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Designs, Volume 5, Issue 2

2021 June - 13 articles

Cover Story: Recent population migrations have led to numerous accidents and deaths. This article presents a review of the techniques that can be used in a robot’s swarm to find, locate, protect and help migrants in hazardous environments, such as militarized zones. The paper presents a swarm interaction taxonomy and includes a detailed study on the control of swarms with and without interaction. As the interaction mainly occurs in cluttered or crowded environments (with obstacles), the paper discusses the algorithms related to navigation that can be included with an interaction strategy. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,448 Views
29 Pages

10 June 2021

Recent population migrations have led to numerous accidents and deaths. Little research has been done to help migrants in their journey. For this reason, a literature review of the latest research conducted in previous years is required to identify n...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,446 Views
16 Pages

In modern vehicle development, suspension components have to meet many boundary conditions. In noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) development these are for example eigenfrequencies and frequency response function (FRF) amplitudes. Component geomet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,842 Views
22 Pages

Usability Study through a Human-Robot Collaborative Workspace Experience

  • Alejandro Chacón,
  • Pere Ponsa and
  • Cecilio Angulo

The use of collaborative robots (cobots) in industrial and academic settings facilitates physical and cognitive interaction with operators. This framework is a challenge to determine how measures on concepts, such as usability, can be adapted to thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,255 Views
32 Pages

Effect of the Inlet Boundary Conditions on the Flow over Complex Terrain Using Large Eddy Simulation

  • Yi Wang,
  • Giulio Vita,
  • Bruño Fraga,
  • Jianchun Wang and
  • Hassan Hemida

For large eddy simulation, it is critical to choose the suitable turbulent inlet boundary condition as it significantly affects the calculated flow field. In this paper, the effect of different inlet boundary conditions, including random method (RAND...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,701 Views
26 Pages

West Bay Business District in Doha, State of Qatar: Envisioning a Vibrant Transit-Oriented Development

  • Deema Alattar,
  • Raffaello Furlan,
  • Michael Grosvald and
  • Rashid Al-Matwi

In recent decades, Doha, the capital of Qatar, has experienced a large-scale transformation due to globalization and rapid economic growth. Recently, these changes have led to a focus on infrastructural development and the launch of the city’s metro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
11,690 Views
14 Pages

In this study, we present a method of chroma enhancement in the CIELAB color space and compare it with that in the RGB color space. Color image enhancement using the CIELAB color space has the disadvantage that the color gamut problem occurs because...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,968 Views
25 Pages

The continued displacement of refugees from their homes and homelands (now greater than 50 million people worldwide) places increased focus and attention on evolving the designs of temporary housing that is available to be provided to the refugee pop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,166 Views
15 Pages

15 April 2021

Many existing motion sensing applications in research, entertainment and exercise monitoring are based on the Microsoft Kinect and its skeleton tracking functionality. With the Kinect’s development and production halted, researchers and system design...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,778 Views
13 Pages

13 April 2021

The medium voltage DC (MVDC) type system can connect multiple terminals to a common MVDC bus, so it is possible to connect several renewable DC power sources to the common MVDC bus, but a DC circuit breaker is needed to isolate short circuit accident...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,524 Views
23 Pages

Design Preconditions for Product–Service Integration

  • Ivo Dewit,
  • Alexis Jacoby and
  • Paul Matthyssens

13 April 2021

User expectations regarding new products and services are evolving rapidly, forcing innovative organizations to explore new avenues for innovation, combining products and services. This paper focuses on the integrative design of product–service syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,315 Views
20 Pages

Medium-Term Regional Electricity Load Forecasting through Machine Learning and Deep Learning

  • Navid Shirzadi,
  • Ameer Nizami,
  • Mohammadali Khazen and
  • Mazdak Nik-Bakht

6 April 2021

Due to severe climate change impact on electricity consumption, as well as new trends in smart grids (such as the use of renewable resources and the advent of prosumers and energy commons), medium-term and long-term electricity load forecasting has b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,669 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2021

Having in mind the objectives of the United Nations Development Agenda 2030, which refers to the sustainable principles of a circular economy, it is urgent to improve the performance of the built environment. The existing buildings must be preserved...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,633 Views
28 Pages

1 April 2021

The hallmark of the PhotoVoltaic (PV) electricity generation is its sustainability, while its main weakness is the low conversion efficiency. A drawback to which is added the PV cell sensitivity to temperature variations: the higher the cell operatin...

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