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uCube: Control platform for power electronics (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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 (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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 (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale (2017)
Conference Proceeding

As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automaticall... Read More about Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale.

Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and mandated in data protection legislation. We briefly outline the ‘external’... Read More about Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model.

“BAM”: a collaborative R&D project for the development of a simulation based solution for the design and manufacture of 3D woven composites (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Breakthrough Aerospace Materials (BAM) is a collaborative R&D project based in the UK [1]; led by industry and co-funded by the British Government via the Innovate-UK under its Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) R&T Programme. The overall objective... Read More about “BAM”: a collaborative R&D project for the development of a simulation based solution for the design and manufacture of 3D woven composites.

The challenges of visual-kinaesthetic experience (2017)
Conference Proceeding

"Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper contributes a participatory design case study that used workshops and ideation frameworks to scaffold a conceptualisation of "user data-actuated" plants. The framework combines ideation cards, worksheets and facilitated co-design, guiding... Read More about "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing.

Touchomatic: Interpersonal touch gaming in the wild (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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 (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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 (2017)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Time-spatial structure of airy pulse in non-stationary environment (2017)
Conference Proceeding

A complex phenomenon including an asymmetric time varying Airy pulse and an asymmetric time varying bounded medium is considered. It is shown that this phenomenon is controlled by a generalised start parameter determined by the point of the source lo... Read More about Time-spatial structure of airy pulse in non-stationary environment.

Learning heuristic selection using a time delay neural network for open vehicle routing (2017)
Conference Proceeding

A selection hyper-heuristic is a search method that controls a prefixed set of low-level heuristics for solving a given computationally difficult problem. This study investigates a learning-via demonstrations approach generating a selection hyper-heu... Read More about Learning heuristic selection using a time delay neural network for open vehicle routing.

Exploring the landscape of the space of heuristics for local search in SAT (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Local search is a powerful technique on many combinatorial optimisation problems. However, the effectiveness of local search methods will often depend strongly on the details of the heuristics used within them. There are many potential heuristics, an... Read More about Exploring the landscape of the space of heuristics for local search in SAT.

A modified indicator-based evolutionary algorithm (mIBEA) (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) based on the concept of Pareto-dominance have been successfully applied to many real-world optimisation problems. Recently, research interest has shifted towards indicator-based methods to guide the sea... Read More about A modified indicator-based evolutionary algorithm (mIBEA).

Highly-integrated power cell for high-power wide band-gap power converters (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The fast switching speeds and low specific conduction losses of wide band-gap semiconductors allow the realisation of high-frequency, high power-density switching converters with dramatically reduced passive component requirements compared to Silicon... Read More about Highly-integrated power cell for high-power wide band-gap power converters.

Design and construction of a co-planar power bus interconnect for low inductance switching (2017)
Conference Proceeding

A co-planar tab-slot type of interconnect demonstrator for connecting power switching devices and DC bus capacitors has been designed and constructed, aimed at low inductance switching. The demonstrator is composed of a double-sided tab connector and... Read More about Design and construction of a co-planar power bus interconnect for low inductance switching.

Towards a real-time Structural Health Monitoring of railway bridges (2017)
Conference Proceeding

More than 350,000 railway bridges are present on the European railway network, making them a key infrastructure of the whole railway network. Railway bridges are continuously exposed to changing environmental threats, such as wind, floods and traffic... Read More about Towards a real-time Structural Health Monitoring of railway bridges.

Fusing deep learned and hand-crafted features of appearance, shape, and dynamics for automatic pain estimation (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Automatic continuous time, continuous value assessment of a patient's pain from face video is highly sought after by the medical profession. Despite the recent advances in deep learning that attain impressive results in many domains, pain estimation... Read More about Fusing deep learned and hand-crafted features of appearance, shape, and dynamics for automatic pain estimation.

A novel multi-modular series HVDC tap (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Tapping energy from a HVDC transmission line to serve small remote communities has been considered by researchers and HVDC manufacturers since the 1960s. Many HVDC taps proposed consider the performance of diodes, Thyristors and GTOs and the utilizat... Read More about A novel multi-modular series HVDC tap.