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Direct flux control – sensorless control method of PMSM for all speeds – basics and constraints (2017)
Journal Article
Müller, T., See, C. H., Ghani, A., Bati, A., & Thiemann, P. (2017). Direct flux control – sensorless control method of PMSM for all speeds – basics and constraints. Electronics Letters, 53(16), 1110-1111. https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2017.1772

The limitations of sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) are discussed and a viable solution is proposed. The main concept of sensorless control of drives relies on additional information given by the machine during its... Read More about Direct flux control – sensorless control method of PMSM for all speeds – basics and constraints.

Zooming in on biomimicry: the potential of tensegrity structures (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., & Inzitari, G. (2017, July). Zooming in on biomimicry: the potential of tensegrity structures. Presented at PLEA 2017 - Passive and Low Energy Architecture

The foundations of biomimicry lie with the idea that Nature can inspire solutions to complex human problems. Biomimicry in Architecture is a rapidly growing field which also echoes the new paradigm of a circular economy. Recent applications of biomim... Read More about Zooming in on biomimicry: the potential of tensegrity structures.

Transforming challenges into opportunities in social housing: a case study from Italy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, L., Sablone, E., Rusconi Clerici, L., Consalez, L., & Pomponi, F. (2017, July). Transforming challenges into opportunities in social housing: a case study from Italy. Presented at PLEA 2017 - Passive and Low Energy Architecture

Social housing often aims to provide sheltering for people on low incomes or with particular needs. This results in a constraints-dominated context where environmental and social sustainability find little room. Neglecting environmental and social is... Read More about Transforming challenges into opportunities in social housing: a case study from Italy.

Bringing pupils into building energy performance: school design, construction and operation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pomponi, F., Medina Campos, L., Moncaster, A., & Smith, S. (2017, July). Bringing pupils into building energy performance: school design, construction and operation. Presented at PLEA 2017 - Passive and Low Energy Architecture

Colegio Rochester is school in Colombia with a strong vision for sustainability. This vision permeates the new school building which was the first school in Latin America to be awarded a LEED Gold certification. This article uses Colegio Rochester as... Read More about Bringing pupils into building energy performance: school design, construction and operation.

Process optimization for zero-liquid discharge desalination of shale gas flowback water under uncertainty (2017)
Journal Article
Onishi, V. C., Ruiz-Femenia, R., Salcedo-Díaz, R., Carrero-Parreño, A., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., Fraga, E. S., & Caballero, J. A. (2017). Process optimization for zero-liquid discharge desalination of shale gas flowback water under uncertainty. Journal of

Sustainable and efficient desalination is required to treat the large amounts of high-salinity flowback water from shale gas extraction. Nevertheless, uncertainty associated with well data (including water flowrates and salinities) strongly hampers t... Read More about Process optimization for zero-liquid discharge desalination of shale gas flowback water under uncertainty.

Investigation the impact of students background on their thermal perception at higher education building (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jowkar, M., Montazami, A., & Lunn, C. (2017). Investigation the impact of students background on their thermal perception at higher education building. In PLEA Conference Proceedings Volume 1 (740-747)

The quality of educational buildings can considerably affect teaching and learning processes. Literature shows that there is a significant relationship between students’ thermal perception and their performance. The UK higher education buildings host... Read More about Investigation the impact of students background on their thermal perception at higher education building.

Discrepancies between theoretical and actual heating demand in Scottish modern dwellings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bros Williamson, J., Stinson, J., Garnier, C., & Currie, J. (2017). Discrepancies between theoretical and actual heating demand in Scottish modern dwellings. In PLEA 2017 Proceedings - Design to Thrive (361-368)

The study reports on the differences between the actual heat consumption profiles of twelve dwellings monitored for four years and their predicted heat demand profiles as calculated by the UK Government’s Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP). This mon... Read More about Discrepancies between theoretical and actual heating demand in Scottish modern dwellings.

Changing Hats: From Academics to Entrepreneurs (2017)
Book Chapter
Bica, M., Sathyan, S., Aleksandrova, I., Dziobczenski, P., Alimohammadisagvand, B., & Mokammel, F. (2017). Changing Hats: From Academics to Entrepreneurs. In Y. Neuvo, E. Ormala, & M. Kuikka (Eds.), Bit Bang 9: Entrepreneurship (87-123). Aalto University

Frequency dependence of electroluminescence measurement in LDPE (2017)
Journal Article
Bani, N. A., Abdul-Malek, Z., Aris, S. A. M., Jalil, S. Z. A., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., Kaidi, H. M., …Rey, J. A. A. (2017). Frequency dependence of electroluminescence measurement in LDPE. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7(3)

A good insulator for high voltage cable has low dielectric loss, reasonable flexibility and thermo-mechanically stable. However, prolonged application of electrical stresses on the cable will degraded the cable; physically and morphologically. Electr... Read More about Frequency dependence of electroluminescence measurement in LDPE.

