University of Sheffield - Equipment Account
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Applying the rules of quantum rather than classical physics makes big differences to how we can manipulate information. A classical 'bit' of data can have one of two values, '0' or '1'. Its quantum counterpart, the qubit, can be in a state which is a superposition of the two values, in the sense of having both values at the same time. This, along with entanglement (Einstein's 'spooky' action at a distance) could enable quantum computers to out-perform current computers by huge margins. However making such a machine is very difficult; it is challenging to control large quantum systems while simultaneously isolating them from their environment sufficiently well to be able to carry out a useful calculation. Currently, using a number of different sorts of hardware (trapped ions, atoms at nano-Kelvin temperatures, superconducting circuits, single photons in silicon waveguides), it is possible to perform some simple quantum algorithms on arrays of a few qubits. However, for all these systems, there are very significant challenges to scaling such demonstrators up into useful devices.
We propose to develop quantum circuits using a different technology, III-V semiconductor materials (GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaAs etc). Our circuits will employ photons and electron spins as qubits, making use of the optical properties of the III-V materials to carry out the quantum operations. A big advantage of the III-V semiconductors is that a mature photonics technology with advanced fabrication capabilities already exists, which will enable us to put all the elements of a circuit on a single microchip. With this level of integration, our approach is intrinsically scalable. Our five year vision is to construct circuits containing all the basic building blocks required to achieve quantum information processing: single photon sources to generate photon qubits, communication channels between qubits, quantum logic gates, memories consisting of spin qubits, and on-chip single photon detectors.
Circuits of this type could form the building blocks of future quantum computers, but they can also perform useful quantum functions outside the realm of large scale quantum computation. With this level of complexity, it is possible to build quantum repeaters that enable wide-scale secure quantum communication networking. There are also applications in quantum metrology, where the properties of quantum mechanics can be used to obtain precision beyond the fundamental limits imposed by classical physics. Potential areas that may benefit here are magnetic sensors and microscopy.
To pursue this vision of an integrated quantum technology, we will have to push forward the state of the art in semiconductor physics and device fabrication. On the physics side, our expected highlights include demonstrating full control of the nuclear spins in a device, obtaining entanglement of remote qubits on a chip, creating photon blockade structures, where the presence of a single photon prevents any more from entering, and developing control of light-matter interactions on the scale of single quanta. The targets on the technology side are equally challenging and will include tuning of quantum dot properties to achieve tightly controlled emission properties, the growth of dots in defined positions for incorporation in optical cavities, and highly reproducible lithography to achieve efficient circuit performance. All these topics will be central to our goals and will be addressed within the proposal; in addition they have potential to be of significance for a wide range of related nanoscale photonic technologies.
We propose to develop quantum circuits using a different technology, III-V semiconductor materials (GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaAs etc). Our circuits will employ photons and electron spins as qubits, making use of the optical properties of the III-V materials to carry out the quantum operations. A big advantage of the III-V semiconductors is that a mature photonics technology with advanced fabrication capabilities already exists, which will enable us to put all the elements of a circuit on a single microchip. With this level of integration, our approach is intrinsically scalable. Our five year vision is to construct circuits containing all the basic building blocks required to achieve quantum information processing: single photon sources to generate photon qubits, communication channels between qubits, quantum logic gates, memories consisting of spin qubits, and on-chip single photon detectors.
Circuits of this type could form the building blocks of future quantum computers, but they can also perform useful quantum functions outside the realm of large scale quantum computation. With this level of complexity, it is possible to build quantum repeaters that enable wide-scale secure quantum communication networking. There are also applications in quantum metrology, where the properties of quantum mechanics can be used to obtain precision beyond the fundamental limits imposed by classical physics. Potential areas that may benefit here are magnetic sensors and microscopy.
To pursue this vision of an integrated quantum technology, we will have to push forward the state of the art in semiconductor physics and device fabrication. On the physics side, our expected highlights include demonstrating full control of the nuclear spins in a device, obtaining entanglement of remote qubits on a chip, creating photon blockade structures, where the presence of a single photon prevents any more from entering, and developing control of light-matter interactions on the scale of single quanta. The targets on the technology side are equally challenging and will include tuning of quantum dot properties to achieve tightly controlled emission properties, the growth of dots in defined positions for incorporation in optical cavities, and highly reproducible lithography to achieve efficient circuit performance. All these topics will be central to our goals and will be addressed within the proposal; in addition they have potential to be of significance for a wide range of related nanoscale photonic technologies.
Planned Impact
The beneficiaries of our research will be in both academia and industry, in the UK, EU and worldwide. Enhancements to the capabilities of UK industry will lead further to benefits to the economy as a whole.
Our research is carried out in the highly technologically significant field of III-V semiconductors (e.g. for LEDs, lasers, high frequency transistors etc). Our new directions exploit quantum physics in nanoscale III-V structures and have potential to lead to a new generation of technologies for adoption by industry, for exploitation in the fields of quantum communication, cryptography, and computation and in precision measurement and sensors.
A series of workshops will be held in which our research will be showcased, with active industrial participation, making industry aware of long term opportunities which arise from the physics and technology outputs of our work. With participation of professional facilitators, activities devoted to blue-skies thinking and exploration of cross-disciplinary opportunities (creativity@home) will be held, to which industrial participants will be invited. We will use the opportunity of the industry-focussed III-V Road-mapping exercise being carried out over the next two years, and being led from Sheffield, to provide a further opportunity to achieve transfer of our results and ideas to an industrial forum.
Training of high quality personnel will be an important output of our Programme. Our research encompasses many of the key features of III-V technology, including crystal growth, device fabrication and advanced physics. Our PhD graduates are highly employable by industry. Based on our track record we expect to supply a minimum of seven PhD graduates into British industry and government laboratories over the lifetime of the grant. Specific programmes will be put in place to achieve effective training for future careers. These steps will include formal training in device fabrication and crystal growth in the advanced laboratories of the III-V Facility at Sheffield, training in device physics and simulation techniques and much practice in both oral and written presentations, further equipping graduates in advantageous ways for careers in industry and academia.
On a wider front, we will disseminate the fruits of our research to specific sections of the wider public: we will showcase our work at scientific exhibitions, write articles of popular scientific magazines, and carry out presentations of the most-attention catching parts of our research to sixth-form colleges.
On the academic side, we have highly successful track records of publication of our work in top quality international journals, including for example ten publications in the top-rated physics journal in the last year. We will place high priority on maintaining this level of dissemination in the Programme Grant, bringing much health to the physics discipline and benefiting academia in a very broad sense. Our training is also highly successful in supplying excellent researchers for careers in academia; more than ten individuals trained in our group now hold senior academic positions; a similar level of success is expected as a result of the Programme grant.
As well as the above overall points, the large equipment funding will play clear and significant roles in achieving our Impact Plan. These include achieving new forms of solid state quantum technologies (e.g. new forms of spin qubits, development of spin-photon interfaces and new entanglement schemes) of potentially strong relevance to industry directions on 10-20 year timescales, and enabling PhD students and postdocs to participate in top-rate research, preparing them in excellent ways for future careers.
Our research is carried out in the highly technologically significant field of III-V semiconductors (e.g. for LEDs, lasers, high frequency transistors etc). Our new directions exploit quantum physics in nanoscale III-V structures and have potential to lead to a new generation of technologies for adoption by industry, for exploitation in the fields of quantum communication, cryptography, and computation and in precision measurement and sensors.
A series of workshops will be held in which our research will be showcased, with active industrial participation, making industry aware of long term opportunities which arise from the physics and technology outputs of our work. With participation of professional facilitators, activities devoted to blue-skies thinking and exploration of cross-disciplinary opportunities (creativity@home) will be held, to which industrial participants will be invited. We will use the opportunity of the industry-focussed III-V Road-mapping exercise being carried out over the next two years, and being led from Sheffield, to provide a further opportunity to achieve transfer of our results and ideas to an industrial forum.
Training of high quality personnel will be an important output of our Programme. Our research encompasses many of the key features of III-V technology, including crystal growth, device fabrication and advanced physics. Our PhD graduates are highly employable by industry. Based on our track record we expect to supply a minimum of seven PhD graduates into British industry and government laboratories over the lifetime of the grant. Specific programmes will be put in place to achieve effective training for future careers. These steps will include formal training in device fabrication and crystal growth in the advanced laboratories of the III-V Facility at Sheffield, training in device physics and simulation techniques and much practice in both oral and written presentations, further equipping graduates in advantageous ways for careers in industry and academia.
On a wider front, we will disseminate the fruits of our research to specific sections of the wider public: we will showcase our work at scientific exhibitions, write articles of popular scientific magazines, and carry out presentations of the most-attention catching parts of our research to sixth-form colleges.
On the academic side, we have highly successful track records of publication of our work in top quality international journals, including for example ten publications in the top-rated physics journal in the last year. We will place high priority on maintaining this level of dissemination in the Programme Grant, bringing much health to the physics discipline and benefiting academia in a very broad sense. Our training is also highly successful in supplying excellent researchers for careers in academia; more than ten individuals trained in our group now hold senior academic positions; a similar level of success is expected as a result of the Programme grant.
