Funded Research Projects
Current Projects:
- Principal Investigator,
GAMMA: 'Growing Autonomous Systems Mission Management', 2011-2014,
total £8.9M (£4.5M RGF funding; £243,032 RGF funding
to Lancaster; total cost to Lancaster £480,064); funded by
the Regional
Growth Fund, BIS , 2 new RS positions
soon to be advertised for 1 and 1.5 years!
- Principal Investigator,
CAST: 'Co-ordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics', 2012-2016,
total £3M coordinated by Cambridge University, consortium
of 6 UK Universities and NASA; Lancaster WP is on the study of dynamically
evolving data pattern using innovative evolving clustering methods; £90K
share for Lancaster); funded by the NERC,
UK, a new fully funded PhD position soon to be advertised!!!
- co-Investigator,
SVETLANA: Safety (and maintenance) improVEment Trough automated fLight data
ANAlysis), August 2010-September 2012, 1.3M
Euro (260K Euro to Lancaster); funded by EC
Recent Externally Funded
Projects (Lancaster University):
- Principal Investigator,
'Multi-source Intelligence: STAKE: Real-time Spatio-Temporal Analysis and
Knowledge Extraction thorugh Evolving Clustering', 2011,
£30,172; funded by Centre
for Defence Enterprise, Ministry
of Defence
- co-Investigator,
'Exploiting mid-IR microspectroscopy to signature biomolecular alterations
in skin cells and transformed cells', August 2008-August 2011
£107,000; funded by Uniliver
- Principal
Investigator, consultancy
plus EST software,
$14,000;
funded by Ford
- Principal Investigator,
'UAS Passive Sense, Detect and Avoid Algorithm Development', 2009-2010,
£24,000; funded by BAE
Systems - this project is a part of ASTRAEA,
(Autonomous
Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment)- phase
2, a national multimillion programme that includes
several multinational companies and leading Universities
- Principal Investigator,
'Assisted Carriage: Intelligent Leader-follower
algorithms for ground platforms', 2009, £41,911;
funded by Centre
for Defence Enterprise, Ministry
of Defence
- Principal Investigator,
A novel system for autonomous object detection and tracking from uninhabited
aerial vehicles (UAVs)', 2009, £10,000;
funded by the
Innovation vouchers scheme of the North-West
Development Agency and Autonomous
Vehicles International, AVi, Ltd
- Principal Investigator,
'Algorithms for automatic feature extraction and object classification
from aerial images', 2009, £55,812;
funded by MBDA through the MCM
ITP programme
- co-Investigator of
EPSRC funded Industrial
CASE award to develop 'Better Clinical Decisions for Less Effort – Building
prediction software models to improve anticoagulation care to prevent thrombosis
and strokes' in cooperation and supported by 4S
Information Systems 2005-2009, £79,285 -
currently 4S Information Systems is testing eTS
(evolving Takagi-Sugeno predictor) algorithm in a real environment
- co-Investigator,
'UAV
Safety Support', June - December, 2008 £43,817;
funded by BAE Systems
- Principal Investigator
for Lancaster Unievrsity of ASTRAEA,
(Autonomous
Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment), a national
£32M programme that includes several leading
Universities and multinational companies; T4 Adaptive Routing, Sept. 2006-Dec.
2008; for Lancaster Univeristy £75,000;
funded by DBERR
- Principal Investigator
for Lancaster Unievrsity of ASTRAEA,
(Autonomous
Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment), a national
£32M programme that includes several leading
Universities and multinational companies; T5 Sense
and Avoid, Sept. 2006-Dec. 2008; for Lancaster Univeristy
£150,000;funded by DBERR
- The
WINNER of 2008 The Engineer technology and innovation award for Aerospace
and Defence and The Special Award of The Engineer technology and innovation
2008, presented at The Royal Society, London, 3 October 2008
- Principal Investigator
of 'Collision
Avoidance Algorithm Development', March 2006-February 2007,
£66,000;funded by BAE
Systems
- Principal Investigator
of '2006 International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems', 2006,
£12,768; funded by EPSRC
- Principal Investigator,
'
EvoMap:On-Chip Implementation of
Intelligent Information Modelling using EVOlving MAPping', funded by Lancaster
Univeristy, 2004-05, £8,500
- Supervisor of
a student research project ("Study of map-building and target recognition
with autonomous mobile robot Pioneer-DX3") supported by
Nuffield Foundation, summer 2005, £1,260
Previous Externally Funded Research Projects
(Loughborough University):
- Principal Investigator of the
EPSRC funded research project "Application
of Fuzzy Rule-based Models in Building HVAC Systems Simulation, (GR/M97299), £49,990, 2000-2001
Investigation and development of a new
method for modelling components of air-conditioning systems using evolving
rule-based models. Individual grant review concluded: 'tending to outstanding'
and 'tending to internationally leading', supervision of a post-doc researcher.
