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Full SiC Version of the EDA5 Inverter
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chowdhury, S., Gurpinar, E., & Castellazzi, A. (2017, June). Full SiC Version of the EDA5 Inverter. Presented at 2017 IEEE 3rd International Future Energy Electronics Conference and ECCE Asia (IFEEC 2017 ECCE Asia), Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Recently, a novel hybrid multilevel inverter topology, the EDA5, was presented. The novel inverter topology comprises of two floating capacitors and 16 active switches to achieve five-level output voltage waveform and achieves higher efficiency at lo... Read More about Full SiC Version of the EDA5 Inverter.

The Functional Dendritic Cell Algorithm: A formal specification with Haskell
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greensmith, J., & Gale, M. B. (2017, June). The Functional Dendritic Cell Algorithm: A formal specification with Haskell. Presented at 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain

The Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) has been described in a number of different ways, sometimes resulting in incorrect implementations. We believe this is due to previous, imprecise attempts to describe the algorithm. The main contribution of this pap... Read More about The Functional Dendritic Cell Algorithm: A formal specification with Haskell.

Touchomatic: Interpersonal touch gaming in the wild
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marshall, J., & Tennent, P. (2017, June). Touchomatic: Interpersonal touch gaming in the wild. Presented at 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17), Edinburgh, UK

Direct touch between people is a key element of social behaviour. Recently a number of researchers have explored games which sense aspects of such interpersonal touch to control interaction with a multiplayer computer game. In this paper, we describe... Read More about Touchomatic: Interpersonal touch gaming in the wild.

Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roper, T., Lawson, G., & Abdullah, C. (2017, June). Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design. Presented at 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Virtual Reality technologies are available at a lower cost than ever before. However, such systems are developed mainly for the consumer market, and inaccuracies in spatial judgements may make them unsuitable for specific applications like Engineerin... Read More about Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design.

The Rough Mile: Testing a Framework of Immersive Practice
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spence, J., Hazzard, A., McGrath, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Benford, S. (2017, June). The Rough Mile: Testing a Framework of Immersive Practice. Presented at DIS 2017, Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK

We present our case study on gifting digital music, The Rough Mile, as an example of a Framework of Immersive Practice, intended for researchers and practitioners in HCI and interaction design. Although immersion is a frequently used term in the HCI... Read More about The Rough Mile: Testing a Framework of Immersive Practice.

Exploring healthcare professionals adoption and use of Information and Communication Technology using Q-methodology and Models of Technology Acceptance
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ladan, M. A., Wharrad, H., & Windle, R. (in press). Exploring healthcare professionals adoption and use of Information and Communication Technology using Q-methodology and Models of Technology Acceptance.

Background: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and more specifically e-health are viewed as important tools within healthcare. They are used to support clinical activities such as interactions between healthcare professionals and patie... Read More about Exploring healthcare professionals adoption and use of Information and Communication Technology using Q-methodology and Models of Technology Acceptance.

Fast fault location scheme for distribution systems based on fault transients
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aboshady, F., Thomas, D. W., & Sumner, M. (2017, September). Fast fault location scheme for distribution systems based on fault transients. Presented at IET International Conference on Resilience of Transmission and Distribution Networks (RTDN 2017), Birmingham

This paper presents a combined double-end and single-end fault locator for distribution systems. The technique lies under the impedance based category and uses the fault generated high frequency components to locate the faults. The combination of dou... Read More about Fast fault location scheme for distribution systems based on fault transients.

CRNN: A Joint Neural Network for Redundancy Detection
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fu, X., Ch’ng, E., Aickelin, U., & See, S. (2017, May). CRNN: A Joint Neural Network for Redundancy Detection. Presented at 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (Smartcomp 2017), Hong Kong, China

This paper proposes a novel framework for detecting redundancy in supervised sentence categorisation. Unlike traditional singleton neural network, our model incorporates character-aware convolutional neural network (Char-CNN) with character-aware rec... Read More about CRNN: A Joint Neural Network for Redundancy Detection.

uCube: Control platform for power electronics
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Galassini, A., Lo Calzo, G., Formentini, A., Gerada, C., Zanchetta, P., & Costabeber, A. (2017, April). uCube: Control platform for power electronics. Presented at IEEE WEMDCD'2017: IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis, Nottingham, UK

This paper presents a versatile tool for development, control and testing of power electronics converters. In the last decade, many different expensive off-the-shelf tools for rapid prototyping and testing have been developed and commercialised by fe... Read More about uCube: Control platform for power electronics.

