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Row-bot: An energetically autonomous artificial water boatman (2015)
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Philamore, H., Rossiter, J., Stinchcombe, A., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Row-bot: An energetically autonomous artificial water boatman. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 3888-3893. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7353924

© 2015 IEEE. We present a design for an energetically autonomous artificial organism, combining two subsystems; a bio-inspired energy source and bio-inspired actuation. The work is the first demonstration of energetically autonomy in a microbial fuel... Read More about Row-bot: An energetically autonomous artificial water boatman.

Increasing the impedance range of admittance-type haptic interfaces by using Time Domain Passivity Approach (2015)
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Hwang, J. H., Nabeel, M., Lee, J., Mehmood, U., Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2015). Increasing the impedance range of admittance-type haptic interfaces by using Time Domain Passivity Approach. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015-December, 585-590. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7353431

© 2015 IEEE. This paper proposes a method to increase the impedance range of admittance-type haptic interfaces. Admittance-type haptic interfaces are used in various applications that typically require interaction with high impedance virtual environm... Read More about Increasing the impedance range of admittance-type haptic interfaces by using Time Domain Passivity Approach.

Robust state estimation and unknown inputs reconstruction for a class of nonlinear systems: Multiobjective approach (2015)
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Delshad, S. S., S. Delshad, I., Johansson, A., Darouach, M., & Gustafsson, T. (2016). Robust state estimation and unknown inputs reconstruction for a class of nonlinear systems: Multiobjective approach. Automatica, 64, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2015.10.051

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. We consider a novel method to design H∞ observers for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems subject to unknown inputs. First, the main system dynamics are rewritten as an augmented system with state vector including both the sta... Read More about Robust state estimation and unknown inputs reconstruction for a class of nonlinear systems: Multiobjective approach.

Powered exoskeleton with palm degrees of freedom for hand rehabilitation (2015)
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Richards, D. S., Georgilas, I., Dagnino, G., & Dogramadzi, S. (2015). Powered exoskeleton with palm degrees of freedom for hand rehabilitation. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, 2015-November, 4635-4638. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319427

© 2015 IEEE. Robotic rehabilitation is a currently underutilised field with the potential to allow huge cost savings within healthcare. Existing rehabilitation exoskeletons oversimplify the importance of movement of the hand while undertaking everyda... Read More about Powered exoskeleton with palm degrees of freedom for hand rehabilitation.

Intra-operative 3D imaging system for robot-assisted fracture manipulation (2015)
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Dagnino, G., Georgilas, I., Tarassoli, P., Atkins, R., & Dogramadzi, S. (2015). Intra-operative 3D imaging system for robot-assisted fracture manipulation. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, 2015-November, 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318248

© 2015 IEEE. Reduction is a crucial step in the treatment of broken bones. Achieving precise anatomical alignment of bone fragments is essential for a good fast healing process. Percutaneous techniques are associated with faster recovery time and low... Read More about Intra-operative 3D imaging system for robot-assisted fracture manipulation.

Preliminary analysis of force-torque measurements for robot-assisted fracture surgery (2015)
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Georgilas, I., Dagnino, G., Tarassoli, P., Atkins, R., & Dogramadzi, S. (2015). Preliminary analysis of force-torque measurements for robot-assisted fracture surgery. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, 2015-November, 4902-4905. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319491

© 2015 IEEE. Our group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory has been working on a new robotic system for fracture surgery that has been previously reported [1]. The robotic system is being developed for distal femur fractures and features a robot that mani... Read More about Preliminary analysis of force-torque measurements for robot-assisted fracture surgery.

Using Tilted Façade to Reduce Thermal Discomfort in a UK Passivhaus Dwelling for a Warming Climate (2015)
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Lavafpour, Y., & Sharples, S. (2015). Using Tilted Façade to Reduce Thermal Discomfort in a UK Passivhaus Dwelling for a Warming Climate. Energy Procedia, 78, 2232-2237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.341

© 2015 The Authors. This study investigated the potential negative impacts of future UK climate change on dwellings. In particular, the risk of overheating was considered for a Passivhaus dwelling in London. The study used dynamic simulation modellin... Read More about Using Tilted Façade to Reduce Thermal Discomfort in a UK Passivhaus Dwelling for a Warming Climate.

Visual search training in occupational therapy - An example of expert practice in community-based stroke rehabilitation (2015)
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Gilchrist, I. D., Turton, A., Angilley, J., Chapman, M., Daniel, A., Longley, V., & Clatworthy, P. (2015). Visual search training in occupational therapy - An example of expert practice in community-based stroke rehabilitation. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78(11), 674-687. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022615600180

© The Author(s) 2015. Introduction: Visual searching is an essential component of many everyday activities. Search training is practised as part of occupational therapy to improve performance skills both in people with hemianopia and those with spati... Read More about Visual search training in occupational therapy - An example of expert practice in community-based stroke rehabilitation.

Ceramic MFCs with internal cathode producing sufficient power for practical applications (2015)
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Gajda, I., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Ceramic MFCs with internal cathode producing sufficient power for practical applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40(42), 14627-14631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.06.039

© 2015, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This communication reports on the potential of using MFCs for powering real world applications, whereby three interconnected MFCs directly energise an external... Read More about Ceramic MFCs with internal cathode producing sufficient power for practical applications.

Car park management with networked wireless sensors and active RFID (2015)
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El Karbab, M., Djenouri, D., Boulkaboul, S., & Bagula, A. (2015). Car park management with networked wireless sensors and active RFID. https://doi.org/10.1109/EIT.2015.7293372

© 2015 IEEE. This paper considers automatic car park management, which becomes an inevitable option to rationalize traffic management in modern cities. Integration of networked sensor/actuator and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies is... Read More about Car park management with networked wireless sensors and active RFID.

Tooteko: A case study of augmented reality for an accessible cultural heritage. Digitization, 3D printing and sensors for an audio-tactile experience (2015)
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D’Agnano, F., Balletti, C., Guerra, F., & Vernier, P. (2015). Tooteko: A case study of augmented reality for an accessible cultural heritage. Digitization, 3D printing and sensors for an audio-tactile experience. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 40(5W4), 207-213. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-5-w4-207-2015

Tooteko is a smart ring that allows to navigate any 3D surface with your finger tips and get in return an audio content that is relevant in relation to the part of the surface you are touching in that moment. Tooteko can be applied to any tactile sur... Read More about Tooteko: A case study of augmented reality for an accessible cultural heritage. Digitization, 3D printing and sensors for an audio-tactile experience.

Telling non-linear stories with interval temporal logic (2015)
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Thompson, M., Battle, S., & Padget, J. (2015). Telling non-linear stories with interval temporal logic. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9445, 370-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_39

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Authoring a consistent interactive narrative is difficult without exhaustively specifying all possible deviations from the main path of a story. When automatically generating new story paths, it i... Read More about Telling non-linear stories with interval temporal logic.

Applying the ACPO guidelines to building automation systems (2015)
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Sutherland, I., Spyridopoulos, T., Read, H., Jones, A., Sutherland, G., & Burgess, M. (2015). Applying the ACPO guidelines to building automation systems. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9190, 684-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_61

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. The increasing variety of Internet enabled hardware devices is creating a world of semi-autonomous, interconnected systems capable of control, automation and monitoring of a built environment. Man... Read More about Applying the ACPO guidelines to building automation systems.

An extensible platform for the forensic analysis of social media data (2015)
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Read, H., Xynos, K., Sutherland, I., Roarson, F., Andriotis, P., & Oikonomou, G. (2015). An extensible platform for the forensic analysis of social media data. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9190, 404-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_36

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Visualising data is an important part of the forensic analysis process. Many cell phone forensic tools have specialised visualisation components, but are as of yet able to tackle questions concern... Read More about An extensible platform for the forensic analysis of social media data.

An energetically-autonomous robotic tadpole with single membrane stomach and tail (2015)
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Philamore, H., Rossiter, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). An energetically-autonomous robotic tadpole with single membrane stomach and tail. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9222, 366-378. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_37

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. We present an energetically autonomous robotic tadpole that uses a single membrane component for both electrical energy generation and propulsive actuation. The coupling of this small bio-inspired... Read More about An energetically-autonomous robotic tadpole with single membrane stomach and tail.

Analysis traceability and provenance for HEP (2015)
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Kovács, Z., McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & Kovacs, Z. (2015). Analysis traceability and provenance for HEP. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 664(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/664/3/032028

This paper presents the use of the CRISTAL software in the N4U project. CRISTAL was used to create a set of provenance aware analysis tools for the Neuroscience domain. This paper advocates that the approach taken in N4U to build the analysis suite i... Read More about Analysis traceability and provenance for HEP.

Application of a game theoretic approach in smart sensor data trustworthiness problems (2015)
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Maraslis, K., Spyridopoulos, T., Oikonomou, G., Tryfonas, T., & Haghighi, M. (2015). Application of a game theoretic approach in smart sensor data trustworthiness problems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 455, 601-615. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18467-8_40

© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2015. In this work we present an Intrusion Detection (ID) and an Intrusion Prevention (IP) model for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The attacker’s goal is to compromise the deployment by ca... Read More about Application of a game theoretic approach in smart sensor data trustworthiness problems.

Towards computation of novel ideas from corpora of scientific text (2015)
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Liu, H., Goulding, J., & Brailsford, T. (2015). Towards computation of novel ideas from corpora of scientific text. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9285, 541-556. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23525-7_33

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. In this work we present a method for the computation of novel ‘ideas’ from corpora of scientific text. The system functions by first detecting concept noun-phrases within the titles and abstracts... Read More about Towards computation of novel ideas from corpora of scientific text.

Real-time monitoring of privacy abuses and intrusion detection in android system (2015)
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Li, S., Chen, J., Spyridopoulos, T., Andriotis, P., Ludwiniak, R., & Russell, G. (2015). Real-time monitoring of privacy abuses and intrusion detection in android system. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9190, 379-390. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_34

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. In this paper, we investigated the definition of privacy, privacy abuse behaviours, and the privacy abuse in Android systems, which may be very useful for identifying the malicious apps from ‘norm... Read More about Real-time monitoring of privacy abuses and intrusion detection in android system.