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Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (2017)
Journal Article
Bryson, J., & Winfield, A. F. (2017). Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Computer, 50(5), 116-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2017.154

© 1970-2012 IEEE. AI is here now, available to anyone with access to digital technology and the Internet. But its consequences for our social order aren't well understood. How can we guide the way technology impacts society?

Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system (2017)
Journal Article
Ieropoulos, I., Pasternak, G., & Greenman, J. (2017). Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0176475. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176475

© 2017 Ieropoulos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are... Read More about Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system.

A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance (2017)
Journal Article
Chance, G., Jevtić, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4(MAY), https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2017.00013

© 2017 Chance, Jevtić, Caleb-Solly and Dogramadzi. Assistive robots have a great potential to address issues related to an aging population and an increased demand for caregiving. Successful deployment of robots working in close proximity with people... Read More about A quantitative analysis of dressing dynamics for robotic dressing assistance.

To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot (2017)
Journal Article
Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., Miksch, M., Stadler, S., Giuliani, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2017). To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4(MAY), 21. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2017.00021

© 2017 Mirnig, Stollnberger, Miksch, Stadler, Giuliani and Tscheligi. We conducted a user study for which we purposefully programmed faulty behavior into a robot's routine. It was our aim to explore if participants rate the faulty robot different fro... Read More about To err is robot: How humans assess and act toward an erroneous social robot.

Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks (2017)
Journal Article
Bremner, P., Celiktutan, O., & Gunes, H. (2017). Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4(MAY), https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2017.00016

© 2017 Bremner, Celiktutan and Gunes. Humanoid robot avatars are a potential new telecommunication tool, whereby a user is remotely represented by a robot that replicates their arm, head, and possible face movements. They have been shown to have a nu... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks.

Polarisation photometric stereo (2017)
Journal Article
Atkinson, G. (2017). Polarisation photometric stereo. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 160, 158-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2017.04.014

© 2017 This paper concerns a novel approach to fuse two-source photometric stereo (PS) data with polarisation information for complete surface normal recovery for smooth or slightly rough surfaces. PS is a well-established method but is limited in ap... Read More about Polarisation photometric stereo.

Special section: “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications”: Guest editors' note (2017)
Journal Article
Santoro, C., Arbizzani, C., Erable, B., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Special section: “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications”: Guest editors' note. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 223-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.04.071

The Special Section “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications” covers many diverse and multidisciplinary aspects of the entire microbial electrochemical field, with a special emphasis on microbial and abiotic/microbial electron transfe... Read More about Special section: “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications”: Guest editors' note.

A generalisation of the Hill's quadratic yield function for planar plastic anisotropy to consider loading direction (2017)
Journal Article
Cardoso, R. P., & Adetoro, O. B. (2017). A generalisation of the Hill's quadratic yield function for planar plastic anisotropy to consider loading direction. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 128-129, 253-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2017.04.024

© 2017 The Authors In this work, a new generalised quadratic yield function for plane stress analysis that is able to describe the plastic anisotropy of metals and also the asymmetric behaviour in tension-compression typical of the Hexagonal Closed-P... Read More about A generalisation of the Hill's quadratic yield function for planar plastic anisotropy to consider loading direction.

Bidirectional fuzzy PD control for active vibration control of building structure (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Jafari, R., Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2017). Bidirectional fuzzy PD control for active vibration control of building structure. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2017.7915453

© 2017 IEEE. In this paper, the solutions of fuzzy differential equations (FDEs) are estimated by using two types of Bernstein neural networks. Here, the uncertainties are in the form of Z numbers. Firstly, we transform the FDE to four ordinary diffe... Read More about Bidirectional fuzzy PD control for active vibration control of building structure.

Extended state observer-based integral sliding mode control for an underwater robot with unknown disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities (2017)
Journal Article
Cui, R., Chen, L., Yang, C., & Chen, M. (2017). Extended state observer-based integral sliding mode control for an underwater robot with unknown disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 64(8), 6785-6795. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2017.2694410

© 2017 IEEE. This paper develops a novel integral sliding mode controller (ISMC) for a general type of underwater robots based on multiple-input and multiple-output extended-state-observer (MIMO-ESO). The difficulties associated with the unmeasured v... Read More about Extended state observer-based integral sliding mode control for an underwater robot with unknown disturbances and uncertain nonlinearities.

Photometric stereo technique suitability study for plant phenotyping (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Halliday, K., Smith, L., Hansen, M., Smith, M., Bernotas, G., Scorza, L., …Smith, M. (2017). Photometric stereo technique suitability study for plant phenotyping

The dynamic quantification of growth traits is critical for building accurate modelling tools to predict plant behaviour under different growth environments, and consequently in designing strategies to improve plant health and overall yields. We are... Read More about Photometric stereo technique suitability study for plant phenotyping.

A comparison of analytical methods for the two group pre- post design (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Allis, V., & White, P. (2017, April). A comparison of analytical methods for the two group pre- post design. Poster presented at UWE Student Conference, Bristol, England

Simulation demonstrates that for a two group randomized design ANCOVA is more powerful than the gain score approach For ANCOVA with an interaction term the model with pre scores X as a covariate is more powerful than the model with X + Y as the co... Read More about A comparison of analytical methods for the two group pre- post design.

Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world (2017)
Journal Article
Boden, M., Winfield, A., Bryson, J., Caldwell, D., Dautenhahn, K., Edwards, L., …Whitby, B. (2017). Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world. Connection Science, 29(2), 124-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540091.2016.1271400

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper proposes a set of five ethical principles, together with seven high-level messages, as a basis for responsible robotics. The Principles of Robotics... Read More about Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world.

Building Resilience into an Intelligent Vehicle Control Architecture for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (2017)
Book Chapter
Insaurralde, C., & Petillot, Y. (2017). Building Resilience into an Intelligent Vehicle Control Architecture for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. In C. Mitchell (Ed.), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Dynamics, Developments and Risk AnalysisUSA: Nova Science Publishers

A Review of Existing Robotic Control Architectures and Trends (2017)
Book Chapter
Insaurralde, C. (2017). A Review of Existing Robotic Control Architectures and Trends. In C. Mitchell (Ed.), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Dynamics, Developments and Risk AnalysisUSA: Nova Science Publishers

Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Senft, E., Lemaignan, S., Baxter, P. E., & Belpaeme, T. (2017). Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference. , (281-282). https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038385

A key challenge of HRI is allowing robots to be adaptable, especially as robots are expected to penetrate society at large and to interact in unexpected environments with non-technical users. One way of providing this adaptability is to use Interacti... Read More about Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction.

Mathematical model of electromagnetic field with skin-effect in closed electrical contacts (2017)
Journal Article
Nouri, H. (2017). Mathematical model of electromagnetic field with skin-effect in closed electrical contacts. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 113(4), 625-637

The mathematical model describing electromagnetic field in closed electrical contacts is elaborated. It takes into account a non-uniformity of the current density on the contact spot which can be explained by three factors: 1) physical phenomena of t... Read More about Mathematical model of electromagnetic field with skin-effect in closed electrical contacts.

Implementation fidelity of a computer-assisted intervention for children with speech sound disorders (2017)
Journal Article
McCormack, J., Baker, E., Masso, S., Crowe, K., McLeod, S., Wren, Y., & Roulstone, S. (2017). Implementation fidelity of a computer-assisted intervention for children with speech sound disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(3), 265-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1293160

© 2017 The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: Implementation fidelity refers to the degree to which an intervention or programme adheres to its original... Read More about Implementation fidelity of a computer-assisted intervention for children with speech sound disorders.

Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system (2017)
Journal Article
Georgilas, I., Dagnino, G., & Dogramadzi, S. (2017). Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2424905X17400086

This paper presents a safety analysis of a Robotic Fracture Surgery System using the Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). It focuses particularly on hazards caused by the human in the loop. The robotic system and operating staff are modeled inc... Read More about Safe human–robot interaction in medical robotics: A case study on robotic fracture surgery system.

Unsteady parametrization of a morphing wing design for improved aerodynamic performance (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., Narayan, P., & Bouferrouk, A. (2017, March). Unsteady parametrization of a morphing wing design for improved aerodynamic performance. Paper presented at 52nd 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Lyon, France

A morphing wing is a bio-inspired concept where all moving parts e.g. slats/flaps are replaced with a deformable body. This paper describes a methodology that uses modified parametrization methods to define a morphing geometry, and applies user-defin... Read More about Unsteady parametrization of a morphing wing design for improved aerodynamic performance.