Mr. Tim Clarke BA MSc MIET
Senior Lecturer
Email: tc2@ohm.york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2359
Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2335
Research Area: Intelligent Systems Group > Control Systems Lab
On graduating from the University of York with a Batchelor of Arts in Biology in 1975, Tim joined the Royal Air Force where he experienced life as an Air Traffic Control Officer before becoming an Education Officer. He underwent advanced training at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham where he graduated with an MSc in Guided Weapons Systems Engineering. Subsequent to this, he spent three years at the Royal Air force College, Cranwell, as the Electronic Warfare & Guidance Specialist. He then went into industry as a Principal Engineer with British Aerospace Naval and Electronics Systems Division, working as a Technical Consultant to the Ministry of Defence. He joined the Department of Electronics in 1988 and set up the Master of Engineering in Avionics degree programme.
He is Head of the Control Systems Laboratory. His research interests include:
- Modelling, simulation and control of rotary and fixed-wing aircraft
- Advanced gas turbine engine modelling and simulation
- Wavelets in control engineering
- Industrial sensors and automation
- Multi-rate digital control
- Evolutionary algorithms for control
- Multi-agent systems for:
- control of autonomous vehicles
- distributed data fusion
- distributed fault tolerance in complex systems
- intelligent routing in ad hoc wireless communications networks
- wireless sensor networks
- cognitive radio systems
Latest 30 Publications
- , On Full Aspect Conveyed Object Inspection at High Speed, 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 36-39, Hamburg, Germany,
978-1-4244-1505-2, September, 2008 - , A Neuro-Immune Inspired Robust Real Time Visual Tracking System, 7th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 188-199, Phuket, Thailand,
978-3-540-85071-7, August, 2008 - , The Pathways of Complement, 7th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, 364-375, Phuket, Thailand,
978-3-540-85071-7, August, 2008 - , Eigenstructure Assignment for Helicopter Hover Control, 17th IFAC World Congress, 5776 - 5781, Seoul, South Korea, July, 2008
- , Cognitive routing for tactical ad hoc communications, Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios (WSR), Karlsruhe, Germany, March, 2008
- , An extension to output-feedback eigenstructure assignment: Structuring controllers by exploiting unused design freedom, International Journal of Control, 2008
- , Fault Tolerant Control Using Cartesian Genetic Programming, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1523-1530, Atlanta, USA, 2008
- , PLAZZMID: an evolutionary agent-based architecture inspired by bacteria and bees, Advances in Artificial Life. 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, 1151-60, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept, 2007
- , Evolutionary search applied to reconfigurable analogue control, 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 593-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August, 2007
- , Using data confluences in a distributed network with social monitoring to identify fault conditions, 2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 8, Prague, Czech Republic, Sept, 2006
- , Using Data Confluences in a Distributed Network with Social Monitoring to Identify Fault Conditions, 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Prague, September, 2006
- , Eigenstructure Assignment for Semi-Proper Systems: Pseudo-State Feedback, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July, 2005
- , Using Post-Eigensructure Assignment Design Freedom For the Imposition of Controller Structure, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July, 2005
- , MACSim: A Simulink Enabled Environment for Multi-Agent System Simulation, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July, 2005
- , On Achieving True Autonomy: Using Multi-Agent Control for a SSTO Spaceplane, Eurospace Conference on Data Systems in Aerospace (DASIA 2005), 335 - 339, Edinburgh, May, 2005
- , Dependable Dynamic Control Using Distributed Intelligent Agents, 55th Congress of the Internatitronal Astronautical Federation, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2004
- , Dynamic Mission Planning and Scheduling Using Insect-Inspired Behaviour, 55th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2004
- , An addendum to output feedback eigenstructure assignment: retro-assignment, International Journal of Control, 77(1):78 - 85,
0020-7179, January, 2004 - , Dynamic Modelling and Simulation of an SSTO Spaceplane During Airbreathing Ascent, 54th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, IAF-03-U.P.11, October, 2003
- , Growing Dependability Using a Multi-Agent Approach to Fault Tolerance, 54th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, Bremen, Germany, October, 2003
- , Dependable Intelligent Control Through the Use of Multiple Intelligent Agents, 16th International Conference on Systems Engineering, Coventry, September, 2003
- , A Polynomial Approach to Eigenstructure Assignment Using Projection with Eigenvalue Trade-Off, International Journal of Control, 76(4):403 - 413,
0020-7179, March, 2003 - , Output Feedback Eigenstructure Assignment Using a New Reduced Orthogonality Condition, International Journal of Control, 76(4):390 - 402,
0020-7179, March, 2003 - , Desirable Eigenstructure for Good Short-Term Helicopter Handling Qualities: the Attitude Command Response Case, Proc Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: J Aerospace Engineering, 217(1):43 - 55,
09544100, February, 2003 - , Analysis and Design Using the Allowable Eigenvector Subspace, Proc Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: J Aerospace Engineering, 216(6):117 - 130,
09544100, June, 2002 - , A Lateral Web Tension Profile Measurement System, European Control Conference, Porto, Portgual, September, 2001
- , A Web Tension Measurement System, Modelling, Identification and Control Conference, IASTED, Innsbruck, Austria, February, 2001
- , Wavelets and Web Tension, Colloquium on Winding and Web Handling, Institute of Physics, London, February, 2001
- , Wavelet Characterisation of Web Tension Lateral Profiles, Time-Scale and Time-Frequency Analysis and Applications, IEE, London, February, 2000
- , Dynamic fault detection approaches, 1999 American Control Conference, 627-31, San Diego, CA, USA, June, 1999
- , Hardware and software fault simulation, International Conference on Simulation '98, 413-19, York, UK, Sept, 1998