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Investigation of the electrical properties of Graphene-reinforced geopolymer composites (2023)
Journal Article
Krishna, R. S., Saha, S., Korniejenko, K., Qureshi, T. S., & Mustakim, S. M. (in press). Investigation of the electrical properties of Graphene-reinforced geopolymer composites. Materials Proceedings, 13(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2023013034

Geopolymer composites provide an environmentally friendly alternative to cement-based composites in the construction industry. Due to their distinctive material composition, geopolymers also exhibit electrically conductive properties, which permit th... Read More about Investigation of the electrical properties of Graphene-reinforced geopolymer composites.

Pressure and angle sensors with optical fiber for instrumentation of the PrHand hand prosthesis (2022)
Journal Article
Arco, L. D., Pontes, M. J., Segatto, M. E. V., Monteiro, M. E., Cifuentes, C. A., & Díaz, C. A. R. (2022). Pressure and angle sensors with optical fiber for instrumentation of the PrHand hand prosthesis. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2407(1), 012010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2407/1/012010

The principal cause of upper limb amputations is due to traumatism. The prosthesis is an assistive device to help in the activities of daily for the amputee person. However, one of the latest reports shows that in developing countries there are aroun... Read More about Pressure and angle sensors with optical fiber for instrumentation of the PrHand hand prosthesis.

Educating engineers to contribute to a regional goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030 (2022)
Journal Article
Fogg-Rogers, L., Bakthavatchaalam, V., Richardson, D., & Fowles-Sweet, W. (2022). Educating engineers to contribute to a regional goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Cahiers COSTECH, 5, Article 133

The environmental and health impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss are now apparent and yet cohesive policymaking to mitigate emissions is moving too slowly. The UK’s target for carbon neutrality has been set for 2050, but this has been sup... Read More about Educating engineers to contribute to a regional goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Impacts of industry 4.0 in sustainable food manufacturing and supply chain (2020)
Journal Article
Ojo, O. O., Shah, S., & Coutroubis, A. (2020). Impacts of industry 4.0 in sustainable food manufacturing and supply chain. International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 13(2-3), 140-158. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJISM.2020.107851

Integration of sustainability and sustainable practices have been of paramount importance within most manufacturers' supply chain environment globally. Apart from the fact that every organisation now use this to improve on their corporate social resp... Read More about Impacts of industry 4.0 in sustainable food manufacturing and supply chain.

The analysis of tool wear mechanisms in the machining of pre-sintered zirconia dental crowns (2019)
Journal Article
Irvine, D., Goh, M., Dailami, F., & Matthews, J. (2019). The analysis of tool wear mechanisms in the machining of pre-sintered zirconia dental crowns. Procedia Manufacturing, 38, 1026-1033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.188

The growth of Digital Dentistry has opened new potentials in the dental restoration sector where personalised restorations could be made in a much shorter time than before. Zirconia has been widely used due to its excellent wear properties and bio-co... Read More about The analysis of tool wear mechanisms in the machining of pre-sintered zirconia dental crowns.

Event-triggered based state estimation for autonomous operation of an aerial robotic vehicle (2019)
Journal Article
Nokhodberiz, N. S., Nemati, H., & Montazeri, A. (2019). Event-triggered based state estimation for autonomous operation of an aerial robotic vehicle. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(13), 2348-2353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.557

In this article the problem of event-triggered (ET) state estimation for autonomous navigation of an aerial vehicle is investigated numerically. The aerial vehicle is considered as a general example of a nonlinear non-Gaussian system for state estima... Read More about Event-triggered based state estimation for autonomous operation of an aerial robotic vehicle.

Discrete time sliding mode control of milling chatter (2019)
Journal Article
Paul, S., & Löfstrand, M. (2020). Discrete time sliding mode control of milling chatter. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1121 AISC, 381-390. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38364-0_34

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. The technique of mitigating chatter phenomenon in an effective manner is an important issue from the viewpoint of superior quality machining process with quality production. In this paper, an innovative solution... Read More about Discrete time sliding mode control of milling chatter.

A fuzzy data-driven paradigmatic predictor (2019)
Journal Article
Amirjavid, F., Nemati, H., & Barak, S. (2019). A fuzzy data-driven paradigmatic predictor. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(13), 2366-2371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.560

Data-driven prediction of future events is to provide decision-makers Predictive Information (PI) to decrease human-error. They usually desire possession of a predictor which works independently from the humanized configurations and works efficiently... Read More about A fuzzy data-driven paradigmatic predictor.

A debris clearance robot for extreme environments (2019)
Journal Article
West, C., Giuliani, M., Lennox, B., Cheah, W., Arvin, F., West, A., & Watson, S. (2019). A debris clearance robot for extreme environments. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11649 LNAI, 148-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23807-0_13

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The need for nuclear decommissioning is increasing globally, as power stations and other facilities utilising nuclear reaches the end of their operational life. Currently the majority of decommissioning tasks ar... Read More about A debris clearance robot for extreme environments.

