Dr Lloyd Tinkler

MEng PhD CEng MIET

Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

Technical Fellow - Electrical Materials

l.tinkler@sheffield.ac.uk

Factory 2050

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Dr Lloyd Tinkler
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
Factory 2050
Sheffield Business Park
Sheffield
S9 1ZA

Profile

Lloyd holds a MEng in electronic engineering from the University of Hull, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield, for his research on the optical nonlinearities of semiconductor waveguides. He is registered as a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and is currently employed as a Senior Project Engineer in the Integrated Manufacturing Group (IMG) at the AMRC.

In his role, Lloyd has led numerous projects for aerospace companies on topics including the robotic application of sealants and adhesives, and the use of autonomous mobile robots for internal logistics. He has also led the research on machine learning for robotics, and reconfigurable and flexible manufacturing systems for high-value products, culminating in the design and construction of a state of the art reconfigurable robot assembly cell. This research is currently being transferred to the low-volume manufacture of high-value electrical machines for performance critical applications such as aerospace and niche-automotive as part of the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub.

Qualifications: MEng PhD CEng MIET

Research interests: Lloyd’s research interests include: Electrical Machines Manufacture; Laser Processing of Electrical Steels; Coil Winding; Robot Accuracy

Publications

Journal articles

Clift L, Tiwari D, Scraggs C, Hutabarat W, Tinkler L, Aitken JM & Tiwari A (2022) Implementation of a flexible and lightweight depth-based visual servoing solution for feature detection and tracing of large, spatially-varying manufacturing workpieces. Robotics, 11(1). View this article in WRRO
Sawyer D, Tinkler L, Roberts N & Diver R (2020) Improving robotic accuracy through iterative teaching. SAE Technical Paper Series, 2020(March).
Liaqat A, Hutabarat W, Tiwari D, Tinkler D, Harra D, Morgan B, Taylor A, Lu T & Tiwari A (2019) Autonomous Mobile Robots in Manufacturing: Highway Code Development, Simulation and Testing. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 104(9-12), 4617-4628. View this article in WRRO
Walker PM, Tinkler L, Royall B, Skryabin DV, Farrer I, Ritchie DA, Skolnick MS & Krizhanovskii DN (2017) Dark Solitons in High Velocity Waveguide Polariton Fluids. Physical Review Letters, 119(9), ---. View this article in WRRO
Walker PM, Tinkler L, Skryabin DV, Yulin A, Royall B, Farrer I, Ritchie DA, Skolnick MS & Krizhanovskii DN (2015) Ultra-low-power hybrid light–matter solitons. Nature Communications, 6(-), ---. View this article in WRRO
Tinkler L, Walker PM, Clarke E, Krizhanovskii DN, Bastiman F, Durska M & Skolnick MS (2015) Design and characterization of high optical quality InGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs-based polariton microcavities. Applied Physics Letters, 106(2), 021109-021109. View this article in WRRO
Walker PM, Tinkler L, Durska M, Whittaker DM, Luxmoore IJ, Royall B, Krizhanovskii DN, Skolnick MS, Farrer I & Ritchie DA (2013) Exciton polaritons in semiconductor waveguides. Applied Physics Letters, 102(1), 012109-012109. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings papers

Winter A, Cooke G, Birchall J & Tinkler L (2021) Robotic placement of high-strength permanent magnets for a wind turbine generator. 2021 11th International Electric Drives Production Conference (EDPC), 7 December 2021 - 9 December 2021.
Walker PM, Whittaker C, Tinkler L, Sich M, Cancelliery E, Skryabin DV, Gorbach A, Yulin A, Royall B, Farrer I , Ritchie DA et al (2016) Ultra-low-power polariton solitons in semiconductor waveguides and microcavities. 2016 International Conference Laser Optics (LO), 27 June 2016 - 1 July 2016.
Tinkler L, Walker PM, Royall B, Krizhanovskii DN, Skolnick MS, Skryabin DV, Yulin AV, Farrer I & Ritchie DA (2014) Ultra-low-energy hybrid light-matter temporal and spatio-temporal solitons. Advanced Photonics, 2014.
Hong BH, Tinkler L, Beaumont M, Rybchenko SI, Itskevich IE, Haywood SK & Hugues M (2013) The structural parameters of self-assembled quantum dots determined from the optical spectra. AIP Conference Proceedings

Datasets

Walker P, Tinkler L, Royall B, Skryabin DV, Farrer I, Ritchie DA, Skolnick M & Krizhanovskii D Data for 'Dark Solitons in High Velocity Waveguide Polariton Fluids'.

Research group: Integrated Manufacturing Group (IMG)

Grants

Lloyd has been involved in a number of research projects, spanning various TRL’s, during his time at the AMRC. Most recent projects include:

EPSRC, Reconfigurable robotics for responsive manufacture - R3M, (Co-investigator), September 2021-September 2024, £1.6M (£364,000 to AMRC): Grant reference: EP/V051180/1
EPSRC, Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub, (Research Associate), April 2019 - March 2026, £10.4M (£1.7m to AMRC): Grant reference: EP/S018034/1
APC, Industrialisation of Magtec Motors, (Research Associate), January 2020 - November 2022, £15.3M (£350,000 to AMRC).