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Section 1 Aeroacoustics and Unsteady Aerodynamics


  1. Taborda N, Bray D and Knowles K, 'Passive Control of Cavity Resonances in Tandem Configurations', AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Anaheim, 11 - 14 June 2002.
  2. Taborda N, Bray D and Knowles K, 'Visualisation of Three-Dimensional, Transonic Flows', 5th Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Thessaloniki, Greece, 24 - 28 September 2001.
  3. Taborda N, Bray D and Knowles K, 'Experimental Investigation into Unsteady Aspects of Tandem Cavity Flow', Proceedings, 2001 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, New Orleans, USA, May 29 - 1 June, 2001.
  4. K.Knowles and M.J.Wilson, 'Unsteady Features of High Speed Impinging Jets in Cross-flow', RAeS Unsteady Aerodynamics Conference, London, 17-18 July 1996.
  5. K.Knowles and M.J.Wilson, 'Large-scale Unsteady Features Associated with High Speed Impinging Jets', ASME/JSME Forum on High Speed Jet Flows, Hilton Head, S. Carolina, 13-18 August 1995. ASME FED Vol 214, eds. Raman, Kaji and Freitas, pp 47-52.
  6. M.J.Wilson and K.Knowles, 'Quantification of the Large-Scale Unsteady Features Associated with STOVL Jet Flowfields', AIAA 12th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 20-23 June 1994. AIAA-94-1808.
  7. M.J.Wilson and K.Knowles, 'Unsteady Pressures Surrounding Jet-lift Aircraft in Ground Effect', RAeS Industry-University Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 5-6 January, 1994.
  8. K.Knowles and M.V.Finnis, 'Computational and Experimental Study of the Flow Field Behind a Pitching-aerofoil Vortex Generator', EUROMECH 305 Colloquium on Dynamics and Geometry of Vortical Structures, Cortana, Italy, 28 June - 4 July 1993. Also oral presentation at RAeS Industry-University Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 5-6 January, 1994.
  9. K.Knowles, 'Combined Noise and Flow Control of Supersonic Jets using Swirl', DGLR/AIAA 14th Aeroacoustic Conference, Aachen, Germany, 11-14 May, 1992. Paper no. DGLR/AIAA-92-02-125. Also oral presentation at RAeS Industry-University Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 6-7 January 1993.
  10. K.Knowles, 'Reduction of Supersonic Jet Noise using Swirl - a Concept Revisted', 1993 National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 2-5 May 1993. Published in Noise-Con 93 ed H.H.Hubbard, pp141-144,pub. Noise Control Foundation, NY, USA.
  11. K.Knowles, D.Bray and M.J.Wilson, 'Unsteady Pressures Under Impinging Jets in Crossflows', DGLR/AIAA 14th Aeroacoustic Conference, Aachen, Germany, 11-14 May, 1992. Paper no. DGLR/AIAA-92-02-150. Also AIAA Journal, 31 12, pp 2374-2375, December 1993.


Section 2 Aircraft Design


  1. Coath J A, Richardson M A and King S J, 'Signature Modelling of a Main Battle Tank', Targets and Backgrounds, Aerosense 2002, Orlando, Florida, April 2002.
  2. Blumel A L, Tsourdos A and White B A, 'Flight Control Design for a STT Missile: A Fuzzy LPV Approach', 15th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Bologna, Italy, 2 - 7 September 2001.
  3. White B A and Tsourdos A, 'Modern Missile Flight Control Design: An Overview', 15th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Bologna, Italy, 2 - 7 September 2001.
  4. Szmelter J and Zbikowski R, 'Aerodynamic Aspects of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles', Proceedings, 22nd Congress of the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, Aug 27 - 1 September, 2000.
  5. Tsourdos A and White B A, 'Nonlinear Flight Control Design for a STT Missile', AIAA Missile Navigation, Guidance and Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 6 - 9 August 2001.
  6. Szmelter J and Zbikowski R, 'A Study of Flow arising from Insect Wing Flapping Motion', Proceedings, Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Oxford, UK,
  7. Tsourdos A and White B A, 'Flight Control Design for Quasi-Linear Parameter Varying Missile via Pseudolinearization', 5th IFAC Symposium, NOLCOS, St Petersburg, Russia, 4 - 6 July 2001.
  8. Whitford R, 'Lessons Learned from the British Aircraft Corporation TSR2 Project', Proceedings, SAA/AIAA World Aviation Congress, San Diego, USA, October 2000.
  9. Tsourdos A and White B A, 'A Velocity-based Framework for the Robust Stability Analysis of Dynamic Inversion Flight Controllers', Proceedings, 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, USA, 25 - 27 June 2001.
  10. Tsourdos A, Zbikowski R and White, B A, 'Robust Autopilot for a Quasi-linear Parameter-varying Missile Model', AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol 24, No 2, pp297-295, March-April 2000
  11. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.White, 'Autopilot Design of a Non-linear Missile',Proceeding of IEE Control '98, UK
  12. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.White,'Trajectory Control of Non-linear Homing Missile',Proceeding of 14th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace', Korea, August, 1998.
  13. R.Whitford, 'Supersonic Man is Fifty', Aircraft Engineering, January 1998.
  14. R.Whitford, 'Lessons Learned from the Bell X-2 Project', AIAA/SAE World Aviation Congress, Los Angeles, CA, October 1997. SAE 975524.
  15. S.A.Brandt, R.J.Stiles, J.Bertin and R.Whitford, 'Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective', AIAA Education Series, pub. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997.
  16. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.White,'Trajectory Control Design for a Non-linear Homing Missile Model with 4 DOF', Royal Military College of Science, Department of Aerospace,Power and Sensors October 1997.
  17. R.Whitford, 'Designing for Stealth in Fighter Aircraft', AIAA/SAE World Aviation Congress, Los Angeles, CA, October 1996. AIAA-96-5540.
  18. R.Whitford, 'Aircraft Design at RMCS and USAFA', 20th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Sorrento, Italy, 8-13 September, 1996. Paper no. ICAS-96-3.4.3.
  19. R.Whitford, 'The Bell X-2', Air International, August and September 1996.
  20. R.Whitford, 'Colarado Fireflies:Use of Slingsby T-3 at the USAF Academy', Air International September 1996.
  21. R.Whitford, 'Fundamentals of Fighter Design', a series of 13 bi-monthly articles published in Air International from January 1996:
Part 1 Requirements Part 2 Aerodynamics Part 3 Stability and Control 1
Part 4 Stability and Control 2 Part 5 Propulsion 1 Part 6 Propulsion 2
Part 7 Structures Part 8 Avionics 1 Part 9 Avionics 2
Part 10 Stealth Part 11 Systems
Part 12 Arnaments and Tactics 1 Part 13 Armament and Tactics 2
  1. R.Whitford, 'Fighter Aircraft Design Chronology - a European and United States Perspective', 1st AIAA Aircraft Engineering, Technology and Operations Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 19-21 September 1995.
  2. D.Bray, 'Tactical Tilt-rotor Transport Aircraft Design', 51st American Helicopter SocietyCongress, Dallas, TX, 8-10 May1995.
  3. K.Knowles and R.Martinez-Val, 'Conventional and Unconvential Configurations for Ultra-high Capacity Aircraft', 19th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Anaheim, CA, USA, 19-23 September, 1994. Paper no. ICAS-94-1.3.2.
  4. S.P.Goodwin, R.Whitford and R.J.Stiles, 'Introduction to Aeronautics: a Design Perspective', ASEE Anual Conference, Edmonton, Ontario, Canada, June 1994.
  5. R.J.Stiles, J.E.Gall, S.P.Goodwin and R.Whitford, 'Reflections on Teaching in the Classroom of the Future', ASEE Anual Conference, Edmonton, Ontario, Canada, June 1994.
  6. R.Whitford, 'Design of an Ultra-High Capacity Aircraft', AIAA Conf., Monterey, CA, August 1993. AIAA-93-3953.
  7. R.Whitford, 'Hawk to Goshawk - Navalising a Land-Based Trainer Aircraft', AIAA Aerospace Design Conference and Exhibit, Irvine, California 16-19 February 1993. AIAA-93-1174.
  8. R.Whitford, 'Ultra-High Capacity Aircraft - Some Design Considerations', AIAA Aerospace Design Conference and Exhibit, Irvine, California, 16-19 February 1993. AIAA-93-1108.
  9. R.Whitford, 'Design of Medium Military Airlifter Revisted', AIAA Aircraft Design Systems Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 24-26 August 1992. AIAA-92-4260.
  10. R.Whitford, 'The Use of Large Teams in Conceptual Aircraft Design', AIAA Aerospace Design Conference and Exhibit, Irvine, California, 3-6 February 1992. AIAA-92-1092.
  11. R.Whitford, 'Four Decades of Transonic Fighter Design', AIAA Journal of Aircraft, December 1991.

