The University of Sheffield
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Dr Sean Anderson

Lecturer

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Address:
Dept of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield,
S1 3JD
United Kingdom

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5608
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5683
Email: s.anderson @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C11, Amy Johnson Building

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Biography

Dr Sean Anderson is a lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield.  He received the M.Eng. degree in Control Systems Engineering from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, in 2005. He then moved to the Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, where he worked as a Research Associate from 2005-2010. He moved to the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering in 2010 where he is currently pursuing research themes in bioinspired robotics as well as adaptive and optimal control in biological systems.


Research Interests

  • Identification of continuous- and discrete-time dynamic systems
  • Nonlinear systems modelling
  • Adaptive and optimal control in biological systems
  • Neurorobotics
  • Oculomotor plant dynamics
  • Cerebellar function

Research Experience

  • Research Associate in Complex Systems and Signal Processing Group, Dept of ACSE, Univ of Sheffield, 2010-2011.
  • EU FP7 project "Biomimetic Technology for Vibrissal Active Touch" (Biotact), 2009-2010.
  • EPSRC project "Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inspired Adaptive Control Algorithm: From Electrophysiology to Robotics" (Eyerobot), 2005-2008.

Funding Awards

  • Engineering for Life award (administered by the University of Sheffield), Towards a smart vest for sensing and actuation of wireless capsule endoscopes (PI), Oct 2012-Mar 2013, £31,741.
  • EPSRC, Bioinspired Control of Electro-Active Polymers for Next Generation Soft Robots (EP/I032533/1) (CI), Jan 2012-Jul 2015, £1,081,051.
  • Wellcome Trust `Value in People´ (VIP) Award (administered by the University of Sheffield), Jun 2008-Sep 2008, £12,275.

Selected Journal Publications

System Identification and Control Theory

  • T. Baldacchino, S. R. Anderson, V. Kadirkamanathan (2012). Structure detection and parameter estimation for NARX models in a unified EM framework. Automatica. Vol. 48, No. 5, 857–865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2012.02.021
  • V. Kadirkamanathan, C. Halauca, S. R. Anderson (2009). Predictive control of fast-sampled systems using the delta-operator. International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 40, No. 7, 745-756. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207720902953177
  • V. Kadirkamanathan, S. R. Anderson (2008). Maximum-likelihood estimation of delta-domain model parameters from noisy output signals. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, 3765-3770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2008.920443 
  • S. R. Anderson, P. Dean, V. Kadirkamanathan, C. R. S. Kaneko, J. Porrill (2007). System identification from multiple short-time-duration signals. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, pp. 2205-2213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2007.896593
  • S. R. Anderson, V. Kadirkamanathan (2007). Modelling and identification of non-linear deterministic systems in the delta-domain. Automatica, vol. 43, pp. 1859-1868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2007.03.020

Robotics

  • S. R. Anderson, M. J. Pearson, A. G. Pipe, T. J. Prescott, P. Dean, J. Porrill (2010). Adaptive cancellation of self-generated sensory signals in a whisking robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Vol. 26, No. 6, 1065-1076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2010.2069990
  • A. Lenz, S. R. Anderson, A. G. Pipe, C. Melhuish, P. Dean, J. Porrill (2009). Cerebellar-inspired adaptive control of a robot eye actuated by pneumatic artificial muscles. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 39, No. 6, 1420-1433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2009.2018138

Neuroscience and Neurophysiology

  • S. R. Anderson, J. Porrill, M. J. Pearson, A. G. Pipe, T. J. Prescott, P. Dean (2012). An Internal Model Architecture for Novelty Detection: Implications for Cerebellar and Collicular Roles in Sensory Processing. PLoS ONE, 7(9): e44560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044560
  • S. R. Anderson, N. Lepora, J. Porrill, P. Dean (2010). Nonlinear dynamic modelling of isometric force production in primate eye muscle. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 57, No. 7, 1554-1567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2010.2044574
  • S. R. Anderson, J. Porrill, S. Sklavos, N. J. Gandhi, D. L. Sparks, P. Dean (2009). Dynamics of primate oculomotor plant revealed by effects of abducens microstimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101, 2907-2923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.91045.2008

Immunology and Inflammation

  • G. R. Holmes, S. R. Anderson, G. Dixon, A. L. Robertson, C. C. Reyes-Aldasoro, S. A. Billings, S. A. Renshaw, V. Kadirkamanathan (2012). Repelled from the wound, or randomly dispersed? Reverse migration behaviour of neutrophils characterized by dynamic modelling. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9, 3229-3239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0542
  • G. R. Holmes, G. Dixon, S. R. Anderson, C. C. Reyes-Aldasoro, P. Elks, S. A. Billings, M. Whyte, V. Kadirkamanathan, S. A. Renshaw (2012) Drift-diffusion analysis of neutrophil migration during inflammation resolution in a zebrafish model. Advances in Hematology, 2012, 792163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/792163
  • V. Kadirkamanathan, S. R. Anderson, S. A. Billings, X. Zhang, G. R. Holmes, C. C. Reyes-Aldasoro, P. M. Elks, S. A. Renshaw (2012). The neutrophil's eye-view: inference and visualisation of the chemoattractant field driving cell chemotaxis in vivo. PLoS ONE, Vol. 7, No. 4, e35182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035182

Synthetic Biology

  • K. Krishnanathan, S. R. Anderson, S. A. Billings, V. Kadirkamanathan (2012). A Data-Driven Framework for Identifying Nonlinear Dynamic Models of Genetic Parts. ACS Synthetic Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/sb300009t

Energy

  • S. R. Anderson, V. Kadirkamanathan, A. Chipperfield, V. Sharifi, J. Swithenbank (2005). Multi-objective optimization of operational variables in a waste incineration plant. Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 1121-1130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2004.12.001