Dr Andrew Mills

MEng, CEng

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Industrial Research Fellow

Deputy Director Rolls Royce UTC

a.r.mills@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5634

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Dr Andrew Mills
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

I made an early career decision to follow a path of applied research in Aerospace and return to Sheffield, my undergraduate University, to take a position within the Control Systems Department at Sheffield University. Since then I have worked with industry, particularly Rolls-Royce, to develop sensing and algorithmic solutions to health monitoring and control problems. I have been fortunate to be part of exceptional teams developing fleet monitoring algorithms, vision-based sensing systems, thermal system control laws, and have developed and run various electronic embedded systems in the unforgiving gas turbine environment. I am currently Deputy Director of the Control, Monitoring and Systems University Technology Centre in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Here, I shape and co-ordinate a portfolio of industry and research council funded research, PhD projects and MSc projects aimed at delivering high quality academic and industrially exploitable research output.

Research interests
  • Equipment health management (EHM) system design,
  • Prognostic and diagnostic algorithms,
  • Integration of monitoring with control function for through-life adaptable machines.
  • Integration of vision sensing and acquisition technologies into systems
  • Delivering technology demonstrator programmes with Industrial partners
Research group

Dynamical Systems and Systems Engineering

Grants
  • ASUR “Autonomous Multi-criteria Decision Making”, 2015.
  • TSB HITEA II, “Advanced Intelligent EHM” (PI), 2014–2017.
  • Rolls-Royce, “Control & Systems UTC” (CI), 2013–2015.
  • QinetiQ, “Applied Prognostics” (PI), 2013-2015.
  • EPSRC, “Through-life Service Feasibility grant” (PI), 2013–2014.
  • Rolls-Royce, “Wireless Sensing for Monitoring” (PI), 2013–2015.
  • TSB, “SILOET II WP.1.6 – Holistic Control & Health Monitoring” (CI), 2013–2015.
  • Rolls-Royce, “Wireless Sensing in Extreme Marine Environment” (CI), 2013–2013.
  • Rolls-Royce, “Autonomous Intelligence for Civil UAS” (PI), February 2012–February 2013.
Teaching activities
  • AER204 - Embedded Programming
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member IMechE / IET / RAeS Joint Propulsion Committee
  • Invited Panellist for Prognostics and Health Management conferences
  • Reviewer, various Aerospace conferences and Journals
  • Lecturer for Industrial Gas Turbine Controls Course in:
    • Gas Turbine Control Laws
    • Gas Turbine Software Architecture
    • Fault Tolerance and Control
    • Health Care Monitoring
    • System Identification.