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Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Romli, A., Setchi, R., Soe, S., & Prickett, P. (2015). Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design. In SDM'2015: 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (145-158)

A major challenge for any manufacturer is including aspects of sustainable development in product design. These are related to the social, environmental and economic impacts of the proposed product. This paper proposes the development of an eco- case... Read More about Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design.

Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCS treating urine (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Merino-Jimenez, I., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCS treating urine. In V. Cigolotti, M. Chianella, & C. Barchiesi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th European Fuel Cell - Piero Lunghi Conference, EFC 2015. , (311-312)

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) offer a promising technology for electricity production. In the anodic chamber, an anaerobic biofilm breaks down the organic compounds present in the urine to generate electricity. In the cathodic chamber, the oxygen reduc... Read More about Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCS treating urine.

A new design of membraneless microbial fuel cell: Anode and cathode share the same self-stratified electrolyte of urine (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Walter, X., Gajda, I., Forbes, S., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). A new design of membraneless microbial fuel cell: Anode and cathode share the same self-stratified electrolyte of urine. In M. Chianella, C. Barchiesi, & V. Cigolotti (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th European Fuel Cell - Piero Lunghi Conference, EFC 2015. , (315-316)

Regardless of architecture, microbial fuel cell technology requires a plurality of units to achieve exploitable electrical power. This implies that each unit needs a simple design allowing the production of the needed multiplicity. Here, we present a... Read More about A new design of membraneless microbial fuel cell: Anode and cathode share the same self-stratified electrolyte of urine.

Observer-based control design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs: LMI approach (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Delshad, S. S., S. Delshad, I., Gustafsson, T., Karimi, H. R., & Zemouche, A. (2015). Observer-based control design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs: LMI approach. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAS.2015.7364768

© 2015 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems - ICROS. This paper deals with the problem of observer-based controller design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs. A novel method is presented to design a controller using esti... Read More about Observer-based control design for a class of nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs: LMI approach.

Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Insaurralde, C., Short, M., & Dawood, M. (2015). Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301470

© 2015 IEEE. The liberalization of the energy markets, combined with the drive towards a low-carbon economy, has led to the development of the concept of the smart grid. The smart grid is an energy distribution network that enables real-time informat... Read More about Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network.

Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Insaurralde, C. C. (2015). Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors. https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301566

© 2015 IEEE. Many Factory Automation Systems (FASs) are been increasingly required to provide 24/7 in-service operation. This demands increasingly-higher levels of autonomy, and makes FAS control architectures include extra regulating capabilities in... Read More about Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors.

Development of an EMG controlled hand exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ferreira, H. A., Moital, A., & Dogramadzi, S. (2015). Development of an EMG controlled hand exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation. In Proceedings of the 3rd 2015 Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques - REHAB '15. , (66-72). https://doi.org/10.1145/2838944.2838961

© 2015 ACM. Rehabilitation after stroke is of crucial importance since patients often have severe motor impairments that affect their daily activities. In the past decades, a number of robotic systems have been proposed for stroke rehabilitation but... Read More about Development of an EMG controlled hand exoskeleton for post-stroke rehabilitation.

Advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2015). Advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWEEK.2015.7287413

© 2015 IEEE. This paper provides an overview of building structure modeling and control under bidirectional seismic waves. It focuses on different types of bidirectional control devices, control strategies, and bidirectional sensors used in structura... Read More about Advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control.

Bio-inspired physical layered device architectures for diffusion-based molecular communication: Design issues and suggestions (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Chude-Okonkwo, U. A., Malekian, R., Mharaj, B. T., & Olisah, C. (2015). Bio-inspired physical layered device architectures for diffusion-based molecular communication: Design issues and suggestions. In 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (1472-1479). https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2015.7281950

The aim of molecular communication (MC) is to develop communication systems for biochemical information interchange among nano devices. While there have been research efforts to model, design and analyze various MC network and devices, a lot still ha... Read More about Bio-inspired physical layered device architectures for diffusion-based molecular communication: Design issues and suggestions.

Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Jafari, A., Nabeel, M., & Ryu, J. (2015). Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach

Passivity has been the most often used constraint for the controller design of bilateral teleoperation systems. However passivity has been suffering from its own design conservatism since this is a sufficient condition for stability and representing... Read More about Stable bilateral teleoperation with input-to-state stable approach.

Network formulation and stability improvement of a bilateral teleoperation system with admittance-type master interfaces (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Nabeel, M., Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2015). Network formulation and stability improvement of a bilateral teleoperation system with admittance-type master interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2015.7222796

© 2015 IEEE. This paper introduces a network formulation of bilateral teleoperation systems with admittance-type master interfaces to improve their stability range with Time Domain Passivity Approach (TDPA). Since traditional network representation o... Read More about Network formulation and stability improvement of a bilateral teleoperation system with admittance-type master interfaces.

Inductive power transfer for on-body sensors. Defining a design space for safe, wirelessly powered on-body health sensors (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Worgan, P., Clare, L., Proynov, P., Stark, B., & Coyle, D. (2015). Inductive power transfer for on-body sensors. Defining a design space for safe, wirelessly powered on-body health sensors. In 2015 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) (177-184). https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259139

Designers of on-body health sensing devices face a difficult choice. They must either minimise the power consumption of devices, which in reality means reducing the sensing capabilities, or build devices that require regular battery changes or rechar... Read More about Inductive power transfer for on-body sensors. Defining a design space for safe, wirelessly powered on-body health sensors.

Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Clare, L., Worgan, P., Stark, B. H., Adami, S. E., & Coyle, D. (2015). Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer. In 2015 IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC). https://doi.org/10.1109/wpt.2015.7140171

Designers of on-body health sensing devices with inductive power transfer (IPT) face a number of trade-offs. Safe exposure limits should be maintained, and protective housing and padding are generally needed; however, these impose compromises on the... Read More about Influence of exposure guidelines on the design of on-body inductive power transfer.

Towards model-based robot behaviour adaptation: Successful human-robot collaboration in tense and stressful situations (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Dogramadzi, S., Pipe, A. G., Sobhani, M. M., Sobhani, M., Pipe, A. G., Dogramadzi, S., & Fennell, J. G. (2015). Towards model-based robot behaviour adaptation: Successful human-robot collaboration in tense and stressful situations. In 2015 23rd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering. , (922-927). https://doi.org/10.1109/IranianCEE.2015.7146343

© 2015 IEEE. In a demanding environment such as search and rescue, where human-robot collaboration provides potential benefits, understanding complex human behaviour will promote greater success. We propose that robots need to be equipped with embodi... Read More about Towards model-based robot behaviour adaptation: Successful human-robot collaboration in tense and stressful situations.

Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2015). Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '15 (255-262). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696496

© 2015 ACM. Emphasis, by means of either pitch accents or beat gestures (rhythmic co-verbal gestures with no semantic meaning), has been shown to serve two main purposes in human communication: syntactic disambiguation and salience. To use beat gestu... Read More about Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison.

A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ma, S., Manoj, S., Yu, H., Ren, J., & Weerasekera, R. (2015). A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS. In 2015 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2015.7166838

© 2015 IEEE. A full-rate energy-efficient forwarded-clock (FC) receiver is demonstrated in this paper. A current sampler with continuous-time equalization is realized with 20 GHz bandwidth in sampling for data recovery. Moreover, a phase interpolator... Read More about A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS.