Professor William Holderbaum
Professor in Control Engineering
My profile
Biography
I was awarded a Ph.D degree on Automatic Control with PhD thesis on developing new methodology to design control laws for hybrid systems. I was a research assistant at the University of Glasgow. I was then appointed Lecturer in Electronics Engineering at the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading in October 2001, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Engineering in 2009 and Professor in Mathematics and Engineering in 2014. I have now recently been appointed at the Manchester Metropolitan University as Professor in control Engineering.
I have been involved in research with mathematical modeling and control theory with applications mainly to health, energy, and robotics. In particular Rehabilitation Engineering, Smart Grid, Power Generation, Wireless Power Transfer, Autonomous Vehicle, Motion planning, visualisation control. Professor Holderbaum has published over 100 papers in leading journals and international conferences.
Academic and professional qualifications
C.F.P Certificate in Further Professional Studies in Higher Education (Reading UK)
PhD Doctorat de l’universite de Lille “Automatic control and Signal-Processing” obtained with honours. Thesis title: Methodology to design new control laws for systems with Boolean inputs (Outstanding PhD graduating in 33 months). (Lille France)
D.E.A (Diplome d’Etude Appronfondies) “Instrumentation and Control”. University of Caen (qualifying exams for the Ph.D). (Caen, France)
Maitrise E.E.A (MsC equiv) Option Signal-processing and Control Systems. University of Reims (Reims, France)
Licence E.E.A (Beng equiv.) (Electronic - Electrical engineering - Automatic). University of Reims (Reims, France)
M.Sc Master of Science in Mathematics option: Pure Mathematics (Open University UK)
B.Sc Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics (First-class Honours) option Pure Mathematics (Open University UK)
Languages
French
External examiner roles
I have been involved as PhD examiners in the UK
Expert reviewer
I am an expert reviewer for EPSRC and MRC
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
I have reviewed on regular basis numbers of EPSRC grant proposal as well as research proposal submitted to MRC
I am a member of the EPSRC Peer Review Associate College. This involved of being part EPSRC peer review panel.Reviewer EPSRC
Editorial Board membership
Journal of “Nonlinear Dynamics & Mobile Robotics”. This is a traditional strictly peer-reviewed printed journal. The scientific level of contributions is the only criterion for publication in the journal.
I am member of the Editorial Board of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073, IF: 1.602) which an open access journal publishing related scientific research, technological developments, engineering, and studies in policy and management.
I am Associate Editor, for the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information which involves choosing reviewers and making final decision for the paper submitted.
I am Associate Editor, for the Springer journal for Nonlinear Dynamics which involves reviewing papers and making final decision for the paper submitted
I am member of the Editorial Board of Global Journal of Engineering Research (Editorial Membership ID: #UK542197)
Membership of professional associations
Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the IEE (Institute of Engineering and Technology)
Nominated in the Who’s Who
Teaching
Supervision
Current Ph.D. students
Maximilian J. Zangs “Multiple Agent Systems in Smart Energy Management.”
Deborah Ritzmann “Measurement systems and analysis to enable increased renewable energy penetration through improved power transmission line utilisation.”
Stefano Pietrosanti “Delivering Sustainable Energy Solutions in Ports: Energy storage and flow in cranes. Modelling of the Storage””
Ruth White “Data Fusion Sensors in Healthcare”
Anthony Nnaji “Nonlinear compensation from frictions of servo command ”
Joel Ausonio “Artificial Neural Network Fault Diagnosis”
Completed PhDs:
Charles Moorey “Mathematical Modelling of Wireless transmission of power”
James Rowden “The development and Analysis of a Portable Power Systems for Soldiers and Other Potential Applications”
Chris Knight “Control of flywheel energy storage” Engineering Doctorate “EngD”
Antonios Markakis “Control Systems and Bond Graphs in Power Electronics”
Ross Adams “Classification of Control Systems on the Euclidean Group SE (2)”
Matthew Rowe “Smart Energy Management Using Agent Based Control”
Mohamad Alkowatly “Navigation and Guidance to Unmanned Air Vehicles”
Timur Yunusov “Power Electronics in new topology and control”
Carol Linton “Trajectory Planning using Symmetry’”
Natalie Lowery “Monitoring and Quality Control of Fuel Cells by Magnetic Tomography, Data Analysis and Classification Tools”.
Chris Tucker “The Transmission of Power by Magnetic Resonance”
Thomas Milthorp “Novel Control Systems of Automated Soil Testing”
Chris Bowden “Controllability and Observability of an n-link Inverted Pendulum ”
Michele Vanoncini “Improving Posture in Paraplegia via Functional Electrical Stimulation”
James Biggs “Integrable Hamiltonian systems on Six Dimensional Lie Groups”
Research outputs
My research program has concentrated on furthering the field of control theory and modelling. My early work was focused on hybrid dynamical systems. This work culminated in the development of the Hamiltonian systems on Lie Group, and that has become widely recognised nationally and internationally through seminar invitation in Universities worldwide. Over the past fifteen years I have applied my control expertise to several applications and in particular rehabilitation engineering and energy transmission, storage for electrical systems, and power systems. In rehabilitation engineering a major contribution was techniques for controlling the trunk standing up using electrical stimulation. Furthermore my research in energy storage has given promising result in the use of multiple agent systems and intelligent control to minimise energy consumption when using multiple storage combined with harvesting technology. Novel research in creating a model of wireless power transfer has enormous potential in the automotive industry and already early results through publications has shown promising results. Finally my research is also in autonomous flying vehicle and in particular in the area of motion planning and visualisation.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Holderbaum, W., Alasali, F., Sinha, A. (2023) Introduction.
William, H. (2017) Control of Energy Storage. MDPI AG.
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Chapters in books
Holderbaum, W., Alasali, F., Sinha, A. (2023) 'Model Predictive Control.' Lecture Notes in Energy. pp. 129-148.
Holderbaum, W., Alasali, F., Sinha, A. (2023) 'Introduction to Control Strategies.' Lecture Notes in Energy. pp. 77-128.
Holderbaum, W., Alasali, F., Sinha, A. (2023) 'Short Term Load Forecasting (STLF).' Lecture Notes in Energy. pp. 13-56.
Holderbaum, W., Alasali, F., Sinha, A. (2023) 'Case Study: Low Voltage Demand Forecasts.' Lecture Notes in Energy. pp. 57-75.
Holderbaum, W., Alasali, F., Sinha, A. (2023) 'Case Study: Storage Control for LV Applications.' Lecture Notes in Energy. pp. 149-178.
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Journal articles
Shukla, K., Holderbaum, W., Theodoridis, T., Wei, G. (2024) 'Enhancing Gearbox Fault Diagnosis through Advanced Feature Engineering and Data Segmentation Techniques.' Machines, 12(4) pp. 261-261.
Javid, Z., Kocar, I., Holderbaum, W., Karaagac, U. (2024) 'Future Distribution Networks: A Review.' Energies, 17(8) pp. 1822-1822.
Alasali, F., Hayajneh, A.M., Ghalyon, S.A., El-Naily, N., AlMajali, A., Itradat, A., Holderbaume, W., Zaroure, E. (2024) 'Enhancing resilience of advanced power protection systems in smart grids against cyber–physical threats.' IET Renewable Power Generation, 18(5) pp. 837-862.
Alasali, F., Abuashour, M.I., Hammad, W., Almomani, D., Obeidat, A.M., Holderbaum, W. (2024) 'A review of hydrogen production and storage materials for efficient integrated hydrogen energy systems.' Energy Science & Engineering,
Hayajneh, A.M., Alasali, F., Salama, A., Holderbaum, W. (2024) 'Intelligent Solar Forecasts: Modern Machine Learning Models and TinyML Role for Improved Solar Energy Yield Predictions.' IEEE Access, 12pp. 10846-10864.
Wu, M., Yeong, C.F., Su, E.L.M., Holderbaum, W., Yang, C. (2023) 'A review on energy efficiency in autonomous mobile robots.' Robotic Intelligence and Automation, 43(6) pp. 648-668.
Alasali, F., Saad, S.M., Saidi, A.S., Itradat, A., Holderbaum, W., El-Naily, N., Elkuwafi, F.F. (2023) 'Powering up microgrids: A comprehensive review of innovative and intelligent protection approaches for enhanced reliability.' Energy Reports, 10pp. 1899-1924.
