The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Doctor James Welsh
School: School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Doctor James Welsh;Doctor Juan Aguero 2010 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Robust Dynamical System Identification   225000  
Doctor James Welsh 2009 1 University of Newcastle - Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment Travel Grant 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification 2009, Saint-Malo, France, 6-8 July 2009   1500  
Doctor James Welsh;Doctor Tristan Perez 2008 2 Boeing Australia Limited Project Grant Robust Autonomy   45000  
Doctor James Welsh 2008 1 Connell Wagner Pty Ltd Project Grant Application of System Identification to Parameter Estimation in the Power Industry   10000  
Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin;Doctor James Welsh 2008 3 University of Newcastle ARC Centre sub-control account CDSC Sub-Account: Distributed Sensing and Control   215000  
Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Doctor Julio Braslavsky;Doctor Gregory Adams;Doctor Jose De Dona;Doctor Maria Seron;Doctor James Welsh;Doctor Andrew Fleming;Doctor Damian Marelli;Associate Professor Brailey Sims;Conjoint Professor Kerrie Mengersen;Professor John Rayner;Doctor Tristan Perez 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   5400000  
Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin;Doctor James Welsh 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence CDSC Sub-Account: Distributed Sensing and Control   215000  
Doctor James Welsh 2007 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant European Control Conference 2007, Kos Greece, 2/7/2007 - 5/7/2007   1700  
Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin;Professor Minyue Fu;Professor Seyed Moheimani;Doctor Julio Braslavsky;Doctor Gregory Adams;Doctor Jose De Dona;Doctor Maria Seron;Doctor James Welsh;Doctor Andrew Fleming;Doctor Damian Marelli;Associate Professor Brailey Sims;Conjoint Professor Kerrie Mengersen 2007 3 NSW Department of State and Regional Development Centres of Excellence Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control   323084  
Doctor James Welsh 2007 1 Connell Wagner Pty Ltd Project Grant Parameter estimation of synchronous machines - a review of results and methods of generator parameter estimation for Bayswater - Project No 24496-001   10000  
Doctor James Welsh;Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin 2007 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Robust Experiment Design for Dynamical System Identification   400000  
Doctor James Welsh 2006 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 2006 American Control Conference 14-16 June 2006   1500  
Doctor James Welsh 2006 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects New System Identification Techniques Utilising Misspecified Models   140388  
Doctor James Welsh 2004 1 University of Newcastle Early Career Researcher Grant Large Dynamic Range System Identification: Inconsistencies Between Time and Frequency Domain Estimation   13000  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy(Elec Engineering) Principal Supervisor Complex Dynamics Systems and Control
PhD (Computer Engineering) Principal Supervisor An Autonomous Biped Robot Utilising a Natural Gait and Posture
PhD (Computer Engineering) Principal Supervisor Biped Locomotion using MPC
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor Advanced Control of Piezoelectrically-Driven Micro-Cantilevers for Atomic Force Microscopy
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Principal Supervisor Classification of Partial Discharges in Electrical Equipment
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Principal Supervisor Implementation of Blind Signal Separation and Neural Network Based System for Epileptic EEG Signal Extraction and Seizure Source Localization
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor Method for Development of Integrated Vehicle Dynamics Control Using Non-Linear Model Predictive Control with Global Objectives and Inverse Disturbance Observer (IDOB)

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.800
PhD 3.050

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) 2008 Robust Experiment Design

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Rojas Cristian R, Welsh James Stuart, Aguero Juan Carlos, ’Fundamental limitations on the variance of estimated parametric models’, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54 1077-1081 (2009) [C1]

Alamir Mazen, Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Redundancy versus multiple starting points in nonlinear system related inverse problems’, Automatica, 45 1052-1057 (2009) [C1]

Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Aguero Juan Carlos, Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’On the equivalence of least costly and traditional experiment design for control’, Automatica, 44 2706-2715 (2008) [C1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Aguero Juan Carlos, Welsh James Stuart, Yuz-Eissmann Juan Ignacio, Adams Gregory John, Rojas Cristian Ricardo, ’Robust identification of process models from plant data’, Journal of Process Control, 18 810-820 (2008) [C1]

Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Feuer A, ’Robust optimal experiment design for system identification’, Automatica, 43 993-1008 (2007) [C1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Haimovich Hernan, Quevedo Daniel Ernesto, Welsh James Stuart, ’A moving horizon approach to networked control system design’, IEEE Transaction of Automatic Control, 49 1427-1445 (2004) [C1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Bias Issues in Closed Loop Identification with Application to Adaptive Control’, Communications in Information and Systems, 2 349-370 (2002) [C1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Finite Sample Properties of Indirect Nonparametric Closed-Loop Identification’, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 47 1277-1292 (2002) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Welsh James Stuart, ’Good, Bad and Optimal Experiments for Identification’, Forever Ljung in System Identification, Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden, 103-125 (2006) [B1]

Welsh James Stuart, Haimovich Hernan, Quevedo Daniel Ernesto, ’Control over communication networks’, Constrained control and estimation an optimisation approach, Springer-Verlag, London, 361-385 (2004) [B1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Singularity issues in closed loop identification’, Model Identification and Adaptive Control: From windsurfing to telecommunications, Springer-Verlag, London, 27-51 (2000) [B1]