Design optimization of integrated rotor-less inductors for high-speed AC drive applications
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Raza Khowja, M., Gerada, C., Vakil, G., Patel, C., & Wheeler, P. (2017, April). Design optimization of integrated rotor-less inductors for high-speed AC drive applications. Presented at IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD 2017), Nottingham, UK

Discrete sub-system due to passive elements in motor drive require functional and structural integration to make efficient and power dense overall system. Such power dense system is the prerequisite in aerospace and marine applications. This paper pr... Read More about Design optimization of integrated rotor-less inductors for high-speed AC drive applications.

Sensitivity analysis for performance and power density improvements in salient-pole synchronous generators
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Vakil, G., Nuzzo, S., Degano, M., Galea, M., Gerada, C., Zhang, H., & Brown, N. (2017, April). Sensitivity analysis for performance and power density improvements in salient-pole synchronous generators. Presented at IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD) 2017, Nottingham, UK

Objective of this paper is to provide design recommendations to improve the performance and power density of a 400kVA salient-pole synchronous generator, without exceeding the limitations due to critical parameters such as total harmonic distortion o... Read More about Sensitivity analysis for performance and power density improvements in salient-pole synchronous generators.

Quasi Z-source NPC inverter for PV application
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Effah, F. B., Wheeler, P., Watson, A. J., & Clare, J. C. (2017, June). Quasi Z-source NPC inverter for PV application. Presented at 2017 IEEE PES-IAS PowerAfrica Conference: Harnessing Energy, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Affordable Electrification of Africa, PowerAfrica 2017, Accra, Greece

This paper presents the operating principles and modified space vector modulation strategy for a three-phase quasi Z-source neutral point clamped inverter for solar photovoltaic applications. This topology combines the advantages of the neutral point... Read More about Quasi Z-source NPC inverter for PV application.

Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Perez, E., Koene, A., Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., & Cano, M. (2017, June). Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness. Presented at ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci' 17), Troy, New York, USA

This paper explores the policy recommendations made by young people regarding algorithm fairness. It describes a piece of ongoing research developed to bring children and young people to the front line of the debate regarding children's digital right... Read More about Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness.

A novel 24-slots14-poles fractional-slot concentrated winding topology with low space harmonics for electrical machines
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhu, S., Cox, T., Xu, Z., & Gerada, C. (2018, April). A novel 24-slots14-poles fractional-slot concentrated winding topology with low space harmonics for electrical machines. Presented at PEMD 2018 - 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives

This paper proposes a novel winding layout for the machines with fractional-slot concentrated windings (FSCW) using a stator shifting concept and non-overlapping windings, with which all the non-working harmonics will be completely cancelled or signi... Read More about A novel 24-slots14-poles fractional-slot concentrated winding topology with low space harmonics for electrical machines.

Multi-start methods for the capacitated clustering problem
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martinez-Gavara, A., Campos, V., Landa-Silva, D., & Marti, R. (2017, July). Multi-start methods for the capacitated clustering problem. Presented at 12th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017), Barcelona, Spain

In this work, we investigate the adaptation of the Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) and Iterated Greedy methodologies to the Capacitated Clustering Problem (CCP). In particular, we focus on the effect of the balance between randomi... Read More about Multi-start methods for the capacitated clustering problem.

Change detection in SAR images based on the salient map guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mu, C., Li, C., Liu, Y., Sun, M., Jiao, L., & Qu, R. (2017, June). Change detection in SAR images based on the salient map guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm. Presented at 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), Donostia, Spain

This paper proposes a change detection algorithm in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images based on the salient image guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm (S-aGA). The difference image is first generated by logarithm ratio operator based on t... Read More about Change detection in SAR images based on the salient map guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm.

Efficient modeling and representation of agreement in interval-valued data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Havens, T. C., Wagner, C., & Anderson, D. T. (2017, July). Efficient modeling and representation of agreement in interval-valued data. Presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2017), Naples, Italy

Recently, there has been much research into effective representation and analysis of uncertainty in human responses, with applications in cyber-security, forest and wildlife management, and product development, to name a few. Most of this research ha... Read More about Efficient modeling and representation of agreement in interval-valued data.

Elliptic membership functions and the modeling uncertainty in type-2 fuzzy logic systems as applied to time series prediction
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kayacan, E., Coupland, S., John, R., & Khanesar, M. A. (2017, July). Elliptic membership functions and the modeling uncertainty in type-2 fuzzy logic systems as applied to time series prediction. Presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Naples, Italy

In this paper, our aim is to compare and contrast various ways of modeling uncertainty by using different type-2 fuzzy membership functions available in literature. In particular we focus on a novel type-2 fuzzy membership function–”Elliptic membersh... Read More about Elliptic membership functions and the modeling uncertainty in type-2 fuzzy logic systems as applied to time series prediction.

Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Madi, E., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2017, July). Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS. Presented at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2017), Naples, Italy

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems are a well known category of decision making problem that has received much attention in the literature, with a key approach being the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPS... Read More about Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS.