£5,827,987
Centre for Intelligent Transport
Funded Research Projects
The following are current funded research projects taking place within the research centre:
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): Pihua WEN Funding source: Airbus Defence & Space Ltd Start: 12-09-2022 / End: 11-09-2026 Amount: £37,428 |
Correlative Analysis of Crystals in 3DPrincipal 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” in collaboration with AirbusPrincipal Investigator: Vassili TOROPOV Co-investigator(s): Tao LIU Funding source: ATI 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 . |
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 |
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. |
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: 31-12-2024 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). |
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 |
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 |
Mechanics and biomimicking of marine mussel plaques (RPG-2020-23 )Principal Investigator: Tao LIU Funding source: Leverhulme Trust Start: 07-07-2022 / End: 30-09-2024 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. |
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: 01-11-2022 / End: 30-09-2024 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. |
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. |
EC Jetting: Towards the Next Generation of Printing TechnologiesPrincipal Investigator: Ahmed ISMAIL Co-investigator(s): Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 01-04-2022 / End: 31-03-2024 Amount: £296,834 Small nozzles, which are used to deposit small volume of liquids, are more prone to clogging and breaking and more difficult to manufacture. This project aims to develop a novel technique to produce jets that are 100 times smaller than the nozzle in size (no need for small nozzles) and printing frequency that is one order of magnitude higher than the natural electrojetting pulsation technique (fast printing). |
Surface treatments for next generation quiet aerofoilsPrincipal Investigator: Sergey KARABASOV Co-investigator(s): Vassili TOROPOV Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 01-04-2021 / End: 31-03-2024 Amount: £412,529 The project in collaboration with the University of Southampton and the University of Manchester is devoted to high-resolution modelling and experiments aimed to reduce aerofoil noise. Introducing ‘canopies’ into the turbulent boundary layer may produce significant reductions in the surface pressure variation near the trailing edge, and hence similar reductions in the far field noise. |
Electroadhesion for Perching and Resting Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Various SurfacesPrincipal Investigator: Ketao ZHANG Funding source: Royal Society Start: 31-03-2022 / End: 30-03-2024 Amount: £12,000 In this collaborative project, we propose to develop enabling technologies based on electroactive mechanisms for aiding small UAVs to effectively anchor on various surfaces in challenging environments. The novel technology and strategy can find a wide range of industrial applications and has the potential of revolutionizing aerial photography, infrastructure inspection, and surveillance. |
RAEng-Newton Fund - Transforming Systems through Partnership - Thailand 2020-2021 - 2Principal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Funding source: Royal Academy of Engineering Start: 30-04-2021 / End: 31-01-2024 The project concentrates on additive manufacturing of metastable materials for biomedical applications. The project title is "Digital Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing for helping patients on bespoke 3D-printed implants"(TSP2021/100366). |
RAEng-Newton Fund - Transforming Systems through Partnership - Thailand 2020-2021 - 1Principal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Funding source: Royal Academy of Engineering Start: 19-04-2021 / End: 31-01-2024 This project is about novel alloy design for additive manufacturing in biomedical applications. The project title is "Novel titanium alloys for biomedical application" (TSP2021/100052). |
Energy efficient composite tooling - ECOTOOLPrincipal Investigator: Han ZHANG Funding source: EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Start: 13-10-2022 / End: 31-12-2023 Amount: £83,285 The ECOTOOL project will contribute to achieving the Net Zero with a significantly enhanced energy efficiency during composite manufacturing, with reduced cycle and lead time from traditional tooling. |
iCASE Award Industrial Contribution BTPrincipal Investigator: Jun CHEN Funding source: BT PLC British Telecommunications PLC Start: 01-10-2019 / End: 30-09-2023 Amount: £36,000 |
Air Cleaning Technologies (ACT): design protocolPrincipal Investigator: Eldad AVITAL Co-investigator(s): Vassili TOROPOV Funding source: DOH Department of Health - GOV UK Start: 01-04-2021 / End: 30-09-2023 Amount: £89,018 ACT is a multi-centred randomised control trial of two air disinfection technologies which have the potential to mitigate the airborne transmission of the Covid-19 virus within schools: Portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters Upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (ur-UVGI) 30 primary schools from across Bradford are trialling these technologies to assess both the feasibility and efficacy of using these in schools, see https://caer.org.uk/projects/air-cleaning-technologies-act/ |
2022 Bridgestone Elastomer ResearchPrincipal Investigator: James BUSFIELD Funding source: Bridgestone Corporation Start: 01-10-2022 / End: 30-09-2023 Amount: £5,768 |
Decrease Jet-Installation Noise (DJINN)Principal Investigator: Sergey KARABASOV Funding source: EU Commission - Horizon 2020 Start: 01-06-2020 / End: 31-05-2023 Amount: £171,866 The motivation of DJINN is to work on jet-wing interaction noise for representative engine, pylon and wing configurations at relevant flight conditions. The ambition of the QMUL team is to work with the leading UK and EU universities and aerospace companies in order to maintain industrial and economical leadership in the highly competitive global aviation market. https://djinn.online/ |
Disinfecting indoor air against diseases as COVID and TB in cities in the Indian subcontinentPrincipal Investigator: Eldad AVITAL Co-investigator(s): Fariborz MOTALLEBI Funding source: Royal Academy of Engineering Start: 15-04-2021 / End: 14-04-2023 Amount: £39,490 The aim of this project is to develop an air filtration system for the Indian subcontinent with heavy pollution settings, while having air infection risk. Strategies of deployment and usage will be developed along with training of UK and Indian students, and knowledge transfer with industry with overall UK & India budget of £80k. |
Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA)Principal Investigator: Chinnapat PANWISAWAS Funding source: Promotion of Regional Industries and University from Cabinet Office, Japan Start: 01-10-2018 / End: 01-04-2023 I involved in Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA): One of the seven Japanese national projects funded for development of advanced materials for aerospace and motor applications as Research Co-I & Consultant & Visiting Associate Professor. The NEXTA project is funded by a Grant-in-aid for the Promotion of Regional Industries and University from Cabinet Office, Japan worth JPY7,000,000,000 or £42,000,000 in total) (1 Oct 2018 – 1 Apr 2023). |
Creative Clusters Fashion in Smart TextilePrincipal Investigator: James BUSFIELD Co-investigator(s): and Haixue YAN Funding source: AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council Start: 31-10-2018 / End: 31-03-2023 Amount: £345,900 The Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology (BFTT) is a five-year industry-led project, which focusses on delivering sustainable innovation within the entire fashion and textile supply chain. The aim is to foster a new, creative business culture in which fashion, textiles and technology businesses can use R&D as a mechanism for growth. |
Graphene Flagship Core Project 3Principal Investigator: James BUSFIELD Co-investigator(s): Nick DUGGAN, Yang HAO, , Dimitrios PAPAGEORGIOU, Wei TAN, Colin CRICK, Han ZHANG, Himadri GUPTA and Nicola PUGNO Funding source: EU Commission - Horizon 2020 Start: 01-04-2020 / End: 31-03-2023 Amount: £376,501 This grant will cofund the establishing of a mini-CDT with 5 PhD studentships in Graphene materials at QMUL. |
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited Consumables /Equipment fundingPrincipal Investigator: Kaspar ALTHOEFER Funding source: Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd Start: 22-03-2022 / End: 21-03-2023 Amount: £49,975 |