Research Contracts
Year after year, the successful completion of research projects has given ACSE a reputation second to none. Current and recent contracts have totalled over £15M from more than 50 research grants (from UK research councils, industry and overseas) to fund ACSE research laboratories and to support research programmes.
Below is a list of current and recent research contracts.
Current Contracts
Contracts completed in 2011
Contracts completed in 2010
Contracts completed in 2009
Contracts completed in 2008
Contracts completed in 2007
Contracts completed in 2006
Contracts completed in 2005
Contracts completed in 2004
Contracts completed in 2003
Contracts completed in 2002
Current Contracts
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) | Professor M Balikhin | Search for Electro-Magnetic Earthquake Precursors combining satellite and ground-based facilities (SEMEP) | 2010-2012 | €452,514 |
| STFC | Professor M Balikhin | Kinetic Theory of waves in space and astrophysical plasmas | 2009-2012 | £293,792 |
| Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council | Professor S A Billings | Nonlinear Systems Identification and Analysis in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains | 2009-2014 | €1,9M |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings, Professor D Coca | Spatio-Temporal Systems Estimation, Modelling, and Analysis | 2010-2014 | £499,542 |
| EPSRC Platform Grant Renewal | Professor S A Billings, Professor V Kadirkamanathan, Dr Z Q Lang, Professor D Coca, Professor M Balikhin, Dr H Wei | System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems | 2010-2015 | £1,2M |
| BBSRC | McNeil et al including ACSE staff S A Billings, V Kadirkamanathan, D Coca | Doctoral Training Grant for ten four-year PhD studentships at the interface between Medicine, the Life Sciences, Engineering and Chemistry' | 2009-2013 | £763,459 |
| BBSRC | D Coca, M Juusola, S A Billings | Reverse Engineering Drosophila's Retinal Networks | 2010-2013 | £532,115 |
| NERC | G R Bigg, E Hanna, V Kadirkamanathan, S A Billings | A century of variability in Greenland melting and iceberg calving | 2011-2014 | £311,959 |
| EU/RAISME | Professor Fleming | Platform for Rapid Application Development | 2010-2012 | €145,000 |
| EPSRC, (University of Sheffield component) | Professor Fleming | White Rose Grid E-Science Centre Platform Grant | 2008-2012 | £168,604 |
| EU 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) | Dr R Gross | Autonomous evolution of robotic organisms | 2010-2013 | €45,000 |
| Unilever Research Grant | Dr R Gross and Professor V Kadirkamanathan | Processing and classification of sensor signals | 2011-2012 | £62,414 |
| EPSRC/Network Rail | M Gilbert, C C Smith, R F Harrison | Ultimate & permissible limit state behaviour of soil-filled masonry arch bridges | 2011-2015 | £418,000 |
| Network Rail/TSB | H A Thompson, R F Harrison | Energy harvesting and wireless sensors for remote condition monitoring of railway infrastructure | 2010-2012 | £160,000 |
| Network Rail | Professor R F Harrison | Establishment of a Rail Innovation and Technology Centre | 2009-2014 | £400,000 |
| Royal Society Collaboration Grant | V.Kadirkamanathan, and H.L.Wei | Investigation of the control mechanism on co-culture bioethanol producing system | 2010-2012 | £11,950 |
| Royal Society | Dr Z Q Lang | Experimental study of beneficial effect of nonlinear damper on vibration control | 2010-2012 | £11,190 |
| EPSRC | Professor M Mahfouf (PI) | Goal-Directed Trajectory Planning of Therapeutic Pathways for Septic Shock Patients Using Fuzzy Granules-Oriented Maps | 2009-2012 | £319,421 |
| EPSRC IMMPETUS Phase-III | Professor M Mahfouf | IMMPETUS Phase III. A New framework for Hybrid Through-process Modelling, Process Simulation and Optimisation in the Metals Industry | 2008-2012 | £4,6M |
| EPSRC Platform Grant | Professor M Mahfouf (ACSE) | Modern Metals Processing: Transfer of knowledge and core skills to new and emerging technologies. | 2007-2012 | £295,000 |
| EPSRC | Dr S A Pope | Active Metamaterials for Control of Sound and Vibration | 2011-2013 | £94,000 |
| INSF (Iranian National Science Foundation) | Tokhi MO with Gharooni SC, Iran University of Medical Sciences & Health Services, USWR, CLAWAR Asociation Iran Chapter | Designing and development of functional electrical stimulation-assisted rowing machine and its efficacy in patients with spinal cord injury | 2011-2013 | £12,000 |
| EPSRC | H L Wei | System Identification and Data Modelling of Complex Nonlinear and Nonstationary Processes | 2011-2012 | £101,0 |
Contracts completed in 2011
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STFC | Professor M Balikhin | Venus Express Post Launch Support | 2009-2011 | £26,792 |
| STFC | Professor M Balikhin | Venus Express science exploitation | 2008-2011 | £254,097 |
| BBSRC | P Wright, et al including S A Billings | Microbial Applications to Tissue Engineering: An Exemplar Network for Synthetic Biology | 2008-2011 | £135,520 |
| BBSRC | Professor D Coca and Professor R Beynon | High-Performance FPGA-Based Computational Platform For Quantitative Proteomics | 2008-2011 | £515,001 |
| EU Framework 6 | Dr T J Dodd and Professor D H Owens | Novel Q | 2008-2011 | £26,825 |
| DEFRA | Dr T J Dodd | GRAIL Food Handling Robot | 2009-2011 | £300,600 |
| Rolls-Royce | Professor Fleming | Extension to Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering (2011) | 2011 | £295,002 |
| UKIERI Award | Professor Fleming | Optimal Vibration Control of Composite Structures | 2009-2011 | £44,680 |
| EPSRC | Dr Z Q Lang, Professor S A Billings, Professor G R Tomlinson | New Generation Damping Technologies | 2008-2011 | £378,519 |
| UK Northern Wind Innovation Program (NWIP) Grant | Dr Z Q Lang | Novel Integrated Condition Monitoring System for Wind Turbine Components | 2010-2011 | £80,664 |
| The British Council (DelPHE scheme) | Tokhi MO with Kabul University (Afghanistan) | Use of ICT for education and training in higher education sector | 2008-2011 | £60,000 |
Contracts completed in 2010
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPSRC Platform Grant | Professor S A Billings, Professor V Kadirkamanathan, Dr Z Q Lang, Dr D Coca Professor M Balikhin |
System identification and Signal Processing for Complex Systems | 2005-2010 | £422,571 |
| The Leverhulme Trust | Professor U Nehmzow and Professor S A Billings | System Identification for Rapid Generation of Transparent, Analysable Control Code for Autonomous Mobile Robots | 2007-2010 | £129,887 |
| MRC Fellowship | Professor D Coca | Stem Cell Dynamics: Exploration of the Stem Cell Attractor Landscape | 2009-2010 | £109,000 |
| EPSRC | Q Zhong, A Zolotas, D Dr Coca, K Li and S Evangelou | New-ACE: A Network for New Academics in Control Engineering | 2007-2010 | £87,800 |
| Rolls-Royce | Professor P J Fleming | Extension to Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering | 2008-2010 | £976,221 |
| European Framework 6 (12 Partners) | Professor M Mahfouf Professor J Yates Dr C Pinna |
Compact Project on 'Fatigue Systems Modelling for Al Alloys' | 2006-2010 | €140,000 |
| BSI | Dr M O Tokhi | Safety standard for "Robots in personal care" | 2007–2010 | £8,116 |
| UoSh (Knowledge Transfer Rapid Response Fund) | Tokhi M O with Tsuchiya A (ScHARR and Economics), Maheswaran R (ScHARR), Piling R (Sheffield Renewables) | Effect of wind turbines on health & wellbeing | 2009-2010 | £4,536 |
Contracts completed in 2009
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPARC | Professor M Balikhin | Nonlinear Waves in Hot Plasma | 2006-2009 | £173,640 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings | Identification and Analysis of Nonlinear Systems in the Time and the Frequency Domain | 2005-2009 | £256,875 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings, Dr Y Zheng, Mr J Martindale, Dr D Coca, Professor J E W Mayhew | System Identification and Signal Processing for Neuro-Imaging data Aalysis | 2006-2009 | £264,277 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings, Dr D Coca | System Identification and Model validation for Spatio-Temporal Dynamical Systems | 2006-2009 | £295,373 |
| BBSRC | Dr D Coca, Professor R Beynon | Hardware Accelerated Data Processing Pipeline For Proteomics | 2008-2009 | £98,559 |
| ALSTOM Power Service | Professor S Daley | Optimal Data-Mining Methodologies for Power Plant Anomaly Detection | 2006-2009 | £53,000 |
| EU Framework 6 | Dr T J Dodd, Professor D H Owens | RobotCub | 2008-2009 | £198,759 |
