Argyrios Zolotas, Ph.D.

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Senior Lecturer, Control Systems, (associate member of Advanced Signal Processing)

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Loughborough University

Research Interests and Activities

- Feedback Control Systems Analysis and Design
- Control of Active Suspensions
- Robust (Linear and Nonlinear) Control
- Model and Controller Reduction
- Fault Tolerant Control
- Estimation
- Optimization
- Applications of Advanced Control Methods

* If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in the area of Automatic Control systems (in particular in the areas: robust control (linear/nonlinear), fault tolerant control, optimization and control, control security and reliability, with applications including: railway active suspensions, electro-mechanical systems, interconnected systems)-- forward me an email (including a detailed CV) -- click on the link to the right to reveal email address:. a.c....@lboro.ac.uk (via reCAPTCHA service)

Current list of potential research projects:

(1) Advanced control of integrated tilt and lateral suspensions for high speed railway vehicles (looking at optimal and robust multivariable control via centralised / decentralised approaches for the rather interested and strongly coupled MIMO problem of tilt control suspensions in railway vehicles)
(2) Intelligent active suspensions for high speed railway vehicles (dealing with issues of controller structures, adaptivity, output configuration, consumption for high speed railway vehicle suspensions)

Professional Affiliations

Senior Member (SMIEEE) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

PUBLICATIONS

list updated on jan 2011- can be found here click here

link to most publications/reports available online: click here
(for publications not available online, you may contact me by email at: a.c.zolotas@lboro.ac.uk)

Theses/Reports:

Title: Computer Aided Design for robust control using the QFT method

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Title: Advanced Control Strategies for Tilting Trains

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Title: Towards Robust Sliding Mode Control of Electrostatic Microactuators

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Students / Researchers

Current Ph.D. students:
- Miss Alejandra Matamoros-Sanchez
[Project: The Use of Novel Mechanical Devices for Enhancing the Performance of Railway Vehicle Systems]

Former (Ph.D Students,Post-Docs, Associates):
- Dr William (Bill) Garlick
[Thesis: Architecture and control of large power networks with distributed generation]

- Dr Hairi Zamzuri
[Thesis: Intelligent model-based robust control for tilting railway vehicles]
current post: Senior Lecturer, Head of Research Lab, UTM-Proton Active Safety Laborotary, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Artificial Intelligence Group)

- Dr Konstantinos Michail
[Thesis: Optimised Configuration of Sensing Elements for Control and Fault Tolerance Applied to an Electro-Magnetic Suspension System]
current post: Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

- Dr Ronghui Zhou
[Thesis: Integrated tilt and active lateral secondary suspension control in high speed railway vehicles]
current post: Research Engineer, Real-time controls lab, Global Research Center, GE, Shanghai, China

- Dr Xiang Zheng
[Project: Active vibration control of flexible bodied railway vehicles via smart structures]

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- Dr Zhenhai Li (Post-Doc):
[Project: Sensor optimization for control and fault tolerance (1st half of project)]

- Dr Yimin Zhou (Post-Doc):
[Project: Sensor optimization for control and fault tolerance (2nd half of project)]

- Dr Thomas Steffen (Post-Doc):
[ Project: Highly Redundant Actuators]
current post: Lecturer, Department of Aero and Auto Engineering, Loughborough Univ., UK

Editorial board membership

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology (Jan. 2012-- )

Editor (Automation and Control Systems), Central European Journal of Engineering (CEJE), Versita/Springer (Nov. 2011-- )

IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (2008-- )

Area Editor, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT), Elsevier (Feb. 2011-- Feb. 2012)

(last update: feb. 2012)