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  • Yang, Lei; Lu, Chao; Xiong, Guangming; Xing, Yang; Gong, Jianwei (Elsevier, 2022-11-28)
    As a core part of an autonomous driving system, motion planning plays an important role in safe driving. However, traditional model- and rule-based methods lack the ability to learn interactively with the environment, and ...
  • Villalonga Torres, Mar; Elmi Tabassum, Tarafder; Petrunin, Ivan; Tsourdos, Antonios (AIAA, 2024-01-04)
    Acknowledging the vulnerabilities of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to various interferences, this research investigates alternative navigation solutions, essential for overcoming challenges where GNSS ...
  • Eker, Ömer Faruk (Cranfield University, 2015-01)
    This thesis presents a novel hybrid prognostic methodology, integrating physics-based and data-driven prognostic models, to enhance the prognostic accuracy, robustness, and applicability. The presented prognostic methodology ...
  • Elasha, Faris; Mba, David; Togneri, Michael; Masters, Ian; Amaral Teixeira, Joao (Elsevier, 2017-07-24)
    Tidal energy is one of promising solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and it is estimated that 100 TWh of electricity could be produced every year from suitable sites around the world. Although premature gearbox ...
  • Fernández del Amo, Iñigo; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Farsi, Maryam; Ariansyah, Dedy (Elsevier, 2021-12-18)
    In Industry 4.0, integrated data management is an important challenge due to heterogeneity and the lack of structure of numerous existing data sources. A relevant research gap involves human knowledge integration, especially ...
  • McCarty, J. L.; Loboda, T.; Trigg, Simon (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2008-04)
    Crop residue burning is an important land use activity in the United States. Currently, satellite-based burned area methodologies specifically calibrated for crop residue burning are limited. This article describes a ...
  • Oleghe, Omogbai; Salonitis, Konstantinos (Emerald, 2018-12-31)
    Purpose This study aims to seek to advance a system dynamics-discrete event hybrid simulation modelling concept useful for taking improvement decisions where one needs to consider the interactions between human factors ...
  • Leung, Tiga Ho Yin; Ignatyev, Dmitry I.; Zolotas, Argyrios (IEEE, 2022-03-22)
    There is a significant growth in autonomy level in off-road ground vehicles. However, unknown off-road environments are often challenging due to their unstructured and rough nature. To find a path that the robot can move ...
  • Brzezinka, Tomasz L.; Rao, Jeff; Chowdhury, Mohamad; Kohlscheen, Joern; Fox-Rabinovich, German S.; Veldhuis, Stephen C.; Endrino, José L. (MDPI, 2017-09-16)
    Combinatorial deposition, comprising filtered cathodic vacuum arc (FCVA) and physical vapor deposition (PVD) magnetron sputtering is employed to deposit molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) and titanium (Ti) thin films onto ...
  • Wei, Zhiyuan; Jafari, Soheil; Zhang, Shuguang; Nikolaidis, Theoklis (Elsevier, 2020-11-21)
    On-board modelling of gas turbine aero-engines over the life cycle is a promising solution for engine performance improvement and future aero-propulsion requirements. In this paper, an on-board modelling approach named ...
  • Zhang, Tao; Li, Huigui; Gong, Hai; Wu, Yunxin; Diao, Chenglei; Zhang, Xiaoyong; Williams, Stewart (Elsevier, 2021-09-08)
    Wire - arc additive manufacture (WAAM) is suitable for Inconel 718 components due to its high deposition efficiency. However, large columnar dendrites decrease the mechanical properties and can cause severe mechanical ...
  • Lv, Chen; Xing, Yang; Lu, Chao; Liu, Yahui; Guo, Hongyan; Gao, Hongbo; Cao, Dongpu (IEEE, 2018-02-21)
    The recognition of driver's braking intensity is of great importance for advanced control and energy management for electric vehicles. In this paper, the braking intensity is classified into three levels based on novel ...
  • Xing, Yang; Lv, Chen; Liu, Ya-hui; Zhao, Yifan; Cao, Dongpu; Kawahara, Sadahiro (IEEE, 2021-02-23)
    The emerging automated driving technology poses a new challenge on driver-automation collaboration. In this study, oriented by human-machine mutual understanding, a driver steering intention prediction method is proposed ...
  • Prime, David (2004-10)
    A Hydraulic Lung has been designed and constructed. The Hydraulic Lung can inhale through a Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) with a pre-determined level of inspiratory effort, and the characteristics of the inhalation profile ...
  • O'Neill, S. (Cranfield University, 2001-10)
    Water supply utilities worldwide are under pressure to meet stringent water quality and supply demands Service reservoirs (SRs) or treated water storage reservoirs have been built for the dual function of maintaining ...
  • Healey, M. (College of Aeronautics, 1964-08)
    Hydraulic Test Rig The rig comprises a grinding wheel head spindle driven by a motor and carrying an inertia load made up of detachable steel discs. On the opposite end of• the shaft to the motor is mounted a radial ...
  • Torres, Daniel; Jiang, Ying; Sanchez-Monsalve, D. A.; Leeke, Gary A. (Elsevier, 2020-05-04)
    A powder characterization method was developed to screen the ability of a range of chemicals and absorbents to retain chlorine from chlorinated plastic pyrolysis. The behaviour of adsorbents such as Al2O3 and zeolites, and ...
  • Garcin, Yannick; Schefuß, Enno; Dargie, Greta C.; Girkin, Nicholas T. (Springer, 2022-11-02)
    The forested swamps of the central Congo Basin store approximately 30 billion metric tonnes of carbon in peat1,2. Little is known about the vulnerability of these carbon stocks. Here we investigate this vulnerability using ...
  • De Vuyst, Tom (2003-03)
    This thesis addresses the problem of hydrocode modelling of water impact. Two facets that are of importance when numerically modelling the impact of metallic structures on water are metal anisotropy and water behaviour ...
  • Wei, Yujia; Yu, Shuangrui; Li, Xiang; Zhang, Chongwei; Ning, Dezhi; Huang, Luofeng (Elsevier, 2024-01-02)
    Research interest in breakwater design has increased recently due to the impetus to develop marine renewable energy systems, as breakwaters can be retrofitted to harness wave energy at the same time as attenuating it. This ...