| EPSRC/GSK Joint Grant | V.Gillet, P.Willett and Professor V.Kadirkamanathan | Array design for lead optimization in pharmaceutical research | 2006-2009 | £235,682 |
| MOET-EU led by Airbus (France) | Professor H A Thompson | Sheffield working on simulation of primary and secondary power systems under databus control for future More Electric Aircraft | 2006-2009 | €350,000 |
| DTI and Industry | Professor H A Thompson Rolls-Royce Jaguar Cars Goodrich Aerospace York University |
Modelling Simulation and Incremental Certification - MOSAIC | 2006-2009 | £1.25M (£250,000 Sheffield) |
| EPSRC (Bridging the Gaps) | Tokhi M O with Zinober A and Triantafyllapoulos K | Uncertainty analysis for set-point tracking and vibration control of flexible manoeuvring systems | 2009 | £21,368 |
Contracts completed in 2008
| Awarding Body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPARC | Dr H Alleyne | Dynamical Processes and Wave Turbulence at the Boundaries of the Magnetosphere | 2004-2008 | £164,825 |
| PPARC | Dr H Alleyne | Post Launch Support for Cluster II Digital Wave Processor (DWP) Operations and Data Handling | 2000-2008 | £1.5M |
| ESA | Dr H Alleyne | Technical Assistance for DWP Instrument in support of the CLUSTER Active Archive | 2005-2008 | €289,428 |
| PPARC | Professor M Balikhin, Dr H Alleyne | Dynamical Processes and Plasma Wave Turbulence and the Boundaries of Magnetosphere | 2004-2008 | £164,825 |
| The University of Sheffield | Dr D. Coca, Professor R. Beynon, S. Smith, V. Hughes | Proof Of Concept Fund Award. Hardware acceleration of data processing in proteomics. | 2007-2008 | £10,000 |
| EPSRC | T J Dodd, R F Harrison, N D Lawrence | Mathematics for Data Modelling | 2007-2008 | £36,000 |
| The University of Sheffield | N Spooner, T J Dodd, S Maddock, N Allinson | Business Research Fellow in Security and Crime Detection | 2007-2008 | £75,000 |
| EPSRC | Professor P J Fleming with University of Leeds (lead) and University of York | The White Rose Grid e-Science Centre | 2006-2008 | £272,083 |
| OMEGA Award | Professor P J Fleming | Control Strategies For A Cleaner Exhaust | 2008 | £60,000 |
| Unilever Research Grant | Professor V.Kadirkamanathan | Nonlinear and nonstationary signal processing | 2007-2008 | £101,000 |
| EU FP6 Co-ordination Action project | Professor D A Linkens | Nature-inspired Smart Information Systems (NiSIS) | 2005-2008 | €140,000 |
| EPSRC | Professor M Mahfouf, Professor Hockey | 2003-2008 | £9,258 | |
| EPSRC | Professor M Mahfouf, G H Mills | Fuzzy Granular Decision Support for Ventilator Optimisation in Critically Ill Patients using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) | 2005-2008 | £224,214 |
| EU INTAS | Professor H A Thompson | Innovation grant to develop previous health monitoring work into commercial product | 2006-2008 | €25,000 |
Contracts completed in 2007
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBSRC | Professor R. Beynon Dr D. Coca |
Application of Field Programmable Gate Arrays to Eliminate Bottlenecks in Near-instrument Proteomics | 2004-2007 | £230,130 |
| EPSRC | Dr D. Coca | Adaptive Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems using Reconfigurable Computers | 2004-2007 | £132,014 |
| ALSTOM Power Service | Professor S Daley | Application of non-linear signal processing tools | 2004-2007 | £39,000 |
| The University of Sheffield Proof of Concept Fund | T J Dodd | Quadrotor mini Uninhabited Air Vehicle | 2007 | £10,000 |
| Rolls-Royce | Professor P Fleming | Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering | 2004-2007 | £764,430 |
| DTI Award | Professor P J Fleming, Professor V Kadirkamanathan, Professor H A Thompson | BROADEN - Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket and Design on Engineering Networks | 2005-2007 | £201,756 |
| EPSRC | Professor M Mahfouf Dr J J Ross |
Development of an Adaptive Fuzzy Advisory System for Drug Delivery to Patients Undergoing Cardio-ByPass Surgery | 2004-2007 | £174,429 |
| EPSRC | Professor M Mahfouf Professor G R J Hockey |
Adaptive control of Automation in Human-Machine Systems through Operator Functional State Monitoring | 2004-2007 | £364,724 |
| EPSRC IMMPETUS Phase II | Professor M Mahfouf, Professor D A Linkens, Professor J H Beynon, Professor C M Sellars, Professor I C Howard, Professor W M Rainforth, Dr C Pinna, Dr E J Palmiere | Thermomechanical Processing: Metallurgy, Mechanics and Modelling | 2002-2007 | £3.91M |
| Consortium of UK Industry, Government and regional bodies | Professor H A Thompson | ASTRAEA Programme - Intelligent Agent Engine Management for UAVs | 2006-2007 | £167,000 (Part of a £32M project led by BAe Systems) |
Contracts completed in 2006
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPSRC | Professor D J Allerton | Real-time Simulation of the Effects of Wake Vortices on Civil Transport Aircraft | 2003-2006 | £290,921 |
| PPARC | Dr H Alleyne | Post Launch Support for the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Software | 2000-2006 | £15,232 |
| Royal Society | Dr H Alleyne | Visiting Researcher | 2006 | £1,720 |
| PPARC | Professor M Balikhin | A Theoretical Kinetic Study of low frequency waves in high beta non-uniformanisotropic space plasmas | 2003-2006 | £146,503 |
| EPSRC | Professor U Nehmzow and Professor S A Billings | Robot MODIC: Modelling Identification and Characterisation of Robotic Environment | 2004-2006 | £193,722 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings | Identification and Analysis of Spatio Temporal Systems | 2003-2006 | £244,255 |
| SRIF Funding | Professor J E W Mayhew et al, Professor S A Billings | Neuroscience Imaging Initiative | 2005-2006 | £1.08M |
| INTAS Innovation Grant | Professor P J Fleming, Professor H A Thompson | Intelligent Adaptive Condition Monitoring of Gas Turbine Engines | 2006 | €25,000 |
| EPSRC | Dr Z Q Lang | Nonlinear Output Frequency Response Functions | 2004-2006 | £122,980 |
| Royal Society | Dr Z Q Lang | The application of advanced optimization approaches to analytical engineering designs | 2006 | £6,900 |
| South Korean Consortium for Steel Processing | Professor M Mahfouf | Hybrid Modelling of Engineering alloy Steel | 2005-2006 | £20,000 |
Contracts completed in 2005
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators | Professor D J Allerton | Equipment grant for an Airbus side-stick | 2005 | £3,500 |
| EPSRC | Dr Y Zheng, Professor S A Billings, and Professor J E W Mayhew | Identification and Modelling of Haemodynamic Response and Oxygen Delivery to Brain | 2002-2005 | £223,788 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings | Identification of Engineering Systems that Exhibit Sub Harmonics | 2002-2005 | £208,476 |
| EPSRC (via York University contract) | Professor P J Fleming, Professor H A Thompson, Professor V Kadirkamanathan | Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment - E-Science GRID Demonstrator (Sheffield) | 2002-2005 | £480,622 |
| EPSRC (via York University contract) | Professor P J Fleming, Professor H A Thompson, Professor V Kadirkamanathan | Decision support for integrated logistics PhD Project Studentship | 2002-2005 | £89,700 |
| Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust | Dr S S Cross (Genomic Medicine), Dr R F Harrison | Expression of cell adhesion molecules, matrix metalloproteinases and cell cycle regulator proteins in carcinoma of the oesophagus using Tissue Micro Arrays | 2003-2005 | £9,000 |
| EPSRC | Professor D H Owens, Professor P J Fleming, Dr S Bennett, Dr N Mort | Master's Training Package in Control and Systems Engineering | 2000-2005 | £814,944 |
| EPSRC | Professor D H Owens with Professors P Lewin & E Rogers, (Southampton University ). | Iterative Learning Control with Application to Multi-axis Systems | 2002-2005 | £201,000 |
| European Commision | Professor H A Thompson (Coordinator) | FLEXICON-Flexible Control Systems Development and Integration Environment for Distributed Systems | 2002-2005 | €1,876,139 |
| Royal Academy of Engineering | Dr M O Tokhi | International conference grant, | 1999-2005 | £3,900 |
| EC GROWTH | Dr M O Tokhi, Thematic Network CLAWAR | Mobile robotic demonstrators and applications (Dissemination) | 2002–2005 | £25,140 |
Contracts completed in 2004
| Awarding Body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPSRC | Professor D J Allerton, A F Clarke | Feature Extraction in Enhanced Vision Systems for Civil Aircraft | 2001-2004 | £330,328 |
| PPARC | Dr H Alleyne | A Programme of Plasma Wave Turbulence Studies with the Cluster II Digital Wave Processor | 2001-2004 | £337,798 |
| ESA/Astrium | Dr H Alleyne | Double Star Programme | 2002-2004 | £51,030 |
| EPSRC (a ROPA Award) | Professor G R Tomlinson, Professor S A Billings and Dr Z Q Lang | A Novel Approach to Vibration Attenuation by Exploiting Nonlinear Energy Transfer Concepts | 2002-2004 | £136,931 |
| Royal Society | Dr D. Coca | Optimal Control and Stabilization of Parabolic-like Equations | 2004 | £1,430 |
| ALSTOM Power | Professor S Daley | Active Control of Rotating Stall in Axial Flow Compressors | 2003-2004 | £14,000 |
| HEFCE (under the HEIF Knowledge Exchange Programme) | Dr R F Harrison | Kickstarting an Innovation Culture and Early Stakeholder Interest for Advanced Methods for Online Modelling, Identification and Filtering | 2003-2004 | £9,000 |
| Rolls-Royce | Professor P J Fleming | Support of EPSRC CASE students | 2000-2004 | £44,000 |
| Rolls-Royce | Professor P J Fleming | Multivariable control of gas turbine engines (ANTLE) | 2000-2004 | £48,000 |
| EU INTAS | Consortium (Co-ordinator: Professor P J Fleming) | Intelligent Adaptive Condition Monitoring of Gas Turbines Based on Markov Modelling | 2001-2004 | €150,000 |
| Rolls-Royce | Professor P J Fleming | Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering | 2000-2004 | £1,155,060 |
| University Research Fund | Dr Z Q Lang | Development of a Symbolic Computing Software Package for Nonlinear System Analysis and Design | 2004 | £3,000 |
| Royal Society | Dr Z Q Lang | Application of advanced optimization approaches to the design of engineering systems and structures | 2004 | £1,800 |
| The British Council (Treaty of Windsor Scheme) | Dr Tokhi MO with IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal | Effective modelling and control of flexible robot manipulators | 2002-2004 | £3,000 |
| EPSRC | Dr Tokhi MO with University of Leeds, University of Southampton, Salisbury District Hospital, The Inspire Foundation, and Spinal Injuries Association | Bio-robotic walking orthoses - phase 1 | 2001-2004 | £114,933 |
Contracts completed in 2003
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU Framework 5 | Professor D J Allerton | Smart Hybrid Integrated Navigation Equipment (SHINE) | 2000-2003 | £215,000 |
| PPARC | Dr H Alleyne | Cassini Post Launch Support for PRWS | 2000-2003 | £7,980 |
| Royal Society | Professor M A Balikhin | Host PI for The Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2002-2003 | c£12,000 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings | Identification of spatio-temporal dynamical systems | 2000-2003 | £212,573 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings, Professor G R Tomlinson | Frequency domain estimation and filtering for nonlinear systems | 2000-2003 | £167,637 |
| EPSRC | Dr R F Harrison | A New Approach to Non-linear Adaptive Filtering | 2001-2003 | £86,212 |
| EPSRC | Professor D A Linkens, Professor J H Beynon, Professor I C Howard | From processing to properties: characterisation of toughness | 2000-2003 | £315,760 |
| EPSRC | Professor D H Owens | Multi-periodic Repetitive Control | 2000-2003 | £150,000 |
| DTI, Rolls-Royce, TRW |
Professor H A Thompson | Low Emissions Combustion Control for Aero Gas Turbines | 1999-2002 extended to 2003 | £120,000, £34,000, £12,000 |
Contracts completed in 2002
| Awarding body | Grant Holder | Title | Period | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings and Professor G R Tomlinson | Estimation, Analysis and Synthesis of Nonlinear Systems | 1997-2002 | £131,535 |
| EPSRC | Dr Y Zheng, Professor S A Billings, Professor J E W Mayhew, P J Coffey | Identification and Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Systems with Applications to Brain Imaging | 1997-2002 | £272,620 |
| EPSRC | Professor S A Billings | Wavelet Modelling of Nonlinear Systems | 1999-2002 | £134,156 |
| EPSRC | Professor P J Fleming with Dr S Bennett, P Wellstead and S Hope | Process Control Systems Integration | 1999-2002 | £148,621 |
| GlaxoWellcome | Professor Fleming PJ with V Gillett and P Willett | Evolutionary computation methods for drug discovery | 1999-2002 | £130,000 |
| EPSRC IMMPETUS Phase 1 | Professor D A Linkens | Advanced Models for Improved Planning and Control in Hot Working of Metals | 1997-2002 | £2,764,049 |
| EU TMR Network | Professor D H Owens | Advances in Nonlinear Control, as part of an EU consortium co-ordinated by SUPELEC, Paris | 1998-2002 | €129,000 |