As well as the above overall points, the large equipment funding will play clear and significant roles in achieving our Impact Plan. These include achieving new forms of solid state quantum technologies (e.g. new forms of spin qubits, development of spin-photon interfaces and new entanglement schemes) of potentially strong relevance to industry directions on 10-20 year timescales, and enabling PhD students and postdocs to participate in top-rate research, preparing them in excellent ways for future careers.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Basel (Collaboration)
- University of Sydney (Collaboration)
- DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- University of Kentucky (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- B.Braun Melsungen AG (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Transport for London (Collaboration)
- Kyushu University (Collaboration)
- Dublin City University (Collaboration)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- Liverpool John Moores University (Collaboration)
- University of Huddersfield (Collaboration)
- Sheffield Children's Hospital (Collaboration)
- Kansas State University (Collaboration)
Publications
Weinstein JA
(2020)
The future iron age.
in Nature chemistry
Wang T
(2022)
On improved fail-safe sensor distributions for a structural health monitoring system
in Data-Centric Engineering
Wang T
(2021)
On sensor optimisation for structural health monitoring robust to environmental variations
in Wind Energy Science
Sutherland GA
(2020)
A Thermostable Protein Matrix for Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Semiconductors.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Smitten K
(2023)
Clearing an ESKAPE Pathogen in a Model Organism; A Polypyridyl Ruthenium(II) Complex Theranostic that Treats a Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection in Galleria mellonella
in Chemistry - A European Journal
Shipp JD
(2020)
Sterically hindered Re- and Mn-CO2 reduction catalysts for solar energy conversion.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Shipp J
(2022)
Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO in Aqueous Solution under Red-Light Irradiation by a Zn-Porphyrin-Sensitized Mn(I) Catalyst.
in Inorganic chemistry
Shewring JR
(2021)
Refining a correlative light electron microscopy workflow using luminescent metal complexes.
in Methods in cell biology
Shahabpoor E
(2018)
Real-Life Measurement of Tri-Axial Walking Ground Reaction Forces Using Optimal Network of Wearable Inertial Measurement Units.
in IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Shahabpoor E
(2016)
Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls
in Shock and Vibration
Sasitharan K
(2020)
Metal-organic framework nanosheets for enhanced performance of organic photovoltaic cells
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Saeed HK
(2020)
Making the Right Link to Theranostics: The Photophysical and Biological Properties of Dinuclear RuII-ReI dppz Complexes Depend on Their Tether.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Rowson J
(2018)
Differences in EMG Burst Patterns During Grasping Dexterity Tests and Activities of Daily Living
in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Prescott, T. J.
(2015)
Me, myself and iCub: Meet the robot with a self
in New Scientist
Prescott T
(2019)
Cognitive Architectures
Polak DW
(2023)
Conjugation-length dependence of regioregular oligo 3-alkyl(thienylene-vinylene)s demonstrates polyene-like behaviour with weak electron-electron correlations.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Polak D
(2020)
Manipulating molecules with strong coupling: harvesting triplet excitons in organic exciton microcavities.
in Chemical science
Peralta-Arriaga S
(2024)
Photophysics of Fe-Fe hydrogenase mimic complexes for hydrogen evolution
in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
Othman D
(2022)
Photonics design theory enhancing light extraction efficiency in quantum dot light emitting diodes
in Journal of Physics: Materials
Moulin-Frier C
(2018)
DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self
in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Martínez-Alonso M
(2024)
Phototoxicity of cyclometallated Ir(III) complexes bearing a thio-bis-benzimidazole ligand, and its monodentate analogue, as potential PDT photosensitisers in cancer cell killing.
in Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Martinez-Hernandez U
(2017)
Multisensory Wearable Interface for Immersion and Telepresence in Robotics
in IEEE Sensors Journal
Martinez-Hernandez U
(2017)
Active sensorimotor control for tactile exploration
in Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Martinez-Hernandez U
(2017)
Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation
Martinez-Hernandez U
(2016)
Expressive touch: Control of robot emotional expression by touch
Martinez-Hernandez U
(2015)
Active haptic shape recognition by intrinsic motivation with a robot hand
Martinez-Hernandez U
(2016)
Bayesian perception of touch for control of robot emotion
Marin-Beloqui J
(2022)
Insight into the Origin of Trapping in Polymer/Fullerene Blends with a Systematic Alteration of the Fullerene to Higher Adducts.
in The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces
Lyons T. P.
