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Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Neumann, G., Fu, Q., Pearson, S., & Yu, H. (2018, October). Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot. Presented at 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain

Vibro-driven robotic (VDR) systems use stick-slip motions for locomotion. Due to the underactuated nature of the system, efficient design and control are still open problems. We present a new energy preserving design based on a spring-augmented pendu... Read More about Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot.

Power Consumption Analysis For Smarter Robotics Via Industry 4.0 Methods And Technologies RS HYu V2
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Samson, R., Goh, K., Sankarraj, A., Gkanatsios, A., & Yu, H. (2023, September). Power Consumption Analysis For Smarter Robotics Via Industry 4.0 Methods And Technologies RS HYu V2. Presented at 2023 International Conference on Innovation of Communication and Information Technology (ICIEICT 2023), Madrid, Spain

This paper examines the opportunities to apply industry 4.0 technology to practical applications, with a specific focus on sustainability and resource efficiency in industrial environments. The main objective of this paper is to design and implement... Read More about Power Consumption Analysis For Smarter Robotics Via Industry 4.0 Methods And Technologies RS HYu V2.

A Multiple-stage Uniform Transmission Line Matching Technique for Triple-Band RF to-DC Rectifier with Harmonic Suppression for Wireless Power Transfer Applications.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Odiamenhi, M., See, C. H., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Yu, H., & Goh, K. (2024, February). A Multiple-stage Uniform Transmission Line Matching Technique for Triple-Band RF to-DC Rectifier with Harmonic Suppression for Wireless Power Transfer Applications. Presented at URSI UK Symposium, National Physics Laboratory, Teddington

User Emotion Direction for Recommendation Systems-A Decade Review
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chanrueang, S., Thammaboosadee, S., Goh, K., & Yu, H. (2021, September). User Emotion Direction for Recommendation Systems-A Decade Review. Presented at 2021 26th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Portsmouth

Recommendation systems are rapidly gaining popularity in software development, including e-commerce, news, advertising, social networking, and entertainment. It filters appropriate information for user decisions. The most popular approaches of recomm... Read More about User Emotion Direction for Recommendation Systems-A Decade Review.

ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fan, K., Liu, Y., Zhang, K., Bian, G., & Yu, H. (2022, August). ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots. Presented at CICAI 2022, Beijing

When collaborative robots perform multiple tracking tasks at the same time, the dynamics of each task will interact with each other. In addition, the uncertainty of robot model and external perturbation also limit the performance of the system. In or... Read More about ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots.

An Improved Point-to-Feature Recognition Algorithm for 3D Vision Detection
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Guo, Q., Gao, G., Tang, S., Min, G., Li, C., & Yu, H. (2022, August). An Improved Point-to-Feature Recognition Algorithm for 3D Vision Detection. Presented at International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Harbin, China

Vision-detection-based grasping is one of the research hotspots in the field of automated production. As the grasping scenes become more and more diversified, 3D images are increasingly chosen as the input images for object recognition in complex rec... Read More about An Improved Point-to-Feature Recognition Algorithm for 3D Vision Detection.

Improved Cascade Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Functional Electrical Stimulation Based Wrist Tremor Suppression System Considering the Effect of Output Noise
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, C., Zhang, Z., Huo, B., Liu, Y., Li, J., & Yu, H. (2022, August). Improved Cascade Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Functional Electrical Stimulation Based Wrist Tremor Suppression System Considering the Effect of Output Noise. Presented at International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Harbin, China

The wrist tremor suppression system designed based on functional electrical stimulation technology has been welcomed by the majority of tremor patients as a non-invasive rehabilitation therapy. Due to the complex physiological structure characteristi... Read More about Improved Cascade Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Functional Electrical Stimulation Based Wrist Tremor Suppression System Considering the Effect of Output Noise.

Feasibility of NeuCube spiking neural network architecture for EMG pattern recognition
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, L., Hou, Z.-G., Kasabov, N., Bian, G.-B., Vladareanu, L., & Yu, H. (2015, August). Feasibility of NeuCube spiking neural network architecture for EMG pattern recognition. Presented at 2015 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), Beijing, China

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.

