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RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News 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. 16
RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News AIR and SPACE CONFERENCE University of Salford Researcher Dr Thurai Rahulan from the School of Computing, Science and Engineering, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Regional Advisory Group by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) for the forthcoming European Air and Space Conference to be held at Manchester Central from 26th to 29th October this year. This is the second such event that has been organised by the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS) as a result of a resounding success of the first one that was held in Berlin in 2007. The RAeS has tasked the Group with maximising participation of the local industries and the universities in the North West along with the sorting out of all logistics involving the 500+ delegates from all over the world. The Group is now at full strength and comprises of personnel from Manchester City Council, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Northwest Regional Development Agency, Northwest Aerospace Alliance, Manchester Marketing, Manchester Central and the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool. United States Air Force: European Office of Aeronautical Research and Development Neural network optimisation of aircraft multisensor data fusion Figure: Panavia Tornado: One of the subjects of new intelligent sensor arrays. Carbon Trust Electric/hybrid vehicle electric energy storage systems scoping study in collaboration. Collaborating Companies Lotus Engineering Ltd and E4Tech Ltd. TSB Technology Programme High integrity actuation system with embedded intelligence for steer-by-wire. Collaborating Companies: Pera, SET, InMoCo and TMS. a resounding success Since this year marks the centenary of the first flight demonstration by Alliott Verdon Roe (a Mancunian!) of a British designed and built aircraft, the Group is organising an additional event in the form of lectures and conducted tours to the public as a whole at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, in addition to organised excursions for the delegates. Thanks to the unreserved support provided by Manchester Marketing, a full programme for the spouses to accompany the conference has also been arranged. If you would like to know more about the Conference or planned events please visit: http://www.ceas2009.org/ and http://www.manchestercentral.co.uk/ TSB/KTP Novel integrated control for vehicle traction and guidance systems Collaborating company: GGS Engineering. RRUK Measurement of train ground speed by exploring vehicle dynamics with intelligent data processing. To start in March, 2009. To find out more about Professor Stewart and Professor Mei’s work please contact them at: p.g.stewart@salford.ac.uk and t.x.mei@salford.ac.uk or visit the centre website at: www.control-engineering.co.uk The A380 by kind permission of Airbus 17
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