Mills, Andrew, Professor

Professor Andrew Mills

MEng, CEng

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor of Innovation in Aerospace Systems Monitoring and Control

Deputy Director Rolls Royce UTC

a.r.mills@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5634

Amy Johnson Building

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Professor Andrew Mills
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Profile: I made an early career decision to follow a path of applied research in Aerospace and return to Sheffield, my undergraduate University, to take a position within the Control Systems Department at Sheffield University. Since then I have worked with industry, particularly Rolls-Royce, to develop sensing and algorithmic solutions to health monitoring and control problems. I have been fortunate to be part of exceptional teams developing fleet monitoring algorithms, vision-based sensing systems, thermal system control laws, and have developed and run various electronic embedded systems in the unforgiving gas turbine environment. I am currently Deputy Director of the Control, Monitoring and Systems University Technology Centre in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Here, I shape and co-ordinate a portfolio of industry and research council funded research, PhD projects and MSc projects aimed at delivering high quality academic and industrially exploitable research output.

Research interests

Equipment health management (EHM) system design,
Prognostic and diagnostic algorithms,
Integration of monitoring with control function for through-life adaptable machines.
Integration of vision sensing and acquisition technologies into systems
Delivering technology demonstrator programmes with Industrial partners

Grants

ASUR “Autonomous Multi-criteria Decision Making”, 2015.
TSB HITEA II, “Advanced Intelligent EHM” (PI), 2014–2017.
Rolls-Royce, “Control & Systems UTC” (CI), 2013–2015.
QinetiQ, “Applied Prognostics” (PI), 2013-2015.
EPSRC, “Through-life Service Feasibility grant” (PI), 2013–2014.
Rolls-Royce, “Wireless Sensing for Monitoring” (PI), 2013–2015.
TSB, “SILOET II WP.1.6 – Holistic Control & Health Monitoring” (CI), 2013–2015.
Rolls-Royce, “Wireless Sensing in Extreme Marine Environment” (CI), 2013–2013.
Rolls-Royce, “Autonomous Intelligence for Civil UAS” (PI), February 2012–February 2013.

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