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The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, N., Brayshaw, M., Dixon, J., Grey, S., & Parker, D. (2021, June). The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle. Presented at INSPIRE XXVI International e-conference, Online

Teaching Software Engineering students raises a number of challenges; in particular that student developers typically demonstrate behaviours that run counter to good software development. These include failing to plan properly, failing to develop the... Read More about The Role of Gamification in a Software Development Lifecycle.

Terminal sliding mode control of an anthropomorphic manipulator with friction based observer (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, K., Mehmood, A., & Iqbal, J. (2021, October). Terminal sliding mode control of an anthropomorphic manipulator with friction based observer. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Rawalpindi, Pakistan

The role of modern control techniques has been instrumental in today’s robotic applications because of their increasing requirements for reliability, accuracy, productivity and repeatability. Robotic manipulators are highly non-linear systems with co... Read More about Terminal sliding mode control of an anthropomorphic manipulator with friction based observer.

Using Proximity Graph Cut for Fast and Robust Instance-Based Classification in Large Datasets (2021)
Journal Article
Protasov, S., & Khan, A. M. (2021). Using Proximity Graph Cut for Fast and Robust Instance-Based Classification in Large Datasets. Complexity, 2021, Article 2011738. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/2011738

K-nearest neighbours (kNN) is a very popular instance-based classifier due to its simplicity and good empirical performance. However, large-scale datasets are a big problem for building fast and compact neighbourhood-based classifiers. This work pres... Read More about Using Proximity Graph Cut for Fast and Robust Instance-Based Classification in Large Datasets.

NEAT Activity Detection using Smartwatch at Low Sampling Frequency (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dewan, A., Gunturi, V. M., Naik, V., & Dutta, K. K. (2021, October). NEAT Activity Detection using Smartwatch at Low Sampling Frequency. Presented at 2021 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Internet of People, and Smart City Innovations, SmartWorld/ScalCom/UIC/ATC/IoP/SCI 2021, Atlanta, GA, USA

Our paper aims to build a classification model to discern the typical NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis) activities done in a home setting. The concept of NEAT is broadly defined as the energy spent in everything which is not sleeping, eating... Read More about NEAT Activity Detection using Smartwatch at Low Sampling Frequency.

Use Case of Building an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kureshi, R. R., Thakker, D., Mishra, B. K., & Ahmed, B. (2021, June). Use Case of Building an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System. Presented at 7th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2021, New Orleans, USA

On average, we spend around 90% of the time in indoor environments. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has been receiving increased attention from the environmental bodies, local authorities and citizens as it is becoming clearer that poor IAQ has public healt... Read More about Use Case of Building an Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System.

Robust fuzzy sliding mode controller for a skid-steered vehicle subjected to friction variations (2021)
Journal Article
Mehmood, Y., Aslam, J., Ullah, N., Alsheikhy, A. A., Din, E. U., & Iqbal, J. (2021). Robust fuzzy sliding mode controller for a skid-steered vehicle subjected to friction variations. PLoS ONE, 16(11), Article 0258909. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258909

Skid-steered vehicles (SSV) are gaining huge importance in the market due to their applications like construction, agricultural work, material handling etc. The accuracy of performing such tasks require a robust control algorithm. The design of such... Read More about Robust fuzzy sliding mode controller for a skid-steered vehicle subjected to friction variations.

Unscented Kalman filter for airship model uncertainties and wind disturbance estimation (2021)
Journal Article
Wasim, M., Ali, A., Ahmad Choudhry, M., Saleem, F., Shaikh, I. U. H., & Iqbal, J. (2021). Unscented Kalman filter for airship model uncertainties and wind disturbance estimation. PLoS ONE, 16(11 November), Article e0257849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257849

An airship is lighter than an air vehicle with enormous potential in applications such as communication, aerial inspection, border surveillance, and precision agriculture. An airship model is made up of dynamic, aerodynamic, aerostatic, and propulsiv... Read More about Unscented Kalman filter for airship model uncertainties and wind disturbance estimation.

Control of an anthropomorphic manipulator using LuGre friction model - Design and experimental validation (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, K., Mehmood, A., Muhammad, I., Razzaq, S., & Iqbal, J. (2021). Control of an anthropomorphic manipulator using LuGre friction model - Design and experimental validation. Strojniški vestnik - Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 67(9), 401-410. https://doi.org/10.5545/sv-jme.2021.7258

Automation technology has been extensively recognized as an emerging field in various industrial applications. Recent breakthrough in flexible automation is primarily due to deployment of robotic arms or manipulators. Autonomy in these manipulators i... Read More about Control of an anthropomorphic manipulator using LuGre friction model - Design and experimental validation.

Optimization of fuzzy logic quadrotor attitude controller - particle swarm, Cuckoo search and BAT algorithms (2021)
Journal Article
Siddiq Zatout, M., Rezoug, A., Rezoug, A., Baizid, K., & Iqbal, J. (2021). Optimization of fuzzy logic quadrotor attitude controller - particle swarm, Cuckoo search and BAT algorithms. International Journal of Systems Science, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2021.1978012

Bio-inspired optimisation algorithms have recently attracted much attention in the control community. Most of these algorithms mimic particular behaviours of some animal species in such a way that allows solving optimisation problems. The present pap... Read More about Optimization of fuzzy logic quadrotor attitude controller - particle swarm, Cuckoo search and BAT algorithms.

Predicting personalised optimal arc parameter using knowledge-based planning model for inoperable locally advanced lung cancer patients to reduce organ at risk doses (2021)
Journal Article
Tambe, N. S., Pires, I. M., Moore, C., Wieczorek, A., Upadhyay, S., & Beavis, A. W. (2021). Predicting personalised optimal arc parameter using knowledge-based planning model for inoperable locally advanced lung cancer patients to reduce organ at risk doses. Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, 7(6), Article 065016. https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/ac2635

Objectives. Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) allows for reduction of organs at risk (OAR) volumes receiving higher doses, but increases OAR volumes receiving lower radiation doses and can subsequently increasing associated toxicity. Therefore,... Read More about Predicting personalised optimal arc parameter using knowledge-based planning model for inoperable locally advanced lung cancer patients to reduce organ at risk doses.