Pope, Simon A.

Simon A. Pope

MEng, PhD

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Lecturer

Aerospace Admissions Tutor

s.a.pope@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5186

Amy Johnson Building

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Simon A. Pope
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Profile: I have been at the Сŷ��Ƶ of Sheffield since 2000, first as an undergraduate student on the MEng in Mechanical Systems Engineering. I then undertook a PhD in the Space Systems Group studying methods for the detection and correction of magnetic noise in measurements made by magnetic field experiments onboard spacecraft. The results of his work were featured in an article in Nature and led to me being made a full co-investigator on the Venus Express mission. During this time I also helped identify a new type of collisionless shock never before seen and led work on identifying nonlinear structures in the induced magnetosphere of Venus, which contribute to the atmospheric evolution of the planet.

After my PhD I spent a short period of time as a researcher in the BAE Systems Centre for Research in Active Control (CRAC) that was based in the Сŷ��Ƶ. During this work I started to develop the idea of active elastic/mechanical metamaterials (novel materials with controllable properties not found in nature). From here I was appointed to a lecturer and have further developed this work on active mechanical/elastic metamaterials further and broadened this to include other areas of metamaterials, including fabrication and sustaianbility along with applications in areas including Aerospace and Robotics. Related to this, I also helped develop the concept of a system with integrated prognostics and controllable self healing which can be applied to potentially improve performance and reliability in a range of application domains including, aerospace, energy and manufacturing. Recently I have begun developing novel manufacturing processes for reconfigurable and reusable devices, which inherently targets both the manufacture of novel 21st Century products and developing sustainable manufacturing processes.

I am the lead of the Space and Aviation Challenge and Active Metamaterials Special Interest Group of the EPSRC UK Metamaterials Network.

Qualifications

Phd, 2009, Сŷ��Ƶ of Sheffield
MEng, 2004, Сŷ��Ƶ of Sheffield

Research interests

Active, tuneable and robotic acoustic/elastic/mechanical metamaterials (materials with negative valued and tuneable density and/or elastic modulus and other novel properties).
Developing novel manufacturing processes for reconfigurable devices and sustainable practices.
Active control of sound and vibration (algorithms, control of vibration in remote structures, energy redistribution in actively controlled structures).
Integration of next and future generation active/robotic materials (which often have embedded sensing, actuation and control) into sound, vibration, fluid flow control and other applications.
Detection and removal of magnetic noise in space based scientific measurements.
Nonlinear structures in space and planetary plasmas.

Publications

Journal articles

Kengne PLF, Sun C, Pope S & Ozturk E (2021) . Procedia CIRP, 101, 158-161.
Pope SA (2020) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(11).
Pope SA & Balikhin MA (2020) .
Pope SA, Gedalin M & Balikhin MA (2019) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(3), 1711-1725.
Chong GS, Pope SA, Walker SN, Frahm RA, Zhang T & Futaana Y (2018) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
Dimmock AP, Alho M, Kallio E, Pope SA, Zhang TL, Kilpua E, Pulkkinen TI, Futaana Y & Coates AJ (2018) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
Giagkiozis S, Walker SN, Pope SA & Collinson G (2017) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
Chong GS, Pope SA, Zhang T, Collinson GA, Walker SN & Balikhin MA (2017) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122(4), 4284-4298.
Gonzalez FA, Badilita A-M, Baker A, Cho Y-H, Dhot N, Fedun V, Hare C, He T, Hobbs M, Javed M , Livesey H et al (2017) . Astronomy and Geophysics, 58(2), 2.24-2.25.
Kuponu OS, Kadirkamanathan , Bhattacharya B & Pope SA (2016) . Smart Materials and Structures, 25(5).
Ubaid U, Daley S, Pope SA & Zazas I (2016) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 24(2).
Ubaid U, Daley S & Pope SA (2015) . Control Engineering Practice, 38, 1-10.
Pelegrinis MT, Pope SA, Zazas I & Daley S (2015) . Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 229(6), 495-505.
Pope SA & Laalej H (2014) . Smart Materials and Structures, 23(7).
Pope SA (2013) . IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 60(7), 1467-1474.
Dimmock AP, Balikhin MA, Walker SN & Pope SA (2013) . Annales Geophysicae, 31(8), 1387-1395.
Pope SA, Laalej H & Daley S (2012) . Smart Materials and Structures, 21(12).
Walker SN, Balikhin MA, Zhang TL, Gedalin ME, Pope SA, Dimmock AP & Fedorov AO (2011) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 116(1).
Dimmock AP, Walker SN, Zhang TL & Pope SA (2011) . Annales Geophysicae, 29(11), 2081-2088.
Pope SA, Zhang TL, Balikhin MA, Delva M, Hvizdos L, Kudela K & Dimmock AP (2011) . Annales Geophysicae, 29(4), 639-647.
Pope SA & Daley S (2010) . Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 374(41), 4250-4255.
Pope SA, Balikhin MA, Zhang TL, Fedorov AO, Gedalin M & Barabash S (2009) . Geophysical Research Letters, 36(7).
Zhang TL, Pope S, Balikhin M, Russell CT, Jian LK, Volwerk M, Delva M, Baumjohann W, Wang C, Cao JB , Gedalin M et al (2008) . Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets, 113(9).
Delva M, Zhang TL, Volwerk M, Vörös Z & Pope SA (2008) . Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(E9).
Zhang TL, Delva M, Baumjohann W, Volwerk M, Russell CT, Barabash S, Balikhin M, Pope S, Glassmeier KH, Kudela K , Wang C et al (2008) . Planetary and Space Science, 56(6), 785-789.
Zhang TL, Delva M, Baumjohann W, Volwerk M, Russell CT, Barabash S, Balikhin M, Pope S, Glassmeier KH, Wang C & Kudela K (2008) . Planetary and Space Science, 56(6), 790-795.
Balikhin MA, Zhang TL, Gedalin M, Ganushkina NY & Pope SA (2008) . Geophysical Research Letters, 35(1).
Zhang TL, Delva M, Baumjohann W, Auster HU, Carr C, Russell CT, Barabash S, Balikhin M, Kudela K, Berghofer G , Biernat HK et al (2007) . Nature, 450(7170), 654-656.
Canzini E, Auledas-Noguera M, Pope S & Tiwari A () Decision making for multi-robot fixture planning using multi-agent reinforcement learning. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
Kuponu O, Kadirkamanathan V, Bhattacharya B & Pope S () A Material System with Integrated Fault Diagnosis and Feedback Controlled Self-Healing. International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.

Conference proceedings papers

Canzini E, Pope S & Tiwari A (2024) . 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp 5396-5401), 14 October 2024 - 18 October 2024.
Rossiter J, Pope S, Jones B & Hedengren JD (2019) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 52(9) (pp 56-61), 7 July 2019 - 9 July 2019.
Uchenna D, Simon P & Lang Z-Q (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 3 July 2017 - 7 July 2017.
Pope SA (2017) Effective parameter identification and controller design for active mechanical metamaterials. 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2017
Uchenna D, Simon P & Zi-Qiang L (2017) Analysis, design and optimization of a nonlinear energy harvester. 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2017
Pope SA (2015) Active Elastic metamaterials with tuneable negative effective parameters (meta-mechanical-systems). 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2015
Pope SA, Laalej H & Kadirkamanathan V (2014) . IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), Vol. 3(PART 1) (pp 959-965)
Daley S, Ubaid U & Pope SA (2013) Design of remotely located and multi-loop vibration controllers using a sequential loop closing approach. 20th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2013, ICSV 2013, Vol. 1 (pp 261-268)
Pelegrinis MT, Pope SA, Zazas I & Daley S (2013) Noise suppression using local acceleration feedback control of an active absorber. 20th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2013, ICSV 2013, Vol. 1 (pp 253-260)
Reynolds M, Daley S, Gao Y, Humphrey V & Pope SA (2012) Controller architectures for optimum performance in practical active acoustic metamaterials. Acoustics2012 Conference. Nantes, France, 23 April 2012 - 27 April 2012.
Pelegrinis MT, Pope SA & Daley S (2012) . IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), Vol. 2(PART 1) (pp 323-328)
Ubaid U, Daley S, Pope S & Zazas I (2012) . Proceedings of the 2012 UKACC International Conference on Control, CONTROL 2012 (pp 369-374)
Pope SA, Laalej H, Daley S & Reynolds M (2012) Active elastic metamaterials with applications in vibration and acoustics. 41st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2012, INTER-NOISE 2012, Vol. 2 (pp 1563-1574)
Pope SA, Laalej H & Daley S (2012) Active elastic metamaterials with applications in vibration and acoustics. Acoustics2012 Conference. Nantes, France, 23 April 2012 - 27 April 2012.
Ubaid U, Daley S & Pope S (2011) Design of Remotely Located Stable Vibration Controllers for Non-minimum Phase Systems. DYNAMICS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING, 2011, VOL 4 (pp 1809-1818)
Ubaid U, Daley S & Pope S (2011) Broadband design of remotely located vibration control systems: A stable solution for non-minimum phase dynamics. 40th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2011, INTER-NOISE 2011, Vol. 3 (pp 2487-2492)
Pope SA, Pelegrinis M & Daley S (2011) A consideration of impedance matching issues with metamaterials. 40th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2011, INTER-NOISE 2011, Vol. 3 (pp 2013-2021)
Pope SA & Daley S (2010) Viscoelastic metamaterials with controllable properties. 39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010, Vol. 6 (pp 4849-4858)
Zazas I, Daley S & Pope S (2010) Marine diesel vibration isolation using an rls based harmonic control algorithm with frequency tracking. 39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010, Vol. 6 (pp 4806-4815)
Pope SA & Daley S (2009) Re-distribution of the energy in a system under discrete frequency active vibration control. 16th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2009, ICSV 2009, Vol. 8 (pp 4677-4684)
Pope S () METAMATERIALS FOR SUSTAINABLE SEISMIC ISOLATION. Proceedings of the World Conferences on Earthquake Engineering
Kuponu OS, Kadirkamanathan V, Bhattacharya B & Pope SA () . Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 101 (pp 62-68)
Pope SA & Daley S () Redistribution of the energy in a vibration isolation system under the action of discrete frequency active control. Proceedings of Active 2009. Ottawa, 20 August 2009 - 22 August 2009.

Preprints

Canzini E, Noguera MA, Pope S & Tiwari A (2024) , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Canzini E, Noguera MA, Pope S & Tiwari A (2023) , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Research group: Dynamical Systems and Systems Engineering

Grants

“What happens when you cross LEGO and a Star Trek Replicator?”, EPSRC (EP/T028661/1), £237,248 (Principal Investigator), 01/08/2020 – 31/07/2023.

“Integrated Sensing, Monitoring and Healing for Complex Autonomous Systems”, British Council, £20,400 (Co-Investigator), 01/03/2012 – 28/02/2014.

“Active Metamaterials for control of sound and vibration - A practical solution to creating negative refraction", EPSRC (EP/J003816/1), £94,291 (Principal Investigator), 01/02/2012 – 31/07/2013.

“Wind Turbine Monitoring and Control”, Vestas Wind Systems, £120,000 (Co-Investigator), 03/01/2012 – 30/04/2013.

“‘Sheffield Cluster postlaunch extension”, STFC, £210,003 (Co-Investigator), 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012.

Teaching activities

ACS6127 - Real Time Embedded Systems
AER204 - Embedded Programming

Professional activities and memberships

Member of the Insitute of Physics

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Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

Preprints