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Papers by Mahmoud Shafik

Research paper thumbnail of Computer Aided Design of Self-Learning Robotic System Using Imitation Learning

Advances in transdisciplinary engineering, Nov 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI), imitation learning, big data, cloud and distributed computing, robo... more Artificial intelligence (AI), imitation learning, big data, cloud and distributed computing, robotics cells, and information communication technology, are some of the key tools and elements of the future digital and smart manufacturing facility. There are a number of challenges that digital and smart manufacturing is facing, especially with the complication of AI (i.e., machine, deep and cognitive learning) algorithms, great amount of data to process, and essential complex coding required, which makes immediate changes needed in manufacturing facilities not straightforward. This is notable in small manufacturing cells which is an integrated part of future smart factories such manufacturing facilities are usually needed some annual and regular updates to meet the update in the design specifications of next generation of products. Imitation learning is offering a great opportunity to overcome these challenges and simplify such complications, where human skills, ability to perform specific tasks, knowledge, and talent could be transferred. This is conveying the knowledge, and skills transfer using imitation learning. However, smart manufacturing and industrial revolution needs robotics cells that has skills beyond this, especially when it comes to process optimisation. Therefore, deep imitation learning could come in to help in the development of self-learning robotic systems and cells. Of course with the powerful tools such as distributed computing, blockchain, cloud computing, edge computing, and 5G the collaboration between such self-learning robotic cells will be possible. This will certainly not eliminate human existence but will enhance the manufacturing environment. This paper is focused on presenting the outcomes of CAD simulation and modelling phase of the ongoing research programme that focused on developing a self-learning robotic system using imitation learning. CAD tools have been used and some initial results is presented. Further work is still undertaken, and this will focus on learning from more than one expert, optimisation, impact of dynamic manufacturing environment.

Research paper thumbnail of Cyber Security Biometric Solution Using Automatic Matching and Deep Learning

Advances in transdisciplinary engineering, Nov 8, 2022

Biometrics is an alternative solution to the old means of identity verification, such as access c... more Biometrics is an alternative solution to the old means of identity verification, such as access cards. However, monomodal biometric systems suffer from multiple limitations, such as the noise introduced by the sensor and nonuniversality. Multi-biometrics allows us to overcome these problems and thus obtain better performance. Multimodal biometrics, using deep learning, has recently gained interest over single biometric modalities. In this work, we propose a deep learning model for persons identification/verification using Face and Iris traits. The features of the iris and the face are extracted utilizing the DenseNet121 and FaceNet models, and these features are merged using a feature-level fusion scheme. We also proposed a new automatic matching technique to verify the person's identity. The results presented in this paper show interest in deep learning approaches for face and iris recognition, especially when models are pre-trained. The results also highlighted the interest in the proposed DenseNet121-FaceNet model and the automatic matching method compared to the standard threshold selection according to the Equal Error Rate point.

Research paper thumbnail of A smart 3D ultrasonic actuator for unmanned vehicle guidance industrial applications

A smart piezoelectric ultrasonic actuator with multidegree of freedom for unmanned vehicle guidan... more A smart piezoelectric ultrasonic actuator with multidegree of freedom for unmanned vehicle guidance industrial applications is presented in this paper. The proposed actuator is aiming to increase the visual spotlight angle of digital visual data capture transducer. Furthermore research are still undertaken to integrate the actuator with an infrared sensor, visual data capture digital transducers and obtain the trajectory of motion control algorithm. The actuator consists of three main parts, the stator, rotor and housing unit. The stator is a piezoelectric ring made from S42 piezoelectric material, bonded to three electrodes made from a material that has a close Characteristics to the S42. The rotor is a ball made from steel material. The actuator working principles is based on creating micro elliptical motions of surface points, generated by superposition of longitudinal and bending vibration modes, of oscillating structures. Transferring this motion from flexible ring transducer t...

Research paper thumbnail of A 3D Sustainable Renewable Micro Power Station for Smart Grid Applications

International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2015

The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across t... more The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across the world, due to the limitations of fossil fuels resources usages for energy generations, the relative high dependency on imported fuels, their ever climbing prices and its environmental impacts. Power supply must increase as rapidly as demand to ensure sustained growth. This is the rationale upon which Governments, international organizations, researchers are accelerating investments in expanding the power system, its generation and transmission. This paper presents the preliminary research undertaken to design and develop a 3Dimentional (3D) sustainable renewable micro power station model for smart grid industrial applications. It introduces a solution to challenges in the energy generation sector which do not only refrain only to the safe supply of clean Energy. A major importance for the theoretical study of hybrid systems, based on renewable energy (photovoltaic, wind, hydro system) is the availability of the models that can be utilized to study the behavior of hybrid systems and most important, computer aided design simulation tools. As the available tools are quite limited, this paper would present the most current and up to date model which can be used for the simulation purposes of the 3D sustainable renewable micro power station for smart grid applications as well as for educational purposes.

