Engineering: Conference Contributions
Recent Submissions
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3D Model Generation from a Stereo Camera using Multiple Viewpoints
(2004)This paper explores some existing methods commonly used in three dimensional (3D) model generation, in particular those which typically employ multiple cameras or multiple frames from one camera for image acquisition. A ... -
Anaerobic digestion of green wastes at different solids concentrations and temperatures to enhance methane generation
(2020)Two major categories of green waste are fruit and vegetable (FV) waste and garden and yard (GY) waste. Although, anaerobic digestions (AD) is able to manage FV waste; there is less confidence in the conditions for AD to ... -
Electrical Properties of molten TiO2-SiO2-Al2O3-MgO-CaO slag
(2020)Recently, the electrochemical recovery of metals from this molten slag has been proven feasible [1]. However, a deeper understanding of the electrochemical behaviour of this complex oxide system, in its molten state, is ... -
Towards a Classification Method for Gravity Pipeline Failures
(2019)Asset management planning for wastewater pipe networks typically uses an estimate of pipe life and scheduled replacement dates. Uncertainty in the process leads to large financial implications for local government. The ... -
Low Voltage Network Modelling
(2014)With the increasing uptake of new technologies (such as PV, wind, EVs and LED lighting) there is a need to study their effect on the low voltage (LV) network, and this is one objective of the Green Grid project. Although ... -
Test bench demonstration of the geometric wavefront sensor
(SPIE, 2020)This paper investigates the performance and optimization of the Geometric Wavefront Sensor (GWFS) in openloop wavefront sensing, along with the Curvature Wavefront Sensor (CWFS) and Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (SH-WFS). ... -
Board 48: Analysis of a Trial of Mentoring between Civil Engineering Students and Practicing Engineers
(ASEE Conferences, 2018)The paper briefly reviews the rich literature related to mentoring, with a focus on engineering mentoring in particular. That is followed by the details of our mentoring trial (the methods of the research), then the results ... -
An integrated local damping approach for enhanced characterization of nonlinear dynamic response
(2020)This paper develops a simplified local damping approach for use in the nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures so that different energy dissipation mechanisms can be integrated. It is argued that a local damping approach ... -
Empathy and yawn contagion: Can we (Humans) catch yawns from robots?
(ACM, 2014)Empathy plays an important role in the interaction between humans and robots. The contagious effect of yawning is moderated by the degree of social closeness and empathy. We propose to analyse the contagion of yawns as an ... -
I sing the body electric an experimental theatre play with robots [video abstract]
(IEEE, 2013)Robots seem to be natural candidates to be used as actors in theatre plays. The interest in robotic actors in performance led to several publications [1-3] and was also included in HRI 2012 conference video session [4], ... -
Dimensions of anthropomorphism: From humanness to humanlikeness
(ACM, 2014)In HRI anthropomorphism has been considered to be a unidimensional construct. However, social psychological studies of the potentially reverse process to anthropomorphisation - known as dehumanization - indicate that there ... -
Interacting with Anatomically Complete Robots: A Discussion about Human-robot Relationships
(ACM, 2018)© 2018 ACM. Abyss Creations LLC is selling highly realistic and anatomically complete dolls for decades. The interaction that customers have with the dolls has been subject to many controversial discussions. David Levy ... -
Cyclic tests of glulam frames with buckling restrained braces
(2020)In this study, an attempt was made to integrate BRBs to glulam frames to provide strength, stiffness, ductility and energy dissipation. Two 8 m wide, 3.6 m high full-scale BRB glulam frame (BRBGF) specimens were designed ... -
Investigating the compressive toe of post-tensioned CLT core-walls using particle tracking technology
(2020)Post-tensioned timber technology was originally developed and researched at the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand in 2005. It can provide a low-damage seismic design solution for multi-storey mass timber ... -
The Estimation of Radiation Exposure for Arcsecond Pico Star Tracker (APST) in Low Earth Orbit
(2016)In general COTS components have radiation tolerance of 1-10 Krad/year and untested components which are made up of silicon is estimated to have radiation tolerance up to 5 Krad. The primary idea of this paper is to estimate ...