Tawalbeh, R., Alasali, F., Ghanem, Z., Alghazzawi, M., Abu-Raideh, A., Holderbaum, W. (2023) 'Innovative Characterization and Comparative Analysis of Water Level Sensors for Enhanced Early Detection and Warning of Floods.' Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 13(2)
Tripathy, H.P., Pattanaik, P., Mishra, D.K., Holderbaum, W. (2023) 'Heat and Moisture Management for Automatic Air Conditioning of a Domestic Household Using FA-ZnO Nanocomposite as Smart Sensing Material.' Energies, 16(6)
Alasali, F., Saidi, A.S., El-Naily, N., Smadi, M.A., Holderbaum, W. (2023) 'Hybrid Tripping Characteristic-Based Protection Coordination Scheme for Photovoltaic Power Systems.' Sustainability (Switzerland), 15(2)
Strong, V., Holderbaum, W., Hayashi, Y. (2022) 'Electroactive polymer gels as probabilistic reservoir automata for computation.' iScience, 25(12)
Tripathy, H.P., Pattanaik, P., Mishra, D.K., Kamilla, S.K., Holderbaum, W. (2022) 'Experimental and probabilistic model validation of ultrasonic MEMS transceiver for blood glucose sensing.' Scientific Reports, 12(1)
Wairagkar, M., Villeneuve, E., King, R., Janko, B., Burnett, M., Agarwal, V., Kunkel, D., Ashburn, A., Sherratt, R.S., Holderbaum, W., Harwin, W.S. (2022) 'A novel approach for modelling and classifying sit-to-stand kinematics using inertial sensors.' PLoS One, 17(10) pp. e0264126-e0264126.
Alasali, F., Foudeh, H., Ali, E.M., Nusair, K., Holderbaum, W. (2022) 'Correction: Alasali et al. Forecasting and Modelling the Uncertainty of Low Voltage Network Demand and the Effect of Renewable Energy Sources. Energies 2021, 14, 2151.' Energies, 15(6) pp. 2157-2157.
Alasali, F., Saidi, A.S., El-Naily, N., Alnaser, S.W., Holderbaum, W., Saad, S.M., Gamaleldin, M. (2022) 'Advanced Coordination Method for Overcurrent Protection Relays Using New Hybrid and Dynamic Tripping Characteristics for Microgrid.' IEEE Access, 10pp. 127377-127396.
Ahmadi Kamarposhti, M., Shokouhandeh, H., Gholami Omali, Y., Colak, I., Thounthong, P., Holderbaum, W. (2022) 'Optimal Coordination of TCSC and PSS2B Controllers in Electric Power Systems Using MOPSO Multiobjective Algorithm.' International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 2022
Pattanaik, P., Holderbaum, W., Khandual, A., Tripathy, H.P. (2021) 'UVC LED and Conducting Yarn-Based Heater for a Smart Germicidal Face Mask to Protect against Airborne Viruses.' Materials, 14(22) pp. 6999-6999.
Alasali, F., Nusair, K., Obeidat, A.M., Foudeh, H., Holderbaum, W. (2021) 'An analysis of optimal power flow strategies for a power network incorporating stochastic renewable energy resources.' International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 31(11) pp. e13060-e13060.
Nusair, K., Alasali, F., Hayajneh, A., Holderbaum, W. (2021) 'Optimal Placement of FACTS Devices and Power Flow Solutions for a Power Network System Integrated With Stochastic Renewable Energy Resources Using New Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques.' International Journal of Energy Research, 45(13) pp. 18786-18809.
Alasali, F., Foudeh, H., Ali, E.M., Nusair, K., Holderbaum, W. (2021) 'Forecasting and Modelling the Uncertainty of Low Voltage Network Demand and the Effect of Renewable Energy Sources.' Energies, 14(8) pp. 2151-2151.
Alasali, F., Haben, S., Foudeh, H., Holderbaum, W. (2020) 'A Comparative Study of Optimal Energy Management Strategies for Energy Storage with Stochastic Loads.' Energies, 13(10) pp. 2596-2596.
Pietrosanti, S., Alasali, F., Holderbaum, W. (2020) 'Power management system for RTG crane using fuzzy logic controller.' Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 37
Alasali, F., Luque, A., Mayer, R., Holderbaum, W. (2019) 'A Comparative Study of Energy Storage Systems and Active Front Ends for Networks of Two Electrified RTG Cranes.' Energies, 12(9)
Harrison, I., Pietrosanti, S., Luque, A., Mayer, R., Holderbaum, W. (2018) 'Recording and analysing measurements from an RTG crane.' Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 125pp. 284-293.
Alasali, F., Haben, S., Becerra, V., Holderbaum, W. (2018) 'Day-ahead industrial load forecasting for electric RTG cranes.' Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 6(2) pp. 223-234.
Alasali, F., Haben, S., Becerra, V., Holderbaum, W. (2017) 'Optimal energy management and MPC strategies for electrified RTG cranes with energy storage systems.' Energies, 10(10)
Yunusov, T., Zangs, M.J., Holderbaum, W. (2017) 'Editorial: Control of energy storage.' Energies, 10(7)
Ritzmann, D., Rens, J., Wright, P.S., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2017) 'A Novel Approach to Noninvasive Measurement of Overhead Line Impedance Parameters.' IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 66(6) pp. 1155-1163.
Papaioannou, V., Pietrosanti, S., Holderbaum, W., Becerra, V.M., Mayer, R. (2017) 'Analysis of energy usage for RTG cranes.' Energy, 125pp. 337-344.
King, R.C., Villeneuve, E., White, R.J., Sherratt, R.S., Holderbaum, W., Harwin, W.S. (2017) 'Application of data fusion techniques and technologies for wearable health monitoring.' Medical Engineering and Physics, 42pp. 1-12.
Villeneuve, E., Harwin, W., Holderbaum, W., Janko, B., Sherratt, R.S. (2017) 'Reconstruction of angular kinematics from wrist-worn inertial sensor data for smart home healthcare.' IEEE Access, 5pp. 2351-2363.
Moorey, C.L., Holderbaum, W. (2017) 'A study on the wireless power transfer efficiency of electrically small, perfectly conducting electric and magnetic dipoles.' Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, 77pp. 111-121.
Andrews, B., Shippen, J., Armengol, M., Gibbons, R., Holderbaum, W., Harwin, W. (2016) 'A Design Method for FES Bone Health Therapy in SCI..' European Journal of Translational Myology, 26(4) pp. 297-300.
Zangs, M., Adams, P., Yunusov, T., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2016) 'Distributed Energy Storage Control for Dynamic Load Impact Mitigation.' Energies, 9(8)
Villeneuve, E., Harwin, W., Holderbaum, W., Sherratt, R.S., White, R. (2016) 'Signal Quality and Compactness of a Dual-Accelerometer System for Gyro-Free Human Motion Analysis.' IEEE Sensors Journal, 16(16) pp. 6261-6269.
Ritzmann, D., Wright, P.S., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2016) 'A Method for Accurate Transmission Line Impedance Parameter Estimation.' IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 65(10) pp. 2204-2213.
Liu, Y., Rowe, M., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2016) 'A novel battery network modelling using constraint differential evolution algorithm optimisation.' Knowledge-Based Systems, 99pp. 10-18.
Adam, R., Rory, B., Holderbaum, W., Claudiu, R. (2016) 'On the stability and integration of Hamilton-Poisson systems on so(3)*_.' Rendiconti di Matematica, Serie VII, 37(1) pp. 1-42.
Pietrosanti, S., Holderbaum, W., Becerra, V. (2016) 'Optimal Power Management Strategy for Energy Storage with Stochastic Loads.' Energies, 9(3)
Pietrosanti, S., Holderbaum, W., Becerra, V.M. (2016) 'Modeling Power Flow in a Hoist Motor of a Rubber-Tired Gantry Crane.' IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 52(3) pp. 2088-2094.
Adams, R.M., Biggs, R., Holderbaum, W., Remsing, C.C. (2016) 'On the stability and integration of Hamilton-Poisson systems on so(3)
− .' Rendiconti di Matematica e delle Sue Applicazioni, 37(1-2) pp. 1-42.Yunusov, T., Frame, D., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2015) 'The impact of location and type on the performance of low-voltage network connected battery energy storage systems.' Applied Energy, 165pp. 202-213.
Moorey, C., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2015) 'Investigation of High-Efficiency Wireless Power Transfer Criteria of Resonantly-Coupled Loops and Dipoles through Analysis of the Figure of Merit.' Energies, 8(10) pp. 11342-11362.
Alkowatly, M.T., Becerra, V.M., Holderbaum, W. (2015) 'Body-centric modelling, identification, and acceleration tracking control of a quadrotor UAV.' International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 24(1) pp. 29-41.
Alkowatly, M.T., Becerra, V.M., Holderbaum, W. (2015) 'Bioinspired autonomous visual vertical control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle.' Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 38(2) pp. 249-262.
Rowe, M., Yunusov, T., Haben, S., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2014) 'The real-time optimisation of DNO owned storage devices on the LV network for peak reduction.' Energies, 7(6) pp. 3537-3560.
Rowe, M., Yunusov, T., Haben, S., Singleton, C., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2014) 'A peak reduction scheduling algorithm for storage devices on the low voltage network.' IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 5(4) pp. 2115-2124.
Markakis, A., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2014) 'Bond graph models of DC-DC converters operating for both CCM and DCM.' International Journal of Power Electronics, 6(1) pp. 18-41.
Lowery, N.L.H., Vahdati, M.M., Potthast, R.W.E., Holderbaum, W. (2013) 'Classification and fault detection methods for fuel cell monitoring and quality control.' Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 10(2)
Vanoncini, M., Holderbaum, W., Andrews, B.J. (2012) 'Electrical Stimulation for trunk control in paraplegia: A feasibility study.' Control Engineering Practice, 20(12) pp. 1247-1258.
