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Robust Sliding Mode Control for Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator via Disturbance Observer (2019)
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Alam, W., Ahmad, S., Mehmood, A., & Iqbal, J. (2019). Robust Sliding Mode Control for Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator via Disturbance Observer. Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 17(1), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.17.1.11

In a flexible joint robotic manipulator, parametric variations and external disturbances result in mismatch uncertainties thus posing a great challenge in terms of manipulator’s control. This article investigates non-linear control algorithms for des... Read More about Robust Sliding Mode Control for Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator via Disturbance Observer.

Patient-Specific Coronary Artery 3D Printing Based on Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography and Coronary Angiography (2019)
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Huang, C., Lan, Y., Chen, S., Liu, Q., Luo, X., Xu, G., …Che, W. (2019). Patient-Specific Coronary Artery 3D Printing Based on Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography and Coronary Angiography. Complexity, 2019, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5712594

Despite the new ideas were inspired in medical treatment by the rapid advancement of three-dimensional (3D) printing technology, there is still rare research work reported on 3D printing of coronary arteries being documented in the literature. In thi... Read More about Patient-Specific Coronary Artery 3D Printing Based on Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography and Coronary Angiography.

Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN (2019)
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Atanbori, J., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. P. (2020). Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN. Machine Vision and Applications, 31(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-019-01051-7

© 2019, The Author(s). There is an increase in consumption of agricultural produce as a result of the rapidly growing human population, particularly in developing nations. This has triggered high-quality plant phenotyping research to help with the br... Read More about Towards infield, live plant phenotyping using a reduced-parameter CNN.

An IoT-Based Framework of Webvr Visualization for Medical Big Data in Connected Health (2019)
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Xu, G., Lan, Y., Zhou, W., Huang, C., Li, W., Zhang, W., …Che, W. (2019). An IoT-Based Framework of Webvr Visualization for Medical Big Data in Connected Health. IEEE Access, 7, 173866-173874. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2957149

Recently, telemedicine has been widely applied in remote diagnosis, treatment and counseling, where the Internet of Things (IoT) technology plays an important role. In the process of telemedicine, data are collected from remote medical equipment, suc... Read More about An IoT-Based Framework of Webvr Visualization for Medical Big Data in Connected Health.

Robotics Inspired Renewable Energy Developments: Prospective Opportunities and Challenges (2019)
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Iqbal, J., Al-Zahrani, A., Alharbi, S. A., & Hashmi, A. (2019). Robotics Inspired Renewable Energy Developments: Prospective Opportunities and Challenges. IEEE Access, 7, 174898-174923. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2957013

The domain of Robotics is a good partner of renewable energy and is becoming critical to the sustainability and survival of the energy industry. The multi-disciplinary nature of robots offers precision, repeatability, reliability, productivity and in... Read More about Robotics Inspired Renewable Energy Developments: Prospective Opportunities and Challenges.

Convolutional Neural Net-Based Cassava Storage Root Counting Using Real and Synthetic Images (2019)
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Atanbori, J., Montoya, M., Selvaraj, M. G., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. P. (2019). Convolutional Neural Net-Based Cassava Storage Root Counting Using Real and Synthetic Images. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, Article 1516. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01516

© Copyright © 2019 Atanbori, Montoya-P, Selvaraj, French and Pridmore. Cassava roots are complex structures comprising several distinct types of root. The number and size of the storage roots are two potential phenotypic traits reflecting crop yield... Read More about Convolutional Neural Net-Based Cassava Storage Root Counting Using Real and Synthetic Images.

A low-cost aeroponic phenotyping system for storage root development: unravelling the below-ground secrets of cassava (Manihot esculenta) (2019)
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Selvaraj, M. G., Montoya-P, M. E., Atanbori, J., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. (2019). A low-cost aeroponic phenotyping system for storage root development: unravelling the below-ground secrets of cassava (Manihot esculenta). Plant Methods, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0517-6

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Root and tuber crops are becoming more important for their high source of carbohydrates, next to cereals. Despite their commercial impact, there are significant knowledge gaps about the environmental and inherent reg... Read More about A low-cost aeroponic phenotyping system for storage root development: unravelling the below-ground secrets of cassava (Manihot esculenta).

An enhanced secure delegation-based anonymous authentication protocol for PCSs (2019)
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Gope, P., Ghayvat, H., Cheng, Y., & Kabir, S. (2019). An enhanced secure delegation-based anonymous authentication protocol for PCSs. International Journal of Communication Systems, Article e4199. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4199

Rapid development of wireless networks brings about many security problems in portable communication systems (PCSs), which can provide mobile users with an opportunity to enjoy global roaming services. In this regard, designing a secure user authenti... Read More about An enhanced secure delegation-based anonymous authentication protocol for PCSs.

Adaptive Backstepping Based Sensor and Actuator Fault Tolerant Control of a Manipulator (2019)
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Awan, Z. S., Ali, K., Iqbal, J., & Mehmood, A. (2019). Adaptive Backstepping Based Sensor and Actuator Fault Tolerant Control of a Manipulator. Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, 14(6), 2497-2504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42835-019-00277-9

The purpose of this research is to propose and design fault tolerant control (FTC) scheme for a robotic manipulator, to increase its reliability and performance in the presence of actuator and sensor faults. To achieve the said objectives, a hybrid c... Read More about Adaptive Backstepping Based Sensor and Actuator Fault Tolerant Control of a Manipulator.

