| Post: | Emeritus Professor |
| Location: | Richmond 3A03 |
| Email: | D.P.Atherton@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8046 |
| UK: | (01273) 678046 |
| International: | +44 1273 678046 |
Biography
D. P. Atherton
BEng (Sheffield), PhD, DSc (Manchester), CEng, FIEE, FIEEE, HonFInstMC, FRSA (Control)
Derek Atherton studied at the universities of Sheffield and Manchester, obtaining a PhD in 1962 and DSc in 1975 from the latter. He spent the period from 1962 to 1980 teaching in Canada where he served on several National Research Council committees including the Electrical Engineering Grants Committee.
He took up the post of Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Sussex in 1980 and is currently a Research Professor. He has been active with many professional engineering bodies, serving as President of the Institute of Measurement and Control in 1990, President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1995, being the only non North American to have held the position, and as a member of the IFAC Council from 1990-96. He teaches courses in Control Theory, Electrical Machines and Drives, and the application of computer aided control system design using Matlab/Simulink and other tools.
He is an Editor of the IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications (CTA) and
the IEE Control Engineering Book Series. He has served EPSRC on research panels and as an assessor for research grants for many years and also served as a member of the Electrical Engineering Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise in 1992.
Research
His major research interests are in non-linear control theory, computer aided control system design, simulation and target tracking. He has written two books and is co-author of a third and has published more than 300 papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has obtained research funding from EPSRC, both from the normal research programme and for a teaching company scheme, MOD, DRA,ICI as part of an ESPRIT programme, and BAESystems. He is currently a Member of a European Leonardo da Vinci Education and Culture Project, involved in the development of web based teaching and learning software for modelling, simulation and control.
Leonardo Project - Development of a Web Based.
Teaching
Electrical Machines and Drives (yr 3)
Feedback System Design (yr 3)