We have 954 self-funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Predictive control is by now a well established methodology whereby one bases the design of the control law on the optimisation of system predictions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JA Rossiter

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Predictive and optimization-based control of smart grids: theory and algorithms

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Model predictive control (MPC) has long been identified as a leading candidate technique for control in future power networks and smart grids, because of its ability to handle constraints and optimize the performance or economy of the system. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Trodden

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Multiple Object Tracking and Decision Making

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

This research is aimed at developing scalable Bayesian approaches able to solve complex and high dimensional problems with multiple objects and multi-sensor data. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

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Multi-Sensor Data Fusion and Smart Decision Making

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Future intelligent systems will involve the deployment of large-scale sensor networks in which hundreds or thousands of microsensors, unexpensive, small and lightweight devices with integrated sensing, computing, communication and possibly actuation capabilities will work together to achieve a common mission-specific task. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

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Multi-rate and/or non square systems and/or decentralised control

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

In many chemical processes there are limitations on the sampling rates and the number of inputs and outputs may not match. This affects the structure of the control law as one ends up with a so called multi-rate or non-square system , for which conventional control design is not applicable. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JA Rossiter

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Identification and classification of coherent flow structures in the plasma of the Sun’s photosphere

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

The Sun is a star with a cyclic magnetic activity that can impact all the solar system. Thus, the solar magnetic field can interact with the Earth's magnetic field, permitting the entrance of energetic particles in the upper atmosphere, affecting technological devices, telecommunications and human health. Read more

Supervisor: Prof V Fedun

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Distributed, robust and adaptive model predictive control (MPC)

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular advanced control technique that solves a constrained optimal control problem, on-line, at each sampling instant. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Trodden

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Computational efficiency in predictive control

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Predictive control requires the online solution of an optimisation problem which carries both a large online computation as well as the overhead of substantial code. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JA Rossiter

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for model discovery in the social sciences

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Many theories have been proposed for how problematic social phenomena - such as segregation, inequality, and clustering of unhealthy behaviours - emerge and change over time. Read more

Supervisor: Prof R Purshouse

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An Information Theoretic Approach to the Smart Grid

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

The way the smart grid is envisioned in the near future is as a constantly changing system where intermittent renewable sources and non stationary loads impose a turbulent system. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Esnaola

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Advanced Systems-Modelling and Optimisation in Materials Science and Engineering

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Understanding the thermo-mechanical properties of metals (in hot/cold conditions) allows to achieve right-first-time production of these metals. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Mahfouf

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Metabolic programming: Role of micronutrient (B12) deficiency and associated epigenetic marks

Nottingham Trent University School of Science & Technology

The global epidemic of childhood obesity is a major public health issue. Although current adverse lifestyle (nutrition and physical inactivity) contributes to obesity, a growing body of evidence links early life nutritional adversity to the development of obesity and metabolic disorders in children. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Antonysunil

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Robotics, Biomechatronics and Control

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

This project covers themes of bioinspiration for robotics and control but also include non-bioinspired areas that might focus on industrial or healthcare/medical applications. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Anderson

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Computationally efficient modelling & simulation and applications

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

The advent of easily accessible high performance computers or computer clusters and numerical techniques such as finite element methods (FEM) facilitates the highly accurate modelling and simulation of complex systems in diverse science and engineering disciplines including civil engineering, biomechanics and life science. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Guo

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Brain Decoding Models across Subjects

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

A brain decoding model aims at predicting what sensory stimulus is received (e.g. visual stimuli, different images), which mental state is experienced (i.e. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Arvaneh

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We have 954 self-funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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