Professor Peter J Fleming
Professor of Industrial Systems and Control
Address:
Professor Peter Fleming FREng, BSc, PhD, DSc, CEng, FIET, FInstMC
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5663
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5138
Email: p.fleming @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C9, Amy Johnson Building
Research interests
Recent Awards
Recent Keynote Lectures
Recent Grants
Selected Professional Activities
Recent Key Publications
Research interests
- Evolutionary Computing and Multi-Criteria Decision Making
- Intelligent systems, such as neural and fuzzy systems
- Control system design
- Gas turbine engine control and health monitoring
- Parallel, distributed and e-Science computing applications
- Real-time control software development
- Applications include aerospace, power generation, automobile, food processing, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.
Recent Awards
- Elected Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2009
- Guest Professor, Chongqing University, China, 2009
- Appointed Lifetime Adviser to International Federation of Automatic Control, 2008.
- Elected Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2005
- IFAC Outstanding Service Award, 2005
- Achievement Medal, University of Miskolc, Hungary, 1999
- Sir Harold Hartley Medal (Institute of Measurement and Control), 1997
- FC Williams Premium (Institution of Electrical Engineers), 1996
Recent Keynote Lectures
EVOLVE 2013 Conference, Leiden, Netherlands on “Real-World Decision Making: Contextualising the Role of Search and Optimization”
UKACC Control 2012 Conference, Cardiff, on “Control Systems Engineering – a Business-Driven Approach”
7th Advanced Signal Processing and Engineering Systems (ASPES) Conference, Trivandrum, India on “Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Systems Design” and “Gas Turbine Engine Monitoring and Control”
7th International Symposium on Instrumentation and Control Technology (ISICT´2008) Beihang University, Beijing, 2008 on `Designing aerospace engineering systems with multiple objectives´
International Conference on Engineering & ICT (ICEI 2007), Malaysia, 2007 on `Multicriteria decision making in engineering design and planning´
`Partners in Science´ Workshop on Aerospace Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities, May 2007, Singapore on `Gas Turbine Engine Control and Health Monitoring´.
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2007 on `Tools and techniques for managing many criteria decision-making´.
Controlo 2006 Conference, Lisbon: Innovative research challenges arising in gas turbine engine control
UKACC International Control Conference, Control 2006, Glasgow: Managing Competing Objectives in Control Systems Engineering Design
Third International Conference on Evolutionary MultiCriteria Optimisation, EMO 2005, Mexico: Many-Objective Optimisation: an engineering design perspective
WACEIO Industrial Optimisation Symposium, Perth, Australia, 2002: Managing competing objectives: using evolutionary multicriteria optimisation
IFAC Conference on New Technologies for Computer Control, Hong Kong, 2001: Evolutionary computing: Opportunities for control.
Recent Grants
Ford Research, Developing an Open Framework for Industrial Applications of Optimization (2012-2013), £34,300.
University of Sheffield R&D Collaborative Research Grant, Framework for the solution of industrial optimisation problems (2012-2013) £19,960.
Rolls-Royce, Extension to Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering (2012) with Investigator Prof V Kadirkamanathan, £270,000.
EU FP7 International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, New Horizons for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (2012-2015), €287,700.
UKIERI, Integrated Sensing, Monitoring and Healing for Autonomous Systems with Investigators Prof V Kadirkamanathan and Dr SA Pope (2012-2014), £22,140.
EPSRC/RR Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, Power management for autonomous systems (2011-2014), £90,000.
EPSRC/RR Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, Wireless control (2010-2013) £90,000.
EPSRC/RR Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, Prognostics and data modelling techniques (2010-2013), £90,000.
EPSRC/RR Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, System architecture design (2009-2012), £90,000.