(2018)
The valley Zeeman effect in inter- and intra-valley trions in monolayer WSe$_2$
in arXiv e-prints
Lopes Y
(2016)
Supervisory control theory applied to swarm robotics
in Swarm Intelligence
Larsen C
(2020)
Solvent-Mediated Activation/Deactivation of Photoinduced Electron-Transfer in a Molecular Dyad
in Inorganic Chemistry
Karlsson J
(2023)
Ruthenium-rhenium and ruthenium-palladium supramolecular photocatalysts for photoelectrocatalytic CO 2 and H + reduction
in Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Jones RW
(2023)
Direct Determination of the Rate of Intersystem Crossing in a Near-IR Luminescent Cr(III) Triazolyl Complex.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Jennings J
(2020)
Synthesis of High ?-Low N Diblock Copolymers by Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Horoshenkov KV
(2019)
A three-parameter analytical model for the acoustical properties of porous media.
in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Haywood-Alexander M
(2023)
Full-scale modal testing of a Hawk T1A aircraft for benchmarking vibration-based methods
Haywood-Alexander M
(2023)
Full-Scale Modal Testing of a Hawk T1a Aircraft for Benchmarking Vibration-Based Methods
Haywood-Alexander M
(2022)
Informative Bayesian tools for damage localisation by decomposition of Lamb wave signals
in Journal of Sound and Vibration
Haywood-Alexander M
(2021)
Structured Machine Learning Tools for Modelling Characteristics of Guided Waves
Haywood-Alexander M
(2022)
A Bayesian Method for Material Identification of Composite Plates via Dispersion Curves.
in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Haywood-Alexander M
(2022)
Development of Novel Tools for Application of Ultrasonic Guided Waves in Fibre-Composites
Haywood-Alexander M
(2021)
Structured machine learning tools for modelling characteristics of guided waves
in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
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Title | Offshore Monopile Foundations |
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Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Energy storage modelling to investigate combinations of technologies and differing chemistries to meet power / energy demands |
Collaborator Contribution | Using a combination of their modelling and real data to produce current energy flows, power and DC voltage data sets of potential locations for a research platform. |
Impact | Research and development project |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Fyaz Ismail |
Organisation | Liverpool John Moores University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Samples |
Impact | Outputs: Not yet Multidisciplinary: Life Sciences |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | John Anthony |
Organisation | University of Kentucky |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Synthesised, supplied molecules for two publications. |
Impact | Outputs: Publications Multidisciplinary: chemistry/physics |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Jorge Bernardino de la Serna |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Techniques |
Impact | Output: publication Multidisciplinary: chemistry/life sciences |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Marina Freitag |
Organisation | Newcastle University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Samples |
Impact | Outputs: Not yet. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | MartinVolk-Jonathan Waltho |
Organisation | University of Liverpool |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Equipment, measurements, data interpretation, expertise in electron transfer. |
Collaborator Contribution | Ideas, samples, expertise. |
Impact | N/A |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Paul Beer |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Department of Chemistry |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Diverse data accummulations, analysis, interpretation, expertise in charge transfer. |
Collaborator Contribution | Initiated the project; the idea of light-switchable rotaxanes. |
Impact | Journal of the American Chemical Society 140(5):1924-1936. Chemistry/materials |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Paul Donaldson |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise, techniques |
Impact | Outputs: Not yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Paul McMillan |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Samples |
Impact | Outputs: publication Multidisciplinary: chemistry/environmental |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Prof D Woolfson |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | self-assembling biomolecules |
Collaborator Contribution | part of collaboration on Molecular Photonics Breadborard programme grant |
Impact | paper in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Prof L Gibbson |
Organisation | Newcastle University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prof L Gibbson |
Collaborator Contribution | photocatalysis |
Impact | publication under consideration |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Prof M Pryce |
Organisation | Dublin City University |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prof M Pryce DCU |
Collaborator Contribution | photocatalysis |
Impact | under consideration |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Professor Elizabeth Gibson |
Organisation | Newcastle University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Ultrafast spectroscopy, measurements, data analysis, ideas exchange, drafting and co-writing papers |
Collaborator Contribution | Ideas and samples, expertise in DSSCs |
Impact | Papers in progress, contribution to PhD Thesis |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Professor Katja Heize |
Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Ultrafast spectroscopy, measurements, data analysis, ideas exchange, drafting and co-writing papers |
Collaborator Contribution | Ideas and samples |
Impact | Papers in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Professor Mary Price |
Organisation | Dublin City University |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Ultrafast spectroscopy, measurements, data analysis, ideas exchange, drafting and co-writing papers |
Collaborator Contribution | Ideas and samples, expertise in optoelectronics |
Impact | Papers in progress |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Professor Neil Greenham |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Ultrafast spectroscopy, measurements, data analysis, ideas exchange, drafting and co-writing papers |
Collaborator Contribution | Ideas and samples |
Impact | Papers in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | SBRL |
