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
• 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
  Grant ref: ICON-2018-45
  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).
• 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).