Mobile Fusion Centre

The introduction of mobility to computing and telecommunications is one of the most significant developments which continues to drive demand for new applications in the area of remote distributed monitoring, sensor networks, robotics.... etc. Solutions to these problems are frequently ones which require hardware and software interface between wireless devices and different sensors, etc.  Hence the name Mobile Fusion, fusing mobile devices with other technologies. 

This multi-disciplinary area requires a wide range of expertise including mobile computing & distributed systems, signal/image and video sensor processing, networking and telecommunications. Previous Faculty mobile computing  Advantage West Midland projects (WMMW) have built our strong regional reputation in mobile and wireless technology. We also have an international reputation in Human Adaptive Mechatronics for example Prof Hongnian Yu has been awarded a €900,000 project with ERASMUS and currently chairs the UK-Japan Network on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM) which is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

A number of groups in the Faculty conduct research in mobile applications fused with a variety of other technologies and the centre brings together research and enterprise expertise

Mobile Fusion Centre Aims are:

• Generate core knowledge of adaptive signal processing (single and multidimensional signals) for mobile data fusion in the context of faculty’s research interest in energy, security, health and environmental applications as well as for the worldwide research community.

• To be a regional resource and an internationally recognised research centre for wireless and wireless integration with sensors and robotic devices.

• To exploit the technological and business resource developed from our current and past successful projects and the broadening of its technological base.

• To promote and contribute the teaching, research and enterprise agendas of FCET and the University

The main areas of work are:

• Transmit-Receive Signal  adaptation and Channel Modeling for Wireless Communication Systems & Data Fusion

• Robotics and Human Adaptive Mechatronics

• Applications of Intelligent Mobile and Wireless Sensor Technology

• Intelligent Tracking and Auditing Systems in Environment, Manufacturing Systems, Supply Chains and Logistics

The group has 8 academic staff, 3 Enterprise staff, 15 PhD research students, several visiting researchers