Linton, C., Holderbaum, W., Biggs, J. (2012) 'Rigid Body Trajectories in Different 6D Spaces.' ISRN Mathematical Physics, 2012pp. 1-21.
Biggs, J., Holderbaum, W. (2010) 'Integrable quadratic hamiltonians on the euclidean group of motions.' Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, 16(3) pp. 301-317.
Vanoncini, M., Holderbaum, W., Andrews, B.J. (2010) 'Activation of lower back muscles via FES for pressure aores prevention in paraplegia: A case study.' Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 34(3) pp. 224-231.
Biggs, J., Holderbaum, W. (2009) 'Optimal kinematic control of an autonomous underwater vehicle.' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54(7) pp. 1623-1626.
Vanoncini, M., Holderbaum, W., Andrews, B. (2008) 'Development and experimental identification of a biomechanical model of the trunk for functional electrical stimulation control in paraplegia.' Neuromodulation, 11(4) pp. 315-324.
Biggs, J., Holderbaum, W. (2008) 'Planning rigid body motions using elastic curves.' Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 20(4) pp. 351-367.
Holderbaum, W. (2007) 'Application of neural network to hybrid systems with binary inputs.' IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(4) pp. 1254-1261.
Biggs, J., Holderbaum, W., Jurdjevic, V. (2007) 'Singularities of optimal control problems on some 6-D lie groups.' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(6) pp. 1027-1038.
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Conference papers
Hamza, A., Riaz, F., Abid, S., Raza, U., Holderbaum, W., Chowdhry, B.S. (2023) 'A Comprehensive Study of the Role of Self-Driving Vehicles in Agriculture: A Review.'
Zafar, M., Shafique, S., Riaz, F., Abid, S., Raza, U., Holderbaum, W. (2023) 'A Cost-Effective Smart Labor Assistance Trolley for Industrial Applications.'
Holderbaum, W., Selig, J.M. (2022) 'Preface.' 21 SPAR. Holderbaum, W., Selig, J.M. (ed.) Springer, pp. vii-viii.
Yunusov, T., Zangs, M., Holderbaum, W., Fila, M., Potter, B. (2017) 'Online control algorithm for sub-half-hourly operation of LV connected energy storage device owned by DNO.' In CIRED 2017. 2017. Glasgow, UK, 12/6/2017 - 15/6/2017. Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 1342-1346.
Yunusov, T., Haben, S., Lee, T., Ziel, F., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2017) 'Evaluating the effectiveness of storage control in reducing peak demand on low-voltage feeders.' In CIRED 2017. 2017. Glasgow, UK, 12/6/2017 - 15/6/2017. Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 1745-1749.
Ritzmann, D., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B., Wright, P. (2015) 'Improving the accuracy of synchrophasor-based overhead line impedance measurement.'
Ausonio, J.T., Mitchell, R.J., Holderbaum, W. (2014) 'Towards optimizing the selection of neurons in affordable neural networks.' pp. 254-260.
Rowe, M., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2013) 'Control methodologies: Peak reduction algorithms for DNO owned storage devices on the Low Voltage network.'
Haben, S., Rowe, M., Greetham, D.V., Grindrod, P., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B., Singleton, C. (2013) 'Mathematical solutions for electricity networks in a low carbon future.' 2013.
Moorey, C.L., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B.A. (2013) 'Numerical study on the radiative transmission efficiency of dipolar sources.' pp. 1740-1743.
Moorey, C.L., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2013) 'Radiative power transmission from dipolar sources.' pp. 206-209.
Markakis, A., Holderbaum, W., Potter, B. (2011) 'A comparison between bond graphs switching modelling techniques implemented on a boost DC-DC converter.'
Bowden, C., Holderbaum, W., Becerra, V. (2010) 'Actuator placement in the multi-link inverted pendulum.' 2010. pp. 162-167.
Holderbaum, W., Biggs, J. (2009) 'Oriented vehicles travelling in spherical space.' pp. 34-40.
Holderbaum, W., Hunt, K.J., Gollee, H. (2002) 'Application of H
∞ robust control to paraplegic standing.' 35. pp. 229-234.Holderbaum, W. (2002) 'Control strategy for Boolean input systems.' 2. pp. 1260-1265.
Holderbaum, W., Hunt, K.J. (2001) 'Robust discrete time control design for unsupported paraplegic standing.' pp. 3929-3934.