FO-2
- Embedded and distributed sensors: simulation, performance, self-diagnostics
- Sensor characterisation, qualification, standardisation, reliability
- Sensor/actuator coupling with structure, interfaces and interfacial problems
- Energy transfer mechanisms, structural dynamics
- Energy harvesting and scavenging
- Integrated micro- and nano-structures
- Mechatronic systems integration
- Model development and control design for integrated systems and microsystems
- Optimisation techniques for sensor/actuator selection, architecture and feedback design
- Signal processing: data mining, neural networks,
data fusion for large sensor arrays, fault recognition and recovery - Remote control and communication