Selected Research Grants

Selected External Funding

Subcontract Award for project entitled:
“Resilient Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (ResiCAV)”
Funder: HORIBA MIRA Ltd (consortium partner of one of the seven winners of UK government Cyber-Security Feasibility Studies competition)
fEC: £10,000.
Date of award: Dec 2019.
PI: Dr Hoang Nga Nguyen
Co-I: Prof Siraj Shaikh
Co-I: Dr Jeremy Bryans
Co-I: Dr Mauro S. Innocente
Link 1, Link 2

5th LRF-ICON PhD Studentship Award for project entitled:
“Efficiency Enhancement of Class-A Foams by Means of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for Self-Organising Swarms of Autonomous UAVs to Fight Wildfires”
Funder: LRF International Consortium of Nanotechnologies
fEC: £100,000 (£50,000 award + £50,000 match funding).
Date of award: Jan 2019.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente (Lead Researcher & Main Supervisor).
Co-I: Dr Evangelos Gkanas (Researcher & Co-supervisor).
Co-I: Prof Guillermo Rein (External Co-supervisor at Imperial College).
Link 1, Link 2

Early-Career Researchers Grant for project entitled:
“Optimisable system-level thermal models for power electronic converters”
Funder: EPSRC Centre for Power Electronics (through grant EP/K035304/1).
fEC: £55,000 (fEC for Coventry University: £50,000).
Date of award: Jun 2015.
PI: Dr Daniel J. Rogers (University of Oxford).
Co-I: Dr Mauro S. Innocente.
Link 1, Link 2

Selected Internal Funding

Trailblazers’ Award for Full Scholarship for PhD project entitled:
“Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Enabled Drones to Inform Predictive Maintenance Actions in the Railways and Roads”
fEC: £85,000.
Date of award: Oct 2019.
Duration: May 2020 – Oct 2023.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente (Lead Researcher & Main Supervisor).

Research Equipment Grant Scheme for project entitled:
“Electro-Thermal Modelling and Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation Underpinning Design Optimisation of DC-DC Converters”
fEC: £30,000.
Date of award: Mar 2018.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente.
Co-I: Dr Daniel J. Rogers (University of Oxford).
Co-I: Dr Arash M. Dizqah (University of Sussex).
Co-I: Dr José M. Herreros (University of Birmingham).

Research Internship Funding Scheme for project entitled:
“Gazebo simulation, system identification and control of the Erle-copter using Artificial Neural Networks towards path planning”
fEC: £1,600.
Date of award: Jan 2018.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente (Lead Researcher & Supervisor).

Pump Prime Grant Scheme for project entitled:
“Self-Organising Swarm of Autonomous Fire-Fighting Quadcopters Using Small Hardware and Simulated Environments”
fEC: £10,000.
Date of award: Sep 2017.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente.
Co-I: Dr Arash M. Dizqah (University of Sussex).
Co-I: Dr José M. Herreros (University of Birmingham).
Co-I: Dr Thomas Statheros.

Full Scholarship for PhD project entitled:
“Dynamics, Control and Cooperative Decision-Making in Swarms of Self-Organising Drones Aimed at Fighting Fires Autonomously”
fEC: £85,000.
Date of award: Jul 2017.
Duration: Sep 2017 – Feb 2021.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente (Lead Researcher & Main Supervisor).

Research Internship Funding Scheme for project entitled:
“Mathematical modelling of spread of fire underpinning algorithmic developments for autonomous swarms of fire-fighting drones”
fEC: £1,600.
Date of award: Jan 2017.
PI: Dr Mauro S. Innocente (Lead Researcher & Supervisor).

Research Equipment Grant Scheme for project entitled:
“A model-based design platform to conjointly optimise powertrains and the associated energy management strategy of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs)”
fEC: £30,000.
Date of award: Sep 2016.
PI: Dr Arash M. Dizqah (University of Sussex).
Co-I: Dr Mauro S. Innocente.
Co-I: Dr José M. Herreros (University of Birmingham).

Research Equipment Grant Scheme for project entitled:
“Integration of powertrains towards efficient and clean propulsion systems for transportation”
fEC: £30,000.
Date of award: Sep 2016.
PI: Dr José M. Herreros (University of Birmingham).
Co-I: Dr Mauro S. Innocente.
Co-I: Dr Arash M. Dizqah (University of Sussex).

Pump Prime Grant Scheme for project entitled:
“A robust optimal vehicle dynamics controller for semi-autonomous/autonomous electric vehicles with multiple drivetrains”
fEC: £10,000.
Date of award: Sep 2017.
PI: Dr Arash M. Dizqah (University of Sussex).
Co-I: Dr Mauro S. Innocente.
Co-I: Dr José M. Herreros (University of Birmingham).