Dr Ross Drummond

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering

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Dr Ross Drummond
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
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Ross Drummond received an MEng degree from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London (2009-2013). He then moved to the Control Group at the University of Oxford (2013-2017) to complete his DPhil degree. After some time as a research assistant (2017-2020) working on battery modelling, he was awarded a UK Intelligence Community research fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is set to begin a lectureship in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of 91Ö±²¥ upon completion of his fellowship.

Research interests

My research focuses on the use of modelling, control theory and optimisation to improve the performance of energy storage devices, notably lithium ion batteries. By using ideas from control theory to make our energy storage devices smarter, the goal of this research is to enable better batteries through more efficient management and control.

Understanding lithium ion batteries requires understanding the dynamics of nonlinear systems. For that reason, another aspect of my research is on developing tools to characterise stability properties of nonlinear systems. A particular focus is on the absolute stability problem where my collaborators and I have developed several results including on the search for Zames-Falb multipliers and Lyapunov functions.

Using these methods on the stability analysis of nonlinear systems, I have been motivated to address the problem of the lack of robustness of machine learning algorithms, particularly those driven by neural networks. As well as quantifying neural network robustness, I am also interested in drawing connections between model-based and datadriven control. The goal of this research is to exploit control theory’s understanding of nonlinear system dynamics to facilitate the deployment of data-driven control to safety-critical systems.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171(6), 060531-060531. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lekas S, Drummond R, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, PP(99), 1-11. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Turner MC & Duncan SR (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(1), 1182-1191. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R & Tucker G (2023) Optimal Fast Charging of Lithium Ion Batteries: Between Model-Based and Data-Driven Methods. Journal of the Electrochemical Society. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R & Turner MC (2023) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 3908-3913. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Taghavian H, Drummond R & Johansson M (2023) . Automatica, 155, 111122-111122. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R & Valmorbida G (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-12. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-8. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2022) . Journal of Power Sources, 542, 231758-231758. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Grant PS, Greenwood D, Pardikar K, Smith R, Entwistle T, Middlemiss LA, Murray G, Cussen SA, Lain MJ, Capener MJ , Copley M et al (2022) . Journal of Physics: Energy. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Cheng C, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2022) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 169(1), 010528-010528. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Toso LF, Drummond R & Duncan SR (2022) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 2287-2292. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Couto LD & Zhang D (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 30(5), 2220-2227. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2020) . Journal of Power Sources, 448, 227376-227376. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Turner MC & Drummond R (2020) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 65(4), 1660-1667. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Bizeray AM, Howey DA & Duncan SR (2020) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28(4), 1284-1295. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2019) . Journal of Power Sources, 413, 59-67. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Valmorbida G, Drummond R & Duncan SR (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(3), 1201-1208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Zhao S & Duncan SR (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 27(3), 1071-1083. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Valmorbida G & Duncan SR (2018) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2(2), 207-212. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Zhao S, Howey DA & Duncan SR (2017) . Journal of Energy Storage, 10, 48-55. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Howey DA & Duncan SR (2015) . Journal of Power Sources, 277, 317-328. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC () . IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, dnae003. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Drummond R, Taghavian H & Baldivieso-Monasterios PR (2024) . 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp 3584-3589), 10 July 2024 - 12 July 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nie Y, Ko P & Drummond R (2024) . 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), 25 June 2024 - 28 June 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Su L, Drummond R & Khong SZ (2024) . 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), 25 June 2024 - 28 June 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liang W, Baldivieso PR, Drummond R & Shin D (2024) . 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Richardson CR, Turner MC, Gunn SR & Drummond R (2024) Strengthened stability analysis of discrete-time Lurie systems involving ReLU neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 209-221) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2024) Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 1388-1399) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Baldivieso-Monasterios PR & Valmorbida G (2024) Mapping back and forth between model predictive control and neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 1228-1240) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Courtier NE, Drummond R, Ascencio P, Couto LD & Howey DA (2022) . 2022 European Control Conference (ECC), 12 July 2022 - 15 July 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Drummond R, Valmorbida G & Duncan SR (2017) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 50(1) (pp 2671-2676) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lekas S, Drummond R, Grant P & Duncan S () Closed-loop control of dielectric permittivity for 3D-printed radio-frequency devices. Procs. of the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liang W, Baldivieso PR, Drummond R & Shin D (2024) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tredenick EC, Boyce AM, Wheeler S, Li J, Sun Y, Drummond R, Duncan SR, Grant PS & Shearing PR (2023) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lambert P, Tredenick E, Duncan S & Drummond R (2023) , Research Square Platform LLC. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Research Grants

  • High energy density battery pack design without compromising on safety, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Intelligence Community Research Fellowship, 10/2020 - 11/2023, £200,000 as PI
Teaching activities

ACS133 Physical Systems