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Position
Professor of Service and Support Engineering
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Professor Duncan McFarlane
Background
Duncan McFarlane is Professor of Service and Support Engineering at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, and head of the Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory within the Institute for Manufacturing. He is also Director of the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab and Research Director of two industrially supported activities: the Service and Support Engineering Programme and the Aero ID Programme. He has been involved in the design and operation of automation and information system for the manufacturing supply chain for twenty years.
Prof McFarlane completed a B Eng degree at Melbourne University in 1984, a PhD in the design of robust control systems at Cambridge in 1988, and worked industrially with BHP Australia in engineering and research positions between 1980 and 1994. Prof McFarlane joined the Department of Engineering at Cambridge in 1995 as a lecturer in the area of industrial automation systems. His research work is focused in the areas of distributed industrial automation, reconfigurable systems, RFID integration and valuing industrial information. Most recently he has been examining the role of automation and information solutions in supporting service environments.
Between 2000 and 2003 he was the European Research Director of the Auto-ID Center . In 2001 he also became a co-investigator in the EPSRC funded Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre based in the Institute for Manufacturing. In 2004, he became head of the Cambridge Auto ID Lab and co founded the Aero ID Programme, examining the role of RFID in the aerospace industry. He was appointed to the Professorship of Service and Support Engineering on 1 October 2006.
Research interests
- Manufacturing control & automation,
- modular manufacturing systems design,
- analysis and synthesis of co-operative control
systems,
- information filtering, model tuning and
adaptation,
- manufacturing systems integration,
- fault diagnostics,
- automated identification systems,
- quality control,
- supply chain execution systems.
Professional affiliations
- ESPRIT (EC) Network of Excellence on Intelligent
Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems (1997 -
2000)
- ESPRIT (EC) Working Group on Intelligent
Manufacturing Systems - Research cluster leader, and
regional node. (1997-2000)
- ESPRIT (EC) Network of Excellence on Multi Agent
Systems (AgentLink) (1998 -)
- Committee Member of IEE Professional Group (I7) on
Next Generation Manufacturing Enterprises (1996 -
2000)
- Springer Verlag Series in Industrial Control - Member
of Editorial Board (1990 - 2001)
- IFAC Working Committee on Mining, Minerals and
Metallurgy (1990 - 2002)
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Technical Committee
on Robotics and Manufacturing Systems - Chairman of
Subcommittee on Manufacturing (2000 - )
- Technical Advisory Board - IEE Professional
Network on Automation and Control (2001-)
- Board Member, Maersk McKinner Møller
Institute, Odense, Denmark (2000-2002 )
- IFAC Working Committee on Manufacturing Systems
(2001-)
- UK Node, EU Network of Excellence in Intelligent
Manufacturing Systems, (2002-)
Publications
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Books
- McFarlane, D., Glover, K., "Robust Controller Design
Using Normalised Coprime Factor Plant Descriptions",
Springer Verlag, Berlin (1990).
Book Chapters
- Chokshi, N, McFarlane, D, (2002) Rationales for
Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Chemical Process
Industries, in V. Marik, O. Stepankova, H. Krautwurmova,
M. Luck (Eds.): Multi-Agent Systems and Application II,
LNAI 2322, Springer Verlag.
- McFarlane, D, Bussmann, S, (2002) Holonic
Manufacturing Control: Rationales, Developments And Open
Issues, To Appear In Deen, S. M., (Ed): Agent Based
Manufacturing - Advances In The Holonic Approach ,
Springer, 2002
Journal Editorial
- Co-Editor with B A MacCarthy, Special Issue on
Manufacturing Responsiveness, International Journal of
Operations and Production Management, July, 1999
Refereed Journal Papers
- Stone, P, Day, E., McFarlane, D, "Computer control of
a continuous annealing line", Australian J.
Instrumentation & Control, (1988)
- Ober, R., McFarlane, D., "Balanced canonical forms
for minimal systems: a normalised coprime factor
approach", Linear Algebra and its Applications
(1988).
- Glover, K., McFarlane, D., "Robust stabilisation of
normalised coprime factor plant descriptions with
H-infinity bounded uncertainty", IEEE Transactions of
Automatic Control, v34, n8 (1989).
- McFarlane, D., Glover, K., Vidyasagar, M., "Reduced
order controller design using coprime factor model
reduction", IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control
(1990).
- Glover, K., Sefton, J. and McFarlane, D. C., "A
tutorial on loop shaping using H- infinity robust
stabilisation". Trans. Inst. M & C Vol. 14 No. 3,
(1992).
- McFarlane, D., Glover, K., "A loop shaping design
procedure using H-infinity synthesis", IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control, v37, n6, (1992).
- Petersen, I.R. and McFarlane, D.C., "Optimal
Guaranteed Cost Control and Filtering for Uncertain
Linear Systems", IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control,
v39, n9 (1994).
- Petersen, I.R. and McFarlane, D.C., "Optimal
Guaranteed Cost Filtering for Uncertain Linear Systems",
Journal of Robust & Non Linear Control, v6, n?,
pp267-280 (1996).
- Petersen, I.R., McFarlane, D.C., Rotea, M, "Optimal
Quadratic Guaranteed Cost Control for Uncertain Linear
Systems", Journal of Robust & Non Linear Control, v8,
n8, pp649-657 (1998)
- Matson, J, McFarlane, D, Assessing the Responsiveness
of Existing Production Operations, in International
Journal of Operations and Production Management, v19, n8,
pp765-784 (1999)
- L. Bongaerts, L. Monostori, D. McFarlane, B.
Kádá, Hierarchy In Distributed Shop-Floor
Control, , Computers in Industry, v43, n2, pp123-137,
(2000)
- McFarlane, D, Bussmann, S, "State of the Art of
Holonic Systems in Production Planning and Control", Int
Journal of Production Planning and Control, v11, n6,
pp522-536, (2000)
- J-L Chirn, D C. McFarlane, Building Holonic Systems
in Today's Factories: A Migration Strategy, in JASS
Special Issue on Holonic and Multi Agent Sytems,
(2001).
- Peng, Y, McFarlane, D, Adaptive Agent-Based
Manufacturing Management Systems And Their Application To
Flow Shop Control, submitted to Production Planning and
Control, September, 2001, revised, April, 2002
- Jarvis, D, Jarvis, J, McFarlane, D, Achieving Holonic
Control &endash; an Incremental Approach, submitted to
Computers in Industry, November, 2001
- D McFarlane, M Kollingbaum, J Matson, P Valckanaers,
"Development of Algorithms for Agent-based Control of
Manufacturing Flow Shops", in Journal of Informatics, v,
n , (2002)
- D McFarlane, S Sarma, J-L Chirn, C Y Wong, K Ashton,
The Intelligent Product In Manufacturing Control And
Management, to appear in Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence: special issue on Intelligent
Manufacturing, 2002
- Petersen, I.R. and McFarlane, D.C., "A Methodology
for Robust Fault Detection in Dynamic Systems", to
appear, Control Engineering Practice, (2002).
- D. McFarlane, Y. Chang, J. Matson, A. Shaw, A
Production Responsiveness Audit, submitted to
International Journal of Production Management, November,
2002
- McFarlane, D, Chirn, J-L, Jarvis, D, Matson, J,
Jarvis, J, Holonic Production Control to Support Mass
Customisation, Extended Abstract submitted to Journal of
Production Planning and Control, special issue on Mass
Customisation, October, 2002
Refereed Conference Papers
- Stone, P. Day, E., McFarlane, D., "Computer control
of a continuous annealing line using modelling and
optimal filtering", in Proceedings of the International
Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne,
Australia (1987).
- McFarlane, D., Glover, K., Noton, M., "Robust
stabilisation of a flexible space platform: an H-infinity
coprime factor approach", in Proceedings of 'Control 88',
IEE Conference, Oxford UK (1988).
- Glover, K., McFarlane, D., "Robust stabilisation of
normalised coprime factors: an explicit H-infinity
solution", in Proc. of the American Control Conference,
Atlanta, USA (1988).
- McFarlane, D., Glover, K., "An H-infinity design
procedure using robust stabilisation of normalised
coprime factors", in Proc. of the Conference on Decision
and Control, Austin, USA (1988).
- McFarlane, D., Stone, P., "Dynamic process modelling
for tension control in a merchant bar rolling mill", in
Proceedings of the 5th International Rolling Conference,
London, UK (1990).
- Glover, K., Sefton, J., McFarlane, D., "A tutorial on
loop shaping using H-infinity robust stabilisation", in
Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Tallinn, USSR
(1990).
- McFarlane, D., Stone, P., "Minimum tension in a
merchant bar rolling mill using modern control
techniques", in Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress,
Tallinn, USSR (1990).
- Petersen, I., McFarlane, D., "Robust state estimation
of uncertain systems", in Proceedings of the CDC,
Brighton, UK (1991).
- Petersen, I., McFarlane, D. "Optimal guaranteed cost
control of uncertain linear systems", in Proceedings of
the ACC, Chicago, USA (1992).
- McFarlane, D., Bowles, A., Tsoi, A., MacNally, R.,
"Model Tuning using ANNs and related techniques", in
Proc. of the IFAC MMM '92 Symposium, Beijing, China
(1992).
- Petersen, I.R. and McFarlane, D.C., "Optimising the
Guaranteed Cost in the Control of Uncertain Linear
Systems", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on
Robust Control, Switzerland, (1992).
- Cheng, J.K.C., Stone, P.M. and McFarlane, D.C., "A
Generalised Extended Kalman Filter and its Application to
Steel Rolling Temperature Estimation", in Proceedings of
the 12th IFAC World Congress, Sydney, (1993)
- McFarlane, D. and Elsley, G., "Model Tuning for Bar
Mill Tension Control at BHP", in Proceedings of the 12th
IFAC World Congress, Sydney, (1993).
- Petersen, I.R., McFarlane, D.C. and Rotea, M.A.,
"Optimal Guaranteed Cost Control of Discrete-Time
Uncertain Linear Systems", in Proceedings of the 12th
IFAC World Congress, Sydney, (1993).
- Hodgson, P, McFarlane, D, Gibbs, R, "The modelling of
hot rolling: accuracy versus utility", in Proceedings of
1st International Conference on Modelling of Metal
Rolling Processes, London, UK, (1993).
- Moheimani, R., Stirling, D., Petersen, I, McFarlane,
D., "Robust control of a Sendzimir Mill", in Proceedings
of IEEE Conference on Industrial Applications, Glasgow,
UK, (1994).
- Agre, J, Elsley, McFarlane, D., Cheng, J., Gunn, B.,
"Holonic Control of a Water Cooling System for a Steel
Rod Mill", Proceedings of Rensselaer's 4th International
Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing and
Automation Technology", April, 1994
- Petersen, I, McFarlane, D., "Optimal Guaranteed Cost
Filtering for Uncertain Discrete Time Linear Systems", in
Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Robust Control, Rio De
Janiero, Brazil, June, 1994
- McFarlane, D, "Holonic Manufacturing Systems in
Continuous Processing: Concepts and Control
Requirements", in Proceedings of ASI '95, Portugal, June,
1995
- Karcanias, N., & McFarlane, D, "System design
issues for integrated diagnostics", in Proceedings of ASI
'95, Portugal, June, 1995
- McFarlane, D., Marett, B., Elsley, G., Jarvis, D.,
Wilbers, P., "Application of Holonic Methodologies to
Problem Diagnosis in a Rod Mill Cooling Control System",
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, October, 1995.
- McFarlane, D, Petersen, I, "A simplified approach to
guaranteed cost LQG control", in Proceedings of
International Federation of Automatic Control World
Congress, San Francisco, June, 1996.
- McFarlane, D, Petersen, I, "A Robust Approach to
Dynamic Statistical Process Control", in Proceedings of
1996 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Kobe,
Japan, December, 1996
- Dunlop, S, Jones, B, McFarlane, D, "Petri Net Based
System Design and Diagnosis for a Gear Box Assembly
Cell", in Proceedings of Safe Process 97, Hull, UK,
1997
- Matson, J, McFarlane, D, Frizelle, G, "Responsiveness
as a Criterion in Control System Design", presented in
ESPRIT IMS Workshop, Porto, Portugal, 1997
- Ooi, G, McFarlane, D, "Non Standard Applications of
SPC within the Sugar Industry", in Proceedings of Control
98, Swansea, September, (1998)
- Matson, J, McFarlane, D, Tools for Assessing the
Responsiveness of Existing Production Operations, in
Proceedings of IEE Workshop on Responsiveness in
Manufacturing, London, UK, February, (1998)
- McFarlane, D, Modular Distributed Manufacturing
Systems And The Implications For Integrated Control, IEE
Colloquium On Choosing The Right Control Structure,
London, UK (1998)
- L. Bongaerts, L. Monostori, D. McFarlane, B. Kadar,
Hierarchy In Distributed Shop-Floor Control, Proceedings
of IMS-EUROPE 1998, Lausanne, Switzerland, (1998)
- Y. Peng, D. McFarlane, Modeling And Design
Methodologies For Adaptive Manufacturing, Proceedings of
IMS-EUROPE 1998, Lausanne, Switzerland, (1998)
- D. McFarlane, J. Matson, Manufacturing Goal
Decomposition As A Means Of Structuring Co-Operative
Control Systems, Proceedings of IMS-EUROPE 1998,
Lausanne, Switzerland, (1998)
- G. Frizelle, D. McFarlane, L. Bongaerts, Disturbance
Measurement in Manufacturing Production Systems, in
Proceedings of ASI, 98, Bremen, Germany (1998)
- S. Bussmann, D. McFarlane, Rationale for Holonic
Control Systems, in Proceedings of IMS'99, Leuven,
Belgium, February, (1999)
- I Petersen, D McFarlane, A Methodology for Process
fault Detection, in Proceedings of CDC, Phoenix, USA,
February, (1999)
- M Kollingbaum, T Heikkilae, D McFarlane, Persistent
Agents for Manufacturing Information Systems, Proceedings
of CAiSE'99, Seattle, USA, (1999)
- J B. Matson, N. N. Chokshi, D. C. McFarlane,
Distributed Co-ordination and Control of Steel-making
Operations: Problem Formulation, System Modelling and
Simulation, Poster presented at HSC'99, Nijmegen, March
(1999)
- D McFarlane, J Matson, Assessing and Improving The
Responsiveness of Manufacturing production Systems, in
Proceedings of IEE Workshop on Mass Customisation
(Invited Paper), London.
