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Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bando, M., Nemati, H., & Hokamoto, S. (2016). Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties

This paper studies a control law to stabilize the orbital motion in the vicinity of an unstable equilibrium points and periodic orbits in the circular-restricted three-body problem. Utilizing the eigenstructure of the system, the fuel efficient forma... Read More about Satellite formation-keeping about libration points in the presence of system uncertainties.

An integrated eco-design decision making tool (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Romli, A., Prickett, P., Setchi, R., & Soe, S. (2016). An integrated eco-design decision making tool. In Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016 (537--548). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32098-4

The application of an integrated eco-design decision making tool is presented as a case study considering the design of an office chair base. This study brings together the analysis of factors relating to manufacturing processes, product usage and en... Read More about An integrated eco-design decision making tool.

The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Pillai, G., Hodgson, J., Insaurralde, C. C., Pinitjitsamut, M., & Deepa, S. (2016). The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2016.7764051

© 2016 IEEE. The availability of energy is a key factor affecting sustainable development. Consumers losing electricity supply due to constraints on electrical power utilities is very common in developing countries. In this paper, the technical and e... Read More about The techno-economic feasibility of providing solar photovoltaic backup power.

Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mirnig, N., Stadler, S., Stollnberger, G., Giuliani, M., & Tscheligi, M. (2016). Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745106

© 2016 IEEE. Humor in robotics is a promising, though not yet significantly researched topic. We performed a user study exploring two different kinds of laughter. In our study, participants observed a robot-robot interaction where an iCat and a NAO r... Read More about Robot humor: How self-irony and Schadenfreude influence people's rating of robot likability.

Augmented reality for industrial robot programmers: Workload analysis for task-based, augmented reality-supported robot control (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Stadler, S., Kain, K., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., & Tscheligi, M. (2016). Augmented reality for industrial robot programmers: Workload analysis for task-based, augmented reality-supported robot control. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745108

© 2016 IEEE. Augmented reality (AR) can serve as a tool to provide helpful information in a direct way to industrial robot programmers throughout the teaching process. It seems obvious that AR support eases the programming process and increases the p... Read More about Augmented reality for industrial robot programmers: Workload analysis for task-based, augmented reality-supported robot control.

User requirements for a medical robotic system: Enabling doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Moser, C., Stollnberger, G., Christiane, M., Giuliani, M., Stadler, S., Tscheligi, M., …Stanczyk, B. (2016). User requirements for a medical robotic system: Enabling doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745254

© 2016 IEEE. We report the results of a user requirements analysis for a medical robotic system that enables doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination on patients. As there are three different user groups in this scenario -... Read More about User requirements for a medical robotic system: Enabling doctors to remotely conduct ultrasonography and physical examination.

Designing user interfaces for different user groups: A three-way teleconference system for doctors, patients and assistants using a Remote Medical robot (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Zarczuk, R., Kreczmer, B., Wysokinski, A., Stollnberger, G., Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., …Andrzej, W. (2016). Designing user interfaces for different user groups: A three-way teleconference system for doctors, patients and assistants using a Remote Medical robot. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745181

© 2016 IEEE. We present the design for a three-way medical teleconference system for communication between a doctor, a patient, and an assistant. The system includes individual doctor-patient and doctor-assistant communication channels, as well as th... Read More about Designing user interfaces for different user groups: A three-way teleconference system for doctors, patients and assistants using a Remote Medical robot.

Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2016). Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEEE.2016.7751245

© 2016 IEEE. Proportional-derivative (PD) is highly favored algorithms in terms of industrial applications. Although, there are infrequent broadcasted theory results of PD controller in connection to structural vibration control applications. In this... Read More about Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake.

Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Rossiter, J., Winfield, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots. In C. Laschi, J. Rossiter, F. Lida, M. Cianchetti, & L. Margheri (Eds.), Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges (95-101). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46460-2_12

Soft robotics opens up a whole range of possibilities that go far beyond conventional rigid and electromagnetic robotics. New smart materials and new design and modelling methodologies mean we can start to replicate the operations and functionalities... Read More about Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots.

