Dr
Ross
Drummond
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering
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- Profile
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Ross Drummond received an MEng degree from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London (2009-2013). He then moved to the Control Group at the University of Oxford (2013-2017) to complete his DPhil degree. After some time as a research assistant (2017-2020) working on battery modelling and control, he was awarded a UK Intelligence Community research fellowship (2020-2023) from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He then began a lectureship in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
- Research interests
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Lithium-ion batteries:
- Mathematical modelling
- Battery management systems
- Manufacturing
Nonlinear systems:
- Lurie systems
- Lyapunov functions/Zames-Falb multipliers
- Positive systems
Neural networks:
- Robustness certificates
- Connections to model predictive control
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Reformulating parallel-connected lithium-ion battery pack dynamics with interconnection resistances as ordinary differential equations. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 1-12. View this article in WRRO
- A Bilayer Cathode Design Procedure for Li Ion Batteries Using the Multilayer Doyle-Fuller-Newman Model (M-DFN). Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 173(9), 090530-090530.
- Applying feedback control to additive manufacturing of graded refractive index lenses with continuous-distributions in permittivity. Additive Manufacturing, 118, 105089-105089.
- A note on incremental stability of externally positive Lurie systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-8.
- Cell-level state-estimation in parallel connected lithium-ion battery packs. European Journal of Control, 85, 101264-101264.
- Bridging the gap between microstructurally resolved computed tomography-based and homogenised Doyle-Fuller-Newman models for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 172(3). View this article in WRRO
- Graded lithium-ion battery pouch cells to homogenise current distributions and reduce lithium plating. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 172(1). View this article in WRRO
- A multilayer Doyle-Fuller-Newman model to optimise the rate performance of bilayer cathodes in Li ion batteries. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171(6). View this article in WRRO
- Exponential input-to-state stability for Lur’e systems via Integral Quadratic Constraints and Zames–Falb multipliers. IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 41(1), 1-17. View this article in WRRO
- Control of additive manufacturing for radio frequency devices with spatially varying dielectric properties. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 32(5), 1579-1589. View this article in WRRO
- Optimal Fast Charging of Lithium Ion Batteries: Between Model-Based and Data-Driven Methods. Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
- Externally positive linear systems from transfer function properties. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 3908-3913. View this article in WRRO
- Detecting faulty lithium-ion cells in large-scale parallel battery packs using current distributions. Communications Engineering, 5(1).
Conference proceedings
- Singular Arcs in Optimal Control: Closed-Loop Implementations without Workarounds. 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp 905-910), 9 December 2025 - 12 December 2025.
- State space files for the control101 toolbox. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 59(7) (pp 54-59). Budapest, Hungary, 17 June 2025 - 17 June 2025. View this article in WRRO
- Hotspots in Lithium-Ion Battery Pouch Cells: Models and Bounds. 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp 396-401), 25 August 2025 - 27 August 2025.
- Control of Braking for Automatic Train Operation. 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp 838-843), 25 August 2025 - 27 August 2025.
- A Discrete-time Observer for Parallel Connected Battery Packs with Nonlinear Descriptor System Dynamics. 2025 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp 4031-4036), 8 July 2025 - 10 July 2025.
- Strengthened stability analysis of discrete-time Lurie systems involving ReLU neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 209-221). Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 1388-1399). Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping back and forth between model predictive control and neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 1228-1240). Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Learning-to-control relaxation systems with the step response. 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) Proceedings (pp 3584-3589). Toronto, ON, Canada, 10 July 2024 - 10 July 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Optimal flight trajectories of hybrid electric aircraft with in-flight charging. 2024 European Control Conference (ECC) Proceedings (pp 218-223). Stockholm, Sweden, 25 June 2024 - 25 June 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Incremental Stability Analysis of Lurie Systems. 2024 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 3015-3020), 25 June 2024 - 28 June 2024.
- Tuning the feedback controller gains is a simple way to improve autonomous driving performance. 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 72-77). Winchester, United Kingdom, 10 April 2024 - 10 April 2024. View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- A multilayer Doyle-Fuller-Newman model to optimise the rate performance of bilayer cathodes in Li ion batteries, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Tuning the feedback controller gains is a simple way to improve autonomous driving performance, arXiv.
- A multilayer Doyle-Fuller-Newman model to optimise the rate performance of bilayer cathodes in Li ion batteries, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- A multilayer Doyle-Fuller-Newman model to optimise the rate performance of bilayer cathodes in Li ion batteries, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- A multilayer Doyle-Fuller-Newman model to optimise the rate performance of bilayer cathodes in Li ion batteries, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Bridging the Gap Between Microstructurally Resolved
Computed Tomography-Based and Homogenised
Doyle-Fuller-Newman Models for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Reformulating parallel-connected lithium-ion battery pack dynamics with interconnection resistances as ordinary differential equations. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 1-12. View this article in WRRO
- Grants
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- High energy density battery pack design without compromising on safety, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Intelligence Community Research Fellowship, 10/2020 - 11/2023, £200,000 as PI
- Teaching activities
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- ELE130 Analysis Tools for Mechatronics, Computer Engineering and AI
- ELE316 State Space Control Design