Organisation | B.Braun Melsungen AG |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Presentations & visit |
Collaborator Contribution | Workshops organized and financially supported between the company and our research group in UK and abroad |
Impact | not multi-disciplinary |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | SBRL |
Organisation | Sheffield Children's Hospital |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Hospitals |
PI Contribution | Presentations & Demo |
Collaborator Contribution | Symposium and exhibition organization |
Impact | Paediatric Surgical Robotics group, a monthly meeting |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Stuart Bartlett |
Organisation | Diamond Light Source |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing. |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise, techniques |
Impact | Outputs: Not yet Multidisciplinary: Physics/chemistry |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Suprem Das |
Organisation | Kansas State University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Samples |
Impact | Outputs: joint grant (Chauvet) Multidisciplinary: environmental/analytical/physics/chemistry/materials |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | TracyClarke |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | providing and operating equipment, assisting with data analysis |
Collaborator Contribution | This is the project initiated by collaborators. |
Impact | Still in progress - chemistry/materials/physics. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | William Barford |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Calculations, ideas, etc. |
Impact | No outputs yet |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Yoichi Sasaki and Nobuhiro Yanai |
Organisation | Kyushu University |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Scientific ideas, techniques, measurements, discussions, data analysis, and publication co-writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Brought samples, ideas |
Impact | Two papers published |
Start Year | 2019 |
Company Name | CYBERSELVES UNIVERSAL LIMITED |
Description | Telepresence, teleoperation, cloud computing and robotic middleware company. |
Year Established | 2020 |
Impact | Spun-out from the University of Sheffield in March 2020. |
Website | https://www.cyberselves.com/ |
Description | 3D scan of LVV facility |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The LVV team wanted to be able convey the scale of the facilities, including the size and equipment on offer. We successfully created a 360 virtual tour which has allowed us to showcase the facility in an immersive and online environment. This has led to increased enquiries and has been an invaluable tool during the COVID-19 restrictions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/explore-3d |
Description | 3rd Sheffield Workshop on Structural Dynamics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The LVV and DRG at the University of Sheffield held their 3rd Workshop on Structural Dynamics. This years event marked 25 years of the Dynamics Research Group in the University of Sheffield. The 4-day online workshop had over 100 participants from an international audience from academia and industry. It opened with a retrospective review of our research over the last quarter century. The main body of the workshop had three distinct themes: physics-informed machine learning, population-based SHM and digital-twins and their validation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/lvv-events/Recordings-3rd-sheffield-workshop-on-structural-dynamics |
Description | 4th Sheffield Workshop on Structural Dynamics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The 4th Sheffield Workshop on Structural Dynamics was very well attended hybrid event. The main body of the workshop had three distinct themes, physics-informed machine learning (7th), population-based SHM (8th) and digital-twins and their validation (9th). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/lvv-events/4th-sheffield-workshop-on-structural-dynamics |
Description | AISB 2016 showcase |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | CBS News: The National |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interviewed as part of a news feature by CBS News (Canada) on 'Stopping killer robots before they get to us first' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7v_9jEotVI&=&sns=em |
Description | Cambridge Modern Practice in Stress & Vibration Analysis Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The LVV exhibited a stand at the International Conference on Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis (MPSVA 2018) at Cambridge University. The conference is well-established for the presentation of research findings in stress analysis and vibration dynamics with the intention of providing directed focus on the state-of-the-art in theoretical and experimental methodology. The aim of the conference is to bring together physicists, mathematicians, materials scientists and engineers from academia and industry, and to provide a platform for the presentation of creative and novel research findings facilitating an interchange of ideas and providing guidance for future research direction. The aim of the exhibit was to support the LVV's public and industrial engagement strategy through showcasing the LVV's capabilities and research areas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/events/the-lvv-will-be-exhibiting-at-the-international-conference-on-modern-practi |
Description | Chief Economic Development Officers Society (CEDOS) visit to the LVV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Co-ordinator for CEDOS (https://www.cedos.org) which is a national network for senior Economic Development professionals within Local Government received a tour of the LVV and discussed our research portfolio. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Digital twins for high-value engineering applications (DTHIVE) project to make use of state-of-the-art LVV facility |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | DTHIVE will act as a regional hub within the planned ATI Centre of Excellence for Digital Twin Technology; it will be based on the existing Sheffield DT community of practice, across AMRC and the Faculty of Engineering. The project will make use of the Laboratory for Verification and Validation (LVV), funded by £11M from EPSRC, ERDF and University of Sheffield. Our state-of-the-art facility has already been used to develop an operational platform for a digital twin of a three-storey structure. This open-source platform (https://github.com/Digital-Twin-Operational-Platform/Cristallo) will be used as a template for the work proposed here. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/new-project-announcement-digital-twins-for-high-value-engineering-ap... |
Description | Discovery Night 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Dyvirt Project - PhD students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | PhD students from the Horizon 2020 funded 'Dyvirt' project (Dynamic virtualisation: modelling performance of engineering structures - A Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network) visited the LVV as part of their training week. They utilised the LVV's wave tank to test the group project structures. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2018 |
URL | https://twitter.com/DyVirt/status/1055810486581821440 |
Description | EPSRC/ UKACOUSTIC Network Anniversary Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The LVV exhibited at the EPSRC UK Acoustics Network's first anniversary meeting on the 7th January 2019. Over 200 delegates attended. The aim of this meeting was to bring together members of the UK Acoustics Network and to provide a forum for research collaboration and innovation in acoustics. The aim of the LVV stand was to support the LVV's public and industrial engagement strategy through showcasing the LVV's capabilities and research interests. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://acoustics.ac.uk/events/uk-acoustics-network-first-anniversary-meeting/ |
Description | Embraer visit to LVV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Visit from Embraer to LVV, AMRC and other University of Sheffield Translational Research Centres to understand our capabilities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Engineering Digital Twins in Practice Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The workshop, hosted jointly by University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and Faculty of Engineering, was a hybrid event held in the AMRC Factory 2050. The workshop brought together leading UK based researchers currently working on topics related to digital twins and showcased the latest research activities for the key research groups around the UK. The workshop attendees visited the LVV to view the Digital Twins related research currently being undertaken at the facility and to discuss future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.amrc.co.uk/events/engineering-digital-twins-in-practice |
Description | Exo-MS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | demo and videos of Exo-skeleton |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Exo-MS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Public-patient involvement (will be conducted in 3 weeks) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Faculty of Engineering host visit from EPSRC Joint leads for Manufacturing and Circular Economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Faculty of Engineering at The University of Sheffield hosted the EPSRC Joint leads for Manufacturing and Circular Economy. They visited a number of translational research centres including the LVV. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Farnsborough International Airshow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The LVV exhibited a stand at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. This year saw 1500 exhibitors from 48 countries, and over 80,000 trade visitors attended the show. The LVV had a very successful show, meeting many new potential collaborators and existing partners from across the Aerospace industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/the-laboratory-for-verification-validation-lvv-exhibits-at-the-2018-... |
Description | ICA Fear of Missing Out |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Chaired by Berlin artist and theorist Hito Steyerl, this three-day event at the Institute of Contemporarty Art in London brought together leading international theorists, academics, social thinkers and artists to discuss postdigital anxieties and the social condition. Tony Prescott gave a talk entitled "Human Selves ~ Robot Selves" considering the impact of advanced AI and Robotics technologies on our understanding of the human condition and the potential for robots with self-awareness. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/fomo-tony-prescott-and-zeno-eleanor-saitta |
Description | ICub robot hosting the Radio 4 Today Programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our iCub robot hosted the Radio 4 Today programme on 30th December 2017, in a series with other guest hosts including Prince Harry and Barack Obama. An Ai chatbot was developed specifically for the programme and was interviewed by Radio 4 Host Michel Hussain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05s9ng9 |
Description | IMAC XXXVII Conference & Exhibition. Orlando, Florida |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The LVV exhibited a stand at the IMAC XXXVII Conference& Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. Organised by the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) the 37th IMAC conference was entitled "Predictive Modelling for Engineering Design and Decision Making". IMAC is a conference and exposition focusing on structural dynamics, and has evolved to encompass the latest technologies supporting structural dynamics. This broad focus on structural dynamics includes topics in simulation and modeling, nonlinear dynamics, sensors, signal processing and control spanning the full range of engineering disciplines. The aim of the exhibit was to support the LVV's public and industrial engagement strategy through showcasing the LVV's capabilities and research areas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/events/we-will-be-exhibiting-at-imac-xxxvii-from-january-28th-to-31st-2019-in-orla... |
Description | Indonesia Ministry of Education and Culture tour of LVV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A delegation from Indonesia, including some potential PhD students, and some members of the Ministry of Education and Culture, and the Cultural Attaché (Education) from London received a tour of the LVV facility to showcase the strength of The University of Sheffield's Translational Research Centres |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Jordan Wolfson, Amsterdam |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Through a glass, darkly; then face to robot face, Talk to a public symposium in honour of the Artist Jordan Wolfson at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, February 18th 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/jordan-wolfson-sculpture-and-the-surrogate-self-2 |
