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).
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).
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).