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An Overview of Assistive Robotics and Technologies for Elderly Care
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Population ageing is already having an impact on societies. This study briefly reviews associated technologies employed within the framework of elderly care, namely: robotic nursing, ambient assisted living and assistive ...
The Mesochronous Dual-Clock FIFO Buffer
(2020)
To increase system composability and facilitate timing closure, fully synchronous clocking is replaced by more relaxed clocking schemes, such as mesochronous clocking. Under this regime, the modules at the two ends of a ...
Active Contamination Detection in Water-Distribution Systems
(2020)
In this paper, we propose a novel methodology for altering the area monitored by water quality sensors in water distribution systems (WDS) when there is suspicion of a contamination event. The proposed active contamination ...
Optimal Elevator Group Control via Deep Asynchronous Actor-Critic Learning
(2020)
In this article, a new deep reinforcement learning (RL) method, called asynchronous advantage actor-critic (A3C) method, is developed to solve the optimal control problem of elevator group control systems (EGCSs). The main ...
Distributed Fault-Tolerant Control of Multiagent Systems: An Adaptive Learning Approach
(2020)
This paper focuses on developing a distributed leader-following fault-tolerant tracking control scheme for a class of high-order nonlinear uncertain multiagent systems. Neural network-based adaptive learning algorithms are ...
Performance, Modelling and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems
(Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020)
This book provides a comprehensive range of topics for monitoring, modelling and assessing the performance of photovoltaic plants, and enabling effective asset management. Using real-world data, the book emphasises practical ...
An efficient Navier-Stokes based numerical wave tank using fast Poisson solvers and the immersed boundary method
(2020)
An efficient numerical model for wave induced flows and their interaction with impermeable coastal structures, is presented. Using recent developments in the field of two-fluid (water/air) Navier-Stokes (NS) simulations, ...
Variable property DNS of differentially heated cavities filled with air
(2020)
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the thermally-driven flow of air inside differentially heated cavities (DHC) are presented. The variation of air properties is taken into account using the low-Mach approximation, to ...
Educational Robotics Competitions and Involved Methodological Aspects
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)
The present article provides perspectives on educational robotics competitions based on teaching experiences with university students as well as the organization of “Robotex Cyprus”, a widely-attended annual event. The ...
Specific Absorption Rate-Aware Beamforming in MISO Downlink SWIPT Systems
(2020)
This paper investigates the optimal transmit beamforming design of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in the multiuser multiple-input-single-output (MISO) downlink with specific absorption rate ...