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Thermal Chemical Conversion of High-Density Polyethylene for the Production of Valuable Carbon Nanotubes Using Ni/AAO Membrane Catalyst (2017)
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Liu, X., Sun, H., Wu, C., Patel, D., & Huang, J. (2018). Thermal Chemical Conversion of High-Density Polyethylene for the Production of Valuable Carbon Nanotubes Using Ni/AAO Membrane Catalyst. Energy and Fuels, 32(4), 4511-4520. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b03160

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Thermal chemical conversion of waste plastics for syngas production is a promising alternative method for the management of waste plastics. However, one of the challenges of facilitating the deployment of this techno... Read More about Thermal Chemical Conversion of High-Density Polyethylene for the Production of Valuable Carbon Nanotubes Using Ni/AAO Membrane Catalyst.

Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning (2017)
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Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Gomez, A. M., Green, P. D., Gilbert, J. M., Ell, S. R., …Holdsworth, E. (2017). Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning. IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing, 25(12), 2362-2374. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2017.2757263

© 2014 IEEE. This paper describes a technique that generates speech acoustics from articulator movements. Our motivation is to help people who can no longer speak following laryngectomy, a procedure that is carried out tens of thousands of times per... Read More about Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning.

In-situ synchrotron X-ray radiography observation of primary Al2Cu intermetallic growth on fragments of aluminium oxide film (2017)
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Wang, F., Eskin, D., Connolley, T., Wang, C., Koe, B., King, A., …Mi, J. (2018). In-situ synchrotron X-ray radiography observation of primary Al2Cu intermetallic growth on fragments of aluminium oxide film. Materials letters, 213, 303-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2017.11.090

While using synchrotron X-ray radiography for studying ultrasonic melt processing, the growth of the primary Al2Cu intermetallic phase on fragments of aluminium oxide film during solidification of a hypereutectic Al-35% Cu alloy was observed in-situ... Read More about In-situ synchrotron X-ray radiography observation of primary Al2Cu intermetallic growth on fragments of aluminium oxide film.

A synchrotron X-radiography study of the fragmentation and refinement of primary intermetallic particles in an Al-35 Cu alloy induced by ultrasonic melt processing (2017)
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Wang, F., Eskin, D., Mi, J., Wang, C., Koe, B., King, A., …Connolley, T. (2017). A synchrotron X-radiography study of the fragmentation and refinement of primary intermetallic particles in an Al-35 Cu alloy induced by ultrasonic melt processing. Acta Materialia, 141, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.09.010

Using synchrotron X-ray high speed radiography, the fragmentation and refinement of pre-existing primary Al2Cu intermetallic dendrites induced by ultrasonic melt processing in a hypereutectic Al-35% Cu alloy were studied in-situ and in real time. The... Read More about A synchrotron X-radiography study of the fragmentation and refinement of primary intermetallic particles in an Al-35 Cu alloy induced by ultrasonic melt processing.

Lateralized Eye Use Towards Video Stimuli in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps) (2017)
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Frohnwieser, A., Pike, T., Murray, J., & Wilkinson, A. (2017). Lateralized Eye Use Towards Video Stimuli in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps). Animal behavior and cognition, 4(3), 340-348. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.04.03.11.2017

Lateralized eye use is thought to increase brain efficiency, as the two hemispheres process different information perceived by the eyes. It has been observed in a wide variety of vertebrate species and, in general, information about conspecifics appe... Read More about Lateralized Eye Use Towards Video Stimuli in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps).

Integrated fault-tolerant control for a 3-DOF helicopter with actuator faults and saturation (2017)
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Lan, J., Patton, R. J., & Zhu, X. (2017). Integrated fault-tolerant control for a 3-DOF helicopter with actuator faults and saturation. IET Control Theory and Applications, 11(14), 2232-2241. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2016.1602

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2017. This study proposes a fault estimation (FE)-based fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy to maintain system reliability and achieve desirable control performance for a 3-DOF helicopter system with... Read More about Integrated fault-tolerant control for a 3-DOF helicopter with actuator faults and saturation.

Restoring speech following total removal of the larynx by a learned transformation from sensor data to acoustics (2017)
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Gilbert, J. M., Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Ell, S. R., Green, P., Moore, R. K., & Holdsworth, E. (2017). Restoring speech following total removal of the larynx by a learned transformation from sensor data to acoustics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(3), EL307-EL313. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4978364

Total removal of the larynx may be required to treat laryngeal cancer: speech is lost. This article shows that it may be possible to restore speech by sensing movement of the remaining speech articulators and use machine learning algorithms to derive... Read More about Restoring speech following total removal of the larynx by a learned transformation from sensor data to acoustics.

Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming (2016)
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Parlett, C. M., Aydin, A., Durndell, L. J., Frattini, L., Isaacs, M. A., Lee, A. F., …Wu, C. (2017). Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming. Catalysis communications, 91, 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2016.12.021

Mesoporous silica supported Ni nanoparticles have been investigated for hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming. Ethanol reforming is structure-sensitive over Ni, and also dependent on support mesostructure; three-dimensional KIT-6 possessin... Read More about Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming.

Fault-tolerant wind turbine pitch control using adaptive sliding mode estimation (2016)
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Lan, J., Patton, R. J., & Zhu, X. (2018). Fault-tolerant wind turbine pitch control using adaptive sliding mode estimation. Renewable energy, 116, 219-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.12.005

Wind turbine pitch systems are essential for actuating desired blade angles and hence to keep the generator at rated speed in operation region 3. In the presence of parametric pitch actuator faults, pitch systems may have slow dynamics, affecting the... Read More about Fault-tolerant wind turbine pitch control using adaptive sliding mode estimation.

