Founding academics Prof Paul and Prof Jill Stewart in the Institute of Engineering, Computing and Advanced Manufacturing (IECAM) at Cumbria University have a long established research activity centered around low carbon airport operations and advanced flight dynamics via intelligent control. Here are some examples of our funded research in this area:
Research Projects
- EU FP7 Project: ACHEON Aerial Coanda High Efficiency Orienting-jet Nozzle. 2012 – 2015
FP7-TPT – Transport (Including Aeronautics) – Horizontal activities for implementation of the transport programme (TPT) £280,000. The ACHEON project explores a novel propulsive system for aircraft which overcomes the main limitations of traditional systems introducing effective and affordable vectored jet aerial propulsion with no moving parts.
- EU FP7 Project: MAAT multibody advanced energy self-sufficient powered airship. 2011 – 2014
FP7-AAT-2011-RTD-1 £380,000. Electrical power system architectures, hydrogen production by hydrolysis, fuel cells, ultra-capacitors and propulsive design. Operational power-electronic systems and Control.
- Airport energy technologies network EPSRC Grant: EP/H003150/1. 2009 – 2012
£183,382. Principal Investigator Prof Paul Stewart EPSRC – Low Carbon, Energy Efficient Airport Operations: 20 Universities and 17 Industrial Partners
- Integrating and Automating Airport Operations EPSRC Grant: EP/H004424/2. 2011 – 2014
PI Prof Paul Stewart, with Stirling University, Manchester and Zurich Airports. This project emerged from the Research Councils’ Energy Programme Sandpit in Airport Operations, to exploit recent research advances in automated search methodologies and decision support techniques for air operations (and other related areas). Optimal real time control of airport take-off, landing, taxi and gate assignment for low carbon operations
- Real-time Prognostics, Diagnostics and Failure Mode Computation and Control for Complex Power Systems and Actuators. 2009 – 2010
£150,000. United States Air Force European Office of Aeronautical Research and Development: 1 year personal research grant
- Energy Recovery from Landing Aircraft EPSRC Grant: EP/H004351/1. 2009 – 2012
£160,597. Principal Investigator Prof Paul Stewart: Collaborating company: Airbus/EADS Innovation Works. To define, analyse and quantify the technologies which will enable the conversion of the kinetic energy of a landing aircraft, via a suitable electromechanical interface via transient energy storage into long term energy storage or the electrical grid network
Associated Publications
2017
- Tim Smith, Michele Trancossi, Dean Vucinic, Chris Bingham and Paul Stewart, (2017) Primary and Albedo Solar Energy Sources for High Altitude Persistent Air Vehicle Operation, Energies 2017, 10(4), 573; doi:10.3390/en10040573
2016
- Michele Trancossi, Mauro Madonia, Antonio Dumas, Diego Angeli, Chris Bingham, Shyam Sumanta Das, Francesco Grimaccia, Jose Pascoa Marques, Eliana Porreca, Tim Smith, Paul Stewart, Maharshi Subhash, Anna Sunol and Dean Vucinic, (2016) ‘A new aircraft architecture based on the ACHEON Coanda effect nozzle: flight model and energy evaluation’ European Transport Research Review, 8(2) · June 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s12544-016-0198-4
2015
- Cen, T. Smith, P. Stewart and J. Stewart (2015), ‘Integrated Flight/Thrust Vectoring for Jet-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with ACHEON Propulsion’, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering vol.229, pp1057-1075, May 2015 first published online July 29, 2014 DOI: 10.1177/0954410014544179
2014
- Trancossi, M., Dumas, A., Stewart, P., and Vucinic, D., (2014) “Increasing Aeronautic Electric Propulsion Performance by Cogeneration and Heat Recovery,” SAE Technical Paper 2014-01-2106, 2014, doi:10.4271/2014-01-2106.
2013
- Smith T., Bingham C., Stewart P., Allarton R. and Stewart J., “Energy Harvesting and Power Network Architectures for the MAAT High Altitude Cruiser-Feeder Airship Concept”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering April 2013 vol. 227 no. 4 586-599
- .J. C. Pascoa, A. Dumas, M. Trancossi, P. Stewart and D. Vucinic, ‘A review of thrust-vectoring in support of a V/STOL non-moving mechanical propulsion system’, Central European Journal of Engineering, 3(3), 2013, pp. 374-388.
- Domenec Puig, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Emanuele Rizzo, Agusti Solanas, (2014) Paul Stewart, “A personal robotic flying machine with vertical takeoff controlled by the human body movements”, Book: A. Natraj et al. (Eds.): TAROS 2013, LNAI 8069, pp. 1–2, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_7, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
2010
- Gladwin D., Stewart P., Parr M. and Stewart J., “Multiobjective evolutionary-fuzzy augmented flight controller for an F16 Aircraft.” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. Vol.224, No.3, pp 293-309, 2010.
- Awarded IMechE Charles Sharpe Beecher Prize for best Aerospace Paper 2010.
2013
- Ravizza S., Chen J., Atkin J., Burke E. and Stewart P., “The trade-off between taxi time and fuel consumption in airport ground movement”, Springer-Verlag Journal of Public Transport Planning and Operations, ISSN: 1866-749X (print version), ISSN: 1613-7159 (electronic version), DOI 10.1007/s12469-013-0060-1, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2013), Page 25-40
2014
- Ravizza, Stefan and Chen, Jun and Atkin, Jason A. D. and Stewart, Paul and Burke, Edmund K. (2014) Aircraft taxi time prediction: comparisons and insights. Applied Soft Computing, 14 (c). pp. 397-406. ISSN 1568-4946
2015
- Jun Chen, Michal Weiszer, Paul Stewart and Masihalah Shabani, (2015) ‘Towards a More Realistic, Cost Effective and Greener Ground Movement through Active Routing: Part 1-Optimal Speed Profile Generation’, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Issue 99, pp 1-14, ISSN: 1524-9050, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2015.2477350, November 2015-11-18
- Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen, Paul Stewart (2015), ‘A real-time Active Routing approach via a database for airport surface movement‘. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 58, Part A, September 2015, Pages 127–145 DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.07.011
2016
- Jun Chen, Michal Weiszer, Giorgio Locatelli, Stefan Ravizza, Jason A. Atkin, Paul Stewart and Edmund Burke, (2016) ‘Towards a More Realistic, Cost Effective and Greener Ground Movement through Active Routing: Part 2-A Multi-Objective Shortest Path Approach’ , IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems, December 2016, 17(12):3524-3540) Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TITS.2016.2587619
2018
- Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen, Paul Stewart, (2018) ‘Preference-based evolutionary algorithm for airport surface operations’, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 91, June 2018, Pages 296–316, doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2018.04.008
Conference Publications
2007
- Stewart, P.; Gladwin, D.; Parr, M.; Stewart, J., “A Multiobjective G.A./Fuzzy Logic augmented flight controller for an F16 aircraft,” Fuzzy Systems Conference, 2007. FUZZ-IEEE 2007. IEEE International , vol., no., pp.1,6, 23-26 July 2007
2008
- Stewart P., “Multiobjective augmented flight controller design for an F16 Aircraft.”, Plenary Lecture: 6th International Congress of Mechatronics Engineering, Monterrey, Mexico, April 9th-12th 2008
2009
- Molina Cristobal A. and Stewart P, “Optimisation of Reduced Order Flight Controllers using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms and Linear Matrix Inequalities”. CEAS 2009, Manchester.
2011
- Chen J and Stewart P. “Planning Aircraft Taxiing Trajectories via a Multi-Objective Immune Optimisation” The 7th International Conference on Natural Computation and 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 26-28 July 2011, Galaxy Hotel, Shanghai, China.
- Jun Chen, Stefan Ravizza, Jason A. D. Atkin, and Paul Stewart, “On the Utilisation of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems for Taxi Time Estimations at Airports”, ATMOS 2011 – 11th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization and Systems, Sept 8th, 2011, Saabrucken, Germany.
- Ryley T., Stewart P, Tassou S., Bennett M., Chen J., Waugh D, Chan P. and Liang V., ‘Aviation Operations and Climate Change Impacts: the Airport Energy Technologies Network Response’ Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting, Jan 22-26, 2012, Washington D.C.
2012
- Stefan Ravizza, Jun Chen, Jason A. D. Atkin, Edmund K. Burke, Paul Stewart, ‘The trade-off between taxi time and fuel consumption in airport ground movement’, Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport (CASPT12), Santiago, Chile, 23-27 July, 2012.
- Smith, T.; Bingham, C.; Stewart, P.; Allarton, R.; Stewart, J., “MAAT high altitude cruiser feeder airship concept,” Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS), 2012 , vol., no., pp.1,6, 16-18 Oct. 2012
2013
- Vittorio Cipolla, Aldo Frediani, Rezia Molfino, Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Fabrizio Oliviero, Domenec Puig, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Emanuele Rizzo, Agusti Solanas, Paul Stewart, “A personal robotic flying machine with vertical takeoff controlled by the human body movements”, 14th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems TAROS 2013, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 28th– 30th August 2013
2014
- Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen, Stefan Ravizza, Jason Atkin, Paul Stewart, “A heuristic approach to greener airport ground movement”, 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC14), pp. 3280-3286, 06 – 11 Jul 2014, Beijing, China
- Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen, Stefan Ravizza, Jason Atkin, Paul Stewart, “Towards airport green ground movement using multi-objective, multi-component optimisation and heuristic”, 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI2014, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014
- Trancossi, A. Dumas, P. Stewart and D. Vucinic (2014), ‘Increasing aeronautic electric propulsion performances by cogeneration and heat recovery’, SAE 2014 Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference, September 23-25, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2015
- Trancossi, C. Bingham, P.Stewart and Dean Vucinic, ‘Multifunctional Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft for Low-speed and STOL operation’, SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition, Washington State Convention Centre, Seattle, Washington, USA, Sept 22-24, 2015
- Jun Chen, Michal Weiszer, Paul Stewart, ‘Optimal Speed Profile Generation for Airport Ground Movement with Consideration of Emissions’, IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Canary Islands, Spain, 15-18 September, 2015
- Jun Chen, Michal Weiszer, Paul Stewart, ‘Preference-based evolutionary algorithm for airport runway scheduling and ground movement optimisation’, IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Canary Islands, Spain, 15-18 September, 2015
