As the world comes together to rise to the challenges of the pandemic crisis, society, governments, businesses and individuals are all evaluating how we can improve our resilience to such challenges which have significantly affected our way of life. The Smart Systems Group is dedicated to supporting the resilience of critical services and the communities […]
Author: Ross Dickie
SSG Research Work Published in Proceedings of Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2020
Smart Systems Group Researchers Jamie Blanche and Dr Osama Zaki are lead authors of recently published papers in the proceedings of the 2020 Offshore Technology Conference available through https://www.onepetro.org/. The conference organisers decided that despite having to cancel the conference due to the worldwide COVID-19 crisis that the work produced for the conference be published. […]
Faults in UK Western HVDC Link Cable Highlights Need for Prognostic Health Management in Critical Infrastructure
The Western HVDC Link is a 262 mile DC power transfer connection between Western Scotland and North Wales designed to transfer up to 2.2GW of Scottish renewable power between the regions. OFGEM, who regulate the UK market for electrical energy, have announced they will be carrying out an investigation into breaches of licence conditions. This […]
Smart Systems Group Founder Receives Award at 2020 Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards
The founder of Heriot Watt Smart Systems Group Professor David Flynn, was presented with the 2020 award for Knowledge Exchange Champion of the Year at the 5th Annual Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards. Professor Flynn has brought global advocacy for Scotland’s universities, highlighting how they serve society and industry in partnership, not only to bring solutions […]
ORCA Hub Researchers to present work at the 2020 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston in May
Run-time Safety Compliance and Self-Certification for Robotics. Irrespective of the mission, environment or robotic platform you need Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) operating efficiently and safely – first time and every time. We have developed a transferable framework that integrates infrastructure, robotic and personnel data, to support safety and mission success. Within our framework we […]