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Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Highly active small mammals need to capture prey rapidly and with a high success rate if they are to survive. We consider the case of the Etruscan shrew, which hunts prey including crickets almost as large as itself, and relies on its whiskers (vibri... Read More about Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot.

Towards an anthropomorphic design of minimally invasive instrumentation for soft tissue robotic surgery (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Minimally invasive procedures, such as laparoscopy, have significantly decreased blood loss, postoperative morbidity and length of hospital stay. Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has offered refined accuracy and more ergonomic instrume... Read More about Towards an anthropomorphic design of minimally invasive instrumentation for soft tissue robotic surgery.

Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artificial tactile whisker sensors demonstrate an approach to localisation [1] that is robust to harsh environmental disturbances, endowing autonomous systems with the ability to operate effectively in confined, noisy and visually occluded spaces, su... Read More about Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining.

A robust multi-scale integration method to obtain the depth from gradient maps (2012)
Journal Article

We describe a robust method for the recovery of the depth map (or height map) from a gradient map (or normal map) of a scene, such as would be obtained by photometric stereo or interferometry. Our method allows for uncertain or missing samples, which... Read More about A robust multi-scale integration method to obtain the depth from gradient maps.

Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery (2012)
Journal Article

Low priority treatment guidance is used in the National Health Service to manage requests for cosmetic surgery where there is no associated functional impairment. Provision is made in this guidance to provide surgery on exceptional grounds, and this... Read More about Low priority? A cross sectional study of appearance anxiety in 500 consecutive referrals for cosmetic surgery.

Quantification of transient fuel films under elevated ambient pressure environments (2012)
Journal Article

Impingement of fuel sprays on solid surfaces is of interest in a wide range of industrial applications including automotive, gas turbines, and process and hazard analysis. Consequently, accurate quantification of fuel films is necessary for model val... Read More about Quantification of transient fuel films under elevated ambient pressure environments.

Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The protection of vulnerable road users (VRU) remains one of the most challenging problems for our society and several governmental and consumer organization has set targets to reduce the VRU fatality and injury rates. The automotive industry is, the... Read More about Numerical modeling of ADA system for vulnerable road users protection based on radar and vision sensing.

Alpha-case kinetics and surface crack growth in the high-temperature alloy Timetal 834 under creep conditions (2012)
Journal Article

Investigations of Timetal 834 crept specimens showed that a uniform alpha-case layer was developed at the surfaces of all specimens tested in air at 823 K to 923 K (550 °C to 650 °C). The formation of this alpha-case was a result of the inward diffus... Read More about Alpha-case kinetics and surface crack growth in the high-temperature alloy Timetal 834 under creep conditions.

High temperature creep behaviour of gamma-titanium aluminides (gamma-TiAl) (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Compared to conventional titanium alloys, gamma titanium aluminides (gamma-TiAl)offer highly desirable properties to the design engineer, with relatively high specific stiffness and high temperature capability. However, a significant drawback of this... Read More about High temperature creep behaviour of gamma-titanium aluminides (gamma-TiAl).

The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Animal behaviour is rich, varied, and smoothly integrated. One plausible model of its generation is that behavioural sub-systems compete to command effectors. In small terrestrial mammals, many behaviours are underpinned by foveation, since important... Read More about The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots.