Browsing University of Hertfordshire by Author "Menon, Catherine"

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    • Affordable robot mapping using omnidirectional vision 

      Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2021-07-15)
      Mapping is a fundamental requirement for robot navigation.In this paper, we introduce a novel visual mapping method that relies solely on a single omnidirectional camera.We present a metric that allows us to generate a map ...

    • Analysis and implementation of semi-automatic model for vulnerability exploitations of threat agents in NIST databases 

      Sharma, Gaurav; Vidalis, Stilianos; Menon, Catherine; Anand, Niharika (2023-05-30)
      Proactive security plays a vital role in preventing the attack before entering active mode. In the modern information environment, it depends on the vulnerability management practitioners of an organization in which the ...

    • Analysis and Implementation of Threat Agents Profiles in Semi-Automated Manner for a Network Traffic in Real-Time Information Environment 

      Gaurav, Gaurav Sharma; Vidalis, Stilianos; Menon, Catherine; Anand, Niharika; Kumar, Somesh (2021-07-31)
      Threat assessment is the continuous process of monitoring the threats identified in the network of the real-time informational environment of an organisation and the business of the companies. The sagacity and security ...

    • ATMP-CA: Optimising Mixed-Criticality Systems Considering Criticality Arithmetic 

      Fadlelseed, Sajid; Kirner, Raimund; Menon, Catherine (2021-06-06)
      Many safety-critical systems use criticality arithmetic, an informal practice of implementing a higher-criticality function by combining several lower-criticality redundant components or tasks. This lowers the cost of ...

    • ATMP: An Adaptive Tolerance-based Mixed-criticality Protocol for Multi-core Systems 

      Kirner, Raimund; Menon, Catherine; Iacovelli, Saverio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-06-08)
      The challenge of mixed-criticality scheduling is to keep tasks of higher criticality running in case of resource shortages caused by faults. Traditionally, mixedcriticality scheduling has focused on methods to handle faults ...

    • Does A Loss of Social Credibility Impact Robot Safety? 

      Menon, Catherine; Holthaus, Patrick (IARIA, 2019-03-28)
      This position paper discusses the safety-related functions performed by assistive robots and explores the relationship between trust and effective safety risk mitigation. We identify a measure of the robot’s social ...

    • Dynamic Row Activation Mechanism for Multi-Core Systems 

      Alawneh, Tareq A.; Kirner, Raimund; Menon, Catherine (ACM Press, 2021-05-13)
      The power that stems from modern DRAM devices represents a sig- nificant portion of the overall system power in modern computing systems. In multi-core systems, the competing cores share the same memory banks. The memory ...

    • EETAS: A Process for Examining Ethical Trade-Offs in Autonomous Systems 

      Menon, Catherine; Carta, Silvio; Foerster, Frank (Science and Technology Publications, 2022-11-09)
      Public-facing autonomous systems present society with significant ethical challenges, not least of which is the need for stakeholder understanding and discussion of how these systems balance competing ethical principles. ...

    • Ethics and the Safety of Autonomous Systems 

      Menon, Catherine; Alexander, Robert (Safety Critical Systems Club, 2018-02-06)
      The ethical landscape surrounding the introduction of autonomous vehicles is complex, and there are real concerns over whether the operational safety of these systems can be adequately demonstrated. In this paper we focus ...

    • How a Robot's Social Credibility Affects Safety Performance 

      Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Springer Nature, 2019-11-17)
      This paper connects the two domains of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and safety engineering to ensure that the design of interactive robots considers the effect of social behaviours on safety functionality. We conducted a ...

    • Human activity recognition in RoboCup@home: Inspiration from online benchmarks 

      Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2021-07-15)
      Human activity recognition is an important aspect of many robotics applications. In this paper, we discuss how well the RoboCup@home competition accounts for the importance of such recognition algorithms. Using public ...

