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Multi-agent based manufacturing: current trends and challenges (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Model Predictive Control and the Selection of Cost Functions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, M., Rojas, D., & Wheeler, P. (2021). Model Predictive Control and the Selection of Cost Functions. In 2021 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'21 ECCE Europe). https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE21ECCEEurope50061.2021.9570571

In model predictive control strategy implementations, the cost function selection is very important in ensuring good performance. In this paper a study of the most common cost functions used for the control of two level voltage source inverters is pr... Read More about Model Predictive Control and the Selection of Cost Functions.

A Fixed Frequency Full-Bridge Three-Level DC-DC LCL-Type Series Resonant Converter for Large Scale Solar PV Plants Applications (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Omar, A. A., Wheeler, P., Zanchetta, P., & Burgos-Mellado, C. (2021). A Fixed Frequency Full-Bridge Three-Level DC-DC LCL-Type Series Resonant Converter for Large Scale Solar PV Plants Applications. In 2021 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'21 ECCE Europe). https://doi.org/10.23919/EPE21ECCEEurope50061.2021.9570707

Large scale solar PV plants are typically connected into medium voltage AC grids using line frequency transformers, which are bulky. In application where size and/or weight are important an attractive alternative is the use of multilevel inverter con... Read More about A Fixed Frequency Full-Bridge Three-Level DC-DC LCL-Type Series Resonant Converter for Large Scale Solar PV Plants Applications.

Cloud Based Decision Making for Multi-Agent Production Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Impact of capsaicin on salt release and salt perception during consumption of salt and salt-capsaicin solutions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, N., Yang, Q., Zhao, J., Fan, X., Chen, J., & Fisk, I. (2021). Impact of capsaicin on salt release and salt perception during consumption of salt and salt-capsaicin solutions. In Progress in Flavour Research 2021. Proceedings of the 16th Weurman Flavour Research Symposium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5346806

The mechanism on how capsaicin could affect salt release in the mouth and its saltiness perception was unknown. This is the first study designed to investigate the impact of capsaicin on salt release in the tongue and correlate with its perception du... Read More about Impact of capsaicin on salt release and salt perception during consumption of salt and salt-capsaicin solutions.

Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Harnessing the medical humanities to consider LGBT+ elder healthcare within the undergraduate curriculum (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agius, S., & Church, H. (2021, August). Harnessing the medical humanities to consider LGBT+ elder healthcare within the undergraduate curriculum. Poster presented at AMEE 2021, Virtual

Background: Many older LGBT+ adults [elders] in the UK will have endured extraordinary discrimination and homophobia/transphobia during their life course, often intersectional, which may have had an enduring impact upon their physical and mental well... Read More about Harnessing the medical humanities to consider LGBT+ elder healthcare within the undergraduate curriculum.

Feedforward Enhancement through Iterative Learning Control for Robotic Manipulator (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Covariance Pattern Search with Eigenvalue-determined Radii (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neri, F., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Covariance Pattern Search with Eigenvalue-determined Radii. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2021 (335-342). https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC45853.2021.9505002

Effective implementations of Memetic Algorithms often integrate, within their design, problem-based pieces of information. When no information is known, an efficient MA can still be designed after a preliminary analysis of the problem. This approach... Read More about Covariance Pattern Search with Eigenvalue-determined Radii.

Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Intent-Aware Predictive Haptic Guidance and its Application to Shared Control Teleoperation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ly, K. T., Poozhiyil, M., Pandya, H., Neumann, G., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2021). Intent-Aware Predictive Haptic Guidance and its Application to Shared Control Teleoperation. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (565-572). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515326

This paper presents a haptic shared control paradigm that modulates the level of robotic guidance, based on predictions of human motion intentions. The proposed method incorporates robot trajectories learned from human demonstrations and dynamically... Read More about Intent-Aware Predictive Haptic Guidance and its Application to Shared Control Teleoperation.

A Data Augmentation based DNN Approach for Outage-Constrained Robust Beamforming (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
You, M., Zheng, G., & Sun, H. (2021). A Data Augmentation based DNN Approach for Outage-Constrained Robust Beamforming. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500736

This paper studies the long-standing problem of outage-constrained robust downlink beamforming in multi-user multi-antenna wireless communications systems. State of the art solutions have very high computational complexity which poses a major challen... Read More about A Data Augmentation based DNN Approach for Outage-Constrained Robust Beamforming.

Deep Neural Networks for visual bridge inspections and defect visualisation in Civil Engineering (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bush, J., Corradi, T., Ninić, J., Thermou, G., & Bennetts, J. (2021). Deep Neural Networks for visual bridge inspections and defect visualisation in Civil Engineering. In J. Abualdenien, A. Borrmann, L.-C. Ungureanu, & T. Hartmann (Eds.), EG-ICE 2021 Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering (421-431)

Ageing infrastructure is a global concern, and current structural health monitoring practices are coming under review. With a view to streamline the visual bridge inspection process, we assess the classification performance of two Deep Neural Network... Read More about Deep Neural Networks for visual bridge inspections and defect visualisation in Civil Engineering.

Fourier optics modelling of coherence scanning interferometers (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
de Groot, P. J., Colonna de Lega, X., Su, R., Coupland, J., & Leach, R. K. (2021). Fourier optics modelling of coherence scanning interferometers. In SPIE OPTICAL ENGINEERING + APPLICATIONS. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595668

We propose an instrument model for coherence scanning interferometry using familiar Fourier optics methods, the spectrum of plane waves, and the assumption that the light source spectral bandwidth is the dominant factor in determining fringe contrast... Read More about Fourier optics modelling of coherence scanning interferometers.

FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, Q., Chen, X., Chen, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2021). FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/fuzz45933.2021.9494456

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in many application areas, due to the capability of automatically extracting and aggregating spatial and channel-wise features from images. Most recent studies have c... Read More about FuzzyDCNN: Incorporating Fuzzy Integral Layers to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation.