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Developing elastomeric cellular structures for multiple head impacts (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Robinson, M., Soe, S., McShane, G., Celeghini, R., Burek, R., Alves, M., & Theobald, P. (2017). Developing elastomeric cellular structures for multiple head impacts. In 2017 IRCOBI Conference Proceedings

Foam?based materials were originally incorporated into helmets in the 1970?s, providing an effective method of absorbing impact energy and so protecting against severe head injury. Similar materials still exist in the majority of protective helmets t... Read More about Developing elastomeric cellular structures for multiple head impacts.

Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wallbridge, C. D., Lemaignan, S., & Belpaeme, T. (2017). Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation. In ACM Human-Agent Interaction Conference. , (359-363). https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132593

© 2017 ACM. This paper provides a qualitative review of different object recognition techniques relevant for near-proximity Human- Robot Interaction. These techniques are divided into three categories: 2D correspondence, 3D correspondence and nonvisi... Read More about Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation.

What's up?-Resolving interaction ambiguity through non-visual cues for a robotic dressing assistant (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chance, G., Caleb-Solly, P., Jevtic, A., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). What's up?-Resolving interaction ambiguity through non-visual cues for a robotic dressing assistant. In 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (284-291). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172315

© 2017 IEEE. Robots that can assist in activities of daily living (ADL) such as dressing assistance, need to be capable of intuitive and safe interaction. Vision systems are often used to provide information on the position and movement of the robot... Read More about What's up?-Resolving interaction ambiguity through non-visual cues for a robotic dressing assistant.

Type-2 fuzzy PID for active control of bidirectional structures (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2017). Type-2 fuzzy PID for active control of bidirectional structures. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEEE.2017.8108828

© 2017 IEEE. Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is popular algorithm in structure vibration control. In order to maintain minimum regulation error, the PID control require big proportional and derivative gains. The control performances... Read More about Type-2 fuzzy PID for active control of bidirectional structures.

Towards multimodal interactions: Robot jogging in mixed reality (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Sita, E., Studley, M., Dailami, F., Pipe, A. G., & Thomessen, T. (2017). Towards multimodal interactions: Robot jogging in mixed reality. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '17 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.1145/3139131.3141200

© 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). The recent progress made in the field of Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) has opened new possibilities and approaches to research areas that can benefit from 3D visualization of digital content in... Read More about Towards multimodal interactions: Robot jogging in mixed reality.

Aesthetic surgery induced transformation face insensitive features: The medical and theoretical standpoint (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Olisah, C. C., Okpala, M., & Ikuesan, A. R. (2017). Aesthetic surgery induced transformation face insensitive features: The medical and theoretical standpoint. In 2017 IEEE AFRICON (391-396). https://doi.org/10.1109/afrcon.2017.8095514

The changes in facial appearance resulting from the effect of plastic surgery may manifest in the form of textural variations, and/or geometric variations with respect to the facial structural features such as eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, nose, brow, etc.... Read More about Aesthetic surgery induced transformation face insensitive features: The medical and theoretical standpoint.

A low cost testbed and test-design methodology for nanosatellite sub-/systems (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Zaidi, Y., & Van Zyl, R. (2017). A low cost testbed and test-design methodology for nanosatellite sub-/systems. . https://doi.org/10.1109/AFRCON.2017.8095518

© 2017 IEEE. The architecture of a software-driven testbed is discussed. The test setup has been developed as measurement and instrumentation system to functionally verify and thermally validate the communication subsystems designed and manufactured... Read More about A low cost testbed and test-design methodology for nanosatellite sub-/systems.

Isogeometric analysis for modelling damage and fracture (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Herrero Adan, D., Cardoso, R., Adetoro, O., & Amali, R. (2017). Isogeometric analysis for modelling damage and fracture.

Isogeometric Analysis can be applied to model damage and crack initiation and propagation. To predict the cracking behaviour the stress field is used. The main advantage in IGA is the high inter-elemental continuity of the displacement field, which l... Read More about Isogeometric analysis for modelling damage and fracture.

Robust Attitude Control for Quadrotors with External Disturbances (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Nemati, H., Naghash, A., Mozafari, S., & Jamei, A. (in press). Robust Attitude Control for Quadrotors with External Disturbances

This study investigates a design procedure for a robust nonlinear control algorithm based on sliding mode control (SMC) to stabilize the attitude of a 3-DOF quadrotor UAV subject to external disturbances. Since traditional sliding mode controllers ar... Read More about Robust Attitude Control for Quadrotors with External Disturbances.

