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Here at Glasgow University, we have been in "control" for over 200 years! It was James Watt of Glasgow who in 1769 devised the world's first industrial feedback controller, the flyball governor for controlling the speed of steam engines that led to the first Indusrial Revolution. Since then, control engineering has been at the very forefront of technological development ranging from aerospace, automobile, electric motors and drives, chemical, silicon fabrication and fibre optics to bioelectronics and biomedical applications.
A distinguishing feature of the current Glasgow EE Control Group's research profile is the way in which significant applications provide the motivation for fundamental control and system modelling research, often of an interdisciplinary nature. Indeed, the Group forms a key part of the University Centre for Systems and Control (CSC) together with the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. There are many collaborative links with industry, research institutes and other universities world-wide.
Just three examples of our many leading-edge control research activities are:
The pioneering Individual Channel Analysis and Design (ICAD) methodology continues to be crucial to the group's helicopter and fixed-wing flight control activities. ICAD is also expanding into the major new area of economic renewable power delivery.
Computer Automated Design (CAutoD) research is aimed at transforming Computer Aided Design (CAD) simulation to CAutoD to enable a rapid transfer of control technology to products, by intelligently optimising performance and reducing design cycles.
Intelligent Method for Dynamic System Modelling are concerned with the further understanding of physical law based systems, leading to the development of hybrid and highly accurate system modelling and identification techniques for industrial applications.
Our well equipped research laboratories include an ADI hardware-in-the-loop digital simulator, the first commercial real-time simulator owned by a UK University.
Many of our former research students and research assistants pursue challenging academic and industrial careers, the latter with organisations such as BP, ABB, DERA, Motorola National University of Singapore, Nokia and University of Glasgow. |
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