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Dr Halim Alwi

Senior Lecturer

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Location: Harrison 276

Telephone: 01392 723661

Extension: (Streatham) 3661

Profile:

Over 18 years of research experience in Control Systems Engineering, specialising in the aerospace sector, within a renowned research group in the UK; and 4 years of professional experience in Mechanical Engineering with a renowned company in Malaysia. Co-author of two books ‘Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes’ and 'Fault Tolerant Control Scheme Using Integral Sliding Mode'; co-author of over 6 contributed book chapters; co-author of over 35 high profile journal papers and over 80 high profile conference publications, with more than 3770 citations and h-index of 31 (google scholar) and 24 (Scopus) to date. Actively involved and working collaboratively with experts from industry and academia in international level cutting-edge research projects in the UK and Europe since 2004. Recently, Dr Alwi has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Industrial Fellowship and a KTP project which is hosted by Prismatic ltd, working on the Flight Control for High Altitude Long Endurance pseudo-satellite UAV.

 

Highlights:

  • University of Exeter, Department of Engineering, Above and Beyond Award (excellence in Education and Research), 2022.
  • Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Industrial Fellow, 2018.
  • Keynote speaker at the 2nd World Drone Congress, Shenzhen, China, 2018

 

Research Group:

 

Research Interests:

  • Sliding Mode Control
  • Fault detection and fault tolerant control
  • Reconfigurable control
  • Systems control and instrumentation
  • Flight control and aerospace applications
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
  • Robotics

 

External professional activities:

 

Teaching (past and present):

Nominated by students for the following awards:

  • 2022 Students' Guild Teaching Awards (Outstanding Teaching).
  • 2018 Students' Guild Teaching Awards (Best Lecturer).
  • 2017 Students' Guild Teaching Awards (Best Lecturer).

Modules:

  • ENG2006 Industry 4.0 (Module Lead)
  • ENG2009 Modelling of Engineering Systems (Module Lead)
  • ENG1007 Fundamentals of Mechanics (Module lecturer)
  • ENG1001 Fundamentals of Mechanics, Materials and Electronics - Mechanics (Module Lead)
  • ECM1102 Core Engineering 1 - Mechanics (Module Lead)
  • ECM1200 Core Engineering 1 - Mechanics (Module Lead)
  • ECM2111 Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Systems (Module Lead)
  • ECM2119 Mathematical Modelling and Control Engineering (Module Lead)
  • ECM2109 Structures (Module lecturer)
  • ECM3149 Commercial and Industrial Experience and Individual Project (Module Lead)
  • ECMM136 Systems Analysis in Engineering  (Module Lead)

 

Student projects:

  • ECM3101/3102/3175 - Individual Project (BEng/MEng)
  • ECMM129/164 - Engineering MSc Project
  • ECMM102 - Group Project (MEng)

 

Books:

Book Chapters:

  • H. Alwi, L. Chen, C. Edwards, A. Khattab, M. Sato. Flight Evaluation of a Sliding-Mode Fault-Tolerant Control Scheme. In: T.R. Oliveira, L. Fridman, L. Hsu, (eds) Sliding-Mode Control and Variable-Structure Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 490. Springer, Cham, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37089-2_18 
  • C. Edwards, H. Alwi and M.T. Hamayun, Fault Tolerant Control Using Integral Sliding Modes, Chapter in S. Li, X. Yu, L. Fridman, Z. Man and X. Wang (Eds) Advances in Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control - Theory and Applications - Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer, Volume 115, 2018.
  • C. Edwards, H. Alwi, P.P. Menon, Applications of Sliding Mode Observers for FDI in Aerospace Systems, Chapter in B Bandyopadhyay, S. Janardhanan, S.K. Spurgeon, (Eds) Advances in Sliding Mode Control: Concepts, Theory and Implementations - Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 440, pg 341-360, 2013.
  • C. Edwards, H. Alwi, C.P. Tan and J.M. Andrade-Da Silva, Sliding Modes for Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control, Chapter in L. Fridman, J. Moreno and R. Iriarte, Sliding Modes after the First Decade of the 21st Century: State of the Art - Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 412, pg 293-323, 2011.
  • H. Alwi, C. Edwards, O. Stroosma and J.A. Mulder. Model Reference Sliding Mode FTC with SIMONA Simulator Evaluation: ELAL Flight 1862 Bijlmermeer Incident Scenario, Chapter in C. Edwards, T.J.J. Lombaerts, M.H. Smaili, Fault Tolerant Flight Control – A Benchmark Challenge. Springer Verlag, 501-517, 2010.
  • H. Alwi and C. Edwards. Fault Tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes with On-line Control Allocation. Chapter in C. Edwards, T.J.J. Lombaerts, M.H. Smaili, Fault Tolerant Flight Control – A Benchmark Challenge. Springer Verlag, 247-272, 2010.
  • C. van der Linden, H. Smaili, J. Breeman, J. Groeneweg, R. Verhoeven, T. Lombaerts, A. Marcos, G. Balas, C. Edwards, H. Alwi, D. Breeds and S. Runham. Getting Started with the GARTEUR RECOVER Benchmark. Chapter in C. Edwards, T.J.J. Lombaerts, M.H. Smaili, (Eds) Fault Tolerant Flight Control – A Benchmark Challenge. Springer Verlag, 540-586, 2010.  http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-11690-2

 

Research Projects:

  • Consultancy with an aerospace industry (2022-present) - £100,000
  • Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) in collaboration with Prismatic Ltd (2019-2022): Flight Control for High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite UAV - £167,000. (Link)
  • DSTL SERAPIS SSE11 (2020-2021): Lot 5 Simulation & Synthetic Environment: Learn to fly - £150,000
  • The Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship (2018-2019): Flight Control for High Altitude Long Endurance UAV - £29,000. (Link1, Link2, Link3).
  • CRUISE (2017-2020): fault tolerant Control for highly Redundant multirotor Unmanned aerIal vehicle using Sliding modEs. (funded by EPSRC) - £125,000. http://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP015409%2F1. 
  • Fault Tolerant Control of a Blended Wing Body Aircraft  - Funded by the University of Exeter Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship for Postgraduate Research (Cleo Vile) - £83,000
  • Impact Development Fund (2016), Blue Bear Systems Research, UK - £5000.
  • Impact Development Fund (2016), RECONFIGURE-AIRBUS Toulouse, France, UK - £5000.
  • VISION (2016-2020): Validation of Integrated Safety-enhanced Intelligent Flight Control (funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020) - €350,000. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/690811.
  • RECONFIGURE (2013-2016): Reconfiguration of Control in Flight for Integral Global Upset Recovery (funded by the European Commission Framework Programme 7) €475,000. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/314544.
  • ADDSAFE (2009-2013): Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Sustainable Flight Guidance and Control’ (funded by the European Commission Framework Programme 7) - €313,846. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/233815.
  • ACTIVE AIRCRAFT (2008-2009): A sliding mode approach for control and estimation in active aircraft (funded by EPSRC-AIRBUS) - £88,000
  • SATFDI (2009): Modern Control Techniques Applied to Satellite FDIR (funded by European Space Agency (ESA)) - £30,000
  • GARTEUR FM-AG16 (2004-2008): The group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe, Flight Mechanics Action Group 16 (Funded by EPSRC) - £194,000. http://www.faulttolerantcontrol.nl/.
  • Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) (2004-2008).
  • British Council Partnership Programme in Science (2008), for collaborative research work with the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - £1700.

 

Postgraduate Reserchers (past and present):

  • Ahmed Khattab (graduated 2020) - Fault Tolerant Control of Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Sliding Mode Based Schemes
  • Cleo Vile
  • Ibrahim Mizrak
  • Michael Partridge (co-supervision)
  • Tianle Ma
  • Seno Rawikara

 

Postdoctorate & reserach staff (past and present):

  • Dr Lejun Chen (currently at UCL)
  • Dr Sergio Waitman (currently at ONERA, France)
  • Miss Carole Liao (currently a postgraduate resercher at the University of Liverpool)