RISE May-June 2009 - University of Salford

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CASE CENTRE
IN CONTROL
AND SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING
Paul Stewart (Professor of Aeronautical and Automotive
Engineering) and TX Mei (Professor of Control and
Mechatronics) joined the University of Salford in January
2009, and merged their activities by forming the CASE Centre
for Control and Systems Engineering to take advantage of
the synergies and complementarities in their research. The
Centre also serves as a focus for developing engineering
research activity in the School of Computing, Science and
Engineering.
The focussed research areas of the Centre include:
> Control and systems engineering, fault tolerant control, advanced
condition monitoring, data fusion in multiple sensing, intelligent
control, system optimisation, search and scheduling, complex
engineering systems design and control, prognostics and
diagnostics.
> Mechatronics, electric and hybrid vehicles, fault tolerant actuation,
traction control, drive by wire (steer-by-wire, brake-by-wire etc),
active railway wheelset control, vehicle dynamics and control, flight
dynamics and control, internal combustion engine control, domestic
intelligent control, robotics.
> Electronic and electrical systems, electrical architectures, aircraft
power and actuation systems, electrical machines and drives, electrical
and electro-mechanical actuators, renewable energy system management,
energy storage, electric and hybrid vehicles, power electronic
energy converters, distributed generation and grid
connection.
EPSRC Ideas Factory Sandpit – Low Carbon Airport Operations Start:
July 2009
1: Landing aircraft energy recovery Collaborating company: Airbus
Innovation Works
Figure 1: Energy
recovery from
landing aircraft
Figure2: Landing
and takeoff pattern
optimisation for low
carbon operation
> Energy and optimisation, power architectures, power management,
energy efficiency, multiobjective optimisation and design, advanced
hardware in the loop experimentation.
CASE Centre – Funded Research
The prime motivations for the centre are fundamental and applied
funded research and development. In this section is presented the R&D
project portfolio of the Centre, which represents the attraction of funds
from a wide number of bodies and also represents the wide spectrum
of applications and collaborating companies with which the centre
members are involved.
2: Optimised runway, take-off, landing and gate assignment -
Collaborating companies: Manchester and Zurich Airports
3: Low carbon airport operations network.
EU Framework 6 More Open Electrical Technologies (MOET)
Optimised power systems, architecture and energy storage for the
more electric aircraft. Collaborating Company: Airbus Toulouse Fr.
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