Trodden, Paul, Dr

Dr Paul Trodden

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer

p.trodden@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5679

Amy Johnson Building

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Dr Paul Trodden
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
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Profile

Dr Paul Trodden is a Lecturer in the , .

Paul received the MEng degree in from the in 2003, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (thesis: Robust distributed control of constrained linear systems) from the in 2009. Between 2009 and 2010, he was a post-doctoral research assistant in the at Univ. Bristol, while from 2010 to 2012 he was a post-doctoral research associate in the .

At Edinburgh, he was a member of the Edinburgh Research Group in Optimization () and the group. Between 2003 and 2005, he worked as a Systems Engineer for BAE Systems Avionics in Edinburgh.

Dr Trodden is a member of the Intelligent Systems, Decision and Control (ISDC) research group.

Research interests

My research interests lie in control theory and optimization, with particular focus on the following topics. For papers, please see my list of publications below or my .

Robust, adaptive and distributed model predictive control

I lead research in the theory and algorithms for control of large-scale, constrained dynamic systems. Our focus is on developing controllers that are implementable (in terms of design simplicity and computational tractability) yet achieve desirable guarantees (e.g. of stability, constraint satisfaction).

Set-theoretic methods for control

My research in this area involves developing theory and algorithms for the characterization and computation of invariant sets for uncertain systems. These sets play an important and fundamental role in the analysis and design of advanced control systems.

Control and optimization in smart grids

My current research in this area applies predictive control theory and efficient optimization algorithms to control and planning problems in smart grids and power networks. I have published research on problems including optimal power flow (OPF), economic dispatch, load-frequency control, and controlled islanding for the prevention of blackouts. (See the .)

Advanced control for gas turbine engines and aerospace applications

I lead control-themed research within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering. Current research involves developing advanced control laws for the next generation of large civil gas turbine engines.

Publications

Journal articles

Raković SV & Trodden P (2025) . Automatica, 171.
Kisinga DA, Makolo P & Trodden P (2024) . IET Renewable Power Generation.
Michos G, Konstantopoulos GC & Trodden PA (2024) . IEEE Control Systems Letters.
Michos G, Baldivieso Monasterios P, Konstantopoulos G & Trodden P (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 11(1), 427-438.
Sánchez-Amores A, Maestre JM, Trodden PA & Camacho EF (2023) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 2293-2298.
Masero E, Baldivieso Monasterios P, Maestre JM & Trodden P (2023) . Automatica, 153.
Vicente BAH, Trodden PA & Anderson SR (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 31(3), 1395-1410.
Guicherd R, Mills AR, Trodden PA & Kadirkamanathan V (2021) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5(4), 1393-1398.
Baldivieso-Monasterios PR & Trodden PA (2021) . Automatica, 125, 109380-109380.
Guicherd R, Trodden PA, Mills AR & Kadirkamanathan V (2020) . International Journal of Control, 1-12.
Hernandez Vicente BA & Trodden PA (2019) . Systems & Control Letters, 126, 58-66.
Vicente BAH & Trodden PA (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(10), 4345-4352.
Monasterios PRB & Trodden PA (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(9), 3831-3838.
Baldivieso Monasterios PR & Trodden P (2017) . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 8(6), 3045-3054.
Trodden PA & Maestre JM (2017) . Automatica, 77, 31-43.
Trodden P (2016) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61(12), 4100-4105.
Trodden P (2014) . Systems & Control Letters, 74, 98-107.
Trodden P, Bukhsh W, Grothey A & McKinnon K (2014) . IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 29(3), 1212-1220.
Bukhsh WA, Grothey A, McKinnon KIM & Trodden PA (2013) . IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 28(4), 4780-4788.
Trodden P & Richards A (2013) . Automatica, 49(2), 479-487.
Trodden PA, Bukhsh WA, Grothey A & McKinnon KIM (2013) . International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 45(1), 501-508.
Hartley EN, Trodden PA, Richards AG & Maciejowski JM (2012) . Control Engineering Practice, 20(7), 695-713.
Trodden P & Richards A (2010) . International Journal of Control, 83(8), 1653-1663.

Chapters

Grothey A, Bukhsh WA, McKinnon KIM & Trodden P (2013) In Kovacevic RM, Pflug GC & Vespucci MT (Ed.), Handbook of Risk Management in Energy Production and Trading (pp. 203-228). Springer
Trodden P & Richards A (2013) In Maestre Torreblanca JM & Negenborn RR (Ed.), Distributed Model Predictive Control Made Easy (pp. 57-72). Dordrecht: Springer.