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.

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.

Multi-instrument multi-scale experimental damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites (2018)
Journal Article
Lomov, S. V., Breite, C., Carrella-Payan, D., Carvelli, V., Ersoy, N., Gigliotti, M., …Gorbatikh, L. (2018). Multi-instrument multi-scale experimental damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 406(1), 012057. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/406/1/012057

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Reliable investigation of damage in fibre reinforced composites requires concurrent in- and ex-situ application of multiple instruments at different scale: digital image correlation, acoustic emission... Read More about Multi-instrument multi-scale experimental damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites.

Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment (2018)
Journal Article
Fadli, F., Kutty, N., Wang, Z., Zlatanova, S., Mahdjoubi, L., Boguslawski, P., & Zverovich, V. (2018). Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 42(4), 241-247. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-161-2018

© Authors 2018. Disaster scenarios in high-rise buildings such as the Address Downtown, Dubai or Grenfell Tower, London have showed ones again the importance of data information availability for emergency management in buildings. 3D visualization of... Read More about Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment.

A method for bidirectional active vibration control of structure using discrete-time sliding mode (2018)
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Paul, S., Yu, W., & Jafari, R. (2018). A method for bidirectional active vibration control of structure using discrete-time sliding mode. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(13), 361-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.07.305

© 2018 In this paper, a novel discrete-time sliding mode control is proposed in order to attenuate structural vibration due to earthquake forces. The analysis is based on the lateral-torsional vibration under the bidirectional waves. The proposed fuz... Read More about A method for bidirectional active vibration control of structure using discrete-time sliding mode.

Biomimetic knee design to improve joint torque and life for bipedal robotics (2018)
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Steele, A., Hunt, A., & Etoundi, A. C. (2018). Biomimetic knee design to improve joint torque and life for bipedal robotics. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10965 LNAI, 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_8

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This paper details the design, construction, and performance analysis of a biologically inspired knee joint for use in bipedal robotics. The design copies the condylar surfaces of... Read More about Biomimetic knee design to improve joint torque and life for bipedal robotics.

Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation (2018)
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Yuksel, O., Baran, I., Ersoy, N., & Akkerman, R. (2018). Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1960, 020040. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5034841

© 2018 Author(s). Process induced stresses inherently exist in fiber reinforced polymer composites particularly in thick parts due to the presence of non-uniform cure, shrinkage and thermal expansion/contraction during manufacturing. In order to incr... Read More about Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation.

A conceptual exoskeleton shoulder design for the assistance of upper limb movement (2018)
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Perez, C. N., Georgilas, I., Etoundi, A., Chong, J., & Jafari, A. (2018). A conceptual exoskeleton shoulder design for the assistance of upper limb movement. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10965 LNAI, 291-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_25

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. There is an increased interest on wearable technologies for rehabilitation and human augmentation. Systems focusing on the upper limbs are attempting to replicate the musculoskelet... Read More about A conceptual exoskeleton shoulder design for the assistance of upper limb movement.

Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics (2018)
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Lee, C., Lawry, J., & Winfield, A. F. (2018). Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11172 LNCS, 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00533-7_8

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. There is a need for effective collective decision making in decentralised multi-agent and robotic systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to the best-of-n decision problem with large n. It utilises nega... Read More about Negative updating combined with opinion pooling in the best-of-n problem in swarm robotics.

Estimation of the dynamic leakage current of a supercapacitor in energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor nodes (2017)
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Yue, X., Kiely, J., Farooq, A., & Champneys, A. (2017). Estimation of the dynamic leakage current of a supercapacitor in energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor nodes. Intelec, 2017-October, 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/INTLEC.2017.8214147

© 2017 IEEE. The supercapacitor is a candidate energy storage component for energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor node aiming to achieve battery replacement-free, 'fit and forget' sensor node in low-power IoT applications. The leakage... Read More about Estimation of the dynamic leakage current of a supercapacitor in energy harvesting powered autonomous wireless sensor nodes.

Realizing low-impedance rendering in admittance-type haptic interfaces using the input-to-state stable approach (2017)
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Nabeel, M., Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2017). Realizing low-impedance rendering in admittance-type haptic interfaces using the input-to-state stable approach. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017-September, 914-919. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8202254

© 2017 IEEE. This paper proposes an approach to enlarge the impedance range of admittance-type haptic interfaces. Admittance-type haptic interfaces have advantages over impedance-type haptic interfaces in the interaction with high impedance virtual e... Read More about Realizing low-impedance rendering in admittance-type haptic interfaces using the input-to-state stable approach.