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Our research changes lives and influences policy. We're addressing some of the world's most pressing challenges, from developing new healthcare technology to improving manufacturing to make it more efficient and sustainable.

Our research strengths

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

This research group carries out world leading research in robotics and autonomous robotic systems by investigating key research problems of sensing, control, decision making and system integration.

Robotics

Signal Processing and Control

The Complex Systems and Signal Processing research group is internationally leading in the development of techniques and algorithms for complex systems analysis, control and signal processing and the application of these in emerging areas of science, engineering and medicine.

Data Science and Machine Learning

The group is internationally renowned for its work on multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithms, intelligent health monitoring and fault diagnosis, decision support systems for biomedicine, information processing and computational data modelling.

Verbalising machine needs with data

Manufacturing companies strive for high productivity and minimal waste but some failures are out of their control. Professor George Panoutsos has developed a framework to understand the needs of machines and prevent these future failures.

Sheffield’s Self Learning System

Pipebots

In a world-first, UK researchers led by Professor Kirill Horoshenkov are developing tiny robots capable of locating blockages and leaks in water and sewage pipes.

Reducing roadworks with tiny robots

Dana working in the lab with soft robotics

Our experts

Alongside our research themes and research centres we have a number of expert teams. These are flexible groupings of academics and researchers whose work touches on similar themes.

While our research themes represent our strengths in traditional engineering areas, our expert teams reflect changing research interests within the department and are concerned with developing innovative solutions to specific engineering problems.

Find our experts

Sleep disorders in children

An introduction to the IoT4 Healthy Sleep Project where ACSE researchers are developing pioneering new technology that will transform how doctors can assess sleep disorders in children.

Dr Mahnaz Arvaneh