Research paper thumbnail of An Intelligent Medical Care Solution for Elderly People with Long Term Health Condition Based on Wireless Sensors Network Technology

International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2016

Older Adults are facing serious difficulties, on a regular basis, to manage their own daily life ... more Older Adults are facing serious difficulties, on a regular basis, to manage their own daily life activities. To live independently and have a good quality of life is quite a challenge, since the majorly of them have long term health condition diseases. Health services providers across EU, informal and formal carer plays major roles in providing the necessary services and support. Diseases on this society are one of the leading causes of death, from which thousands of people die every year. Many of the non-communicable diseases can be prevented by tackling associated risk factors. The cost of treatment of such diseases in the EU is estimated to be over 70% of the Health Service budget. Treatment includes home-care, medication, consultation and many other relevant services. However, these services are still not adequate, due to the lack of implemented technology that enable the older adults to manage their daily life activities independently, taking medications, receive the necessary health services on time, which, in many cases leads to loss of lives and waste of NHS resources. Daily life activities management and telehealth remote monitoring system is one of the potential innovative approaches, to improve the older adult's quality of life, help live independently, improve NHS services, sustain its economic growth and improve social development. It is a rapidly developing concept where daily life activities, health condition, medical information is transferred through interactive data, and audiovisual media and shared between services provider, informal and formal carer. This paper presents the initial outcomes of the ongoing research program that is planned to develop an Integrated Assisted Living Technology (ALT) multi-functional case driven wireless ad-hoc management system of the daily life activities of older adults using smart sensors and actuators, 3d-video, audio, radio frequency identification and wireless technology, combined with secure cloud and semantic data engineering.

Research paper thumbnail of Deployment of Assisted Living Technology Solution Platform using Smart Body Sensors for Elderly People Health Monitoring

International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2017

Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available in the market to the end-users ... more Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available in the market to the end-users with long term health condition have no common inter-operational protocol. Each product has its own communication protocols, different interfaces and interoperation which limits their solution reliability, flexibility and efficiency. This paper presents assisted living platform solution for elderly people with long term health condition based on wireless sensors networking technology. The system includes multi feedback sensor arrangements for monitoring, such as: blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Each sensor has been integrated with the necessary near real time embedded and wireless protocols that allow data collection, transfer and interoperate in ad-hoc bases. The data will be communicated wirelessly to central data base system and shared though cloud network. The collected data will be processed and relevant intelligent algorithms will be deployed to ensure certain actions taken place when health condition warnings arise. These warnings to be communicated to relevant carer, General Practitioner (GP) and health authority to take the necessary action and steps to handle such end user health condition warnings. The proposed solution system will provide the flexibility to analyse most of the health conditions based on near real time monitoring technology. It will enable the population of elderly with long term health condition to manage their daily life activities within multiple environments i.e. from their comfort home, care centres and hospitals. The data and information will be treated with high confidentiality to ensure end-users integrity and dignity have been maintained.

Research paper thumbnail of An ultrasonic atomisation unit for heat and moisture exchange humidification device for intensive care medicine applications

The state of the art of the existing heat and moisture exchange (HME) technology in use concludes... more The state of the art of the existing heat and moisture exchange (HME) technology in use concludes that there are two main artificial humidification HME devices: active and passive device. The active device is complicated to use and expensive. The passive HME device is the preferred one, due to the ease of use and low cost. However it is not suitable for more than 24 hour use. This is due to current devices cavity design, limitations of HME materials performance and overall device efficiency. This paper presents the outcomes of the research work carried out to overcome these teething issues and presents a piezoelectric ultrasonic atomisation device for passive humidification device. This aims to improve the device heat and moisture exchange (HME) materials performance, by recovering the accumulated moisture, for a greater patient care. The atomisation device design, structure, working principles and analysis using finite element analysis (FEA) is discussed and presented in this paper...