- Co-Investigator of the
ASHARE funded research project "Building System Design Synthesis
and Optimization" (RP-1049), $181,000, 1999-2002
Development and implementation of an approach to automatic synthesis and optimisation
of building air-conditioning systems using genetic algorithms and rules, supervision
of a PhD student.
- EUNITE
(EUropean Network of excellence in Intelligent TEchnologies for smart adaptive
systems), sponsored by the European Commission (IST 2000-29207), 2001-2004;
Value €1,215,000. Role: Member of the Research
and Theory Development Committee, Key Node, supervision
of 2 postgraduate students.
- INREB
(Integration of New and Renewable Energy in Buildings) FARADY partnership,
2001-2005; Value £3,000,000. Role: co-investigator,
part of the team preparing the proposal
- Visiting Researcher at
CESAME, Catholic University of Leuvain, Leuvain-la-neuve, Belgium, in
the EU funded project ERB-FAIR-CT96-1099, €129
000, 1997-1999
Hybrid neural-network-based modelling of
bio-technological processes.
- Principal Investigator in Industry-funded
(NEC) project "Electrical Load Forecasting by Neural Networks",
600 000 BGL 1994-1996
Develop an approach, design of the related
software in TurboPascal
(NeuroPower) and testing in real conditions,
supervision of a software developer
- Visiting Researcher in the DAAD
funded project at
Hans-Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany, 8 000 DEM, 1996
Application of
GA for optimisation of processes described by fuzzy models.
- Research Fellow in the NFSI funded project
"Modelling and Optimisation of Food Industry Processes", CC-338/93,
1993-1996
Implement new approaches for optimisation (using genetic algorithms) of biotechnological
processes in the area of food industry applications described by fuzzy models
or artificial neural networks, supervision of MSc students
- Research Fellow in the NFSI funded project
"New Methods for Control of Processes of Microbial Synthesis", TH-189/90,
1990-1993
Study and
develop new approaches for optimal control of biotechnological processes subject
to significant uncertainties, supervision of MSc students
Hosting visting Researchers
- £2.5K grant to host
Prof.
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, GERMANY
for a short incomming visit working on Evolving Probabilistic Calssifiers
with applications to bio-medical data, April-May 2006
- £1 grant to host Dr.
Edwin Lughofer
Fuzzy Logic Laboratory, Johan Kepler University, Linz, AUSTRIA, for
a short incomming visit working on evolving fuzzy classifiers and systems,
£1K, May 2007
Travel grants
- £795 grant from
the Royal Society to give invited talks at Ford R&D, Dearborne,
MI, USA, Dow Chemicals R&D, Saginaw, MI, USA, and University
of Michgan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- £1140 grant from the Royal
Society to give a Tutorial and present a
paper at the World
Congress on Computational Intelligence , Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre
Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006
- $500 from IEEE for the Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems in the frameowrk of theIEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2009, 29
March - 2 April, 2009, Nashville, Tennesee, USA
- £350 from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to
attend the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2009, 29
March - 2 April, 2009, Nashville, Tennesee, USA(co-Chairing a Workshop ESDIS'09), TG/08/58, March 2009
- £292 from Helios, ATM KTN for an invited talk at Farnborough, June, 2008
- £350 from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to
attend the 3rd
International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems, Witten-Bomerholz,
Germany, 4-7 March 2008 (Vice Chair), TG/07/47
- £300 from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to
give a plenary talk at the IFAC Workshop on Energy Saving Conrol in Plants
and Buildings, 2-5 October 2006, TG/06/15
- £300 from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University, to
give a plenary talk at the VII
Symposium on Intelligent Automation , 18-23 September, 2005, Sao Luis,
Brazil (and an invited lecture at UNICAMP, 27 September 2005), TG/04/44
- £300 from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to
attend the 1st
International Workshop on Genetic Fuzzy Systems, Granada, Spain, 17-19 March,
2005 (IPC member), TG/04/11
- £300 to attend from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster
University to attend 24th
NAFIPS Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 22-25, 2005 (invited
presentation, special session organizer), TG/04/24
- £300 from the Faculty
of Engineering, Loughborough
University to attend 9th IFSA
World Congress,2001
- £300 from the Faculty
of Engineering, Loughborough
University to attend
IEEE
International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Control and Instrumentation
IECON-2000, 22-28 October 2000, Nagoya, Japan
- £500 from the Faculty
of Engineering, Loughborough
University to attend 8th
IFSA World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, August 17-20, 1999
- BEF670K from the Belgian
Office for Technical, Scientific and Cultural Affairs to the Prime Minister
of Belgium, for joint research, 1997
- DEM8000 from DAADto visit
Hans-Knoell
Institute, Germany for collaboration, 1996
- DEM2100 from DFG to visit
Hannover University, Germany for collaboration programme set-up, 1995