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Impact of thermal overload on the insulation aging in short duty cycle motors for aerospace (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Madonna, V., Giangrande, P., Lusuardi, L., Cavallini, A., & Galea, M. (2018). Impact of thermal overload on the insulation aging in short duty cycle motors for aerospace. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607539

Electric motors for aerospace applications are often characterised by short-time duty rather than continuous-duty operations. Some of the main requirements for these machines are high torque density and reliability. Considerable torque density improv... Read More about Impact of thermal overload on the insulation aging in short duty cycle motors for aerospace.

A Review of Torque Ripple Minimization Techniques in Switched Reluctance Machine (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Velmurugan, G., Bozhko, S., & Yang, T. (2018). A Review of Torque Ripple Minimization Techniques in Switched Reluctance Machine. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607614

Torque ripple is a major problem in Switched Reluctance Machine (SRM). Despite the high torque ripple and vibration, SRM has many advantages over many other machines. In this paper, the torque ripple minimization control techniques commonly used are... Read More about A Review of Torque Ripple Minimization Techniques in Switched Reluctance Machine.

A Twin Spool Engine Emulator for the Study of Power Exchange Idea (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Enalou, H. B., Rashed, M., Kulsangcharoen, P., Chowdhury, S., & Bozhko, S. (2018). A Twin Spool Engine Emulator for the Study of Power Exchange Idea. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607540

The More Electric Aircraft (MEA) engine, with electrical machines on both HP and LP shafts, makes it possible to transfer power electrically from one spool to another. Preliminary results have shown considerable improvement in turbofan performance in... Read More about A Twin Spool Engine Emulator for the Study of Power Exchange Idea.

Design and Evaluation of a Power Converter for an Energy Storage System for Aircrafts (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Klumpner, C., & Rashed, M. (2018). Design and Evaluation of a Power Converter for an Energy Storage System for Aircrafts. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607274

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a power converter to be used in an energy storage system for aircrafts that is be able to control the 270V dc bus voltage during large load disturbances and regeneration. A study is conducted in order... Read More about Design and Evaluation of a Power Converter for an Energy Storage System for Aircrafts.

High Frequency Harmonic Current Generator for More Electric Aircraft Based on GaN HFETs (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, M., Fan, B., Xu, L., Kuiwang, K., Zheng, Z., Li, Y., …Li, J. (2018). High Frequency Harmonic Current Generator for More Electric Aircraft Based on GaN HFETs. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607717

© 2018 IEEE. With the development of more electric aircraft (MEA), the number of power electronic equipment and variable frequency electrical loads are increasing rapidly, which leads to challenges in terms of power quality of aircraft power system.... Read More about High Frequency Harmonic Current Generator for More Electric Aircraft Based on GaN HFETs.

Thermal Analysis of High Power High Voltage DC Solid State Power Controller (SSPC) for Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor-craft (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Adhikari, J., Yang, T., Zhang, J., Rashed, M., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. (2018). Thermal Analysis of High Power High Voltage DC Solid State Power Controller (SSPC) for Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor-craft. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607314

This paper explores different possible topologies of a high-power high-voltage bidirectional DC solid state power controller (SSPC) for aerospace applications. The most suitable topology is then selected for design and implementation of the SSPC. A d... Read More about Thermal Analysis of High Power High Voltage DC Solid State Power Controller (SSPC) for Next Generation Civil Tilt Rotor-craft.

Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rosli Razak, T. R., Garibaldi, J. M., Wagner, C., Pourabdollah, A., & Soria, D. (2018). Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE-SSCI 2018) (420-426). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2018.8628924

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly more interested in designing an interpretable Fuzzy Logic System (FLS). Many studies have claimed that reducing the complexity of FLSs can lead to improved model interpretability. That is, reducin... Read More about Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study.

Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., & Benford, S. (2018). Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences. In PCI '18: Proceedings of the 22nd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (278-281). https://doi.org/10.1145/3291533.3291588

In this paper we present the creation and deployment of a concerted set of Mixed Reality Technologies designed for creating engaging public experiences and enhanced storytelling opportunities focused on artefacts. Under the title of the Mixed Reality... Read More about Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences.

Automation of systematic reviews (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Shokraneh, F. (2018). Automation of systematic reviews. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.36649.03681

Resource-taking and time-consuming systematic review process motivated the scientists to consider outsourcing part of the burden to the computer programs. Although the automation of systematic reviews has not happened yet, however, worldwide efforts... Read More about Automation of systematic reviews.

Passive adaptive façades: examples from COST TU1403 Working Group 1 (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mazzucchelli, E. S., Romano, R., Aelenei, L., Da, M., Gomes, G., Karlessi, T., …Aelenei, D. (2018). Passive adaptive façades: examples from COST TU1403 Working Group 1. In N/a

Buildings often adopt strategies based on the integration of solutions and technologies in façades capable of changing their behaviour in time to improve energy efficiency and comfort. Considering that the envelope is the main parameter that influenc... Read More about Passive adaptive façades: examples from COST TU1403 Working Group 1.

