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Improved accuracy models for hourly diffuse solar radiation. (2006)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., & Munawwar, S. (2006). Improved accuracy models for hourly diffuse solar radiation. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 128, 104-117. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2148972

Solar energy applications require readily available, site-oriented, and long-term solar data. However, the frequent unavailability of diffuse irradiation, in contrast to its need, has led to the evolution of various regression models to predict it fr... Read More about Improved accuracy models for hourly diffuse solar radiation..

Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location (2006)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., Younes, S., Lambert, N., & Kubie, J. (2006). Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 220(6), 517-524. https://doi.org/10.1243/09576509jpe253

Performance of a 160 m 2 photovoltaic installation at the Napier University's Merchiston Campus, situated 3 km from Edinburgh's city centre, is presented. The alternative current and direct current electrical outputs have been recorded since the inst... Read More about Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location.

Artificial intelligence techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing (2006)
Journal Article
Yella, S., Dougherty, M. S., & Gupta, N. K. (2006). Artificial intelligence techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing. Insight - Non-Destructive Testing & Condition Monitoring, 48(1), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1784/insi.2006.48.1.10

This paper attempts to summarise the findings of a large
number of research papers deploying artificial intelligence
(AI) techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing (NDT). Problems in the rail transport domain... Read More about Artificial intelligence techniques for the automatic interpretation of data from non-destructive testing.

Circularly Polarised Micrsotrip Patch Antennas for Satellite Communications (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siddiqui, F., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. (2005, December). Circularly Polarised Micrsotrip Patch Antennas for Satellite Communications. Presented at 2005 Pakistan Section Multitopic Conference, Karachi, Pakistan

A circularly polarised microstrip patch antenna is proposed. The proposed antenna has a simple structure, consisting of a square patch with slots and using microstrip line feeding technique. The antenna design is successfully simulated and physically... Read More about Circularly Polarised Micrsotrip Patch Antennas for Satellite Communications.

Application of Robust Chattering-Reduction Sliding Mode Control Techniques for Position Control of a Vector-Controlled Induction Machine with Non-Linear Friction Dynamics (2005)
Journal Article
Goh, K. B., Dunnigan, M. W., & Williams, B. W. (2005). Application of Robust Chattering-Reduction Sliding Mode Control Techniques for Position Control of a Vector-Controlled Induction Machine with Non-Linear Friction Dynamics. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 219(8), 577-590. https://doi.org/10.1243/095965105x33635

Sliding mode control (SMC) methods possess several advantageous properties such as robustness against parameter variation, disturbance rejection, straightforward design, and are simple to implement. In this paper, a sliding mode control algorithm (wh... Read More about Application of Robust Chattering-Reduction Sliding Mode Control Techniques for Position Control of a Vector-Controlled Induction Machine with Non-Linear Friction Dynamics.

JCSP.mobile: a package enabling mobile processes and channels. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chalmers, K., & Kerridge, J. (2005, September). JCSP.mobile: a package enabling mobile processes and channels. Presented at Communicating Process Architectures 2005 WoTug 28

The JCSPNet package from Quickstone provides the capability of transparently creating a network of processes that run across a TCP/IP network. The package also contains mechanisms for creating mobile processes and channels through the use of filters... Read More about JCSP.mobile: a package enabling mobile processes and channels..

Combinational logic synthesis based on the dual form of Reed-Muller representation. (2005)
Thesis
Faraj, K. Combinational logic synthesis based on the dual form of Reed-Muller representation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4339

In certain applications, AND/XOR (Reed-Muller), and ORlXNOR (Dual
form of Reed-Muller) logic have shown some attractive advantages over the
standard Sum of Products (SOP) and Product of Sums (POS). Bidirectional
conversion algorithms between SOP a... Read More about Combinational logic synthesis based on the dual form of Reed-Muller representation..

A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J., Kukla, R., Willis, A., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., & Lei, L. (2003, October). A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements. Presented at Traffic and Granular Flow '03

We provide a comparison of the relative merits of video and infrared based methods for collecting pedestrian movements from the real world and also from experimental environments. We describe the underlying technological basis of both methods and the... Read More about A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements..

A comparison of continuous wavelet transform and modulus maxima analysis of characteristic ECG features. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romero Legarreta, I., Addison, P., Grubb, N. R., Clegg, G. R., Robertson, C. E., & Watson, J. N. (2005, September). A comparison of continuous wavelet transform and modulus maxima analysis of characteristic ECG features. Presented at Computers in Cardiology

The continuous wavelet transform (CWT) offers a valuable tool for the analysis of signals as it provides precise location in time of high frequency components. The selection of a mother wavelet with high correlation with the signal under study provid... Read More about A comparison of continuous wavelet transform and modulus maxima analysis of characteristic ECG features..

Review of interactive digital television pilot: final report. (2005)
Report
Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2005). Review of interactive digital television pilot: final report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. This report presents an evaluation of the Scottish iDTV (interactive Digital Television) pilot. The research reported here was commissioned by the Scottish Executive in May 2005, undertaken by Dr Colin Smith, Napier University a... Read More about Review of interactive digital television pilot: final report..

An evolutionary approach for symmetrical field programmable gate array placement. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, M., Almaini, A. E. A., Wang, L. Y., & Wang, P. (2005, July). An evolutionary approach for symmetrical field programmable gate array placement. Presented at Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics,

An evolutionary computation method is used to place a set of different Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) benchmark circuits on traditional symmetrical Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The experimental results are compared to the s... Read More about An evolutionary approach for symmetrical field programmable gate array placement..

Sensorless second-order sliding-mode speed control of a voltage-fed induction-motor drive using nonlinear state feedback (2005)
Journal Article
Rashed, M., Goh, K. B., Dunnigan, M. W., MacConnell, P. F. A., Stronach, A. F., & Williams, B. W. (2005). Sensorless second-order sliding-mode speed control of a voltage-fed induction-motor drive using nonlinear state feedback. IEE proceedings. Electric power applications, 152(5), 1127. https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-epa%3A20050042

A high-performance and robust sensorless speed-control scheme of a voltage-fed
induction motor has been developed in which the control of speed and flux is decoupled. A robust
control strategy, specifically a sliding-mode technique, is considered h... Read More about Sensorless second-order sliding-mode speed control of a voltage-fed induction-motor drive using nonlinear state feedback.

Experimental and CFD investigation of an ICSSWH at various inclinations (2005)
Journal Article
Henderson, D., Junaidi, H., Muneer, T., Grassie, T., & Currie, J. (2007). Experimental and CFD investigation of an ICSSWH at various inclinations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 11(6), 1087-1116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2005.11.003

The integrated collector storage (ICS) is the type of solar water heater that has retained its existance for well over a century. The flat absorber plate ICS collector type is a relatively recent addition. Being effective, low cost and simple to manu... Read More about Experimental and CFD investigation of an ICSSWH at various inclinations.

A novel low power FSM partition approach and its implementation. (2005)
Journal Article
Xia, Y., Ye, X., Wang, L. Y., Tao, J., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2005). A novel low power FSM partition approach and its implementation. NORCHIP Conference, 102-105. https://doi.org/10.1109/NORCHP.2005.1596999

A new Finite State Machine (FSM) partioning approach is proposed in this paper. A genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to search the optimal or near optimal solution. A new cost function is used to guide the optimisation. The proposed algorithm is impl... Read More about A novel low power FSM partition approach and its implementation..

Analysis of an agent-based metric-driven method for ad-hoc, on-demand routing (2005)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Migas, N., Sinclair, G., & McArtney, K. (2006). Analysis of an agent-based metric-driven method for ad-hoc, on-demand routing. Ad hoc networks, 4(2), 147-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2004.04.009

Ad-hoc networks could bring many benefits over traditional, fixed networks. Unfortunately, they have many difficulties, including the selection of the optimal route, the availability of routes as mobile nodes move around the physical space, and probl... Read More about Analysis of an agent-based metric-driven method for ad-hoc, on-demand routing.

Fast tabular based conversion methods for Canonical OR-Coincidence. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, M., Wang, P., Chen, X., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2005, November). Fast tabular based conversion methods for Canonical OR-Coincidence

Two fast conversion alogorithms based on tabular technique for Canonical OR-Coincidence (COC) expansions are introduced. By using bitwise operations, the Serial Tabular Technique (STT) can achieve speed of less than 2 seconds for 21 variables for ran... Read More about Fast tabular based conversion methods for Canonical OR-Coincidence..

Adaptive PN code synchronisation in DS-CDMA systems. (2005)
Thesis
Obiebi, J. Adaptive PN code synchronisation in DS-CDMA systems. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6198

Spread Spectrum (SS) communication, initially designed for military applications, is
now the basis for many of today's advanced communications systems such as Code
Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Global Positioning System (GPS), Wireless Local
Lo... Read More about Adaptive PN code synchronisation in DS-CDMA systems..

Five-valued circuit quantitative theory and design of five-valued twisted-ring. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, P., Liu, Y., Yang, M., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2005, October). Five-valued circuit quantitative theory and design of five-valued twisted-ring

This paper presents a six-valued algebra in order to form the theory of three essential elements for five-valued circuits, which is a mathematical tool for quantitative investigation on five-valued circuits. Based on the theory, the component level c... Read More about Five-valued circuit quantitative theory and design of five-valued twisted-ring..