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Centre for Intelligent Transport
Funded Research Projects
The following are current funded research projects taking place within the research centre:
Life-like Resilient Materials for Mitigating Liquid-Solid Impact Damage (LSIMPACT)Principal Investigator: Wei TAN Funding source: EPSRC - EU Scheme Start: 01-04-2024 / End: 31-03-2029 Amount: £1,270,404 Life-like Resilient Materials for Mitigating Liquid-Solid Impact Damage (LSIMPACT) |
Data-Driven Surrogate Modelling for Liquid Ammonia Direct Injection Spray CharacteristicsPrincipal Investigator: Amin PAYKANI Funding source: Royal Society Start: 31-03-2024 / End: 28-02-2027 Amount: £225,000 In this project, we are proposing a direct research and partnership building between QMUL with Kyushu University with the aim of developing data-efficient ML models for the prediction of liquid ammonia DI spray characteristics to tackle the computational and experimental costs and time. |
Aeroacoustics of Dynamic StallPrincipal Investigator: Sergey KARABASOV Co-investigator(s): Eldad AVITAL Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 01-09-2023 / End: 28-02-2027 Amount: £487,827 |
PALPABLE: Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive SurgeryPrincipal Investigator: Kaspar ALTHOEFER Funding source: EPSRC - EU Scheme Start: 01-01-2023 / End: 31-12-2026 Amount: £566,718 |
The Architecture of PhotosynthesisPrincipal Investigator: Haibao LIU Funding source: Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Start: 01-05-2024 / End: 30-09-2026 Amount: £13,846 Leaf structure, like a sandwich structure, has stiff upper and lower epidermal layers (face sheets) surrounding mesophyll tissue with veins (soft core). Computational models will be developed to fit diverse leaf architectures across plant species, aiming for accurately predicting the effects of mesophyll anatomical features on overall leaf stability. |
iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (NDA) - Eversion robots for radiologically constrained environments characterisation and decommissioningPrincipal Investigator: Kaspar ALTHOEFER Funding source: Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd Start: 19-09-2022 / End: 18-09-2026 Amount: £29,628 |
iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (Airbus) Rich Simulation Driven Design OptimisationPrincipal Investigator: Vassili TOROPOV Co-investigator(s): Funding source: Airbus Defence & Space Ltd Start: 12-09-2022 / End: 11-09-2026 Amount: £37,428 |
Integrated Human-Augmented Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Platform for Precision ViticulturePrincipal Investigator: Ketao ZHANG Co-investigator(s): Lei SU Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 01-09-2023 / End: 31-08-2026 Amount: £297,599 This project aims to revolutionize the way high-value horticultural crops such as grapes, berries, and other fruits are grown by developing and implementing a precision farming ecosystem. |
DISTOPIA - Distorting the Aerospace Manufacturing Boundaries: Operational Integration of Autonomy on Titanium (TS/Y016548/1)Principal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Co-investigator(s): Harry BHADESHIA Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 01-02-2024 / End: 31-07-2026 Amount: £120,000 Innovate UK - Eureka collaborative R&D: smart advanced manufacturing Cluster (Project number 10086469) |
Solar-powered VTOL UAS-based Intelligent Sensing/Monitoring Applications of Precision Agriculture (S&E Industry Studentship Model)Principal Investigator: Hasan SHAHEED Funding source: Uavictor Aerospace Ltd Start: 01-02-2023 / End: 31-01-2026 Amount: £72,964 |
Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) collaborative research project “Next Wing” in collaboration with AirbusPrincipal Investigator: Vassili TOROPOV Co-investigator(s): Tao LIU Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 01-04-2022 / End: 30-09-2025 Amount: £458,219 The project aims to develop next generation wing structures for future passenger jets . The project is led by airbus and the QMUL team will develop novel wing topologies and advanced simulation and modelling approaches . |
Correlative Analysis of Crystals in 3D (EP/X014614/1)Principal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Co-investigator(s): Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Funding source: Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), UKRI Start: 01-10-2022 / End: 30-09-2025 EPSRC Equipment Business Case: Correlative Analysis of Crystals in 3D (EP/X014614/1: £2,501,463, 1 Oct 2022 – 31 Aug 2025) More info: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X014614/1 |
Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) collaborative research project “Next Wing”Principal Investigator: Vassili TOROPOV Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 01-04-2022 / End: 30-09-2025 Amount: £458,219 |
EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing Call - Circular economy elastomer productsPrincipal Investigator: James BUSFIELD Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 18-07-2022 / End: 17-07-2025 Amount: £401,990 |
Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and CharacterisationPrincipal Investigator: Kaspar ALTHOEFER Funding source: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Start: 01-07-2021 / End: 30-06-2025 Amount: £116,296 Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and Characterisation in nuclear environments |
CELLCOMP: Data-driven Mechanistic Modelling of Scalable Cellular Composites for Crash Energy AbsorptionPrincipal Investigator: Wei TAN Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 01-01-2022 / End: 10-04-2025 Amount: £392,388 The project funded by EPSRC will create an intelligent data-driven virtual testing tool to assess an emerging type of lightweight materials, known as synthetic cellular composites (CCs). |
Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) AwardPrincipal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Funding source: Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) at Shimane University in Japan Start: 01-04-2023 / End: 31-03-2025 Amount: £50,000 Collaborative research project between Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) in Japan and QMUL to concentrate on next-generation additive manufacturing technologies. |
Distributed wind energy for urban and rural requirements, integration and energy conversionPrincipal Investigator: Eldad AVITAL Co-investigator(s): Ranjan VEPA, Neil CAGNEY and Mouna CHETEHOUNA Funding source: British Council Start: 27-03-2024 / End: 31-03-2025 Amount: £49,160 A UK-India consortium led by the QMUL team and includes VIT Chennai, IIT Madras and the SME Deutsche WindGuard India will seek to tackle research questions in the design, integration and energy conversion and storage of small wind turbines through a tightly-integrated programme of education and research. The educational programme will focus on master students and the R&D on creating novel integrated wind energy designs tailored to the needs of small urban and rural users. |
Decoding the Material Degradation Mechanisms Under High-velocity Liquid-solid Impact LoadingsPrincipal Investigator: Wei TAN Funding source: Royal Society Start: 31-03-2023 / End: 30-03-2025 Amount: £70,000 This project aims to develop new impact test facilities to unveil the Liquid-solid impact (LSI) damage mechanisms. The specific objectives are (1) To develop new impact systems for measuring LSI behaviours of materials. (2) To reveal the role of heterogeneity, environment and loading conditions on LSI mechanisms. |
Hydrogen Heavy-duty Engine-out NOx Emissions Modelling and Prediction using a Deep Learning FrameworkPrincipal Investigator: Amin PAYKANI Funding source: Royal Society Start: 31-03-2023 / End: 30-03-2025 Amount: £6,000 In this project, a physics-based deep learning (DL) framework will be developed to predict and analyse trends in transient hydrogen engine-out NOx emissions using data from 0D- 1D engine simulations. |
Non-probabilistic reliability calibration method and error compensation strategy for precision assemblyPrincipal Investigator: Jun CHEN Funding source: Royal Society Start: 31-03-2023 / End: 30-03-2025 Amount: £11,000 |
Design by additive manufacturing of Innovative nanocomposites for biomedical application (IES\R3\223167)Principal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Funding source: Royal Society Start: 31-03-2023 / End: 30-03-2025 Amount: £12,000 Royal Society International Exchange has brought together research expertise from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in the UK and National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore. The exchange research programme will seek collaborative effort in the area of innovative digital technology. Laser-based powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) is one of the additive manufacturing (AM) processes, which employs high-power laser source to melt pre-deposited powder on the basis of a layer-by-layer build principle. The use of the nanocomposites of meta-material structure will be studied for biomedical application. |
Marine mussel plaque-inspired anchorages for floating offshore wind platforms (EP/X017559/1)Principal Investigator: Tao LIU Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 10-04-2023 / End: 10-03-2025 Amount: £201,751 Marine mussels can survive the harsh marine environment at intertidal zones by anchoring themselves to various wet surfaces through adhesive plaques. Recent research progress has highlighted that, in addition to the interaction of protein-based chemistry at the adhesion sites, the unique adhesive structure of a mussel plaque plays an important role. Motivated by this natural phenomenon, the proposal aims to establish the knowledge on the underwater adhesive behaviours of mussel plaque-inspired anchoring systems for the applications of the offshore floating structures. |
Circular economy elastomer productsPrincipal Investigator: James BUSFIELD Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 01-02-2022 / End: 31-01-2025 Amount: £395,434 The sustainability of elastomer industry is under huge scrutiny as many polymers are derived from fossil fuels and a large amount of rubber waste generated annually is not recycled. This research programme will develop novel circular economy elastomer products from renewable biobased feedstocks, with zero waste and high resource efficiency. |
Spray cooling of electric traction motors with hairpin windings: An experimental and CFD analysisPrincipal Investigator: Amin PAYKANI Funding source: Royal Society Start: 01-07-2023 / End: 31-12-2024 Amount: £58,087 The project aims to investigate the performance of advanced oil spray cooling of hairpin end-windings by developing a test bench that will shed light on the ongoing detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. |
UKRI FLF Development Network Pathway programmePrincipal Investigator: Amin PAYKANI Funding source: UK Research and Innovation Start: 01-04-2023 / End: 31-12-2024 This is a tailored programme to support the professional development of future leaders fellows. The network delivers specialised leadership training, access to networks and mentors, and collaborative opportunities, so that members can pursue world-class interdisciplinary, cross-sector research and innovation. |
Mechanics and biomimicking of marine mussel plaques (RPG-2020-23 )Principal Investigator: Tao LIU Funding source: Leverhulme Trust Start: 18-10-2017 / End: 31-12-2024 Amount: £323,000 To survive the turbulent marine environment, mussels anchor themselves to various wet surfaces via adhesive plaques. Motivated by the unique mechanical behaviours of the plaques, the project will (i) develop the fundamental understanding on how the stiffness and the surface texture pattern of an underlying surface influence the adhesive structure and adhesive behaviour of a mussel plaque; and (ii) establish the principles to design plaque-inspired lightweight porous materials of high load bearing capacity and ductility as well as plaque inspired approaches for joining the materials with distinct mechanical properties. |
Cheniere co-sponsorship of EPSRC PhD studentship equipment budgetPrincipal Investigator: Paul BALCOMBE Funding source: Cheniere Energy Inc Start: 01-01-2022 / End: 31-12-2024 Amount: £90,000 |
ATHEMA - Accelerated thermal mapping for on-engine measurementsPrincipal Investigator: Kaspar ALTHOEFER Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 01-06-2023 / End: 30-11-2024 Amount: £89,936 |
The development of a lightweight distributed aerospace transmissionPrincipal Investigator: Vassili TOROPOV Co-investigator(s): Sergey KARABASOV Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 01-05-2023 / End: 31-10-2024 Amount: £88,455 |
The Jetting of Complex Inks for Industrial Inkjet Technologies - KTPPrincipal Investigator: Co-investigator(s): Neil CAGNEY Funding source: Innovate UK Start: 28-10-2022 / End: 27-10-2024 Amount: £181,925 Industrial collaboration with Xaar PLC, examining the printing of inks with complex formulation and rheology |
Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environmentPrincipal Investigator: Kaspar ALTHOEFER Funding source: Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK Start: 04-10-2021 / End: 03-10-2024 Amount: £99,076 Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment |
ESTEEM - Sustainable manufacturing for future compositesPrincipal Investigator: Han ZHANG Funding source: EPSRC Start: 01-10-2021 / End: 30-09-2024 Amount: £395,947 With only 1% of energy consumption compared to current manufacturing methods, high performance composites with integrated new functions like deformation and damage sensing as well as de-icing will be manufactured without needs of even an oven. This new method will be tuned to fully comply with the processing requirements of existing high performance composite systems, reducing costs in capital investment, operational, and maintenance aspects. The new functions will also provide real-time health monitoring of components' structural integrity to enable condition based maintenance with high reliability. |
Evaluation of hydrogen evolution in pressurised reactorPrincipal Investigator: Harry BHADESHIA Co-investigator(s): Patrick CULLEN Funding source: Paramirum Limited Start: 01-08-2022 / End: 05-09-2024 Amount: £327,520 A number of unusual experiments suggest that there is an intense reaction, at ambient temperature, between certain otherwise inert gases and iron when left to react at high pressures. The processes may or may not involve catalysis. The aim of the project is to understand the mechanism of the reaction by constructing a vessel that is instrumented in order to reveal changes during the course of the reaction. |