Funded projects

At the University of Portsmouth, I am or have been involved in the following projects:

• Innovate UK "Drone Swarm for Unmanned Inspection of Wind Turbines (Dr-SUIT): Battery Health Management, Hybrid Comms Systems and Operational Platform for Autonomous Offshore Windfarm Inspection" (2021-2022). Co-I for Portsmouth

• Horizon 2020 COFUND DTA3 Doctoral Training Programme (2019-2022). PI for Portsmouth.

• Innovate UK "Autonomous Energy Community (Isle of Wight)" (2019, for six months). Co-I for Portsmouth.

• Interreg 2 Seas SOLARISE "Solar Adoption Rise in the 2 Seas". PI for Portsmouth (2018-2021).

• EPSRC R022062 "Fault tolerant control for enhance safety and security of nuclear power plants". PI, in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University (2018-2021).

• EPSRC EP/M018709/1. Smart on-line monitoring for nuclear power plans. PI - in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University and the University of Liverpool (2016-2018).

• EPSRC EP/L02019X/1. "Development of a Functional Electrical Stimulation System for Bone Health Maintenance in Spinal Cord Injury Patients" In collaboration with the University of Reading and other partners (2014-2017)

In my role of Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, I was involved in the following projects:

• Climate Kic Innovations Project. "SUSPORTS - Delivering Sustainable Energy Solutions to Ports", with CRESS Ltd, Port of Felixstowe, Port of Valencia, Royal Haskoning DHV, Control Techniques. (2013-2016).

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with Thales Research UK Ltd. Efficient human information capture for automated data processing. Second supervisor. (2014-2017).

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with Thales Research UK Ltd. Evolutionary methods for sensor fusion in environmental applications. Second supervisor (2011-2015).

At the University of Reading I was involved in the following funded projects as Principal Investigator or as Co-Investigator between 2000 and 2015.

• EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. "Development of an open source tool for forest applications of airborne full-waveform LiDAR" Co-supervisor of Dr Karolina Fieber (2014-2015)

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with Thales Research UK Ltd. Efficient human information capture for automated data processing. Main academic supervisor. (2014-2017).

• EPSRC EP/L02019X/1. "Development of a Functional Electrical Stimulation System for Bone Health Maintenance in Spinal Cord Injury Patients" Co-investigator (2014-2017).

• Climate Kic Innovations Project. "SUSPORTS - Delivering Sustainable Energy Solutions to Ports", with CRESS Ltd, Port of Felixstowe, Port of Valencia, Royal Haskoning DHV, Control Techniques. Co-Investigator (2013-2016).

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership 9001 with Expo Technologies Limited. "Development of a power generation system for purge and pressurisation products". Academic supervisor (2012-2014).

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with Thales Research UK Ltd. Evolutionary methods for sensor fusion in environmental applications. Main academic supervisor (2011-2015).

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with @UK plc. Use of artificial intelligence in product carbon footprinting. Main academic supervisor . (2011-2015).

• Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment Grant, for collaboration with the Powertrain Department at Ford Technical Centre at Dunton, Essex. (2011 - 2012)

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with CRESS Ltd and the Port of Felixstowe. Energy recovery from container cranes. Main academic supervisor (2010- 2014).

• TSBE Engineering Doctorate Grant (EPSRC Funded) with Southern and Scottish Energy. Optimization of zero carbon homes. Second academic supervisor (2009-2013).

• Short Knowledge Transfer Partnership 1000331 with TRL Ltd (Transport Research Laboratory). Principal Investigator (2010).

• EPSRC: EP/D080134/1 Investigating the computational capacity of cultured neuronal networks. Co-investigator (2007-2010).

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership 6902 with GDS Instruments Ltd. Introduction of nonlinear and adaptive control techniques into soil testing equipment. Principal investigator (2008-2011).

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership 1554 with @UK Plc. Development of a product aware search engine. Academic supervisor (2006-2009).

• EU Framework 6: Autonomous collaborative robots for everyday environments. Co-investigator (2006-2009).

• Research Endownment Trust Fund. Use of observability and controllability measures in the determination of an optimal control structure for a multi-link inverted pendulum. Co-investigator. (2008-2011).

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership 439 with Merris Development Engineers Ltd. Development of an automated paint tinting system. Principal investigator (2004-2007)

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership 433 with Applied Weighing International Ltd. Development of high speed weighing systems for conveyor and vehicle weighing applications. Academic supervisor (2004-2007)

• European Space Agency (Ariadna Contract No. 18138/4101): Advanced optimization tools for mission analysis and design. Principal investigator (2004)

• European Space Agency (Ariadna Contract No. AO04/4104): Towards invariant relative satellite motion. Principal investigator.(2006)

• European Space Agency (Ariadna Contract No. 06/4101): Pruning the search space when considering deep space maneouvres. Principal investigator. In collaboration with the University of Glasgow.(2008)

• EPSRC GR/R6419301: Predictive control of nonlinear systems using feedback linearization. Principal investigator (2001-2004).

• EPSRC EP/D061490/1: Exploratory Workshop in cognitive robotics and control. Co-investigator (2006)

• UK based company: Development of control strategies for a model aircraft. Co-investigator (2002-2004).

• Research Endownment Trust Fund. Automatic tuning of PID controllers using neural networks. Principal investigator. (2000-2003).

• EPSRC MTP (Masters Training Package) Cybernetics (2005-2009).