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The effect of breast size and bra type on comfort for UK female police officers wearing body armour (2019)
Journal Article
Malbon, C., Knock, C., Critchley, R., & Debra J Carr, P. (2020). The effect of breast size and bra type on comfort for UK female police officers wearing body armour. Applied Ergonomics, 84, Article 103012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2019.103012

Within the Police service of England and Wales the wearing of ballistic and stab resistant body armour is common, with most police forces mandating its usage when away from the police station. Of all the serving police officers in England and Wales 2... Read More about The effect of breast size and bra type on comfort for UK female police officers wearing body armour.

Effect of hot cracking on the mechanical properties of Hastelloy X superalloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (2019)
Journal Article
Han, Q., Gu, Y., Soe, S., Lacan, F., & Setchi, R. (2020). Effect of hot cracking on the mechanical properties of Hastelloy X superalloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. Optics and Laser Technology, 124, Article 105984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2019.105984

Nickel-based superalloys such as Hastelloy X (HX) are widely used in gas turbine engine applications and the aerospace industry. HX is susceptible to hot cracking, however, when processed using additive manufacturing technologies such as laser powder... Read More about Effect of hot cracking on the mechanical properties of Hastelloy X superalloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

Challenges facing the implementation of Pico-hydropower technologies (2019)
Journal Article
Williamson, S. J., David Lubitz, W., Williams, A. A., Booker, J. D., & Butchers, J. P. (2019). Challenges facing the implementation of Pico-hydropower technologies. Journal of Sustainability Research, 2(1), Article e200003. https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20200003

840 million people living in rural areas across the world lack access to electricity, creating a large imbalance in the development potential between urban and rural areas. Pico-hydropower offers a cost-effective way of accessing electricity, where t... Read More about Challenges facing the implementation of Pico-hydropower technologies.

Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems (2019)
Journal Article
Dixon, M. D. X., O'Donnell, M. P., Pirrera, A., & Chenchiah, I. V. (2019). Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 475(2232), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0547

© 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Nonlinea... Read More about Bespoke extensional elasticity through helical lattice systems.

Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Fang, J., Gao, Y., Lu, L., Yao, Y., & Le Ribault, C. (2019). Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit. Physics of Fluids, 31(12), 125108. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5124163

A planar duct flow configuration with a cross-flow injected from a longitudinal slit close to the upper wall of the duct is studied by using a direct numerical simulation approach to explore the underlying flow mechanism in relation to the tip-leakag... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage flow in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit.

A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams (2019)
Journal Article
Webster, M., Western, D., Araiza-Illan, D., Dixon, C., Eder, K., Fisher, M., & Pipe, A. G. (2020). A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams. International Journal of Robotics Research, 39(1), 73-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364919883338

© The Author(s) 2019. We present an approach for the verification and validation (V&V) of robot assistants in the context of human–robot interactions, to demonstrate their trustworthiness through corroborative evidence of their safety and functional... Read More about A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams.

Robotic grasp detection based on image processing and random forest (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Li, M., Feng, Y., & Yang, C. (2020). Robotic grasp detection based on image processing and random forest. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 79, 7427-7446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08302-9

© 2019, The Author(s). Real-time grasp detection plays a key role in manipulation, and it is also a complex task, especially for detecting how to grasp novel objects. This paper proposes a very quick and accurate approach to detect robotic grasps. Th... Read More about Robotic grasp detection based on image processing and random forest.

Physical human-robot collaboration: Robotic systems, learning methods, collaborative strategies, sensors, and actuators (2019)
Journal Article
Ogenyi, U. E., Liu, J., Yang, C., Ju, Z., & Liu, H. (2021). Physical human-robot collaboration: Robotic systems, learning methods, collaborative strategies, sensors, and actuators. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(4), 1888 - 1901. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcyb.2019.2947532

This article presents a state-of-the-art survey on the robotic systems, sensors, actuators, and collaborative strategies for physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC). This article starts with an overview of some robotic systems with cutting-edge tec... Read More about Physical human-robot collaboration: Robotic systems, learning methods, collaborative strategies, sensors, and actuators.

On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy? (2019)
Journal Article
Flook, R., Shrinah, A., Wijnen, L., Eder, K., Melhuish, C., & Lemaignan, S. (2019). On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy?. Interaction Studies, 20(3), 455-486. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18067.flo

© John Benjamins Publishing Company Trust is a key dimension of human-robot interaction (HRI), and has often been studied in the HRI community. A common challenge arises from the difficulty of assessing trust levels in ecologically invalid environmen... Read More about On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy?.

Data set for influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions (2019)
Journal Article
Van Niekerk, A., Drew, B., Larsen, N., & Kay, P. (2020). Data set for influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions. Data in Brief, 28, Article 104836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104836

The present data article is based on the research work which investigates the influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions. In this experimental work, a 2.4 L, turbocharged, direct injection compression i... Read More about Data set for influence of blends of diesel and renewable fuels on compression ignition engine emissions.