Description | LVV Business Development Manager attends ISMA 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In conjunction with members of the Dynamics Research Group the LVV BDM attended the 2022 Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering. It was the 30th international conference with a series of courses and conferences on structural dynamics, modal testing and noise and vibration engineering, organised by the KU Leuven Department of Mechanical Engineering. The LVV BDM was able to engage with many academics and key industry personnel to discuss the LVV's capabilities and potential research collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.isma-isaac.be/isma2022/ |
Description | LVV Co-Director Dr Lizzy Cross Wins Outstanding Contribution Award |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Publicising that Prof. Elizabeth Cross, Co-Director of the LVV and a senior lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Achenbach Medal for 2019, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the advancement of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/lvv-co-director-dr-lizzy-cross-wins-outstanding-contribution-award |
Description | LVV Co-Director Prof. Elizabeth Cross delivers keynote lecture at EWSHM 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | At the recent 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM) the LVV's Co-Director Prof. Elizabeth Cross delivered the keynote presentation entitled "Physics-informed machine learning for SHM". Prof. Cross currently holds an EPRSC Innovation Fellowship on the development of grey-box models for assessing the health of structures in operation (grey-box models combine physics-based models with machine learning technology). EWSHM 2022 was the most attended event in the history of the series with 500+ oral presentations from nearly 50 different countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/lvv-co-director-prof-elizabeth-cross-delivers-keynote-lecture-at-ews... |
Description | LVV Launch Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The LVV's official launch and first major event. Intended to generate both impact and engagement. Key academics, industrialists, policy makers (politicians and civil servants) and national press were all in attendance to generate maximum publicity and begin the process of advocacy for the LVV and UK research. High-profile Launch event designed to showcase the LVV's capabilities and research interests to foster new collaborations and generate innovative research ideas. Representatives from national and local government were in attendance as well as international visitors from industry and academia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/the-laboratory-for-verification-and-validation-lvv-officially-opens |
Description | LVV Steering Committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The remit of the steering committee is to advise on the facility's future research directions, in reference to emerging UK priorities. The steering committee is made up of the LVV team, representatives from academia and industry and from our funding bodies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | LVV Website News - LVV EPSRC Co-Investigator Professor Kirill V Horoshenkov elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Publicising that pioneering Sheffield Engineering Professor of Acoustics Kirill V Horoshenkov from the Dynamics Research Group and LVV Co-Investigator has been elected to a highly coveted fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/lvv-investigator-prof-kirill-v-horoshenkov-elected-as-a-fellow-of-th... |
Description | LVV and the Acoustics Network successfully exhibit at the Bradford Science Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Laboratory for Verification & Validation (LVV) at The University of Sheffield collaborated with The Acoustics Network in October to exhibit a stand at the Bradford Science Festival. This year's festival took place during October half term (23-31 October 2021) with events at the National Science and Media Museum and across the city. The event covered fascinating themes including the environment, careers in STEM and the science of sound. Our exhibition was entitled "Houdini's Guide to Acoustics" with interactive examples of sound technology including an ultrasound machine, an acoustic levitator, a vibrating aeroplane and an interactive earthquake exhibit. Hundreds of visitors were able to talk with members of the team from The University of Sheffield about careers in STEM and thoroughly enjoyed interacting with the exhibits during the festival. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/lvv-and-the-acoustics-network-successfully-exhibit-at-the-bradford-s... |
Description | LVV exhibits a stand at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (10th EWSHM) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The LVV team and members of the University of Sheffield's Dynamics Research Group (DRG) attended EWSHM in Palermo, Italy in July 2022. This Workshop represents a forum where experts from around the world discuss the latest advancements and breakthroughs in the field of SHM and more broadly in the fields of nondestructive evaluation, smart materials and intelligent systems. The Workshop fosters the discussion and identification of key and emerging challenges and opportunities in research, development, and field applications. The LVV successfully exhibited a stand at the conference with many discussions on how the facility can be used for future research collaborations. EWSHM 2022 was the most attended event in the history of the series with 500+ oral presentations from nearly 50 different countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/events/the-lvv-will-be-exhibiting-at-the-international-conference-on-modern-practi |
Description | London Institute of Contemporary Arts-Fear of Missing Out, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | London Institute of Contemporary Arts-Fear of Missing Out, Invited talk (T. Prescott): "The Me in the Machine", 30th May 2015. https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/fear-missing-out |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/fear-missing-out |
