Professor James Gilbert

Professor James Gilbert

Professor of Engineering

Faculty and Department

  • Institutes
  • Energy and Environmental Institute

Summary

In 30 years of research, Professor James Gilbert has tackled a wide range of challenges with a common theme of measuring, modelling and controlling engineering systems.

These include robotics and manufacturing systems, medical rehabilitation and energy harvesting systems ranging from microwatts generated from human movement to megawatts from offshore wind turbines. Recent work focused on speech restoration using articulator movement measurements for people who have had a laryngectomy.

Current work is primarily focused on sensing and measurement in offshore renewable energy systems, particularly offshore wind. He is the Research, Development and Innovation lead for Aura, a collaboration between Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Ørsted, University of Sheffield, Durham University and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. He is Hull PI on the £7.6M EPSRC Prosperity Partnership ‘A New Partnership in Offshore Wind’ (EP/R004900/1, 2017-2022) and the £9M EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub (EP/S000747/1, 2018 – 2022). He leads industry interaction for the EPSRC/NERC funded CDT in Offshore Wind and the Environment (EP/S023763/1, 2019 – 2027) and is UoH lead for the Operations and Maintenance Centre of Excellence, a £2M collaboration between UoH and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.

Offshore Wind Energy (Level 7)

Power Electronics (Level 6)

Control Engineering (Level 5)

Analogue Electronics (Level 4)

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings

Ivanov, O. V., Bhavsar, K., Morgan-Clague, O., & Gilbert, J. M. (2024). Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings. Sensors, 24(11), Article 3397. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113397

Robustness of embedded fibre optic sensor mesh configurations for monitoring composite structures

Gilbert, J. M., Bhavsar, K., & Ivanov, O. V. (2024). Robustness of embedded fibre optic sensor mesh configurations for monitoring composite structures. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 373, Article 115445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2024.115445

Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes

Allsop, T., Al Araimi, M., Neal, R., Wang, C., Culverhouse, P., Ania-Castañón, J. D., Webb, D. J., Davey, P., Gilbert, J. M., & Rozhin, A. (2020). Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale advances, 2(10), 4615-4626. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00525h

Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning

Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Gomez, A. M., Green, P. D., Gilbert, J. M., Ell, S. R., Moore, R. K., & Holdsworth, E. (2017). Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning. IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing, 25(12), 2362-2374. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2017.2757263

Presentation / Conference Contribution

Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Exercise: Environmental Characterisation and Geometry Specification

Tucker Harvey, S. W., Chen, X., Rowe, D., Bhavsar, K., Allsop, T., Gilbert, J., Stallard, T., Vogel, C. R., & Willden, R. H. J. (2021, September). Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Exercise: Environmental Characterisation and Geometry Specification. Presented at European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2021, Plymouth, UK

Research interests

Offshore renewable energy systems including:

Monitoring and optimisation of manufacturing processes

Measurement systems for offshore wind turbine performance and reliability optimisation

Operations and maintenance in offshore wind systems

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Heterogeneous Fibre Optic sensor Arrays to Monitor Composite Manufacture

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£702,385.00

Started

1 September 2022

Status

Ongoing

Project

Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Impact Hub 2023

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£479,687.00

Started

1 July 2023

Status

Ongoing

Project

STREAM 2: EPSRC Place Based IAA (PB-IAA); Northern Net Zero Accelerator - Energy Systems Integration for a Decarbonised Economy

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£51,435.00

Started

1 February 2024

Status

Ongoing

Project

Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£731,985.00

Started

1 November 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Project Aura: Visiting Appointments and Post-Graduate Placements

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£50,000.00

Started

11 January 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Speech Rehabilitation from Articulator Movement (SRAM)

Funder

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£243,973.00

Started

1 January 2016

Status

Complete

Project

Diversity to Decarbonise: Promoting EDI in the future workforce

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£168,790.00

Started

1 January 2023

Status

Complete

Project

Supergen Hub 2017 - Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE)

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£531,942.00

Started

1 July 2018

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

A comprehensive offshore wind resource assessment for a smooth near-term transition towards offshore wind farm deployment in Kuwait

Funder

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Grant

£13,108.00

Started

2 November 2022

Status

Ongoing

Project

TRANSECTS: TRANSitions in Energy for Coastal communities over Time and Space

Funder

ESRC Economic & Social Research Council

Grant

£104,849.00

Started

1 April 2024

Status

Ongoing

Project

Digital Twin through Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Offshore Wind Turbine Gearing Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis

Funder

University of Hull

Grant

£5,000.00

Started

1 March 2024

Status

Ongoing

Project

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training on Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment

Funder

EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

Grant

£3,840,952.00

Started

1 April 2019

Status

Ongoing

Project

Low Energy Dew Point Cooling for Computing Data Centres

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£327,560.00

Started

1 January 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Turning the Tide – Hull’s part of the ‘Women’s movement 100 – Angels of the North’ project

Funder

Ferens Education Trust

Grant

£9,778.00

Started

1 July 2021

Status

Complete

Project

A Proposal to Natural England to investigate and improve environmental skills and recruitment to the offshore wind sector from academia.

Funder

Natural England

Grant

£14,200.00

Started

17 January 2022

Status

Complete

Project

Evaluation of TurbineGRID

Funder

Green Port Hull

Grant

£33,700.00

Started

1 February 2019

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Prof Gilbert welcomes applications form well-qualified students in instrumentation, modelling and control applied to offshore renewable energy systems.

Recent Completed PhDs

- Nonlinear Energy Harvesting for medical sensing applications

- Multi input footfall energy harvesting

- Vibration based energy harvesting

- The Design and Control of a Mechanical Multi-Mode Drive

- The design and control of mechanical switched mode drives

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