- Prof Jim Scanlan has a strong track record developing a range of autonomous platforms including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). - He has secured over £13 million in funding for research projects related to structronics, energy harvesting electronics, distributed sensing, and more. - His lab has developed several 3D printed UAVs, with the latest being SPOTTER and ASTRA drones intended to support climate science. Multifunctional 3D printed parts allow for design freedom, complexity, and reduced costs. - Prof Scanlan leads a £3.5 million capital project involving multiple faculties to develop integrated structures/sensors facilities and test subsystems for autonomous platforms.

1. Autonomy and Advanced Systems
Showcase: Structronics
Prof Jim Scanlan

2. History of developing range of Platforms

3. Funder
EPSRC
EPSRC
EPSRC
FP7
NERC
TSB/Rolls
NERC
Research Title
Next Generation Energy Harvesting Electronics-holistic
Digital Agent Networking for Customer Energy Reduction
Energy Harvesting Materials for Smart Fabrics and Interactive
Advance
Support for the Ocean Bottom Instrument Facility
SILOET 2; autonmated design processes for aerosapce
Miniaturised low-cost high precision mass market conductivity
and temperature sensor technology
NERC
Ultra miniaturised, low power, high precision, robust CT-DO
sensor system exploitation
EPSRC
Human-Agent Collectives [ORCHID]
Secure Meters Optimisation of Electricity Distribution Networks-Secure
UK
Meters UK-Jennings
EPSRC
Distributed Sensing
TSB
Smart Laser Manufacturing
EPSRC
Intelligent Agents for Home Energy Management
SEAS DTC
Control of Autonomous Mobile Sensors
DSTL
Unmanned Air System Studentship
EPSRC
DECODE (Decision Environment for COmplex DEsigns)
European
2Seas; development of maritime autonomous systems
Regional Dev
EPSRC/TSB
SAMULET Project 5: Processing Advanced Aerospace Materials
EU
CRESCENDO multidicisplinary design of aerospace systems
Rolls Royce Plc Whole Engine Intelligent Costing Modelling
Rolls Royce Plc Value Driven Design of aerospace systems
TSB/Rolls
SILOET 3 novel design methods for additive manufacturing
NERC
Geothermal systems related to rapid uplift on the Alpine Fault,
New Zealand
NERC
IODP2: Ocean crust carbonate veins
NERC
IODP Expedition 335 Superfast 4
NERC
Alpine Fault Zone
FP7
ROV-E autonomous rover
EPSRC
NEWCAT - Configurable Ananlogue Transistors: Conquering
Unreliablility in a Shrinking World
EPSRC
Reliable Power Systems and Integrated Circuits
DSTL
Research and Development into Advanced Design
EPSRC
Dry Powder Jet Printer
Invibio Ltd
extrusion freeform fabrication of PEEK for health care
application
TOTAL
Value
PI
£722,135.80
£43,487.00
£1,160,556.00
£508,498.39
£316,799.00
£767,304.00
£8,000.00
Bashir Al-Hashimi
Ben Anderson
Steve Beeby
Michael Butler
Tim Henstock
Andy Keane
Hywel Morgan
£6,946.00
Hywel Morgan
£2,944,129.49
£1,587,383.00
Nick Jennings
Nick Jennings
£408,912.00
£319,662.00
£813,141.00
£287,917.00
£94,419.00
£768,872.00
£314,686.00
Nick Jennings
David Richardson
Alex Rogers
Alex Rogers
Jim Scanlan
Jim Scanlan
Jim Scanlan
£260,331.00
£302,468.00
£66,000.00
£120,000.00
£453,009.00
£53,944.88
Jim Scanlan
Jim Scanlan
Jim Scanlan
Jim Scanlan
Jim Scanlan
Damon Teagle
£276,802.19
£75,708.00
£357,725.00
£184,344.00
£442,062.18
Damon Teagle
Damon Teagle
Damon Teagle
Scott Walker
Peter Wilson
£6,040.00
£49,972.50
£65,646.00
£42,400.00
£13,829,300.43
Peter Wilson
Shoufeng Yang
Shoufeng Yang
Shoufeng Yang
Strong track
record in this
area
(Now
<£16M)

4. Structronics;
background at
Southampton

5. SULSA; Technology Demonstrator
• July 2011:
World‟s first
“printed”
aircraft
• Newscientist
video
http://www.yo
utube.com/wa
tch?v=kRDg4
UB9Ajg over
500,000 hits
Parts Manufactured by 3T RPD Ltd

6. 3D printing UAVs
• Fast
• Design freedom
• Complexity comes for „free‟
• Multi-functional parts

7. 2SEAS-20
exploded view
•
Extensive use of Nylon 3D printing technology
•
Modular design
•
Redundant systems
•
All weather operation
7

8. 2SEAS-20
3D printed parts
•
Fuselage, fuel tank and other complex geometry
parts have been produced through 3D printing
•
Selective Laser Sintering technology
•
Quick: from CAD model to final part in a few
hours
8

9. Multifunctional Parts
• Fuel Tank
– Lifting body
– Payload Pod
Attachment
– Centre spar
support
– High-lift system
support
– Fuel sensor mount
– Baffle
– Filler
–…

10. 3d Printed UAVs

11. SPOTTER*
• 5th printed UAV at Southampton
• *Southampton Platform for
Observation, Tracking, Telecommunications and
Environmental Reconnaissance.
• Four stroke engines
11

12. ASTRA* UAS to support climate
scientists
* Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~astra/

13. …through exploiting/developing
technologies like: rapid prototyping

14. Developing a fleet of ultra-lightweight
drones for atmospheric data collection
Massive
Atmospheric
Volume
Instrumentation
System
Dr Philip King
Balloon-launched drone swarm will fly precalculated paths and transmit data to ground
Chris Paulson
Conductive inkjet printing for ultra-lightweight UAVs – design-to-circuit ~3 hours

15. Structronics Research vision.
• Integrated Structures
/sensors/ actuators
Vibration sensor
Strain sensor
• Goal, reduced
cost, reduced
weight, increased
reliability
• £3.5 EPSRC Capital
grant
Fuel level sensor

16. £3.5M Capital Project
Peter Wilson ECS
Damon Teagle NOCS
Jim Scanlan FEE
Platform Field testing of
systems
Mobile Command
and
Communications
Centre (MC3)
Tested sub-systems
for use in platforms
Systems Reliability
Lab (SRL)
Integrated
Structures and
Sensors Facility
(ISSF)
Creation of autonomous
system sub-systems
Jim Scanlan FEE
Damon Teagle
NOCS
Peter Wilson ECS

17. Name
1 Dr Rafic Ajaj FEE
2 Dr Mario Brito NOCS
3 Mantas Brazinskas FEE
4 Chris Crispin FEE
5 Chang Liu FEE
6 Dr Justin Dix NOCS
7 Mehmet Erbil FEE
8 Dr Maaten Furlong NOCS
9 Mario Ferraro FEE
10 Yangzi Guo FEE
11 Dr Philip King FEE
12 Prof Andy Keane FEE
13 Andrew Lock FEE
14 Dr Kirk Martinez ECS
15 Dr Matt Mowlem NOCS
16 Chris Paulson FEE
17 Dr Alex Philips FEE
18 Dr Stephen Prior FEE
19 Evangelos Papageorgiou FEE
20 Prof Eric Rogers ECS
21 Dr Andras Sobester FEE
22 Amrith Surendra FEE
23 Prof Jim Scanlan FEE
24 Prof Damon Teagle NOCS
25 Prof Stephen Turnock FEE
26 Dr Nick Townsend FEE
27 Luke Teacy ECS
28 Dr Glyn Thomas FEE
29 Dr Peter Wilson ECS
30 Dr Scott Walker FEE
31 Dr Russell Wynn NOCS
32 Aleksander Lidtke
Research area
Morphing wings
Risk and Reliability
Rotary wing research
High altitude UAV research
GPS denied environments
Coastal applications of UAVs
Rotary wings
MARS facility
2Seas maritime UAV
Directional antennae for UAVs
Lightweight UAV avionics
UAV propulsion research
2Seas maritime UAV
Vision and signal processing
Marine remote sensing
Rapid prototyped UAVs
Maritime autonomy
Rotary wing research
Concept design of UAVs
Control of AUVs
MAVIS EPSRC project
VDD RR sponsored research
Unmanned capital grant/ H2020
Ocean, Earth Science Sensing
Maritime autonomy
Maritime motion control
Agents and control of UAVS
Rotary wing research
Avionics systems
Space systems
Science user of AUVs
Cubesat design
Over 30 Academics
across 3 Faculties

18. Thankyou
Questions?