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An overview of sustainable practices in food processing supply chain environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Climate change has been a great challenge that the world is facing, it is a menace to the society and it is causing more damage than expected. The researchers are working tirelessly to reduce its impact on the planet in order to save the future. Miti... Read More about An overview of sustainable practices in food processing supply chain environments.

ROS-Unity3D based system for monitoring of an industrial robotic process (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. Planning and monitoring the manufacturing of high quality one-of-a-kind products are challenging tasks. In the implementation of an industrial system, the commissioning phase is typically comprised of a programming phase and an optimizat... Read More about ROS-Unity3D based system for monitoring of an industrial robotic process.

On the common-mode and configuration-dependent stiffness control of multiple degrees of freedom hands (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. Object manipulation using hands is a compelling topic in which the interaction forces play a key role. These influence the stability of the grasp and the dexterity of the hand manipulation. A well-known technique to modulate these forces... Read More about On the common-mode and configuration-dependent stiffness control of multiple degrees of freedom hands.

Method to assess lateral handling qualities of aircraft with wingtip morphing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. The impact of in-flight folding wingtip on roll characteristics of aircraft has been studied in the past. In this study, a handling qualities assessment carrie... Read More about Method to assess lateral handling qualities of aircraft with wingtip morphing.

Pilot-in-the-loop simulation of flexible aircraft in MATLAB/simulink: Implementation and coding peculiarities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. Integration of flight dynamic models, developed in the MATLAB®/Simulink® environment, with an engineering flight simulation platform allows rapid pilot-in-the-... Read More about Pilot-in-the-loop simulation of flexible aircraft in MATLAB/simulink: Implementation and coding peculiarities.

Comparison of reduced order aerodynamic models and RANS simulations for whole aircraft aerodynamics (2018)
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© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. Verification and validation of models are critical steps in developing confidence in engineering design processes. The focus of this paper is the verification... Read More about Comparison of reduced order aerodynamic models and RANS simulations for whole aircraft aerodynamics.

Analysis of a 3D unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. In this paper, a comparative study between a NACA 0012 rectangular wing with a statically morphed Trailing Edge Flap (TEF) and the same wing with a hinged flap... Read More about Analysis of a 3D unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition.

Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A numerical study of the NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a harmonically morphing trailing edge flap (TEF) is performed at an angle of attack of 4º and a Reynolds... Read More about Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing.

A conceptual exoskeleton shoulder design for the assistance of upper limb movement (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. There is an increased interest on wearable technologies for rehabilitation and human augmentation. Systems focusing on the upper limbs are attempting to replicate the musculoskelet... Read More about A conceptual exoskeleton shoulder design for the assistance of upper limb movement.

Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. There is a need for effective collective decision making in decentralised multi-agent and robotic systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to the best-of-n decision problem with large n. It utilises nega... Read More about Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics.