• OG-SLAM: a real-time and high-accurate monocular visual SLAM framework 

  Kuang, Boyu; Chen, Yuheng; Rana, Zeeshan A. (Peertechz, 2022-07-26)

  The challenge of improving the accuracy of monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered, which widely appears in computer vision, autonomous robotics, and remote sensing. A new framework (ORB-GMS-SLAM ...
• The importance of coupling aerodynamic and cost analysis in aircraft design 

  Di Pasquale, Davide; Savill, Mark (Springer, 2022-08-03)

  Companies are increasingly required to improve their quality, flexibility and innovation while maintaining or reducing their costs. However, engineering and finance are often handled by different staff groups at different ...
• Interaction of convective organisation with monsoon precipitation, atmosphere, surface and sea: the 2016 INCOMPASS field campaign in India 

  Turner, Tony; Bhat, G. S.; Martin, G. M.; Parker, D. J.; Taylor, C. M.; Mitra, A. K.; Tripathi, S. N.; Milton, S.; Rajagopal, E. N.; Evans, J.G.; Morrison, R.; Pattnaik, S.; Sekhar, M.; Bhattacharya, B. K.; Madan, R.; Govindankutty, Mrudula; Fletcher, J. K.; Willetts, P. D.; Menon, A.; Marsham, J. H.; INCOMPASS team (Royal Meteorological Society, 2019-08-12)

  The INCOMPASS field campaign combines airborne and ground measurements of the 2016 Indian monsoon, towards the ultimate goal of better predicting monsoon rainfall. The monsoon supplies the majority of water in South Asia, ...
• Influence of printing parameters on self-cleaning properties of 3D printed polymeric fabrics 

  Atwah, Ayat Adnan; Almutairi, Mohammed Dukhi; He, Feiyang; Khan, Muhammad A. (MDPI, 2022-07-31)

  The processes for making self-cleaning textile fabrics have been extensively discussed in the literature. However, the exploration of the potential for self-cleaning by controlling the fabrication parameters of the fabric ...
• Strain release behaviour during crack growth of a polymeric beam under elastic loads for self-healing 

  Almutairi, Mohammed Dukhi; Alnahdi, Sultan Saleh; Khan, Muhammad A. (MDPI, 2022-07-30)

  The response of polymeric beams made of Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) in the form of 3D printed beams is investigated to test their elastic and plastic responses under different ...
• ZnO nanoleaves with superior photodetection properties 

  Alenezi, Mohammad R.; Almeshal, Abdullah M.; Alkhaledic, Abdullah NFNR (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-07-19)

  Controlled multiphase hydrothermal synthesis technique was developed to design and grow hierarchical zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures with high surface-to-volume ratio. ZnO nanoleaves (ZNLs) and nanoflakes (ZNFs) assembled ...
• Discussion of wind turbine performance based on SCADA data and multiple test case analysis 

  Astolfi, Davide; Pandit, Ravi; Terzi, Ludovico; Lombardi, Andrea (MDPI, 2022-07-22)

  This work is devoted to the formulation of innovative SCADA-based methods for wind turbine performance analysis and interpretation. The work is organized as an academia–industry collaboration: three test cases are analyzed, ...
• Optimal droplet transfer mode maintenance for wire + arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) based on deep learning 

  Qin, Jian; Wang, Yipeng; Ding, Jialuo; Williams, Stewart (Springer, 2022-07-24)

  In the last decade, wire + arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), which is one of the most promising metal additive manufacturing technologies, has been attracting high interest from both academia and industry. WAAM systems ...
• Multi-criteria evaluation for sorting motion planner alternatives 

  Papaioannou, Georgios; Htike, Zaw; Lin, Chenhui; Siampis, Efstathios; Longo, Stefano; Velenis, Efstathios (MDPI, 2022-07-11)

  Automated vehicles are expected to push towards the evolution of the mobility environment in the near future by increasing vehicle stability and decreasing commute time and vehicle fuel consumption. One of the main limitations ...
• State of charge estimation of lithium sulfur batteries using sliding mode observer 

  Munisamy, Srinivasan; Wu, Wenxuan (IEEE, 2022-07-21)

  The lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are high energy storage systems that can be used for electric grid and solar power air vehicle applications. Such applications require an accurate state of charge (SOC) estimator to ...
• Enabling cryogenic hydrogen-based CO2-free air transport: meeting the demands of zero carbon aviation 