    • Improving Public Engagement with Ethical Complexities of Assistive Robots 

      Menon, Catherine; Carta, Silvio; Foerster, Frank; Holthaus, Patrick (Springer Nature, 2023-08-24)
      In order for society to fully realise the potential benefits offered by assistive robots, a number of ethical challenges must firstly be addressed. Crucially, it is important to enhance public understanding of the ways in ...

    • LBP-CA: A Short-term Scheduler with Criticality Arithmetic 

      Fadlelseed, Sajid; Kirner, Raimund; Menon, Catherine (University of Hertfordshire, 2022-11-04)
      In safety-critical systems a smooth degradation of services is a way to deal with resource shortages. Criticality arithmetic is a technique to implement services of higher criticality by several tasks of lower criticality. ...

    • Lightweight human activity recognition for ambient assisted living 

      Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (IARIA, 2023-04-28)
      Ambient assisted living (AAL) systems aim to improve the safety, comfort, and quality of life for the populations with specific attention given to prolonging personal independence during later stages of life. Human activity ...

    • ODRE Workshop: Using SIL Arithmetic to Design Safe and Secure Systems 

      Menon, Catherine; Iacovelli, Saverio; Kirner, Raimund (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-05-21)
      In a safety-critical system each service has a specific level of safety criticality. Safety standards use classifications like Safety Integrity Levels (SIL), to describe the design requirements for the individual services ...

    • Proceedings of Abstracts Engineering and Computer Science Research Conference 2019 

      Nwawe, Richard; Grasso, Marzio; CHEN, Yong Kang; Klusak, Jan; Rosiello, Vincenzo; Counsell, Nathan; Herfatmanesh, Mohammad Reza; Partou, Helen; Menon, Catherine; Barker, Trevor; Veneziano, Vito; Kirner, Raimund; Tveretina, Olga; Verma, Alok; Lane, Peter; Lilley, Mariana; Canoville, Paul; Robinson, Matthew; Crook, Brian; Hall, Samantha; Kaye, Richard; Johnston, Ian; McCluskey, Daniel; Tracey, Mark; Munro, Ian; Wang, Yuan; Suckow, Bjorn; Klaholz, Ingo; Drix, Damien; Hafner, Verena Vanessa; Schmuker, Michael; Sinha, Ankur; Metzner, Christoph; Davey, Neil; Adams, Roderick; Steuber, Volker; Miko, Rebecca; Toffe, Gilles; Ren, Guogang; Montalvão, Diogo; Ismail, Sikiru O.; Newman, James; Dhakal, Hom; Sunmola, Funlade; Panday, Deepak; Helian, Na; Amafabia, Daerefa-a; David-West, Opukuro; Haritos, George; Schirmer, Pascal; Mporas, Iosif; Skaltsas, Grigorios; Siadati, Rana; Wernick, Paul; Sutton, Samuel; Lekkala, Himayasri Rao; Sayers, Paul; Khan, Imran; Cañamero, Lola; Hassan, Eheda; Denai, Mouloud; Pissanidis, Georgios; Goncharenko, Julia; Schilstra, Maria; Beka, Nathan; te Boekhorst, Rene; Bonivart, Agnes; Nehaniv, Chrystopher; Kadir, Shabnam; Bhavsar, Ronakben; Sun, Yi; Mayor, David; Steffert, Tony; CHEN, Yong Kang; Chrysanthou, Andreas; Johnston, Ian; Kirner, Raimund; Kourtessis, Pandelis; McCluskey, Daniel; Polani, Daniel; Steuber, Volker; Sun, Yichuang (University of Hertfordshire, 2019-09-01)
      This book is the record of abstracts submitted and accepted for presentation at the Inaugural Engineering and Computer Science Research Conference held 17th April 2019 at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. This ...

