Previous Research Grants
We have a long history of delivering outstanding research projects in areas across the automatic control and systems engineering discipline. Here are some of the key grants which we secured in the past.
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| Grant title | Awarded to | Awarding body | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADvanced multi-Energy management and oPTimisation time shifting platform (ADEPT) | George Konstantopoulos | RCUK | 01/09/2017 | 31/12/2018 |
| Affordable and clean energy via resilient and autonomous micro-grids | George Konstantopoulos | RCUK | 24/06/2018 | 25/06/2022 |
| Affordable high-end automation using refrurbished low-end robots and ‘Assertive Products’ | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 01/09/2017 |
30/09/2019 |
| Air pollution monitoring in Northern Pakistan Towards Improved Air Quality and Human Health | Lyudmila Mihaylova | RCUK | 01/01/2019 | 31/07/2019 |
| Aircraft Connectivity | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/05/2018 | 31/12/2018 |
| Alternative mobility and Alternative routes in the Sheffield City Region | Giuliano Punzo | Research England | 15/12/2020 | 31/03/2021 |
| An SME case study for IIoT predictive maintenance | Ash Tiwari | Research England | 01/04/2019 | 30/06/2021 |
| Application of Novel Nonlinear Data Modelling and Analysis to the Study of Cervical Impedance Spectroscopy for Preterm Birth Prediction | Zi-Qiang Lang | RCUK | 01/07/2018 | 28/02/2022 |
| Artificial Intelligence based multi-objective optimisation for energy management in dynamic flexible manufacturing systems | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 01/10/2018 | 31/03/2019 |
| Business case for IoT instrumentation of existing machines: A Laser Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 01/01/2019 | 30/06/2020 |
| Cabin Blower Control | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/11/2022 | 31/07/2023 |
| Can magnetic distance sensing detect bowel obstruction during percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion? | Lin Cao | Research England | 01/04/2023 | 31/07/2023 |
| CASCADE: Calibrated Agent Simulations for Combined Analysis of Drinking Etiologies | Robin Purshouse | Government | 01/08/2016 | 30/04/2022 |
| Circular4.0: Data Driven Intelligence for a Circular Economy | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 02/01/2019 | 01/01/2023 |
| Circular 4.0 Digital Intelliegence to enable a circular economy | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 01/06/2017 | 31/05/2018 |
| Cluster Active Archive: Technical Assistance in Support of the DWP instrument of the Cluster Mission | Michael Balikhin | Industrial | 01/01/2017 | 31/12/2018 |
| Cobots QR | Lyudmila Mihaylova | RCUK | 01/01/2022 | 31/03/2022 |
| Comprehensive analysis of solar atmospheric dynamics driven by interacting vortex tubes | Viktor Fedun | Charity | 01/04/2021 | 31/03/2022 |
| Cyber Fuzzing T1 | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/05/2021 | 30/11/2021 |
| DAFNI-ROSE | Daniel Coca | RCUK | 01/10/2021 | 31/08/2022 |
| DEAL: Digitally Enhanced advanced services for domestic AppLiances | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 08/07/2019 | 30/09/2021 |
| Demonstrators of Human-Robot Co-working | James Law | RCUK | 01/04/2017 | 31/07/2017 |
| Developing a Digital Twin of two robot arms to simulate docking procedures in space | John Oyekan | Research England | 01/11/2022 | 01/04/2023 |
| Developing a Digital Twin of two robot arms to simulate docking procedures in space | John Oyekan | RCUK | 31/01/2022 | 31/07/2022 |
