On 15 September the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control (PTMC) at the University of Bath held a 1-day showcase to present some of the research ongoing in the Centre. There were 11 talks by current researchers covering projects in the fields of hydraulics, aerospace and control. There was also an opportunity to see how the relocation and refurbishment of the Centre’s machine systems laboratory is progressing. Twenty seven industrial delegates attended, including representatives of existing collaborating companies, and others interested to find out more about the sort of research the Centre does. Companies included: Aero Engine Controls, Servotest, Shell, Thales Training & Simulation, EADS, Spirax- Sarco, Airbus UK, Horstman Defence Systems, Schlumberger, Instron, Rotork Controls, EADS, Webtec, Delstar Engineering, Ricardo, and Parker.

Hydraulics

Efficient hydraulic control using switching valves

(Sylwester Kudzma)

Active control of fluid borne noise

Optimising the power take-off for wave energy converter

A piezoelectric servovalve (Dhinesh Sangiah)

Aerospace

Aerospace mechatronic systems modelling

Analysing exergy flow in aircraft

An electro-hydrostatic actuator for helicopter vibration isolation

Control

Robust electrohydraulic force control

Control studies for a hydraulic running robot

Magnetic bearing control

Active control for a narrow track tilting car