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Multi Point Sensing and Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades: An Approach Using Fibre Bragg Gratings (2025)
Thesis
Sihivahana Sarma, A. (2025). Multi Point Sensing and Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades: An Approach Using Fibre Bragg Gratings. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5126324

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Wind Turbine Blades (WTBs) plays a critical role in ensuring safe and cost-effective operations of these complex structures. However, detecting manufacturing-induced defects and operation-induced damages poses si... Read More about Multi Point Sensing and Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades: An Approach Using Fibre Bragg Gratings.

Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery (2024)
Thesis
Shariq, M. H. Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4860398

Buildings account for 40% of overall carbon emissions in the UK which have significant impacts on the environment. The overconsumption of energy for heating and cooling is primarily caused by thermal leakages due to building defects. Existing techniq... Read More about Improving Thermal Performance of Buildings using Smart Inspections and Peltier-driven Heat Recovery.

Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Liu, C., Huang, X., Zhong, Y., Qu, D., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks. Complex Engineering Systems, 4(3), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.20517/ces.2024.19

This paper explores the problem of fault-tolerant control concerning an underactuated unmanned surface vehicle affected by actuator faults and disturbances in the physical layer and multiple cyber threats (time-varying delays, injection attacks, and... Read More about Extended state observer-based fault-tolerant control for an unmanned surface vehicle under asynchronous injection and deception attacks.

Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter (2024)
Thesis
Li, D. Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4704554

To date, one of the main challenges and requirements in wave energy technologies is to design energy-maximising control for a wave energy converter (WEC) device to achieve the energy maximization production, so as to reduce the levelized cost of ener... Read More about Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter.

Distributed finite-time adaptive fault-tolerant consensus control of second-order multi-agent systems under deception attacks (2024)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Wang, W., Yu, Z., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Distributed finite-time adaptive fault-tolerant consensus control of second-order multi-agent systems under deception attacks. International journal of adaptive control and signal processing, https://doi.org/10.1002/acs.3750

This study addresses the issue of distributed fault-tolerant consensus control for second-order multi-agent systems subject to simultaneous actuator bias faults in the physical layer and deception attacks in the cyber layer. Cyber-physical threats (m... Read More about Distributed finite-time adaptive fault-tolerant consensus control of second-order multi-agent systems under deception attacks.

Interval Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Quadrotor UAV with Cable-Suspended Load (2024)
Journal Article
Zhu, X., Li, Y., Yin, G., & Patton, R. J. (2024). Interval Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Quadrotor UAV with Cable-Suspended Load. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Systems, 54(10), 5876-5888. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2024.3411315

This article proposes an actuator fault detection and isolation (FDI) scheme for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a cable-suspended load. First, a linear parameter-varying (LPV) model of quadrotor UAV is established, in which the effects... Read More about Interval Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation for Quadrotor UAV with Cable-Suspended Load.

Defense and Tolerance Technique Against Attacks and Faults on Leader-Following Multi-USVs (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Xia, Z., Tian, Y., & Patton, R. J. (in press). Defense and Tolerance Technique Against Attacks and Faults on Leader-Following Multi-USVs. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3330570

This study explores the leader-following consensus tracking control issue of multiple unmanned surface vehicles (multi-USVs) in the presence of malicious connectivity-mixed attacks in the cyber layer, and concurrent output channel noises, sensor/actu... Read More about Defense and Tolerance Technique Against Attacks and Faults on Leader-Following Multi-USVs.

Sensor Fault Tolerant Control for a 3-DOF Helicopter Considering Detectability Loss (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, Z., Wang, X., & Patton, R. (2023). Sensor Fault Tolerant Control for a 3-DOF Helicopter Considering Detectability Loss. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2023.3303153

This paper proposes a novel active fault tolerant control (FTC) scheme for a 3-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) helicopter with sensor faults. As a challenge, only attitude angles are considered available, so that when the sensors measuring the elevation/tr... Read More about Sensor Fault Tolerant Control for a 3-DOF Helicopter Considering Detectability Loss.

The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing (2023)
Journal Article
Ringwood, J. V., Tom, N., Ferri, F., Yu, Y. H., Coe, R. G., Ruehl, K., Bacelli, G., Shi, S., Patton, R. J., Tona, P., Sabiron, G., Merigaud, A., Ling, B. A., & Faedo, N. (2023). The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing. Applied Ocean Research, 138, Article 103653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2023.103653

The wave energy control competition established a benchmark problem which was offered as an open challenge to the wave energy system control community. The competition had two stages: In the first stage, competitors used a standard wave energy simula... Read More about The wave energy converter control competition (WECCCOMP): Wave energy control algorithms compared in both simulation and tank testing.

Model Predictive Energy-Maximising Tracking Control for a Wavestar-Prototype Wave Energy Converter (2023)
Journal Article
Li, D., & Patton, R. (2023). Model Predictive Energy-Maximising Tracking Control for a Wavestar-Prototype Wave Energy Converter. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11(7), Article 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11071289

To date, one of the main challenges in the wave energy field is to achieve energy-maximizing control in order to reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). This paper presents a model predictive velocity tracking control method based on a hierarchic... Read More about Model Predictive Energy-Maximising Tracking Control for a Wavestar-Prototype Wave Energy Converter.