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Electroosmotically generated disinfectant from urine as a by-product of electricity in microbial fuel cell for the inactivation of pathogenic species (2020)
Journal Article

This work presents a small scale and low cost ceramic based microbial fuel cell, utilising human urine into electricity, while producing clean catholyte into an initially empty cathode chamber through the process of electro-osmostic drag. It is the f... Read More about Electroosmotically generated disinfectant from urine as a by-product of electricity in microbial fuel cell for the inactivation of pathogenic species.

Multidimensional benefits of improved sanitation: Evaluating 'PEE POWER®' in Kisoro, Uganda (2020)
Journal Article

With 2.3 billion people around the world lacking adequate sanitation services, attention has turned to alternative service provision models. This study suggests an approach for meeting the sanitation challenge, especially as expressed in Sustainable... Read More about Multidimensional benefits of improved sanitation: Evaluating 'PEE POWER®' in Kisoro, Uganda.

Simulated pilot-in-the-loop testing of handling qualities of the flexible wing aircraft (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 The Author(s). Published by VGTU Press. This article aims to indicate the differences between rigid and flexible wing aircraft flying (FQ) and handling (HQ) qualities. The Simulation Framework for Flexible Aircraft was used to provide a generi... Read More about Simulated pilot-in-the-loop testing of handling qualities of the flexible wing aircraft.

Hand gesture recognition in complex background based on convolutional pose machine and fuzzy gaussian mixture models (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, The Author(s). Hand gesture is one of the most intuitive and natural ways for human to communicate with computers, and it has been widely adopted in many human–computer interaction applications. However, it is still a challenging problem when... Read More about Hand gesture recognition in complex background based on convolutional pose machine and fuzzy gaussian mixture models.

User-centred design and evaluation of a tele-operated echocardiography robot (2020)
Journal Article

We present the collected findings of a user-centred approach for developing a tele-operated robot for remote echocardiography examinations. During the three-year development of the robot, we involved users in all development stages of the robot, to i... Read More about User-centred design and evaluation of a tele-operated echocardiography robot.

A holistic evaluation of the impact of UK renewable strategy on emissions from compression ignition engines (2020)
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Reduction in fossil fuels, contributing to greenhouse gases, and improvement of air quality from vehicle emissions is of growing concern worldwide. This has led to the introduction of several binding and non-binding agreements, such as the Renewable... Read More about A holistic evaluation of the impact of UK renewable strategy on emissions from compression ignition engines.

Demographic trends in the incidence of young-onset colorectal cancer: A population-based study (2020)
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Background: Evidence is emerging that the incidence of colorectal cancer is increasing in young adults, but the descriptive epidemiology required to better understand these trends is currently lacking. Methods: A population-based cohort study was... Read More about Demographic trends in the incidence of young-onset colorectal cancer: A population-based study.

Resilience and limitations of MFC anodic community when exposed to antibacterial agents (2020)
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This study evaluates the fate of certain bactericidal agents introduced into microbial fuel cell (MFC) cascades and the response of the microbial community. We tested the response of functioning urine fed MFC cascades using two very different bacteri... Read More about Resilience and limitations of MFC anodic community when exposed to antibacterial agents.

Urine in bioelectrochemical systems: An overall review (2020)
Journal Article

In recent years, human urine has been successfully used as an electrolyte and organic substrate in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) mainly due of its unique properties. Urine contains organic compounds that can be utilised as a fuel for energy recov... Read More about Urine in bioelectrochemical systems: An overall review.

Reinforcement learning control of a flexible two-link manipulator: an experimental investigation (2020)
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This article discusses the control design and experiment validation of a flexible two-link manipulator (FTLM) system represented by ordinary differential equations (ODEs). A reinforcement learning (RL) control strategy is developed that is based on a... Read More about Reinforcement learning control of a flexible two-link manipulator: an experimental investigation.

Information entropy-based intention prediction of aerial targets under uncertain and incomplete information (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 by authors. To improve the effectiveness of air combat decision-making systems, target intention has been extensively studied. In general, aerial target intention is composed of attack, surveillance, penetration, feint, defense, reconnaissance... Read More about Information entropy-based intention prediction of aerial targets under uncertain and incomplete information.

Above-ground biomass estimation and yield prediction in potato by using UAV-based RGB and hyperspectral imaging (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS) Rapid and accurate biomass and yield estimation facilitates efficient plant phenotyping and site-specific crop management. A low altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) w... Read More about Above-ground biomass estimation and yield prediction in potato by using UAV-based RGB and hyperspectral imaging.

Scalability and stacking of self-stratifying microbial fuel cells treating urine (2020)
Journal Article

The scalability of Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is key to the development of stacks. A recent study has shown that self-stratifying membraneless MFCs (S-MFCs) could be scaled down to 2 cm without performance deterioration. However, the scaling-up limi... Read More about Scalability and stacking of self-stratifying microbial fuel cells treating urine.

Microbial fuel cell stack performance enhancement through carbon veil anode modification with activated carbon powder (2020)
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The chemical energy contained in urine can be efficiently extracted into direct electricity by Microbial Fuel Cell stacks to reach usable power levels for practical implementation and a decentralised power source in remote locations. Herein, a novel... Read More about Microbial fuel cell stack performance enhancement through carbon veil anode modification with activated carbon powder.

Ballistic research techniques: visualizing gunshot wounding patterns (2020)
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There are difficulties associated with mapping gunshot wound (GSW) patterns within opaque models. Depending on the damage measurement parameters required, there are multiple techniques that can provide methods of “seeing” the GSW pattern within an op... Read More about Ballistic research techniques: visualizing gunshot wounding patterns.

Image segmentation of underfloor scenes using a mask regions convolutional neural network with two-stage transfer learning (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Enclosed spaces are common in built structures but pose a challenge to many forms of manual or robotic surveying and maintenance tasks. Part of this challenge is to train robot systems to understand their environment without huma... Read More about Image segmentation of underfloor scenes using a mask regions convolutional neural network with two-stage transfer learning.

A composite feedback approach to stabilize nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances (2020)
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In this work, we propose a robust stabilizer for nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances. The proposed approach implements a composite nonlinear feedback structure in which a linear controller is designed to yiel... Read More about A composite feedback approach to stabilize nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances.

Audio-driven robot upper-body motion synthesis (2020)
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Body language is an important aspect of human communication, which an effective human-robot interaction interface should mimic well. Human beings exchange information and convey their thoughts and feelings through gaze, facial expressions, body langu... Read More about Audio-driven robot upper-body motion synthesis.

Mixed reality enhanced user interactive path planning for omnidirectional mobile robot (2020)
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This paper proposes a novel control system for the path planning of an omnidirectional mobile robot based on mixed reality. Most research on mobile robots is carried out in a completely real environment or a completely virtual environment. However, a... Read More about Mixed reality enhanced user interactive path planning for omnidirectional mobile robot.

Design for localisation: A case study in the development and implementation of a low head propeller turbine in Nepal (2020)
Journal Article

This paper proposes a methodology for “design for localisation” that addresses the challenge of designing a product for local manufacture and use, whilst considering the production process availability and the context of the local geographic area. Th... Read More about Design for localisation: A case study in the development and implementation of a low head propeller turbine in Nepal.