A runtime safety analysis concept for open adaptive systems (2019)
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Kabir, S., Sorokos, I., Aslansefat, K., Papadopoulos, Y., Gheraibia, Y., Reich, J., …Wei, R. (2019). A runtime safety analysis concept for open adaptive systems. Lecture notes in computer science, 11842, 332-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32872-6_22

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. In the automotive industry, modern cyber-physical systems feature cooperation and autonomy. Such systems share information to enable collaborative functions, allowing dynamic component integration and architectu... Read More about A runtime safety analysis concept for open adaptive systems.

Dynamic reliability assessment of flare systems by combining fault tree analysis and Bayesian networks (2019)
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Kabir, S., Taleb-Berrouane, M., & Papadopoulos, Y. (in press). Dynamic reliability assessment of flare systems by combining fault tree analysis and Bayesian networks. Energy Sources, Part A, https://doi.org/10.1080/15567036.2019.1670287

Flaring is a combustion process commonly used in the oil and gas industry to dispose flammable waste gases. Flare flameout occurs when these gases escape unburnt from the flare tip causing the discharge of flammable and/or toxic vapor clouds. The tox... Read More about Dynamic reliability assessment of flare systems by combining fault tree analysis and Bayesian networks.

Lumen contour segmentation in ivoct based on n-type cnn (2019)
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Tang, J., Lan, Y., Chen, S., Zhong, Y., Huang, C., Peng, Y., …Che, W. (2019). Lumen contour segmentation in ivoct based on n-type cnn. IEEE Access, 7, 135573-135581. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2941899

Automatic segmentation of lumen contour plays an important role in medical imaging and diagnosis, which is the first step towards the evaluation of morphology of vessels under analysis and the identification of possible atherosclerotic lesions. Meanw... Read More about Lumen contour segmentation in ivoct based on n-type cnn.

Safety + AI: A novel approach to update safety models using artificial intelligence (2019)
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Gheraibia, Y., Kabir, S., Aslansefat, K., Sorokos, I., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2019). Safety + AI: A novel approach to update safety models using artificial intelligence. IEEE Access, 7, 135855-135869. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2941566

Safety-critical systems are becoming larger and more complex to obtain a higher level of functionality. Hence, modeling and evaluation of these systems can be a difficult and error-prone task. Among existing safety models, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) i... Read More about Safety + AI: A novel approach to update safety models using artificial intelligence.

Skeleton Marching-based Parallel Vascular Geometry Reconstruction Using Implicit Functions (2019)
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Qi, Q., Li, Q. D., Cheng, Y., & Hong, Q. Q. (2020). Skeleton Marching-based Parallel Vascular Geometry Reconstruction Using Implicit Functions. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 17(1), 30-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-019-1189-4

Fast high-precision patient-specific vascular tissue and geometric structure reconstruction is an essential task for vascular tissue engineering and computer-aided minimally invasive vascular disease diagnosis and surgery. In this paper, we present a... Read More about Skeleton Marching-based Parallel Vascular Geometry Reconstruction Using Implicit Functions.

Performance evaluation and design for variable threshold alarm systems through semi-Markov process (2019)
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Aslansefat, K., Bahar Gogani, M., Kabir, S., Shoorehdeli, M. A., & Yari, M. (in press). Performance evaluation and design for variable threshold alarm systems through semi-Markov process. ISA Transactions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2019.08.015

In large industrial systems, alarm management is one of the most important issues to improve the safety and efficiency of systems in practice. Operators of such systems often have to deal with a numerous number of simultaneous alarms. Different kinds... Read More about Performance evaluation and design for variable threshold alarm systems through semi-Markov process.

Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis (2019)
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de Oliveira, A. L., Braga, R., Masiero, P., Parker, D., Papadopoulos, Y., Habli, I., & Kelly, T. (2019). Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis. Journal of software : evolution and process, 31(8), Article e2202. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2202

Safety-critical systems are of paramount importance for many application domains, where safety properties are a key driver to engineer critical aspects and avoid system failures. For the benefits of large-scale reuse, software product lines (SPL) hav... Read More about Variability management in safety-critical systems design and dependability analysis.

Ensemble multiboost based on ripper classifier for prediction of imbalanced software defect data (2019)
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He, H., Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Ren, J., Liu, J., Zhao, X., & Cheng, Y. (2019). Ensemble multiboost based on ripper classifier for prediction of imbalanced software defect data. IEEE Access, 7, 110333-110343. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934128

Identifying defective software entities is essential to ensure software quality during software development. However, the high dimensionality and class distribution imbalance of software defect data seriously affect software defect prediction perform... Read More about Ensemble multiboost based on ripper classifier for prediction of imbalanced software defect data.

A nine months follow-up study of hemodynamic effect on bioabsorbable coronary stent implantation (2019)
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Lan, Y., Zhou, Y., Lu, Y., Wang, H., Liu, Q., Ng, E. Y. K., …Che, W. (2019). A nine months follow-up study of hemodynamic effect on bioabsorbable coronary stent implantation. IEEE Access, 7, 112564-112571. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934155

Coronary artery disease has emerged as one of the major diseases causing death worldwide. Coronary stent has great effect to improve blood flow to the myocardium subtended by that artery, in which bioresorbable vascular scaffolds are new-generation s... Read More about A nine months follow-up study of hemodynamic effect on bioabsorbable coronary stent implantation.

Web3D learning framework for 3D shape retrieval based on hybrid convolutional neural networks (2019)
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Zhou, W., Jia, J., Huang, C., & Cheng, Y. (2020). Web3D learning framework for 3D shape retrieval based on hybrid convolutional neural networks. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 25(1), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2018.9010113

With the rapid development of Web3D technologies, sketch-based model retrieval has become an increasingly important challenge, while the application of Virtual Reality and 3D technologies has made shape retrieval of furniture over a web browser feasi... Read More about Web3D learning framework for 3D shape retrieval based on hybrid convolutional neural networks.