Funded projects

  • STFC: Space-enabled Crop disEase maNagement sErvice via Crop sprAying Drones (SCENE-CAD) (ST/V00137X/1), PI, 02/2020 - 03/2022.

  • South Korea ADD: Development of Robust Adaptive Control System for a Compound Rotorcraft, PI, 12/2019 - 12/2021.

  • DSTL: Autonomous CB Source-term Estimation in Complex Environments, PI, 11/2019 - 03/2020.

  • BBSRC UK-China Agritech Challenge: Utilizing Earth Observation and UAV Technologies to Deliver Pest and Disease Products and Services to End Users in China (BB/S020977/1), Co-I, 02/2019 - 01/2022.

  • EPSRC Capital Award emphasising support for Early Career Researchers (EP/S017690/1), Co-I, 10/2018 - 03/2020.

  • DSTL DaSA: Autonomous Search for Chemical Release with a pocket-sized Drone [SceneSEARCH] (ACC500113), PI, 10/2017 - 03/2019.

  • SFTC ATCNN: Highly Efficient Intelligent Irrigation Systems (PC003), Co-I , 04/2017 - 07/2017.

  • EPSRC & Innovate UK: Persistence through Reliable Perching (EP/R005494/1), Loughborough PI, 03/2017 – 02/2018.

  • DSTL CDE: Autonomous Bayesian Search for Hazardous Sources (ACC101517), PI, 01/2017-06/2017.

  • EPSRC First Grant: Autonomous landing of a helicopter at sea: advanced control in adverse conditions (EP/P012868/1), PI, 06/2017 -- 09/2018.

  • STFC Newton Fund: Enabling wide area persistent remote sensing for agriculture applications by developing and coordinating multiple heterogeneous platforms (ST/N006852/1), Co-I, 05/2016 -- 12/2019.

  • DSTL ASUR: Gust alleviation for mini UAVs using disturbance rejection flight control (97004522), PI, 04/2015 -- 10/2015.

  • EPSRC AISP: Towards More Autonomy for Unmanned Vehicles: Situational Awareness and Decision Making under Uncertainty (EP/J011525/1), Co-I, 03/2012 -- 12/2016.

PhD projects

  • Muhammed Rasit Kartal​: disturbance observer based control for hybrid aerial survey UAV, 2019-

  • Callum Rhodes: Informative path planning for exploration and mapping of unknown environments using multiple robots. 2018-.

  • Tianxiang Zhang: Bayesian calibration of crop model. 2016-2020.

  • Michael Hutchinson: On the use of autonomous unmanned vehicles in response to hazardous atmospheric release incidents, 2015-2019.

  • Pawel Ladosz: UAV communication reply, 2014 - 2019.

  • Dewei Yi: Personalised driving status recognition and monitoring, 2015-2018.

  • Jean Smith: Design and application of advanced disturbance rejection control for small fixed-wing UAVs, 2014-2018.