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ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Fan, K., Liu, Y., Zhang, K., Bian, G., & Yu, H. (2022). ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots. In Artificial Intelligence: Second CAAI International Conference, CICAI 2022, Beijing, China, August 27–28, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part III (439-450). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20503-3_35

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.

Improved Cascade Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Functional Electrical Stimulation Based Wrist Tremor Suppression System Considering the Effect of Output Noise (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Tao, C., Zhang, Z., Huo, B., Liu, Y., Li, J., & Yu, H. (2022). Improved Cascade Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Functional Electrical Stimulation Based Wrist Tremor Suppression System Considering the Effect of Output Noise. In Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2022 (232-244). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13822-5_21

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.

An Improved Point-to-Feature Recognition Algorithm for 3D Vision Detection (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Li, J., Guo, Q., Gao, G., Tang, S., Min, G., Li, C., & Yu, H. (2022). An Improved Point-to-Feature Recognition Algorithm for 3D Vision Detection. In Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2022 (197-209). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13822-5_18

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.

A case study: effect of wrist sensor displacement on HAR performance using LSTM and attention mechanism (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, X., Wang, Y., Lu, C., Yu, H., He, H., & Li, Z. (2022). A case study: effect of wrist sensor displacement on HAR performance using LSTM and attention mechanism. In 2021 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS) (103-108). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAMechS54019.2021.9661535

Loose wearing or self-placement usually causes sensor displacement, which can deteriorate the performance of classifiers in real use. As a case study, this paper focuses on investigating the effect of wrist-worn sensor displacement on human activity... Read More about A case study: effect of wrist sensor displacement on HAR performance using LSTM and attention mechanism.

Processing and characterisation of water hyacinth cellulose nanofibres-based aluminium-ion battery separators (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Beg, M., Sun, D., Popescu, C., Alcock, K. M., Onyianta, A. J., O'Rourke, D., …Yu, H. (2021). Processing and characterisation of water hyacinth cellulose nanofibres-based aluminium-ion battery separators. In 2021 26th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). https://doi.org/10.23919/icac50006.2021.9594191

Water hyacinth is an invasive plant that can be converted to high value cellulose nanofibers. This study presents battery separators prepared from water hyacinth cellulose nanofibres (WHCNF) via a freeze-thawing crosslinking method, using polyethylen... Read More about Processing and characterisation of water hyacinth cellulose nanofibres-based aluminium-ion battery separators.

User Emotion Direction for Recommendation Systems-A Decade Review (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Chanrueang, S., Thammaboosadee, S., Goh, K., & Yu, H. (2021). User Emotion Direction for Recommendation Systems-A Decade Review. In 2021 The 26th International Conference on Automation & Computing: System Intelligence through Automation & Computing. https://doi.org/10.23919/icac50006.2021.9594209

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.

Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Song, S., Yang, L., Huo, B., Wu, M., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2022). Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning. In Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference (389-397). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6372-7_44

Recent years, the research of gesture recognition based on surface EMG signal has become an active topic. The conventional methods mainly focus on feature engineering, but the sEMG signal is non-stationary temporally, which makes proper feature desig... Read More about Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning.

Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Cao, G., Shi, H., Xia, D., Zheng, Y., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2022). Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints. In Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference (524-533). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6372-7_58

Fabricated by superelastic materials, soft actuators are an emerging field to provide a solution of safe interaction with complicated, unstructured and frequently brittle work environments, while they also bear challenges in fragility and controlling... Read More about Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints.

An Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning Analogous to the Ordered Clustered TSP (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, J., Yao, X., Yang, E., Mehnen, J., & Yu, H. (2020). An Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning Analogous to the Ordered Clustered TSP. In 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/cec48606.2020.9185672

The material transportation planning with a mobile robot can be regarded as the ordered clustered traveling salesman problem. To solve such problems with different priorities at stations, an improved adaptive genetic simulated annealing algorithm is... Read More about An Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning Analogous to the Ordered Clustered TSP.

How firms in emerging economies can learn industry 4.0 by extracting knowledge from their foreign partners? A view point from strategic management perspective (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Shamim, S., Cang, S., Yu, H., Li, Y., Chen, L. Y., & Yao, X. (2019). How firms in emerging economies can learn industry 4.0 by extracting knowledge from their foreign partners? A view point from strategic management perspective. In 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS). https://doi.org/10.1109/icamechs.2019.8861622

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.

Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Yuan, F., Hasan, M. S., & Yu, H. (2019). Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot. In 2019 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS). https://doi.org/10.1109/icamechs.2019.8861606

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.

Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Zhao, Y., Wei, H., Li, P., Li, G., Qi, L., & Yu, H. (2019). Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot. In Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 12th International Conference, ICIRA 2019, Shenyang, China, August 8–11, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (519-530). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27532-7_46

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.

Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Liu, P., Neumann, G., Fu, Q., Pearson, S., & Yu, H. (2018). Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot. In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2018.8594322

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.

Management approaches for Industry 4.0: A human resource management perspective (2016)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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.org/10.1109/iconac.2016.7604954

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.

A systematic mapping study on assitive technologies for people with dementia (2015)
Conference Proceeding
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/skima.2015.7399989

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.

On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model (2015)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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.org/10.1109/icamechs.2015.7287090

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.