Potential of implementing the low concentration photovoltaic systems in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Abu-Bakar, S. H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Freier, D., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., Mallick, T. K., Munir, A. B., …Muhtazaruddin, M. N. (2017). Potential of implementing the low concentration photovoltaic systems in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Elect

This paper discusses the prospect of integrating a novel type of low concentration photovoltaic (LCPV) design known as the rotationally asymmetrical compound parabolic concentrator (RACPC) in a building in the United Kingdom. This is done by proposin... Read More about Potential of implementing the low concentration photovoltaic systems in the United Kingdom.

Hand Gesture Discrimination with Passive Infrared Sensor Arrays (2017)
Thesis
Wojtczuk, P. Hand Gesture Discrimination with Passive Infrared Sensor Arrays. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/979764

Gesture recognition is a natural way of non-verbal communication for humans. However it is technically challenging to capture the relatively undefined movement of body parts in free space and also extract the intended gestures. Many existing technolo... Read More about Hand Gesture Discrimination with Passive Infrared Sensor Arrays.

In search of intellectual stimulation: understanding the relationship between motivation, deep learning and stimulation in the HE classroom (2017)
Journal Article
Chowdhry, S., & Osowska, R. (2017). In search of intellectual stimulation: understanding the relationship between motivation, deep learning and stimulation in the HE classroom. Journal of Today's Ideas - Tomorrow's Technologies, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1

One of the key educational notions measured in the National Student Survey (NSS) is intellectual stimulation. This study aimed to find out Higher Education (HE) engineering students' views of intellectual stimulation with a focus on its measurement a... Read More about In search of intellectual stimulation: understanding the relationship between motivation, deep learning and stimulation in the HE classroom.

Fibre optic strain sensor for carbon concrete composites (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bremer, K., Weigand, F., Zheng, Y., Alwis, L. S. M., Kuhne, M., Helbig, R., & Roth, B. (2017). Fibre optic strain sensor for carbon concrete composites. In 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference

The work introduces textile based carbon structures that are functionalized with optical fibre sensors for structural health monitoring (SHM) of concrete based composites. The concept of the functionalized carbon reinforcement structure is shown in F... Read More about Fibre optic strain sensor for carbon concrete composites.

Seismic performance of strip foundations on liquefiable soils with a permeable crust (2017)
Journal Article
Dimitriadi, V., Bouckovalas, G., & Papadimitriou, A. (2017). Seismic performance of strip foundations on liquefiable soils with a permeable crust. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 100, 396-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2017.04.021

Modern seismic codes dictate that the use of shallow foundations on liquefiable soils may be considered only after appropriate ground improvement. No further instructions are given regarding the improvement depth, or what changes if the surface layer... Read More about Seismic performance of strip foundations on liquefiable soils with a permeable crust.

Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: the next performance gap made manifest. (2017)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2017). Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: the next performance gap made manifest. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.06.049

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming increasingly mainstream as an early-stage design-decision tool for buildings. Still, there are considerable variations in how the method is currently used, leading to limitations in comparing the results and th... Read More about Scrutinising embodied carbon in buildings: the next performance gap made manifest..

Link Budget Maximization for a Mobile-Band Subsurface Wireless Sensor in Challenging Water Utility Environments (2017)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Atojoko, A. A., McEwan, N. J., & Excell, P. S. (2018). Link Budget Maximization for a Mobile-Band Subsurface Wireless Sensor in Challenging Water Utility Environments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 65(1), 61

A subsurface chamber transceiver system and associated propagation channel link budget considerations for an underground wireless sensor system (UWSS) are presented: the application was a sewerage system for a water utility company. The UWSS operates... Read More about Link Budget Maximization for a Mobile-Band Subsurface Wireless Sensor in Challenging Water Utility Environments.

Low-gain Integral Control for Multi-Input, Multi-Output Linear Systems with Input Nonlinearities (2017)
Journal Article
Guiver, C., Logemann, H., & Townley, S. (2017). Low-gain Integral Control for Multi-Input, Multi-Output Linear Systems with Input Nonlinearities. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(9), 4776-4783. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2017.2691301

We consider the inclusion of a static anti-windup component in a continuous-time low-gain integral controller in feedback with a multi-input multi-output stable linear system subject to an input nonlinearity (from a class of functions that includes c... Read More about Low-gain Integral Control for Multi-Input, Multi-Output Linear Systems with Input Nonlinearities.

Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines. (2017)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Zhu, Z. Q., Li, G., Azar, Z., Thomas, A. S., Vedreño-Santos, F., & Odavic, M. (2017). Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines. I

This paper investigates the influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on the performance of superconducting (SC) generators. The SC generator has an iron-cored rotor topology. Firstly, the generator structure is introduced and the optimizati... Read More about Influence of pole number and stator outer diameter on volume, weight and cost of superconducting generator with iron-cored rotor topology for wind turbines..

Reporting Statistical Validity and Model Complexity in Machine Learning based Computational Studies (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olorisade, B. K., Brereton, P., & Andras, P. (2017). Reporting Statistical Validity and Model Complexity in Machine Learning based Computational Studies. In EASE'17: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Softwa

Background:: Statistical validity and model complexity are both important concepts to enhanced understanding and correctness assessment of computational models. However, information about these are often missing from publications applying machine lea... Read More about Reporting Statistical Validity and Model Complexity in Machine Learning based Computational Studies.