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Analysis and Design of Battery Controller for More Electric Aircraft Application (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Mohamed, M. A. A., Yeoh, S., Atkin, J., Khalaf, M., & Bozhko, S. (2021). Analysis and Design of Battery Controller for More Electric Aircraft Application. . https://doi.org/10.1109/IPRECON52453.2021.9640691

This paper deals with innovative multi-function battery controller with seamless transition between controllers for future MEA platforms. The battery controller performs different functions i.e. providing DC power, maintaining DC bus voltage, control... Read More about Analysis and Design of Battery Controller for More Electric Aircraft Application.

A compensated impedance based ground fault locator for an unearthed power system (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Jahanger, H. K., Raqib, A., Thomas, D. W., & Sumner, M. (2021). A compensated impedance based ground fault locator for an unearthed power system. In 10th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2020) (592 – 597). https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1001

Continuous operation of a power system during a ground fault can be achieved by employing either a High Resistance Grounded (HRG) power source or a floating power source. However, if a second ground fault occurs in the system it can cause significant... Read More about A compensated impedance based ground fault locator for an unearthed power system.

Comparison of Frequency Transform Methods for Condition Monitoring of a DC-Link Capacitor (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Raqib, A., Jahanger, H., Sumner, M., Cox, T., Klumpner, C., Agha, I., …Lonsdale, P. (2021). Comparison of Frequency Transform Methods for Condition Monitoring of a DC-Link Capacitor. In 10th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2020) (621 – 626). https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1169

Electrolytic capacitors continue to be used for the DC-link in motor drive systems due to their high specific capacitance. The degradation of electrolytic capacitors can lead to increased equivalent series resistances (ESR) and reduction in capacitan... Read More about Comparison of Frequency Transform Methods for Condition Monitoring of a DC-Link Capacitor.

Evolved Methods for Risk Assessment (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Jackson, A., Tolo, S., & Andrews, J. (2021). Evolved Methods for Risk Assessment. In B. Castanier, M. Cepin, D. Bigaud, & C. Berenguer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2021) (217-224). https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-2016-8_194-cd

The foundations of risk assessment tools such as fault tree analysis and event tree analysis were established in the 1970s. Since then, research has made considerable advances in the capabilities of analytical techniques applicable to safety critical... Read More about Evolved Methods for Risk Assessment.

A Modelling Framework for Dynamic Safety Assessment (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Tolo, S., Yan, R., Dunnett, S., & Andrews, J. (2021). A Modelling Framework for Dynamic Safety Assessment. In B. Castanier, M. Cepin, D. Bigaud, & C. Berenguer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2021) (2434-2440). https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-2016-8_163-cd

The concept of resilience is progressively making its way into the design, operation and management practice of complex engineering systems. The core of such trend lies with the integration of failure mechanisms in the modelling of systems since the... Read More about A Modelling Framework for Dynamic Safety Assessment.

A Petri Net Methodology for Modeling the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Yan, R., Dunnett, S., Tolo, S., & Andrews, J. (2021). A Petri Net Methodology for Modeling the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants. In B. Castanier, M. Cepin, D. Bigaud, & C. Berenguer (Eds.), In Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2021) (2426-2432). https://doi.org/10.3850/978-981-18-2016-8_109-cd

In the paper, a novel Petri Net (PN) method for assessing the resilience of nuclear reactors is presented. The PN model constructed aims to simulate the failure of the subsystems in a reactor caused by either natural degradation or external disruptiv... Read More about A Petri Net Methodology for Modeling the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants.

Switching transformation for soft pneumatic adaptive shading (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Aditra, R., Beccarelli, P., & Jimenez-Bescos, C. (2021). Switching transformation for soft pneumatic adaptive shading. . https://doi.org/10.23967/membranes.2021.020

Soft pneumatic adaptive system could be categorized based on transformation occurred. One type of transformation that was rarely discussed is the switching transformation. It was only found in switchable fritted layer cushion structure. To keep the... Read More about Switching transformation for soft pneumatic adaptive shading.

Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Egede, J. O., Jaiswal, S., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Price, D., Elliot, N., Nixon, N., …Valstar, M. (2021). Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. In IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (52-59). https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478361

Virtual human technologies are now being widely explored as therapy tools for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. These technologies leverage the ability of the virtual agents to engage in naturalistic social interactions with a... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety.

Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Egede, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Hazzard, A., Porcheron, M., Bodiaj, E., Fischer, J. E., …Valstar, M. (2021). Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. In IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (112-119). https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478350

Access to healthcare advice is crucial to promote healthy societies. Many factors shape how access might be constrained, such as economic status, education or, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote consultations with health practitioners. Our wo... Read More about Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study.

Retrofitting office buildings: Enhancing daylighting performance with switchable ETFE double-skin façades (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Flor, J., Sun, Y., Beccarelli, P., Wu, Y., & Chilton, J. (2021). Retrofitting office buildings: Enhancing daylighting performance with switchable ETFE double-skin façades. . https://doi.org/10.23967/membranes.2021.017

This paper addresses the natural daylighting qualities of spaces enclosed by ETFE multi-layer foil constructions with switchable features. The study focuses on the effects the adaptive shading mechanism has on the internal space in terms of useful... Read More about Retrofitting office buildings: Enhancing daylighting performance with switchable ETFE double-skin façades.

