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Multi-objective architecture optimisation modelling for dependable systems (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., & Bottaci, L. (2013). Multi-objective architecture optimisation modelling for dependable systems. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 4(22), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.3182/20130904-3-UK-4041.00033

The design of dependable systems must address both cost and dependability (i.e. safety, reliability, availability and maintainability) concerns. For large systems, the design space of alternatives with respect to both dependability and cost is very l... Read More about Multi-objective architecture optimisation modelling for dependable systems.

Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing with multi-bit hard decision in cognitive radio (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehdawi, M. A., Riley, N. G., Ammar, M., Fanan, A., & Zolfaghari, M. (2013). Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing with multi-bit hard decision in cognitive radio. . https://doi.org/10.1109/TELFOR.2013.6716212

Cognitive radio offers an increasingly attractive solution to overcome the underutilization problem. A sensor network based cooperative wideband spectrum sensing is proposed in this paper. The purpose of the sensor network is to determine the frequen... Read More about Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing with multi-bit hard decision in cognitive radio.

Automatic generation of Temporal Fault Trees from AADL models (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, N., & Mian, Z. (2014). Automatic generation of Temporal Fault Trees from AADL models. In R. Steenbergen, P. VanGelder, S. Miraglia, & A. Vrouwenvelder (Eds.), Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis : Beyond the Horizon (2741-2749). https://doi.org/10.1201/b15938

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is gaining growing acceptance in the aerospace, automobile and avionics industries. These industries are increasingly concerned with systems exhibiting sequence-dependent failures. About dependabil... Read More about Automatic generation of Temporal Fault Trees from AADL models.

The technology supported assessment model: a proposal for FIT in HNUE (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, T. C., & Gordon, N. (2013). The technology supported assessment model: a proposal for FIT in HNUE. In D. Graham (Ed.),

The student learning assessment systems used in many Vietnamese universities do not utilise technology enhanced learning. Therefore, assessment systems take up a lot of time, and require manual human intervention. Moreover, the benefits of active lea... Read More about The technology supported assessment model: a proposal for FIT in HNUE.

Robotics for nuclear power plants - Challenges and future perspectives (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iqbal, J., Tahir, A. M., Ul Islam, R., & Riaz-Un-Nabi. (2013). Robotics for nuclear power plants - Challenges and future perspectives. In 2012 2nd International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI) (151-156). https://doi.org/10.1109/CARPI.2012.6473373

Use of robotics and computerized tools in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) has been identified as a highly recommended practice by IAEA. The key rationale of robotics application has always been to avoid human exposure to hazardous environments and tasks... Read More about Robotics for nuclear power plants - Challenges and future perspectives.

An autonomous image-guided robotic system simulating industrial applications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, R. U., Iqbal, J., Manzoor, S., Khalid, A., & Khan, S. (2013). An autonomous image-guided robotic system simulating industrial applications. In 2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) (344-349). https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSoSE.2012.6384195

This paper presents a robotic system based on a serial manipulator. The robot is a vertical articulated arm with 5 revolute joints having 6 Degree Of Freedom. Actuated with six precise servo motors, the system offers positional accuracy of ±0.5mm wit... Read More about An autonomous image-guided robotic system simulating industrial applications.

Brain controlled human robot interface (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naveed, K., Iqbal, J., & Ur Rehman, H. (2013). Brain controlled human robot interface. In 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI) (55-60). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAI.2012.6413410

This Paper emphasizes on the ever increasing need of better communication medium between a human and a robot in order to control it precisely. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is the most suitable mean of communication between them, especially for the... Read More about Brain controlled human robot interface.

Control strategies for robotic manipulators (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. F., Ul Islam, R., & Iqbal, J. (2012). Control strategies for robotic manipulators. In 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI) (26-33). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAI.2012.6413422

This survey is aimed at presenting the major robust control strategies for rigid robot manipulators. The techniques discussed are feedback linearization/Computed torque control, Variable structure compensator, Passivity based approach and Disturbance... Read More about Control strategies for robotic manipulators.

Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. (2012). Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees. Lecture notes in computer science, 7612 LNCS, 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33678-2_9

Fault Tree Analysis has been used in reliability engineering for many decades and has seen various modifications to enable it to analyse fault trees with dynamic and temporal gates so it can incorporate sequential failure in its analysis. Pandora is... Read More about Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees.

Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brayshaw, M., Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2013). Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 179, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31603-6_3

People with visual impairments, particularly blind people face alot of difficulties browsing the web with assistive technologies such as screen readers, when websites do not conform to accessibility standards and are thus inaccessible. HTML is the ba... Read More about Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT.

Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bohacik, J., Davis, D., & Benedikovic, M. (2012). Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka.

Cardiovascular diseases remain the most prevalent cause of deaths worldwideand their prevention requires major life-style changes using limited health-care resources.Remote decision support for cardiovascular patients seems to allow them to lead a pr... Read More about Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka.

Emotions in robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Azeem, M. M., Iqbal, J., Toivanen, P., & Samad, A. (2012). Emotions in robots. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 281, 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28962-0_15

This article gives a general overview of emotions in robotics. It sheds light on the composition of emotions in human beings and how this information can be used as blue print for creation of emotional robots. It discusses different factors involved... Read More about Emotions in robots.

A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, Y., Kambhampati, C., Davis, D. N., Goode, K., & Cleland, J. G. F. (2012). A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data. In Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2012 9th International Conference on (2840-2844). https://doi.org/10.1109/fskd.2012.6233805

Clinical data often contains missing values. Imputation is one of the best known schemes to overcome the drawbacks associated with missing values in data mining tasks. In this work, we compared several imputation methods and analyzed their performanc... Read More about A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data.

System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Biehl, M. (2012). System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 45(6), 1647-1652. https://doi.org/10.3182/20120523-3-RO-2023.00334

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is gaining widespread acceptance in aerospace, automobile and avionics industries for designing dependability-critical systems. The design process of dependable systems must address both cost and d... Read More about System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS.

HEXOSYS II - Towards realization of light mass robotics for the hand (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iqbal, J., Ahmad, O., & Malik, A. (2012). HEXOSYS II - Towards realization of light mass robotics for the hand. In 2011 IEEE 14th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) (115-119). https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2011.6151454

This research presents a prototype of a direct-driven, optimized and light-mass hand exoskeleton that is designed to fit over the dorsal side of the hand, thus retaining palm free for interaction with real/virtual objects. The link lengths of the pro... Read More about HEXOSYS II - Towards realization of light mass robotics for the hand.

An Integrated Immersive Simulator for the Dismounted Soldier (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruz-Neira, C., Neumann, C., Odom, C., Reiners, D., Kathy, K., & Springer, J. (2011). An Integrated Immersive Simulator for the Dismounted Soldier.

Immersive military training simulators have been available for over thirty years; but, most of these training simulators have been targeted at training forces on vehicle operations and missions (e.g., flight simulators). These simulators typically us... Read More about An Integrated Immersive Simulator for the Dismounted Soldier.

A multi-DOF robotic exoskeleton interface for hand motion assistance (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iqbal, J., Tsagarakis, N. G., & Caldwell, D. G. (2011). A multi-DOF robotic exoskeleton interface for hand motion assistance. In 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2011) (1575-1578). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090458

This paper outlines the design and development of a robotic exoskeleton based rehabilitation system. A portable direct-driven optimized hand exoskeleton system has been proposed. The optimization procedure primarily based on matching the exoskeleton... Read More about A multi-DOF robotic exoskeleton interface for hand motion assistance.

Estimation of cardiovascular patient risk with a Bayesian network (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2011, June). Estimation of cardiovascular patient risk with a Bayesian network. Presented at Transcom 2011

Cardiovascular decision-making support experiences increasing research interest of scientists.Ongoing collaborations between clinicians and computer scientists are looking at the application of datamining techniques to the area of individual patient... Read More about Estimation of cardiovascular patient risk with a Bayesian network.

An integrated pipeline to create and experience compelling scenarios in virtual reality (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Springer, J. P., Neumann, C., Reiners, D., & Cruz-Neira, C. (2011). An integrated pipeline to create and experience compelling scenarios in virtual reality. Proceedings of SPIE, 7864, 43070. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.879278

One of the main barriers to create and use compelling scenarios in virtual reality is the complexity and time-consuming efforts for modeling, element integration, and the software development to properly display and interact with the content in the a... Read More about An integrated pipeline to create and experience compelling scenarios in virtual reality.