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Power Consumption Analysis For Smarter Robotics Via Industry 4.0 Methods And Technologies RS HYu V2 (2024)
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. (2024)
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

ADRC Based Multi-task Priority Tracking Control for Collaborative Robots (2022)
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 (2022)
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 (2022)
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.

A case study: effect of wrist sensor displacement on HAR performance using LSTM and attention mechanism (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, X., Wang, Y., Lu, C., Yu, H., He, H., & Li, Z. (2021, December). A case study: effect of wrist sensor displacement on HAR performance using LSTM and attention mechanism. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), Tokyo, Japan

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Beg, M., Sun, D., Popescu, C., Alcock, K. M., Onyianta, A. J., O'Rourke, D., Goh, K., & Yu, H. (2021, September). Processing and characterisation of water hyacinth cellulose nanofibres-based aluminium-ion battery separators. Presented at 2021 26th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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)
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.

Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, S., Yang, L., Huo, B., Wu, M., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Presented at 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference, Zhanjiang, China

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cao, G., Shi, H., Xia, D., Zheng, Y., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints. Presented at 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference, Zhanjiang, China

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jiang, J., Yao, X., Yang, E., Mehnen, J., & Yu, H. (2020, July). An Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Mobile Robot Path Planning Analogous to the Ordered Clustered TSP. Presented at 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Glasgow, United Kingdom

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)
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.

Design and Modelling of a Micro Swimming Robot (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
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.

Energy-Efficient Design and Control of a Vibro-Driven Robot (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
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.

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.

On periodically pendulum-diven systems for underactuated locomotion: A viscoelastic jointed model (2015)
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.

Feasibility of NeuCube spiking neural network architecture for EMG pattern recognition (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, L., Hou, Z., Kasabov, N., Bian, G., 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.

Activity classification using a single wrist-worn accelerometer (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chernbumroong, S., Atkins, A. S., & Yu, H. (2011, September). Activity classification using a single wrist-worn accelerometer. Presented at 5th International Conference on Software, Knowledge Information, Industrial Management and Applications (SKIMA 2011), Benevento, Italy

Automatic identification of human activity has led to a possibility of providing personalised services in different domains i.e. healthcare, security and sport etc. With advancement in sensor technology, automatic activity recognition can be done in... Read More about Activity classification using a single wrist-worn accelerometer.

Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, H., Liu, Y., & Yang, T. (2007). Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.1109/icsmc.2007.4413859

In this paper, we use an example - a pendulum-driven cart-pole system studied in Li et al. (2005) to investigate the tracking control of underactuated dynamic systems. In this paper, we propose a six-step motion strategy of the pendulum driven cart-p... Read More about Tracking control of a pendulum-driven cart-pole underactuated system.

An Interface between MATLAB and OPNET to Allow Simulation of WNCS with MANETs (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harding, C., Griffiths, A., & Yu, H. (2007). An Interface between MATLAB and OPNET to Allow Simulation of WNCS with MANETs. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control. https://doi.org/10.1109/icnsc.2007.372867

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.

Simulation of Distributed Wireless Networked Control Systems over MANET using OPNET (2007)
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.

Modelling and control of magnetic suspension systems (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, H., Yang, T., Rigas, D., & Jayawant, B. (2002). Modelling and control of magnetic suspension systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Control Applications. https://doi.org/10.1109/cca.2002.1038729

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.

Advanced scheduling methodologies for flexible manufacturing systems using Petri nets and heuristic search (2000)
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.