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Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (2016)
Journal Article
Akbar, M. S., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2016). Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. Journal of Sensors, 2016, Article 7170943. htt

Recently, increasing demand for remote healthcare monitoring systems poses a specific set of Quality of Services (QoS) requirements to the MAC layer protocols and standards (IEEE 802.15.6, IEEE 802.15.4, etc.) of Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (W... Read More about Delay, Reliability, and Throughput Based QoS Profile: A MAC Layer Performance Optimization Mechanism for Biomedical Applications in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks.

Innovative developments in HCI and future trends (2016)
Journal Article
Hasan, M. S., & Yu, H. (2017). Innovative developments in HCI and future trends. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 14(1), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-1039-6

The recent developments in technology have made noteworthy positive impacts on the human-computer interaction (HCI). It is now possible to interact with computers using voice commands, touchscreen, eye movement, hand gesture, etc. This paper compiles... Read More about Innovative developments in HCI and future trends.

TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (2016)
Journal Article
Akbar, M. S., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2017). TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(6), 1925-1936. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2016.2645612

Recently, adaptive duty cycle-based medium access control (MAC) protocols based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have been proposed to address the quality of service (QoS) requirements, including a specified and combined set of time bounded data transmi... Read More about TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks.

Supervisory orientation, employee goal orientation, and knowledge management among front line hotel employees (2016)
Journal Article
Shamim, S., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2017). Supervisory orientation, employee goal orientation, and knowledge management among front line hotel employees. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 62, 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2016.11.013

This study investigates how managers can enhance the knowledge management (KM) among front line hotel employees at the individual level, by affecting the employee goal orientations through supervisory orientations. This study found significant influe... Read More about Supervisory orientation, employee goal orientation, and knowledge management among front line hotel employees.

Management approaches for Industry 4.0: A human resource management perspective (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shamim, S., Cang, S., Yu, H., & Li, Y. (2016). Management approaches for Industry 4.0: A human resource management perspective. In 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/cec.2016.7748365

Industry 4.0 is characterized by smart manufacturing, implementation of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for production, i.e., embedded actuators and sensors, networks of microcomputers, and linking the machines to the value chain. It further considers t... Read More about Management approaches for Industry 4.0: A human resource management perspective.

Robot-assisted smart firefighting and interdisciplinary perspectives (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Yu, H., Cang, S., & Vladareanu, L. (2016). Robot-assisted smart firefighting and interdisciplinary perspectives. In 2016 22nd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). https://doi.org/10.1109/iconac.2016.7604952

Urbanization and changes in modern infrastructure have introduced new challenges to current firefighting practices. The current manual operations and training including fire investigation, hazardous chemicals detection, fire and rescue are insufficie... Read More about Robot-assisted smart firefighting and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Identifying smart design attributes for Industry 4.0 customization using a clustering Genetic Algorithm (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saldivar, A. A. F., Goh, C., Li, Y., Chen, Y., & Yu, H. (2016). Identifying smart design attributes for Industry 4.0 customization using a clustering Genetic Algorithm. In 2016 22nd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). https://doi

Industry 4.0 aims at achieving mass customization at a mass production cost. A key component to realizing this is accurate prediction of customer needs and wants, which is however a challenging issue due to the lack of smart analytics tools. This pap... Read More about Identifying smart design attributes for Industry 4.0 customization using a clustering Genetic Algorithm.

Bio-inspired robust control of a robot arm-and-hand system based on human viscoelastic properties (2016)
Journal Article
Wang, A., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2017). Bio-inspired robust control of a robot arm-and-hand system based on human viscoelastic properties. Journal of The Franklin Institute, 354(4), 1759-1783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2016.09.024

A bio-inspired scheme based on the human multi-joint arm (HMJA) viscoelastic properties is proposed to design a robust controller for the complex robot arm-and-hand system (RAHS) using the operator-based robust right coprime factorization (RRCF) appr... Read More about Bio-inspired robust control of a robot arm-and-hand system based on human viscoelastic properties.

Robots for minimally invasive diagnosis and intervention (2016)
Journal Article
Huda, M. N., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2016). Robots for minimally invasive diagnosis and intervention. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 41, 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2016.03.003

Minimally invasive diagnosis and interventions provide many benefits such as higher efficiency, safer, minimum pain, quick recovery etc. over conventional way for many procedures. Large robots such as da-Vinci are being used in this purpose, whereas... Read More about Robots for minimally invasive diagnosis and intervention.

A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2015). A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia. In 2015 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA). https://doi.org/10.1109/ski

This paper presents a systematic mapping study based on literature and industrial survey related to assistive technologies for people with dementia. The world population of the ageing people is increasing both in developed and developing countries, s... Read More about A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia.

Impact of Load Variation on Joint Angle Estimation From Surface EMG Signals (2015)
Journal Article
Tang, Z., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2016). Impact of Load Variation on Joint Angle Estimation From Surface EMG Signals. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 24(12), 1342-1350. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2015.2502663

Many studies use surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals to estimate the joint angle, for control of upper-limb exoskeletons and prostheses. However, several practical factors still affect its clinical applicability. One of these factors is the load va... Read More about Impact of Load Variation on Joint Angle Estimation From Surface EMG Signals.

On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2015). On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model. In 2015 21st International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). https://doi.org/10.1109/iconac.2015.7313936

This paper investigates the locomotion principles and nonlinear dynamics of the periodically pendulum-driven (PD) systems using the case of a 2-DOF viscoelastic jointed model. As a mechanical system with underactuation degree one, the proposed system... Read More about On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model.

Feasibility of NeuCube spiking neural network architecture for EMG pattern recognition (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, L., Hou, Z., Kasabov, N., Bian, G., Vladareanu, L., & Yu, H. (2015). Feasibility of NeuCube spiking neural network architecture for EMG pattern recognition. In 2015 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS). https://doi.or

Multichannel electromyography (EMG) signals have been used as human-machine interface (HMI) for the control of pattern-recognition based prosthetic system in recent years. This paper is a feasibility analysis of using recently proposed NeuCube spikin... Read More about Feasibility of NeuCube spiking neural network architecture for EMG pattern recognition.

Trajectory tracking control of an underactuated capsubot (2015)
Journal Article
Huda, M. N., & Yu, H. (2015). Trajectory tracking control of an underactuated capsubot. Autonomous Robots, 39(2), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-015-9434-3

Trajectory tracking control of underactuated systems is one of the challenging issues. This paper proposes a two-stage control strategy for the trajectory tracking of a class of underactuated mechanical systems. Two new acceleration profiles for the... Read More about Trajectory tracking control of an underactuated capsubot.

Behaviour-based control approach for the trajectory tracking of an underactuated planar capsule robot (2015)
Journal Article
Huda, M. N., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2015). Behaviour-based control approach for the trajectory tracking of an underactuated planar capsule robot. IET Control Theory and Applications, 9(2), 163-175. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2013.1100

A miniature capsule robot (capsubot) – which has no external moving parts whereas a conventional robot has legs and/or wheels – is suitable for in-vivo applications, engineering diagnosis and pipe inspection. This study addresses the trajectory-track... Read More about Behaviour-based control approach for the trajectory tracking of an underactuated planar capsule robot.

Maximum relevancy maximum complementary feature selection for multi-sensor activity recognition (2014)
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Chernbumroong, S., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2015). Maximum relevancy maximum complementary feature selection for multi-sensor activity recognition. Expert Systems with Applications, 42(1), 573-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.07.052

We propose a feature selection algorithm using MRMC.Show that MRMC provides a good result comparing to the 3 popular algorithms.The complementary measure improves the performance of the Clamping algorithm.Evaluate the proposed algorithm on 2 well-def... Read More about Maximum relevancy maximum complementary feature selection for multi-sensor activity recognition.

A numerical dynamic behaviour model for 3D contact problems with friction (2014)
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Pop, N., Vladareanu, L., Popescu, I. N., Ghiţă, C., Gal, A., Cang, S., …Deng, M. (2014). A numerical dynamic behaviour model for 3D contact problems with friction. Computational Materials Science, 94, 285-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the condition detection in which the slip state transitions in a stick–slip motion, or the solution breaks down and also to study the state transition of nodes belonging to the contact area: stick, slip or op... Read More about A numerical dynamic behaviour model for 3D contact problems with friction.

A practical multi-sensor activity recognition system for home-based care (2014)
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Chernbumroong, S., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2014). A practical multi-sensor activity recognition system for home-based care. Decision Support Systems, 66, 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2014.06.005

To cope with the increasing number of aging population, a type of care which can help prevent or postpone entry into institutional care is preferable. Activity recognition can be used for home-based care in order to help elderly people to remain at h... Read More about A practical multi-sensor activity recognition system for home-based care.

Genetic Algorithm-Based Classifiers Fusion for Multisensor Activity Recognition of Elderly People (2014)
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Chernbumroong, S., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2015). Genetic Algorithm-Based Classifiers Fusion for Multisensor Activity Recognition of Elderly People. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 19(1), 282-289. https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2014.2313473

Activity recognition of an elderly person can be used to provide information and intelligent services to health care professionals, carers, elderly people, and their families so that the elderly people can remain at homes independently. This study in... Read More about Genetic Algorithm-Based Classifiers Fusion for Multisensor Activity Recognition of Elderly People.

A combination selection algorithm on forecasting (2013)
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Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2014). A combination selection algorithm on forecasting. European Journal of Operational Research, 234(1), 127-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.045

It is widely accepted in forecasting that a combination model can improve forecasting accuracy. One important challenge is how to select the optimal subset of individual models from all available models without having to try all possible combinations... Read More about A combination selection algorithm on forecasting.