    • Proceedings of Abstracts, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science Research Conference 2022 

      Amafabia, Daerefa-a; Asimea, Laurel; Bally, John; Baran, Anthony; Boies, Adam; Borjali, Amirhossein; Bosomworth, Chloe; Burningham, Ben; Chaliasou, Napoleana-Anna; CHEN, Yong Kang; Cheong, Yuen Ki; Chizari, Mahmoud; Chung, Etelka; Coppin, Kristen; David-West, Opukuro; Dennler, Nik; Dhakal, Hom; Dimov, Nikolay; Dmitruk, Emil; Donald, Allen; Drix, Damien; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eltaweel, Mahmoud; Fadlelseed, Sajid; Farahani, Atena; Felix, Adrian; Foat, Tim; Forbrich, Jan; Franco, Maximilien; Gaarn, Joesphine; Garratt, Tracy; Geach, Jim; Ghias, Narges; Ghita, Adrian; Giannetti, Niccolo; Vargas-Gonzalez, Jaime; Greenaway, Richard; Haritos, George; Hatami, Sara; Haydock, David; Helian, Na; Herfatmanesh, Mohammad Reza; Herve, Jean-Baptiste; Hesse, Evelyn; Korani, Hossein; Hosseini, Vahid; Hu, Wei; Hubbard, Thomas; Inal, Jameel; Irigo, Patrick; Ismail, Sikiru O.; Jepleting, Fiona; Ji, Wei; Johnston, Ian; Jombo, Gbanaibolou; Kadir, Shabnam; Kalyvas, Christos; Kamran, Syed Muhammad; Kanellopoulos, Antonios; Kiflay, Aklil Zenebe; Kirner, Raimund; Knox, Kerry; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Kumar, Dhirendra; Kumar, Ritesh; Lane, Peter; Lekkala, Himayasri; Lewis, Andrew; Li, Liang; Luo, Qi; Madani, Hossein; Mallet, Colin; Maruthupandian, Surya; Mathen, Elizabeth Reeja; Matousek, Pavel; McCool, Simon; McGarry, James C.; Menon, Catherine; Metzner, Christoph; Miles, Rachael E. H.; Moeinnia, Hadi; Moggridge, Paul; Mohseni, Mahdi; Montalvão, Diogo; Moraby, Mohammad Najeeb; Murnane, Darragh; Norgate, Marc; Nourani, Amir; Prasad, Kumar Shantanu; Ramalingam, Soodamani; Rastogi, Shavika; Reid, Jonathan P.; Ren, Guogang; Rivilla, Victor M.; Saidpour, Hossein; Saito, Kiyoshi; Sajedi, Seyed Amir Hossein; Salge, Christoph; Samararatne, Samadhi; Schmuker, Michael; Sensoy, Elif; Shriram, Ajay; Singh, Harpreet; Sorouraddin, Yasser; Steuber, Volker; Stone, Nicholas; Sun, Yi; Sureddi, Roopesh; Sutton, Samuel; Thomas, Peter; Timms, Andrew R; Tiwari, P. R.; Tsokanos, Athanasios; Vadalia, Mansukhlal; Yaqoob, Muhammad; Yulianto, Muhamad; Zheng, Minghua (University of Hertfordshire, 2022-11-04)
      The present proceedings record the abstracts submitted and accepted for presentation at SPECS 2022, the second edition of the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science Research Conference that took place online, ...

    • RH-HAR-SK: A Multi-view Dataset with Skeleton Data for Ambient Assisted Living Research 

      Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (IARIA, 2023-04-28)
      Human and activity detection has always been a vital task in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios, such as those involving assistive robots. In particular, skeleton-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) offers a robust ...

    • RHM: Robot House Multi-view Human Activity Recognition Dataset 

      Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (IARIA, 2023-04-28)
      With the recent increased development of deep neural networks and dataset capabilities, the Human Action Recognition (HAR) domain is growing rapidly in terms of both the available datasets and deep models. Despite this, ...

    • Robot house human activity recognition dataset 

      Bamorovat Abadi, Mohammad; Shahabian Alashti, Mohamad Reza; Holthaus, Patrick; Menon, Catherine; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2021-07-15)
      Human activity recognition is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. State-of-the art approaches such as deep learning techniques thereby often rely on large labelled datasets of human activities. However, ...