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Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method (2020)
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Chen, L., Liu, K., Yao, Y., Yao, J., Su, Z., & Luo, G. (2020). Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 21(5), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/15502287.2020.1809554

Mud and gravel deposition often occurs in circulation systems of pumps. In this paper, a liquid-solid coupling method combining CFD and DEM is proposed to study two-phase flow behavior of water, The flow characteristics of water-clay mud and the moti... Read More about Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method.

Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique (2020)
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Rao, P., Painter, J., Appleby-Thomas, G., Critchley, R., Wood, D., Roberts, A., & Hazael, R. (2020). Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 146, Article 103714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2020.103714

Expansion and fragmentation of metallic cylinders is an important area of study both for designing munitions and mitigation techniques against fragments as well as in the failure of pressurised pipes in industry. Most of the reported studies on fragm... Read More about Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique.

Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition (2020)
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Lu, Z., Li, M., Annamalai, A., & Yang, C. (2020). Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 2(3), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs.2020.0015

Echography imaging is an important technique frequently used in medical diagnostics due to low-cost, non-ionising characteristics, and pragmatic convenience. Due to the shortage of skilful technicians and injuries of physicians sustained from diagnos... Read More about Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition.

An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints (2020)
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Ruiz Garate, V., & Ajoudani, A. (2020). An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints. Autonomous Robots, 44(8), 1505-1517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-020-09942-9

When using a tool with a robotic hand-arm system, the stiffness at the grasped object plays a key role in the interaction with the environment, allowing the successful execution of the task. However, the rapidly increasing use of under-actuated hands... Read More about An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints.

An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion (2020)
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Li, J., Zhong, J., Yang, J., & Yang, C. (2020). An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14(55), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00055

Though a robot can reproduce the demonstration trajectory from a human demonstrator by teleoperation, there is a certain error between the reproduced trajectory and the desired trajectory. To minimize this error, we propose a multimodal incremental l... Read More about An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion.

Improving the power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells using PEDOT-PSS modified anodes (2020)
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Salar-Garcia, M. J., Montilla, F., Quijada, C., Morallon, E., & Ieropoulos, I. (2020). Improving the power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells using PEDOT-PSS modified anodes. Applied Energy, 278, Article 115528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115528

© 2020 The Authors The need for improving the energy harvesting from Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) has boosted the design of new materials in order to increase the power performance of this technology and facilitate its practical application. According... Read More about Improving the power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells using PEDOT-PSS modified anodes.

Illicit drug contamination of the Bristol Pound local currency (2020)
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Bowdler, P., Gale, E., Bryant, F., Codd, S., Hudd, S., Longden, R., …Honeychurch, K. C. (2020). Illicit drug contamination of the Bristol Pound local currency. Forensic Science International, 316, Article 110469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110469

Reports have shown the prevalence of the contamination of banknotes with a number of different drugs. These studies have focused on investigating drug contamination levels on currency which is either nationally or even international distributed. To p... Read More about Illicit drug contamination of the Bristol Pound local currency.

Bias compensation-based parameter and state estimation for a class of time-delay non-linear state-space models (2020)
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Gu, Y., Zhu, Q., & Nouri, H. (2020). Bias compensation-based parameter and state estimation for a class of time-delay non-linear state-space models. IET Control Theory and Applications, 14(15), 2176-2185. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2020.0104

This study presents, based on bias compensation, an integrated parameter and state estimation algorithm for a class of time-delay non-linear systems which are described by canonical observable state-space model. In technical development, the state-sp... Read More about Bias compensation-based parameter and state estimation for a class of time-delay non-linear state-space models.

Scaling up self-stratifying supercapacitive microbial fuel cell (2020)
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Walter, X. A., Santoro, C., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2020). Scaling up self-stratifying supercapacitive microbial fuel cell. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45(46), 25240-25248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.06.070

Self-stratifying microbial fuel cells with three different electrodes sizes and volumes were operated in supercapacitive mode. As the electrodes size increased, the equivalent series resistance decreased, and the overall power was enhanced (small: ES... Read More about Scaling up self-stratifying supercapacitive microbial fuel cell.