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An experimental investigation of the effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, Z., Yan, Y., & Magnini, M. (2023). An experimental investigation of the effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation. . https://doi.org/10.1615/IHTC17.130-110

As one of the most common phenomena in nature, droplet evaporation has become a major heat transfer mode and is used widely in industries and scientific fields. For a sessile droplet, the wettability of the substrate surface could make a significant... Read More about An experimental investigation of the effect of surface roughness on sessile droplet evaporation.

BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Qazzaz, I., Osorio-Sandoval, C., Tokbolat, S., & Thermou, G. (2023). BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (130-137)

The construction sector contributes substantially to the consumption of raw materials and the production of waste. Traditional building design strategies are based on an unsustainable economic linear model. Transition to the circular economy (CE) par... Read More about BIM-based building circularity assessment: conceptual framework.

Comparison of approximate methods for modelling coherence scanning interferometry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hooshmand, H., Pahl, T., de Groot, P. J., Lehmann, P., Pappas, A., Su, R., …Piano, S. (2023). Comparison of approximate methods for modelling coherence scanning interferometry. Proceedings of SPIE, 12619, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2673657

Coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) is a widely used optical method for surface topography measurement of industrial and biomedical surfaces. The operation of CSI can be modelled using approximate physics-based approaches with minimal computation... Read More about Comparison of approximate methods for modelling coherence scanning interferometry.

Electrical resistivity tomography to measure and monitor hydrodynamic heterogeneities in a Malawian agricultural alfisol (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swift, R., Boyd, J., Chambers, J., Wilkinson, P., Sandram, I., Magwero, N., …Lark, M. (2023). Electrical resistivity tomography to measure and monitor hydrodynamic heterogeneities in a Malawian agricultural alfisol. In NSG2023 2nd Conference on Hydrogeophysics, Volume 2023. https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202320106

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an agricultural method that has been shown to provide crop resilience to drought. In order to better understand the hydrodynamics in soils cultivated using CA, we installed geophysical monitoring equipment and co-loca... Read More about Electrical resistivity tomography to measure and monitor hydrodynamic heterogeneities in a Malawian agricultural alfisol.

Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Caruana, R., Bianchi, L., & Shivji, A. (2023, August). Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women. Presented at 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts

Women experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, vulnerability and marginalization and they are often unequal victims of unethical and illicit ‘business’ practices. Systematic exploitation of structural, social, physical and other... Read More about Restoring Human Rights : Dialogical Stakeholder Engagement for Marginalized Women.

Uncertainty analysis of an augmented industrial robot (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khanesar, M. A., Piano, S., & Branson, D. (in press). Uncertainty analysis of an augmented industrial robot.

Industrial robots are often used in additive manufacturing (AM) environments to automate the process of creating complex parts and structures. One example of an industrial robot used in AM is for wire and arc additive manufacturing. This process invo... Read More about Uncertainty analysis of an augmented industrial robot.

Frequency Analysis of Monopiles with Masing-Type Hysteresis Damping Under Large-Strain Cyclic Loading (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tott-Buswell, J., Hilton, J., Berberic, S., Jalbi, S., & Prendergast, L. J. (2023). Frequency Analysis of Monopiles with Masing-Type Hysteresis Damping Under Large-Strain Cyclic Loading. In Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (232-241). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39109-5_24

Offshore wind turbines supported by monopiles have demonstrated their suitability to meet sustainable energy goals. However, there remains uncertainty about how long these foundations can stay operating within serviceable deflection limits after many... Read More about Frequency Analysis of Monopiles with Masing-Type Hysteresis Damping Under Large-Strain Cyclic Loading.

A Statistical Approach to Predict the Low Frequency Common Mode Current in Multi-Converter setups (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ballukja, E., Niewiadomski, K., Thomas, D., Sumsurooah, S., Sumner, M., & Bojarski, J. (2023). A Statistical Approach to Predict the Low Frequency Common Mode Current in Multi-Converter setups. In 2023 IEEE Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Signal/Power Integrity (EMC+ SIPI) (7-12). https://doi.org/10.1109/EMCSIPI50001.2023.10241644

The aim of this paper is to explore a statistical approach to predict the distribution of the harmonics of common mode current in a setup consisting of N converters, knowing the common mode current for a single converter. To this end, we utilize Pear... Read More about A Statistical Approach to Predict the Low Frequency Common Mode Current in Multi-Converter setups.

Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Le, T. H. V., Gillott, M., & Rodrigues, L. (2023). Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. E3S Web of Conferences, 403, Article 04007. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202340304007

Overheating of premises is a typical thermal discomfort issue in naturally ventilated primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Several design parameters were shown to affect the indoor thermal environment. A parametric study was conducted and ba... Read More about Parametric study of design parameters and thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligence Surfaces at Wireless Endpoints using the Ising Hamiltonian Model (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ross, C., Lim, Q., You, M., Gradoni, G., & Peng, Z. (2023, July). Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligence Surfaces at Wireless Endpoints using the Ising Hamiltonian Model. Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (2023), Portland, Oregon, USA

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) based on discrete meta-surfaces with tunable elements has been widely studied in wireless communication and electromagnetics communities. Researchers have devoted substantial efforts to investigating large... Read More about Combinatorial Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligence Surfaces at Wireless Endpoints using the Ising Hamiltonian Model.

