Department staff
Dr Matt Best
Senior Lecturer in Vehicle Dynamics and Control
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 209
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Email m.c.best@lboro.ac.uk
Background
- Research Assistant, Loughborough University, 1992 – 1995
- Senior Research Engineer, European Gas Turbines, Leicester, 1995 - 1996
- Lecturer in Dynamics and Control, Loughborough University, 1996 – 2006
- Senior Lecturer in Vehicle Dynamics and Control, Loughborough University, 2006 to date
Current Responsibilities
Automotive Undergraduate Programme Director
Accomplishments
General Chair of Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC) conference, Loughborough, UK, August 2010
Research Group
Control and Reliability
Research Interests and Activities
- All aspects of modelling and control in vehicle ride and handling applications :
- Offline and real-time system identification, specialising in simple model structures
- Real-time parameter and dynamic state estimation, with a particular interest in the application of extended Kalman filters
- Control implementation, particularly using linear and nonlinear Optimal methods
- Linear electric actuators for vehicle ride control
- Vehicle driveline optimisation and control
- Motion cueing for real-time vehicle simulation on moving platform simulator
External Activities
- Professional affiliation : Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- Co-editor, International Journal of Vehicle Mechanics and Mobilty : Special issue on Advanced Vehicle Control, 2011.
- International Scientific committee, AVEC since 2006
- Invited papers in International Journals : Vehicle Autonomous Systems (2011, 2007), IMechE Journal of Multibody Dynamics, (2007)
- Invited lectures : ACT (Advanced Control Technology club – special interest group in Automotive Control), March 2002
- Referee for ImechE Journals of Automobile Engineering and Multibody Dynamics, International Journal of Vehicle Design, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems
- Collaborative Research : Development of Linear Electric Actuators for vehicle ride control (EPSRC, Sheffield University and Jaguar / LandRover)
- External Examiner
- Vehicle Engineering MEng, University of Pretoria, 2006
- MSc in Weapon & Vehicle Systems and MSc in Military Vehicles Technology, Cranfield University, 2010 – date
- PhD examinations, Leicester (2004), Coventry (2005), Stockholm (2007), Cambridge (2008), Leeds (2008), Cranfield (2008, 2010), Glasgow (2010)