Section 3 Computational Fluid Dynamics


  1. K.Knowles, 'Computational Studies of Impinging Jets Using k-e Turbulence Models', International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 22, 8, pp 799-810, April 1996.
  2. M.Myszko and K.Knowles, 'Numerical Modelling of a Single Impinging Jet and Experimental Validation', PHOENICS User Conference, Trento, Italy, 8-10 November 1995. Also: The PHOENICS Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics and its Applications, 9, 1, pp 51-60, April 1996.
  3. K.Knowles and M.Myszko, 'Complex Three-Dimensional Jet Flows: Computation and Experimental Validation', IMACS-COST Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Three-Dimensional Complex Flows, EPFL, Lausanne, 13-15 September 1995.
  4. D.Bray, D.Matson and K.Knowles, '3-D Numerical Modelling of Impinging Jets in Cross-flows', AIAA 12th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 20-23 June 1994. AIAA-94-1807.
  5. K.Knowles, B.A.Jurban and D.Bray, 'Numerical Modelling of Impinging Jet Flowfield Using a Modified k-e Turbulence Model', in: Numerical Methods and Turbulent Flow vol 8, ed. Taylor, C., pp 280-289. Pub. Pineridge Press, 1993.
  6. D.Bray and K.Knowles, 'A Review of Impinging Jets in Cross-flows - Experimentation and Computation', AIAA 30th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 6-9 January, 1992. AIAA-92-0633.
  7. K.Knowles and D.Bray, 'Computation of Normal Impinging Jets in Cross-flow and Comparison with Experiment', International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 13, 10, 1225-1233, December 1991.

Section 4 Boundary Layer Transistion and Drag Reduction


  1. M.V.Finnis and A.Brown, 'The linear Growth of Goertler Vortices', Int. Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 18, 4, pp 389-399, 1997.
  2. D.G.Rhodes and M.V.Finnis, 'Anomoulous Effect at Low Reynolds Number in a Compound Duct', Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Hydrodynamics, Hong Kong, 16-19 December 1996, pp 971-976.
  3. L.Kirkham, K.Knowles and M.V.Finnis, 'Effect of Leading Edge Design on the Boundary Layer of a Flat Plate', (poster), RAeS Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 5-6 January, 1995.
  4. M.V.Finnis and A.Brown, 'The Streamwise Development of a Goertler Vortices in a Favourable Pressure Gradient', trans ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, 118, pp 162-171, 1996. Also: ASME Int. Gas Turbine Conf.,1994 paper no. 94-GT-166.

Section 5 Ground Effect Aerodynamics


  1. K.Knowles, D.T.Donoghue and M.V.Finnis, 'A Study of Wings in Ground Effect', RAeS Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference, Loughborough University, 18-19 July 1994.
  2. K.Knowles and D.Bray, 'Ground Vortex Formed by Impinging Jets in Cross-flow', AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 30, 6, pp 872-878, November-December 1993.
  3. K.Knowles, 'Impinging of Jet Flowfields for STOVL Ground Effect Research', RAeS Industry-University Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 9 January, 1992.
  4. K.Knowles and D.Bray, 'Recent Research into the Aerodynamics of ASTOVL Vehicles in Ground Environment', Proceedings IMechE Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 205, G2, pp 123-131, 1991.

Section 6 Propulsion and Jet Aerodynamics


  1. Saddington A J and Knowles K, 'Mass Flow Ratio Effects on Jet/Intake Interference in Short Take-off Vertical Landing Aircraft ', Journal of Aircraft, Vol, 38, No 6, November-December 2001.
  2. Saddington A J, Knowles K and Wong R Y T, 'Numerical Modelling of Mixing in Jets from Castellated Nozzles', Aerodynamics Research Conference, London, April 2001.
  3. Saddington A J and Knowles K, 'Comparison of Jet-induced Lift Loss for Single and Co-annular Jets', Proceedings, 22nd International Congress of Aeronautical Sciences-ICAS 2000, Harrogate, UK, Aug 27 - 1 September, 2000.
  4. Lawson N J and Wu J, 'Error Analysis and Application of Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry to a Liquid Flow', Proceedings, 9th International Symposium on Flow Visualisation, Edinburgh, UK, August 2000.
  5. Lawson N J and Davidson M R, 'An Investigation of a Low Strouhal Number Oscillatory Jet Submerged in a Thin Rectangular Cavity', Proceedings, 10th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 10 - 13 July 2000.
  6. K.Knowles, 'Mutual Interference between Jet and Intakes in STOVL Aircraft', Aero Journal, July Vol 103 No. 1023 June 1999
  7. K.Knowles and A.J.Saddington, 'Sensitivity of STOVL Aircraft Aerodynamics to Intake Modelling', 21st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998.
  8. K.Knowles, 'Inverted-profile Coaxial Jet Flows Relevenant to ASTOVL Applications', Aero Journal, Vol 102 No. 1017, pp377-384 August/September 1998
  9. M.Myszko and K.Knowles, 'Turbulence Measurements in Radial Wall Jets', to appear in Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences, 1998.
  10. D.T.J.Lander and K/Knowles, 'Impinging Co-axial Jets In Cross-flows for STOVL Aircraft', RAeS Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 8-9January, 1998.
  11. B.W.Martin, A.Brown and M.V.Finnis, 'The Influences of Turbine Blade Mean Temperature and Component Efficiencies on Coolant Optimization in the Gas Turbine', Proc. I Mech E, Part A, 211, pp 181-190, 1997.
  12. L.Kirkham and K.Knowles, 'Inverted-profile Coaxial Jet Flows Relevenant to ASTOVL Applications', RAeS/IMechE Engine-Airframe Intergration Conference, Bristol, 10-11 October, 1996.
  13. A.J.Saddington and K.Knowles, 'Mutual Interference between Jet and Intakes in STOVL Aircraft', RAeS/IMechE Engine-Airframe Intergration Conference, Bristol, 10-11 October, 1996.
  14. K.Knowles, 'Scaling of ASTOVL Jet Flow-fields', 20th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences,Sorrento, Italy, 8-13 September, 1996. Paper no. ICAS-96-3.2.1.
  15. K.Knowles and M.Myszko, 'Complex Three-Dimensional Jet Flows: Computation and Experimental Validation', in: Computation of Three-Dimensional Complex Flows, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics Vol. 53, eds. M.Deville, S.Gavrilakis and I.L.Rhyming, pp 123-129, pub. Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig/Weisbaden, 1996.
  16. M.Myszko and K.Knowles, 'Radial Wall Jets - Turbulence measurements', in: Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Experiments 3, eds. W.Rodi and G.Bergeles, pp 453-462. Published by Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 1996.
  17. M.Myszko and K.Knowles, 'Turbulence Measurements and Modelling of a Radial Wall Jet Formed by the Impingement of a Single Jet', RAeS Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 4-5 January, 1996.
  18. K.Knowles and M.Myszko, 'Studies of Impinging Jet Flows and Radial Wall Jets', selected paper in Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 1, eds. K.Hanjalic and J.C.F. Pereria, pp 250-257. Published by Begall House Inc., New York, 1995.
  19. K.Knowles and M.Myszko, ' Radial Wall Jets Formed by High Speed Impinging Jets', ASME/JSME Forum on High Speed Jet Flows, Hilton Head, S.Carolina, 13-18 August 1995. ASME FED VOL 214, eds. Raman, Kaji and Freitas, pp 53-58.
  20. K.Knowles, M.Myszko, M.J.Wilson A.J.Saddington and L.Kirkham, 'Current Jet Aerodynamics Research at RMCS', (poster), RAeS Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 5-6 January, 1995.
  21. K.Knowles and M.Myszko , 'The Turbulent, Radial Wall Jet-Effect of Impinging Jet Conditions', 5th European Turbulence Conference, Siena, Italy 5-8 July 1994. Published in Advances in Turbulence V, R. Benzi (ed), pp 271-275, pub. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1995.
  22. K.Knowles and M.Myszko , 'Studies of Impinging Jet Flows and Radial Wall Jets', Proceedings ICHMT International Syposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-12 August 1994, pp 2.1.1-2.1.6.
  23. M.Myszko and K.Knowles, 'Development of the Wall Jet From an Impinging, Round, Turbulent, Compressible Jet', AIAA 25th Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 20-23 June 1994. AIAA-94-2327.
  24. K.Knowles,'V/STOL Jet Aerodynamics' (poster) RAeS Industry-University Aerodynamics Research Forum, London, 5-6 January, 1994.
  25. D.Bray and K.Knowles, 'Experimental Investigations into Twin Impinging Jets in Cross-flows', 18th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Beijing, 20-25 September 1992. Paper no. ICAS-92-4.8.3.
  26. A.Brown, B.A.Jurban and B.W.Martin, 'Coolant Optimization of a Gas Turbine Engine', Proc IMechE, Part A, Journal of Power and Energy, 207, pp 31-47, 1993.
  27. M.Myszko and K.Knowles, 'Turbulent Impinging Jet Flowfields', COST Action F1 Workshop I, 'Complex Three-Dimensional Viscous Flows: Prediction, Modelling, Manipulation, Control, Experiment', EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 October 1993.
  28. K.Knowles, D.Bray, P.J.Bailey and P.Curtis, 'Impinging Jets in Cross-flows', The Aeronautical Journal of the RAeS, 96, 952 pp 47-57, February 1992.

