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The impact of impulsive voltage waveforms on the electrical insulation of actuators for more electrical aircraft (MEA) (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Cavallini, A., Lusaurdi, L., & Degano, M. (in press). The impact of impulsive voltage waveforms on the electrical insulation of actuators for more electrical aircraft (MEA).

To reduce the size and weight of aircraft actuators, wide band-gap semiconductor devices (SiC and GaN) are the most promising solution. These devices have switching times well below those of silicon devices. Very short rise times may enhance the elec... Read More about The impact of impulsive voltage waveforms on the electrical insulation of actuators for more electrical aircraft (MEA).

Indirect predictive control strategy with fixed switching frequency for a direct matrix converter (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Tariscotti, L., Wheeler, P., & Bayhan, S. (in press). Indirect predictive control strategy with fixed switching frequency for a direct matrix converter.

The direct matrix converter has a large number of available switching states which implies that the implementation of predictive control techniques in this converter requires high computational cost while an adequate selection of weighting factors in... Read More about Indirect predictive control strategy with fixed switching frequency for a direct matrix converter.

Processing and properties of PLA-HA nanocomposites: The effect of particle morphology and dispersants (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Tomczynska, M. M., Ward, M., Choong, G. Y. H., Walton, K., De Focatiis, D. S. A., Grant, D. M., …Parsons, A. J. (2017). Processing and properties of PLA-HA nanocomposites: The effect of particle morphology and dispersants. In Proceedings of PPS-32: The 32nd International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society - Conference Papers (150004-1 - 150004-5). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5016781

Biodegradable polylactic acid nanocomposites for orthopaedic implants require optimum particle dispersion and high molecular weight in load bearing applications. Novel coated hydroxyapatite nanoparticles can offer new opportunities for enhanced dispe... Read More about Processing and properties of PLA-HA nanocomposites: The effect of particle morphology and dispersants.

Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wheeler, P., Blissett, J., & Gimeno-Fabra, M. (2017). Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike.

The electric superbikes recently developed at The University of Nottingham have to be considered as a high performance vehicles, competing with its internal combustion engine driven counterparts. This paper presents the motivations for this work as w... Read More about Electric superbike racing: the design and construction of a championship winning electric superbike.

Indirect model predictive control strategies with input filter resonance mitigation for a matrix converter operating at fixed switching frequency (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Nikolic, A., Tarisciotti, L., & Wheeler, P. (2017). Indirect model predictive control strategies with input filter resonance mitigation for a matrix converter operating at fixed switching frequency.

The main issues of the implementation of model predictive control in a direct matrix converter are the high com¬putational cost, the adequate selection of weighting factors and the variable switching frequency which could produce resonances in the in... Read More about Indirect model predictive control strategies with input filter resonance mitigation for a matrix converter operating at fixed switching frequency.

Application of machine learning for fuel consumption modelling of trucks (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Perrotta, F., Parry, T., & Neves, L. C. (2017). Application of machine learning for fuel consumption modelling of trucks.

This paper presents the application of three Machine Learning techniques to fuel consumption modelling of articulated trucks for a large dataset. In particular, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) mod... Read More about Application of machine learning for fuel consumption modelling of trucks.

Comparison of Three Speed Loop Designs for a High Speed Nine-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine in More Electric Aircraft (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Tang, M., Chen, Y., Yang, T., & Ilkhani, M. (2022). Comparison of Three Speed Loop Designs for a High Speed Nine-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine in More Electric Aircraft. In IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968549

A high speed nine phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) has been designed for more electric aircraft (MEA) for the sake of high power density and fault-tolerant capability. This paper addresses the speed loop design of the high speed PMSM... Read More about Comparison of Three Speed Loop Designs for a High Speed Nine-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine in More Electric Aircraft.

A semi-flooded cooling for a high speed machine: Concept, design and practice of an oil sleeve (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, Z., La Rocca, A., Arumugam, P., Pickering, S. J., Gerada, C., Bozhko, S., …Zhang, H. (2017). A semi-flooded cooling for a high speed machine: Concept, design and practice of an oil sleeve. In Proceedings IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (8557-8562). https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2017.8217503

This paper proposes a semi-flooded cooling concept for a high speed machine design. The electrical machine considered is for an aircraft starter-generator system where power density and efficiency are crucial. In order to achieve the high power densi... Read More about A semi-flooded cooling for a high speed machine: Concept, design and practice of an oil sleeve.

Effective parallelisation for machine learning (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kamp, M., Boley, M., Missura, O., & Gärtner, T. (2017). Effective parallelisation for machine learning.

We present a novel parallelisation scheme that simplifies the adaptation of learning algorithms to growing amounts of data as well as growing needs for accurate and confident predictions in critical applications. In contrast to other parallelisation... Read More about Effective parallelisation for machine learning.

A new AC/AC power converter (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Nasir, U., Costabeber, A., Wheeler, P., & Rivera, M. (2017). A new AC/AC power converter.

The Future Electrical Network will be based on the integration of different renewable energy sources. In this regard, modular bidirectional power converter architectures will get special attention. Galvanic isolation in such power converter architect... Read More about A new AC/AC power converter.

