Mobile Fusion Centre Research Team

Professor Hongnian Yu:

• Modelling and control of complex interactive networks; Internet congestion control.
• Applied artificial intelligence including scheduling and planning; Business process management, manufacturing systems and supply chains; Modelling, scheduling, control and simulation of car production systems; Petri net modelling of manufacturing systems.
• Dynamics and control including robot and non-linear control; Robust and adaptive control; Iterative learning control; System identification; Dynamics of robot including electric drives; Computer aided design of control systems.

Dr Alison Griffiths:

• Mobile computer and communications networks including Cellular, Personal and AD-Hoc Networks; Routing and user mobility issues (handover); Quality of Service (QoS) including loss and delays and losses, loss of physical connection, signalling traffic and bandwidth on demand allocation techniques.  Faculty Opnet website.

Dr Justin Champion:

•  The Storage and Supply of Data within a 3rd Generation Cellular Framework.

 
Miss Carolin Bauer:

• Data Forwarding for Constant QoS in Multi-service, Multi-tier Cellular Systems of the 3rd Generation

 
Mr Khawar Hameed:

•  Enterprise Architectures for Mobile Information Systems 
    

Dr Tony Atkins

 
John Byrne

Dr Christopher Harding:

•  Mobile Communications including WiFi, MANETs, routing techniques, Networked Control Systems  (NCS) with wireless technology as the real time communication medium
  

Mr Mohammad Patwary:

•  Networked Control Systems
  

Mr Sam Wane: 
 

• Robotics, path planning, sensors and interfacing, micro controllers.
  

Examples of PhDs

Dr Mohammad Shahidul Hasan  Closed loop control over ad-hoc network

Yang Liu    Modelling and control of an autonomous intelligent capsubot 

Noppon Choosri   Investigation of RFID Enabled Optimization Road Transport Logistics 
 
Xin Zheng  Mobile supply chain management

 
Lizong Zhang   Application of knowledge hub and RFID technology in auditing and tracking of plasterboard for environment recycling and waste disposal 

Associated Researchers:  
Prof Brian Boffey Liverpool University  
Dr T.C Yang  Sussex University