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Scientists in person: Live science events (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We are told that the modern researcher needs to be digitally connected and fluent with communicating online and through the media. Indeed, communicating science to thousands of people has never been easier, and yet, live, in-person, public events sti... Read More about Scientists in person: Live science events.

Regeneration of the power performance of cathodes affected by biofouling (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. Air cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were used in a cascade-system, to treat neat human urine as the fuel. Their long-term operation caused biodeterioration and biofouling of the cathodes. The cathodes were made from two graphi... Read More about Regeneration of the power performance of cathodes affected by biofouling.

Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. In this work, for the first time, we demonstrate a supercapacitive microbial fuel cell which integrates the energy harvesting function of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with the high-power operation of an internal supercapacitor. Th... Read More about Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power.

Building an aerodynamic wind tunnel for fan performance measurement (2016)
Journal Article

Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. Spatial filtering has proved to be a powerful pre-processing step in detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials and boosted typical detection rates both in offline analysis and online SSVEP-based brain-co... Read More about Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces.

Custom Design Multi-Axial Engine Mount Load-Cell Development for Road Load Identification and Fatigue Life Estimation (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 SAE International. Internal combustion engines are attached on the vehicle body using engine mounts composed of two cast iron brackets and a rubber isolator connecting them. Engine mount road load identification during vehicle durabi... Read More about Custom Design Multi-Axial Engine Mount Load-Cell Development for Road Load Identification and Fatigue Life Estimation.

Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. This work reports on the novel formation of caustic potash (KOH) directly on the MFC cathode locking carbon dioxide into potassium bicarbonate salt (kalicinite) while producing, instead of consuming electrical power. Using potassi... Read More about Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration.

Detection of fibre fracture and ply fragmentation in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates using acoustic emission (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. This paper investigates the link between acoustic emission (AE) events and the corresponding damage modes in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates under tensile loading. A novel configuration was investigated which has not pre... Read More about Detection of fibre fracture and ply fragmentation in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates using acoustic emission.

Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The performance of bilirubin oxidase (BOx) based air breathing cathode was constantly monitored over 45days. The effect of electrolyte composition on the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) output was investigated. Particular... Read More about Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions.

Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In this commentary, we explore the factors that contributed to festival goers’ choice to attend science-based events at a summer cultural festival. We evaluated the impact of such events on the audiences: their levels of... Read More about Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival.

Gender and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The identification of visual cues in facial images has been widely explored in the broad area of computer vision. However theoretical analyses are often not transformed into widespread assistive Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) s... Read More about Gender and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction.

Adaptive synchronised tracking control for multiple robotic manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics (2016)
Journal Article

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this study, a new adaptive synchronised tracking control approach is developed for the operation of multiple robotic manipulators in the presence of uncertain kinematics and dynamics. In terms of the system synchronisati... Read More about Adaptive synchronised tracking control for multiple robotic manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics.

Emergency response in complex buildings: Automated selection of safest and balanced routes (2016)
Journal Article

The extreme importance of emergency response in complex buildings during natural and human-induced disasters has been widely acknowledged. In particular, there is a need for efficient algorithms for finding safest evacuation routes, which would take... Read More about Emergency response in complex buildings: Automated selection of safest and balanced routes.

Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots (2016)
Book Chapter

In this paper we show empirically that highly humanlike robots make thoughts of death more accessible, leading to perceptions of uncanniness and eeriness of such robots. Rather than reducing the humanlikeness of robots, our research suggests the addi... Read More about Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots.

Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators (2016)
Book Chapter

Nowadays a significant part of human-human interaction
takes place over distance. Tele-operated robot avatars,
in which an operator’s behaviours are portrayed by a robot proxy, have the potential to improve distance interaction, e.g., improving soc... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators.

Using DEWIS and R for multi-staged statistics e-Assessments (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author 2015. We demonstrate how the DEWIS e-Assessment system may use embedded R code to facilitate the assessment of students' ability to perform involved statistical analyses. The R code has been written to emulate SPSS output and thus the st... Read More about Using DEWIS and R for multi-staged statistics e-Assessments.

A brief introduction to ... Assistive robotics for independent living (2016)
Journal Article

Assistive technologies are important tools for helping older people to live independently. Praminda Caleb-Solly, Associate Professor in Independent Living Systems at Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) and Institute of Bio Sensing Technologies, Univers... Read More about A brief introduction to ... Assistive robotics for independent living.

Time-based fault location method for LVdistributionsystems (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Due to the utilization of fundamental frequency, current impedance-based fault location methods are able to locate only permanent and linear faults. The duration of the arc in low and medium voltage systems... Read More about Time-based fault location method for LVdistributionsystems.

Quantifying turbulence from field measurements at a mixed low tidal energy site (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study explores typical characteristics of the mean and turbulent profiles at a mixed low tidal energy site (40 m mean water depth) where the waves have limited effects on the currents. The turbulence profiles were derived fr... Read More about Quantifying turbulence from field measurements at a mixed low tidal energy site.

Independent force and position control for cooperating manipulators handling an unknown object and interacting with an unknown environment (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper presents a unified framework for system design and control in cooperative robotic systems. It introduces a highly generalized cooperative system configuration t... Read More about Independent force and position control for cooperating manipulators handling an unknown object and interacting with an unknown environment.