Research paper thumbnail of D Sustainable Renewable Micro Power Station for Smart Grid Industrial Applications

The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across t... more The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across the world, due to the limitations of fossil fuels resources usages for energy generations, the relative high dependency on imported fuels, their ever climbing prices and its environmental impacts. Power supply must increase as rapidly as demand to ensure sustained growth. This is the rationale upon which Governments, international organizations, researchers are accelerating investments in expanding the power system, its generation and transmission. This paper presents the preliminary research undertaken to design and develop a 3Dimentional (3D) sustainable renewable micro power station model for smart grid industrial applications. It introduces a solution to challenges in the energy generation sector which do not only refrain only to the safe supply of clean Energy. A major importance for the theoretical study of hybrid systems, based on renewable energy (photovoltaic, wind, hydro system)...

Research paper thumbnail of Deployment of assisted living technology using intelligent body sensors platform for elderly people health monitoring

Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available to the end-users as off-shelf p... more Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available to the end-users as off-shelf products have no common inter-operational protocol (Language). Each product has its own communication protocols, different interfaces and interoperation which limits their solution efficiency for long term health condition monitoring systems. This paper presents assisted living technology (ALT) solution for elderly people based on wireless sensors networking technology. The system includes biofeedback monitoring body sensors, such as: blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Each sensor has been integrated with the necessary real time embedded protocol and system to work in ad-hoc bases. The data will be send wirelessly and shared though cloud network. The collected data will be processed and relevant algorithms will be deployed to take certain actions when any changes occur or health warnings arise. These will be treated with high confidentiality to ensure end-users integrity and dignity have been maintained. The proposed solution system will provide the flexibility to analyse most of the health conditions based on near real time monitoring technology. It will also enable the population of elderly to manage their daily life activities within multiple environments i.e. from their comfort home, care centers and hospitals.

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial note: Innovation is the only pathway for manufacturer, visionary and scholars, to improve the quality of human beings daily life

Journal of robotics and mechatronics, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of A vibration measurement system for deaf people’s emergency apparatus

A vibration measurement system for deaf people’s emergency warning equipment is presented in this... more A vibration measurement system for deaf people’s emergency warning equipment is presented in this paper. Deaf alarm devices are among the most supportive products that help to alert deaf people in various emergency circumstances. Applicable British standards recommend that acceptable working parameters for such products are frequency: 25 to 150 Hz, enough vibration strength, intensity and stable performance against lifetime. This paper presents research that has been conducted to test and validate the performance of a variety of alerting devices using the proposed vibration measurement system. It introduces the laboratory arrangements, practical measurements carried out and its compliance with the British standards. The products investigated were the Mk I, Mk II Deaf Alerters, the Deafgard alerting device and the C-TEC 24V Pillow Pad. Measurements were taken using an ADXL335 accelerometer, to determine the vibration strength. Other parameters considered were temperature variation, e...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial note: Robotics and industrial automation technology

Journal of robotics and mechatronics, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Tactile graphical display for the visually impaired information technology applications

This paper presents an interactive tactile graphical display, for the visually impaired informati... more This paper presents an interactive tactile graphical display, for the visually impaired information technology access applications. The display consists of a matrix of dots. Each dot is an electro rheological micro actuator. The actuator design and development process is presented in this paper. Prototype size 124x4 dots was manufactured. An advanced software tools and embedded system based on voltage matrix manipulation has been developed, to provide the display near real time control. The experimental tests carried out into the developed prototype showed that each actuator of the matrix was able to provide a vertical movement of 0.7 mm and vertical holding force of 100 to 200 mN. The stroke and dynamic response tests showed the practicability of the developed tactile display, for the visually impaired information technology applications.

Research paper thumbnail of An intelligent anti-collision system for electric vehicles applications

This paper presents the initial outcomes of the ongoing research to develop an intelligent online... more This paper presents the initial outcomes of the ongoing research to develop an intelligent online fault monitoring and anti-collision system for electric vehicle industrial applications. This is aiming to utilise the latest development in sensors technology and multi-level of redundancy approach, to improve the safety of electric vehicle and minimize the risk of road collision. This paper is focused on the development of the anti-collision system. The system is a network of sensors utilising the near real time embedded system. Four operational conditions were considered and some activities have been taken to control the speed and steering control system of the vehicle at an imminent collision. Visual alerts using LEDs were developed to indicate vehicles or obstacles along the path of the host vehicle even at an opposite direction. The proposed system was tested indoor using offshelf mini vehicle model and further field test have been planned to ensure the operability of the system i...

