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Novel visual crack width measurement based on backbone double-scale features for improved detection automation (2022)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Huang, Z., Chen, Z., Chen, M., Zhou, H., Zhang, H., & Sun, J. (2023). Novel visual crack width measurement based on backbone double-scale features for improved detection automation. Engineering Structures, 274, Article 115158. https://doi.org/10

State-of-the-art machine-vision systems have limitations associated with crack width measurements. The sample points used to describe the crack width are often subjectively defined by experimenters, which obscures the crack width ground truth. Conseq... Read More about Novel visual crack width measurement based on backbone double-scale features for improved detection automation.

Aizerman Conjectures for a class of multivariate positive systems (2022)
Journal Article
Drummond, R., Guiver, C., & Turner, M. (2023). Aizerman Conjectures for a class of multivariate positive systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68(8), 5073 - 5080. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2022.3217740

The Aizerman Conjecture predicts stability for a class of nonlinear control systems on the basis of linear system stability analysis. The conjecture is known to be false in general. Here, a number of Aizerman conjectures are shown to be true for a cl... Read More about Aizerman Conjectures for a class of multivariate positive systems.

Roles of Medicinal Mushrooms as Natural Food Dyes and Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells (DSSC): Synergy of Zero Hunger and Affordable Energy for Sustainable Development (2022)
Journal Article
Ahmad, N., Vunduk, J., Klaus, A., Dahlan, N. Y., Ghosh, S., Muhammad-Sukki, F., …Wan-Mohtar, W. A. A. Q. I. (2022). Roles of Medicinal Mushrooms as Natural Food Dyes and Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells (DSSC): Synergy of Zero Hunger and Affordable Energy for

In 2015, approximately 195 countries agreed with the United Nations that by 2030, they would work to make the world a better place. There would be synergies in accomplishing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Synergy using a single sustaina... Read More about Roles of Medicinal Mushrooms as Natural Food Dyes and Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells (DSSC): Synergy of Zero Hunger and Affordable Energy for Sustainable Development.

EqualEngineers Pathways: Edinburgh and South East Scotland (2022)
Report
McBride-Wright, M., & Connell-Skinner, K. (2022). EqualEngineers Pathways: Edinburgh and South East Scotland. EqualEngineers

Edinburgh & South East Scotland needs more engineering and construction professionals by 2026; a huge opportunity across the region to address not just built environment skills gaps, but also take action on pre-existing inequalities evident in the in... Read More about EqualEngineers Pathways: Edinburgh and South East Scotland.

High Gain/Bandwidth Off-Chip Antenna Loaded with Metamaterial Unit-Cell Impedance Matching Circuit for Sub-Terahertz Near-Field Electronic Systems (2022)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Mariyanayagam, D., Vadalà, V., Naser-Moghadasi, M., See, C. H., … Limiti, E. (2022). High Gain/Bandwidth Off-Chip Antenna Loaded with Metamaterial Unit-Cell Impedance Matching Circuit for Sub-Terahertz Near-Field El

An innovative off-chip antenna (OCA) is presented that exhibits high gain and efficiency performance at the terahertz (THz) band and has a wide operational bandwidth. The proposed OCA is implemented on stacked silicon layers and consists of an open c... Read More about High Gain/Bandwidth Off-Chip Antenna Loaded with Metamaterial Unit-Cell Impedance Matching Circuit for Sub-Terahertz Near-Field Electronic Systems.

PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Jiang, C., Huang, K., Wu, J., Wang, X., Xiao, J., & Hussain, A. (2023). PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis. Information Fusion, 91, 316-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.10.016

Directly processing 3D point cloud data becomes dominant in classification and segmentation tasks. Present mainstream point based methods usually focus on learning in either geometric space ( PointNet++) or semantic space ( DGCNN). Owing to the irreg... Read More about PointGS: Bridging and fusing geometric and semantic space for 3D point cloud analysis.

Editorial and Career Development (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F. (2022, October). Editorial and Career Development. Presented at 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS2022), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1503. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101503

Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target’s data remains encrypted and is held captive by the attacker until a ransom demand is met. A common approach used by many c... Read More about Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification.

A three-stage criterion method for extracting local vibration modes of tensioned cables in beam string structures (2022)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, H. (2022). A three-stage criterion method for extracting local vibration modes of tensioned cables in beam string structures. Frontiers in Materials, 9, Article 1055635. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2022.1055635

As light and efficient large-span space structures, beam string structures have been widely used since the 1980s. Within them, cables are the main force-bearing component; their level of tension determines the overall stiffness, performance and struc... Read More about A three-stage criterion method for extracting local vibration modes of tensioned cables in beam string structures.

