Professor Robert Allen
Professor of Biodynamics and Control, Signal Processing and Control Group
Robert Allen holds a Personal Chair in Biodynamics and Control at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, UK. Following training in the machine tool industry and a period as numerical control programme engineer (Dean, Smith & Grace Ltd., in collaboration with IBM UK) he studied at the University of Leeds and graduated with BSc (Hons) in Control Engineering and was awarded a PhD for research on modelling the dynamic characteristics of neural receptors. This was followed by Postdoctoral positions at the University of Leeds (Dept. Anaesthesia) on monitoring intracranial pressure of severely head-injured patients to prevent secondary brain damage, and at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff (Dept. Anaesthetics) on a parameter estimation approach to noninvasive measurement of cardiac output.
He moved to the University of Southampton (Faculty of Medicine) in 1984 to a newly-created position as Lecturer in Biocomputation, and from there to the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1985 as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering and to the ISVR in 1997.
He is founding Editor-in-Chief of 2 journals "Biomimetics & Bioinspiration; Learning from Nature" published by the Institute of Physics, and "Biomedical Signal Processing & Control" published by Elsevier. He is also Honorary Editor for "Medical Engineering and Physics" (Elsevier) and a member of the Mechatronic, Informatics and Control Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the European Society of Biomechanics.
Areas of Speciality and Interest
Professor Allen’s research interests are currently focused on the bio-inspired and robust control of unmanned, underwater vehicles and on the development and application of signal processing techniques for biomedical systems and bio-acoustic analysis. Particular interests include: cooperative behaviour, echolocation, the efficient estimation of auditory evoked potentials for assessment of hearing and of depth of anaesthesia, cerebral hydrodynamic modelling and non-invasive assessment of intracranial complicance, and processing of fluoroscopic images for measurement of spine kinematics.
Research Group Activities
Bioacoustics
Biomedical Signal Processing
Neural Engineering
Research Projects
Biomedical Signal Processing
Objective characterisation of coccydnia
Selected Publications
*Feng, Z. and Allen, R. (2009) Formation stabilization of underwater mobile sensing networks, Proceedings of OCEANS '09 IEEE - Bremen, Germany, 11-14 May 2009, 1-4244-2523-5/09, 4pp
Nikolic, D., Papadopoulos, T. and Allen, R. (2010) Using bat auditory modelling for object discrimination and echo separation tasks, Proceedings of Biosignals 2010 Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Valencia, Spain, 20-23 January 2010, Paper 113, 6pp
Kim, S.Y., Papadopoulos, T., Allen, R. and Rowan, D. (2008) The simulation of bat-oriented auditory processing using experimental data of echolocating signals(Poster), Proceedings of the Sensors and Instrumentation KTN, Bioinspired Acoustic Sensors and Systems, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington, UK, 9 October 2008, Poster 13,
Papadopoulos, T. and Allen, R. (2008) Modelling of the echo generation process in bat echolocation (Abstract), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5), 3620
*Allen, D.P., *Taunton, D.J. and Allen, R. (2008) A study of shock impacts and vibration dose values onboard high-speed marine craft, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, RINA Transactions Part A, 150(A3), 1-10
Hou, Y. and Allen, R. (2008) Intelligent behaviour-based team UUVs cooperation and navigation in a water flow environment, Ocean Engineering, 35(3-4), 400-416
*Lam, S.C.B., *McCane, B. and Allen, R. (2009) Automated tracking in digitized videofluroscopy sequences for spine kinematics analysis, Image and Vision Computing, 27(10), 1555-1571
*Lam, S.C.B., Allen, R., *Pearson, G. and *Cooper, C. (2009) Parametric characterization of spinal motions in osteoporotic vertebral fracture at level T12 with fluoroscopy, Medical Engineering and Physics, 31, 346-355
Publications
List of publications
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Email: ra@soton.ac.uk
Database Updated by: SJG on 10 Aug 2011
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