• Novel inorganic scintillating detectors and their applications in small animal irradiators: measurements and Monte Carlo simulations 

  Byrne, Kevin; Alharbi, Majed; O'Keeffe, Sinéad; Kleefeld, Christoph; Bazalova-Carter, Magdalena; Foley, Mark (SPIE: The International Society for Optics and Phontonics, 2020)

  In the field of radiation therapy, optical fiber dosimeters (OFD) offer several advantages over conventional dosimeters for real-time dosimetry. Their sensing tips can be small in size affording them the potential for high ...
• Geometric insight into the control allocation problem for open-frame ROVs and visualisation of solution 

  Omerdic, Edin; Trslic, Petar; Kaknjo, Admir; Weir, Anthony; Rao, Muzaffar; Dooly, Gerard; Toal, Daniel (MDPI, 2020)

  The overall control system for an open-frame Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) is typically built from three subsystems: guidance, navigation and control (GNC). The control allocation plays a vital role in the control ...
• Radiotherapy dosimetry based on perflourinated polymer opitcal fibres 

  Olusoji, Olugbenga. J.; Kam, Wern; O'Keeffe, Sinéad (SPIE: The International Society for Optics and Phontonics, 2020)

  The complexity of treating cancerous cells in patients using radiotherapy, requires precision in terms of the total dose received by the patient. The use of scintillating materials at the tip of the fibre for real time ...
• On-line electrical supply generation fuel mix data analysis using Python and TensorFlow 

  Grout, Ian; de Assis Pedrobon Ferreira, Willian; da Silva Faculdade, Alexandre César Rodrigues (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  In this paper, the Python scripting language and TensorFlow open source platform for machine learning is used to create a software script that can automatically extract electricity supply generation data from an on-line ...
• Polarization insensitive all-dielectric metasurfaces for the ultraviolet domain 

  Ahmed, Hammad; Rahim, Arbab Abdur; Maab, Husnul; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Naureen, Sadia (Optical Society of America, 2020-04)

  In recent years, metasurfaces have provided a tempting path to replace conventional optical components where an abrupt phase change is imposed on an incident wave using a periodic array of unit cells. Till date, highly ...
• Vision-based localization system suited to resident underwater vehicles 

  Trslić, Petar; Weir, Anthony; Riordan, James; Omerdic, Edin; Toal, Daniel; Dooly, Gerard (MDPI, 2020)

  In recent years, we have seen significant interest in the use of permanently deployed resident robotic vehicles for commercial inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) activities. This paper presents a concept and ...
• A preparation for reuse trial of washing machines in Ireland 

  Johnson, Michael; McMahon, Kathleen; Fitzpatrick, Colin (MDPI, 2020)

  This paper presents the results of a “preparation for reuse” trial of washing machines in Ireland. For the trial, a methodology for the quantitative assessment of potentially reusable appliances in the waste electric and ...
• Behavioral change for the circular economy: A review with focus on electronic waste management in the EU 

  Parajuly, Keshav; Fitzpatrick, Colin; Muldoon, Orla T.; Kuehr, Ruediger (Elesvier, 2020)

  In recent years, electrical and electronic products (e-products) have been central to the discussion of resource sustainability due to their growing demand, use of critical resources, and challenges in managing the resulting ...
• Understanding the impacts of transboundary waste shipment policies: The case of plastic and electronic waste 

  Parajuly, Keshav; Fitzpatrick, Colin (MDPI, 2020)

  Impact assessment is a part of the policy implementation cycle, which can support the design and implementation of effective policies at a minimum cost. It can be instrumental in understanding policy options available to ...
• Initial evaluation of the performance of novel inorganic scintillating detectors for small animal irradiation dosimetry 

  Byrne, Kevin; Alharb, Majed; Esplen, Nolan; Woulfe, Peter; O'Keeffe, Sinéad; Bazalova-Carter, Magdalena; Foley, Mark (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the performance of four novel inorganic scintillating detectors (ISDs) on the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP). Relative scintillator output, measurement ...
• Designing a cloud tier for the IoT platform EMULSION 

  Ganchev, Ivan; Ji, Zhanlin; Ó'Droma, Máirtín (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), 2019)

  This paper presents some design aspects of the cloud tier of a generic multi-service cloud-based IoT operational platform EMULSION, which is developed as a non-expensive IoT platform primarily to serve the needs of small ...
• Up-conversion luminescence and C-band laser in Er3+-doped fluorozirconate glass microsphere resonator 

  Zhao, Haiyan; Wang, Xin; Wang, Ruicong; Li, Angzhen; Li, Wenhao; Lewis, Elfed; Fan, Yaxian; Jia, Shijie; Wang, Shunbin; Wang, Pengfei (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)

  Up-conversion luminescence and C-band microsphere laser output is reported for an Er3+-doped ZrF4-BaF2-YF3-AlF3 (ZBYA) fluorozirconate glass microsphere. The microsphere was fabricated by heating a ZBYA glass filament using ...
• Wideband steady-state and pulse propagation modeling of a reflective quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier 

  Anzabi, Shalil Safari; Habibzadeh-Sharif, Amir; Connelly, Michael J.; Rostami Ali (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  A new time-domain wideband numerical model for simulation of quantum dot-reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (QD-RSOA) steady-state and dynamic behavior, is described. The model is used to investigate 1 ps full-width ...
• An ultra-thin beam splitter design using a-Si:H based on hhase gradient metasurfaces 

  Ahmed, Hammad; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Ullah, Arif; Rahim, Arbab Abdur; Maab, Husnul; Khan, Mahmood (American Scientific Publishers, 2019)

  This paper explicates the design of an ultra-thin beam splitter based on phase gradient metasurfaces using amorphous silicon hydrogenated (a-Si:H) nano cylinders for the visible frequency of 474 THz. The a-Si:H nano ...
• Neuro-Fuzzy dynamic position prediction for autonomous work-class ROV docking 

  Trslić, Petar; Omerdic, Edin; Dooly, Gerard; Toal, Daniel (MDPI, 2020)

  This paper presents a docking station heave motion prediction method for dynamic remotely operated vehicle (ROV) docking, based on the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). Due to the limited power onboard the ...
• Phase engineering with all-dielectric metasurfaces for focused-optical-vortex (FOV) beams with high cross-polarization efficiency 

  Ahmed, Hammad; Rahim, Arbab Abdur; Maab, Husnul; Ali, Muhammad Mahmood; Mahmood, Nasir; Naureen, Sadia (Optical Society of America, 2020)

  Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional (2D) metamaterials, facilitate the implementation of abrupt phase discontinuities using an array of ultrathin and subwavelength features. These metasurfaces are considered as one of the ...
• An efficient high speed AES implementation using traditional FPGA and LabVIEW FPGA platforms 

  Rao, Muzaffar; Kaknjo, Admir; Omerdic, Edin; Toal, Daniel; Newe, Thomas (IEEE Computer Society, 2018)

  The LabVIEW FPGA platform is based on graphical programming approach, which makes easy the FPGA programming and the I/O interfacing. The LabVIEW FPGA significantly improves the design productivity and helps to reduce the ...
• Vision based autonomous docking for work class ROVs 

  Trslić, Petar; Rossi, Matija; Robinson, Luke; O’Donnel, Cathal W.; Weir, Anthony; Coleman, Joseph; Riordan, James; Omerdic, Edin; Dooly, Gerard; Toal, Daniel (Elsevier, 2019)

  This paper presents autonomous docking of an industry standard work-class ROV to both static and dynamic docking station (Tether Management System — TMS) using visual based pose estimation techniques. This is the first ...
• A Tm3+-Ho3+ codoped tellurite glass microsphere laser in the 1.47 μm wavelength region 

  Li, Angzhen; Li, Wenhao; Zhang, Meng; Zhang, Yindong; Wang, Shunbin; Yang, Anping; Yang, Zhiyong; Lewis, Elfed; Brambilla, Gilberto; Wang, Pengfei (Optical Society of America, 2019)

  In this Letter, a Tm-3(+)-Ho3+ codoped tellurite glass microsphere laser in the 1.47 mu m wavelength region is described. Using a traditional tapered microfiber-microsphere coupling method, multimode and single-mode lasing ...
• A Tri-level current-steering DAC design with improved output-impedance related dynamic performance 

  Mehta, Shantanu; Scanlan, Anthony G.; Mullane, Brendan; O'Hare, Daniel (IEEE Computer Society, 2020)

  This paper presents a design of a low-latency 12-bit linear tri-level current-steering digital-to-analogue-converter for use in continuous-time ADCs. The DAC design achieves 12-bit static linearity, while the combination ...

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