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Prof. Richard ( Rick ) Middleton

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Research Supervision

Number of current supervisions 5
Total current UoN Masters EFTSL 0.9
Total current UoN PhD EFTSL 1.75

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

Commenced Proposed
Completion
Program Supervisor Type Research Title
2013 2015 M Philosophy(Elec Engineering) Principal Supervisor Ingot Chain Casting - Control Strategy Upgrade from Batch to Continuous
2012 2016 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Principal Supervisor Development of Real-Time 3D Treatment Verification System using Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) for Radiation Therapy
2012 2015 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Principal Supervisor Distributed Load Management of Electric Vehicles and Refrigerators
2010 2018 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Principal Supervisor Dynamic Control of an Induction Heating Process
2008 2009 PhD (Computer Engineering) Co-Supervisor Biped Locomotion using MPC

Past Supervision

Year Program Supervisor Type Research Title
2008 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Co-Supervisor Modelling and Feedback Control of Copper Heap Bioleaching Processes
2008 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Co-Supervisor Maximal Controllability via Reduced Complexity Model Predictive Control
2007 M Philosophy (Computer Eng) Principal Supervisor Piezo-Electric Power Scavenging for Mining Applications
2007 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Principal Supervisor Feedback Control Over Signal to Noise Ratio Constrained Communication Channels
2006 PhD (Software Engineering) Co-Supervisor Machine Learning on AIBO Robots
2005 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Co-Supervisor Quantized Moving Horizon Optimization
2005 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Principal Supervisor Optimisation Based Feedback Control of Input Constrained Linear Systems
2004 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Co-Supervisor A frequency domain approach to constrained receding horizon control
2004 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Sole Supervisor An Evolution in Earthing System Testing - Refinement of Earthing System Current Injection Testing and its analysis, with emphasis on Earth Potential Rise estimation
2003 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Principal Supervisor Time Domain Feedback Performance Limitations - Extensions to Nonlinear, Switched, and Sampled Systems
2002 PhD (Electrical Engineering) Sole Supervisor Control of the Inverted Pendulum - An Integrated Approach