All Outputs (215)

An integrated eco-design decision making tool (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The application of an integrated eco-design decision making tool is presented as a case study considering the design of an office chair base. This study brings together the analysis of factors relating to manufacturing processes, product usage and en... Read More about An integrated eco-design decision making tool.

Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper studies a control law to stabilize the orbital motion in the vicinity of an unstable equilibrium points and periodic orbits in the circular-restricted three-body problem. Utilizing the eigenstructure of the system, the fuel efficient forma... Read More about Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties.

Trajectory design using the center manifold theory in the circular restricted three-body problem (2016)
Journal Article

Lagrangian points are libration points in the circular restricted three-body problem. Three of them are collinear libration points,
and known to have unstable periodic and quasi-periodic orbits in the vicinity of themselves. This study aims to desig... Read More about Trajectory design using the center manifold theory in the circular restricted three-body problem.

Coupling of helical lattice structures for tunable non-linear elasticity (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

3D printed components of microbial fuel cells: Towards monolithic microbial fuel cell fabrication using additive layer manufacturing (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors For practical applications of the MFC technology, the design as well as the processes of manufacturing and assembly, should be optimised for the specific target use. Another burgeoning technology, additive manufacturing (3D printin... Read More about 3D printed components of microbial fuel cells: Towards monolithic microbial fuel cell fabrication using additive layer manufacturing.

Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury (2016)
Journal Article

© 2001-2011 IEEE. The development of technological applications that allow people to control and embody external devices within social interaction settings represents a major goal for current and future brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. Prior r... Read More about Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury.

Intelligent techniques for bidirectional structural health monitoring (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 ACM. This paper provides an overview of structural health monitoring systems based on the intelligent methodology that can be implemented on the buildings that has undergone damage under the impact of bidirectional seismic forces.

Performance analysis of the generalised projection identification for time-varying systems (2016)
Journal Article

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2016. The least mean square methods include two typical parameter estimation algorithms, which are the projection algorithm and the stochastic gradient algorithm, the former is sensitive to noise and th... Read More about Performance analysis of the generalised projection identification for time-varying systems.

Eliminating micro-porous layer from gas diffusion electrode for use in high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. In this work, we report a simple strategy to improve the performance of high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (HT-PEMFC) by eliminating the micro-porous layer (MPL) from its gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs). Due... Read More about Eliminating micro-porous layer from gas diffusion electrode for use in high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell.

Autonomous energy harvesting and prevention of cell reversal in MFC stacks (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. This study presents a novel method for avoiding cell reversal whilst optimising energy harvesting from stacked Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) by dynamically reconfiguring the electrical connections between them. The sequential chan... Read More about Autonomous energy harvesting and prevention of cell reversal in MFC stacks.

The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: PPARα agonists are in current clinical use as hypolipidaemic agents and show significant antineoplastic effects in human glioblastoma models. To date however, the expression of PPARα in large-scale glioblastoma da... Read More about The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma.

Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We investigate two locomotion traits in dairy cows from overhead 3D video to observe lameness trends. Detecting lameness -particularly at an early stage- is important in order to allow early treatment which maximizes detection benefits. The proposed... Read More about Locomotion traits of dairy cows from overhead three-dimensional video.

Advancing whisker based navigation through the implementation of bio-inspired whisking strategies (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An active whisking tactile sensor array has been
successfully integrated with the RatSLAM algorithm and
demonstrated as capable of reducing error in pose estimates of a mobile robot. A new metric for evaluating the performance of RatSLAM is introdu... Read More about Advancing whisker based navigation through the implementation of bio-inspired whisking strategies.

The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. The availability of energy is a key factor affecting sustainable development. Consumers losing electricity supply due to constraints on electrical power utilities is very common in developing countries. In this paper, the technical and e... Read More about The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power.

Sub-toxic concentrations of volatile organic compounds inhibit extracellular respiration of Escherichia coli cells grown in anodic bioelectrochemical systems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Low-cost and rapid detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is important for the control of water quality of used water and protection of downstream used water treatment processes. In this work, the effect of sub-toxic conc... Read More about Sub-toxic concentrations of volatile organic compounds inhibit extracellular respiration of Escherichia coli cells grown in anodic bioelectrochemical systems.

Multi degree-of-freedom successive stiffness increment approach for high stiffness haptic interaction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In haptic interaction, stability and the object’s hardness perception are of great significance. Although numerous studies have been done for stable haptic interaction, however, most of them sacrifice the actual displayed stiffness as a cost of stabi... Read More about Multi degree-of-freedom successive stiffness increment approach for high stiffness haptic interaction.

Design of sliding-mode observer for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The problem of robust H∞ control for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems (NSS) is investigated by utilising the sliding-mode observer (SMO) technique. This paper presents a n... Read More about Design of sliding-mode observer for a class of uncertain neutral stochastic systems.

Early and non-intrusive lameness detection in dairy cows using 3-dimensional video (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 IAgrE Lameness is a major issue in dairy herds and its early and automated detection offers animal welfare benefits together with potentially high commercial savings for farmers. Current advancements in automated detection have not achieved a... Read More about Early and non-intrusive lameness detection in dairy cows using 3-dimensional video.

DS-KCF: a real-time tracker for RGB-D data (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Author(s) We propose an RGB-D single-object tracker, built upon the extremely fast RGB-only KCF tracker that is able to exploit depth information to handle scale changes, occlusions, and shape changes. Despite the computational demands of... Read More about DS-KCF: a real-time tracker for RGB-D data.

Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCs treating urine (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors The use of ceramics as low cost membrane materials for Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) has gained increasing interest, due to improved performance levels in terms of power and catholyte production. The catholyte production in ceramic M... Read More about Electricity and catholyte production from ceramic MFCs treating urine.