Professor Roger Grosvenor

Biography

I retired in February 2022.

Publications

Teaching

I retired in Febuary 2022.

Research theme: Mechanics, Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

Contracts

Supervised Students

Supervision

Past projects

Grouped by application (includes current research students)

Machine Tool Monitoring (and Process Monitoring) [joint supervision with Mr Paul W. Prickett unless otherwise stated]

• Co-supervisor (50%) for Jacob Hill – Tool wear monitoring. Industrial sponsorship via Renishaw. Further industrial collaboration via Mazak Machine Tools. (Current student, as above, Thesis submitted September 2020).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Zinah Ahmed – Tool wear monitoring. Experimental testing on a Mazak machine tool and measurements on a Renishaw CMM. (PhD awarded 2018).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Raees Siddiqui – Intelligent Process Monitoring & Management on a microprocessor (dsPIC) platform. Machine tool and process plant applications. (PhD awarded 2008).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Waseem Amer – Intelligent Process Monitoring & Management on a distributed microprocessor platform. Machine tool and process plant applications. (PhD awarded 2006).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Qaisar Ahsan – Intelligent Process Monitoring & Management on a distributed microprocessor platform. Process plant applications. (PhD awarded 2006).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Marcos Frankowiak – Intelligent Process Monitoring & Management on a distributed hierarchical microprocessor platform. Machine tool and process plant applications. Evolved Petri Net structures. (PhD awarded 2004).

(other) Processes

• Main supervisor (90%) for Ali Al-Khafaji – Process Monitoring & Prognostics for liquid level-controlled systems. Use of non-linear Simulink simulations. Various lifetime usage scenarios. Custom designed test rig. (PhD awarded 2017).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Mohammad Al-Yami – Intelligent Process Monitoring & Management of a pneumatic robot gripper. Custom designed test rig. (PhD awarded 2009).[joint supervision with Mr Paul W. Prickett]
• Main supervisor (100%) for Mohamed Sharif – Process Monitoring of control valves. Custom designed test rig. (PhD awarded 1999).

Steel Plant [joint supervision with Mr Paul W. Prickett unless otherwise stated]

• Co-supervisor (50%) for Jamie Short – Process Monitoring of a Blast Furnace. Industrial project with Tata Steel, Port Talbot. (EngD awarded 2017).
• Second supervisor (20%) for Ben Carruthers-Watt – Strip Tracking In Hot Strip Mills. Industrial project with Tata Steel, Port Talbot. (EngD awarded 2015).[main supervisor = Dr Yiqin Xue]
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Robert Owen – Reliability improvement techniques and condition monitoring in a hot strip steel mill. Industrial project with Tata Steel, Port Talbot. (EngD awarded 2012).
• Main supervisor (90%) for David Murray – Acoustic Diagnostics in a Hot Strip Mill. Automated data acquisition. Linkage to roll database. Innovative signal processing. Industrial project with Tata Steel, Port Talbot. (EngD awarded 2009).

Monitoring of Tidal Stream Turbines (TST) [joint supervision with Mr Paul W. Prickett unless otherwise stated]

• Co-supervisor (50%) for Edith Rojo Zazueta – Condition monitoring of Tidal Stream Turbines. Strategies for future Mexican applications. Utilises CMERG group modelling and experimental datasets, adapted for use on a customised test rig. (Current student, as above).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Tony He – Condition monitoring of Tidal Stream Turbines. Investigation of smart sensor strips and use of blade-structure interactions. (PhD awarded 2018).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Matt Allmark – Condition monitoring of Tidal Stream Turbines. Design, deployment and testing of next generation of CMERG customised scale model turbines. Extensive use of LabView and advanced data acquisition and signal processing. (PhD awarded 2016).

Other Applications (chronological order, most recent first) [joint supervision with Mr Paul W. Prickett unless otherwise stated]

• Co-supervisor (50%) for Christian Dawkins – Pre-Contract Risk Mitigation Strategies for Large Organisations. Large number of commercial case studies. (Part-time PhD, Current student, as above).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Shiva Kahlor – Development of a smart label for adherence monitoring of eye drop application. Collaboration with Optometry. [co-supervisor = Professor James Morgan]
• Co-supervisor (15%) for Jian Qin – Innovative design for smart products in the cyber-physical era. Industry 4.0. Monitoring of an additive layer machine. [main supervisor = Dr Ying Liu]. (PhD awarded 2019).
• 3rd supervisor (5%) for Kostas Karras – Tribology and condition monitoring of composite bearing liners for intelligent aerospace bearings. Industrial project with SKF. [main supervisors are in tribology & CUSP groups]. (PhD awarded 2019).
• Co-supervisor (10%) for Giorgio Greto – Towards the Next Generation of Fast Dynamics Solvers in Engineering. [main supervisor = Dr Siva Kulasegaram]. (PhD awarded 2018).
• Co-supervisor (40%) for Ali Al- Zhughaibi – Vibrations analysis of a car with a class of proposed active suspension system [main supervisor = Dr Yiqin Xue]. (PhD awarded 2018).
• Co-supervisor (20%) for Hafizul Ismail – Model-based control of multi-link mechanisms. [main supervisor = Dr Michael Packianather]. (PhD awarded 2016).
• Co-supervisor (20%) for Haider Kamil – Control of Robot Gymnast. Custom designed test rig.. [main supervisor = Dr Michael Packianather]. (PhD awarded 2015).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Bob Davies – SCADA and PLCS-based monitoring for the Management and Improvement of Industrial Efficiency. Industrial examples in water treatment plant. Part of KTP scheme with Water Development Services Ltd. (PhD awarded 2010).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Paul Edwards – Lighting monitoring applications. School of Engineering scholarship. Customised test rig designs for accelerated testing. (PhD awarded 2008).
• Co-supervisor (50%) for Dan Eyers – Industrial part-time research as an MPhil. Data acquisition and processing. Industrial robot welding cell example. Calculation of OEE measures and reporting. (MPhil awarded 2007).
• Co-supervisor (10%) for Mark James– Industrial part-time research as an MPhil. Determining the Criteria for the Application of Unified Modelling Language to Legacy Systems. (MPhil awarded 2006).