Outputs (50)

Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots (2021)
Thesis

Socially assistive robots primarily provide useful functionality through their social interactions with user(s). An example application, used to ground work throughout this thesis, is using a social robot to guide users through exercise sessions. Ini... Read More about Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots.

A semantically-enriched quality governance framework in the system of systems context applied to cancer care (2021)
Thesis

Organisations are becoming more complex with diverse businesses, and therefore accomplishing their business objectives entails the need to develop System of Systems (SoS) with new capabilities based on existing monolithic systems of different domains... Read More about A semantically-enriched quality governance framework in the system of systems context applied to cancer care.

Vortex development for a 65 degree swept back delta wing with varying thickness and maximum thickness location (2020)
Thesis

Low signature, unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) are foreseen to play an important role in future military missions. Most UCAV concepts feature some sort of delta or lambda type of wing with high or moderately swept leading edge, where the fusel... Read More about Vortex development for a 65 degree swept back delta wing with varying thickness and maximum thickness location.

Development of novel hybrid method and geometrical configuration-based active noise control system for circular cylinder and slat noise prediction and reduction applications (2020)
Thesis

This thesis presents a study about the application of a geometrical configuration-based feedforward adaptive active noise control (ANC) system in the low-frequency range of flow-induced (aeroacoustics) noise cancellation and the investigation on the... Read More about Development of novel hybrid method and geometrical configuration-based active noise control system for circular cylinder and slat noise prediction and reduction applications.

Development of adaptive control methodologies and algorithms for nonlinear dynamic systems based on u-control framework (2020)
Thesis

Inspired by the U-model based control system design (or called U-control system design), this study is mainly divided into three parts. The first one is a U-model based control system for unstable non-minimum phase system. Pulling theorems are prop... Read More about Development of adaptive control methodologies and algorithms for nonlinear dynamic systems based on u-control framework.

Advanced 3D ultrasonic characterisation of 2D woven composites (2020)
Thesis

The principal aim of this project was to generate an automated mapping programme that will identify and quantify deviations from design, due to either manufacturing processes or in-service defects. Focusing on woven carbon fibre composites, using dat... Read More about Advanced 3D ultrasonic characterisation of 2D woven composites.

Dynamic mesh framework for morphing wings CFD (2019)
Thesis

In this work, a framework to perform high fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of dynamically morphing airfoils and wings is presented. An unsteady parametric method to model the deforming motion is proposed and then implemented in a... Read More about Dynamic mesh framework for morphing wings CFD.

Optimisation of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) through bacterial-robot interaction (2019)
Thesis

For over 100 years, Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) have been developed as eco-friendly alternatives for generating electricity via the oxidation of organic matter by bacteria. In the early 2000s, collectives of MFCs were proven fea-sible energy provider... Read More about Optimisation of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) through bacterial-robot interaction.

3D plant phenotyping system using photometric stereo (2019)
Thesis

Tracking and predicting the growth performance of plants in different environments is critical for future crop development, which is under dual pressure from population expansion and global climate change. Automated approaches for image capture and a... Read More about 3D plant phenotyping system using photometric stereo.

Development of U-model enhansed nonlinear systems (2019)
Thesis

Nonlinear control system design has been widely recognised as a challenging issue where the key objective is to develop a general model prototype with conciseness, flexibility and manipulability, so that the designed control system can best match the... Read More about Development of U-model enhansed nonlinear systems.