| Developing a proof-of-concept agent-based model of the relationship between food advertising and food choices in England | Charlotte Buckley / Robin Purshouse | RCUK | 01/09/2022 | 31/05/2023 |
| Developing An International Warehouse Assessment Scheme | Mahdi Mahfouf | Charity | 30/04/2019 | 28/02/2022 |
| Developing smart and resilient mircogrids in rural Africa | George Konstantopoulos |
Charity |
01/01/2017 | 31/12/2017 |
| Development of a personalised health forecasting tool | Visakan Kadirkamanathan | Charity | 01/01/2016 | 31/12/2019 |
| Development of a prototype electromechanical system | Jonathan Aitkin | Industrial | 01/11/2018 | 01/02/2020 |
| DIGI-CORTEX: digital COgnitive architecture to achieve Rapid Task programming and flEXibility in manufacturing robots through human demonstrations | John Oyekan | RCUK | 01/08/2022 | 31/05/2025 |
| Digital Manufacturing 1 - Multiscale modelling for monitoring: Hybrid Electric Propulsion case study | Andy Mills | RCUK | 01/10/2019 | 31/03/2020 |
| Digital Manufacturing for Aerostructure Assembly | Ash Tiwari | Charity | 01/09/2019 | 31/07/2022 |
| Digital Technologies, Advanced Robotics and increased Cyber-security for Agile Production in Future European Manufacturing Ecosystems | Jonathan Aitken | EC | 01/07/2020 | 31/12/2020 |
| Digitisation of Legacy Machines and Human Activities for Productivity Enhancement in SMEs: A Regional Engagement Initiative | Ash Tiwari | Charity | 01/03/2018 | 31/05/2021 |
| Digitisation for Zero-Setup and Zero-Measurement Manufacturing | Ash Tiwari | Charity | 01/09/2017 | 31/08/2022 |
| Dream4cars: Dream-like simulation abilities for automated cars | Sean Anderson | EC | 01/01/2017 | 31/12/2019 |
| DYNAMO | Robin Purshouse | Innovate UK | 01/04/2018 | 31/07/2021 |
| E2EEHM: End-to-End Equipment Health Management | Andy Mills | Innovate UK | 01/11/2016 | 31/03/2021 |
| E2E EHM Vibration Analytics | Will Jacobs | Industrial | 01/10/2019 | 31/03/2020 |
| E2E EHM Vibration and pattern matching | Will Jacobs | Industrial | 01/06/2018 | 31/12/2018 |
| EE2EM Additional-Rhenoics Sensor Characterisation | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/09/2018 | 09/12/2019 |
| EEG biomarkers of sports performance | Mahnaz Arvaneh | Industrial | 05/11/2018 | 31/05/2019 |
| Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy for Oral Cancer Diagnosis | Zi-Qiang Lang | RCUK | 01/01/2023 | 31/07/2023 |
| Electronics Thermal Management | Bryn Jones | Industrial | 27/03/2017 | 30/09/2017 |
| EnergyREV: Energy Revolution Research Consortium | George Konstantopoulos | RCUK | 01/12/2018 | 31/03/2022 |
| Ergoeye: Operational Real-Time Assessment Of Ergonomics In Flexible Manufacturing | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 01/09/2017 | 31/05/2019 |
| From the laboratory to industrial manufacture: Transforming digital design via robust scaling-up AI platforms | George Panoutsos | RCUK | 01/10/2021 | 30/09/2022 |
| H2Gear- Control Architecture Support | Yuanbo Nie | Industrial | 01/12/2022 | 31/08/2023 |
| High energy density battery pack design without compromising on safety | Ross Drummond | Charity | 15/08/2022 | 30/11/2023 |
| In-Compartment Enclosure Testing | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/10/2018 | 31/03/2019 |
| In-RC Thermal Management of Electronics | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/02/2018 | 31/03/2018 |
| Intervention development for community-based self-referred social prescribing | Robin Purshouse | RCUK | 01/06/2021 | 30/11/2022 |
| Ice characterisation with FMCW radar | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/10/2021 | 31/12/2021 |
| INCEPT - INformated Circular Economy ProducTs | Ash Tiwari | Charity | 01/04/2020 | 31/10/2021 |