Research paper thumbnail of Design optimisation of passive humidification device for intensive care medical applications

This paper presents the design optimisation of passive heat and moisture exchange (HME) humidific... more This paper presents the design optimisation of passive heat and moisture exchange (HME) humidification device for intensive care medical applications. Investigation into the state of the art of the technology in use concludes that there are two main artificial HME humidification devices: active and passive device. The passive HME device is the preferred one, due to the ease of use and low cost. However it is not suitable for more than 24 hour use. This is due to a number of challenges such as: device cavity design, limitations of HME materials performance and overall efficiency. This paper presents the outcomes of the research work carried out to overcome these teething issues and presents an optimised cavity design that could improve the HME material, airflow structure and patterns and HME device overall efficiency.

Research paper thumbnail of Research into Early-Stage Identification of Entrepreneurs and Innovators with Development of an Identification Guidance Framework

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Youth unemployment is increasing and some countries are exhibiting unprecedented levels of youth ... more Youth unemployment is increasing and some countries are exhibiting unprecedented levels of youth unemployment, which according to research from Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), is costing the British economy £45bn per year, as well as blighting the careers of workers who miss out on a job in their teens and twenties. Unemployment exists because jobs do not, therefore one way to act to reduce it is to create jobs. It isn’t the governments remit to create jobs, not in the private sector therefore this responsibility is falling more and more on entrepreneurs. This paper seeks to establish a paradigm as to what it is that makes someone entrepreneurial, primarily focussed on positively identifying traits exhibited by entrepreneurs which can be used to assist in that identification process. It seeks to identify the traits and characteristics that make individuals entrepreneurs with a view to devising a framework of identifiable indicators for the tertiary education age group of 16–18-year-o...

Research paper thumbnail of Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXIV

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering (ATDE) is a peer-reviewed book series covering the deve... more Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering (ATDE) is a peer-reviewed book series covering the developments in the key application areas in product quality, production efficiency and overall customer satisfaction. ATDE will focus on theoretical, experimental and case history-based research, and its application in engineering practice. The series will include proceedings and edited volumes of interest to researchers in academia, as well as professional engineers working in industry.

Research paper thumbnail of An Industrial Self-Learning Robotic Platform Solution for Smart Factories Industrial Applications Using Machine and Deep Imitation Learning

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Smart Factory is a key platform for recent industrial revolution 4.0 and industrial robotic platf... more Smart Factory is a key platform for recent industrial revolution 4.0 and industrial robotic platform solutions using Artificial Intelligence are an integral measure of its cell’s configuration and reconfiguration. There are two different methods of machine learning used in industrial collaborative robotics systems, Computer Vision Machine Learning and Imitation Learning. Computer vision is a classical use of machine and deep learning methods and it needs a complex, expensive resources and is not suitable for various types of manufacturing automation environment. Imitation Learning is the most fascinating method, and the recent evolving industry is interested on it. The main aim of this research programme is to develop a self-learning robotic system platform solution using Machine and Deep Imitation Learning for smart factories’ industrial applications. A self-learning robotic system using deep imitation learning can reduce working time and give a less human error when performing hig...

Research paper thumbnail of Development of a New Research Methodology Tool ‘Pearsons Visual Relationship Framework’

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Academics and researchers are often faced with reading significant numbers of publications to ide... more Academics and researchers are often faced with reading significant numbers of publications to identify and extract the relevant information that is required for their research, which can be time consuming and difficult to keep track of. The aim of this study was to find an alternative solution to current research methodologies used for publication review information storage and retrieval. The objectives were to develop a system utilising a relationship management format, that is visual and easy to create, providing access to documents, notes, abstracts and other relevant information at the click of a button. Following extensive research into methods of achieving this, it became apparent that there was a gap in the knowledge on how to achieve it efficiently. The visual relationship tool was developed and evaluated in practical use in academia and manufacturing, with extremely positive results as to its suitability in both fields. The conclusions were that the tool is not limited to a...

Research paper thumbnail of An Ultrasonic Piezoelectric Power Generator for Public and Industrial Buildings Application

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

This paper presents an ultrasonic micro power generator using the piezoelectric direct effect phe... more This paper presents an ultrasonic micro power generator using the piezoelectric direct effect phenomena. The micro power generator consists of 2 main elements, a movement matt including PZT elements and an energy harvesting circuit. The movement matt is made up of a four PZT elements each element creating a cantilever beam. The energy harvesting circuit is made up of an LTC3588 Evaluation Board and an LDR night light. Computer simulation and modelling using finite element analysis for the proposed generation method is discussed and used in the design and development process. Finite element analysis has been used to evaluate the PZT structure by performing an algebraic solution of a set of equations, describing an ideal model structure, with a finite number of variables. The simulation and modelling enabled to select the material and best method of operation. A prototype of the proposed generator was built and tested. This demonstrated that piezoelectric material could produce up to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Computer Aided Design of Self-Learning Robotic System Using Imitation Learning