Conference proceedings papers

Loma-Marconi P, Trodden P & Esnaola I (2024) . 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
Escamilla HM & Trodden P (2024) . 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
Masero E, Baldivieso-Monasterios PR, Maestre JM, Trodden PA & Camacho EF (2023) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 7704-7709)
Omaruddin A & Trodden P (2023) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 10910-10916)
Asuk A & Trodden P (2023) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 10935-10940)
Escamilla HM, Trodden P & Kadirkamanathan V (2023) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 9540-9545)
Trodden P, Loma-Marconi P & Esnaola I (2023) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 56(2) (pp 3818-3823)
Kisinga DA & Trodden P (2023) . 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT EUROPE), 23 October 2023 - 26 October 2023.
Mohammad A.M. S, Rossiter JA & Trodden PA (2023) . 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), 13 June 2023 - 16 June 2023.
Michos G, Konstantopoulos GC, Trodden PA & Kadirkamanathan V (2023) . 2023 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 26 June 2023 - 29 June 2023.
Kisinga DA & Trodden P (2023) . 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, 25 June 2023 - 29 June 2023.
Viggiano C, Trodden P, Caicedo E & Alfonso W (2022) . 2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), 5 September 2022 - 7 September 2022.
Kisinga DA, Makolo P & Trodden P (2022) . 2022 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, 22 August 2022 - 26 August 2022.
Asuk A & Trodden P (2021) . Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC 21), 11 July 2021 - 14 July 2021.
Asuk A & Trodden P (2021) . Proceedings of the 2021 American Control Conference (ACC 2021) (pp 3800-3805), 24 May 2021 - 28 May 2021.
Guicherd R, Mills AR, Trodden PA & Kadirkamanathan V (2021) . 2021 American Control Conference (ACC), 25 May 2021 - 28 May 2021.
Trodden PA, Maestre JM & Ishii H (2020) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 53(2) (pp 6963-6968)
Baldivieso Monasterios PR, Trodden PA & Cannon M (2019) . 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 11 December 2019 - 13 December 2019.
Trodden PA & Monasterios PRB (2019) . 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 11 December 2019 - 13 December 2019.
Ajiborisha A & Trodden P (2019) . 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 19 August 2019 - 21 August 2019.
Sanusi I, Mills A, Trodden P, Kadirkamanathan V & Dodd T (2019) . 2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC), 25 June 2019 - 28 June 2019.
Maestre JM, Trodden P & Ishii H (2019) . 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 17 December 2018 - 19 December 2018.
Grzedzinski K & Trodden P (2018) . Proceedings of the 2018 Australian & New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC 2018), 7 December 2018 - 8 December 2018.
Olaru S, Mc Namara P, Negenborn R, Canizares Gaztelu JC, Farina M, Maestre JM & Trodden P (2018) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 51(30) (pp 107-111), 13 September 2018 - 15 September 2018.
Mc Namara P, Negenborn R, Canizares Gaztelu JC, Farina M, Maestre JM, Olaru S & Trodden P (2018) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 51(30) (pp 101-106), 13 September 2018 - 15 September 2018.
Baldivieso Monasterios P, Hernandez Vicente B & Trodden PA (2017) . Proceedings of the IFAC 2017 World Congress, 9 July 2017 - 14 July 2017.
Hernandez Vicente B, Baldivieso Monasterios P & Trodden P (2017) . Proceedings of the IFAC 2017 World Congress, Vol. 50(1) (pp 11829-11834), 9 July 2017 - 14 July 2017.
Guicherd R, Trodden PA, Mills AR & Kadirkamanathan V (2017) . Proceedings of the IFAC 2017 World Congress
Ejegi EE, Rossiter JA & Trodden P (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL). Belfast, 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
Hernandez Vicente B & Trodden P (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL). Belfast, 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
Baldivieso Monasterios PR & Trodden P (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL). Belfast, 31 August 2016 - 2 September 2016.
Hernandez Vicente B & Trodden P (2016) . American Control Conference (ACC), 2016. Boston MA, 6 July 2016 - 8 November 2016.
Trodden P, Baldivieso Monasterios PR & Maestre JM (2016) . American Control Conference (ACC), 2016. Boston MA, 6 July 2016 - 8 July 2016.
Smyrnakis , Bauso D, Trodden PA & Veres SM (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 184-189), 29 June 2016 - 1 July 2016.
Ejegi EE, Rossiter JA & Trodden P (2016) . Proceedings of the 2016 European Control Conference (ECC). Aalborg, 29 June 2016 - 1 July 2016.
Ejegi E, Rossiter JA & Trodden PA (2015) . Proceedings of the 2015 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 1044-1049). Linz, 15 July 2015 - 17 July 2015.
Cedeno-Campos VM, Trodden PA & Dodd TJ (2015) . IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA, Vol. 2015-October
Ejegi E, Trodden P & Rossiter JA (2014) . Proceedings of the 2014 UKACC 10th International Conference on Control (CONTROL 2014). Loughborough, 9 July 2014 - 11 July 2014.
Cedeno-Campos VM, Trodden PA, Dodd TJ & Heley J (2013) . Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013 (pp 4819-4824)
Trodden PA, Bukhsh WA, Grothey A & McKinnon KIM (2012) . IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Saponara M, Barrena V, Bemporad A, Hartley EN, Maciejowski JM, Richards AG, Tramutola A & Trodden P (2011) Model predictive control application to spacecraft rendezvous in Mars sample return scenario. European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS). St Petersburg, 4 July 2011 - 8 July 2011.
Trodden P, Nicholson D & Richards A (2009) . Proceedings of the 2009 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 2996-3001). Budapest, 23 August 2009 - 26 August 2009.
Trodden P & Richards A (2009) . Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (pp 896-901)
Trodden P & Richards A (2008) . AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit
Trodden P & Richards A (2007) . Proceedings of the 2007 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 2172-2178). Kos, Greece, 2 July 2007 - 5 July 2007.
Trodden P & Richards A (2006) . Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Vol. 2006 (pp 2034-2039)
Saponara M, Barrena V, Bemporad A, Hartley E, Maciejowski J, Richards A, Tramutola A & Trodden P () Model predictive control application to spacecraft rendezvous in Mars sample return scenario. 4th European Conference for AeroSpace Sciences (EUCASS). St Petersburg, Russia, 4 July 2010 - 8 July 2010.

Reports

Bukhsh WA, Grothey A, McKinnon KIM & Trodden P (2013) Local solutions of the optimal power flow problem, ERGO preprint 13-018, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
Trodden P, Bukhsh WA, Grothey A & McKinnon KIM (2011) MILP islanding of power networks by bus splitting, ERGO preprint 11-016, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
Bukhsh WA, Grothey A, McKinnon KIM & Trodden P (2011) Local solutions of optimal power flow, ERGO preprint 11-017, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
Trodden P, Bukhsh WA, Grothey A & McKinnon KIM (2011) MILP formulation for islanding of power networks, ERGO preprint 11-015, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Other

Trodden P (2023) .

Preprints

Baldivieso-Monasterios PR & Trodden PA (2020) Coalitional predictive control: consensus-based coalition forming with robust regulation, arXiv.
Trodden PA, Maestre JM & Ishii H (2019) Actuation attacks on constrained linear systems: a set-theoretic analysis, arXiv.
Baldivieso-Monasterios PR & Trodden PA (2018) Model predictive control of linear systems with preview information: feasibility, stability and inherent robustness, arXiv.
Hernandez BA & Trodden PA (2018) Stabilizing predictive control with persistence of excitation for constrained linear systems, arXiv.
Guicherd R, Trodden PA, Mills AR & Kadirkamanathan V (2017) Weak Interactions Based System Partitioning Using Integer Linear Programming, arXiv.
Hernandez B, Baldivieso P & Trodden P (2016) Distributed MPC: Guaranteeing Global Stabilizability from Locally Designed Tubes, arXiv.
Monasterios PRB, Hernandez B & Trodden PA (2016) Nested Distributed Model Predictive Control, arXiv.
Hernandez B & Trodden P (2016) Distributed Model Predictive Control Using a Chain of Tubes, arXiv.
Hernandez B & Trodden P (2015) Persistently Exciting Tube MPC, arXiv.
Trodden P (2015) A One-step Approach to Computing a Polytopic Robust Positively Invariant Set, arXiv.
Trodden PA, Bukhsh WA, Grothey A & McKinnon KIM (2013) Optimization-based Islanding of Power Networks using Piecewise Linear AC Power Flow, arXiv.

Research group

I am keen to hear from outstanding, motivated students who are interested in studying for a PhD in a topic related to my research interests; some example project topics may be found here.

You will need to apply by following the process here, nominating me as primary supervisor. Please contact me beforehand to discuss your application. Please note that, if your application is successful, the offer of a PhD does not mean that the project will be funded; more information about fees, funding and scholarships may be found here.

Current and past students include:

Amba J. Asuk (Topic: Distributed random convex programming for robust optimal control of large-scale systems)
Abidemi Ajiborisha (Topic: Load-frequency control incorporating renewable energy resources)
Kacper Grzedzinski (Topic: Adaptive model predictive control for condition-based gas turbine engine control)
Romain Guicherd (with Visakan Kadirkamanathan) (Topic: Distributed model-based control for gas turbine engines)
Bernardo Hernandez Vicente (Thesis: Model predictive control for linear systems: adaptive, distributed and switching implementations)
Pablo Baldivieso Monasterios (Thesis: Distributed model predictive control for reconfigurable large-scale systems)
Eyefujirin Ejegi (with Anthony Rossiter) (Thesis: Model predictive based load frequency control studies in a deregulated environment

Professional activities and memberships

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Outstanding reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,