Outputs (154)

Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design (2021)
Book

In the last decades robots are expected to be of increasing intelligence to deal with a large range of tasks. Especially, robots are supposed to be able to learn manipulation skills from humans. To this end, a number of learning algorithms and techni... Read More about Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design.

The effectiveness of remediating mathematical Common Student Errors in e-Assessments (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Common Student Errors Project (CSE Project) has been running at the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) since 2017. The main aim of this project is to introduce a method to detect CSEs and to provide tailored feedback in Engineering... Read More about The effectiveness of remediating mathematical Common Student Errors in e-Assessments.

DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation (2021)
Journal Article

Dual-arm robot manipulation is applicable to many domains, such as industrial, medical, and home service scenes. Learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a highly effective paradigm for robotic learning, where a robot learns from human actions directly... Read More about DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation.

Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality? (2021)
Journal Article

Many analyses of the ethical, legal and societal impacts of robotics are focussed on Europe and the United States. In this article I discuss the impacts of robotics on developing nations in a connected world, and make the case that international equi... Read More about Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality?.

Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface (2021)
Journal Article

When a drop impacts on a solid surface, a thin air film is entrapped first and later evolves into a spherical air bubble at the center inside the drop. The problem involves several complex physical processes, including two-phase fluid flow interactio... Read More about Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface.

Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot (2021)
Journal Article

Hazard analysis methods such as HAZOP and STPA have proven to be effective methods for assurance of system safety for years. However, the dimensionality and human factors uncertainty of many assistive robotic applications challenges the capability of... Read More about Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot.

A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks (2021)
Journal Article

Power consumption and data redundancy of wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely considered for a distributed state monitoring network. For reducing the energy consumption and data amount, we propose a topology optimisation and an iterative paramet... Read More about A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks.

Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article

Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is traditionally managed with an intercostal chest tube attached to an underwater seal. We investigated whether use of a one-way flutter valve shortened patients' length of stay (LoS). This open-label randomis... Read More about Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial.

Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer (2021)
Journal Article

A conventional robot programming method extensively limits the reusability of skills in the developmental aspect. Engineers programme a robot in a targeted manner for the realisation of predefined skills. The low reusability of general-purpose robot... Read More about Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer.

Act now - From science communication to action – time to focus on society’s change makers (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The effects of climate change are now being felt around the world, and yet cohesive and collaborative policymaking to mitigate impacts are moving too slowly. Indeed the latest scientific report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has w... Read More about Act now - From science communication to action – time to focus on society’s change makers.