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Hardware architecture of the protein processing associative memory and the effects of dimensionality and quantisation on performance (2014)
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Qadir, O., Lenz, A., Tempesti, G., Timmis, J., Pipe, T., & Tyrrell, A. (2014). Hardware architecture of the protein processing associative memory and the effects of dimensionality and quantisation on performance. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 15(3), 245-274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-014-9217-1

The Protein Processor Associative Memory (PPAM) is a novel hardware architecture for a distributed, decentralised, robust and scalable, bidirectional, hetero-associative memory, that can adapt online to changes in the training data. The PPAM uses the... Read More about Hardware architecture of the protein processing associative memory and the effects of dimensionality and quantisation on performance.

Design, analysis and implementation of real-time harmonics elimination: A generalised approach (2014)
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Makhlouf, B., Bouchhida, O., & Nibouche, M. (2014). Design, analysis and implementation of real-time harmonics elimination: A generalised approach. IET Power Electronics, 7(9), 2424-2436. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2013.0687

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2014. It is not a secret that the problem of harmonics and switching frequency can have a dreadful impact on switching power converters. To counter this problem, a variety of methods have been developed... Read More about Design, analysis and implementation of real-time harmonics elimination: A generalised approach.

Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains (2014)
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Laister, R., Robinson, J. C., & Sierzega, M. (2014). Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains. Comptes Rendus Mathématique, 352(7-8), 621-626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2014.05.010

We establish a local non-existence result for the equation ut-δu=f(u) with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a smooth bounded domain Ω⊂Rn and initial data in Lq(Ω) when the source term f is non-decreasing and limsups→∞s-γf(s)=∞ for some exponent γ>q(1... Read More about Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains.

Compliance control and human-robot interaction: Part II-experimental examples (2014)
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Pipe, T., Khan, S. G., Herrmann, G., Lenz, A., Grafi, M. A., Pipe, A. G., & Melhuish, C. (2014). Compliance control and human-robot interaction: Part II-experimental examples. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 11(03), 1430002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219843614300025

© World Scientific Publishing Company. Compliance control is highly relevant to human safety in human-robot interaction (HRI). This paper presents multi-dimensional compliance control of a humanoid robot arm. A dynamic model-free adaptive controller... Read More about Compliance control and human-robot interaction: Part II-experimental examples.

Compliance control and human-Robot interaction: Part 1-survey (2014)
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Khan, S. G., Herrmann, G., Grafi, M. A., Pipe, T., & Melhuish, C. (2014). Compliance control and human-Robot interaction: Part 1-survey. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 11(03), 1430001. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219843614300013

© World Scientific Publishing Company. Compliance control is highly relevant to human safety in human-robot interaction (HRI). This paper presents a review of various compliance control techniques. The paper is aimed to provide a good background know... Read More about Compliance control and human-Robot interaction: Part 1-survey.

Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring (2014)
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Jang, C. H., Jin, C. K., Bolouri, A., & Kang, C. G. (2014). Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 228(3), 399-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954405413496403

Rheoforming is a near net-shape manufacturing technology for fabricating components from light alloys in their semisolid states with improved mechanical properties. In this work, a feasibility study on the fabrication of Silafont 36 aluminum thin pla... Read More about Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring.

Biodegradable and edible gelatine actuators for use as artificial muscles (2014)
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Ieropoulos, I., Chambers, L. D., Winfield, J., Ieropoulos, I., & Rossiter, J. (2014). Biodegradable and edible gelatine actuators for use as artificial muscles. Proceedings of SPIE, 9056, 90560B. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2045104

The expense and use of non-recyclable materials often requires the retrieval and recovery of exploratory robots. Therefore, conventional materials such as plastics and metals in robotics can be limiting. For applications such as environmental monitor... Read More about Biodegradable and edible gelatine actuators for use as artificial muscles.

Evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile location-based intervention for improving human-computer interaction students' understanding of context for design (2014)
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Alnuaim, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Perry, C. (2014). Evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile location-based intervention for improving human-computer interaction students' understanding of context for design. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, 6(3), 16-31. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijmhci.2014070102

Copyright © 2014, IGI Global. With the ubiquity of interactive computer-based systems, designers are challenged to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of their designs for a variety of different environments and user activities. To achieve this,... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile location-based intervention for improving human-computer interaction students' understanding of context for design.

Sliding mode control with self-turning law for uncertain nonlinear systems with time-delay and external disturbances (2014)
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Zhen, R., Chen, J., Wu, X., Zhu, Q., Nouri, H., Wu, X., & Zhang, J. (2014). Sliding mode control with self-turning law for uncertain nonlinear systems with time-delay and external disturbances. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 452, 159-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36385-6_8

This study proposes a novel sliding mode control with self-turning law for nonlinear systems with time-delay and external disturbances possessing uncertain parameters. The adjustable control gain and a bipolar sigmoid function are online tuned to for... Read More about Sliding mode control with self-turning law for uncertain nonlinear systems with time-delay and external disturbances.

Designing and evaluating a social gaze-control system for a humanoid robot (2014)
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Zaraki, A., Mazzei, D., Giuliani, M., & De Rossi, D. (2014). Designing and evaluating a social gaze-control system for a humanoid robot. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 44(2), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2014.2303083

This paper describes a context-dependent social gaze-control system implemented as part of a humanoid social robot. The system enables the robot to direct its gaze at multiple humans who are interacting with each other and with the robot. The attenti... Read More about Designing and evaluating a social gaze-control system for a humanoid robot.