EEE@HW has world-leading expertise in Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Ocean Systems, Microengineering, Microwaves and Electrical Power and Drives. We also participate in several research pooling initiatives.
Our team of world-leading scientists and engineers has expertise across a broad field of electrical engineering and access to state-of-art facilities, which can assist our industrial partners to resolve existing technical problems and secure leading position in future markets.
Here is a list of some of our current projects with Industrial focus:
| Microsystems | ||
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| NCR Ltd, Dundee QinetiQ Ltd, Malvern MEMSSATR Ltd, Edinburgh GE Aviation Newmarket |
Prof Marc Desmulliez Dr Changhai Wang Dr Resh Dhariwal |
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| Microwaves | ||
| Selex |
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Dr Jason Hong |
| Space Engineering | RF and Microwave filters in collaboration | Dr George Goussetis |
| Signal and Image Processing | ||
| BAE SYSTEMS, SELEX GALILEO, Qinetiq and DSTL | long range 3D LiDAR imaging systems based on time-correlated single photon counting. Applications include: of applications, including surface mapping for metrology and reverse engineering in the aerospace and automotive industries; the scanning of architectural structures; the creation of virtual reality environments for numerous end applications; and long range 3D imaging and object identification | Prof Andy Wallace |
| TES Electronic Solutions (Edinburgh) | Miltiband/Multimode UWB and Higher Layer Synchronisation for WiMedia UWB Systems | Dr Cheng-Xiang Wang |
| Philips Research Cambridge | Error Models for Digital Channels and Applications to Wireless Communication Systems | Dr Cheng-Xiang Wang |
| Thales | Context-driven Scene Segmentation | Dr Neil Robertson |
| Thales | Metrics for Image Processing | Dr Neil Robertson |
| Imaging Systems | ||
| QinetiQ (Malvern) DSTL (Malvern), Selex (Basilson), STMicroelectronics (Edinburgh), Qioptiq (St Asaph) |
Wavefront Coding for reduced cost and improved functionality in miniature cameras, thermal imaging and microscopy | Prof Andy Harvey |
| QinetiQ (Malvern, Farnborough), TSB, Selex (Edinburgh), Screeneye, Gooch and Housego, National Physical Laboratory |
Novel Spectral Imaging Technologies and Processing for surveillance and retinal imaging. | Prof Andy Harvey |
| QinetiQ (Malvern) | TSB Signal Processing for mm-wave imaging and for aperture synthesis | Prof Andy Harvey |
| Underwater Systems | ||
| BP (Sunbury and Houston) and Subsea7 (Aberdeen) |
next generation of automatic fault detection and diagnosis systems for health monitoring of subsea equipment | Prof Dave Lane |
| BAe Systems (Bristol) Roke Manor Research (Southampton) MBDA |
Several projects to enable autonomous robots to adapt mission plans on the fly, to work together collaboratively, to navigate using features observed in sensor data, and to interface with operators in ways that develop mutual understanding and trust | Prof Dave Lane |
| Bombardier (Derby) Seimens (Germany) Trenitalia (Italy) |
To develop new generations of information gathering and storage desribing the current and previous state of rolling stock, across Europe, in real time. | Prof Dave Lane |
| SeeByte Ltd (Edinburgh & San Diego) | To develop sonar acoustic methods for automatically detecting, tracking and inspecting underwater cables. | Prof Dave Lane |
| Thales UK (Templecombe) | to research novel methods to realise a new kind of portable sonar system that can detect difficult-to-see man made objects in confined areas underwater, such as ports and harbours | Prof Dave Lane |