Rolls-Royce, Fleming PJ, Extension to Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering (2011), £295,002
EU/RAISME, Platform for Rapid Application Development, 2010-2012, €145,000
EPSRC, (University of Sheffield component), White Rose Grid E-Science Centre Platform Grant, 2008-2012, £168,604
UKIERI Award for `Optimal Vibration Control of Composite Structures´, 2009-2011, £44,680
OMEGA Award for `Control Strategies For A Cleaner Exhaust´, 2008, £60,000
Rolls-Royce, Fleming PJ, Extension to Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering (2008-2010), £976,221
EPSRC, Fleming PJ with University of Leeds (lead) and University of York, `The White Rose Grid e-Science Centre´ (2006 – 2008), £272,083
DTI, Fleming PJ with V Kadirkamanathan and HA Thompson, BROADEN - Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket and Design on Engineering Networks (2005 – 2007), £201,756
Rolls-Royce, Fleming PJ, Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering (2004-2007), £764,430
EPSRC, Fleming PJ with V Kadirkamanathan and HA Thompson, Decision support for integrated logistics (2002-2005), £89,700
EPSRC, Fleming PJ with V Kadirkamanathan and HA Thompson, Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment – E-Science GRID Demonstrator - Sheffield, (2002-2005), £480,622
Selected Professional Activities
| Activity | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Systems Science |
| 2 | Director, Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control and Systems Engineering (1993-2012) |
| 3 | IFAC Advisor |
| 4 | Chair, Elsevier/IFAC Publications Management Committee (2011-present) |
| 5 | Vice-President, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2002 - 2008) |
| 6 | Lead Assessor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Standing Committee for Research and Secondment Schemes, The Royal Academy of Engineering (2007 – 2010) |
| 7 | Panel Member, Systems Engineering, Romanian Research Assessment Exercise, 2011. |
| 8 | Member, Series Advisory Board, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences |
| 9 | Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics (2012 – present) |
| 10 | Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Memetic Computing (2007 – present) |
| 11 | Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of General Systems (2005 – present) |
| 12 | External Examiner for Undergraduate Degree Programmes at University of Glasgow (2010-2013), Queen’s University, Belfast (2011-present), University of Mauritius (2013-present) |
| 13 | Recent Major Contributions to Conferences:
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Recent Key Publications
Giagkiozis I, Purshouse RC and Fleming PJ: An Overview of Population-Based Algorithms for Multi-Objective Optimization. Int J Systems Science, accepted for publication, 2013.
Majhi B, Rout M, Majhi R, Panda G and Fleming PJ: New robust forecasting models for exchange rates prediction, Expert Systems with Applications, 39 (16), pp 12658–12670, 2012.
Wang R, Purshouse RC and Fleming PJ: Preference-inspired co-evolutionary algorithms for many-objective optimisation, IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2012.2204264, 2012.
Adra SF and Fleming PJ: Diversity Management in Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization, IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, 15 (2), pp 183-195, 2011.
Silva VVR, Fleming PJ, Sugimoto J and Yokoyama R: Multiobjective optimization using variable complexity modelling for control system design, Applied Soft Computing, 8 (1), pp. 392-401, 2008.
Shenfield A, Fleming PJ, Kadirkamanathan V and Allan GM: Optimisation of maintenance scheduling strategies on the grid, Annals of Operations Research , 180, pp. 213-231, 2010.
Adra, SF, Dodd TJ, Griffin IA and Fleming PJ: A Convergence Acceleration Operator for Multiobjective Optimisation, IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, 13 (4), pp 825-847, 2009.
Wanner EF, Guimaraes FG, Takahashi RHC and Fleming PJ: Local search with quadratic approximations into memetic algorithms for optimization with multiple criteria, Evolutionary Computation, 16(2), pp 185-224, 2008.
Purshouse RC and Fleming PJ: On the evolutionary optimisation of many conflicting objectives, IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, 11(6), pp 770-784, 2007.
Fleming PJ and Pashkevich MA: Optimal advertising campaign generation for multiple brands using MOGA, IEEE Trans Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol 37, pp. 1190-1201, 2007.
Choi IS, Rossiter AP and Fleming PJ: Looper and Tension Control in Hot Rolling Mills: A Survey, Journal of Process Control, vol 17, pp 509-521, 2007.
Kadirkamanathan V, Selvarajah K and Fleming PJ: Stability analysis of the particle dynamics in particle swarm optimizer, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol 10, pp 245-255, 2006.
Breikin TV, Herbert ID, Kim SK, Regunath S, Hargrave SM, Thompson HA and Fleming PJ: Staged combustion control design for aero engines, Control Engineering Practice, vol 14, pp 387-396, 2006.
Fleming PJ, Purshouse RC, Lygoe RJ: Many-objective optimization: An engineering design perspective, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3410, pp 14-32, 2005.
Rodriguez-Vazquez K, Fonseca CM, and Fleming PJ: Identifying the structure of nonlinear dynamic systems using multiobjective genetic programming, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part A-Systems And Humans, vol 34, pp 531-545, 2004.
Gillet VJ, Khatib W, Willett P, Fleming PJ and Green DVS: Combinatorial library design using a multiobjective genetic algorithm, J Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, vol 42, pp 375-385, 2002
Fleming PJ and Purshouse RC: Evolutionary algorithms in control systems engineering: a survey, Control Engineering Practice, vol 10, pp 1223-1241, 2002.
Schroder P, Green B, Grum N and Fleming PJ: On-line evolution of robust control systems: An industrial active magnetic bearing application, Control Engineering Practice, vol 9, no 1, 2001, pp 37-49