Qualifications
- BEng (University of Sheffield)
- MEng (University of Sheffield)
- PhD / DPhil (University of Sheffield)
Summary
Professor Ron Patton is Emeritus Professor of Control and Intelligent Systems Engineering (C&ISE) and Head of the University's C&ISE lab.
His research is involved with the development of robust methods of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) for control systems and fault tolerant control (FTC) to enhance the reliability of computer control systems.
Prof Patton's application interest is in the development and design of control and estimation methods to enhance the energy efficiency, fault tolerance and reliability of renewable energy systems in offshore wind and wave energy conversion.
He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is widely published with an h-index of h-72.
Journal Article
Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks
Wang, H., Liu, C., Huang, X., Zhong, Y., Qu, D., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks. Complex Engineering Systems, 4(3), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.20517/ces.2024.19
Research interests
Robust control methods for Fault Tolerant Control in (a) Marine Renewable Energy Systems and in (b) Aerospace systems (e.g. flight control and satellite attitude control).
Unbalanced Rotor Load Mitigation for fatigue reduction in Offshore Wind Turbines.
The development of Robust Estimation and Control methods and algorithms for enhancement of energy conversion in Wave Energy devices.
The development and application of Machine Learning/Gaussian Process methods for estimation and control in uncertain systems.
Lead investigator
Project
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Project
THYME: Digital Optimisation of Mammalian Process Control.
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University of York
Grant
£45,403.00
Started
1 February 2020
Status
Complete
Project
Evaluation of TurbineGRID
Funder
Green Port Hull
Grant
£33,700.01
Started
1 February 2019
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
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Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities
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Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Grant
£731,985.30
Started
1 November 2017
Status
Complete