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Infinite Virtual Stoa (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Torrao, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Mckie, D. (2018, December). Infinite Virtual Stoa. Presented at GA2018, XXI Annual International Conference, Verona, Italy

Stoicism is a philosophy that considers the object of life to be ataraxia (αταραξία), a state of psychological stability which is undisturbed by exposure to phenomena and circumstances that lie outside one's control. Such circumstances may include il... Read More about Infinite Virtual Stoa.

Control of flexible joint robotic manipulator: Design and prototyping (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alam, W., Ali, N., Wahaj Aziz, H. M., & Iqbal, J. (2018, February). Control of flexible joint robotic manipulator: Design and prototyping. Presented at International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Lahore, Pakistan

Robots are now an integral part of automation sector, thus indicating the importance of the associated control strategies. In contrast with conventional rigid manipulators, flexible arms offer several benefits in terms of light weight and power effic... Read More about Control of flexible joint robotic manipulator: Design and prototyping.

A dependability modeling and analysis approach for an IoP-based service system (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Jiang, J., He, J., Yu, Q., & Wang, X. (2018, October). A dependability modeling and analysis approach for an IoP-based service system. Presented at 2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI), Guangzhou, China

The increasing use of the internet of people (IoP) based service systems has the potential to bring about substantial benefits to individuals. An IoP-based service system includes components such as cell phones, wearable devices, smart homes, cars et... Read More about A dependability modeling and analysis approach for an IoP-based service system.

TIMAEUS: Three-dimensional Illuminated Media Augmented Sculptures (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Torrao, L., Mckie, D., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2017, December). TIMAEUS: Three-dimensional Illuminated Media Augmented Sculptures. Presented at 20th Generative Art Conference

TIMAEUS is a digital art studio environment that enables creation of personalised 3-dimensional sculptures built with expanding spherical volumes or interconnected tetrahedra and possibly other atomic blocks in the future. These sculptures can be cus... Read More about TIMAEUS: Three-dimensional Illuminated Media Augmented Sculptures.

Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atanbori, J., Chen, F., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. (2018, September). Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN. Paper presented at British Machine Vision Conference 2018, BMVC 2018, Northumbria University

© 2018. The copyright of this document resides with its authors. Segmentation is the core of most plant phenotyping applications. Current state-of-the-art plant phenotyping applications rely on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, thes... Read More about Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN..

Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qi, Q., & Li, Q. (2018, July). Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing. Presented at The 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

© 2018 IEEE. Converting a surface-based geometric object into a thin solid is an essential requirement for additive manufacturing. Although offset surface and thickening techniques have been widely used for this task, it is in general difficult to mo... Read More about Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing.

Taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicle: Formulation and simulation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasim, M., Ullah, M., & Iqbal, J. (2018, April). Taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicle: Formulation and simulation. Presented at 1st International Conference on Power, Energy and Smart Grid (ICPESG), Mirpur Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles cannot work efficiently without a control system. Before any form of control is applied to it, modeling of the system is necessary. This work focuses on the development of a Taxi model of UAV. The reformulated model has been... Read More about Taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicle: Formulation and simulation.

Towards efficient loading of change-based models (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yohannis, A., Rodriguez, H. H., Polack, F., & Kolovos, D. Towards efficient loading of change-based models. Presented at European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2018), Toulouse, France

This paper proposes and evaluates an efficient approach for loading models stored in a change-based format. The work builds on language-independent change-based persistence (CBP) of models conforming to object-oriented metamodelling architectures suc... Read More about Towards efficient loading of change-based models.

Design and analysis of 300MW solar configuration and its comparison with Quaid-e-Azam solar park (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, I., Awais, M., Bashir, A., Khan, R. A. J., & Iqbal, J. (2018, February). Design and analysis of 300MW solar configuration and its comparison with Quaid-e-Azam solar park. Presented at 2018 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET) 2018

Pakistan's recent energy crisis demands efficient utilization of renewable energy resources. The country, being richest with respect to solar potential, is experiencing a remarkable progress in power generation from Photovoltaic sources. Quaid-e-Azam... Read More about Design and analysis of 300MW solar configuration and its comparison with Quaid-e-Azam solar park.

A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parker, D., Godof, A., Papadopoulos, Y., & Saintis, L. (2018, April). A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes. Presented at SAE Technical Papers

ISO 26262 describes a safety engineering approach in which the safety of a system is considered from the early stages of design through a process of elicitation and allocation of system safety requirements. These are expressed as automotive safety in... Read More about A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes.

Super twisting control algorithm for blood glucose regulation in type 1 diabetes patients (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alam, W., Ali, N., Ahmad, S., & Iqbal, J. (2018, January). Super twisting control algorithm for blood glucose regulation in type 1 diabetes patients. Presented at 15th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), Islamabad, Pakistan

This is an increasing belief that consequences due to hyperglycemia can be mitigated using a close loop control system. This paper investigates a robust non-linear control approach based on sliding mode control (SMC) algorithm for type 1 diabetes pat... Read More about Super twisting control algorithm for blood glucose regulation in type 1 diabetes patients.

Model order reduction of dynamical systems: An approach to investigate real and complex poles (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bukhari, M., Ullah, M., Ali, M., & Iqbal, J. (2017, December). Model order reduction of dynamical systems: An approach to investigate real and complex poles. Presented at 13th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Islamabad, Pakistan

The process of model order reduction facilitates analysis and realization of complex systems while marinating the essential properties of the system and input/output behavior. This research proposes a novel method for model order reduction. The novel... Read More about Model order reduction of dynamical systems: An approach to investigate real and complex poles.

Towards autonomous cleaning of photovoltaic modules: Design and realization of a robotic cleaner (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hassan, M. U., Nawaz, M. I., & Iqbal, J. (2017, November). Towards autonomous cleaning of photovoltaic modules: Design and realization of a robotic cleaner. Presented at 1st International Conference on Latest Trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (INTELLECT), Karachi, Pakistan

Solar panels typically consist of photovoltaic (PV) cells covered by a protective glass coating, which generate electricity when subjected to radiations. However, the capability of electricity generation is constrained due to layer of dust on PV modu... Read More about Towards autonomous cleaning of photovoltaic modules: Design and realization of a robotic cleaner.

Feature extraction of garments based on Gaussian mixture for autonomous robotic manipulation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasheed, T., Khan, A. A., & Iqbal, J. (2017, November). Feature extraction of garments based on Gaussian mixture for autonomous robotic manipulation. Presented at 1st International Conference on Latest Trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (INTELLECT), Karachi, Pakistan

Recent advancements in the domain of robotics have offered support to humans in their everyday activities with the aim of offloading workers from performing repetitive tasks. The present work highlights one such task in garment industry where the rob... Read More about Feature extraction of garments based on Gaussian mixture for autonomous robotic manipulation.