| Increasing cohort acceptance amongst workforce and health and safety teams in Manufacturing | Iveta Elimontaite | RCUK | 01/10/2017 | 31/03/2018 |
| Innovation Award in EM Cooling | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/09/2019 | 17/12/2019 |
| Integrated machine part multi objective optimisation of powder manufacturing | George Panoutsos | RCUK | 01/11/2016 | 31/03/2017 |
| Internet of things for for overcome barriers in the steel rolling measurement technology | Lyudmila Mihaylova | Research England | 01/02/2019 | 31/10/2019 |
| Knowledge Transfer Partnership | Zi-Qiang Lang | Innovate UK | 15/05/2019 | 25/09/2021 |
| LBAM: Business case for IoT instrumentation of existing machines: A Laser Based Additive Manufacturing | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 01/01/2019 | 30/06/2020 |
| LIGER: An Open source Intergrated Optimization Environment | Robin Purshouse | Government | 01/02/2018 | 31/05/2019 |
| Lighter than air surveillance Drone (LTASD) | Bryn Jones | RCUK | 01/10/2017 | 31/03/2019 |
| Machine Learning digital twin for defect-free additive manufacturing | George Panoutsos | Research England | 01/02/2022 | 30/06/2022 |
| Machine learning for In-Situ process control, using LBAM case study | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 15/06/2019 | 31/03/2020 |
| MindD4AccelCare: Multimodal Intelligent Neural Decoder for Accessible and empowering mental healthcare | Mahnaz Arvaneh | RCUK | 01/10/2022 | 30/11/2023 |
| MircoGrid Design Optimisation | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/09/2019 | 31/12/2019 |
| Modelling for Multi-Domain Power Systems Architecture | Andy Mills | Industrial | 24/02/2020 | 01/05/2020 |
| Multiscale LRV modelling | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/11/2018 | 01/02/2020 |
| MultiRobot | Roderich Gross | Government | 01/10/2019 | 31/10/2020 |
| NetworkPlus In Digitalised Surface Manufacturing: Towards "World's Best" Processes | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 29/11/2019 | 28/11/2023 |
| Neurophysiological Biomarkers for Comparative Diagnosis and Prognosis across Neurodegenerative Diseases | Mahnaz Arvaneh | Charity | 01/03/2019 | 28/02/2023 |
| Numerical Modelling Of Wave Based Coronal Heating Using Resistive MHD And Thermal Conductivity | Viktor Fedun | Charity | 08/08/2016 | 06/08/2019 |
| Oil Quality Sensing | Andy Mills | Industrial | 10/06/2019 | 09/07/2019 |
| Preliminary Investigation For Advanced Control For Distributed Hybrid Propulsion Systems | Visakan Kadirkamanathan | RCUK | 01/12/2016 | 25/03/2017 |
| Proxisense Testing | Andy Mills | Industrial | 10/06/2019 | 09/09/2019 |
| Rad-Sat: Modelling the acceleration, transport and loss of radiation belt electrons to protect satellites from space weather | Michael Balikhin | RCUK | 01/05/2017 | 30/04/2022 |
| RAIN: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear | Sandor Veres | RCUK | 02/10/2017 | 30/09/2021 |
| Resilient Power Feasibility Study | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/01/2021 | 31/03/2022 |
| Right-First-Time Fused Deposition for Healthcare Manufacturing | Mahdi Mahfouf | Charity | 01/10/2020 | 16/01/2023 |
| RL for Natural Recirculation | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/09/2021 | 31/12/2022 |
| Robust data-centric cyber-physical systems for Materials 4.0 | George Panoutsos | RCUK | 01/01/2022 | 31/03/2022 |
| Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence | Keith Jackson | Charity | 01/01/2020 | 01/01/2023 |
| SALSA2d - Separation of Additive-Layer Supports by Automation via 2-way Digital Twin | Jonathan Aitkin | EC | 01/07/2020 | 31/07/2020 |
