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The research in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering is organised into three research groups, which reflect three strategic research themes.

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Swarm robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Undertaking research in robotics and autonomous systems by investigating key research problems of sensing, control, decision making and system integration.

Robotics research group

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Complex Systems and Signal Processing

Exploring the application of machine learning and data science tools in the analysis of complex dynamical systems.

Complexity research group

Engine jet

Intelligent Systems, Decision and Control

Making a global impact on advances in multiobjective evolutionary optimization algorithms, intelligent health monitoring and fault diagnosis, decision support systems for biomedicine, information processing and computational data modelling.

Intelligence research group

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