locate only permanent and linear faults. Current fault location methods assume that arc resistance is constant to locate the fault. However, because of the variable nature of the arc resistan... Read More about Single end feeder arcing fault location using mutual inductance.

Laser sintering for the fabrication of architectural models (2012)
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Yusmawiza, W. A., Eyers, D. R., & Soe, S. (2012). Laser sintering for the fabrication of architectural models. Advanced Materials Research, 576, 637-640. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.576.637

Additive Manufacturing technologies are widely employed in the production of models for a range of industries. However, to-date little explicit research attention has examined the way in which the Laser Sintering technologies can be used in the speci... Read More about Laser sintering for the fabrication of architectural models.

Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper (2012)
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Zheng, Y., Giannaccini, M. E., Dogramadzi, S., & Pipe, A. G. (2012). Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 246-251. https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290885

Variable compliance is a subject of great interest in the robotics community, particularly in the area of HumanRobot interaction. In this work, variable compliance is achieved in a novel grasping device inspired by the hydrostatic skeletons of invert... Read More about Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper.