System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems

这项平台资助提案的主要目的是利用谢菲尔德团队在非线性和复杂系统的信号处理和系统识别方面的专业知识，开发新的研究主题和应用领域。申请者开发了narmax方法，这是一种用于频域非线性系统的理论，以及一类用于识别和分析时空系统的算法。谢菲尔德的最新发展意味着我们现在处于独特的地位，可以开发新的多学科研究主题，以开发和建立这种专业知识。作为这项研究计划的一部分，我们计划发展的新的多学科研究方向包括果蝇脑、干细胞动力学、脑扩散光学断层扫描、空间天气系统和晶体生长现象的研究。其中每一项都在信号处理和系统识别方面提出了独特的挑战，每一项都需要确定范围或可行性研究，以确定将每个新研究领域发展为核心研究提案的潜力。因此，平台资助建议的核心主题是提供资金，对每个新的跨学科项目进行初步范围研究，目的是允许每个主题发展到可以提交响应模式申请以推进研究的程度。为包括RA在内的我们小组成员开发Career是我们战略的核心部分。Platform Grant将为我们的研究团队与其他学科的合作提供稳定性，并应提供足够的研究人员数量和一个更长期稳定的环境，以培养优秀年轻研究人员的职业发展。平台赠款将使该小组能够保持成立两个新研究中心所产生的势头，并在迄今发展的多学科伙伴关系的基础上发展和利用这些伙伴关系。承担风险、尝试全新的方法和全新的应用领域的机会使研究变得令人兴奋，提高了道德和更长期的战略研究规划和发展，允许灵活性，创造机会，并为我们团队中的每个人提供支持。

The main aim of this Platform Grant proposal is to build upon the expertise of the Sheffield team in signal processing and system identification for nonlinear and complex systems to develop new research themes and application areas. The applicants developed the narmax methodology, a theory for nonlinear systems in the frequency domain, and a class of algorithms for the identification and analysis of spatio-temporal systems. Recent developments at Sheffield mean we are now in a unique position to develop new multi-disciplinary research themes to exploit and build upon this expertise. The new multi-disciplinary research directions that we plan to develop as part of this research proposal include studies of drosophila brain, stem cell dynamics, diffuse optical tomography of brain, space weather systems, and crystal growth phenomena. Each of these offers unique challenges in signal processing and system identification and each requires scoping or feasibility studies to establish the potential to develop each new research area into a core research proposal. The core theme of this Platform Grant proposal is therefore to provide funding to conduct initial scoping research studies into each of these new multi-disciplinary projects with the objective that this will allow the development of each theme to the point where a responsive mode application can be submitted to take the research forward.Career development for members of our group including RA's is a core part of our strategy. The Platform Grant will provide stability for the collaboration by our research team with other disciplines, and should provide a critical mass of researchers and a longer term stable environment around which the career development of outstanding young researchers can be nurtured. The Platform Grant will enable the group to maintain the momentum that has been generated by the formation of two new research centres, and to build upon and exploit the multi-disciplinary partnerships that have been developed to date. The opportunity to take risks, try out completely new approaches, and completely new application fields produces an excitement in the research, enhances moral and longer term strategic research planning and development, allows flexibility, creates opportunities, and provides support for everyone in our group.