Development of a dynamics model for the Baxter robot (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, A., Yang, C., Li, C., Ma, H., & Zhao, L. (2016). Development of a dynamics model for the Baxter robot. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558740

© 2016 IEEE. The dynamics model of a robot is important to find the relation between the joint actuator torques and the resulting motion. There are two common methods to do this: The Lagrange formulation, which gives a closed form of the dynamics equ... Read More about Development of a dynamics model for the Baxter robot.

Enhancing student learning of human-computer interaction using a contextual mobile application (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Alnuaim, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Perry, C. (2016). Enhancing student learning of human-computer interaction using a contextual mobile application. In 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI) (952-959). https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2016.7556095

© 2016 IEEE. This paper presents findings from the deployment of a mobile application designed to enable students to learn more effectively in field studies. The mobile application supports students in a design task as part of their learning of Human... Read More about Enhancing student learning of human-computer interaction using a contextual mobile application.

Effect of stiffeners on nature of post-critical deformations of thin-walled composite aircraft structures: A combined numerical-experimental study (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bakunowicz, J., Kopecki, T., Lis, T., & Mazurek, P. (2016). Effect of stiffeners on nature of post-critical deformations of thin-walled composite aircraft structures: A combined numerical-experimental study. In 2016 7th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE) (46-53). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAE.2016.7549506

© 2016 IEEE. This paper presents results of numerical and experimental examination of thin-walled structures which model certain parts of aircraft structures subject to bending and torsion. The considered type of load and deformation corresponds to t... Read More about Effect of stiffeners on nature of post-critical deformations of thin-walled composite aircraft structures: A combined numerical-experimental study.

Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Worgan, P., & Fraser, M. (2016). Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer. In 2016 9th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI) (277-283). https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2016.7529644

© 2016 IEEE. Wearable and smart devices are gaining in popularity, with many users now using multiple devices. Each of these devices requires individual charging and power maintenance. This paper proposes power sharing between multiple wearables to a... Read More about Garment level power distribution for wearables using inductive power transfer.

Control of mobile robot for remote medical examination: Design concepts and users' feedback from experimental studies (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Wysokinski, A., Szczesniak-Stanczyk, D., Cholewinski, M., Drwiega, M., Arent, K., Jakubiak, J., …Wysokiński, A. (2016). Control of mobile robot for remote medical examination: Design concepts and users' feedback from experimental studies. . https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2016.7529612

© 2016 IEEE. In this article we discuss movement control of a ReMeDi medical mobile robot from the user perspective. The control is essentially limited to the level of operator actions where the operator is a member of a nursing staff. Two working mo... Read More about Control of mobile robot for remote medical examination: Design concepts and users' feedback from experimental studies.

Motor primitive-based control for lower-limb exoskeletons (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ruiz Garate, V., Parri, A., Yan, T., Munih, M., Lova, R. M., Vitiello, N., & Ronsse, R. (2016). Motor primitive-based control for lower-limb exoskeletons. In 2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob). , (655-661). https://doi.org/10.1109/biorob.2016.7523700

Assistive technology forecasts better autonomy for people with lifelong disabilities and for the elderly facing motor decline. As the population of developed countries is becoming greyer, there is thus a high probability of observing a significant in... Read More about Motor primitive-based control for lower-limb exoskeletons.

EvoBot: An open-source, modular liquid handling robot for nurturing microbial fuel cells (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ieropoulos, I., Taylor, B., Theodosiou, P., Stoy, K., Nejatimoharrami, F., & Faiña, A. (2016). EvoBot: An open-source, modular liquid handling robot for nurturing microbial fuel cells. In ALIFE 2016: The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-33936-0-ch099

Liquid handling robots are rarely used in the domain of artificial life. In this field, transitory behaviours of nonequilibrium man-made systems are studied and need an automatic monitoring and logging of results. In addition, artificial life experi... Read More about EvoBot: An open-source, modular liquid handling robot for nurturing microbial fuel cells.