All Outputs (154)

A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper proposes and tests, through a series of structured multi-disciplinary design activities, a “Concept Design Stages Protocol” (CDS Protocol) to structure project initiation, to attain smoother collaboration and greater consensus amo... Read More about A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects.

Robust standard gradient descent algorithm for ARX models using Aitken acceleration technique (2021)
Journal Article

A robust standard gradient descent (SGD) algorithm for ARX models using the Aitken acceleration method is developed. Considering that the SGD algorithm has slow convergence rates and is sensitive to the step size, a robust and accelerative SGD (RA-SG... Read More about Robust standard gradient descent algorithm for ARX models using Aitken acceleration technique.

2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births (2021)
Journal Article

Research question
The economic and reproductive medicine response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the USA has reduced the affordability and accessibility of fertility care. What is the impact of the 2008 financial recession an... Read More about 2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births.

Applying social learning to climate communications- visualising 'people like me' in air pollution and climate change data (2021)
Journal Article

Technological approaches to carbon emission and air pollution data modelling consider where the issues are located and what is creating emissions. This paper argues that more focus should be paid to people-the drivers of vehicles or households burnin... Read More about Applying social learning to climate communications- visualising 'people like me' in air pollution and climate change data.

Dynamic movement primitives based cloud robotic skill learning for point and non-point obstacle avoidance (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: Dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) is a general robotic skill learning from demonstration method, but it is usually used for single robotic manipulation. For cloud-based robotic skill learning, the authors consider trajectories/skills change... Read More about Dynamic movement primitives based cloud robotic skill learning for point and non-point obstacle avoidance.

Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) addresses the common problem in sparse rewards environments of having to manually craft a reward function. We present a modified version of the Hierarchical Actor-Critic (HAC) architecture called Twin Delayed... Read More about Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic.

Recent progress in screen-printed electrochemical sensors and biosensors for the detection of estrogens (2021)
Journal Article

Estrogens have become increasingly prevalent in environmental samples across the world, posing a serious threat to human health. They have received considerable public attention due to their harmful effect on the normal endocrine functions of humans... Read More about Recent progress in screen-printed electrochemical sensors and biosensors for the detection of estrogens.

Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we apply the recent concept of robot Ethical Risk Assessment to an exemplar Socially Assistive Robot (SAR); specifically considering ethical risks posed by anthropomorphism in this context. We draw on two complimentary studies to demons... Read More about Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots.

Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic analysis of a harmonically morphing airfoil using dynamic meshing (2021)
Journal Article

This work explores the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic responses of an airfoil fitted with a harmonically morphing Trailing Edge Flap (TEF). An unsteady parametrization method adapted for harmonic morphing is introduced, and then coupled with dynamic me... Read More about Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic analysis of a harmonically morphing airfoil using dynamic meshing.

Neural networks predicting microbial fuel cells output for soft robotics applications (2021)
Journal Article

The development of biodegradable soft robotics requires an appropriate eco-friendly source of energy. The use of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is suggested as they can be designed completely from soft materials with little or no negative effects to the... Read More about Neural networks predicting microbial fuel cells output for soft robotics applications.

Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots (2021)
Thesis

Socially assistive robots primarily provide useful functionality through their social interactions with user(s). An example application, used to ground work throughout this thesis, is using a social robot to guide users through exercise sessions. Ini... Read More about Expert-informed design and automation of persuasive, socially assistive robots.

A case study in the e-assessment of statistics for non-specialists (2021)
Journal Article

The need to be able to choose, perform and interpret the results from appropriate statistical tests is ubiquitous in many STEM disciplines and beyond. In this case study, we illustrate a learning and assessment approach that has been used successfull... Read More about A case study in the e-assessment of statistics for non-specialists.

Casting Processes and Modelling of Metallic Materials (2021)
Book

This book, Casting Processes and Modelling of Metallic Materials, explores the various casting and modelling activities related to metallic alloy systems. The book provides results of research work conducted by experts from all over the globe to add... Read More about Casting Processes and Modelling of Metallic Materials.

Advanced molecular characterization using Digital Spatial Profiling Technology on immuno-oncology targets in methylated compared with unmethylated IDH-wildtype glioblastoma (2021)
Journal Article

Introduction. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary adult brain tumour with a median overall survival (OS) of 12-15 months. Molecular characterization of multiple immunooncology targets in GBM may help target novel immunotherapeutic strategie... Read More about Advanced molecular characterization using Digital Spatial Profiling Technology on immuno-oncology targets in methylated compared with unmethylated IDH-wildtype glioblastoma.

Using laminate hybridisation (CFRP-GFRP) and shaped CFRP plies to increase plate post-buckling strain to failure under shear loading (2021)
Journal Article

Previous works have established the response and failure behaviour of hybrid (CFRP-GFRP) laminates when subjected to a wide range of destabilising loads. However, to date no works have quantified the influence of selective laminate shapes and hybridi... Read More about Using laminate hybridisation (CFRP-GFRP) and shaped CFRP plies to increase plate post-buckling strain to failure under shear loading.

A review on manipulation skill acquisition through teleoperation‐based learning from demonstration (2021)
Journal Article

Manipulation skill learning and generalisation have gained increasing attention due to the wide applications of robot manipulators and the spurt of robot learning techniques. Especially, the learning from demonstration method has been exploited widel... Read More about A review on manipulation skill acquisition through teleoperation‐based learning from demonstration.

A single arm phase II trial of neoadjuvant cabazitaxel and cisplatin chemotherapy for muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder (2021)
Journal Article

Introduction: Neoadjuvant cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy improves survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer. However, response rates and survival remain suboptimal. We evaluated the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of cisplatin plus caba... Read More about A single arm phase II trial of neoadjuvant cabazitaxel and cisplatin chemotherapy for muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder.

Fixed bearing, all-polyethylene tibia, lateral unicompartmental arthroplasty – A final outcome study with up to 28 year follow-up of a single implant (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Lateral unicompartmental arthroplasty (UKA) constitutes only 5–10% of all unicompartmental replacements performed. Whilst the short and medium term benefits are well documented, there remains concern regarding the higher revision rate whe... Read More about Fixed bearing, all-polyethylene tibia, lateral unicompartmental arthroplasty – A final outcome study with up to 28 year follow-up of a single implant.

Distributed cooperative kinematic control of multiple robotic manipulators with improved communication efficiency (2021)
Journal Article

An efficiency-oriented solution is theoretically a preferred choice to support the efficient operation of a system. Although some studies on the multi-manipulator system share the load of the control center by transforming the network topology, the w... Read More about Distributed cooperative kinematic control of multiple robotic manipulators with improved communication efficiency.

Composite dynamic movement primitives based on neural networks for human–robot skill transfer (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, composite dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) based on radial basis function neural networks (RBFNNs) are investigated for robots’ skill learning from human demonstrations. The composite DMPs could encode the position and orientation ma... Read More about Composite dynamic movement primitives based on neural networks for human–robot skill transfer.