Adnan Fida successfully defended his PhD thesis

Adnan Fida successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Throughout Optimisation of Mobile Sensor Networks".  His PhD thesis is a collection of his nine (9) publications which can be seen in the lab's publications.

Annan came back his home country to resume his lecturer's position (and will be promoted to an Assistant Professor very soon) at the COMSAT.

Congratulations, Adnan!

Biomimetic Technologies - Principles and Applications released!

Biomimetic Technologies, 1st Edition

Biomimetic engineering takes the principles of biological organisms and copies, mimics or adapts these in the design and development of new materials and technologies. Biomimetic Technologies reviews the key materials and processes involved in this groundbreaking field, supporting theoretical background by outlining a range of applications.

Beginning with an overview of the key principles and materials associated with biomimetic technologies in Part One, the book goes on to explore biomimetic sensors in more detail in Part Two, with bio-inspired tactile, hair-based, gas-sensing and sonar systems all reviewed. Biomimetic actuators are then the focus of Part Three, with vision systems, tissue growth and muscles all discussed. Finally, a wide range of applications are investigated in Part Four, where biomimetic technology and artificial intelligence are reviewed for such uses as bio-inspired climbing robots and multi-robot systems, microrobots with CMOS IC neural networks locomotion control, central pattern generators (CPG’s) and biologically inspired antenna arrays.

Table of Contents

Part One: Principles and Materials for Biomimetic Technologies

1 Synthesis of molecular biomimetics 

2 Bio-inspired fiber composites 

3 Solving the bio-machine interface - a synthetic biology approach 

Part Two: Bio-inspired sensors

4 Biomimetic tactile sensors 

5 Bio-inspired hair-based inertial sensors 

6 Bio-inspired gas sensing 

7 Bio-inspired engineered sonar systems based on the understanding of bat’s echolocation 

Part Three: Biomimetic actuators

8 Conducting interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) actuators for biomimetic vision system 

9 Biomimetic actuation and tissue growth 

10 Biomimetic muscle – the sliding friction mechanism (SFM) for dynamic agile animal robots

Part Four: Applications of biomimetic technologies

11 Artificial Intelligence through Symbolic Connectionism – a Biomimetic Rapprochement

12 Implementation of biomimetic central pattern generators on field programmable gate array

13 Bio-inspired climbing robots 

14 Locomotion Rhythm Generation Using Pulse-Type Hardware Neural Networks for

15 Biomimetic central pattern generators (CPGs) for robotic applications 

16 Biologically Inspired Antenna Array Design Using Ormia Modeling

Publication 2015: A journal published on Int. Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT)

The Morelab has a paper accepted to be published on on Int. Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT), Inderscience Publisher.

Coordinated Route Reconfiguration for Throughput Optimisation under Rician Fading Channel, Adnan Fida, Nor Jaidi Tuah, Trung Dung Ngo, Int. Journal of Information and Communication Technology (IJICT), Inderscience Publisher (to appear). [PRE-PRINT]

Congratulations to Adnan!

Publication 2015: A paper accepted at the 10th Asian Control Conference

The more lab's paper has been accepted to present at the 10th Asian Control Conference.

Nearly Cyclic Pursuit and its Hierarchical Variant in Multi-agent Systems, Mohammad Iqbal, John, Leth, Trung Dung Ngo, in proceedings of the 10th Asian Control Conference, 31st May -3rd June, Sutera Harbour Resort, Sabah, Malaysia [pdf][pdf]

Congratulations to Iqbal!

Call For Papers: the special issue on "Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks"

Wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) are becoming the emerging networking infrastructure for cyber-physical systems as WSANs offer numerous advantages beyond traditional communication networks. A wireless sensor and actuator network is the integration of embedded computing devices, sensors, actuators, and wireless communication mechanisms. WSANs operate in a closed “sense-think-act” loop of environmental data gathered by sensors, then processed by embedded computing devices to issue decisions, and wirelessly transferred actuators to make changes to the environments. The closed loop enables WSANs to sense and perceive, interact, and manipulate the physical world directly without human operation, providing great potential for our daily-life applications.

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather the most recent research results of wireless sensor and actuator networks. We invite all papers with theoretical and experimental contributions within, but not limited to, the following topics:

Current state of the art of WSANs

System design and integration in WSANs

Embedded hardware and software for WSANs

Sensory data gathering and processing in WSANs

Signal processing in WSANs

Throughput optimization of WSANs

Delay and jitter of WSANs

Routing protocols of WSANs

Energy maximization of WSANs

Mobility in WSANs

Deployment and exploration of WSANs

Reliability of WSANs

Information security in WSANs

Applications in WSANs

Constrained optimization of WSANs

Soft-computing techniques applied for WSANs

Control engineering applied for WSANs

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http://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/wsan

Publication 2014: A Journal paper published on the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking.

The morelab has a paper published on the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking. Congratulations!

Communication- and position- aware reconfigurable route optimisation in large-scale mobile sensor networks, Adnan Fida, Mohammad Iqbal, Trung Dung Ngo, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking, 2014. [PDF]

URAI2014 the best paper finalist

One of three paper of the morelab.org has been selected in the finalist of the best paper at the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI2014).

Virtual Pheromone based Information Foraging in Modular Robotics, Tung Le Van, Trung Dung Ngo,    the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI2014), Kuala Lumpur, Nov 12-15, 2014,[PDF] [PDF]

Publication 2014: Two papers accepted at IEEE-ROBIO

We have two papers accepted to present at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetrics (IEEE-ROBIO2014). 

Self-Deployment Strategy for a Swarm of Robots with Global Network Preservation to Assist Rescuers in Hazardous Environments, Hung Pham Duy, Vinh Quang Tran, Trung Dung Ngo, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetrics, Bali, Indonesia, December 5-10, 2014. [PDF]  [PDF]

A Kangaroo Inspired Heterogeneous Swarm of Mobile Robots with Global Network Integrity for Fast Deployment and Exploration in Large Scale Structured Environments, Trung Dung Ngo, Hung Pham Duy, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetrics, Bali, Indonesia, December 5-10, 2014. [PDF]  [PDF]

Publication 2014: A paper accepted at INNS-CIIS

A good news after a good news!
The morelab has a paper accepted to present at the 4th International Neural Network Society Symposia Series with the conference main track on "Computational Intelligence in Information Systems" (INNS-CIIS 2014). The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series.

PSO based Throughput Optimisation for Mobile Sensor Networks, Adnan Fida, Nor Jaidi Tuan, Trung Dung Ngo, the 4th International Neural Network Society Symposia Series - Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (INNS-CIIS 2014), November 7-9 2014, Brunei. [PDF] [PDF]

Publication 2014: A paper accepted at BICET

The morelab has a paper accepted to present at the 5th Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology (BICET2014). The proceedings will be included in the IET and IEEE digital library.

Throughput Optimisation of Wireless Sensor Networks in Presence of Rician Fading Channel, Adnan Fida, Nor Jaidi Tuan, and Trung Dung Ngo, in proceedings of the 5th Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology (BICET2014), November 1-3 2014, Brunei. [PDF] [PDF]