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

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.

Robot-assisted smart firefighting and interdisciplinary perspectives
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Yu, H., Cang, S., & Vladareanu, L. (2016, September). Robot-assisted smart firefighting and interdisciplinary perspectives. Presented at 2016 22nd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Colchester, United Kingdom

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.

A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2015, December). A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia. Presented at 2015 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA), Kathmandu, Nepal

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.

Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, Y., Wei, H., Li, P., Li, G., Qi, L., & Yu, H. (2019, August). Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot. Presented at 12th International Conference, ICIRA 2019, Shenyang, China

In recent years, the demand for massage robots has increased dramatically in the field of Medical care. Traditional massage robots are mostly rigid robots. Compared with rigid robots, soft robots are more suitable for massage because of their softnes... Read More about Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot.

Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yuan, F., Hasan, M. S., & Yu, H. (2019, August). Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

Swimming micro-robots i.e., micro-swimmers have many applications in various areas e.g., investigation, repair, rescue etc. for industrial equipment, space exploration, human body etc. Fortunately, the micro-swimmers can be regarded as swimming in lo... Read More about Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot.

How firms in emerging economies can learn industry 4.0 by extracting knowledge from their foreign partners? A view point from strategic management perspective
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shamim, S., Cang, S., Yu, H., Li, Y., Chen, L. Y., & Yao, X. (2019, August). How firms in emerging economies can learn industry 4.0 by extracting knowledge from their foreign partners? A view point from strategic management perspective. Presented at 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

This study offers a view point from a strategic management perspective which shows that firms in emerging economies can learn Industry 4.0 from their foreign partners operating from developed economies, by developing knowledge based dynamic capabilit... Read More about How firms in emerging economies can learn industry 4.0 by extracting knowledge from their foreign partners? A view point from strategic management perspective.

Modelling and control of magnetic suspension systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, H., Yang, T., Rigas, D., & Jayawant, B. (2002, September). Modelling and control of magnetic suspension systems. Presented at 2002 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Glasgow, UK

The paper discusses the modelling and control of DC magnetic suspension systems. The dynamic model of magnetic suspension systems is first developed by using the Euler-Lagrange's formulation. The several important properties, which are very useful fo... Read More about Modelling and control of magnetic suspension systems.

An Interface between MATLAB and OPNET to Allow Simulation of WNCS with MANETs
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harding, C., Griffiths, A., & Yu, H. (2007, April). An Interface between MATLAB and OPNET to Allow Simulation of WNCS with MANETs. Presented at 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, UK

MATLAB is a software simulator which is good for simulating the mathematical modeling and feedback control, while OPNET is a software tool which is good for simulating the network communication behavior. However, currently simulating the communicatio... Read More about An Interface between MATLAB and OPNET to Allow Simulation of WNCS with MANETs.

Advanced scheduling methodologies for flexible manufacturing systems using Petri nets and heuristic search
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moro, A., Yu, H., & Kelleher, G. (2000, April). Advanced scheduling methodologies for flexible manufacturing systems using Petri nets and heuristic search. Presented at 2000 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, USA

The combination of Petri net (PN) and AI to solve flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) scheduling problems has been proven to be a promising approach. However, the NP-hard nature of the problem prevents the PN capability of reasoning about the behavi... Read More about Advanced scheduling methodologies for flexible manufacturing systems using Petri nets and heuristic search.

Simulation of Distributed Wireless Networked Control Systems over MANET using OPNET
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hasan, M. S., Yu, H., Griffiths, A., & Yang, T. C. (2007, April). Simulation of Distributed Wireless Networked Control Systems over MANET using OPNET. Presented at 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, UK

This paper investigates the simulation of distributed wireless networked control systems (WNCS) over mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The simulation model includes multiple plants with a single controller and random node mobility. The widely used netwo... Read More about Simulation of Distributed Wireless Networked Control Systems over MANET using OPNET.

On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, P., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2015, September). On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model. Presented at 2015 21st International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Glasgow, United Kingdom

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.