Dr Paul Trodden
Lecturer

Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Amy Johnson Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: +44(0)114 222 5679
Fax: +44(0)114 222 5683
Email: p.trodden@shef.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Paul Trodden is a Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering (ACSE), University of Sheffield. Paul received his Master's degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 2003. After graduating, he worked as a Systems Engineer for BAE Systems Avionics in Edinburgh. In 2005, he moved to the University of Bristol to pursue a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, under the guidance of Arthur Richards. He obtained his Doctorate in 2009, remaining at Bristol as a post-doctoral researcher before moving to the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, where he was a member of the Edinburgh Research Group in Optimization (ERGO) and the Edinburgh Optimization for Energy group.

Research interests

Dr Trodden's research interests lie broadly in control theory and optimization. More specifically,

• distributed model predictive and optimization-based control;
• cooperative and distributed decision-making for agents with shared constraints;
• path-planning and trajectory optimization for vehicles and spacecraft;
• robust model predictive control;
• control and optimization for power and energy systems, including optimal power flow (OPF), economic dispatch, load-frequency control, and controlled islanding for the prevention of blackouts. See the on-line archive of test cases for OPF problems with local optima.

Dr Trodden is a member of the Autonomous Systems and Robotics research group.

PhD projects

I am offering PhD projects in distributed model predictive control and optimization and control for power networks. Studentships and scholarships are available for home, EU and overseas students.

Research seminars in ACSE

The Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering (ACSE) has a varied and active seminar series that covers a wide range of topics in control, dynamics, systems and signal processing. For further information, email p.trodden@shef.ac.uk.

Teaching

I currently teach ACS342/ACS6342 Feedback Systems Design. Module information may be found on MOLE.

Journal articles

• Trodden, P. A., & Richards, A. G., Cooperative distributed MPC of linear systems with coupled constraints, Automatica, 2013, 49(2), 479--487. (DOI).
• Trodden, P. A., Bukhsh, W. A., Grothey, A., & McKinnon, K. I. M., MILP formulation for controlled islanding of power networks, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 2013, 45(1), 501--508. (DOI).
• Hartley, E. N., Trodden, P. A., Richards, A. G., & Maciejowski, J. M., Model Predictive Control System Design and Implementation for Spacecraft Rendezvous, Control Engineering Practice, 2012, 20(7), 695--713. (DOI).
• Trodden, P. A. & Richards, A. G., Distributed model predictive control of linear systems with persistent disturbances, International Journal of Control, 2010, 83(8), 1653--1663. (DOI).

Book chapters

• Trodden, P. A., & Richards, A. G., Cooperative tube-based DMPC for linear uncertain systems coupled via constraints, in Maestre, J. M. & Negenborn R. R. (Eds.), Distributed model predictive control made easy, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 69, Springer, 2013. (LINK).

Conference papers (peer reviewed)

• Trodden, P. A., Bukhsh, W. A., Grothey, A., & McKinnon, K. I. M., MILP islanding of power networks by bus splitting, in Proc. 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2012, paper PESGM2012-0913. (DOI).
• Saponara, M., Barrena V., Bemporad, A., Hartley, E. N., Maciejowski, J. M., Richards, A. G., Tramutola, A. & Trodden, P. A., Model predictive control application to spacecraft rendezvous in Mars sample return scenario, in Proc. European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS), 2011.
• Trodden, P. A., Nicholson, D. & Richards, A. G., Distributed model predictive control as a game with coupled constraints, in Proc. European Control Conference, 2009, 2996--3001.
• Trodden, P. A. & Richards, A. G., Adaptive cooperation in robust distributed model predictive control, in Proc. IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) & Intelligent Control (ISIC), 2009, 896--901. (DOI).
• Trodden, P. A. & Richards, A. G., Multi-vehicle cooperative search using distributed model predictive control, in Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2008, paper AIAA-2008-7138.
• Trodden, P. A. & Richards, A. G., Robust distributed model predictive control with cooperation, in Proc. European Control Conference, 2007, 2172--2178.
• Trodden, P. A. & Richards, A. G., Robust distributed model predictive control using tubes, in Proc. American Control Conference, 2006, 2034--2039. (DOI).

Technical reports

• Bukhsh, W. A., Grothey, A., McKinnon K. I. M., & Trodden, P. A., Local solutions of optimal power flow, Technical Report ERGO 11-017, University of Edinburgh, 2011. (LINK).
• Trodden, P. A., Bukhsh, W. A., Grothey, A., & McKinnon, K. I. M., MILP islanding of power networks by bus splitting, Technical Report ERGO 11-016, University of Edinburgh, 2011. (LINK).
• Trodden, P. A., Bukhsh, W. A., Grothey, A., & McKinnon, K. I. M., MILP formulation for islanding of power networks, Technical Report ERGO 11-015, University of Edinburgh, 2011. (LINK).