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Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test (2018)
Journal Article
Xu, X., Wisnom, M. R., & Hallett, S. R. (2019). Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 118, 162-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.12.027

The R-curve for Mode I trans-laminar fracture energy in quasi-isotropic IM7/8552 carbon/epoxy laminates is here deduced numerically from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test. A High-fidelity Finite Element Method (Hi-FEM) using the explic... Read More about Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test.

Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support (2018)
Journal Article
Insaurralde, C. C., & Blasch, E. (2018). Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support. Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, 13(2), 255-274

With the growing congestion in the airspace, Air Traffic Management(ATM) requires advances in massive data processing, sophisticated avionics techniques, coordination with weather updates, and assessment of multiple types of uncertainty. The complex... Read More about Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support.

UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots (2018)
Journal Article
Wallhridge, C., Lemaignan, S., Sallami, Y., Wallbridge, C., Clodic, A., Belpaeme, T., & Alami, R. (2018). UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 7750-7757. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594094

© 2018 IEEE. We introduce UNDERWORLDS, a novel lightweight framework for cascading spatio-temporal situation assessment in robotics. UNDERWORLDS allows programmers to represent the robot's environment as real-time distributed data structures, contain... Read More about UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots.

Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation (2018)
Journal Article
Singh, H., Jafari, A., Ryu, J. H., & Peer, A. (2018). Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 4972-4979. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593866

© 2018 IEEE. Enhancing transparency of a teleoperation system by increasing the command-following bandwidth has not received lots of attention so far. This is considered a challenging task since in a teleoperation system the command-following bandwid... Read More about Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation.

Size-dependent nonlinear secondary resonance of micro-/nano-beams made of nano-porous biomaterials including truncated cube cells (2018)
Journal Article
Sahmani, S., Fotouhi, M., & Aghdam, M. M. (2019). Size-dependent nonlinear secondary resonance of micro-/nano-beams made of nano-porous biomaterials including truncated cube cells. Acta Mechanica, 230(3), 1077-1103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-018-2334-9

© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Porous biomaterials have been utilized in cellular structures in order to mimic the function of bone as a branch of tissue engineering approach. With the aid of nano-porous biomaterials i... Read More about Size-dependent nonlinear secondary resonance of micro-/nano-beams made of nano-porous biomaterials including truncated cube cells.

Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2018)
Journal Article
Nemati, H., & Montazeri, A. (2018). Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(22), 244-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.549

This study introduces a new multi-channel robust nonlinear control algorithm based on the theory of the time-varying sliding mode control (TVSMC) strategy to stabilize the attitude of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for nuclear decommissioning appli... Read More about Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Scaled simulation of the blast effects on structures using LEGO blocks: A pilot study (2018)
Journal Article
Critchley, R., Peare, A., & Sheldon, R. (in press). Scaled simulation of the blast effects on structures using LEGO blocks: A pilot study. Explosives Engineering, 26-28

Blast effects on structures is an important topic in this modern age for many practising engineers, including structural engineers designing buildings for safety or weapons engineers attempting to destroy enemy infrastructure. Due to the large costs,... Read More about Scaled simulation of the blast effects on structures using LEGO blocks: A pilot study.

Asymmetric ommatidia count and behavioural lateralization in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2018)
Journal Article
Hunt, E., Dornan, S., Sendova-Franks, A., & Franks, N. (2018). Asymmetric ommatidia count and behavioural lateralization in the ant Temnothorax albipennis. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 5825. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23652-4

© 2018 The Author(s). Workers of the house-hunting ant Temnothorax albipennis rely on visual edge following and landmark recognition to navigate their rocky environment, and they also exhibit a leftward turning bias when exploring unknown nest sites.... Read More about Asymmetric ommatidia count and behavioural lateralization in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

Transport of Live Cells under Sterile Conditions Using a Chemotactic Droplet (2018)
Journal Article
Holler, S., Porcelli, C., Ieropoulos, I., & Hanczyc, M. (2018). Transport of Live Cells under Sterile Conditions Using a Chemotactic Droplet. Scientific Reports, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26703-y

© 2018 The Author(s). 1-Decanol droplets, formed in an aqueous medium containing decanoate at high pH, become chemotactic when a chemical gradient is placed in the external aqueous environment. We investigated if such droplets can be used as transpor... Read More about Transport of Live Cells under Sterile Conditions Using a Chemotactic Droplet.

Increased power generation in supercapacitive microbial fuel cell stack using Fe–N–C cathode catalyst (2018)
Journal Article
Santoro, C., Kodali, M., Shamoon, N., Serov, A., Soavi, F., Merino-Jimenez, I., …Atanassov, P. (2019). Increased power generation in supercapacitive microbial fuel cell stack using Fe–N–C cathode catalyst. Journal of Power Sources, 412, 416-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.11.069

© 2018 The Authors The anode and cathode electrodes of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) stack, composed of 28 single MFCs, were used as the negative and positive electrodes, respectively of an internal self-charged supercapacitor. Particularly, carbon vei... Read More about Increased power generation in supercapacitive microbial fuel cell stack using Fe–N–C cathode catalyst.