Multi-agent based manufacturing: current trends and challenges (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Pulikottil, T., Estrada-Jimenez, L. A., Rehman, H. U., Barata, J., Nikghadam-Hojjati, S., & Zarzycki, L. (2021). Multi-agent based manufacturing: current trends and challenges. In 2021 26th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA ). https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA45728.2021.9613555

The advent of Industry 4.0 and the development of future industrial applications can be achieved using Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This technological development invokes high levels of communication and computation in the form of an interconnected... Read More about Multi-agent based manufacturing: current trends and challenges.

Design Considerations for High-Voltage High-Current Bi-Directional DC Solid-State Circuit Breaker (SSCB) for Aerospace Applications (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Fayyaz, A., Wang, Z., Ortiz, M. U., Yang, T., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Design Considerations for High-Voltage High-Current Bi-Directional DC Solid-State Circuit Breaker (SSCB) for Aerospace Applications. In 2021 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'21 ECCE Europe). https://doi.org/10.23919/epe21ecceeurope50061.2021.9570659

Design of a high-voltage and high-current solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) for aerospace applications is highly challenging, as the overall system should comply with the most stringent operating environment. In addition, the implemented power semic... Read More about Design Considerations for High-Voltage High-Current Bi-Directional DC Solid-State Circuit Breaker (SSCB) for Aerospace Applications.

Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Rehman, H. U., Pulikottil, T., Estrada-Jimenez, L. A., Mo, F., Chaplin, J. C., Barata, J., & Ratchev, S. (2021). Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems. In Progress in Artificial Intelligence (673-686). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86230-5_53

The use of multi-agent systems (MAS) as a distributed control method for shop-floor manufacturing control applications has been extensively researched. MAS provides new implementation solutions for smart manufacturing requirements such as the high dy... Read More about Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems.

The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production (2021)
Conference Proceeding
McGarry, G., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2021). The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production. In AM '21: Audio Mostly 2021 (40-47). https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478406

In this paper we report on two ethnographic studies of professional music producers at work in their respective studio settings, to underpin the design of intelligent tools and platforms in this domain. The studies are part of a body of work that exp... Read More about The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production.

Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Aboelhassan, A., El Sayed, W., Hebala, A., Galea, M., & Bozhko, S. (2021). Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor. In 2021 16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) (153-159). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEA51954.2021.9516257

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) are now extensively used in many critical applications. There is an increasing need for the motor and control system to have fault tolerant capabilities. This paper presents a fault tolerant control strateg... Read More about Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor.

Feedforward Enhancement through Iterative Learning Control for Robotic Manipulator (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, C., Wang, M., Li, X., & Ratchev, S. (2021). Feedforward Enhancement through Iterative Learning Control for Robotic Manipulator. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CASE49439.2021.9551523

This work presents an iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm to enhance the feedforward control (FFC) for robotic manipulators. The proposed ILC algorithm enables the cooperation between the ILC, inverse dynamics, and a PD feedback control (FBC)... Read More about Feedforward Enhancement through Iterative Learning Control for Robotic Manipulator.

Connecting Constructive Notions of Ordinals in Homotopy Type Theory (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Kraus, N., Nordvall Forsberg, F., & Xu, C. (2021). Connecting Constructive Notions of Ordinals in Homotopy Type Theory.

In classical set theory, there are many equivalent ways to introduce ordinals. In a constructive setting, however, the different notions split apart, with different advantages and disadvantages for each. We consider three different notions of ordinal... Read More about Connecting Constructive Notions of Ordinals in Homotopy Type Theory.

Predictive Torque Control of an Induction Machine - Voltage Source Inverter System (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Riveros, J. A., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Predictive Torque Control of an Induction Machine - Voltage Source Inverter System. In 2021 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica. https://doi.org/10.1109/powerafrica52236.2021.9543164

Predictive control techniques have emerged as a suitable solution for the control of motor drive systems. In this paper, a predictive control strategy for the flux and torque control of an induction machine fed by a voltage source inverter is present... Read More about Predictive Torque Control of an Induction Machine - Voltage Source Inverter System.

Soma design to enhance aircraft passenger comfort (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Sharafkhani, M., Tennent, P., Argyle, E., & Cobb, S. (2021). Soma design to enhance aircraft passenger comfort

Aircraft passengers can become uncomfortable while seated because of the restricted physical space. This work aims to investigate a new strategy for designing interventions that can be used to encourage aircraft passengers to move more while seated a... Read More about Soma design to enhance aircraft passenger comfort.

Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Alkaraki, S., Kelly, J., & Allayioti, M. (2021). Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias. In 2021 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC) (1-1). https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC52648.2021.9539582

This paper presents a moderately high directivity (∼12 dBi) antenna having a reconfigurable radiation pattern. The proposed antenna, illustrated in Fig. 1 , is closely based on existing designs [1]-[2]. The proposed antenna consists of a driven eleme... Read More about Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias.