• The design and implementation of animal auto identification systems for application within the agricultural sector 

  Riordan, Daniel (University of Limerick, 2012)

  Electronic systems in the agriculture industry are undergoing constant innovation. Within the dairy sector a large emphasis has been put on the development of automated milking parlours. These parlours are highly ...
• Compound glass microsphere resonator devices 

  Yu, Yibo; Lewis, Elfed; Farrell, Gerald; Wang, Pengfei (MDPI, 2018)

  In recent years, compound glass microsphere resonator devices have attracted increasing interest and have been widely used in sensing, microsphere lasers, and nonlinear optics. Compared with traditional silica resonators, ...
• Novel smart inspection-class ROV for use in challenging conditions 

  Capocci, Romano (University of Limerick, 2018)

  In this thesis, a novel smart inspection-ROV is described. The research addresses the need for a highly-capable ROV with abilities to carry out close-quarters inspections of marine renewable energy installations in their ...
• Report No. 241 – Research of upcycling supports to increase re-use, with a focus on waste electrical and electronic equipment (UpWEEE) 

  Johnson, Michael; McMahon, Kathleen; Fitzpatrick, Colin (Environmental Protection Agency:EPA, 2018)

  This report provides a range of recommendations aimed at supporting preparation for re-use of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) that will support the extension and development of this activity in Ireland. ...
• Cloud computing and internet of things fusion: cost issues 

  Dhirani, Lubna Luxmi; Newe, Thomas; Lewis, Elfed; Nizamani, Shahzad (IEEE Computer Society, 2017)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) has presented many new dimensions to information technology and data communications and has helped to develop the concepts of Smart City, Smart Travel, Smart Surveillance, Smart Health, ...
• Internet performance profiling of countries and destinations 

  Todorov, Nikolay (University of Limerick, 2014)

  The thesis presents research into data capturing techniques and data analysis in order to discern the Internet performance profiles of countries, both spatially and temporally. The methodology may be described as implementing ...
• Motion artefact minimisation from a photoplethysmography based non-invasive sensor 

  Yuan, Hongwei (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The collection of photoplethysmography (PPG) signals from optical based sensor probes has been used extensively for the monitoring of heart rate (HR), respiration rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation (SpO2), haemoglobin ...
• Analysis of direct interconnection technique for offshore airborne wind energy systems under normal and fault conditions 

  Salari, Mahdi Ebrahimi; Coleman, Joseph; Toal, Daniel (Elsevier, 2019)

  Direct interconnection is a novel technique for interconnecting offshore airborne wind energy (AWE) generators which facilitates the removal of power converters from the offshore generation site. In this technique, unlike ...
• Advances in security and privacy of multimodal interfaces 

  Damaševičius, Robertas; Woźniak, Marcin; Alarcon-Aquino, Vicente; Ganchev, Ivan (Graz University of Technology, Institut für Informationssysteme und Computer Medien (IICM), 2018)

  With the rapid development and increasing complexity of communication systems and interfaces using multiple modalities of communication in human-computer systems such as speech, tactile, gestures, gaze, head and body ...
• Fault-tolerant control for ROVs using control reallocation and power isolation 

  Capocci, Romano; Omerdić, Edin; Dooly, Gerard; Toal, Daniel (MDPI, 2018)

  This paper describes a novel thruster fault-tolerant control system (FTC) for open-frame remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The proposed FTC consists of two subsystems: a model-free thruster fault detection and isolation ...
• A vendor-neutral unified core for cryptographic operations in GF(p) and GF(2m) based on montgomery arithmetic 

  Schramm, Martin; Dojen, Reiner; Heigl, Michael (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2018)

  In the emerging IoT ecosystemin which the internetworking will reach a totally new dimension the crucial role of efficient security solutions for embedded devices will be without controversy. Typically IoT-enabled devices ...
• State of the art and research challenges in the area of autonomous control for a reliable internet of services 

  van der Mei, Rob; van den Berg, Hans; Ganchev, Ivan; Tutschku, Kurt; Leitner, Philipp; Lassila, Pasi; Burakowski, Wojciech; Liberal, Fidel; Arvidsson, Åke; Hobfeld, Tobias; Wac, Katarzyna; Melvin, Hugh; Galinac Grbac, Tihana; Haddad, Yoram; Key, Peter (Springer, 2018)

  The explosive growth of the Internet has fundamentally changed the global society. The emergence of concepts like service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), ...
• Conceptual and analytical models for predicting the quality of service of overall telecommunication systems 

  Poryazov, Stoyan; Saranova, Emiliya; Ganchev, Ivan (2018)

  This chapter presents scalable conceptual and analytical performance models of overall telecommunication systems, allowing the prediction of multiple Quality of Service (QoS) indicators as functions of the user- and ...
• Underwater manipulators: a review 

  Sivčev, Satja; Coleman, Joseph; Omerdić, Edin; Dooly, Gerard; Toal, Daniel (Elsevier, 2018)

  This paper describes the state-of-the art in the area of underwater robot manipulator systems. A brief introduction is given on the use of manipulators in various offshore industries for different subsea intervention a ...
• High sensitivity temperature sensor based on balloon-shaped bent SMF structure with its original polymer coating 

  Tian, Ke; Farrrell, Gerald; Lewis, Elfed; Wang, Xianfan; Liang, Haidong; Wang, Pengfei (IOP Publishing, 2018)

  A high sensitivity optical fibre temperature sensor is demonstrated based on a balloon-shaped bent single-mode (BSBS) fibre structure where the fibre retains its original protective polymer coating. The BSBS fibre structure ...
• Wavelet-based transforms as a means of signal separation 

  Quinn, Declan; Walker, Jacqueline (2008)

  The goal of this paper is to facilitate the use of waveletbased transforms in BSS (and, more generally, ICA) algorithms. We investigate the performance of transforms such as the ContinuousWavelet Transform, Discrete ...
• A review of glottal waveform analysis 

  Walker, Jacqueline; Murphy, Peter (Springer, 2007)

  Glottal inverse filtering is of potential use in a wide range of speech processing applications. As the process of voice production is, to a first order approximation, a source-filter process, then obtaining source and ...
• Statistical, spectral and stochastic characteristics of music 

  Quinn, Declan; Walker, Jacqueline (2008)

  The goal of this paper is to explore some of the principal spectral and statistical characteristics of music that are relevant to the problem of Blind Source Separation (BSS). Some BSS algorithms require some a priori ...
• On the scalability of particle swarm optimisation 

  Piccand, Sébastien; O'Neill, Michael; Walker, Jacqueline (2008)

  Particle swarm has proven to be competitive to other evolutionary algorithms in the field of optimization, and in many cases enables a faster convergence to the ideal solution. However, like any optimization algorithm it ...
• Scalability of particle swarm algorithms 

  Piccand, Sébastien; O'Neill, Michael; Walker, Jacqueline (Association for Computing Machinery, 2007)

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