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Contact Details

 

Dept Engineering Science

University of Oxford

Parks Road   

Oxford OX1 3PJ

United Kingdom

 

 

Phone: +44 (0)1865 283261

Fax:    +44 (0)1865 273906

 

email: stephen.duncan@eng.ox.ac.uk

 

 

Professor Stephen Duncan

Background

Stephen Duncan is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Control group. He is also a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. Prior to joining Oxford, he was Reader in the Control Systems Centre at the University of Manchester (1993 to 1998) and a Director of Greycon Limited (a spin-out company from Imperial College). He has an MA in Physics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc and PhD in Control Systems from Imperial College, London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the IET Proceedings Control Theory & Applications.

 

 

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Current Research

My research concentrates on the design and implementation of feedback control systems for a range of applications. Many of these applications are distributed parameter processes, where the properties vary in both space and time and it is necessary to regulate a profile of variations that is evolving in time. The resulting controller is typically multi-input and multi-output and of high dimension and often there is a high degree of uncertainty in the response of the process, which makes the implementation of these systems particularly challenging.

 

·         Design of Sustainable Policies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

·         Design of Fast Orbit Feedback Stabilisation System for a Synchrotron

·         Control of Incremental Sheet Forming

·         Control of Fluidised-bed Dryers using Process Tomography

·         Control of Temperature Profile during Sprayforming

·         Design of Cross-directional Control Systems for Web Processes

·         Control of Concentration in Fluid Flow

·         Control of Ultra-sound Treatment for Cancer

·         Control of Gas Flows during Anaesthesia

·         Modelling the Spread of Epidemics

 

Teaching

 

  • 2nd year Introduction to Control Theory - lecturer
  • 3rd year System Identification – lecturer
  • 2nd year Control Laboratory
  • College tutoring
    • Prelims: Maths; System Modelling; Dynamics.
    • Part 1: Maths; Control; Dynamics.

 

Publications