Risk and 4E analyses and optimization of a novel solar-natural gas-driven polygeneration system based on Integration of Gas Turbine–SCO2–ORC-solar PV-PEM electrolyzer (2022)
Journal Article
Khoshgoftar Manesh, M., Mehrabian, M., Nourpour, M., & Onishi, V. (2023). Risk and 4E analyses and optimization of a novel solar-natural gas-driven polygeneration system based on Integration of Gas Turbine–SCO2–ORC-solar PV-PEM electrolyzer. Energy, 2

Harnessing combustion gases is paramount to reducing the environmental impacts caused by burning fossil fuels. In this study, an innovative solar-natural gas-driven polygeneration system is proposed for the simultaneous production of power, oxygen, a... Read More about Risk and 4E analyses and optimization of a novel solar-natural gas-driven polygeneration system based on Integration of Gas Turbine–SCO2–ORC-solar PV-PEM electrolyzer.

Design of a Tri-Band Wearable Antenna for Millimeter-Wave 5G Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Ahmad, S., Boubakar, H., Naseer, S., Alim, M. E., Sheikh, Y. A., Ghaffar, A., …Parchin, N. O. (2022). Design of a Tri-Band Wearable Antenna for Millimeter-Wave 5G Applications. Sensors, 22(20), Article 8012. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22208012

A printed monopole antenna for millimeter-wave applications in the 5G frequency region is described in this research. As a result, the proposed antenna resonates in three frequency bands that are designated for 5G communication systems, including 28... Read More about Design of a Tri-Band Wearable Antenna for Millimeter-Wave 5G Applications.

An Efficient Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme Using Multichaos (2022)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Shah, A. A., Khan, J. S., Sajjad, M., Boulila, W., Akgul, A., …Ahmad, J. (2022). An Efficient Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme Using Multichaos. Security and Communication Networks, 2022, Article 5680357. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/56803

With an immense increase in Internet multimedia applications over the past few years, digital content such as digital images are stored and shared over global networks, the probability for information leakage and illegal modifications to the digital... Read More about An Efficient Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme Using Multichaos.

What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Brazier, D., Hall, H., & Webster, G. What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants. Presented at Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Conferen

Public libraries offer important services for newcomer populations, including forced migrants. They help facilitate the integration of forced migrants into the host country, increase their levels of trust within new communities, and build social capi... Read More about What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants.

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers (2022)
Journal Article
Gu, X., Li, M., Shen, L., Tang, G., Ni, Q., Peng, T., & Shen, Q. (2023). Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 31(5), 1703-1715. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3214241

Evolving intelligent systems (EISs), particularly, the zero-order ones have demonstrated strong performance on many real-world problems concerning data stream classification, while offering high model transparency and interpretability thanks to their... Read More about Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers.

A Deployable and Cost-Effective Kirigami Antenna for Sub-6 GHz MIMO Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Kiani, S. H., Marey, M., Rafique, U., Shah, S. I. H., Bashir, M. A., Mostafa, H., …Parchin, N. O. (2022). A Deployable and Cost-Effective Kirigami Antenna for Sub-6 GHz MIMO Applications. Micromachines, 13(10), Article 1735. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13

In this work, a low-cost, deployable, integratable, and easy-to-fabricate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Kirigami antenna is proposed for sub-6 GHz applications. The proposed MIMO antenna is inspired by Kirigami art, which consists of four rad... Read More about A Deployable and Cost-Effective Kirigami Antenna for Sub-6 GHz MIMO Applications.

Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bonet-Jara, J., Fernandez-Cavero, V., Vedreno Santos, F., & Pons-Llinares, J. (2022). Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations. In 2022 International Conference on Elect

Induction motors work under steady state in many applications. Nevertheless, in some cases (e.g., wood cutting machine or pulp mixer in paper industries), the load continuously varies. In these cases, time-frequency transforms are needed to detect th... Read More about Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations.

Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Horváth, D., Erdős, G., Istenes, Z., Horváth, T., & Földi, S. (2023). Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2), 1225-1243. https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2022.3207619

Robots working in unstructured environments must be capable of sensing and interpreting their surroundings. One of the main obstacles of deep-learning-based models in the field of robotics is the lack of domain-specific labeled data for different ind... Read More about Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications.