14 September 2010
Engine Test Cell
A 2 litre latest generation Diesel Engine has been donated by Ford and is being installed in one of the Cambridge Engine Test Cells. A Renault 1.2 litre turbocharged gasoline engine has also been acquired recently by the project. The two engines will be used to study control issues related to down-sized engines and transient turbocharger response. See the project page for more information and pictures to follow in due course.
17 December 2009
Professor David Q. Mayne receives the 2009 IEEE Control Systems Award
Professor David Mayne was presented with the highest honour in the control systems field at the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Shanghai, China on 17th December, 2009. This award recognises that his "wide collection of research contributions has had tremendous impact on the development of control theory. Among these, the most important is his work in optimizing model predictive control (MPC), in which he provided a rigorous mathematical basis for analyzing MPC algorithms. His framework for studying the stability of MPC loops has become highly influential in MPC, whose impact can be seen in todays high-speed electromechanical, aerospace and automotive systems. Dr. Mayne was the first to describe what is now known as particle filtering, which is one of the central building blocks in nonlinear filtering. These methods are used in a vast array of applications including vehicle autopilots, aircraft tracking and the prediction of commodity prices. He also introduced the concept of differential dynamic programming as a method for solving optimal control problems and provided early guidelines for adaptive control."
The programme grant is very privileged to have David Mayne as one of its investigators.
02 December 2009
Oxford incorporated into programme grant
Following Prof David Limebeer's appointment as Professor of Control Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science (Oxford), the EPSRC has approved the inclusion of the University of Oxford as a partner University in the programme grant. A Research Associate position and a PhD studentship will be created at Oxford under Prof Limebeer's supervision.
