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Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support (2018)
Journal Article
Insaurralde, C. C., & Blasch, E. (2018). Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support. Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, 13(2), 255-274

With the growing congestion in the airspace, Air Traffic Management(ATM) requires advances in massive data processing, sophisticated avionics techniques, coordination with weather updates, and assessment of multiple types of uncertainty. The complex... Read More about Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support.

Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test (2018)
Journal Article
Xu, X., Wisnom, M. R., & Hallett, S. R. (2019). Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 118, 162-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.12.027

The R-curve for Mode I trans-laminar fracture energy in quasi-isotropic IM7/8552 carbon/epoxy laminates is here deduced numerically from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test. A High-fidelity Finite Element Method (Hi-FEM) using the explic... Read More about Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test.

Optimisation of mechanical properties for a gear steel alloy for aero-engine applications (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdallah, Z., Bache, M., Perkins, K., Rawson, M., & Hetherington, J. (2018). Optimisation of mechanical properties for a gear steel alloy for aero-engine applications. . https://doi.org/10.4172/2321-6212-C4-023

The characterization of steel alloys, candidates for employment as a gear material for future gas turbine aero-engine, will be described in the present study. Comparative studies were initially performed on seven potential steel alloy systems, consid... Read More about Optimisation of mechanical properties for a gear steel alloy for aero-engine applications.

The Dark Side of Ethical Robots (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Vanderelst, D., & Winfield, A. (2018). The Dark Side of Ethical Robots. In Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society - AIES '18. , (317-322). https://doi.org/10.1145/3278721.3278726

© 2018 ACM. Concerns over the risks associated with advances in Artificial Intelligence have prompted calls for greater efforts toward robust and beneficial AI, including machine ethics. Recently, roboticists have responded by initiating the developm... Read More about The Dark Side of Ethical Robots.

Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation (2018)
Journal Article
Singh, H., Jafari, A., Ryu, J. H., & Peer, A. (2018). Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 4972-4979. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593866

© 2018 IEEE. Enhancing transparency of a teleoperation system by increasing the command-following bandwidth has not received lots of attention so far. This is considered a challenging task since in a teleoperation system the command-following bandwid... Read More about Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation.

Size-dependent nonlinear secondary resonance of micro-/nano-beams made of nano-porous biomaterials including truncated cube cells (2018)
Journal Article
Sahmani, S., Fotouhi, M., & Aghdam, M. M. (2019). Size-dependent nonlinear secondary resonance of micro-/nano-beams made of nano-porous biomaterials including truncated cube cells. Acta Mechanica, 230(3), 1077-1103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-018-2334-9

© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Porous biomaterials have been utilized in cellular structures in order to mimic the function of bone as a branch of tissue engineering approach. With the aid of nano-porous biomaterials i... Read More about Size-dependent nonlinear secondary resonance of micro-/nano-beams made of nano-porous biomaterials including truncated cube cells.

UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots (2018)
Journal Article
Wallhridge, C., Lemaignan, S., Sallami, Y., Wallbridge, C., Clodic, A., Belpaeme, T., & Alami, R. (2018). UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 7750-7757. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594094

© 2018 IEEE. We introduce UNDERWORLDS, a novel lightweight framework for cascading spatio-temporal situation assessment in robotics. UNDERWORLDS allows programmers to represent the robot's environment as real-time distributed data structures, contain... Read More about UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots.

Robot companion for industrial process monitoring based on virtual fixtures (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Sita, E., Thomessen, T., Pipe, A. G., Dailami, F., & Studley, M. (2018). Robot companion for industrial process monitoring based on virtual fixtures. . https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591105

© 2018 IEEE. In this paper, the use of a monitoring companion is proposed to more efficiently collect the process information during the tuning of industrial systems, and therefore to assist the system integrator in the optimization process for compl... Read More about Robot companion for industrial process monitoring based on virtual fixtures.

Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2018)
Journal Article
Nemati, H., & Montazeri, A. (2018). Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(22), 244-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.11.549

This study introduces a new multi-channel robust nonlinear control algorithm based on the theory of the time-varying sliding mode control (TVSMC) strategy to stabilize the attitude of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for nuclear decommissioning appli... Read More about Analysis and Design of a Multi-Channel Time-Varying Sliding Mode Controller and its Application in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Integrating shelf life constraints in capacitated lot sizing and scheduling for perishable products (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Chen, S., Berretta, R., Mendes, A., & Clark, A. (2018, December). Integrating shelf life constraints in capacitated lot sizing and scheduling for perishable products. Paper presented at 26th ASOR National Conference for the Australian Society of Operations Research, Melbourne, Australia

In this study, we consider a multi-item capacitated lot sizing and scheduling problem for perishable food products, which have a fixed shelf life period due to depreciation issues, such as physical deterioration or perceived value loss. We incorporat... Read More about Integrating shelf life constraints in capacitated lot sizing and scheduling for perishable products.