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Background
Born in Xanthi, Greece. Graduated from the University of Leeds with a BEng(Hons) in Electronic and Communications Engineering in 1998. Obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2002 from Loughborough University (Control Systems Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering) and the M.Sc in Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering (under the lifelong learning programme initiative) from the University of Leicester in 2010. From January 2002 until August 2003 was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Control and Power Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. Joined Loughborough University as a lecturer in October 2003. Promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2008.
Professional Affiliations
(current)
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
External Activities
Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Conference Editorial Board (CEB) (2008- to date)
Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control
Chairman of the IEEE UK&RI Control Systems Society Chapter (Oct. 2010- to date)
current Editorial activities:
Associate Editor, IEEE Trans Control Systems Technology (Jan. 2012- )
Editor (Automation and Control Systems), Central European Journal of Engineering (Versita/Springer) (Dec. 2011- )
Review activities:
Reviewer for a number of Int'l peer-reviewed Conferences and International peer-reviewed Journals
Examiner appointments:
PhD Examiner: Imperial College London (2008); Univ. of Newcastle, Aus (2011)
Research Interests and Activities
- Feedback Control Systems Analysis and Design
- Control of Active Suspensions
- Robust (Linear and Nonlinear) Control
- Model (and Controller) Reduction
- Fault Tolerant Control
- Optimization
- Applications of Advanced Control Methods
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Expertise
Active suspensions for railway vehicles
Advanced controllers for tilting railway vehicles
Applications of advanced control techniques
Fault tolerant control
Feedback control systems analysis and design
Robust control
Keywords
Fault Tolerant Control
Advanced control
Optimization
Feedback control systems analysis and design
Model / Controller reduction
Tilting train control
Active suspensions control
robust nonlinear control
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Students / Researchers
Current Ph.D. students:
- Miss Alejandra Matamoros-Sanchez
[Project: The Use of Novel Mechanical Devices for Enhancing the Performance of Railway Vehicle Systems]
- Miss Xiang Zheng
[Project: Active vibration control of flexible bodied railway vehicles via smart structures]
Former (Ph.D Students,Post-Docs, Associates):
- Dr William (Bill) Garlick
[Thesis: Architecture and control of large power networks with distributed generation]
- Dr Hairi Zamzuri
[Thesis: Intelligent model-based robust control for tilting railway vehicles]
current post: Senior Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Artificial Intelligence Group)
- Dr Konstantinos Michail
[Thesis: Optimised Configuration of Sensing Elements for Control and Fault Tolerance Applied to an Electro-Magnetic Suspension System]
current post: Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Dr Ronghui Zhou
[Thesis: Integrated tilt and active lateral secondary suspension control in high speed railway vehicles]
current post: Research Engineer, Real-time controls lab, Global Research Center, GE, Shanghai, China
- Dr Zhenhai Li (Post-Doc):
[Project: Sensor optimization for control and fault tolerance (1st half of project)]
- Dr Yimin Zhou (Post-Doc):
[Project: Sensor optimization for control and fault tolerance (2nd half of project)]
- Dr Thomas Steffen (Post-Doc):
[ Project: Highly Redundant Actuators]
current post: Lecturer, Department of Aero and Auto Engineering, Loughborough Univ., UK
ELC041 Advanced Control (State Space) (lead tutor) [year 3]
ELD052 Topics on Robust and Nonlinear Control (lead tutor [year 4]
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ELB004 Control System Design (co-tutor) [year 2]
ELD025 Modern Control Engineering (Robust control) (co-tutor) [year 4]
ELB013 Engineering Project Management (Director) (co-tutor) [year 2]
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Supervision of Final Year undergraduate projects [years 3 (BEng) and 4 (MEng)]
View all Dr Zolotas’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
(the above list may show incomplete)
* Some of my publications are available online (Lboro dspace facility), with the list found on:
location 1: dspace repository
or
location 2: dspace repository
(lists of my publications on Google Scholar and/or Scopus may show incomplete).
Theses/Reports:
1) My B.Eng (Hons) (Leeds Univ.), final year project report, 1998
Title: Computer Aided Design for robust control using the QFT method
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(in case of any typos or unintentional errors that may have occured, please do not hesitate to inform me)
2) My Ph.D. thesis (Loughborough Univ.), 2002
Title: Advanced Control Strategies for Tilting Trains
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(in case of any typos or unintentional errors that may have occured, please do not hesitate to inform me)
3) My M.Sc. dissertation (Leicester Univ.), 2010,
Title Towards Robust Sliding Mode Control of Electrostatic Microactuators
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email me at: a.c.zolotas@lboro.ac.uk