Advances in transdisciplinary engineering, Nov 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI), imitation learning, big data, cloud and distributed computing, robo... more Artificial intelligence (AI), imitation learning, big data, cloud and distributed computing, robotics cells, and information communication technology, are some of the key tools and elements of the future digital and smart manufacturing facility. There are a number of challenges that digital and smart manufacturing is facing, especially with the complication of AI (i.e., machine, deep and cognitive learning) algorithms, great amount of data to process, and essential complex coding required, which makes immediate changes needed in manufacturing facilities not straightforward. This is notable in small manufacturing cells which is an integrated part of future smart factories such manufacturing facilities are usually needed some annual and regular updates to meet the update in the design specifications of next generation of products. Imitation learning is offering a great opportunity to overcome these challenges and simplify such complications, where human skills, ability to perform specific tasks, knowledge, and talent could be transferred. This is conveying the knowledge, and skills transfer using imitation learning. However, smart manufacturing and industrial revolution needs robotics cells that has skills beyond this, especially when it comes to process optimisation. Therefore, deep imitation learning could come in to help in the development of self-learning robotic systems and cells. Of course with the powerful tools such as distributed computing, blockchain, cloud computing, edge computing, and 5G the collaboration between such self-learning robotic cells will be possible. This will certainly not eliminate human existence but will enhance the manufacturing environment. This paper is focused on presenting the outcomes of CAD simulation and modelling phase of the ongoing research programme that focused on developing a self-learning robotic system using imitation learning. CAD tools have been used and some initial results is presented. Further work is still undertaken, and this will focus on learning from more than one expert, optimisation, impact of dynamic manufacturing environment.

Research paper thumbnail of Cyber Security Biometric Solution Using Automatic Matching and Deep Learning

Advances in transdisciplinary engineering, Nov 8, 2022

Biometrics is an alternative solution to the old means of identity verification, such as access c... more Biometrics is an alternative solution to the old means of identity verification, such as access cards. However, monomodal biometric systems suffer from multiple limitations, such as the noise introduced by the sensor and nonuniversality. Multi-biometrics allows us to overcome these problems and thus obtain better performance. Multimodal biometrics, using deep learning, has recently gained interest over single biometric modalities. In this work, we propose a deep learning model for persons identification/verification using Face and Iris traits. The features of the iris and the face are extracted utilizing the DenseNet121 and FaceNet models, and these features are merged using a feature-level fusion scheme. We also proposed a new automatic matching technique to verify the person's identity. The results presented in this paper show interest in deep learning approaches for face and iris recognition, especially when models are pre-trained. The results also highlighted the interest in the proposed DenseNet121-FaceNet model and the automatic matching method compared to the standard threshold selection according to the Equal Error Rate point.

Research paper thumbnail of A smart 3D ultrasonic actuator for unmanned vehicle guidance industrial applications

A smart piezoelectric ultrasonic actuator with multidegree of freedom for unmanned vehicle guidan... more A smart piezoelectric ultrasonic actuator with multidegree of freedom for unmanned vehicle guidance industrial applications is presented in this paper. The proposed actuator is aiming to increase the visual spotlight angle of digital visual data capture transducer. Furthermore research are still undertaken to integrate the actuator with an infrared sensor, visual data capture digital transducers and obtain the trajectory of motion control algorithm. The actuator consists of three main parts, the stator, rotor and housing unit. The stator is a piezoelectric ring made from S42 piezoelectric material, bonded to three electrodes made from a material that has a close Characteristics to the S42. The rotor is a ball made from steel material. The actuator working principles is based on creating micro elliptical motions of surface points, generated by superposition of longitudinal and bending vibration modes, of oscillating structures. Transferring this motion from flexible ring transducer t...

Research paper thumbnail of A 3D Sustainable Renewable Micro Power Station for Smart Grid Applications

International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2015

The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across t... more The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across the world, due to the limitations of fossil fuels resources usages for energy generations, the relative high dependency on imported fuels, their ever climbing prices and its environmental impacts. Power supply must increase as rapidly as demand to ensure sustained growth. This is the rationale upon which Governments, international organizations, researchers are accelerating investments in expanding the power system, its generation and transmission. This paper presents the preliminary research undertaken to design and develop a 3Dimentional (3D) sustainable renewable micro power station model for smart grid industrial applications. It introduces a solution to challenges in the energy generation sector which do not only refrain only to the safe supply of clean Energy. A major importance for the theoretical study of hybrid systems, based on renewable energy (photovoltaic, wind, hydro system) is the availability of the models that can be utilized to study the behavior of hybrid systems and most important, computer aided design simulation tools. As the available tools are quite limited, this paper would present the most current and up to date model which can be used for the simulation purposes of the 3D sustainable renewable micro power station for smart grid applications as well as for educational purposes.

