We have 2,067 funded PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

This project will focus on the development of Bayesian inference methods such as sequential Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for filtering and smoothing of states and parameters of complex nonlinear systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Predictive control of non-linear and/or robust systems

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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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

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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When do astrocytes contribute to the control of brain blood flow?

University of Sheffield Department of Psychology

In order that the brain can function normally, it is essential that blood flow within the brain is well matched to neuronal metabolic demand. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Howarth

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Using pharmacological agents to investigate the mechanisms of the neuronal vascular coupling

University of Sheffield Department of Psychology

The changes in cerebral blood flow, volume and oxygenation that accompany increases in neural activity form the basis of non-invasive neuroimaging techniques such as blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) which allow human brain mapping. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Berwick

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 2,067 funded PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

funded PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 2,067 funded PhD PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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