Section 7 Weapon Aerodynamics


  1. Sabatini R and Richardson M A, 'System Integration and Flight Testing of a Laser Designation Pod and Laser Guided Bombs on the Italian Tornado Interdiction Strike Aircraft' Journal of Battlefield Technology, November 2001.
  2. Tsourdos A and White B A, 'Pseudolinearising Autopilot for a 6 d.o.f. Quasi-linear Parameter Varying Missile Model', Proceedings, 9th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Anchorage, USA, 25 - 27 September 2000.
  3. Tsourdos A, Zbikowski R and White B A, 'Adaptive Sideslip Velocity Autopilot for a Non-linear Missile', Proceedings, UKACC International Conference CONTROL 2000, Cambridge, UK, 4 - 7 September 2000.
  4. S.Ellis, L.W.Longdon and G.M.Moss,' Individual Components of the Yaw Damping Sum: Implementation for Tumbling Bodies', AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 34, 6, pp 568-571, July-August 1997.
  5. G.Cooper and G.M.Moss et al., 'Scientific Foundations of Trauma', pub. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1996.
  6. S.Ellis and G.M.Moss, 'A Ballistic Boomerang ?', 16th International Symposium on Ballistics, San Francisco, CA, Semptember 1996.
  7. G.M.Moss, D.W.Leeming and C.L.Farrar, 'Military Ballistics, A Basic Manual', Volume 1 of Land Warfare: Brassey's New Battlefield Weapons and Technology Series into the 21st Century, London, 1995.
  8. G.M.Moss, 'Range Danger Area Assessment for Shaped Charge Projectiles', 14th International Symposium on Ballistics, Quebec, Canada, September, 1993.
  9. S.Ellis and G.M.Moss, 'Six Degree of Freedom Modelling of the Post-ricochet Flight of undeformed Projectiles', 14th International Symposium on Ballistics, Quebec, Canada, September, 1993.
  10. L.W.Longdon and G.M.Moss, 'Experimental and Theoretical Work on Range Safety of Shaped Charge Warheads in the United Kingdom', NATO Range Safety Meeting, CEM, Toulon, France, May 1992.
  11. L.W.Longdon and G.M.Moss, 'The Ricochet of Spinning Projectiles from Sand',NATO Range Safety Meeting, CEM, Toulon, France, May 1992. Also 13th International Symposium on Ballistics, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 1992.

Section 8 Electrical Design


  1. R.E.Colyer, 'Design and Manufacture Case Studies for Teaching Detail Design', Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Product Development in Engineering Education, Halmstead University, Sweden, 8-11 December 1996.
  2. R.E.Colyer, 'The Introduction of Design into Undergraduate Courses in Engineering', Proc. 3rd East-West Conference on Engineering Education, Gydynia, Poland, 16-20 Sept 1996.
  3. R.E.Colyer and B.L.Jones, 'Student Project Work on the Design of Weight-critical Motion Control Systems', Proc. of 1994 IEEE Power Electronics Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics', Trois Rivieres, Canada, Aug 1994.
  4. P.C.Barton, S.J.McGuigan and R.E.Colyer, 'Attention to Detail - The Essence of Good Engineering Design', Proc. of 2nd International Synposium on Engineering Education', Limerick, Ierland, October, 1994.
  5. M.N.Page, 'Design of Novel Resonant Circuit for Electric Arc Plasma Systems', Proc. of 29th Universities Power Engineering Conference(UPEC), Galway, Ierland, Sept 1994.
  6. R.E.Colyer and A.N.Trzynadlowski, 'Computer-aided Design of Positioning Drives', invited paper at NATO Advanced Study Institute on Modern Electrical Drives, Antalya, Turkey, Feb 1994.
  7. R.E.Colyer and B.L.Jones, 'Design and Modelling of Motion Control Systems in Weight-critical Applications', Proc. of 12th IASTED Inter Conf on Modelling, Identification and Control, Innsbruck, Feb 1993, 81-82.

Section 9 Electrical Simulation and Software


  1. Ansell D and Hughes E J, 'Use of Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms to Optimise the Excitation and Subarray Division of Multifunction Radar Antennas' Multifunction Radar and Sonar Management Techniques Seminar, 26 November 2001.
  2. King S J and Richardson M A, 'Modelling and Prediction of Vulnerability of a Main Battle Tank', Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 3, No 3, pp29-34, November 2000.
  3. Leith D J, Tsourdos A, Leithead W E and White B A, 'Velocity-based Gain-scheduled Lateral Autopilot for an Agile Missile', Proceedings, IFAC Symposium Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control (AIRTC 2000), Budapest, Hungary, 2 - 4 October 2000.
  4. Hughes E J and Leyland M, 'Using Multiple Genetic Algorithms to Generate Radar Point-scatter Models', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol 4, No 2, pp147-163, July 2000.
  5. H.Hassan and B.A.White, 'Estimation of Motion Parameters for Autonomous Land Vehicle from a Monocular Image Sequence', Proceedings of IFAC Workshop-ICV '98, Seville, Spain, March 23-24 1998.
  6. P.D.Bruce and M.G.Kellett, 'Maximum Likelihood Identification of Linear Aircraft Dynamics using a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm', Proceedings of Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, USA, 12-15 January 1998.
  7. H.Hassan and B.A.White, 'Estimation of Motion Parameters for Autonomous Land Vehicle from a Monocular Image Sequence', Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Engineering Mathematics, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 December 1997.
  8. E.J.Hughes, M.Leyland and B.A.White, 'A Multi-species Genectic Algorithm Applied to Radar Scattering Centre Identification in Three Dimensions', Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms In Engineering Systems, 'Inovations and Applications', Glasgow, Scotland, 1-4 September 1997.
  9. R.E.Colyer, B.L.Jones and P.R.McLellan, 'Modelling of Power Systems for Ship Demagnetisation Installations', Proc. of 14th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, Igls, Austria, February, 1995.
  10. B.L.Jones, 'Mathcad Simulation of a Capacitor-Exited Induction Generator', Proc. of 29th UPEC, Galway, Ierland, September 1994.

Section 10 Electrical Reliability


  1. R.E.Colyer, 'Reliability Assurance in Electrical Drive Systems', invited paper at the 1st International Workshop on Parameter Identification and Computer Aided Diagnostics of Electrical Machines, Budapest, Hungary, January, 1995.
  2. R.E.Colyer, 'The Achievement of High Reliability in Electrical Drive Systems', Proc. of 2nd International Aegean Conference on Electrical Machines and Power Electronics, Kusadasi, Turkey, June 1995.
  3. R.E.Colyer, R.D.Leitch and S.J.McGuigan, 'Reliability Assurance of Defence Equipment', Proc. of ESREL'95 International Conference, Bournemouth, UK, June, 1995.
  4. R.E.Colyer and S.J.McGuigan, 'Reliability Assurance in Low Volume High Technology Equipment', Proc. of 2nd IASTED Conf. on Reliability, Quality Control and Risk Assessment, Cambridge, Mass, USA, October, 1993.
  5. R.E.Colyer, R.D.Leitch and S.J.McGuigan, 'Challenger 2 Reliability and Technical Risk Assessment', RMCS, 1993 (Commercial-in-Confidence)

Section 11 Power Electronics


  1. R.E.Colyer, 'Electric Transmission Systems in Perspective', Proc. 2nd European Armoured Fighting Vehicle Symposium, Shrivenham, 27-29 May, 1997.
  2. R.E.Colyer, B.L.Jones and C.J.Ransom, 'Battery-Powered Microlite Aircraft', Proc. UPEC'96, Crete, 18-20 September 1996.
  3. M.N.Page, 'Power Electronics Applied to the Production of AC Plasma Arcs', Proc. of International Seminar on Heat and Mass Transfer under Plasma Conditions', Cesme, Turkey, July, 1994.
  4. R.E.Colyer, B.L.Jones and P.R.McLellan, 'Faslane Interim Deperming Facility - Power Supplies', Tasks1, 2 and 3. RMCS , 1993 (Restricted).
  5. R.E Colyer and J.T Economou ,'Modelling and Simulation of 4 x 4 Wheel Skid-steer Vehicles' , November '97, Non-linear Theory and Applications (NOLTA) '97.
  6. R.E Colyer and J.T Economou ,'Modelling and Simulation of Skid-steer Wheeled Vehicles' ,17th IASTED International Conference, Modelling Identification and Control (MIC'98) , Switzerland, February 1998.
  7. J.T.Economou, D.Egonjic, edited by R.E.Colyer, 'Validation of Simulation Resultsof a Dual Electric Motor Hybrid Powertrain', August '98, Contract work, Department of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, Cranfield University-RMCS
  8. R.E.Colyer and J.T.Economou, 'Soft Modelling and Fuzzy Logic Control of Wheeled Skid-steer Electric Vehicles with Steering Prioritisation', December '98, Special Issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning dedicated to the International Summer School on Fuzzy Logic: Advances in Methodology.
  9. R.E Colyer and J.T Economou,'Comparison of Steering Geometries for Multi-wheeled Vehicles by Modelling and Simulation','98 IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control CDC 98, Tampa, Florida 16-18 December 1998.
  10. J.T Economou,'Modelling and Control of Multi-wheeled Skid-steering Vehicles' Progress Report 1, Cranfield University, RMCS, Department of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, Shrivenham, UK Supervised by Dr R.E.Colyer.
  11. R.E.Colyer and J.T.Economou, 'Developments in Skid Steering for Wheeled Vehicles', 21-23 September '99, 3rd International AECV Conference, Germany.
  12. J.T.Economou, R.E.Colyer and R.Zbikowski, 'Rotary Actuator Sizing Applied to Direct Wheeled Skid Steer Vehicles', submitted to IEEE CDC '99.
  13. J.T.Economou, R.E.Colyer, "Modelling of Skid Steering and Fuzzy Logic Vehicle Ground Interaction", 2000 American Control Conference ACC 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 28-30 2000.


Section 12 Education Related


  1. R.E.Colyer,'Trends in Higher Engineering Education in the UK', 100th Jubilee Conference on Engineering Education, Mannheim, Germany, September 1998.
  2. R.E.Colyer, A.Trebi-Ollenu, B.Umanaheswari and B.A White, 'The Introduction of Fuzzy Logic into Undergraduate Courses in Engineering', Proc.IASTED International Conference, Gold Coast Australia, 6-9 May, 1996.
  3. R.E.Colyer, 'The Introduction of Design into Undergraduate Courses in Engineering', Proceedings of 3rd East-West Conference on Engineering Education, Gydynia, Poland, 16-20 September 1996
  4. R.A.Ashen and R.E.Colyer, 'The Introduction of CAD into Undergraduate Courses in Electromagnetics', Proc. of 28th Universities Power Engineering Conference(UPEC), Stafford, U.K. September 1993.


Section 13 Ballistics


  1. B.Lawton,'Quasi-steady Heat Transfer in Gun Barrels',Proceedings 17th International Symposium on Ballistics, Midrand, South Africa, 23-27 March 1998
  2. M.P.Laird, D.Phillipart, P.Haskins and B.Lawton, 'An Optical Method for the Measurement of Detonation Temperatures', Proceedings 16th International Symposium on Ballistics, San Francisco, California, USA, 22-28 September, 1996
  3. B.Lawton, M.P.Laird, 'Influence of Gas Leakage on Heat Transfer and Wear in Gun Barrels', Proceedings 16th International Symposium on Ballistics, San Francisco, California, USA, 22-28 September, 1996

Section 14 Sensors and Antennas

  1. Walker R E, Hanlon T, Coath J A and Richardson M A, 'Tungsten Doped Vanadium Oxide Films Produced by an Aqueous Sol-gel Technique', Optoelectronics 2002, California, 19-25 January 2002.
  2. Coath J A and Richardson M A, 'Electro-optic, Multi-spectral, Detection of Scatterable Landmines', Journal of Optics and Laser Technology, 2002.
  3. Hanlon T J, Walker R E, Coath J A and Richardson M A, 'Comparison between Vanadium Dioxide Coatings on Glass produced by Sputtering, Alkoxide and Aqueous Sol-gel Methods', Journal of Thin Solid Films.
  4. Hughes E J, 'Constraint Handling with Uncertain and Noisy Multi-objective Evolution', Proceedings, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, Korea, 27 - 30 May 2001.
  5. Hughes E J, 'Evolutionary Multi-objective Ranking with Uncertainty and Noise', Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimisation, Zurich, Switzerland, 7 - 9 March 2001.
  6. Haskins P M and Dahele J S, 'Polarization, Phase and Frequency Agility in Varactor Diode Loaded Patches', Proceedings, 2000 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, Australia, December 2000.
  7. Harvey A R, Hughes E and Appleby R, 'Prospects for Deployment of MM-wave aperture', Proceedings, Applied Optics and Opto-electronics Conference, Loughborough, UK, 17 - 21 September 2000.
  8. Harvey A R, Beale J, Greenaway A H, Hanlon T J and Williams J, 'Technology Options for Imaging Spectrometry' Proceedings, SPIE's 45th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 30 July - 4 August 2000.
  9. Harvey A R and Appleby R A, 'Prospects for MM-wave Aperture Synthesis from Space-borne and Aerial Platforms', Proceedings, SPIE's 45th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 30 July - 4 2000.
  10. B.M.Alarjani and J.S.Dahale, 'Feed Reluctance of a Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna with Probe Feed', European Microwave Week, Munich, Germany, 4-8 October 1999
  11. M.V.Berbeci and J.S.Dahele, 'Resonant Frequency of Rectangular Patch Antennas', European Microwave Week, Munich, Germany, 4-8 October 1999
  12. Harvey A R, Greenaway A H, Camps A, Corbella I, Torres F, Bara J, Martin-Neira M, 'Millimetre-wave Aperture Synthesis Radiometry for Snow and Ice Mapping', Proc. Int. Conf. Geosci. Rem. Sen., Hamburg, 28 June-2 July 1999
  13. J.R.James, A.J.Race and L.A.Scott, 'Electromagnetic Shielding Degradation Effects in Composite Material Enclosures', Electronics Letters, Vol 35, No.3 pp209-211, February 1999
  14. J.A.Coath and M.A.Richardson, 'Optical Properties of Vanadium Dioxide Film on Suitable Infrared Transmitting Substrates', SPIE and European Optical Society, Berlin 26-29 May 1999
  15. J.R.James, 'Base Station and Handset Antenna Fundamentals', Mobile Radio Communications, IEE, University of Bath, 12-14 April 1999
  16. P.M.Haskins and J.S.Dahele, 'The Ellipticity of Radiation from Polarization-agile Patch Antennas', IEE Conference on Antennas and Propagation, University of York 31 March 1999
  17. P.M.Haskins and J.S.Dahele, 'Capacitive Coupling to a Patch Antenna by Means of Modified Coaxial Connectors', Electronics Letters Vol.34 No.23, 12th November, pp2187-2188
  18. E.J.Hughes, 'Optimisation using Population Based Incremental Learning', Optimisation in Control : Methods and Applications Colloquium, IEE Publication 98/521, pp 2/1-2/3, London, 10th November 1998.
  19. R.F.Ormondroyd and E.A.Al-Susa, 'A High Efficiency Channel Estimation and Equalisation Strategy for a Broadband COFDM System', Proceedings of International Symposium of Signals, Systems and Electronics (ISSE '98), Pisa, Italy, 29-2 October 1998.
  20. W.K.Lam, R.F.Ormondroyd and J.J.Davies, 'A Frequency Domain Adaptive Coded Decision Feedback Equaliser for a Broadband UWA COFDM System', Proceedings of IEEE Oceans '98, Nice, France, "28-1 October 1998.
  21. K.Bamford, J.R.James and H.Barr, 'Electromagnetic Simulation of Laser Induced Fluorescence im Bronchial Tissue and Predicted Optical Scattering Behaviour', Proceedings of BOIS '98 Conference, Stockholm, 8-12 September 1998.
  22. E.J.Hughes and M.Leyland, 'Target Manoeuvre Detection using Radar Glint', Proceedings IEE Electronics Letters, issue 17, 20th August 1998.
  23. P.M.Haskins and J.S.Dahele, 'Varactor Diode-loaded Polarization-agile Antennas', Proceedings Piers'98 Conference, Nantes, France, 13-17 July 1998.
  24. G.J.Walker and J.R.James, 'Fractal Volume Antennas', Proceedings of IEE Electronic Letters.
  25. J.R.James and I.Morrow, 'Excitation and Efficiency of Electrically Small Plasma Antennas', Procedings in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, Nantes, July 1998.
  26. J.S.Dahele and P.M.Haskins, 'Squinted-beam Herringbone Array', Proceedings', IEEE AP-S Symposium, Atalanta, USA, 21-26 June 1998.
  27. P.K.Bishop and J.R.James, 'Development of the Scattered Field Decomposition Techniques for Finite Conducting with Dielectric Boundary Conditions', Proceedings of International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1998.
  28. J.R.James, 'Realising Personal Satcoms Antennas', IEE Electronics and Communications Journal, pp 73-82, April 1998.
  29. R.S.Picton and M.A.Richardson, 'Battlefield Surveillance Radar', Journal of Battlefield Technology - 1st Issue, March 1998.
  30. P.M.Haskins and J.S.Dahele, 'Low Cost Linear Arrays using Polystyrene Foam Substrate', Proceedings IEE Colloquium, London, 24th February 1998.
  31. J.A.Coath and M.A.Richardson, 'An Infrared Refelective Optical Modulator', Proceedings SPIE Conference, San Jose, USA, January 1998.
  32. Sami H. Al-Charchafchi and Badr M. Al-Arjani, 'Microstrip Fed Compact Patch Antenna', 1998 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium, Vol 2, 1998 Digest, pp. 668-671.
  33. J.R.James and P.K.Bishop, 'Final Report on a Detailed Study int Near-field Radio Propagation Characteristics of Long Wires in Variabbly Loading Medium', DRA, Fort Halstead, November 1997.
  34. M.A.Richardsom, R.S.Picton, I.C.Luckraft, Powell and Rodgers, 'Surveillance and Target Acquisition', Published by Brassey's August 1997.
  35. J.R.James and I.Ad-Eldayem, 'Microwave Modelling of Optical Diffraction Devices', Proceedings of IEE, Optoelectronics, Vol 144, No 4, pp 221-227, August 1997.
  36. R.G.Mazzolin and J.S.Dahele, 'Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Rough Surface Criterion and Surface Conductivity on Radio Links' Proceedings of IEE/AP-S International Symposium Digest, Montreal, July 1997.
  37. R.G.Mazzolin and J.S.Dahele, 'Line of Sight Microwave Link Design-A Review of Developments and Considilated Algorithm', Proceedings of IEE/AP-S International Symposium Digest, Montreal, July 1997.
  38. R.G.Mazzolin and J.S.Dahele, 'Experimental Investigation of Diffraction Losses on Radio Links', Proceedings of IEE/AP-S International Symposium Digest, Montreal, July 1997.
  39. P.M.Haskins and J.S.Dahele, 'Active-Polarisation-Agile Microstrip Antennas', Proceedings of IEE/AP-S International Symposium Digest, Montreal, July 1997.
  40. L.D.Bamford, A.Fray and J.R.James, 'Modelling of Substrate Coupling in Microstrip Antennas', Proceedings of PIERS '97, Boston, USA, July 1997.
  41. K.J.Bamford, J.R.James and H.Barr, 'Active Imaging for Dysplasia Tissue', Proceedings Laser, a Cutting Edge in Surgery Symposia, Jersey, 5-6 June 1997.
  42. K.J.Bamford, J.R.James and A.Fray, 'Minimising Mutual Coupling in Thick Substrates Microstrip Antenna Arrays', IEE, Electron Letters, 33, pp 648-650, 10th April 1997.
  43. P.K.Bishop, J.R.James and R.T.Biggs, 'Field Decomposition Technique for Thin Cylindrical Scatterers', Proceedings of IEE International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, April 1997.
  44. J.R.James, 'Realising Personal Satcom Antennas', Proceedings of IEE International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Edinburgh, April 1997.
  45. P.K.Bishop, J.R.James and R.T.Biggs, 'Algorithm for Prediction of Scattering from Thin Film Cylindrical Conductors using Field Decomposition', Proceedings of Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Conference, Monterey, USA, March 1997.
  46. I.Morrow, P.S.Hall and J.R.James,' Measurement and Modelling of a Microwave-active Patch Phased Array for Wide Angle Scanning', IEEE Trans AP45, No2, pp297-304, February 1997.
  47. T.J.Hanlon, A.F.Fray, J.R.James, M.F.Lewis and P.Sample, 'Improvements in Microwave Generation using Optical Difference Frequency Mixing', IEE Electronic Letters, Vol 33, pp1808-1809
  48. M.A.Richardson,'An Infrared Transmissive Optical Modulator', Proceedings Applied Optics and Opto-Electronics Conference, Reading, 16-19 September 1996.
  49. M.A.Richardson, J.A.Coath, S.R.Carpenter, B.Gamble and M.Sedgebeer, 'An Infrared Reflective Optical Modulator', Proceedings European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Hamburg, September 1996.

Section 15 Optical Communications and Device Modelling


  1. Jami I and Ormondroyd R F, 'Joint Angle of Arrival and Angle-Spread Estimation of Multiple Users using an Antenna Array and a Modified MUSIC Algorithm', Proceedings, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 6 - 9 May 2001, Rhodes, Greece.
  2. Mustapha M and Ormondroyd R F, 'A Multi-access Interference Avoidance Scheme for an Optical Fibre-based CDMA LAN using Optical Orthogonal Codes', Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Lasers and Electro-optic Systems (LEOS), 13 - 16 November 2000, Peurto Rico.
  3. Phipps T C and King R A,'A Low-power, Low-complexity, Low-cost, TESPAR-based Architecture for the Real-Time Classification of Speech and other Band-limited Signals', Proceedings, International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, Dallas, USA, 16 - 19 October 2000.
  4. Jami I and Ormondroyd R F, 'Improved Method for Estimating Angle-of-Arrival in Multipath Conditions using the 'MUSIC' Algorithm', Proceedings IEE-APS Conference on Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication, Boston, USA, 6 - 8 November 2000.
  5. Mezouari S and Harvey A R, 'Validity of Fresnel and Fraunhofer Approximations in Scalar Diffraction for Arbitrary 2D Apertures' Proceedings, Applied Optics and Opto-Electronics Conference, Loughborough, UK, 17 - 21 September 2000.
  6. M.Mustapha and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Impact of Optical Amplifier and Photodetector Noise on Orthogonal CDMA Systems', IEEE/IEE Conference Proceedings of Postgraduate Research in Electronics, Photonics and Related Fields (PREP'99), Manchester, January, 1999
  7. K.Hawkes and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Large-Signal Dynamic Response of InGaAsP Near-Travelling-Wave Amplifiers', Proceedings of IEEE/OSA International Conference on Quantum Electrtonics, IQEC'96, Sydney, Australia, July 1996.
  8. T.F.Chiaraluce, T.Rozzi, L.Zappelli and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Spectral Technique for the Analysis of Time and Space transits in Planar Dielectric Waveguides', IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp 163-174, 1995.
  9. R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Self-consistent BPM Model of a Waveguide-coupler with Distributed Gain', Proceedings of IEEE/URSI Symposium, ISSSE '95, San Francisco, pp525-528, October 1995.
  10. P.C.Gurney and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Multi-mode Self-constitent Model of the Lasing Characteristics of Buried Hetrostructure Lasers', IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 31, No.3, March, pp 427-438, 1995.

Section 16 Spread-Spectrum Techniques and CDMA for Mobile Radio Applications


  1. Polito V and Luckraft I C, 'Co-ordination of Multiple Imaging Platforms into One Common Data Space', Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 3, No 3, pp23-29, November 2000.
  2. Mustapha M M and Ormondroyd R F, 'Dual-Threshold Sequential Detection Code Synchronization for an Optical CDMA Network in the Presence of Multi-user Interference', Journal, IEEE Transactions on Lightwave Technology, Vol 18, Issue 12, pp1742-1748, December 2000.
  3. Al-Susa E A and Ormondroyd R F, 'A New Adaptive Modulation Strategy for Broadband COFDM-based Communication Systems with Constant Transmission Rate,' Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-Fall 2000), Boston, USA, 24 - 27 September 2000.
  4. Ormondroyd R F and Nazzarri F, 'Uplink and Downlink Capacity Evaluations of a Multi-tier CDMA Mobile Network employing Directional Handset Antennas', Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-Fall 2000), Boston, USA, 24 - 27 September 2000.
  5. Mustapha M M and Ormondroyd R F, 'Effect of Multi-access Interference on Code Synchronisation using a Sequential Detector in an Optical Fibre-based CDMA Network' Journal, IEEE Photonics and Technology Letters, Vol 12, No 8, pp1103-1105, August 2000.
  6. I. Jami and R. F. Ormondroyd: "Improved method for estimating angle of arrival in multipath Conditions using the 'MUSIC' Algorithm", published in the Conference Proceedings of IEEE Conf on Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communications, Waltham Massachusetts, November, pp 99-102, 2000
  7. I. Jami and R.F. Ormondroyd: "Estimation of the scattering radius around a mobile handset using a sub-space technique", published in the Conference Proceedings of IEEE/AFCEA Eurocomm2000, Munich, 131-136, May 2000
  8. I. Jami, M. Ali and R.F.Ormondroyd: "Comparison of methods of locating and tracking cellular mobiles", IEE Colloquium on Novel Methods of Location and Tracking of Cellular Mobiles and their System Applications, vol. 99/046, pp1/1-6/1, 1999
  9. E.Al-Susa and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Predictor-Based Decision Feedback Channel Estimation Method for COFDM with High Resilience to Rapid Time-Variations', Vehicular Technology Conference, Amsterdam, September 1999
  10. H.H.Khosbin-Ghomash and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Low Complexity Neural Network Structure for Implementing the Optimum-Likelihood Multi-User Receiver in a DS-CDMA Communications System', Vehicular Technology Conference, Amsterdam, September 1999
  11. H.H. Khoshbin-Ghomash and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'An Adaptive Neural Network receiver for CDMA Multi-user Interference Cancellation in Multipath Environments', Proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM'98, Boston, October 1998.
  12. R.F.Ormondroyd and E.Al-Susa, 'Impact of Multipath Fading and Partial Band Interference on the Performance of a COFDM/CDMA Modulation Scheme for Robust Wireless Communications', Proceedings IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM'98, Boston, October 1998.
  13. H.H. Khoshbin-Ghomash and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'An adaptive DS-CDMA Receiver for Multipath and Multi-user Environments', Proceedings International Conference on Universial and Personal Communications, ICUP'98, Florence, October 1998.
  14. R.F.Ormondroyd and E.Al-Susa, 'A High Efficiency Channel Estimation and Equalisation Stratergy for a Broadband COFDM System', Proceedings URS/IEEE International Symposium of Signals, Systems and Electronics, ISSSE'98, Pisa October 1998.
  15. E.Al-Susa, R.F.Ormondroyd and J.J.Maxey, 'A Channel Estimation and Equalisation Stratergy for a Broadband Wireless System Subject to Time and Frequency Selective Fading and using COFDM Modulation', Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on Broadband Dital Radio : Challenge of the Radio Environment, Colloquium Digest No. 443, pp 3/1-3/7, May 1998.
  16. J.J.Maxey and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Downlink and Uplink Performance Comparison of Multi-carrier DS-CDMA Systems using Coding and Interference Cancellation', Proceedings of 2nd OFDM Workshop, Braunschweig, September 1997.
  17. R.F.Ormondroyd and J.J.Maxey, 'Comparison of Time Guard-band and Coding Stratergies for CDMA-OFDM Digital Cellular Radio in Severe Multipath Fading', Proceedings of ieee International Conference on Vehicular Technology, Phoenix, Arizona, pp 850-854, May, 1997.
  18. J.J.Maxey and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Non-coherent Differentially Encoded Multi-user Spread-spectrum System usig Low Rate Orthogonal Convolutional Coding', Proceedings of ieee International Conference on Vehicular Technology, Phoenix, Arizona, pp 2045-2049, May 1997.
  19. R.F.Ormondroyd and J.J.Maxey, 'Performance of Low Rate Ortogonal Convolutional Codes in DS-CDMA Applications', Proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.46, No.2,pp.320-328, May 1997.
  20. J.J.Maxey and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Multi-carrier CDMA using Convolutional Coding and Interference Cancellation Over Fading Channels', 1st International Workshop on Multi-carrier CDMA, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, May, 1997, published in Multi-carrier Spread-spectrum, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 89-96, 1997.
  21. R.F.Ormondroyd, J.D.Martin and G.Allen, 'Spectrally Efficient Digital Radio Scheme for an Integrated Services Personal Communications System', Proceedings of 2nd EPSRC Conference on Communications Signal Processing and Coding, Sheffield, January 1997.
  22. R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Noise Performance of a Matched Filter PN Code Synchcroniser using a Maximum Likelihood Detector', Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium for Spread-spectrum Systems, Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA'96), Mainz, Germany, pp1146-1150, September 1996.
  23. J.J.Maxey and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Low-rate and Convolutional Coded DS-CDMA using non-coherent Multi-carrier Modulation over the AWGN and Rayleigh Faded Channel', Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium for Spread-spectrum Systems, Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA'96), Mainz, Germany, pp575-579, September 1996.
  24. J.J.Maxey, R.F.Ormondroyd and K.R.Edwards, 'Evaluation of a Fixed Wireless Acess Stratergy for Next-generation Mobile Communications', Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on Mobile Communications Conference on Fixed Radio Systems and Networks, Bologna, pp. 277-282, May 1996.
  25. R.F.Ormondroyd, J.J.Maxey and E.Alusa, 'An Alternative Multiple Acess Strategy for Next-Generation Mobile Comunications', Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on Mobile Communications Towards the Next Millennium and Beyond, Colloquium Digest No.1996/115, pp 8/1 - 8/6, May 1996.
  26. R.F.Ormondroyd, J.D.Martin and G.Allen, 'Spectrally Efficient Digital Radio Scheme for an Integrated Services Personal communications System', Proceedings of 1st EPSRC Conference on Communications Signal Processing and Coding, paper 8, Sheffield, January 1996.
  27. R.F.Ormondroyd and S.M.Walker, 'A Throughput Dependent Priority Discipline for a Multi-class Traffic Packet Switch - a Simulation Study', Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM '95, San Diego, pp 652-657, November 1995.
  28. R.F.Ormondroyd, 'PN Code Synchronisers for Direct-sequence Spread-spectrum Systems - a Comparative Evaluation', IEE Colloquium on New Synchronisation Techniques for Radio Systems, London, Colloquium Digest No. 1995/220 pp 10-1 - 10-7 November 1995.
  29. J.J.Maxey and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Effect of Randamisation on the Capacity of CDMA Cellular Radio Systems Based on Low-rate Orthogonal Coding', Proceedings of IEEE/URSI Symposium, ISSSE '95, San Francisco, pp 493-496, October 1995.
  30. R.F.Ormondroyd, 'The Acquisition Performance of Delay-lock Loops in Noise', IEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Radio Receivers and Associated Systems, Vol. 415, pp 192-197, September 1995.
  31. R.F.Ormondroyd and J.J.Maxey, 'A High Performance CDMA Cellular Radio System based on Orthogonal Low-rate Convolutional Coding', IEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Radio Receivers and Associated Systems, Vol. 415, pp 17-21, September 1995.


Section 17 Underwater Acoustic Communications


  1. W.K.Lam and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Novel Broadband COFDM Modulation Scheme for Robust Communication over the Underwater Acoustic Channel', Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM '98, Boston, October, 1998.
  2. R.F.Ormondroyd and E.Al-Susa, 'A High Efficiency Channel Estimation and Equalisation Strategy for a Broadband COFDM System', Proceedings URS/IEEE International Symposium of Signals, Systems and Electronics, ISSSE'98, Pisa October 1998.
  3. W.K.Lam, R.F.Ormondroyd and J.Davies, 'A Frequency Domain Adaptive Coded Decision Feedback Equaliser for Broadband UWA COFDM Systems', Proceedings of IEEE Oceans '98, Nice, September 1998.
  4. W.K.Lam and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Broadband UWA Communication System', Proceedings of the IEE Colloquium on Underwater Applications of Image Processing, London Digest No.217, pp 8/1-8/6, March 1998.
  5. W.K.Lam and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Broadband UWA Communication System Based on the COFDM Modulation', IEEE International Conference Oceans '97, Halifax, Nova Scotia, pp 862-869, 1997.
  6. W.K.Lam and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'A Coherent COFDM Modulation System for a Time-varying, Frequency Selective Underwater Acoustic Channel', 7th IEE International Conference on Electronic Engineering in Oceanography, Southhampton Centre, pp 198-203, June 1997.

Section 18 Signal Processing for Power System Protection


  1. M.Vaughan, P.J.Moore, R.F.Ormondroyd and A.T.Johns, 'Remote monitoring of Power System faults using VLF Radio Waves', Proceedings of International Conference ICEE '98, Korea, July 1998.
  2. M.Vaughn, P.J.Moore, R.F.Ormondroyd and A.T.Johns, 'Remote Sensing of Power System Faults using VLF Radio Waves', International Conference on Electrical Engineering, September 1998
  3. M.Vaughan, P.J.Moore,A.T.Johns and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Condition Monitoring of Power Systems using Arcing Fault Noise in the Very Low Frequency Spectrum', UPEC '98, September 1998.
  4. M.A.Redfern, D.P.McGuinness and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'The Application of Coding Techniques for Secure Digital Data Communications for the Unit Protection of Distribution Feeders', IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 11, No 2, pp 716-724, 1996.
  5. R.F.Ormondroyd, M.A.Redfern and M.Bowers, 'Coding Strategies for High Speed Unit Protection and Control', Proceedings of UPEC '96, Crete, Vol 2, pp 551-554, September 1996.
  6. M.A.Redfern, R.F.Ormondroyd and D.P.McGuinness, 'Data Coding Techniques to Enhance Communications Security for Distribution System Protection and Control', Proceedings of 11th CEPSI Conference, Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia, September 1996.
  7. D.P.McGuinness, M.A.Redfern and R.F.Ormondroyd, 'Secure Data Communications Over Distribution Feeder Circuits for Power system Protection and Control', Proceedings of the 30th Universities Power Engineering Conference, Greenwich, Vol 2, pp660-663, September 1996.

Section 19 Flight Control


  1. Zbikowski R, 'Current Research on Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles at Shrivenham', Proceedings, NATO RTO AVT Panel Business Meeting Week, Ankara, Turkey, 9-13 October 2000.
  2. Zbikowski R, 'Emergent Flapping Wing Technology for Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs)', Proceedings, UV2000 Conference, London, UK, 19-21 July 2000.
  3. A.Tsourdos and B.A.White, 'Lateral Flight Control of a Missile: An Adaptive Approximate Feedback Linearization Approach'. IEEE CDC'99 Phoenix Arizona, December 1999
  4. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.A.White, 'Flight Control Design for a Missile. An Approximate Feedback Linearisation Approach', IEEE Mediterranean Conference in Control and Systems, Med'99, Haifa, Israel, June 1999.
  5. A.L.Blumel, E.J.Hughes, and B.A.White, `Design of Robust Fuzzy Controllers for Aerospace Applications'. In NAFIPS '99 Conference, IEEE, pages 438-442, New York, NY, USA, June 10-12, 1999.
  6. B.A.White and A.Tsourdos, 'Robust Stability Analysis of a Lateral Flight Control System for a Missile', American Control Conference, ACC'99, San Diego, USA, June 1999
  7. A.Tsourdos and B.A.White, 'Lateral Acceleration Control Design for an LPV Missile Model', European Control Conference, ECC'99 Karlsruhe, Germany, September 1999.
  8. J.E.F.Silva, B.A.White and M.G.Kellett, 'Robust Control of a Rotary Wing RPV using Polynomial Eigenstructure Assignment', Proceedings CDC '98, Florida, December 1998.
  9. P.A.Creaser, 'Generation of Missile Guidance Algorithms', IEE Colloquium in Control Methods and Applications, Savoy Place,10 November, 1998
  10. B.A.White, 'Robust Control of an Umanned Underwater Vehicle', Proceedings CDC '98, Florida, December 1998.
  11. B.A.White, 'Robust Polynomial Eigenstructure Assignment applied to an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle', Proceedings of CAMS '98, Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, 27-30 October 1998.
  12. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.A.White, 'Autopilot Design of a Non-linear Missile', Proceedings of International Conference on Control '98, University of Wales,Swansea, 1-4 September 1998.
  13. P.A.Creaser, B.A.Stacey and B.A.White, 'Evolutionary Generation of Fuzzy Guidance Laws', Proceedings of International Conference on Control '98, University of Wales,Swansea, 1-4 September 1998.
  14. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.A.White,' Trajectory Control of a Non-linear Homing Missile', Proceedings of 14th IFACS Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Seoul, Korea, 24-28 August 1998.
  15. J.E.F.Silva and M.G.Kellett, 'Longitudinal Autostabilisation of an Agile Rotary-wing RPV', Proceedings of AIAA Conference, 'Guidance Navigation and Control', Boston, 10-12 August 1998.
  16. M.G.Kellett, A.Robinson, J.Bauer and N.Baker,' Real-time Flight Simulation for Graduate Aerospace Education', Proceedings of AIAA Conference 'Modelling and Simulation Technologies', 10-12 August 1998.
  17. P.A.Creaser,B.A.Stacey and B.A.White, 'Fuzzy Missile Guidance', Proceedings of AIAA Conference, Boston, USA, 10-12 August 1998.
  18. P.A.Creaser and B.A.Stacey, 'Fuzzy Missile Guidance', Proceedings of AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control, Boston, USA, 10-12 August 1998.
  19. P.D.Bruce, J.E.F.Silva and M.G.Kellett, 'Maximum Likelyhood Identification of a Rotary-wing RPV Simulation Model from Flight-test Data', Proceedings AIAA Paper 98-4157 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Boston, MA, 1998.
  20. B.A.White, A.Tsourdos and A.Blumel, 'Lateral Acceleration Control Design of a Non-linear Homing Missile', Proceedings of Non-linear Control Systems Design '98, Enschede, Holland, 1-3 July 1998.
  21. A.Tsourdos, A.Blumel and B.A.White, ' Tracking Control Design of a Non-linear Homing Missile', Proceedings of NOLCOS '98, Enschede, Holland, 1-3 July 1998.
  22. B.A.White, 'Robust Flight Control of a VSTOL Aircraft using Polynomial Matching', Proceedings of 1998 American Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 24-26 June 1998.
  23. B.A.White, 'Polynomial Eigenstructure Assignment Applied to a VSTOL Aircraft', Proceedings of IASTED Control '97, Cancun, Mexico, 28-31 May 1997.
  24. B.A.White, 'Polynomial Eigenstructure Assignment Applied to a VSTOL Aircraft', Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Japan, 11-13 December 1996.
  25. B.Umamaheswari, A.Trebi-Ollennu, B.A.Stacey and B.A.White, 'A Geometric approach to Fuzzy Logic Control of a 3-DOF Robot Arm', Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, 3-6 December 1996.
  26. M/G.Kellett and J.E.F.Silva, 'Flight Test Verification of the Simulation Model of a Rotary-wing RPV', Proceedings of 12th International Conference on RPVs, Bristol, 9-11 September 1996.
  27. A.Trebi-Ollennu and B.A.White, 'Multi-objective Fuzzy Optimisation Approach to Eigenstructure Assignment', Proceedings of IEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, 8-11 September 1996.
  28. B.A.White, 'Flight Control of a VSTOL Aircraft using Polynomial Eigenstructure Assignment', Proceedings of 1996 UKACC International Control, Exeter, 2-5 September 1996.
  29. A.Trebi-Ollennu and B.A.White, 'Multi-objective Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm Optimisation Approach to Non-linear Control Systems Design', Proceedings of UKACC International Control '96, Exeter, 2-5 September 1996.
  30. A.Trebi-Ollennu and B.A.White, 'A Robust Non-linear Control Design for Remotely-operated Vehicle Depth Control System', Proceedings of UKACC International Control '96, Exeter, 2-5 September 1996.
  31. M.G.Kellett, S.R.Baguley and J.R.Azinheira, 'Robustness Analysis of a Remotely Piloted Vehicle', Proceedings of UKACC International Control '96, Exeter, 2-5 September 1996.

Section 20 Wind Tunnel


  1. Taborda N, Bray D and Knowles K, 'Experimental Investigations into Transonic Flows over Tandem Cavities', Aeronautical Journal of The Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol 105, N0 1045, pp119-124, March 2001
  2. K.Knowles and M.Finnis, 'Development of a New Open-jet Wind Tunnel and Rolling Road Facility', 2nd MIRA International Conference on Vehicle Aerodynamics, Coventry 20-21 October 1998

Section 21 Robotics and Virtual Reality


  1. J E L. Hollis , LeBris du Rest P, Morrison J (DERA) and Richard J (DRYAD), '3D VR Simulation in HCI for Control of Teleoperated Robotics' MMVIP 8th International Conference, Hong Kong, 25 - 29 August 2001.
  2. J E L. Hollis , Choo H, Tahel S (DERA) and Morrison J (DERA), 'HCI System Design' International HCI 2001, New Orleans, USA, 5 - 12 August 2001.
  3. J.E.L. Hollis, R.G. Beaumont & G.J.J.Foley, "VR Simulation Controlling Legged Robots", 7th Int. MMVIP Conference, Brisbane, September 2000.
  4. J.E.L. Hollis, "Chairman of session on Legged Robots", 7th Int. MMVIP Conference, Brisbane, September 2000.
  5. J.E.L. Hollis, *"Walking Robots", Book Chapter, "Mechantronics & Machine Vision in Practice", Edited by J Billingsley, BLP, London, 2000.
  6. J.E.L. Hollis & G.J.J. Foley, "Application of Virtual Reality Technology to the Simulation of Walking Robots", 32nd ISATA Conference, pp 55-59, Vienna, June 1999.
  7. J.E.L. Hollis & G.J.J. Foley, "Application of Virtual Reality Technology to the Simulation of Walking Robots", 32nd ISATA Conference, June 1999.
  8. J.E.L. Hollis & Maj. Meinertzhagen, " Virtual Mobile Communications", IEE International Conference on Image Processing Systems, Dublin, April 1997.
  9. J.E.L. Hollis, "Neural Network SAR Application to Agricultural Monitoring"., Cranfield University Enterprises, Contract Report, June 1996
  10. J.E.L. Hollis & P.C.J. Hill, "Neural Network application to Remotely Sensed Data Classification", GCHQ Seminar Image Processing Systems, Cheltenham, March 1996.
  11. J.E.L. Hollis & T Cronk, "Transputer Implementation of Interpolators for Radar image Transformation", Microprocessors & Microsystems. Vol 19, No2, 1995.
  12. Hollis J.E.L. Billingsley J. and Strickland P.: Distributed manufacturing multiprocessing Controllers SERC Report Number 8045/91.
  13. Collie A.A, Billingsley J & Hollis J.E.L, "The Portsmouth walking robot", Report on PhD research, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Feb 1990.
  14. Naghdy F., Hollis J.E.L. & Strickland P.: 'Multiprocessing Control of Robotic Systems Based on Transputer Technology', Proc Euromicro Conf., Cologne, 1989.

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