| SecReMGs: Security and Reliability in Microgrids: Towards Clean and Secure Electrical Energy | Mahdieh Sadabadi | Research England | 01/02/2021 | 31/07/2021 |
| ShiRAS: Towards Safe and Reliable Autonomy in Sensor Driven Systems | Lyudmila Mihaylova | RCUK | 01/12/2019 | 30/11/2023 |
| Sipher QR | Robin Purshouse | RCUK | 01/04/2021 | 31/03/2022 |
| Smart Farm Planning and Monitoring System | Lyudmila Mihaylova | Charity | 01/04/2019 | 30/09/2021 |
| SP2RC: Application to STFC for Consolidated Grant Support for the Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre | Michael Balikhin | RCUK | 01/04/2018 | 30/09/2022 |
| Sustainable advanced manufacturing via machine learning-assisted exploitation of sensing and data infrastructure | Iñaki Esanola | RCUK | 01/09/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| SYSDYMATS: SYstems Science-based design and manufacturing of DYnamic MATerials and Structures | Zi-Qiang Lang | RCUK | 01/10/2018 | 31/03/2022 |
| Tailorable & Adaptive Connected Digital Additive Manufacturing (TACDAM) | George Panoutsos | RCUK | 01/01/2017 | 31/03/2019 |
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TeleBCI-FES: Upper Limb Telerehabilitation using Brain-controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation |
Mahnaz Arvaneh | RCUK | 01/07/2021 | 30/11/2022 |
| TeleRegain II: Accelerating upper limb stroke rehabilitation from home through the power of the brain | Mahnaz Arvaneh / Joshua Giles | UKRI | 11/10/2023 | 19/01/2024 |
| Thermal imaging tool for measuring respiratory airflow to assist with diagnosing apnoea in children with suspected sleep related breathing disorders | Mahdi Mahfouf | RCUK | 01/10/2018 | 31/01/2020 |
| Through-life performance: From science to instrumentation | Ash Tiwari | RCUK | 03/04/2017 | 02/04/2022 |
| Tissue-RIMOTE: Tissue-Responsive Robotic Implants for In Vivo Mechanostimulation-Based Tissue Regeneration | Dana Damian | RCUK | 01/10/2019 | 15/08/2022 |
| Towards building an automated scoring model for assessing appropriate use of metadiscourse markers in Aptis Writing across CEFR levels: A multidisciplinary study | John Oyekan | Charity | 01/11/2022 | 31/03/2023 |
| Transit: Towards a Robust Airport Decision Support System for Intelligent Taxiing | Mahdi Mahfouf | RCUK | 01/07/2016 | 31/08/2022 |
| UK Race to Space | Viktor Fedun | Charity | 12/08/2022 | 11/08/2024 |
| Unilever many-objective optimisation pilot project | Robin Purshouse | Industrial | 01/10/2018 | 30/06/2019 |
| Use of Innovative Fibre Optic sensing to assess masonry arch bridges | Zi-Qiang Lang | Research England | 01/02/2018 | 31/03/2018 |
| Use of Innovative Fibre Optic sensing to assess masonry arch bridges | Zi-Qiang Lang | RCUK | 01/06/2018 | 31/03/2020 |
| UTC 2017 | Visakan Kadirkamanathan | Industrial | 01/01/2017 | 31/12/2017 |
| UTC 2018 | Visakan Kadirkamanathan | Industrial | 01/01/2018 | 28/02/2019 |
| UTC Sensor | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/01/2019 | 31/12/2019 |
| UTC Submarines | Visakan Kadirkamanathan | Industrial | 01/01/2016 | 31/12/2016 |
| VULCAN | George Panoutsos | Innovate UK | 01/11/2019 | 31/01/2022 |
| VSWMC: Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre | Michael Balikhin | Industrial | 01/05/2020 | 30/09/2021 |
| WBD Operations support | Michael Balikhin | RCUK | 15/03/2017 | 31/12/2018 |
| WEC#4 Operations support | Michael Balikhin | RCUK | 15/03/2017 | 31/12/2018 |
| What happens when you cross LEGO and a Star Trek Replicator? | Simon Pope | RCUK | 01/08/2020 | 31/07/2023 |
| Wireless sensing UAM | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/09/2019 | 30/11/2019 |
| Wireless sensor subs sprint | Andy Mills | Industrial | 01/06/2019 | 01/09/2019 |