PhD in Control Engineering

Project Description:/nThis EPSRC-funded PhD project will investigate how next-generation electric and autonomous vehicles can operate as symbiotic agents within the urban ecosystem—intelligently adapting their energy use, control strategies, and collective behaviours to enhance sustainability. The research aims to design AI-driven control and energy management frameworks that enable self-organising, cooperative operation among connected electrified vehicles such as airport trailers, delivery pods, or urban mobility fleets./nUsing multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and digital-twin technologies, the project will develop algorithms for ecological sensing, adaptive motion planning, and energy optimisation under real-world constraints. Scaled experiments and high-fidelity simulations will validate system performance and demonstrate measurable reductions in energy consumption and emissions./nThe successful candidate will join the Birmingham CASE Automotive Research Group—one of the UK’s leading centres in vehicle dynamics, control, and electrification—benefiting from industrial collaborations, advanced testing facilities, and a strong interdisciplinary environment.