Research paper thumbnail of An Intelligent Medical Care Solution for Elderly People with Long Term Health Condition Based on Wireless Sensors Network Technology

International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2016

Older Adults are facing serious difficulties, on a regular basis, to manage their own daily life ... more Older Adults are facing serious difficulties, on a regular basis, to manage their own daily life activities. To live independently and have a good quality of life is quite a challenge, since the majorly of them have long term health condition diseases. Health services providers across EU, informal and formal carer plays major roles in providing the necessary services and support. Diseases on this society are one of the leading causes of death, from which thousands of people die every year. Many of the non-communicable diseases can be prevented by tackling associated risk factors. The cost of treatment of such diseases in the EU is estimated to be over 70% of the Health Service budget. Treatment includes home-care, medication, consultation and many other relevant services. However, these services are still not adequate, due to the lack of implemented technology that enable the older adults to manage their daily life activities independently, taking medications, receive the necessary health services on time, which, in many cases leads to loss of lives and waste of NHS resources. Daily life activities management and telehealth remote monitoring system is one of the potential innovative approaches, to improve the older adult's quality of life, help live independently, improve NHS services, sustain its economic growth and improve social development. It is a rapidly developing concept where daily life activities, health condition, medical information is transferred through interactive data, and audiovisual media and shared between services provider, informal and formal carer. This paper presents the initial outcomes of the ongoing research program that is planned to develop an Integrated Assisted Living Technology (ALT) multi-functional case driven wireless ad-hoc management system of the daily life activities of older adults using smart sensors and actuators, 3d-video, audio, radio frequency identification and wireless technology, combined with secure cloud and semantic data engineering.

Research paper thumbnail of Deployment of Assisted Living Technology Solution Platform using Smart Body Sensors for Elderly People Health Monitoring

International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2017

Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available in the market to the end-users ... more Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available in the market to the end-users with long term health condition have no common inter-operational protocol. Each product has its own communication protocols, different interfaces and interoperation which limits their solution reliability, flexibility and efficiency. This paper presents assisted living platform solution for elderly people with long term health condition based on wireless sensors networking technology. The system includes multi feedback sensor arrangements for monitoring, such as: blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Each sensor has been integrated with the necessary near real time embedded and wireless protocols that allow data collection, transfer and interoperate in ad-hoc bases. The data will be communicated wirelessly to central data base system and shared though cloud network. The collected data will be processed and relevant intelligent algorithms will be deployed to ensure certain actions taken place when health condition warnings arise. These warnings to be communicated to relevant carer, General Practitioner (GP) and health authority to take the necessary action and steps to handle such end user health condition warnings. The proposed solution system will provide the flexibility to analyse most of the health conditions based on near real time monitoring technology. It will enable the population of elderly with long term health condition to manage their daily life activities within multiple environments i.e. from their comfort home, care centres and hospitals. The data and information will be treated with high confidentiality to ensure end-users integrity and dignity have been maintained.

Research paper thumbnail of An ultrasonic atomisation unit for heat and moisture exchange humidification device for intensive care medicine applications

The state of the art of the existing heat and moisture exchange (HME) technology in use concludes... more The state of the art of the existing heat and moisture exchange (HME) technology in use concludes that there are two main artificial humidification HME devices: active and passive device. The active device is complicated to use and expensive. The passive HME device is the preferred one, due to the ease of use and low cost. However it is not suitable for more than 24 hour use. This is due to current devices cavity design, limitations of HME materials performance and overall device efficiency. This paper presents the outcomes of the research work carried out to overcome these teething issues and presents a piezoelectric ultrasonic atomisation device for passive humidification device. This aims to improve the device heat and moisture exchange (HME) materials performance, by recovering the accumulated moisture, for a greater patient care. The atomisation device design, structure, working principles and analysis using finite element analysis (FEA) is discussed and presented in this paper...

