DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3140645 Electromagnetic Relays (Electromagnetic Relay (EMR)s) are omnipresent in electrical systems, ranging from mass-produced consumer products to highly specialised, safety-critical industrial systems. Our detailed literature review focused on EMR reliability highlighting the methods used to estimate the State of Health or the Remaining Useful Life emphasises the limited analysis and understanding of expressive EMR […]
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Resilience Autonomous Mission Update: Multi-Robot Fleet
The Smart Systems Group have continued their work in creating a Symbiotic System of Systems Approach (SSOSA) for robotics and autonomous systems. A challenge exists for robotics when these systems are deployed in known or unknown areas around humans, other robots and infrastructure. The Smart Systems Group seek to address these Resilience and Reliability challenges […]
University of Glasgow : Cyber Physical Systems
Professor David Flynn, founder of the Smart Systems Group, has accepted a new position as at the University of Glasgow as a Professor of Cyber Physical Systems. Professor Flynn will continue to support Heriot-Watt University (HWU) as a Visiting Professor and will continue to mentor several research associates and PhD students within the SSG who […]
New Publication: The role of Sensing in Sustainable and High Performance Composite Structures
Composite structures perform critical functions in an array of vital applications, such as Offshore Wind, Nuclear and Defence. The challenges of end of life management of composite structures is well documented e.g. 95% of WT blades going into land fill or being burnt. Other trends, such as the significant spike in global offshore investment places […]
TikTok Collaboration
TikTok represents one of the fastest growing social media platforms. This represents a great opportunity to reach new audiences, inspire upcoming generations and provide information to the public in a new way. This also includes a chance to bust some myths on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. The Smart Systems Group and University of Manchester have […]
ISSS Postgraduate Research Prize for 2021
The Smart Systems Group congratulate Daniel Mitchell who has been chosen as the winner of the Postgraduate 1st year Research Prize for 2021 from the Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems, The School of Engineering and Physical Science (EPS) at Heriot-Watt University. 1st year Postgraduate Research Prizes, which were based on the research posters presented at […]
New Publication: Yield Assessment of off-grid PV Systems in Nigeria
Well done to our PhD student Christie Etukudor on her recent publication at the IEEE Power Africa Conference. Christie’s research was in response to the needs of over 592 million people who in Sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity. An issue being compounded by COVID related delays to investments in critical energy services. Christie created a hybrid […]
MMLDT Conference – Autonomy and Me: Working Together for a Better Future
Congratulations to Mr. Daniel Mitchell, Mr. Sam Harper and Prof. David Flynn in their recent presentation at the Mechanistic Machine Learning and Digital Twins for Computational Science, Engineering & Technology (MMLDT) Conference. This conference was held over September 26-29, 2021 and virtually in Hyatt Regency Mission Bay, San Diego, CA. Machine Learning (ML) and Digital […]
AI Safety 2021 Best Paper Award
We would like to congratulate our colleagues at Heriot-Watt, Liverpool University and DSTL, namely Zhao, X., Huang, W., Banks, A., Cox, V., Flynn, D., Schewe, S., & Huang, X, on winning the best paper award at AI Safety 2021 for our research on: Assessing the Reliability of Deep Learning Classifiers Through Robustness Evaluation and Operational […]
Robotic Engineering Superhero’s
Wind turbines harness the wind to produce energy, however, they can be quite dangerous to maintain. Offshore engineers are subjected to dangerous conditions which include hazardous weather conditions and environments. Robotic platforms which include robots for air, land and sea, can be used to complete inspection and maintenance missions to reduce the risk and increase […]