The Control Group at Leicester has an international reputation in the development and application of advanced control system design methods. Much of its research is fundamental and generic with wide applicability across various sectors of industry but particular attention is given to aerospace. The Group is very well resourced with excellent computing facilities. 

There are currently five academic staff members in the Group, including two professors (C. Edwards, D.-W. Gu), one senior lecturer (M.C. Turner) and two lecturers (A. Lecchini-Visintini, E. Prempain).  In addition, the group currently  includes a teaching fellow (R.M. Morales) and a fixed-term lecturer (J. Andrade da Silva).

Major grants and partnerships

The group has been awarded two EPSRC Platform Grants. The first platform grant facilitated collaboration with the University of California at Santa Barbara on constrained control problems as well as work on helicopter control with the Canadian NRC Flight Research Laboratories, Westland Helicopters and QinetiQ. The second platform grant, on the Control of Complex Systems, is being used to support new collaborations; for example, with the CNRS LAAS (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems) at Toulouse. The group has received a UKIERI major award (£549K) “Towards reliable smart adaptable air-vehicles” with the IISc Bangalore, the National Aerospace Laboratories in Bangalore, IIT Mumbai and NIT Tiruchirappalli. The group is also the most active UK university partner in the control-related action groups of GARTEUR (Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in EURope), which brings together the leading European aerospace companies. The Group is also a Preferred Academic Capability Partner of BAE Systems in the area of Control Systems.

 See this document  for an overview of some of the current research activities in the group.

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