Research paper thumbnail of D Sustainable Renewable Micro Power Station for Smart Grid Industrial Applications

The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across t... more The supply of clean energy and its security is becoming a global issue for all countries across the world, due to the limitations of fossil fuels resources usages for energy generations, the relative high dependency on imported fuels, their ever climbing prices and its environmental impacts. Power supply must increase as rapidly as demand to ensure sustained growth. This is the rationale upon which Governments, international organizations, researchers are accelerating investments in expanding the power system, its generation and transmission. This paper presents the preliminary research undertaken to design and develop a 3Dimentional (3D) sustainable renewable micro power station model for smart grid industrial applications. It introduces a solution to challenges in the energy generation sector which do not only refrain only to the safe supply of clean Energy. A major importance for the theoretical study of hybrid systems, based on renewable energy (photovoltaic, wind, hydro system)...

Research paper thumbnail of Deployment of assisted living technology using intelligent body sensors platform for elderly people health monitoring

Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available to the end-users as off-shelf p... more Many of the Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (AALT) available to the end-users as off-shelf products have no common inter-operational protocol (Language). Each product has its own communication protocols, different interfaces and interoperation which limits their solution efficiency for long term health condition monitoring systems. This paper presents assisted living technology (ALT) solution for elderly people based on wireless sensors networking technology. The system includes biofeedback monitoring body sensors, such as: blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Each sensor has been integrated with the necessary real time embedded protocol and system to work in ad-hoc bases. The data will be send wirelessly and shared though cloud network. The collected data will be processed and relevant algorithms will be deployed to take certain actions when any changes occur or health warnings arise. These will be treated with high confidentiality to ensure end-users integrity and dignity have been maintained. The proposed solution system will provide the flexibility to analyse most of the health conditions based on near real time monitoring technology. It will also enable the population of elderly to manage their daily life activities within multiple environments i.e. from their comfort home, care centers and hospitals.

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial note: Innovation is the only pathway for manufacturer, visionary and scholars, to improve the quality of human beings daily life

Journal of robotics and mechatronics, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of A vibration measurement system for deaf people’s emergency apparatus

A vibration measurement system for deaf people’s emergency warning equipment is presented in this... more A vibration measurement system for deaf people’s emergency warning equipment is presented in this paper. Deaf alarm devices are among the most supportive products that help to alert deaf people in various emergency circumstances. Applicable British standards recommend that acceptable working parameters for such products are frequency: 25 to 150 Hz, enough vibration strength, intensity and stable performance against lifetime. This paper presents research that has been conducted to test and validate the performance of a variety of alerting devices using the proposed vibration measurement system. It introduces the laboratory arrangements, practical measurements carried out and its compliance with the British standards. The products investigated were the Mk I, Mk II Deaf Alerters, the Deafgard alerting device and the C-TEC 24V Pillow Pad. Measurements were taken using an ADXL335 accelerometer, to determine the vibration strength. Other parameters considered were temperature variation, e...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial note: Robotics and industrial automation technology

Journal of robotics and mechatronics, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Tactile graphical display for the visually impaired information technology applications

This paper presents an interactive tactile graphical display, for the visually impaired informati... more This paper presents an interactive tactile graphical display, for the visually impaired information technology access applications. The display consists of a matrix of dots. Each dot is an electro rheological micro actuator. The actuator design and development process is presented in this paper. Prototype size 124x4 dots was manufactured. An advanced software tools and embedded system based on voltage matrix manipulation has been developed, to provide the display near real time control. The experimental tests carried out into the developed prototype showed that each actuator of the matrix was able to provide a vertical movement of 0.7 mm and vertical holding force of 100 to 200 mN. The stroke and dynamic response tests showed the practicability of the developed tactile display, for the visually impaired information technology applications.

Research paper thumbnail of An intelligent anti-collision system for electric vehicles applications

This paper presents the initial outcomes of the ongoing research to develop an intelligent online... more This paper presents the initial outcomes of the ongoing research to develop an intelligent online fault monitoring and anti-collision system for electric vehicle industrial applications. This is aiming to utilise the latest development in sensors technology and multi-level of redundancy approach, to improve the safety of electric vehicle and minimize the risk of road collision. This paper is focused on the development of the anti-collision system. The system is a network of sensors utilising the near real time embedded system. Four operational conditions were considered and some activities have been taken to control the speed and steering control system of the vehicle at an imminent collision. Visual alerts using LEDs were developed to indicate vehicles or obstacles along the path of the host vehicle even at an opposite direction. The proposed system was tested indoor using offshelf mini vehicle model and further field test have been planned to ensure the operability of the system i...

