Outputs (216)

Investigation of zeolite supported platinum electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of small organic species (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC Zeolite supported Pt electrocatalysts, made by ion exchange method using Pt/Y type zeolite, have been investigated to determine Pt electrochemical activity of HCOOH and CH3OH oxidation using the cyclic voltamme... Read More about Investigation of zeolite supported platinum electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of small organic species.

Drone avionics (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

MAVs, UAVs, Drones, Quads, call them what you will. These machines are in the news a lot at the moment, and usually for all the wrong reasons. However, one thing is clear: a set of technologies have converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and... Read More about Drone avionics.

Neural-Learning-Based Telerobot Control with Guaranteed Performance (2016)
Journal Article

© 2013 IEEE. In this paper, a neural networks (NNs) enhanced telerobot control system is designed and tested on a Baxter robot. Guaranteed performance of the telerobot control system is achieved at both kinematic and dynamic levels. At kinematic leve... Read More about Neural-Learning-Based Telerobot Control with Guaranteed Performance.

Eye centre localisation: An unsupervised modular approach (2016)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - This paper aims to introduce an unsupervised modular approach for eye centre localisation in images and videos following a coarse-to-fine, global-to-regional scheme. The design of the algorithm aims at ex... Read More about Eye centre localisation: An unsupervised modular approach.

Urine transduction to usable energy: A modular MFC approach for smartphone and remote system charging (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors This study reports for the first time the full charging of a state-of-the-art mobile smartphone, using Microbial Fuel Cells fed with urine. This was possible by employing a new design of MFC that allowed scaling-up without power de... Read More about Urine transduction to usable energy: A modular MFC approach for smartphone and remote system charging.

Dependability in autonomous maritime vehicles: Building resilence into service-oriented agent robots (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. Technologies for oceans engineering are being based in autonomous solutions (mainly adaptation capabilities) able to tackle more complex maritime missions. This paper presents how an Intelligent Vehicle Control Architecture (IVCA) for ma... Read More about Dependability in autonomous maritime vehicles: Building resilence into service-oriented agent robots.

Visual-tactile sensory map calibration of a biomimetic whiskered robot (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. We present an adaptive filter model of cerebellar function applied to the calibration of a tactile sensory map to improve the accuracy of directed movements of a robotic manipulator. This is demonstrated using a platform called Bellabot... Read More about Visual-tactile sensory map calibration of a biomimetic whiskered robot.

Image-based robotic system for enhanced minimally invasive intra-articular fracture surgeries (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Robotic assistance can bring significant improvements to orthopedic fracture surgery: facilitate more accurate fracture fragment repositioning without open access and obviate problems related to the current minimally invasive fracture surgery techni... Read More about Image-based robotic system for enhanced minimally invasive intra-articular fracture surgeries.

Mathematical model of the arc erosion in bimetallic electrical contacts (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The mathematical model describing the nonstationary temperature field in a bimetallic contact consisting of a basic material and a covering is presented. It is based on the axially symmetric heat equation with the boundary conditions including an arc... Read More about Mathematical model of the arc erosion in bimetallic electrical contacts.

Is it possible to control an arc to glow transition for practical use in DC low voltage electrical installations? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper presents and discusses investigated results of the study of arc to glow transformation at breaking of DC inductive load of a low power (less than 10J) and low voltage (about 250V).The ratio in duration of arcing and glowing is investigated... Read More about Is it possible to control an arc to glow transition for practical use in DC low voltage electrical installations?.