Description | Model Validation & Uncertainty Analysis Sandpit Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In any attempt to mathematically model an engineering structure, a crucial part of the exercise must be to assess if the model is fit for purpose; this is the process of model validation. If this process is conducted properly, it will also account for any uncertainties in the model itself and in any data used for calibration. The University of Sheffield Laboratory for Verification and Validation (LVV) was conceived and constructed as a unique facility for model validation across scales and environments. The purpose of this sandpit is to introduce the LVV in a workshop environment, where attendees can examine the facilities available and discuss how those facilities can best serve their needs and those of the wider dynamics community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | QTec challenge at the University of Sheffield's LVV facility |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Recently the LVV took up Polytec's LinkedIn challenge to give them a measurement task for their new QTec single point vibrometer. We suggested they visit the LVV to measure one of our helicopter blades. Despite the untreated carbon fibre surface and large displacements, the QTec demonstrated a clean signal with no speckle noise or signal dropouts. You can see a short video of the results below, thank you to Polytec, Dr. Nikolaos Dervilis and Dr. Robin Mills at The University of Sheffield for conducting the measurements. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/qtec-challenge-at-the-lvv-facility-at-the-university-of-sheffield |
Description | Red Line week Presentation - Meet the LVV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This session was targeted as of general interest across the Faculty. C. Field, LVV Business Development Manager talked about the LVV research facility and explained how colleagues can get involved. There was also plenty of time for questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Researchers' Night 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/researchersnight/programme |
Description | Robotics KTN Visit to LVV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Funding to support testing and validation of service robots, the KTN were working with InnovateUK to map the current landscape for robotics 'proving grounds' in the UK. The team visited the LVV to understand our operating model and capabilities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | SBRL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Demos, workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | SBRL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Demos, workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | SBRL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk and Manchester Science Festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | SBRL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Robotic Showcase at the Sheffield Children's Hospital |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Servotest Testimonial: Read about how we partnered with Servotest to create our unique Multi Axis Shake Table (MAST) system. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Members of the LVV team talk about partnering with Servotest for our unique Multi Axis Shake Table (MAST) system. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.servotestsystems.com/component/content/article/10-testimonials/58-the-laboratory-for-ver... |
Description | Sheffield Dynamics Research Group researchers win best paper awards at IOMAC22 and EWSHM22 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Brandon John O'Connell, Ph.D Researcher in Dynamics, System Identification and Machine Learning won best paper at IOMAC22 (co-authored by Prof. Elizabeth Cross and Dr Tim Rogers). During the same week Research Associate Marcus Haywood-Alexander also won best paper, this time at EWSHM with a paper on Bayesian identification of material properties from dispersion curves, written by Marcus with Dr. Nikos Dervilis, Prof. Keith Worden and Dr Tim Rogers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/sheffield-drg-researchers-win-best-paper-awards-at-iomac22-and-ewshm... |
Description | Sheffield Robotics Outreach Day 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Sheffield Robotics showcase event 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | TAROS 2016 showcase |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | TV appearance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | iCub was also covered by BBC Breakfast to outline key research projects and robotics developments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | TV appearance CNN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | iCub was also covered by CNN to outline key robotics features. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Tencent "Ways to Evolve" Conference. Invited talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tencent "Ways to Evolve" Conference. Invited talk (T. Prescott): "The Me in the Machine", 7th November, 2015. http://we.tencent.com/index_eg.html |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://we.tencent.com/index_eg.html |
Description | Tour of LVV for Centrale Supelec, Paris Saclay, in France. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Tour of LVV provided for Centrale Supelec, Paris Saclay as part of wider Faculty tour to identify opportunities for collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) Virtual visit to LVV. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Meeting with new TERC facility personnel to discuss opportunities for collaboration and sharing best practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | UK Aerospace Research Consortium of Universities Visit to LVV |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The UK Aerospace Research Consortium of Universities visited Sheffield to assess the world leading capabilities of its member Universities. As one of the world's leading dynamics research groups we presented our research portfolio and provided a tour of the LVV facility. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | UK Robotics Week Open Lab 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Demo with hundreds of Kilobot Robots in occasion of the Open Lab during the UK Robotics week |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | University of Sheffield researchers awarded £7.7m to drive new standards for safer, greener, more cost-effective UK infrastructure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A collaborative team of researchers, led by the University of Sheffield, has been awarded a £7.7m programme grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The ROSEHIPS (Revolutionising Operational Safety and Economy for High-value Infrastructure using Population-based SHM) project will aim to solve the infrastructure asset management problem in the UK for maintaining our buildings and structures, such as bridges and transport networks, via transformative new research to automate health monitoring. The work will be underpinned by experiments using facilities such as the Structural Dynamics Laboratory for Verification and Validation (LVV) at the University of Sheffield to monitor the dynamic response and 'health' of structures, such as traffic loading, a full scale or near full scale. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://lvv.ac.uk/announcements/university-of-sheffield-researchers-awarded-7.7m-to-drive-new-standa... |