Professor Haydn A Thompson
Programme Manager, Rolls-Royce UTC in Control Systems
Address:
Professor H A Thompson BSc, PhD, CEng, MIEE, MIEEE, MAIAA, MRAeS
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5649
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5138
Email: h.thompson @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C3, Amy Johnson Building
Biopic
Research Interests
Grants
Books
Recent Publications
Biopic
Professor Haydn Thompson, BSc, PhD. CEng has 20 years experience working in a mixture of senior industrial research and development roles in flight control systems, space programmes and signal processing applications. Prior to joining the newly initiated Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre as Programme Manager in 1993 his career included a PhD on fault tolerant engine control sponsored by Rolls-Royce Military Engines, working on speckle shearing holography for the US Army Materials Research Centre, development of an astronaut interface for the European Space Agency´s Columbus project, development of a transputer-based flight controller for the Royal Aircraft Establishment flown on a BAC 1-11 test aircraft, working as a Senior Electronics Engineer at the Advanced Research and Development Group of Dowty Aerospace and Defence developing engine controls for Pratt and Whitney and flight control systems for Boeing and as a Senior Development Engineer at Marconi Radar Systems being the Design and Integration Authority for massively parallel processing arrays (5000+processors).
Haydn Thompson is a consultant to Rolls-Royce, the MoD, the DTI and the European Commission. He has over 90 publications on applications of distributed systems, multi-disciplinary multi-objective optimisation, gas turbine engine control, fault diagnosis and health monitoring, wireless communications, rapid prototyping and co-simulation. He has also written two books on gas turbine engine control. He is a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control´s (IFAC) International Aerospace Control, Mechatronics and Real-Time Computing and Control Committees being chair of Embedded Systems, the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Aerospace Committee, and IEE representative on the Learned Society Board of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is also a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Research Interests
Research interests include: Distributed Systems, Multi-Objective Optimisation, Multidisciplinary Design, Systems Integration, Fault Detection Isolation and Accommodation, Health Monitoring, Maintenance, Control Law Development and Definition. Wireless Systems, Rapid Prototyping, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Smart Actuation and Sensor Technology, Expert Systems, Intelligent Control (Fuzzy Control, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Intelligent Agents), Multivariable Control, Active Magnetic Bearings, Staged Combustion and Systems Identification, Co-Simulation and Virtual Prototyping, FPGA, fibre optics, Gas Turbine Engine Control.
Grants
[2000 - present]
| Rolls-Royce UTC Core Funding £1,155,060 2000-2004 – Note 45% of this supported by DTI CARAD funds. Renewal confirmed until 2007. |
| Multivariable Control of Gas Turbine Engines (ANTLE) Rolls-Royce 2000-2004, £48,000 |
| Support for EPSRC CASE Students Rolls-Royce £44,000 |
| Low Emissions Combustion Control for Aero Gas Turbines, 1999-2002 (Extended to 2003) DTI/Rolls-Royce/TRW £120,000/£34,000/£12,000 |
| FLEXICON Flexible Systems Development and Integration Environment for Distributed Systems, 2003-2005, Euro 1,876,139 (658K Euros Sheffield) |
| Intelligent Adaptive Condition Monitoring of Gas Turbine Based on Markov Modelling EU INTAS, 2001-2004 Euro 150,000 |
| Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME) E-Science GRID Demonstrator EPSRC 2001-2005, £480,622 |
| DAME PhD Student Support 2002-2005, £89,700 |
| DTI BROADEN project: £4.6M Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket and Design on Engineering Networks led by Rolls-Royce. Sheffield allocation. £201,756 to develop an internal Grid at Rolls-Royce for engine health diagnostics, 2005 – 2007. |
| EU INTAS Innovation grant, 25K Euros to develop previous health monitoring work into commercial product, 2006 – 2008. |
| DTI MOSAIC project, £1.25M with Rolls-Royce, Jaguar Cars, Goodrich and York University. Sheffield is developing parallel processing platforms for real-time simulations on FPGA and FPAA technology, £250K, 2006 - 2009. |
| BAe Systems-led ASTRAEA programme. Largest UK programme on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (£35M). Sheffield working on Intelligent Agents for advanced control and monitoring £168K, 2006 -2008. |
| MOET EU programme led by Airbus (France). Sheffield working on simulation of primary and secondary power systems under databus control for future More Electric Aircraft, 350K Euros, 2006-2009. |
Books
`Parallel Processing for Jet Engine Control´ Springer-Verlag, 1991. Thompson, H.A.,
`Dynamic Modelling of Gas Turbines: Identification, Simulation, Condition Monitoring and Optimal Control´, Kulikov, G.G. and Thompson, H.A. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Recent Journal Papers
- Thompson, H.A., ‘Wireless and Internet Communications Technologies for Monitoring and Control’, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp 781-791.
- Thompson, H.A. and Rathi, C., ‘Bluetooth Wireless Monitoring of Marine Propulsion Systems’, WSEAS Transactions Journal.
- Breikin, T., Herbert, I.D., Kim, S., Regunath, S., Hargrave, S.M., Thompson, H.A. and Fleming, P.J., ‘Staged Combustion Control Design for Aero Engines’, Control Engineering Practice.
- Ong, M., Ren, X., Allan, G., Kadirkamanathan, V., Thompson, H.A. and Fleming, P.J., ‘Decision Support Systems on the Grid’, International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, Feb 2005.
- Thompson, H.A., Ramos-Hernandez, D.N., Fu, J., Jiang, L., Nui, J., Choi, I., Cartledge, K., Fortune, J. and Brown, A., ‘A Flexible Environment for Rapid Prototyping and Analysis of Distributed Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems’ Control Engineering Practice.
- Thompson, H.A., Ramos-Hernandez, D.N., Fu, J., Jiang, L., Nui, J., Choi, I., Cartledge, K., Fortune, J. and Brown, A., ‘A Flexible Rapid Prototyping and Analysis Environment for Distributed Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems’, invited paper special issue IMechE Proceedings D.