- D. McFarlane, J. Matson, Evaluating and Improving
Production Responsiveness - A Control Systems
Perspective, In Proceedings of ASI 99, Leuven, Belgium
(1999)
- Chirn, J.-L., and McFarlane, D. C. "A holonic
component-based architecture for manufacturing control
systems." In Proceedings of MAS'99, Vienna, Austria.
(1999)
- Chirn, J.-L., and McFarlane, D. C. "Application of a
holonic component-based architecture for the control of a
robot assembly cell." In Proceedings of IEEE Robotics and
Automation, San Francisco. (2000)
- M Kollingbaum, T Heikkilä, P Peeters, J Matson,
P Valckenaers, D McFarlane, G Bluemink, Emergent Flow
Shop Control Based On Mascada Agents, In Proceedings Of
MIM 2000 (2000)
- Chokshi, N. N. , J B. Matson, D. C. McFarlane,
Distributed Coordination of Steel-Making Operations for
Reduced Production Stoppages, in Proceedings of MCPL'00,
France, (2000)
- Chirn, J.-L., And McFarlane, D. C. "Petri Nets Based
Design Of Ladder Logic Diagrams, To appear in Proceedings
of Control 2000, Cambridge, UK. (2000)
- Chirn, J.-L., and McFarlane, D. C. "A holonic
component-based approach to reconfigurable manufacturing
control architectures." in Proceedings of HoloMAS'00,
London, UK. (2000)
- M Kollingbaum, J Matson, D Mcfarlane, "Development of
Algorithms for Agent-based Control of Manufacturing Flow
Shops", In Proceedings Of ASI 2000 (2000)
- D McFarlane, M Kollingbaum, J Matson, P Valckanaers,
"Development of Algorithms for Agent-based Control of
Manufacturing Flow Shops", in Proc IEEE SMC2001
(2001)
- D.Jarvis, J.Jarvis, D.McFarlane, A.Lucas and
R.Rönnquist, Implementing a Multi-Agent Systems
Approach to Collaborative Autonomous Manufacturing
Operations, in Proc IEEE SMC2001 (2001)
- N. N. Chokshi and D.C.McFarlane, Rationales for
Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Chemical Process
Industries, in Proceedings of HoloMAS'01, Munich.
(2001)
- D McFarlane, S Sarma, J-L Chirn, C Y Wong, K Ashton,
The Intelligent Product In Manufacturing Control And
Management, in Proc IFAC World Congress, Barcelona
(2002).
- D. McFarlane, Y. Chang, J. Matson, A. Shaw, A
Production Responsiveness Audit, Proceedings of POMS, San
Francisco, USA, (2001).
- A. Shaw, D.C. McFarlane, Y.S. Chang, P.J.G. Noury,
Measuring Response Capabilities in the Order Fulfillment
Process, Proceedings of EUROMA, Amsterdam, NL,
(2002)
- McFarlane, D, Towards Auto ID Based Control Systems,
in Proceedings of IEEE SMC 2002, Tunisia, (2002)
- McFarlane, D, Zaharudin, A, Wong, C Y, et al, The
Intelligent Product Driven Supply Chain, in Proceedings
of IEEE SMC 2002, Tunisia, (2002)
Published Reports
- McFarlane, D, Studer, N eds., Manufacturing
Responsiveness in the Face of Market Change and
Uncertainty, DTI - OSTEMs Report, (1998)
- Milner, J, McFarlane, D, Modularity in Production
Systems - An approach to system design for a turbulent
future, DTI - OSTEMs Report, (1998)
- McFarlane, D, Gregory, M, Thorne, A, E Manufacturing
in Japan, DTI - OSTEMs Report, (2001)
- McFarlane, D, Towards Auto ID Based Control Systems,
Auto ID Center White Paper, January, (2002)
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