Head of Research Centre: Control & Systems Engineering Research Centre (CASE)
From October 2009 to present.
Prof T X Mei
 | University of Salford, School of Computing, Science and Engineering, Newton Building, UG1, Salford, UK, M5 4WT. |
 | t.x.mei@salford.ac.uk |
 | 0161 295 3715 |
Key Memberships
Profile Summary
Professor T X Mei took up the position of Chair in Control and Mechatronics at Salford in January 2009. He was previously Reader at The University of Leeds.
His main research is concerned with the advanced control and mechatronic solutions for industrial problems especially applied to railway and automotive systems including fault tolerance, condition monitoring, traction control, wheel-rail contact mechanics, vehicle dynamics, intelligent sensing and data fusion, and system integration. Professor Mei is one of the most active researchers world-wide in the latest fundamental research into active steering and system integrations for railway vehicles. He has given a number of invited seminars and state-of-art reviews at the international level and has published about 90 papers in the last 10 years in leading academic journal and international conferences.
Key Qualifications
1994
PhD Electronic and Electrical Engineering (from Loughborough University, UK).
1991
MSc (Res) Electrical Engineering (from Manchester University, UK).
1985
MSc Electrical Engineering (from Shanghai Tiedao University, China).
1982
BSc Electronic Engineering (from Shanghai Tiedao University, China).
Key Projects
2010
Nov
Factor 20: reducing CO2 emissions from inland transport by a major modal shift to rail (Freight 2035)
EPSRC, £4,384.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
EPSRC, £4,384.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
2010
Jul
Challenging established rules for train control through a fault tolerance approach
EPSRC, £345,887.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (66%). Co-Investigator: S Nefti-Meziani (34%).
EPSRC, £345,887.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (66%). Co-Investigator: S Nefti-Meziani (34%).
2009
Sep
enhanced safety and reliability for trains through fault tolerant control
EPSRC, £50,000.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
EPSRC, £50,000.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
2009
Mar
Sensor Fusion, Prognostics, Diagnostics and Failure Mode Control for Complex Aerospace systems
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AFRL), £19,837.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AFRL), £19,837.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
2009
Jan
Measurement of Train Ground Speed by Exploring Vehicle Dynamics with Intelligent Data Processing
EPSRC, £7,998.62.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
EPSRC, £7,998.62.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
2008
Dec
2008
Nov
ACTUATOR - High Integrity Actuation with Embedded Intelligence for Steer-by-Wire in Ground
Technology Strategy Board, £175,618.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
Technology Strategy Board, £175,618.00.
Principal Investigator: T Mei (100%).
Key Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Book Sections
Key Presence
Conference Organisation
2011
Aug
Symposium of the Intl. Association for Vehicle System Dynamics (Manchester, United Kingdom, August 2011).
General Co-Chair and National Organising Committee Chair
2010
Sep
UKACC International Control Conference (Coventry, United Kingdom, September 2010).
IPC Member
2009
Sep
International Control on Systems Engineering Conferenece (Coventry, United Kingdom, September 2009).
IPC member
2009
Feb
2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication (Karachi, Pakistan, February 2009).
IAC member
2006
Aug
2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC¿06) (Kunming, China, August 2006).
IPC Member
External Examiner Duties
2011
Jan
Liverpool University (United Kingdom, January 2011).
PhD external examiner
2010
May
Loughborough University (United Kingdom, May 2010).
PhD external examiner
2009
Dec
Central Queensland University (Australia, December 2009).
PhD external examiner
Honorary Posts (e.g. Visiting Appointments)
2003
Sep
Visiting Professor (Tongji University, Shanghai, China, September 2003 to December 2014).
Honours and Awards
2009
Nov
John Jarratt Prize for the best paper in IMechE Proceedings - Part F (2008/F2). (Institute of Mechanical Engineering, United Kingdom, November 2009).
2001
Dec
ICI Annual Best Paper for Transactions of Institute of Measurement and Control (Institute of Measurement and Control, United Kingdom, December 2001).
Invited Papers and Lectures
2009
Oct
Sensors, Data and Information (IMechE Railway Division (Northwest Centre), Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, October 2009).
2009
Jun
Control and Mechatronics in Rail and Automotive Vehicles (Nihon University, Chiba, Japan, June 2009).
2009
Jun
Advanced Control for Future Rail and Road Vehicles (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2009).
2008
Jul
A mechatronic approach for anti-slip control in railway traction (17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, South, July 2008).
2008
May
Safety and Reliability of SbW Systems - workshop (3rd Intl Conference of Advanced Steering Systems, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2008).
2007
Aug
Control and monitoring of railway vehicle dynamics - The State of Art, Plenary (Keynote speaker at 20th IAVSD Symposium: Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks, Berkeley, United States, August 2007).
2007
May
Automatic Control in Railway Applications (Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May 2007).
2006
May
Advanced control and monitoring for railway vehicles, plenary (Intl. Symposium on Speed-up and Service Technology for Railway and Maglev Systems STEC 2006, Chengdu, China, May 2006).
2004
Sep
Control, Mechatronics and Vehicle Dynamics (Hsinghua University, Beijing, China, September 2004).
2004
Sep
Control, Mechatronics and Vehicle Dynamics (Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, September 2004).
2004
Sep
Automatic Control and Trains (China University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China, September 2004).
2004
May
Mechatronics for Railway Vehicles (Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, May 2004).
2003
Sep
Active Steering for Railway Vehicles (Tongji University, Shanghai, China, September 2003).
2003
Sep
Active Control of Railway Vehicles ¿ The rational and control strategies (Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, September 2003).
2003
Jul
The Potential for Active Suspension in Railways in the 21st Century, plenary (International Conference on 21st Centery Rolling Stock 2003, St Petersburg, Russia, July 2003).
2002
Dec
Assessment of active stability control strategies for a high speed bogie (2nd IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, Berkeley, United States, December 2002).
2000
Sep
Mechatronic Solutions for High-Speed Railway Vehicles (1st IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2000).
2000
Jun
The Railway Wheelsets - A Simple Object, but a Complex Control Problem (Leicester University , Leicester, United Kingdom, June 2000).
Memberships of External Bodies
2010
Nov
Full Member of Rail Research UK Association (United Kingdom, November 2010).
Member of Executive Committee (2011-2015)
2009
Oct
Full Member of IET PGCU Technical Advisory Panel (United Kingdom, October 2009 to September 2011).
2009
Apr
Full Member of InstMC (UK Institute of Measurement and Control) Systems Control Technology Panel (United Kingdom, April 2009 to March 2011).
1996
Jul
Full Member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (United Kingdom, July 1996 to December 2016).
Fellow of IET
Other Evidence of External Esteem
2009
Oct
Guest Editor of JASM Journal of Mechanical Systems for Transportation and Logistics, for special issue on STECH¿09 (Japan, October 2009).
2005
Dec
Member of the three-member panel, for the IEE Premier Awards for the Proceedings of Control Theory and Application (United Kingdom, December 2005).
2005
Jan
Guest Editor of International Journal of Information Technology, for special issue on automatic control and information fusion (Singapore, January 2005).
2004
Dec
Member of the three-member panel, for the IEE Premier Awards for the Proceedings of Control Theory and Application (United Kingdom, December 2004).