Conference Publication

Mitchell Steven Douglas, Welsh James Stuart, ’Permeability and its influence on the broadband frequency response of a power transformer’, 2009 Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, Wuhan, China (2009) [E1]

Kulk Jason Andrew, Welsh James Stuart, ’A low power walk for the NAO robot’, Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Canberra, ACT (2008) [E1]

Alamir Mazen, Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’On useful redundancy in experiment design for nonlinear system identification’, Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico (2008) [E1]

Mitchell Steven Douglas, Welsh James Stuart, Phung B T, ’Relating a distribution transformer's connection topology and the influence of inductive disparity to the observed frequency response’, AUPEC '08 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference 2008, Sydney, NSW (2008) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Daredia Talib, Sobora Frank Henry, Vlacic Ljubo, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Simulated versus hardware laboratories for control education: A critical appraisal’, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Seoul, Korea (2008) [E1]

Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Barenthin Marta, Welsh James Stuart, Hjalmarsson Hakan, ’The cost of complexity in identification of FIR systems’, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Seoul, Korea (2008) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Garnier Hugues, ’A method for bias reduction in time domain least squares parameter estimation’, 3rd IFAC Symposium on System, Structure and Control. SSSC07 Proceedings, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil (2007) [E1]

Mitchell Steven Douglas, Welsh James Stuart, Middleton Richard Hume, Phung B T, ’A narrow band high frequency distributed power transformer model for partial discharge location’, Conference Proceedings of the 2007 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference. AUPEC'07, Perth, WA (2007) [E1]

Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’A receding horizon algorithm to generate binary signals with a prescribed autocovariance’, Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference. ACC '07, New York (2007) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Rojas Cristian Ricardo, ’Frequency localising basis functions for wide-band system identification: A condition number bound for output error systems’, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece (2007) [E1]

Aguero Juan Carlos, Welsh James Stuart, Rojas Norman Osvaldo Javier, ’On the optimality of binary-open-loop experiments to identify hammerstein systems’, Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference. ACC '07, New York (2007) [E1]

Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, Feuer Arie, ’Optimal experiment design with diffuse prior information’, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece (2007) [E1]

Mitchell Steven Douglas, Welsh James Stuart, Middleton Richard Hume, Phung B T, ’Practical implementation of a narrowband high frequency distributed model for locating partial discharge in a power transformer’, 2007 EIC/EM EXPO. Electrical Insulation Conference and Electrical Manufacturing Expo. Proceedings, Nashville, Texas (2007) [E2]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Aguero Juan Carlos, Welsh James Stuart, Adams Gregory John, Yuz Juan I, Rojas Cristian Ricardo, ’Robust identification of process models from plant data’, DYCOPS 2007: 8th International IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems. Papers, Cancun, Mexico (2007) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Aguero Juan Carlos, Welsh James Stuart, Yuz-Eissmann Juan Ignacio, ’Some Observations on Nonlinear System Identification’, Preprints of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (2007) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, Feuer Arie, Derpich Milan Stefan, ’Utilizing Prior Knowledge in Robust Optimal Experiment Design’, Preprints of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Newcastle, Australia (2007) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Rojas Cristian Ricardo, Mitchell Steven Douglas, ’Wideband parametric identification of a power transformer’, Conference Proceedings of the 2007 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference. AUPEC'07, Perth, WA (2007) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Feuer Arie, ’Evaluation and Comparison of Robust Optimal Experiment Design Criteria’, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2006) [E1]

Quevedo Daniel Ernesto, Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, McLeod Malcolm Charles, ’Networked PID Control’, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Munich, Germany (2006) [E1]

Sheikhzadeh M, Jutan A, Rohani S, Welsh James Stuart, ’Non-Model based Perturbation Extremum Seeking Control Method For a Batch Crystallization Process’, Proceedings of the SACAC Control Conference 2006, Durban, South Africa (2006) [E1]

Garnier Hugues, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’A time-domain approach to continuous-time model identification of highly resonant wide-band systems’, CD ROM, Sydney (2004) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’An alternative regularisation technique in closed loop non-parametric frequency domain system identification’, CD ROM, Melbourne (2004) [E1]

Quevedo Daniel Ernesto, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Design issues arising in a networked control system architecture’, CD ROM, Taipei (2004) [E1]

Haimovich Hernan, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Set-valued observers for constrained state estimation of discrete-time systems with quantised measurements’, CD ROM, Melbourne (2004) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Frequency Localising Basis Functions for Wide-Band Identification’, Proceedings for ECC 2003, Cambridge, England (2003) [E1]

Quevedo Daniel Ernesto, Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Minimizing Down-Link Traffic in Networked Control Systems via Optimal Control Techniques’, Proceedings for CDC 2003 (CD ROM), Maui, Hawaii, USA (2003) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Self Excited Closed Loop Parametric Estimation in the Presence of Noise Undermodelling’, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska (2002) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’Analysis of a Self Tuning Iteration in the Presence of Noise Undermodelling’, Proceedings of 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida USA (2001) [E1]

Welsh James Stuart, Goodwin Graham Clifford, ’A Novel Mechanism for Autotuning based on Quantisation’, IFAC World Congress 1999, Beijing, P.R. China (1999) [E1]

Goodwin Graham Clifford, Welsh James Stuart, ’Analysis of a Novel Method of Autotuning a Multivariable Plant Based on Quantisation’, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Diego, California, USA (1999) [E1]

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