Dr Hongnian Yu's Outputs (123)

Decentralised adaptive control of switched interconnected high-order nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and time-delay (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Hua, C., Yu, H., & Guan, X. (2019). Decentralised adaptive control of switched interconnected high-order nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and time-delay. International Journal of Control, 92(4), 875-885. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2017.1372634

This paper studies the dynamic state feedback control problem for a class of interconnected large-scale switched high-order nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and time-varying time-delay. The adaptive laws are designed to estimate the b... Read More about Decentralised adaptive control of switched interconnected high-order nonlinear systems with unknown control direction and time-delay.

Usability evaluation of assistive technologies through qualitative research focusing on people with mild dementia (2017)
Journal Article
Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2018). Usability evaluation of assistive technologies through qualitative research focusing on people with mild dementia. Computers in Human Behavior, 79, 192-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.08.034

The assistive technologies (ATs) are commonly used for the wellbeing of people with dementia (PWD). Research shows that current ATs are not performing to their best and high rate of AT abandonment still exist. Although empirical evaluations greatly i... Read More about Usability evaluation of assistive technologies through qualitative research focusing on people with mild dementia.

Green IoT: An Investigation on Energy Saving Practices for 2020 and Beyond (2017)
Journal Article
Arshad, R., Zahoor, S., Shah, M. A., Wahid, A., & Yu, H. (2017). Green IoT: An Investigation on Energy Saving Practices for 2020 and Beyond. IEEE Access, 5, 15667-15681. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2017.2686092

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging concept, which aims to connect billions of devices with each other. The IoT devices sense, collect, and transmit important information from their surroundings. This exchange of very large amount of information... Read More about Green IoT: An Investigation on Energy Saving Practices for 2020 and Beyond.

A novel human-carrying quadruped walking robot (2017)
Journal Article
Sang, L., Wang, H., Yu, H., & Vladareanu, L. (2017). A novel human-carrying quadruped walking robot. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 14(4), Article 172988141771659. https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881417716592

This article adopts a 2-UPS+UP (U, P, and S are universal joint, the prismatic joint, and sphere joint, respectively) parallel mechanism as the leg mechanism of the quadruped walking robot based on the bionic concept and the motion capacity of the le... Read More about A novel human-carrying quadruped walking robot.

Distributed Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control of Stochastic Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Local Quantized Controller and Tracking Constraint (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Hua, C., Yu, H., & Guan, X. (2019). Distributed Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control of Stochastic Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Local Quantized Controller and Tracking Constraint. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(4), 787-796. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.2017.2701344

This paper studies the distributed adaptive fuzzy containment tracking control for a class of high-order stochastic pure-feedback nonlinear multiagent systems with multiple dynamic leaders and performance constraint requirement. The control inputs ar... Read More about Distributed Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control of Stochastic Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Local Quantized Controller and Tracking Constraint.

Impact of knowledge oriented leadership on knowledge management behaviour through employee work attitudes (2017)
Journal Article
Shamim, S., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2019). Impact of knowledge oriented leadership on knowledge management behaviour through employee work attitudes. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(16), 2387-2417. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1323772

Despite the acknowledged importance of knowledge management (KM), many employees avoid practicing KM at the individual level. This avoidance often leads to loss of the intellectual capital due to employee turnover. Many potential behavioural remedies... Read More about Impact of knowledge oriented leadership on knowledge management behaviour through employee work attitudes.

Predicting the relationships between virtual enterprises and agility in supply chains (2017)
Journal Article
Samdantsoodol, A., Cang, S., Yu, H., Eardley, A., & Buyantsogt, A. (2017). Predicting the relationships between virtual enterprises and agility in supply chains. Expert Systems with Applications, 84, 58-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.037

In the recent advanced information communications and technology (ICT) era, collaborating virtually and temporarily in supply chains (SCs) to receive mutual benefits such as agility while sharing resources and information becomes an important strateg... Read More about Predicting the relationships between virtual enterprises and agility in supply chains.

Examining the Feasibilities of Industry 4.0 for the Hospitality Sector with the Lens of Management Practice (2017)
Journal Article
Shamim, S., Cang, S., Yu, H., & Li, Y. (2017). Examining the Feasibilities of Industry 4.0 for the Hospitality Sector with the Lens of Management Practice. Energies, 10(4), Article 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/en10040499

Industry 4.0 and its impact in the manufacturing sector are well documented. However, the service sector is understudied, and it is also facing the challenges of mass customization, digital enhancement, smart work environment, and efficient supply ch... Read More about Examining the Feasibilities of Industry 4.0 for the Hospitality Sector with the Lens of Management Practice.

Assistive technology for people with dementia: an overview and bibliometric study (2017)
Journal Article
Asghar, I., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2017). Assistive technology for people with dementia: an overview and bibliometric study. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 34(1), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12173

Background
This study presents an overview of recent research activities in assistive technology (AT) for people with dementia. Bibliometric studies are used to explore breadth and depth of different research areas, yet this method has not yet been... Read More about Assistive technology for people with dementia: an overview and bibliometric study.

IEEE 802.15.4 Frame Aggregation Enhancement to Provide High Performance in Life-Critical Patient Monitoring Systems (2017)
Journal Article
Akbar, M. S., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2017). IEEE 802.15.4 Frame Aggregation Enhancement to Provide High Performance in Life-Critical Patient Monitoring Systems. Sensors, 17(2), Article 241. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17020241

In wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs), Quality of Service (QoS) provision for patient monitoring systems in terms of time-critical deadlines, high throughput and energy efficiency is a challenging task. The periodic data from these systems g... Read More about IEEE 802.15.4 Frame Aggregation Enhancement to Provide High Performance in Life-Critical Patient Monitoring Systems.

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. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/7170943

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, July). Management approaches for Industry 4.0: A human resource management perspective. Presented at 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Vancouver, BC, Canada

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, 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.

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, 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.

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, 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.