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Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates (2021)
Journal Article

Recently, rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely deployed due to their technical, economic and socio-environmental benefits. This paper presents a new design approach, which combines spatial analysis with techno-economic optimization for a robu... Read More about Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates.

Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation (2021)
Journal Article

The global aviation industry has decades-old and highly successful legislation enforcing safety in conventional manned aerospace. This framework has been evolved gradually around a set of mature technologies with particular goals and implementations,... Read More about Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation.

Exploring the symbol processing 'time interval' parametric constraint in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky operated chemical Turing machine (2021)
Journal Article

Chemical reactions are powerful molecular recognition machines. This power has been recently harnessed to build actual instances of each class of experimentally realizable computing automata, using exclusively small-molecule chemistry (i.e. without r... Read More about Exploring the symbol processing 'time interval' parametric constraint in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky operated chemical Turing machine.

Techno-economic modelling of micro-hydropower mini-grids in Nepal to improve financial sustainability and enable electric cooking (2021)
Journal Article

In rural Nepal, micro-hydropower plant mini-grids provide renewable electricity to thou-sands of communities but the plants often have poor financial sustainability. Widespread uptake of electric cooking in such communities is currently not feasible... Read More about Techno-economic modelling of micro-hydropower mini-grids in Nepal to improve financial sustainability and enable electric cooking.

Propofol detection for monitoring of intravenous anaesthesia: A review (2021)
Journal Article

This paper presents a review of established and emerging methods for detecting and quantifying the intravenous anaesthetic propofol in solution. There is growing evidence of numerous advantages of total intravenous anaesthesia using propofol compared... Read More about Propofol detection for monitoring of intravenous anaesthesia: A review.

Role-play as responsible robotics: The virtual witness testimony role-play interview for investigating hazardous human-robot interactions (2021)
Journal Article

The development of responsible robotics requires paying attention to responsibility within the research process in addition to responsibility as the outcome of research. This paper describes the preparation and application of a novel method to explor... Read More about Role-play as responsible robotics: The virtual witness testimony role-play interview for investigating hazardous human-robot interactions.

Modelling of the materials classification of in-orbit debris using DISCOSweb and other sources (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Space debris is a topic of growing concern as the space industry evolves. This paper describes the findings of a new model used to classify the materials used in current orbital objects. It utilises data from sources including ESA’s DISCOS (Database... Read More about Modelling of the materials classification of in-orbit debris using DISCOSweb and other sources.

Educating engineers to contribute to a regional goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Low-power contactless physiological sensor (2021)
Patent

A system-on-chip contactless physiological sensor (10) is provided which comprises a capacitive-sensor electrode (14) having a first capacitance (C1) and an amplifier device (18) connected to the capacitive-sensor electrode (14), the capacitive-senso... Read More about Low-power contactless physiological sensor.

State filtering and parameter estimation for two input two output systems with time delay (2021)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on presenting a new identification algorithm to estimate the parameters and state variables for two-input two-output dynamic systems with time delay based on canonical state space models. First, the related input-output equation is... Read More about State filtering and parameter estimation for two input two output systems with time delay.

Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design (2021)
Book

In the last decades robots are expected to be of increasing intelligence to deal with a large range of tasks. Especially, robots are supposed to be able to learn manipulation skills from humans. To this end, a number of learning algorithms and techni... Read More about Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design.

The effectiveness of remediating mathematical Common Student Errors in e-Assessments (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Common Student Errors Project (CSE Project) has been running at the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) since 2017. The main aim of this project is to introduce a method to detect CSEs and to provide tailored feedback in Engineering... Read More about The effectiveness of remediating mathematical Common Student Errors in e-Assessments.

DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation (2021)
Journal Article

Dual-arm robot manipulation is applicable to many domains, such as industrial, medical, and home service scenes. Learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a highly effective paradigm for robotic learning, where a robot learns from human actions directly... Read More about DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation.

Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality? (2021)
Journal Article

Many analyses of the ethical, legal and societal impacts of robotics are focussed on Europe and the United States. In this article I discuss the impacts of robotics on developing nations in a connected world, and make the case that international equi... Read More about Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality?.

Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface (2021)
Journal Article

When a drop impacts on a solid surface, a thin air film is entrapped first and later evolves into a spherical air bubble at the center inside the drop. The problem involves several complex physical processes, including two-phase fluid flow interactio... Read More about Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface.

Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot (2021)
Journal Article

Hazard analysis methods such as HAZOP and STPA have proven to be effective methods for assurance of system safety for years. However, the dimensionality and human factors uncertainty of many assistive robotic applications challenges the capability of... Read More about Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot.

A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks (2021)
Journal Article

Power consumption and data redundancy of wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely considered for a distributed state monitoring network. For reducing the energy consumption and data amount, we propose a topology optimisation and an iterative paramet... Read More about A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks.

Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial (2021)
Journal Article

Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is traditionally managed with an intercostal chest tube attached to an underwater seal. We investigated whether use of a one-way flutter valve shortened patients' length of stay (LoS). This open-label randomis... Read More about Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial.

Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer (2021)
Journal Article

A conventional robot programming method extensively limits the reusability of skills in the developmental aspect. Engineers programme a robot in a targeted manner for the realisation of predefined skills. The low reusability of general-purpose robot... Read More about Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer.

Act now - From science communication to action – time to focus on society’s change makers (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The effects of climate change are now being felt around the world, and yet cohesive and collaborative policymaking to mitigate impacts are moving too slowly. Indeed the latest scientific report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has w... Read More about Act now - From science communication to action – time to focus on society’s change makers.