Digital Manufacturing Group
Digital Manufacturing Group
Research Group Lead: Prof. Ashutosh Tiwari
Developing new digital manufacturing techniques for step changes in productivity and sustainability
The Hub addresses key manufacturing challenges in the production of high integrity and high value electrical machines for the aerospace, energy, high value automotive and premium consumer sectors.Â
The programme researches new digital approaches to expedite the adoption of circular innovation within the MedTech sector. Â
The vision of this hub is to pursue an integrated, holistic approach toward creating a new manufacturing ecosystem for circular resource use of high value products through advances in AI and intelligent automation, empowering the UK to be a world leader in circular manufacturing.Â
Scientific Reports - Springer Nature
By Sánchez-Arriaga, N.E., Canzini, E., Espley-Plumb, N.J. et al.This paper presents an autonomous inspection system using a robotic manipulator with a novel learned constraint manifold to control a wafer to its calibration point, and a novel multi-sensor array with high potential for scalability into large substrate areas.
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IEEE Access
By A. Herdea, D. Tiwari, J. Oyekan and A. Tiwari.ÂThis study proposes a framework for choosing an appropriate augmentation method in various scenarios by investigating pixel-level transformations in the context of data augmentation to enhance the training performance of Quality Inspection (QI) models in scenarios with extremely limited data.Â
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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
By Z. Zhang, Y. Yao, W. Hutabarat, M. Farnsworth, D. Tiwari and A. TiwariThis study proposes a novel anomaly detection method, namely Dual-channel Self-attention-based Convolutional Neural Network (DSA-CNN) for multivariate time series data.Â
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Key achievements
(2026) Dr Divya Tiwari was awarded Knowledge Transfer placement by the DICE network+
(2023) Prof Ash Tiwari elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering as Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to engineering and technology
(2023) Mr. Yue Yao - Manufacturing Robotics Challenge 1st Prize Winner
"This is one of the best research labs we have ever seen..."
Industrial partner
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