Improving engineering information retrieval by combining TD-IDF and product structure classification (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Jones, D., Matthews, J., Xie, Y., Gospill, J., Dotter, M., Chanchevrier, N., & Hicks, B. (2017). Improving engineering information retrieval by combining TD-IDF and product structure classification. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED17) (6-41)

Engineering Information Management (EIM) and Information Retrieval (IR) systems are central to the day to day running of large engineering organisations. The capture, interrogation, retrieval and presentation of information from design to disposal is... Read More about Improving engineering information retrieval by combining TD-IDF and product structure classification.

EvoBot: Towards a robot-chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Theodosiou, P., Faina, A., Nejatimoharrami, F., Stoy, K., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). EvoBot: Towards a robot-chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). In N. Lepora, T. Prescott, P. F. Verschure, A. Mura, M. Cutkosky, & M. Mangan (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. , (453-464). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_38

In this paper we present EvoBot, a RepRap open-source 3D-printer modified to operate like a robot for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). EvoBot is a modular liquid handling robot that has been adapted to host MFCs in its experimen... Read More about EvoBot: Towards a robot-chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs).

Thermally actuated composite helical lattices (2017)
Conference Proceeding
O'Donnell, M. P., Watts, T., & Pirrera, A. (2017). Thermally actuated composite helical lattices. In Mechcomp3. 3rd international Conference of mechanics of composites

An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Maheri, K., Lenz, A., & Pearson, M. J. (2017). An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller. In M. Mangan, C. Mark, A. Mura, P. Verschure, T. Prescott, & L. Nathan (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_23

Animals and robots face the common challenge of interacting with an unstructured environment. While animals excel and thrive in such environments, modern robotics struggles to effectively execute simple tasks. To help improve performance in the face... Read More about An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller.

CoilMove: An actuated to-body energy transfer system (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Worgan, P., & Fraser, M. (2017). CoilMove: An actuated to-body energy transfer system. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '17 (791-795). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064693

Today, users are an integral part of charging their mobile and wearable computing devices, including smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers and music players. In this paper CoilMove is presented. CoilMove is an actuated wireless energy transfer... Read More about CoilMove: An actuated to-body energy transfer system.

DeskWave: Desktop interactions using low-cost microwave Doppler arrays (2017)
Conference Proceeding
McIntosh, J., Fraser, M., Worgan, P., & Marzo, A. (2017). DeskWave: Desktop interactions using low-cost microwave Doppler arrays. In CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1885-1892). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053152

Microwaves are a type of electromagnetic radiation that can pass through a variety of commonly found materials but partially reflect off human bodies. Microwaves are non-ionizing and at controlled levels do not pose a danger. A wave that is capable o... Read More about DeskWave: Desktop interactions using low-cost microwave Doppler arrays.

Inflashoe: A shape changing shoe to control underfoot pressure (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Baousi, K., Fear, N., Mourouzis, C., Stokes, B., Wood, H., Worgan, P., & Roudaut, A. (2017). Inflashoe: A shape changing shoe to control underfoot pressure. In CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2381-2387). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053190

We present Inflashoe, an interactive shoe that uses a pneumatic system to change the inflation level within the sole. This allows the shoe to adapt its shape to different surfaces and users' foot morphology, or to alter users' gait. Inflashoe can not... Read More about Inflashoe: A shape changing shoe to control underfoot pressure.

Bidirectional fuzzy PD control for active vibration control of building structure (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Jafari, R., Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2017). Bidirectional fuzzy PD control for active vibration control of building structure. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2017.7915453

© 2017 IEEE. In this paper, the solutions of fuzzy differential equations (FDEs) are estimated by using two types of Bernstein neural networks. Here, the uncertainties are in the form of Z numbers. Firstly, we transform the FDE to four ordinary diffe... Read More about Bidirectional fuzzy PD control for active vibration control of building structure.

Photometric stereo technique suitability study for plant phenotyping (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Halliday, K., Smith, L., Hansen, M., Smith, M., Bernotas, G., Scorza, L., …Smith, M. (2017). Photometric stereo technique suitability study for plant phenotyping

The dynamic quantification of growth traits is critical for building accurate modelling tools to predict plant behaviour under different growth environments, and consequently in designing strategies to improve plant health and overall yields. We are... Read More about Photometric stereo technique suitability study for plant phenotyping.

Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Senft, E., Lemaignan, S., Baxter, P. E., & Belpaeme, T. (2017). Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference. , (281-282). https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038385

A key challenge of HRI is allowing robots to be adaptable, especially as robots are expected to penetrate society at large and to interact in unexpected environments with non-technical users. One way of providing this adaptability is to use Interacti... Read More about Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction.