Dylan Agius Abdullah Al Mamun Chris A Simpson Christopher Truman Yiqiang Wang Mahmoud Mostafavi David Knowles
Crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) modelling is an effective tool from which detailed information on the meso-scale behaviour of crystalline metallic systems can be extracted and used, not only to enhance the understanding of material behaviour under different loading conditions, but also to improve the structural integrity assessment of e…
Preprint PublishedDoganay Sirintuna Yusuf Aydin Ozan Caldiran Ozan Tokatli Volkan Patoglu Cagatay Basdogan
In today’s automation driven manufacturing environments, emerging technologies like cobots (collaborative robots) and augmented reality interfaces can help integrating humans into the production workflow to benefit from their adaptability and cognitive skills. In such settings, humans are expected to work with robots side by side and physicall…
Preprint PublishedT. Tremethick S. Kirk K. Keogh A. O’Hare E. Harford B. Quirk
As part of the European Research Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy, the DEMO reactor aims to show the feasibility of a fusion power plant. Due to the loss of revenue created by downtime and the potential for a breakdown to render a reactor inoperable, maintenance is “mission critical” for a power plant. The harsh environment of a fusi…
Preprint PublishedGarry Staunton
One of the primary benefits from automated/autonomous vehicles (AV) is the promise of increased road safety through reductions in the number of driver error-induced accidents, where an often-cited statistic is that around 90% of all motor vehicle crashes are caused by human error. The flip-side of this is that one of the greatest barriers to the wi…
Preprint PublishedDavid J Trousdale Garry M Staunton
Whilst Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) hold the promise of relegating the driver to passenger by transforming vehicles into intelligent platforms able to ‘read’ and ‘sense’ their environment. A corollary of this is that not only will these vehicles transform how people get from A-to-B, they will be a major source of information whic…
Preprint PublishedDaniel Butters Emil T. Jonasson Robert Stuart-Smith Vijay M. Pawar
Remote inspection of a complex environment is a difficult, time consuming task for human operators to perform. The need to manually avoid obstacles whilst considering other performance factors i.e. time taken, joint effort and information gained represents significant challenges to continuous operation. This paper proposes an autonomous robotic so…
Preprint PublishedGuy Burroughes
The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a multi-disciplinary research facility which will be the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source. A critical component of ESS will be a facility for handling radioactive waste and preparing it for safe disposal. Safe disposal of ESS waste requires the dexterous tele-manipulation of large, highly activat…
Preprint PublishedChristopher Ham Andrew Kirk Stanislas Pamela Howard Wilson
Fusion is one of very few options for sustainable, baseload power to the grid that is necessary to meet the energy needs of future generations. The tokamak is the most advanced approach to fusion and, with the construction of ITER, we are approaching power plant conditions. While commercialisation of this key technology is a main driver for tokamak…
Preprint PublishedG. Bongiovì S. Grazioso S. Jimenez
Systems Engineering (SE) allows addressing the design of complex systems from a holistic standpoint, starting from the early stage of development until the end of its lifetime. Using a SE approach, all the stakeholders’ needs can be considered, and different design alternatives can be proposed, taking into account requirements coming from all the…
Preprint PublishedStuart Budden Ane Barturen Victor Agudo Jonathan Keep Paul Shaughnessy Gregory Keech Antony Loving
RACE has been developing a concept design for the remote maintenance system for the EUROfusion DEMO powerplant. Within the DEMO tokamak, tritium breeding blankets will require periodic replacement which is currently designed to utilize the upper vertical ports at the top of the vacuum vessel. This operation will be challenging due to the scale of t…
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