Single-photon electroluminescence for on-chip quantum networks (2016)
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Bentham, C., Hallett, D., Prtljaga, N., Royall, B., Vaitiekus, D., Coles, R. J., …Wilson, L. R. (2016). Single-photon electroluminescence for on-chip quantum networks. Applied physics letters, 109(16), 161101. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4965295

An electrically driven single-photon source has been monolithically integrated with nano-photonic circuitry. Electroluminescent emission from a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) is channelled through a suspended nanobeam waveguide. The emission line... Read More about Single-photon electroluminescence for on-chip quantum networks.

Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems based on fault estimation and T-S fuzzy modelling (2016)
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Lan, J., & Patton, R. J. (2017). Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems based on fault estimation and T-S fuzzy modelling. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 25(5), 1141-1154. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2016.2598849

This paper proposes an integrated design of faulttolerant control (FTC) for nonlinear systems using Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models in the presence of modelling uncertainty along with actuator/sensor faults and external disturbance. An augmented sta... Read More about Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems based on fault estimation and T-S fuzzy modelling.

Integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for uncertain Lipschitz nonlinear systems (2016)
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Lan, J., & Patton, R. J. (2017). Integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for uncertain Lipschitz nonlinear systems. International journal of robust and nonlinear control, 27(5), 761-780. https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.3597

This paper proposes an integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control (FTC) design for Lipschitz non-linear systems subject to uncertainty, disturbance, and actuator/sensor faults. A non-linear unknown input observer without rank requirement... Read More about Integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for uncertain Lipschitz nonlinear systems.

Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a heterogeneous disorder in India (2016)
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Ali, S., Ghosh, K., Daly, M. E., Hampshire, D. J., Makris, M., Ghosh, M., …Shetty, S. (2016). Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a heterogeneous disorder in India. Haemophilia, 22(4), 570-582. https://doi.org/10.1111/hae.12917

Introduction: Inherited macrothrombocytopenia represents a heterogeneous group of disorders which are characterized by the presence of a reduced number of abnormally large platelets in the circulation, which may or may not be associated with a bleedi... Read More about Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a heterogeneous disorder in India.

Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure (2016)
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Haywood, S. K., Rybchenko, S. I., Touhami, D., & Wadhawan, J. D. (2016). Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure. ChemSusChem, 9(13), 1660-1669. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600267

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The recently proposed highly efficient route of pyridine-catalyzed CO 2 reduction to methanol was explored on platinum electrodes at high CO 2 pressure. At 55 bar (5.5 MPa) of CO 2 , the bulk elec... Read More about Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure.

Evidence of trends in rain event size effecting trends in rain fade (2016)
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Paulson, K. S. (2016). Evidence of trends in rain event size effecting trends in rain fade. Radio science, 51(3), 142-149. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015RS005832

Rain gauge studies have shown that the incidence of rain at rates associated with outage on terrestrial links, has shown an increasing trend in several countries, over the last 30 years. However, no evidence is available from microwave links to show... Read More about Evidence of trends in rain event size effecting trends in rain fade.

A non-invasive, home-based EEG hypoglycaemia warning system for personal monitoring using skin surface electrodes : a single-case feasibility study (2016)
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Clewett, C. J., Langley, P., Bateson, A. D., Asghar, A., & Wilkinson, A. J. (2016). A non-invasive, home-based EEG hypoglycaemia warning system for personal monitoring using skin surface electrodes : a single-case feasibility study. Health Technology Letters, 3(1), 2-5. https://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2015.0037

Hypoglycaemia unawareness is a common condition associated with increased risk of severe hypoglycaemia. The purpose of the authors' study was to develop a simple to use, home-based and non-invasive hypoglycaemia warning system based on electroencepha... Read More about A non-invasive, home-based EEG hypoglycaemia warning system for personal monitoring using skin surface electrodes : a single-case feasibility study.

Modelling and optimisation of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy harvesting application (2016)
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Thein, C. K., Ooi, B. L., Liu, J. S., & Gilbert, J. M. (2016). Modelling and optimisation of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy harvesting application. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 11(2), 212-227

Piezoelectric materials are excellent transducers in converting vibrational energy into electrical energy, and vibration-based piezoelectric generators are seen as an enabling technology for wireless sensor networks, especially in selfpowered devices... Read More about Modelling and optimisation of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy harvesting application.

Robust fault estimation using an LPV reference model : ADDSAFE benchmark case study (2015)
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Chen, L., Patton, R., & Goupil, P. (2016). Robust fault estimation using an LPV reference model : ADDSAFE benchmark case study. Control engineering practice, 49, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2015.12.006

This paper investigates a mixed H−/H∞ linear parameter varying (LPV) fault estimator using an LPV reference estimator. LMIs are used to calculate the affine parameter-dependent gains of the LPV fault estimator. The design strategy is applied to a hig... Read More about Robust fault estimation using an LPV reference model : ADDSAFE benchmark case study.

Switching damping for a frequency-tunable electromagnetic energy harvester (2015)
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Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., & Aziz, A. R. A. (2015). Switching damping for a frequency-tunable electromagnetic energy harvester. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 234, 311-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2015.09.022

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This paper demonstrates the possibility to widen the operational bandwidth of an electromagnetic energy harvester by switching the values of electrical damping coefficient at different points within the oscil... Read More about Switching damping for a frequency-tunable electromagnetic energy harvester.

A relaxed solution to unknown input observers for state and fault estimation (2015)
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Tan, D., Patton, R. J., & Wang, X. (2015). A relaxed solution to unknown input observers for state and fault estimation. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 28(21), 1048-1053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.665

A lot of effort has been devoted to the unknown input observer (UIO) research over the past years. However, the strong disturbance decoupling assumption (manifested as some rank constraint) is often implicitly embedded in much of the existing UIO wor... Read More about A relaxed solution to unknown input observers for state and fault estimation.