Possible benefits of capillary flow glazing in translucent wall elements (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Nestle, N., Pulbere, S., & Alston, M. (2018). Possible benefits of capillary flow glazing in translucent wall elements. In N/a

In many cases, artificial lighting and cooling are the two main factors for energy consumption in office buildings. This is even true for fully glazed buildings where directly transmitted natural light often needs to be controlled by shading in order... Read More about Possible benefits of capillary flow glazing in translucent wall elements.

S55 Effect of electronic cigarette extraction on vasoactive gene expression in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle and endothelial cells (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Alqarni, A., Brand, O., Pasini, A., Alshehri, M., & Pang, L. (2018). S55 Effect of electronic cigarette extraction on vasoactive gene expression in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle and endothelial cells. In Thorax: An International Journal of Respiratory Medicine - British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2018, 5 to 7 December 2018, Programme and Abstracts (Suppl 4: S55). https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2018-212555.61

Introduction Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is a common and serious complication of COPD. We previously demonstrated that Cigarette Smoke Extracts (CSE) induced imbalanced vasoactive gene expression in human Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells (hPASMCs... Read More about S55 Effect of electronic cigarette extraction on vasoactive gene expression in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle and endothelial cells.

Selective harmonic elimination in cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter using genetic algorithm approach (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Hosseinzadeh, M. A., Sarbanzadeh, M., Salgueiro, Y., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. (in press). Selective harmonic elimination in cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter using genetic algorithm approach

—Multilevel inverters are worked on medium-voltage and high-power applications due to their ability to supply high power quality output voltage. Hence, a low switching frequency strategy is applied in high power applications since it generates lower... Read More about Selective harmonic elimination in cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter using genetic algorithm approach.

Effect of Parameters Variability on the Performance of SiC MOSFET Modules (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Borghese, A., Riccio, M., Breglio, G., Fayyaz, A., Castellazzi, A., Irace, A., & Marese, L. (2018). Effect of Parameters Variability on the Performance of SiC MOSFET Modules. In Proceedings on 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC) (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607593

This paper introduces a statistical analysis of the impact of devices parameters dispersion on the performances of parallel connected SiC MOSFETs. To this purpose, the statistical fluctuations of threshold voltage and current factor are evaluated on... Read More about Effect of Parameters Variability on the Performance of SiC MOSFET Modules.

Experimental study of power exchange using a twin spool engine emulator (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Enalou, H. B., Rashed, M., Kulsangcharoen, P., Chowdhury, S., & Bozhko, S. (2018). Experimental study of power exchange using a twin spool engine emulator

The More Electric Aircraft (MEA) nad , with electrical machines on both HP and LP shafts and the advancements in power electronics, makes it possible to transfer power electrically from one spool to another. Preliminary results have shown considerabl... Read More about Experimental study of power exchange using a twin spool engine emulator.

A classification-regression deep learning model for people counting (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, B., Zou, W., Garibaldi, J., & Qiu, G. (2018). A classification-regression deep learning model for people counting. In K. Arai, S. Kapoor, & R. Bhatia (Eds.), Intelligent Systems and Applications Proceedings of the 2018 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) Volume 1 (136-149). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01054-6_9

In this paper, we construct a multi-task deep learning model to simultaneously predict people number and the level of crowd density. Motivated by the success of applying " ambiguous labelling " to age estimation problem, we also manage to employ this... Read More about A classification-regression deep learning model for people counting.

Potential improvements in turbofan idle steady state and transient performance (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Enalou, H. B., Rashed, M., & Bozhko, S. (2018). Potential improvements in turbofan idle steady state and transient performance

Once the engine is designed, imbalanced air massflow between LP and HP compressors at low speed settings is inevitable which enforces implementing of bleeding. However, by emerging More Electric Aircraft (MEA) with electrical machines on both HP and... Read More about Potential improvements in turbofan idle steady state and transient performance.

Model Predictive Control Based PID Controller for PMSM for Propulsion Systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abdelrauf, A. A., Saad, W. W., Hebala, A., & Galea, M. (2018). Model Predictive Control Based PID Controller for PMSM for Propulsion Systems. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles and International Transportation Electrification Conference, ESARS-ITEC 2018 (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607585

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is one of the most suitable controllers for industrial applications, especially for constrained systems. However, it requires high computational burden, which is considered as the main drawback. Proportional Integral De... Read More about Model Predictive Control Based PID Controller for PMSM for Propulsion Systems.

Deep learning approaches to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul: a review (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rengasami, D., Morvan, H., & Patrocinio Figueredo, G. (2018). Deep learning approaches to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul: a review. In 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569502

The use of sensor technology constantly gathering aircrafts' status data has promoted the rapid development of data-driven solutions in aerospace engineering. These methods assist, for instance, with determining appropriate actions for aircraft maint... Read More about Deep learning approaches to aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul: a review.

3L-NPC AC-DC power converter using virtual space vector PWM with optimal switching sequence based on G-h coordinate (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Guo, F., Yang, T., Bozhko, S., & Wheeler, P. (2018). 3L-NPC AC-DC power converter using virtual space vector PWM with optimal switching sequence based on G-h coordinate. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC)