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Financial Complexity, Cycles and Income Inequality (2025)
Journal Article
Bougheas, S., Commendatore, P., Gardini, L., Kubin, I., & Zörner, T. O. (in press). Financial Complexity, Cycles and Income Inequality. Macroeconomic Dynamics,

We introduce a banking sector and heterogeneous agents in the dynamic overlapping generations model of Matsuyama et al. (2016). Our model captures the benefits and costs of an advanced banking system. While it allocates resources to productive activi... Read More about Financial Complexity, Cycles and Income Inequality.

Student Surpasses the Teacher: Apprenticeship Learning for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (2025)
Journal Article
Cakebread, J., Jackson, W. G., Karapetyan, D., Parkes, A. J., & Özcan, E. (2025). Student Surpasses the Teacher: Apprenticeship Learning for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation. Algorithms, 18(8), Article 516. https://doi.org/10.3390/a18080516

This study introduces a novel train-and-test approach referred to as apprenticeship learning (AL) for generating selection hyper-heuristics to solve the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (QUBO) problem. The primary goal is to automate the d... Read More about Student Surpasses the Teacher: Apprenticeship Learning for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation.

Force Estimation in a 6-DOF UR5 Robot Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Precise Force Control (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karaca, A., Khanesar, M. A., Martínez-Arellano, G., & Branson, D. T. (2025, August). Force Estimation in a 6-DOF UR5 Robot Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Precise Force Control. Paper presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Beijing, China

Robot arms inherently exhibit nonlinear dynamics, which makes force control a challenging task. In each posture of the robot arm, the end-effector deflection varies depending on the applied force. This means that even under the same force input, the... Read More about Force Estimation in a 6-DOF UR5 Robot Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Precise Force Control.

A Three Level Interleaved DC-DC Converter for EV Battery Charging from a Residential PV System (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, S., Putera, P., Klumpner, C., Sumner, M., & Hajj, M. (2025, October). A Three Level Interleaved DC-DC Converter for EV Battery Charging from a Residential PV System. Presented at IECON 2025, Madrid, Spain

In a domestic photovoltaic (PV)-battery system, the battery stack serves as a backup power source, supplying household loads overnight and storing the excess solar energy but its expensive due to battery cost. On the other hand, Electric Vehicles whi... Read More about A Three Level Interleaved DC-DC Converter for EV Battery Charging from a Residential PV System.

An Interleaved Soft-Switching Bidirectional Converter for EV Application (2025)
Journal Article
Chen, Q., Li, Y., Klumpner, C., & Ahmed, R. (online). An Interleaved Soft-Switching Bidirectional Converter for EV Application. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2025.3595650

This article presents an interleaved unbalanced capacitor voltage bidirectional soft-switching DC-DC converter to achieve a wide soft-switching range and high power density for EV applications. In the proposed circuit, an auxiliary circuit comprising... Read More about An Interleaved Soft-Switching Bidirectional Converter for EV Application.