Professor Ron Patton

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.