Department staff
Dr Thomas Steffen Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing.
Lecturer in the Dynamics and Reliability Group
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 224
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Email t.steffen@lboro.ac.uk
Background
- Research Assistant, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, 1999-2002
- Research Assistant, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 2002-2004
- Technical Consultant, mBalance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2004-2006
- Research Associate, Loughborough University, UK, 2007-2010
Current responsibilities
- Member of the Innovation and Research Centre (I&RC)
- Teaching Control Engineering, Low Carbon Vehicle Technologies, Calibration
Accomplishments
- Eickhoff Prize for the best PhD thesis (2005)
Research groups
- Dynamics and Reliability
- Associate member of the Control Systems group
Research interests and activities
- engine, powertrain and after-treatment control
- high speed / high performance control
- fault tolerant control
- reconfiguration of dynamic systems after sever faults
- first principle modelling (white box and grey box)
- control structures and structural analysis
- geometric approach to the control of linear and non-linear systems
(an alternative to the Non-linear Direct Inverse method NDI) - optimisation of fixed structure controls
External activities
- alumni of the German National Merit Foundation (1994-2004)
- alumni of the Institute of Control System (1999-2002)
- reviewer for the IEEE TAC