Projects & Grants

Research Projects & Grants 

1. INNOVATE UK, SCHEME - Safety Critical Harsh Environment Micro-processing Evolution, £2.9m, 05/2023-04/2027, Co-Investigator

2. EPSRC, Intelligent Dependable Environment Control For Sustainable Aquaculture, £200K, 11/2023-10/2025, PI

3. UK-ASEAN Institutional Links ECR Scheme, Real-Time Data Quality Analysis and Control for Aquaculture Prawn Farming Management, £50k, 04/2022-03/2023, PI

4. ASEAN IVO Project, AI-Based Real time analysis and control of the monitoring on the growth of Freshwater prawn using video image processing from underwater drone, $39k, 05/2022-04/2023, Co-Investigator

5. EPSRC, Autonomous Trajectory Learning of Robotic Arm in Contact-Rich Environments, £17k, 01/2022-07/2022, PI

6. URP, TQbot: towards next-generation bionic quadruped robot, £14k, 01/2022-07/2022, Co-Investigator 

7. British Council UK-Malaysia University Consortium and ASEAN +3 Partnership Catalyst Grant, Partnership for Innovation in Employability (PIE) Programme, £70k, 01/2022-12/2023, Co-Investigator 

8. Seeds Funding, Cardiff Metropolitan University– Motion planning and optimization for soft robotic manipulation in complex environments, £25,000, 05/2019-07/2019, PI

9. Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) – Real-time grasp planning and optimization for robotic manipulator in complex environments based on interactions and learning, ¥288k (~£33k), 08/2018-12/2021

10. European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – The Greater Lincolnshire Agri-food Innovation Platform (GLAFIP), 2017/09-2019/03, Research Fellow

11. INNOVATE UK – AUTOMATO, 102642, £536k, 2017/09-2019/03, Research Fellow

12. Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – SMOOTH: Smart Robotic Systems for Firefighting, €900k, 03/2017-12/2020, Main Proposer & Research Assistant

13. Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) – An Automatic Device for Remotely Monitoring of Urinary Catheterization, 07/2015-07/2016, Research Assistant 

14. EU (ERASMUS MUNDUS) – FUSION: Featured eUrope and South asIa mObility Network, 08/2013-08/2017, Researcher 

15. FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES – RABOT: Real-time adaptive networked control of rescue robots, €310k, 07/2012-07/2016, Researcher 

16. Bournemouth University PhD scholarship – Design, modelling and control of a hybrid legged-wheel robot with applications in rescue tasks, £75k, 03/2013-10/2016, PhD Researcher 

17. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) – Multi-modal, multi-objective and dynamic evolutionary algorithms based on novel niching techniques: theories and applications, 61305080, ¥250k (~£29k), 01/2014-01/2016, Co-Investigator 

18. Department of Science & Technology of Henan Province, China – Research of high-speed hybrid integrated digital wireless transceiver module, ¥200k (~£23k), 08/2013-08/2014, Co-Investigator 

19. Department of Science & Technology of Henan Province, China – Research of Power system, power quality optimization and energy saving control equipment, ¥230k (~£27k), 09/2012-09/2013, Co-Investigator 

20. Department of Science & Technology of Henan Province, China – Development of the Single-Phase AC Regulated Power Supply, ¥200k (~£23k), 05/2012-05/2013, Co-Investigator