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A novel exoskeleton robotic system for hand rehabilitation - Conceptualization to prototyping (2014)
Journal Article
Iqbal, J., Khan, H., Tsagarakis, N. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2014). A novel exoskeleton robotic system for hand rehabilitation - Conceptualization to prototyping. Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, 34(2), 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbe.2014.01.003

This research presents a novel hand exoskeleton rehabilitation device to facilitate tendon therapy exercises. The exoskeleton is designed to assist fingers flexion and extension motions in a natural manner. The proposed multi-Degree Of Freedom (DOF)... Read More about A novel exoskeleton robotic system for hand rehabilitation - Conceptualization to prototyping.

Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes (2014)
Journal Article
Bouaziz, S., Deng, B., Deuss, M., Kaspar, A., Pauly, M., & Schwartzburg, Y. (2015). Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes. Computer aided design, 61, 13-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2014.01.004

In architectural design, surface shapes are commonly subject to geometric constraints imposed by material, fabrication or assembly. Rationalization algorithms can convert a freeform design into a form feasible for production, but often require design... Read More about Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes.

Colias: An autonomous micro robot for swarm robotic applications (2014)
Journal Article
Arvin, F., Murray, J., Zhang, C., & Yue, S. (2014). Colias: An autonomous micro robot for swarm robotic applications. International journal of advanced robotic systems, 11(1), 113. https://doi.org/10.5772/58730

Robotic swarms that take inspiration from nature are becoming a fascinating topic for multi-robot researchers. The aim is to control a large number of simple robots in order to solve common complex tasks. Due to the hardware complexities and cost of... Read More about Colias: An autonomous micro robot for swarm robotic applications.

Survey: A comparison of spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fanan, A., Riley, N., Mehdawi, M., Ammar, M., & Zolfaghari, M. (2014, January). Survey: A comparison of spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio. Presented at International Conference Image Processing, Computers and Industrial Engineering

In the present day Cognitive Radio has become a realistic option for solution of the spectrum scarcity problem in wireless communication. One of the most challenging issues in cognitive radio systems is spectrum sensing concepts, which is considered... Read More about Survey: A comparison of spectrum sensing techniques in cognitive radio.

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for situated natural language generation (2014)
Journal Article
Dethlefs, N., & Cuayáhuitl, H. (2015). Hierarchical reinforcement learning for situated natural language generation. Natural language engineering, 21(3), 391-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324913000375

Natural Language Generation systems in interactive settings often face a multitude of choices, given that the communicative effect of each utterance they generate depends crucially on the interplay between its physical circumstances, addressee and in... Read More about Hierarchical reinforcement learning for situated natural language generation.

A Spectrum Sensing Test Bed based on Matlab and USRP2 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammar, M., Mehdawi, M., Riley, N., Fanan, A., Paulson, K., & Zolfaghari, M. (2014, January). A Spectrum Sensing Test Bed based on Matlab and USRP2. Presented at International Conference on Machine Learning, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

— The spectrum monitoring has gained new aspects with development of the software defined radio SDR as its very important issue in the spectrum management area. In this paper a spectrum monitoring technique with SDR is proposed, the setup of the prot... Read More about A Spectrum Sensing Test Bed based on Matlab and USRP2.

Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Gordon, N., Walker, M., & Papadopoulos, Y. Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX, Brunów, Poland

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Most techniques for quantitatively analysing the temporal fault trees of safety-critical systems are used with the assumption that the systems under study have exponentially distributed component... Read More about Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions.

GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hong, Q., Wang, B., Li, Q., Li, Y., & Wu, Q. GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Wuhan, China

With the flooding datasets of medical Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), implicit modeling techniques are increasingly applied to reconstruct the human organs, especially the vasculature. However, displaying implicitly rep... Read More about GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures.

Design and comparison of two control strategies for multi-DOF articulated robotic arm manipulator (2014)
Journal Article
ul Islam, R., Iqbal, J., & Khan, Q. (2014). Design and comparison of two control strategies for multi-DOF articulated robotic arm manipulator. Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, 16(2), 28-39

This paper is aimed at mathematical modeling and design of a robust control strategy for a multi Degree Of Freedom (DOF) manipulator. A novel AUTonomous Articulated Robotic Educational Platform (AUTAREP), centered on a 6 DOF arm, is introduced in the... Read More about Design and comparison of two control strategies for multi-DOF articulated robotic arm manipulator.

Quantification of temporal fault trees based on fuzzy set theory (2014)
Journal Article
Kabir, S., Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. (2014). Quantification of temporal fault trees based on fuzzy set theory. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 286, 255-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07013-1_24

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Fault tree analysis (FTA) has been modified in different ways to make it capable of performing quantitative and qualitative safety analysis with temporal gates, thereby overcoming its limitation i... Read More about Quantification of temporal fault trees based on fuzzy set theory.