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Kampong Ayer: A community living on water in Brunei Darussalam (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Haji Adenan, R., Rodrigues, L., Borsi, K., & Kiamba, L. (2014). Kampong Ayer: A community living on water in Brunei Darussalam. In PLEA 2014 Conference Proceedings: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies (33-40)

© Copyright: CEPT University, Center for Advanced Research in Building Science & Energy, Ahmedabad First Published 2014. All rights reserved. Land scarcity and rising population in developing countries, particularly in the urban parts of Asia, has... Read More about Kampong Ayer: A community living on water in Brunei Darussalam.

Exploring the Relationship between Location and Behaviour in Out of Hours Hospital Care (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Brown, M., Pinchin, J., Blum, J., Sharples, S., Shaw, D., Housley, G., …Blakey, J. (2014). Exploring the Relationship between Location and Behaviour in Out of Hours Hospital Care. In HCI International 2014 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2014. Proceedings, Part II (395-400). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07854-0_69

'Out of Hours' (OoH) hospital care involves a small number of doctors covering a very large number of patients. These doctors are working in stressful environments, performing complex tasks and making difficult task prioritisation decisions, yet litt... Read More about Exploring the Relationship between Location and Behaviour in Out of Hours Hospital Care.

Climate-responsive vernacular Swahili housing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Kiamba, L., Rodrigues, L., & Lau, B. (2014). Climate-responsive vernacular Swahili housing. In Sustainable habitat for developing societies : choosing the way forward : 30th International PLEA Conference, December 16-18, 2014 : proceedings (394-401)

© 2014 30th International PLEA Conference: Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies: Choosing the Way Forward - Proceedings. All rights reserved. Vernacular architecture is manifested by a large variety of forms that have a diversity of explanati... Read More about Climate-responsive vernacular Swahili housing.

GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications.

Taking the move from our recent research on GNSS Avionics Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA), this article investigates the synergies of ABIA with a novel Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) architecture for Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS). Based on simu... Read More about GNSS avionics-based integrity augmentation for RPAS detect-and-avoid applications.

Development of an aircraft wheel actuator for green taxiing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Galea, M., Pickering, S. J., Tighe, C., XU, Z., Hamiti, T., & Gerada, C. (2014). Development of an aircraft wheel actuator for green taxiing. doi:10.1109/ICELMACH.2014.6960537

In this paper, the design and construction aspects of a wheel actuator to be used for aircraft taxiing on the ground and which will be located in the main landing gear are addressed. The main challenges with the application are the high torque densit... Read More about Development of an aircraft wheel actuator for green taxiing.

Design Optimisation of High-Brightness Laser Diodes for External Cavity Operation in the BRIDLE Project (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Larkins, E., Bull, S., Kaunga-Nyirenda, S., Helal, M., Vilokkinen, V., Uusimaa, P., …Erbert, G. (2014). Design Optimisation of High-Brightness Laser Diodes for External Cavity Operation in the BRIDLE Project. In 2014 International Semiconductor Laser Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/islc.2014.143

We report on the design aspects of high performance diode lasers for application in high-brightness spectral beam combining and coherent beam combining modules. Key performance trade-offs are identified and potential solutions are explored.

An approach to produce a GIS database for road surface monitoring (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fendi, K. G., Adam, S. M., Kokkas, N., & Smith, M. J. (in press). An approach to produce a GIS database for road surface monitoring. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcbee.2014.01.042

Road Surface Monitoring (RSM) is the process of detecting the distress on paved or unpaved road surfaces. The primary aim of this process is to detect any distress (such as road surface cracks) at early stages in order to apply maintenance on time. E... Read More about An approach to produce a GIS database for road surface monitoring.

Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Jing, H., Pinchin, J., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2014). Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning.

As the scope of location-based applications and services further reach into our everyday lives, the demand for more robust and reliable positioning becomes ever more important. However indoor positioning has never been a fully resolved issue due to i... Read More about Collaborative Wi-Fi fingerprint training for indoor positioning.

The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pinchin, J., Smith, G., Hill, C., Moore, T., & Loram, I. (2014). The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation.

