All Outputs (2632)

Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system (2012)
Journal Article
Steed, A., Steptoe, W., Oyekoya, W., Pece, F., Weyrich, T., Kautz, J., …Slater, M. (2012). Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 32(6), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2012.110

The Beaming project recreates, virtually, a real environment; using immersive VR, remote participants can visit the virtual model and interact with the people in the real environment. The real environment doesn't need extensive equipment and can be a... Read More about Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system.

Tensile properties and microstructural characteristics of indirect rheoformed A356 aluminum alloy (2012)
Journal Article
Bolouri, A., Bae, J. W., & Kang, C. G. (2013). Tensile properties and microstructural characteristics of indirect rheoformed A356 aluminum alloy. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 562, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2012.10.099

The effects of rheoforming parameters such as the rheoforming temperature and pressure on the tensile properties of H-shaped components were examined. An H-shaped component is useful for practical investigation into the influence of different wall th... Read More about Tensile properties and microstructural characteristics of indirect rheoformed A356 aluminum alloy.

Self-assembly in heterogeneous modular robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, W., & Winfield, A. F. (2012, November). Self-assembly in heterogeneous modular robots. Paper presented at International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

This paper describes the distributed self-assembly of a multi-robot ‘organism’ from a swarm of autonomous heterogeneous modular mobile robots. A distributed self-assembly strategy based on a symbol sequence representation is proposed. Constructed fro... Read More about Self-assembly in heterogeneous modular robots.

Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room (2012)
Journal Article
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(4), 317-333. https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2012005093

Numerical simulation of airflow in an indoor environment has been carried out for forced, natural, and mixed convection modes, respectively, by using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach of solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equat... Read More about Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room.

Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Horikiri, K., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room. https://doi.org/10.1615/ICHMT.2012.CHT-12.730

Numerical simulation of airflow in an indoor environment has been carried out for forced, natural and mixed convection modes respectively, by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach of solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations.... Read More about Numerical study of unsteady airflow phenomena in a ventilated room.

Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Castagna, J., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2012). Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-98

Simulation of a turbulent °ow over an axisymmetric hill has been carried out to study three-dimensional °ow separation and reattachment that occur on the lee-side of the geome-try. A total of four simulations are considered at low Reynolds number of... Read More about Numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill.

Single end feeder arcing fault location using mutual inductance (2012)
Journal Article
Alamuti, M. M., & Nouri, H. (2012). Single end feeder arcing fault location using mutual inductance. European Transactions on Electrical Power, 22(8), 1136-1145. https://doi.org/10.1002/etep.633

Impedance-based fault location methods to date are able to locate only permanent and linear faults. Current fault location methods assume that arc resistance is constant to locate the fault. However, because of the variable nature of the arc resistan... Read More about Single end feeder arcing fault location using mutual inductance.

Laser sintering for the fabrication of architectural models (2012)
Journal Article
Yusmawiza, W. A., Eyers, D. R., & Soe, S. (2012). Laser sintering for the fabrication of architectural models. Advanced Materials Research, 576, 637-640. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.576.637

Additive Manufacturing technologies are widely employed in the production of models for a range of industries. However, to-date little explicit research attention has examined the way in which the Laser Sintering technologies can be used in the speci... Read More about Laser sintering for the fabrication of architectural models.

Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Foster, M. E., Gaschler, A., Giuliani, M., Isard, A., Pateraki, M., & Petrick, R. P. A. (2012, October). Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent. Paper presented at 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), California, USA

We introduce a humanoid robot bartender that is capable of dealing with multiple customers in a dynamic, multi-party social setting. The robot system incorporates state-of-the-art components for computer vision, linguistic processing, state managemen... Read More about Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent.

Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper (2012)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Giannaccini, M. E., Dogramadzi, S., & Pipe, A. G. (2012). Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 246-251. https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290885

Variable compliance is a subject of great interest in the robotics community, particularly in the area of HumanRobot interaction. In this work, variable compliance is achieved in a novel grasping device inspired by the hydrostatic skeletons of invert... Read More about Towards a variable compliance hydrostatic skeleton inspired gripper.

CFD prediction and experimental measurement of blade water coverage in a diesel turbocharger (2012)
Journal Article
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2012). CFD prediction and experimental measurement of blade water coverage in a diesel turbocharger. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, 2012, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/789563

A turbocharger unit for diesel engine is often equipped with a built-in online water washing system and its performance is not always satisfactory because of efficiency declination due to deposit accumulated on blade surfaces not being washed away. I... Read More about CFD prediction and experimental measurement of blade water coverage in a diesel turbocharger.

Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow (2012)
Journal Article
Yao, Y., Maidi, M., & Yao, J. (2012). Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow. Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, 2012, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/632040

Numerical studies have been performed to visualize vortical flow structures emerged from jet cross-flow interactions. A single square jet issuing perpendicularly into a cross-flow was simulated first, followed by two additional scenarios, that is, in... Read More about Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow.

Longitudinal comparisons of dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis in 7- to 13-year-old children (2012)
Journal Article
Smith, A. D., Northstone, K., Smith, A. D. A. C., Newby, P. K., & Emmett, P. M. (2013). Longitudinal comparisons of dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis in 7- to 13-year-old children. British Journal of Nutrition, 109(11), 2050-2058. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512004072

Little is known about changes in dietary patterns over time. The present study aims to derive dietary patterns using cluster analysis at three ages in children and track these patterns over time. In all, 3 d diet diaries were completed for children f... Read More about Longitudinal comparisons of dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis in 7- to 13-year-old children.

Robotic re-embodiment using a brain computer interface (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Abu-Alqumsan, M., Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2012, October). Robotic re-embodiment using a brain computer interface. Presented at Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA

Additive manufacturing for archaeological reconstruction of a medieval ship (2012)
Journal Article
Soe, S., Eyers, D. R., Jones, T., & Nayling, N. (2012). Additive manufacturing for archaeological reconstruction of a medieval ship. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 18(6), 443-450. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552541211271983

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the suitability of additive manufacturing technologies in the reconstruction of archaeological discoveries as illustrative models. The processes of reverse engineering and part fabrication are discuss... Read More about Additive manufacturing for archaeological reconstruction of a medieval ship.

Towards robotic re-embodiment using a brain-and-body-computer interface (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Martens, N., Jenke, R., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Kapeller, C., Hintermüller, C., Guger, C., …Buss, M. (2012, October). Towards robotic re-embodiment using a brain-and-body-computer interface. Presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura Algarve, Portugal

Whisker texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Evans, M., Pearson, M., Prescott, T. J., & Fox, C. W. (2012, October). Whisker texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry. Paper presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), Vilamoura, Algarve [Portugal]

Tactile sensing can be an important source of information for robots, and texture discrimination in partic- ular is useful in object recognition and terrain identification. Whisker based tactile sensing has recently been shown to be a promising a... Read More about Whisker texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry.

The enhanced assumed strain method for the isogeometric analysis of nearly incompressible deformation of solids (2012)
Journal Article
Cardoso, R. P., & Cesar de Sa, J. M. (2012). The enhanced assumed strain method for the isogeometric analysis of nearly incompressible deformation of solids. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 92(1), 56-78. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4328

Isogeometric analysis has recently become very popular for the numerical modeling of structures and fluids. Among other potential features, advantages of using a non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS)-based isogeometric analysis over the traditional... Read More about The enhanced assumed strain method for the isogeometric analysis of nearly incompressible deformation of solids.

Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model (2012)
Journal Article
White, P., Smart, N. J., White, P., Allison, A. S., Ockrim, J. B., Kennedy, R. H., & Francis, N. K. (2012). Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model. Colorectal Disease, 14(10), e727-e734. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.03096.x

Aim Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programmes are well established, but deviation from the postoperative elements may result in delayed discharge. Early identification of such patients may allow remedial action to be taken. The aims of this s... Read More about Deviation and failure of enhanced recovery after surgery following laparoscopic colorectal surgery: Early prediction model.

Validation of virtual reality simulation for obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cross-sectional study (2012)
Journal Article
Fox, R., Burden, C., Preshaw, J., White, P., Draycott, T. J., & Grant, S. (2012). Validation of virtual reality simulation for obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cross-sectional study. Simulation in Healthcare, 7(5), 269-273. https://doi.org/10.1097/SIH.0b013e3182611844

INTRODUCTION: Ultrasonography is an important skill for obstetricians and gynecologists; however, trainees have highlighted ultrasonography as an area of deficiency in their training. We undertook a prospective cross-sectional comparative study to as... Read More about Validation of virtual reality simulation for obstetric ultrasonography: A prospective cross-sectional study.