Grants and Contracts

Total value of awarded grants to date is GBP 10,993,831 as follows. Several awards involve external or internal collaborators.

• RAICo Programme - Theme 2 funding, UK,
  Suppressing task-space vibrations in robotic manipulators on a flexible platform,
  Apr 2024 - Mar 2025,
  Amount granted GBP149,899.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK,
  Micro-scale co-generation near-isothermal-adiabatic compressed air energy storage,
  May 2024 - Apr 2028,
  Amount granted GBP1,901,456.

• Royal Society, International Exchanges 2021 Cost Share (NSFC), UK,
  Time-domain interpretation and stability analysis of negative imaginary systems,
  Mar 2022 - Mar 2026,
  Amount granted GBP12,000.

• SBRI - Digital Technologies for Robotic Nuclear Decommissioning, UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK,
  Modelling and Control of a Long Flexible Manipulator,
  Jul 2022 - Sep 2023,
  Amount granted GBP149,975.

• SBRI - Digital Technologies for Robotic Nuclear Decommissioning, UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK,
  Teleoperation with digital twins,
  Jul 2022 - Sep 2023,
  Amount granted GBP149,926.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK,
  Robust feedback control of negative imaginary systems: From foundations to benchmark applications,
  May 2018 - May 2023,
  Amount granted GBP475,190.

• Capital Equipment Funds (competitive), University of Manchester, UK,
  Integrated Control Systems Equipment and Software for Teaching and Research,
  Jan 2021 - Jul 2023,
  Amount granted GBP480,000.

• COVID recovery fund (competitive), University of Manchester, UK,
  Small-scale (2kW) liquid piston air compressor/expander for an energy storage application,
  Jan 2022 - Jul 2022,
  Amount granted GBP9,500.

• Australian Research Council, Australia,
  Robust control of highly resonant flexible and nanoscale systems (ref. DP190102158),
  Jul 2019 - Jul 2022,
  Amount granted AUD430,000.

• Weapons Sector Research Framework (WSRF) Contract, MBDA Missile Systems, UK,
  Guidance Algorithms to Accommodate Reduced Terminal Sensor Performance,
  Oct 2021 - Apr 2022,
  Amount granted GBP53,340.

• National Physical Laboratory, UK,
  NPL/ESA 6-DOF microvibration isolation, measurement and generation instrument,
  Dec 2020 - May 2021,
  Amount granted GBP52,494.

• China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), China,
  Joint Laboratory in Advanced Control Systems Technology,
  Mar 2016 – Mar 2021,
  Amount granted GBP997,207.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK,
  IAA Relationship Incubator Scheme with Eatron Technologies Ltd.,
  Exploring modelling and robust feedback control collaboration opportunities in Battery Management Systems,
  Apr 2019 - Jul 2019,
  Amount granted GBP10,000.

• N8 Agri-Food Programme, UK,
  3D Ultra-High Precision Agriculture: Exemplification against weed management,
  Oct 2017 - Oct 2018,
  Amount granted GBP9,998.

• Regional Growth Fund, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK,
  Growing Autonomous Mission Management Applications (GAMMA),
  GBP4.4m granted to consortium (includes North West Aerospace Alliance Ltd., BAE Systems, National Nuclear Laboratories Ltd., 5 HEIs),
  Oct 2012 - Sep 2015,
  UoM share of GBP686,942 + co-contribution of GBP686,942.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK,
  Absolute stability theory of feedback interconnections and robust antiwindup control design,
  Sep 2010 - Mar 2014,
  Amount granted GBP496,966.

• Faculty Strategic Funds (competitive), University of Manchester, UK,
  A gimballed hardware-in-the-loop attitude control systems test rig for Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles and Autonomous Systems technologies for sustainable agriculture,
  Nov 2011 - Jul 2012,
  Amount granted GBP19,600 + GBP43,000.

• Faculty Strategic Funds (competitive), University of Manchester, UK,
  Nano-positioning control test bed,
  Nov 2011 - Jul 2012,
  Amount granted GBP17,330.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK,
  Advances in robust control methods and application to flying discs,
  Jan 2009 - Jun 2012,
  Amount granted GBP364,939.

• UMIP Ltd. Intellectual Property Premier Fund, UK,
  Demonstration of a variable pitch hexrotor vehicle with expanded manoeuvre envelope,
  Jul 2011 - Nov 2011,
  Amount granted GBP25,000.

• Faculty Strategic Funds (competitive), University of Manchester, UK,
  Small-scale research and teaching equipment,
  Jan 2011 - Jul 2011,
  Amount granted GBP16,500.

• Royal Society Research Grant, UK,
  Novel concepts and control challenges in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,
  Oct 2008 - Apr 2010,
  Amount granted GBP15,000.

• UMIP Ltd. Proof-of-Principle Fund, UK,
  Patented HexRotor UAV development,
  May 2009 - Feb 2010,
  Amount granted GBP90,137.

• AVL Powertrain UK Ltd., UK,
  Optimised car engine tuning: An adaptive control approach,
  Nov 2008 - Aug 2009,
  Amount granted GBP2,000.

• Sellafield Remote Technology Ltd., Remote Handling Centre of Excellence, UK,
  Use of the patented TumbleWeed rotary wing vehicle to solve part of the future nuclear decommissioning challenge,
  Mar 2009,
  Amount granted GBP3,000.

• Australian Research Council, Australia,
  Development of robust adaptive and nonlinear control methodologies,
  Jan 2006 - Dec 2008 (until I moved to UoM),
  Amount granted AUD336,000 (exc. overheads).

• Royal Society Travel Grant, UK,
  Jul 2007,
  Amount granted GBP1,110.

• Australian Research Council, Australia,
  Fellowship on "Robust and Adaptive Control",
  May 2003 - May 2006,
  Amount granted AUD207,090 (exc. overheads).

• Australian Research Council, Australia,
  Safe adaptive control,
  May 2003 - May 2006,
  Amount granted AUD60,000.

• Australian Research Council, Australia,
  Research Network on Control, Dynamics and Systems,
  National consortium bid,
  Dec 2003 - Aug 2004,
  Amount granted AUD30,000.