Abstract modelling: towards a typed declarative language for the conceptual modelling phase (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Legatiuk, D., & Nilsson, H. (2017). Abstract modelling: towards a typed declarative language for the conceptual modelling phase.

Modelling languages have become an indispensable aid to practising engineers. They offer modelling at a high level of abstraction backed by features such as automatic simulation and even derivation of production code. However, partly because of the o... Read More about Abstract modelling: towards a typed declarative language for the conceptual modelling phase.

TICH-2 Trial – Tranexamic Acid for Intracerebral Haemorrhage 2 (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Sprigg, N., Bath, P. M., Appleton, J., Law, Z., Flaherty, K., Scutt, P., …Ali, A. (2017). TICH-2 Trial – Tranexamic Acid for Intracerebral Haemorrhage 2.

Rationale: To assess in a pragmatic phase III prospective double blind randomised placebo-controlled trial whether tranexamic acid is safe and reduces death or dependency after spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (SICH). The results will determine... Read More about TICH-2 Trial – Tranexamic Acid for Intracerebral Haemorrhage 2.

Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Pantidi, N., Selinas, P., Flintham, M., Baurley, S., & Rodden, T. (2017). Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation.

Consumer demand for food that satisfies specific needs rather than generic mass produced food is growing. In response, the food industry is actively investigating techniques for efficient and comprehensive food customisation. Digital approaches to fo... Read More about Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation.

Effects of cover crops on phosphatase activity in a clay arable soil in the UK (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Reynolds, S., Ritz, K., Crotty, F., Stoate, C., West, H., & Neal, A. L. (2017). Effects of cover crops on phosphatase activity in a clay arable soil in the UK. In Sustainable intensification at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts UK on 28-30 November 2017 (215-220)

The effect of five cover crop species (radish, buckwheat, vetch, phacelia and oat) alongside an un-cropped control, on the activity and persistence of soil acid and alkaline phosphatase activity was investigated. There was no effect on alkaline phosp... Read More about Effects of cover crops on phosphatase activity in a clay arable soil in the UK.

Extended Kalman filter-based learning of interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Eyoh, I., John, R., & De Maere, G. (2017). Extended Kalman filter-based learning of interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (728-733). https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2017.8122694

Fuzzy logic systems have been extensively applied for solving many real world application problems because they are found to be universal approximators and many methods, particularly, gradient descent (GD) methods have been widely adopted for the opt... Read More about Extended Kalman filter-based learning of interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system.

Archives of thrill: The V-Armchair experience (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Passmore, P. J., Tennent, P., Walker, B., Philpot, A., Le, H., Markowski, M., & Karamanoglu, M. (2017). Archives of thrill: The V-Armchair experience. In ICAT-EGVE 2017 : International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (125-132). https://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20171349

Technology for older people is typically concerned either with health care or accessibility of existing systems. In this paper we take a more 'entertainment-oriented' approach to developing experiences aimed at older users. We describe here the desig... Read More about Archives of thrill: The V-Armchair experience.

Maximum torque-per-amp tracking control of saturated induction motors (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Peresada, S., Kovbasa, S., Dymko, S., & Bozhko, S. (2017). Maximum torque-per-amp tracking control of saturated induction motors. In 2017 Proceedings of the International Conference on Modern Electrical and Energy Systems (MEES) (72-75). https://doi.org/10.1109/MEES.2017.8248955

An improved maximum torque per Ampere (MTPA) controller for induction motor (IM) drives is presented. The proposed MTPA field oriented controller guarantees asymptotic torque tracking of smooth reference trajectories and maximises the torque per Ampe... Read More about Maximum torque-per-amp tracking control of saturated induction motors.

High strength steel tubular X-joints—an experimental insight under axial compression (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Pandey, M., & Young, B. (2017). High strength steel tubular X-joints—an experimental insight under axial compression. In Tubular Structures XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium for Tubular Structures (ISTS 2017, 4-6 December 2017, Melbourne, Australia) (223-230). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351210843-27

The paper describes a test program on cold-formed high strength steel tubular X-joints. The nominal yield strength of the tubular material was 960 MPa. The fabricated joints include the braces and chord made up of rectangular and square hollow sectio... Read More about High strength steel tubular X-joints—an experimental insight under axial compression.

THCluster: herb supplements categorization for precision traditional Chinese medicine (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Ruan, C., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Ma, J., Chen, H., Aickelin, U., …Zhang, T. (2017). THCluster: herb supplements categorization for precision traditional Chinese medicine.

There has been a continuing demand for traditional and complementary medicine worldwide. A fundamental and important topic in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is to optimize the prescription and to detect herb regularities from TCM data. In this pa... Read More about THCluster: herb supplements categorization for precision traditional Chinese medicine.

The NoXi database: multimodal recordings of mediated novice-expert interactions (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Cafaro, A., Wagner, J., Baur, T., Dermouche, S., Torres, M. T., Pelachaud, C., …Valstar, M. F. (2017). The NoXi database: multimodal recordings of mediated novice-expert interactions.

We present a novel multi-lingual database of natural dyadic novice-expert interactions, named NoXi, featuring screen-mediated dyadic human interactions in the context of information exchange and retrieval. NoXi is designed to provide spontaneous inte... Read More about The NoXi database: multimodal recordings of mediated novice-expert interactions.