  Sethi, Vishal; Sun, Xiaoxiao; Nalianda, Devaiah; Rolt, Andrew; Holborn, Paul; Wijesinghe, Charith; Xisto, Carlos; Jonsson, Isak; Grönstedt, Tomas; Ingram, James; Lundbladh, Anders; Isikveren, Askin; Williamson, Ian; Harrison, Tom; Yenokyan, Anna (IEEE, 2022-06-02)

  Flightpath 2050 from the European Union (EU) sets ambitious targets for reducing the emissions from civil aviation that contribute to climate change. Relative to aircraft in service in year 2000, new aircraft in 2050 are ...
• Realistic simulation of drone micro-Doppler signatures 

  Bennett, Cameron; Harman, Stephen; Petrunin, Ivan (IEEE, 2022-06-02)

  This paper presents a novel approach to simulating micro-Doppler signatures caused by drones. The focus of this work is to produce realistic signatures that represent the variation that is observed in live radar measurements. ...
• Multi-objective NSGA-II based shape optimisation of the cross-sectional shape of passively cooled heat sinks 

  Santhanakrishnan, Mani Sekaran; Tilford, Tim; Bailey, Chris (Emerald, 2021-07-16)

  Purpose The purpose of the study is to optimise the cross-sectional shape of passively cooled horizontally mounted pin-fin heat sink for higher cooling performance and lower material usage. Design/methodology/approac ...
• Delivery route planning for unmanned aerial system in presence of recharging stations 

  Liu, Ruifan; Shin, Hyo-sang; Seo, Miuguk; Tsourdos, Antonios (AIAA, 2022-06-20)

  Existing variants of vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are incapable of describing real-world drone delivery scenarios in terms of drone physical restrictions, mission constraints, and stochastic operating environments. To ...
• Improved delayed detached eddy simulations applied to a NACA0015 aerofoil subject to acoustic excitation 

  Coskun, Seyfettin; Pachidis, Vassilios; Ubulom, Iroizan; Bacic, Marko (AIAA, 2022-06-20)

  The effect of acoustic excitation on the aerodynamic performance of NACA0015 aerofoil at $\alpha=11^{\circ}$ and $Re_c = 1.0 \ x 10^6$ based on $c=0.35m$ chord length is investigated numerically using Improved Delayed ...
• Rectifying homographies for stereo vision: analytical solution for minimal distortion 

  Lafiosca, Pasquale; Ceccaroni, Marta (Springer, 2022-07-07)

  Stereo rectification is the determination of two image transformations (or homographies) that map corresponding points on the two images, projections of the same point in the 3D space, onto the same horizontal line in the ...
• Incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion with sparse online Gaussian processes adaptation for partially unknown systems 

  Ignatyev, Dmitry; Tsourdos, Antonios (IEEE, 2022-08-01)

  Sensor-based Incremental control is a recently developed family of techniques with a reduced dependency on a plant model. This approach uses measurements or estimates of current state derivatives and actuator states to ...
• Food quality 4.0: From traditional approaches to digitalized automated analysis 

  Hassoun, Abdo; Jagtap, Sandeep; Garcia-Garcia, Guillermo; Trollman, Hana; Pateiro, Mirian; Lorenzo, José M.; Trif, Monica; Rusu, Alexandru; Aadil, Rana Muhammad; Šimat, Vida; Cropotova, Janna; Câmara, José S. (Elsevier, 2022-08-01)

  Food quality has recently received considerable attention from governments, researchers, and consumers due to the increasing demand for healthier and more nutritious food products. Traditionally, food quality is determined ...
• Flow and noise predictions of the isolated subsonic jets from the Doak Laboratory experiment 

  Gryazev, Vasily; Markesteijn, Annabel P.; Karabasov, Sergey A.; Lawrence, Jack; Proenca, Anderson (AIAA, 2022-06-13)

  Flow and noise solutions using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) are evaluated for two jets at acoustic Mach numbers 0.6 and 0.8. The jets correspond to Doak Laboratory Experiment performed at the University of Southampton. LES ...
• Strategic conflict management for performance-based urban air mobility operations with multi-agent reinforcement learning 

  Huang, Cheng; Petrunin, Ivan; Tsourdos, Antonios (IEEE, 2022-07-26)

  With the urban air mobility (UAM) quickly evolving, the great demand for public airborne transit and deliveries, besides creating a big market, will result in a series of technical, operational, and safety problems. This ...

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