Roger is Head of the Control Systems research group and the Director of the Systems Engineering Doctorate Centre. His research focuses on various aspects of control systems engineering including: application of model-based control systems design, model-based fault detection and isolation, system condition/health monitoring and fault tolerant design (of controllers and actuators).
Roger is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a registered Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
His external activities include:
International:
Associate Editor - International Journal of Automation and Computing
International Program Committee Member for SafeProcess 2006 & 2009
IPC Member for Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, SysTol'10
Member of IFAC Technical Committee on SafeProcess (2005-present)
Member of IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronics (2007-present)
Guest Editor for IET Control Theory and Applications (2006)
Organiser of Special Sessions at UKACC Control '04, IFAC World Congress '08
Editorial for IMechE J. of Systems and Control Engineering (2000)
Reviewer for International Conferences (e.g., IFAC World Congress, IFAC-SafeProcess, IFAC-Mechatronics, European Control Conference)
Session and Plenary Chairman at a number of conferences including IFAC World Congress 2008, SafeProcess 2006, 2009.
National:
Member of the InstMCs Control Systems Technical Panel (2009- present)
Member of EPSRC College (2005-present)
Group representative to the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC)
Member of Executive Committee of IETs Professional Network on Control and Automation (2010-present)
Expertise
Advanced actuator technologies
Advanced condition monitoring systems for railway vehicles
Applications of advanced control techniques
Sensors
Statistical Estimation and Detection Techniques
Fault tolerant control
Feedback control systems analysis and design
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Brief Background
Roger was born in Morecambe, Lancashire and attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School (1981-1988). He was awarded a BEng (Hon’s) in Mechanical Engineering in 1992 and an MSc in Mechatronics in 1993, from Lancaster University. He studied for a PhD in discrete time modelling and control at the Centre for Research in Environmental Systems and Statistics (CRES), graduating in 1996. In October 1996 Roger took a position at ALSTOM in Leicester. Here he worked on and managed R&D projects involving the application of modelling, control and health monitoring techniques (applications included, power, hydraulics, aerospace, automotive, marine). Roger joined Loughborough as a Senior Lecturer in September 2003. He is Head of the Control Systems Research Group and Director of the Systems Engineering Doctorate Centre. He leads a number of research projects applying control and systems theory to solve practical engineering problems (see research).
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Roger's research interests span a number of technology areas: Applications of advanced control, advanced actuators, fault-detection and health/condition monitoring, fault-tolerant control, safety-critical systems, system identification, system modelling & simulation. Most of the research has an industry focuss including: aerospace, railway and power generation industries.
Current Research Projects:
Selected Previous Projects:
- Highly redundant Actuators – control concept
- ALSTOM Benchmark Challenge I and II
- Hydraulic Digger Arm Control
- Position and Verticality Control of a piling rig
- REACTS - Realiable Electrical Actuators
View all Dr Dixon’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
Roger is author of over 50 peer reviewed papers in Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences. A selection are listed below.
Selected Journal Papers:
Dixon R., Observer-based FDIA: application to an electromechanical positioning system, Control Engineering Practice, Volume 12, Issue 9, September 2004, Pages 1113-112. ISSN: 0967-0661
Dixon, R. and A.W. Pike, Alstom Benchmark Challenge II on Gasifier Control, IEE Proc. Control Theory and Applications, May 2006, Volume 153, Issue 3, p. 254-261. ISSN 1350-2379.
Link to further information for the Gasifier Control Challenges
Selected Conference Papers:
Dixon, R., Pike, A.W., Improving the Control and Reliability of an Electromechanical Actuator, proc. of 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July 2005.
Dixon, R., Steffen, T., Davies, J., Goodall, R.M., Zolotas, A.C., Pearson, J.T. and Du, X., HRA - Intrinsically Fault Tolerant Actutation Through High Redundancy, 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, SAFEPROCESS'09, Barcelona, Spain, 2009, pp. 1216-1221.
