Dr Bryn Jones
Lecturer

Address:
Dr Bryn Jones MEng, PhD, CEng, MIET
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield,
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5613
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5683
Email: b.l.jones @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C4c, Amy Johnson Building

Biopic

In 2004 I graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences, having spent a year of my degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After graduating from Cambridge, I worked as an electronics engineer for the British Antarctic Survey at the Halley V research station, based in Antarctica. In 2006 I returned to the UK to undertake a PhD at Imperial College London, where my research focussed upon the control of fluid flows, with applications including the drag reduction of aircraft.

Between leaving Imperial and joining the ACSE Department, I worked as a senior systems engineer for the Scottish Association for Marine Science, designing low-power instrumentation for climate change scientists and researching novel energy harvesting technologies for use in polar environments.

Teaching

• ACS317 State-Space Control Design. This course introduces state-space methods for the analysis and design of controllers for multivariable systems.
  Previous students of this course have commented:
  • “This has been the most interesting lecture course of my degree so far.”
  • “Well taught, great module.”
  • “Possibly the most informative, enjoyable, well structured course in my entire time in ACSE.”
• ACS6102 State-Space, Optimal Control and Nonlinear System (the MSc version of ACS317).
• ACS6110 Rapid Control Prototyping. NEW THIS YEAR! This MSc course will see each student using data-acquisition devices to design real-time controllers on their own model helicopters.

Research Interests

• Feedback control of fluid flows.
• LiDAR-based wind-turbine gust prediction.
• Wind-turbine blade-pitch control, in collaboration with Vestas.
• Control of spatially distributed systems.
• Low-order modelling for control of high/infinite dimensional systems.
• Energy harvesting
• Novel technologies for marine and polar science

Grants

EPSRC, Wind Turbine Gust Prediction (EP/K007386/1) (PI), Mar 2013 – May 2014, £122,777

PhD Projects

I am currently supervising the following project:

• Peter Heins, Modelling and Control of Turbulent Flows

If you are interested in undertaking a PhD with me please visit our PhD Programme website to find information about PhD projects, our research training and how to apply.

Professional Activities and Awards

• Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
• Co-chair: Enabling science from emerging technologies and sustained observation. (2010). 14th Biennial Challenger Conference for Marine Science. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
• Invited Speaker, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. (2009).
• Ireland Scholar Award. (2002-2003).
• Nortel Networks Scholarship (2000-2003).

Recent Journal Publications

Jones, B.L., Kerrigan, E.C., Morrison, J.F. and Zaki, T.A. (2011). Flow estimation of boundary layers using DNS-based wall shear information, International Journal of Control, 84(8), 1310-1325.

Jones, B.L., Jackson, K., James, A., Meldrum, D. and Rose, M.C. (2011). Powering sea-ice instrumentation via the Seebeck Effect, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 68(1-2), 60-67.

Shahzad, A., Jones, B.L, Kerrigan, E.C. and Constantinides, G.A. (2011). Efficient algorithm for the solution of a coupled Sylvester equation appearing in descriptor systems, Automatica, 47(1), 244-248.

Jones, B.L. and Kerrigan, E.C. (2010). When is the discretization of a spatially distributed system good enough for control? Automatica, 46(9), 1462-1468.

Recent Conference Proceedings

Jones, B.L., Kerrigan, E.C., Morrison, J.F. and Zaki, T.A. (2011). Flow Estimation of Boundary Layers Using Wall Shear Information. In Proceedings of the 18^th IFAC World Conference. Milan, Italy.

Jones, B.L. and Kerrigan, E.C. (2009). When is the discretization of a PDE good enough for control? in Proceedings of the 7^th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, 133-138. Christchurch, New Zealand.

Jones, B.L., Kerrigan, E.C., and Morrison, J.F. (2009). A modeling and filtering framework for the semi-discretised Navier-Stokes equations. In Proceedings of the 10^th European Control Conference, 1215-1220. Budapest, Hungary.

Word Cloud of Recent Publications

Reports

Jones, B.L. (2010). Control of fluid flows and other systems governed by partial differential-algebraic equations. PhD Thesis. Imperial College London.

Jones, B.L. (2004). Design of a model helicopter control system. Master´s Thesis. University of Cambridge.

Collaborations

Dr Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College London, Control of fluid flows.

Prof. Jonathan Morrison, Imperial College London, Control of fluid flows.

Dr Ati Sharma, University of Sheffield, Control of fluid flows.

Dr Tamer Zaki, Imperial College London, Flow estimation of boundary layers.

Dr Amir Shahzad, Imperial College London, Numerical methods for systems governed by DAEs.

Dr Ian Couchman, Vestas, Flow control applications to wind turbines.

Dr Keith Jackson, SAMS, Thermoelectric energy harvesting.

Mr Michael Rose, British Antarctic Survey, Thermoelectric energy harvesting.