My interest begins in present day Bulgaria at the prominent site of a ruined Soviet monument which the country’s previous communist regime built in 1979. Their monuments expressed communist philosophy through their ...

This thesis fills the research gap of the tractor semi-trailer left turn problem at a city intersection. Although obstacle avoidance is a classic topic in the field of autonomous driving, however, most research is focused ...

For legged robots to be useful in the real world, they must be able to balance and walk reliably. Both of these abilities improve when a system is more effective at moving itself around relative to its contacts (i.e., ...

Motivated by the dynamic feedback nature of human attitudes and behaviours, this work adopts a control systems engineering approach to studying a psychological system. In particular, two discrete-time nonlinear attitude-behaviour ...

Crowdsourcing has become one of the most popular topics in both academia and industry in the past few years. By hiring workers online, task assigners can take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd and solve problems that ...

In order to control any system one needs to know the system's current state. In many real-world scenarios the state of the system cannot be determined with certainty due to the sensors being noisy or simply missing. In ...

Judgments of spatial relationships are often made when the object or observer are moving. Behaviourally, there is evidence that these ‘dynamic’ judgments of spatial extent differ from static judgments. Here I used three ...

With the advent of Industry 4.0, variable relations in modern industrial processes are increasingly complex due to their high dimensions and complex auto-correlations and cross-correlations. Multivariate statistical methods ...

Heterogeneous SoC platforms, comprising both general purpose CPUs and accelerators such as a GPU, are becoming increasingly attractive for real-time and mixed-criticality systems to cope with the computational demand of ...

While some attempts have been made to model the behaviour of the grand piano action (the mechanism that translates a key press into a hammer striking a string), most researchers have reduced the system to a simple model ...