Dr Simon A Pope
Lecturer
Address:
Dr Simon A. Pope MEng, PhD
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5186
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5683
Email: s.a.pope @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C7d, Amy Johnson Building
Biopic
Research interests
Teaching
Selected publications since 2007
Biopic
Dr Simon Pope has now been with the department since 2000, first as an undergraduate student on the MEng in Mechanical Systems Engineering. He then undertook a PhD in the Space Systems Group studying methods for the detection and correction of magnetic noise in measurements made by magnetic field experiments onboard spacecraft. The results of his work were featured in an article in Nature and led to Dr Pope being made a full co-investigator on the Venus Express mission.
Since his PhD, Dr Pope has been a researcher in the BAE Systems Centre for Research in Active Control (CRAC) that was based in the department. During this work he uncovered some previously unknown dynamic properties of large machinery rafts that are commonly used in Naval applications.
In his role as a lecturer, he continues to support various BAE Systems programmes. In particular next generation machinery vibration isolation control systems. Although this work targets problems within the marine systems sector, the research will also be applicable in automotive, rail and aerospace applications. Another area of interest is the development of novel control methods and smart materials (such as active metamaterials) to freely control the propagation of sound.
Research interests
- Control algorithms for active vibration isolation
- Control of vibration in remote structures
- Energy redistribution in actively controlled structures
- Frequency tracking algorithms for discrete frequency control
- The active control of sound in a duct and in wider dimensional space
- Optimal local and global active control of structures under limited force control schemes
- Integration of next and future generation active materials into sound, vibration and fluid flow control
- Energy harvesting
- Active control of electromagnetic signals
- Detection and removal of magnetic noise in space based scientific measurements
- Nonlinear structures in space and planetary plasmas
Current Teaching
- ACS325: Embedded Control Systems
- ACS322: Individual Project (module coordinator)
- ACS420: Advanced Project (module coordinator)
- ACS6019: Embedded Control Systems
- ACS6109: Active Noise and Vibration Control
Selected publications since 2007
- Pope, S. A., Zhang, T. L., Balikhin, M. A., Delva, M.,Hvizdos, L., Kudela, K., Dimmock, A. P., Exploring planetary magneticenvironments using magnetically unclean spacecraft: a systems approach to VEXMAG data analysis. Annales Geophysicae, 29, 639-647, 2011
- Pope, S. A., Daley, S., Viscoelastic locally resonant doublenegative metamaterials with controllable effective density and elasticity,Physics Letters A, 374(41), 2010, 4250-4255, doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2010.08.037
- Pope, S. A., Daley, S., 2010, Viscoelastic metamaterials with controllable properties, In Proceedings of Internoise 2010, 13-16 June Lisbon.
- Pope, S. A., Daley, S., 2009, Redistribution of the energy in a vibration isolation system under the action of discrete frequency active control, In Proceedings of Active 2009, 20 - 22 August 2009 Ottawa.
- Pope, S. A., Daley, S., 2009. Re-distribution of the energy in a system under discrete frequency active vibration control. In: Proceedings 16th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 5 – 9 July 2009 Kraków.
- Pope, S. A., Balikhin, M. A., Zhang, T. L., Fedorov, A. O., Gedalin, M., Barabash, S., 2009. Giant Vortices lead to Ion Escape from Venus and re-distribution of plasma in the Ionosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L07202, doi:10.1029/2008GL036977.
- Zhang, T. L., Pope, S., Balikhin, M., Russell, C. T., Jian, L. K., Volwerk, M., Delva, M., Baumjohann, W., Wang, C., Cao, J. B. Gedalin, M., Glassmeier, K. -H., Kudela, K., 2008. Venus Express observations of an atypically distant bow shock during the passage of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 113, E00B12, doi: 10.1029/2008JE003128.
- Delva, M., Zhang, T. L., Volwerk, M., Voeroes, Z., Pope, S. A., 2008. Proton cyclotron waves in the solar wind at Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 113, E00B06, doi: 10.1029/2008JE003148.
- Zhang, T. L., Delva, M., Baumjohann, W., Volwerk, M., Russell, C. T., Barabash, S., Balikhin, M., Pope, S. A., Glassmeier, K.-H, Kudela, K., Wang, C., Vörös, Z., Zambelli, W., 2008, Initial Venus Express Magnetic Field observations of the Venus Bow Shock location at solar minimum. Planetary and Space Science, 56, 785-789.
- Zhang, T. L., Delva, M., Baumjohann, W., Volwerk, M., Russell, C. T., Barabash, S., Balikhin, M., Pope, S. A., Glassmeier, K.-H., Wang, C., Kudela, K., 2008, Initial Venus Express magnetic field observations of the magnetic barrier at solar minimum. Planetary and Space Science, 56, 790-795.
- Balikhin, M. A., Zhang, T. L., Gedalin, M., Ganushkina, N. Y., Pope, S. A., 2008. Venus Express observes a new type of shock with pure kinematic relaxation. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L01103, doi:10.1029/2007GL032495.
- Zhang, T. L., Delva, M., Baumjohann, W., Auster, H.-U., Carr, C., Russell, C. T., Barabash, S., Balikhin, M., Kudela, K., Berghofer, G., Biernat, H. K., Lammer, H., Lichtenegger, H., Magnes, W., Nakamura, R., Schwingenschuh, K., Volwerk, M., Vörös, Z., Zambelli, W., Fornacon, K.-H., Glassmeier, K.-H., Richter, I., Balogh, A., Schwarzl, H., Pope, S. A., Shi, K., Wang, C., Motschmann, U. Lebreton, J.-P., 2007, Little or no solar wind enters Venus' atmosphere at solar minimum. Nature, 450, 655-656.