Research paper thumbnail of Design optimisation of passive humidification device for intensive care medical applications

This paper presents the design optimisation of passive heat and moisture exchange (HME) humidific... more This paper presents the design optimisation of passive heat and moisture exchange (HME) humidification device for intensive care medical applications. Investigation into the state of the art of the technology in use concludes that there are two main artificial HME humidification devices: active and passive device. The passive HME device is the preferred one, due to the ease of use and low cost. However it is not suitable for more than 24 hour use. This is due to a number of challenges such as: device cavity design, limitations of HME materials performance and overall efficiency. This paper presents the outcomes of the research work carried out to overcome these teething issues and presents an optimised cavity design that could improve the HME material, airflow structure and patterns and HME device overall efficiency.

Research paper thumbnail of Research into Early-Stage Identification of Entrepreneurs and Innovators with Development of an Identification Guidance Framework

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Youth unemployment is increasing and some countries are exhibiting unprecedented levels of youth ... more Youth unemployment is increasing and some countries are exhibiting unprecedented levels of youth unemployment, which according to research from Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), is costing the British economy £45bn per year, as well as blighting the careers of workers who miss out on a job in their teens and twenties. Unemployment exists because jobs do not, therefore one way to act to reduce it is to create jobs. It isn’t the governments remit to create jobs, not in the private sector therefore this responsibility is falling more and more on entrepreneurs. This paper seeks to establish a paradigm as to what it is that makes someone entrepreneurial, primarily focussed on positively identifying traits exhibited by entrepreneurs which can be used to assist in that identification process. It seeks to identify the traits and characteristics that make individuals entrepreneurs with a view to devising a framework of identifiable indicators for the tertiary education age group of 16–18-year-o...

Research paper thumbnail of Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXIV

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering (ATDE) is a peer-reviewed book series covering the deve... more Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering (ATDE) is a peer-reviewed book series covering the developments in the key application areas in product quality, production efficiency and overall customer satisfaction. ATDE will focus on theoretical, experimental and case history-based research, and its application in engineering practice. The series will include proceedings and edited volumes of interest to researchers in academia, as well as professional engineers working in industry.

Research paper thumbnail of An Industrial Self-Learning Robotic Platform Solution for Smart Factories Industrial Applications Using Machine and Deep Imitation Learning

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Smart Factory is a key platform for recent industrial revolution 4.0 and industrial robotic platf... more Smart Factory is a key platform for recent industrial revolution 4.0 and industrial robotic platform solutions using Artificial Intelligence are an integral measure of its cell’s configuration and reconfiguration. There are two different methods of machine learning used in industrial collaborative robotics systems, Computer Vision Machine Learning and Imitation Learning. Computer vision is a classical use of machine and deep learning methods and it needs a complex, expensive resources and is not suitable for various types of manufacturing automation environment. Imitation Learning is the most fascinating method, and the recent evolving industry is interested on it. The main aim of this research programme is to develop a self-learning robotic system platform solution using Machine and Deep Imitation Learning for smart factories’ industrial applications. A self-learning robotic system using deep imitation learning can reduce working time and give a less human error when performing hig...

Research paper thumbnail of Development of a New Research Methodology Tool ‘Pearsons Visual Relationship Framework’

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

Academics and researchers are often faced with reading significant numbers of publications to ide... more Academics and researchers are often faced with reading significant numbers of publications to identify and extract the relevant information that is required for their research, which can be time consuming and difficult to keep track of. The aim of this study was to find an alternative solution to current research methodologies used for publication review information storage and retrieval. The objectives were to develop a system utilising a relationship management format, that is visual and easy to create, providing access to documents, notes, abstracts and other relevant information at the click of a button. Following extensive research into methods of achieving this, it became apparent that there was a gap in the knowledge on how to achieve it efficiently. The visual relationship tool was developed and evaluated in practical use in academia and manufacturing, with extremely positive results as to its suitability in both fields. The conclusions were that the tool is not limited to a...

Research paper thumbnail of An Ultrasonic Piezoelectric Power Generator for Public and Industrial Buildings Application

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, 2021

This paper presents an ultrasonic micro power generator using the piezoelectric direct effect phe... more This paper presents an ultrasonic micro power generator using the piezoelectric direct effect phenomena. The micro power generator consists of 2 main elements, a movement matt including PZT elements and an energy harvesting circuit. The movement matt is made up of a four PZT elements each element creating a cantilever beam. The energy harvesting circuit is made up of an LTC3588 Evaluation Board and an LDR night light. Computer simulation and modelling using finite element analysis for the proposed generation method is discussed and used in the design and development process. Finite element analysis has been used to evaluate the PZT structure by performing an algebraic solution of a set of equations, describing an ideal model structure, with a finite number of variables. The simulation and modelling enabled to select the material and best method of operation. A prototype of the proposed generator was built and tested. This demonstrated that piezoelectric material could produce up to ...