Generative AI Considered Harmful (2023)
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Fischer, J. E. (2023). Generative AI Considered Harmful. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3571884.3603756

The recent months have seen an explosion of interest, hype, and concern about generative AI, driven by the release of ChatGPT. In this article I seek to explicate some potential and actual harms of the engineering and use of generative AI such as Cha... Read More about Generative AI Considered Harmful.

RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2023). RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3571884.3597137

Building effective voice interfaces for the instruction of service robots in specialised environments is difficult due to the local knowledge of workers, such as specific terminology for objects and space, leading to limited data to train language mo... Read More about RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments.

Dual Phase Shift Modulation Investigation of Half-Bridge-Active-Clamp Converter for Future Electrified Aircraft Applications (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yan, X., Zhu, Y., Wang, Z., Yang, T., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. (2023). Dual Phase Shift Modulation Investigation of Half-Bridge-Active-Clamp Converter for Future Electrified Aircraft Applications. In 2023 IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics for Aerospace Applications (PEASA). https://doi.org/10.1109/PEASA58318.2023.10235704

Half bridge active clamp (HBAC) converter is designed for the achievement of a wider voltage conversion range, and it is employed to interface the power transfer between the high voltage and low voltage DC buses in future electrified aircraft applica... Read More about Dual Phase Shift Modulation Investigation of Half-Bridge-Active-Clamp Converter for Future Electrified Aircraft Applications.

Control Strategy of Advanced Power Generation Architecture for More-Electric Aircraft Applications (2023)
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Bai, G., Yang, T., Yeoh, S. S., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. (2023). Control Strategy of Advanced Power Generation Architecture for More-Electric Aircraft Applications. In 2023 IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics for Aerospace Applications (PEASA). https://doi.org/10.1109/PEASA58318.2023.10235443

To meet the increasing electrical power demand on More Electrical Aircraft (MEA), an advanced power generation architecture (APGA) is proposed. Within the APGA, both two generators produce electrical power and feed loads to the main DC bus through th... Read More about Control Strategy of Advanced Power Generation Architecture for More-Electric Aircraft Applications.

Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis and Optimisation of a Wound Field Synchronous Motor for Traction Applications (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Petrelli, G., Nuzzo, S., Barater, D., Zou, T., Franceschini, G., & Gerada, C. (2023). Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis and Optimisation of a Wound Field Synchronous Motor for Traction Applications. In 2023 AEIT International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE). https://doi.org/10.23919/aeitautomotive58986.2023.10217237

The automotive field is switching to electric propulsion to guarantee a more efficient and sustainable transportation. Several motor configurations can be adopted for this purpose. Permanent magnet-based motors are usually preferred, but they are the... Read More about Preliminary Sensitivity Analysis and Optimisation of a Wound Field Synchronous Motor for Traction Applications.

Sequential Rule Mining for Automated Design of Meta-heuristics (2023)
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Meng, W., & Qu, R. (2023). Sequential Rule Mining for Automated Design of Meta-heuristics. In GECCO’23 Companion: Proceedings of the 2023 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (1727-1735). https://doi.org/10.1145/3583133.3596303

With a recently defined AutoGCOP framework, the design of local search algorithms can be defined as the composition of the basic elementary algorithmic components. These compositions into the best algorithms thus retain useful knowledge of effective... Read More about Sequential Rule Mining for Automated Design of Meta-heuristics.

Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling (2023)
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Martínez-Arellano, G., Niewiadomski, K., Mo, F., Elshafei, B., Chaplin, J. C., Mcfarlane, D., & Ratchev, S. (2023). Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling.

Resilience to supply chain disruptions and to changing product volumes and specifications are currently major challenges for the manufacturing sector. To maintain quality and productivity, manufacturers need to be able to respond to disruption using... Read More about Enabling Coordinated Elastic Responses of Manufacturing Systems through Semantic Modelling.

Using a Knowledge Café approach as a public engagement activity for raising awareness of data protection issues in robotics for health and social care (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piskopani, A. M., Webb, H., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023). Using a Knowledge Café approach as a public engagement activity for raising awareness of data protection issues in robotics for health and social care. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599700

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) offers the opportunity to ameliorate the quality of life for people with health issues. However, there are still considerable barriers linked to the lack of acceptance of these technologies, particularly as... Read More about Using a Knowledge Café approach as a public engagement activity for raising awareness of data protection issues in robotics for health and social care.

An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing (2023)
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Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Patel, M., Zhao, J., & Creswick, H. (2023). An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing. In TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599708

Internet users often report feelings of stress, anxiety, and a lack of control, often related to uncertainty about the use of algorithms and autonomous systems (AS) behind what they encounter. This may lead to a loss of trust in the services, content... Read More about An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing.