Drummond , Ross, Dr

Dr Ross Drummond

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering

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Dr Ross Drummond
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
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Profile: Ross Drummond received an MEng degree from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London (2009-2013). He then moved to the Control Group at the University of Oxford (2013-2017) to complete his DPhil degree. After some time as a research assistant (2017-2020) working on battery modelling and control, he was awarded a UK Intelligence Community research fellowship (2020-2023) from the Royal Academy of Engineering. He then began a lectureship in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of ��«Ӱҵ.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Oxford, 2017

Research interests: Lithium-ion batteries:
• Mathematical modelling.
• Battery management systems.
• Manufacturing.

Nonlinear systems:
• Lurie systems.
• Lyapunov functions/Zames-Falb multipliers.
• Positive systems.

Neural networks:
• Robustness certificates.
• Connections to model predictive control.

Publications

Journal articles

Tredenick EC, Boyce AM, Wheeler S, Li J, Sun Y, Drummond R, Duncan SR, Grant PS & Shearing PR (2025) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 172(3), 030503-030503.
Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171(6), 060531-060531.
Lekas S, Drummond R, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, PP(99), 1-11.
Drummond R, Turner MC & Duncan SR (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(1), 1182-1191.
Drummond R & Tucker G (2023) Optimal Fast Charging of Lithium Ion Batteries: Between Model-Based and Data-Driven Methods. Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
Drummond R & Turner MC (2023) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 3908-3913.
Taghavian H, Drummond R & Johansson M (2023) . Automatica, 155, 111122-111122.
Drummond R & Valmorbida G (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-12.
Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-8.
Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2022) . Journal of Power Sources, 542, 231758-231758.
Grant PS, Greenwood D, Pardikar K, Smith R, Entwistle T, Middlemiss LA, Murray G, Cussen SA, Lain MJ, Capener MJ , Copley M et al (2022) . Journal of Physics: Energy.
Drummond R, Cheng C, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2022) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 169(1), 010528-010528.
Toso LF, Drummond R & Duncan SR (2022) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 2287-2292.
Drummond R (2022) Bounding the difference between model predictive control and neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.
Drummond R, Couto LD & Zhang D (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 30(5), 2220-2227.
Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2020) . Journal of Power Sources, 448, 227376-227376.
Turner MC & Drummond R (2020) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 65(4), 1660-1667.
Drummond R, Bizeray AM, Howey DA & Duncan SR (2020) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28(4), 1284-1295.
Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2019) . Journal of Power Sources, 413, 59-67.
Valmorbida G, Drummond R & Duncan SR (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(3), 1201-1208.
Drummond R, Zhao S & Duncan SR (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 27(3), 1071-1083.
Drummond R, Valmorbida G & Duncan SR (2018) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2(2), 207-212.
Drummond R, Zhao S, Howey DA & Duncan SR (2017) . Journal of Energy Storage, 10, 48-55.
Drummond R, Howey DA & Duncan SR (2015) . Journal of Power Sources, 277, 317-328.
Drummond R, Tredenick E, Kirk TL, Forghani M, Grant P & Duncan S () . Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC () . IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, dnae003.

Conference proceedings papers

Drummond R, Taghavian H & Baldivieso-Monasterios PR (2024) . 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp 3584-3589), 10 July 2024 - 12 July 2024.
Nie Y, Ko P & Drummond R (2024) . 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), 25 June 2024 - 28 June 2024.
Su L, Drummond R & Khong SZ (2024) . 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), 25 June 2024 - 28 June 2024.
Liang W, Baldivieso PR, Drummond R & Shin D (2024) . 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 10 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
Richardson CR, Turner MC, Gunn SR & Drummond R (2024) Strengthened stability analysis of discrete-time Lurie systems involving ReLU neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 209-221)
Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2024) Convex neural network synthesis for robustness in the 1-norm. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 1388-1399)
Drummond R, Baldivieso-Monasterios PR & Valmorbida G (2024) Mapping back and forth between model predictive control and neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 242 (pp 1228-1240)
Courtier NE, Drummond R, Ascencio P, Couto LD & Howey DA (2022) . 2022 European Control Conference (ECC), 12 July 2022 - 15 July 2022.
Couto LD, Drummond R, Zhang D, Kirk T & Howey DA (2022) . 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), Vol. 00 (pp 1087-1093), 8 June 2022 - 8 June 2022.
Drummond R, Valmorbida G & Duncan SR (2017) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 50(1) (pp 2671-2676)
Rossiter J, Drummond R, Su L & Bars R () State space files for the control101 toolbox. IFAC-PapersOnLine. Budapest, Hungary, 17 June 2025 - 17 June 2025.
Lekas S, Drummond R, Grant P & Duncan S () Closed-loop control of dielectric permittivity for 3D-printed radio-frequency devices. Procs. of the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

Preprints

Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Liang W, Baldivieso PR, Drummond R & Shin D (2024) , arXiv.
Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Tredenick EC, Boyce AM, Wheeler S, Li J, Sun Y, Drummond R, Duncan SR, Grant PS & Shearing PR (2023) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Lambert P, Tredenick E, Duncan S & Drummond R (2023) , Research Square Platform LLC.

Research group: Control.

Grants

Research Grants

High energy density battery pack design without compromising on safety, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Intelligence Community Research Fellowship, 10/2020 - 11/2023, £200,000 as PI

Teaching activities

ACS133 - Physical Systems
ACS317 - State Space Control Design