This paper reports on research to explore the potential for using electromyography (EMG) measurements in pedestrian navigation. The aim is to investigate whether the relationship between human motion and the activity of skeletal muscles in the leg mi... Read More about The potential of electromyography to aid personal navigation.

Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sabatini, R., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid.

This paper investigates the synergies between a GNSS Avionics Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA) system and a novel Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Sense-and-Avoid (SAA) architecture for cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios. The integration of ABI... Read More about Avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation for unmanned aerial systems sense-and-avoid.

Design and simulation of high-speed nanophotonic electro-optic modulators (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Kaunga-Nyirenda, S. N., Dias, H. K., Lim, J. J., Bull, S., Malaguti, S., Bellanca, G., & Larkins, E. C. (2014). Design and simulation of high-speed nanophotonic electro-optic modulators. In Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/nusod.2014.6935329

In this work, an ultracompact electro-optic modulator based on refractive index modulation by plasma dispersion effect in PhC all-optical gate (AOG) is proposed. The index modulation is achieved by applying a time-varying bias voltage across the elec... Read More about Design and simulation of high-speed nanophotonic electro-optic modulators.

System-wide assessment of intervention strategies for railway infrastructure (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Rama, D., & Andrews, J. D. (2014). System-wide assessment of intervention strategies for railway infrastructure.

The existing railway infrastructure exhibits faster degradation rates and requires more maintenance effort as a result of increased utilisation. At the same time, due to increased numbers of freight and commuter trains obtaining access to the railway... Read More about System-wide assessment of intervention strategies for railway infrastructure.

You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. (2014). You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to... Read More about You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Baydu, C. A., Simmons, K., & Morvan, H. (2014). Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing. In Volume 5C: Heat Transfer. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2014-26145

The efficiency of power transmission systems is increasingly targeted with a view to reducing parasitic losses and improving specific fuel consumption (SFC). One of the effects associated with such parasitic losses is the successive compression and e... Read More about Computational investigation of flows and pressure fields associated with spur gear meshing.

Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Basiri, A., Lohan, E. S., Figueiredo e Silva, P., Peltola, P., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2014). Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view. In International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2014 (ICL-GNSS 2014). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2014.6934176

Even though Location Based Services (LBSs) are being more and more widely-used and this shows a promising future, there are still many challenges to deal with, such as privacy, reliability, accuracy, cost of service, power consumption and availabilit... Read More about Overview of positioning technologies from fitness-to-purpose point of view.

Alternative methodologies to evaluate storage stability of rubberised bitumens (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Lo Presti, D., Memon, N., Grenfell, J., & Airey, G. (2014). Alternative methodologies to evaluate storage stability of rubberised bitumens. In Asphalt Pavements: Proceedings of the International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, ISAP 2014, 1481-1489. doi:10.1201/b17219-180

Tyre Rubber Modified Binders (TR-MBs), produced through the McDonald wet process and used worldwide (e.g. asphalt rubber), have demonstrated various benefits to pavements and, moreover, they represent a good opportunity for recycling tyre rubber. How... Read More about Alternative methodologies to evaluate storage stability of rubberised bitumens.

Modelling the effects of asset management decisions on a railway track section (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Prescott, D., & Andrews, J. D. (in press). Modelling the effects of asset management decisions on a railway track section. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance. https://doi.org/10.4203/ccp.104.166

This paper reports on the development of a Markov model that uses real-world deterioration, inspection and maintenance data to assess railway track asset management. The model allows both asset management personnel and track maintenance engineers to... Read More about Modelling the effects of asset management decisions on a railway track section.

Implementation of a Modelica library for simulation of electromechanical actuators for aircraft and helicopters (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Linden, F. V. D., Schlegel, C., Christmann, M., Regula, G., Hill, C. I., Giangrande, P., …Egaña, I. (2014). Implementation of a Modelica library for simulation of electromechanical actuators for aircraft and helicopters. In Proceedings of the 10th International Modelica Conference, March 10-12, 2014, Lund, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.3384/ECP14096757

The goal of the A2015 library presented in this paper is to develop a Modelica based, tool-independent standard for electromechanical actuators (EMA). This will contribute to the establishment of a “common language” throughout the development of EMAs... Read More about Implementation of a Modelica library for simulation of electromechanical actuators for aircraft and helicopters.