All Outputs (40)

Analysing Spatio-Temporal Worker Movement Patterns: Implications for Safety and Productivity in Smart Factories (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Patel, H., Hanson, J., Corney, J., El-Raoui, H., Sales, R., Quigley, J., Kasarapu, S. S., & Sherlock, A. (2025, June). Analysing Spatio-Temporal Worker Movement Patterns: Implications for Safety and Productivity in Smart Factories. Presented at 11th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control – IFAC MIM2025, Norway

Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of worker movements within complex factory environments, such as shipbuilding facilities, is crucial for proactively assessing safety and enhancing operations through potential process adjustments and factor... Read More about Analysing Spatio-Temporal Worker Movement Patterns: Implications for Safety and Productivity in Smart Factories.

Safer and Efficient Factory by Predicting Worker Trajectories using Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Networks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kasarapu, S. S. K., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Hanson, J., Quigley, J., El-Raoui, H., Thompson, N., & Sherlock, A. (2024, August). Safer and Efficient Factory by Predicting Worker Trajectories using Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Networks. Presented at IDETC-CIE International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Washington, DC

Occupational accidents in manufacturing industries pose a significant risk, necessitating advanced strategies to ensure worker safety and enhance operational productivity. The unpredictable nature of worker movements, influenced by varied tasks such... Read More about Safer and Efficient Factory by Predicting Worker Trajectories using Spatio-Temporal Graph Attention Networks.

Safer and Efficient Assemblies: Harnessing Real Time Worker Movements with Digital Twins (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kasarapu, S. S. K., Vasantha, G., Marzano, A., Corney, J., Hanson, J., Quigley, J., El-Raoui, H., Thompson, N., & Sherlock, A. (2024, August). Safer and Efficient Assemblies: Harnessing Real Time Worker Movements with Digital Twins. Presented at 21st International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2024), Glasgow

This paper addresses a critical gap in digital twin simulation within manufacturing environments by focusing on the dynamic representation of worker movements during assembly processes. We introduce an innovative approach that utilizes Ultra-Wideband... Read More about Safer and Efficient Assemblies: Harnessing Real Time Worker Movements with Digital Twins.

Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023, December). Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences. Presented at The Winter Simulation Conference 2023, San Antonio, Texas

Conventional methods used to elicit risk-taking preferences have demonstrated significant disparities with real-world behaviours, compromising the validity of the data collected. Serious gaming (SG) provides a high potential to bridge this gap. This... Read More about Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences.

A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Aslan, A., Hanson, J., El-Raoui, H., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2023, June). A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System. Presented at International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Porto, Portugal

Digital sensing technologies are essential for realizing Industry 4.0, as they enhance productivity, assist with real-time decision-making, and provide flexibility and agility in manufacturing factories. However, implementing these technologies can b... Read More about A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System.

Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aslan, A., El-Raoui, H., Hanson, J., Vasantha, G., Quigley, J., & Corney, J. (2023, June). Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation. Presented at 32nd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2023), Porto, Portugal

In complex manufacturing industries that are not fully automated and involve human workers it is important to identify deviations from the planned production schedule and locate bottlenecks for improved efficiency. This is not an easy task as it requ... Read More about Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation.

Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Aslan, A., Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Thomas, S. (2023, June). Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing. Presented at FAIM 2023: Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, Porto, Portugal

Monitoring and identification of defects during additive manufacturing is mostly done by bespoke optical or acoustic measurement systems. These in-situ monitoring technologies are either intrusive or sensitive to noisy manufacturing environments. We... Read More about Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing.

Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023, March). Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites. Presented at The Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2023 (SW23), Southampton, UK

Rewards for risk taking behaviour by workers (if accidents do not occur) can be realised in the form of increased productivity or worker idle time. However, frequent unsafe behaviours of workers inevitably
results in accidents and an associated loss... Read More about Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites.

Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Corney, J., Canavan, M., Quigley, J., & Sherlock, A. (2022, September). Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements. Presented at International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2022, Derby, UK

Training novice production engineers to design manufacturing fixtures is a time-consuming process involving significant input from experienced experts. Motivated by the vision of providing an intelligent support system for general mechanical design,... Read More about Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements.

A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclachlan, R., Wodehouse, A., & Vasantha, G. (2018, September). A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects. Presented at 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, UK

This paper presents a new philosophy for patent use in student design projects; patents are more valuable when viewed as creative and learning resources rather than as a list of prior art to be considered for infringement. A practical approach to pat... Read More about A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Sherlock, A., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2018, August). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index. Presented at ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), Quebec, Canada

The benefits of being able to create a number of product variations from a limited range of components, or sub-assemblies, are widely recognized. Indeed it is clear that companies who can effectively reuse elements of existing designs when creating n... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index.

Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., Corney, J., & Wodehouse, A. (2017, January). Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design. Presented at International Conference on Research into Design ICoRD 2017: Research into Design for Communities, Guwahati, India

Interactions (i.e. modes of operations through which product development knowledge is generated and externalized in the design process) play a vital role in knowledge processes of product development. Intentional or unintentional changes in interacti... Read More about Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design.

The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Wodehouse, A. (2016, June). The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design. Presented at 7th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Evanston (Chicago), United States

This paper explores the role of patents in engineering design, and how the extraction and presentation of patent data could be improved for designers. We propose the use of crowdsourcing as a means to post tasks online for a crowd of people to partic... Read More about The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design.

Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., MacLachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016, June). Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation. Presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Glasgow, UK

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation.

Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016, June). Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation. Paper presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Glasgow

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation.

Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. V. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2015, January). Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design. Presented at The Third International Conference on Design Creativity (3rd ICDC), Bangalore, India

Although a digital design tool like CAD has a strong influence on creative design, it is merely used in the detail design stage to present the visualized final product in 3D space. Limitations in CAD have led to the great emphasis on employing suppor... Read More about Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design.

A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agrawal, A., Yadav, P., Upadhyay, C. K., Corney, J. R., Vasantha, G. A., Jagadeesan, A., & Lynn, A. (2015, July). A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing. Presented at 2015 IEEE Technological Innovation in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR), Chennai, India

Packing problems on its current state are being utilized for wide area of industrial applications. The aim of present research is to create and implement an intelligent system that tackles the problem of 2D packing of objects inside a 2D container, s... Read More about A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing.

Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Acur, N., & Corney, J. (2015, September). Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case. Paper presented at The Continious Innovation Management Workshop, Enschede, Netherlands

Benefits of crowdsourcing tasks are largely reaped by urban rather than rural workers. Even if rural workers could access these web portals, tasks are in general elementary. This research aims to see whether rural crowdsourcing workers' digital imagi... Read More about Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case.

Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2014, October). Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers. Presented at 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Laser system industry is a complex network entity that includes laser component manufacturer, laser manufacturer, system integrator, laser job shop, laser process developer and end product manufacturer. Currently this market segment is predominately... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers.

Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Acur, N., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014, June). Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland. Presented at International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Management Study - SEM 2014, London, United Kingdom

Various surveys mentioned that the commercial benefits of Internet crowdsourcing are reaped largely by people located in metro areas and smaller cities. The impact of crowdsourcing on the rural population is questionable. The aim of this research is... Read More about Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland.