Dr Sean Anderson

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer

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s.anderson@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Sean Anderson
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
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Dr Sean Anderson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of ߲ݴý; He received the MEng degree in Control Systems Engineering from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of ߲ݴý, ߲ݴý, U.K., in 2001, and the PhD degree from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of ߲ݴý, in 2005.

He then moved to the Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of ߲ݴý, where he worked as a Research Associate from 2005-2010. He moved to the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering in 2010 where he is currently pursuing research themes in bioinspired robotics as well as adaptive and optimal control in biological systems.

Research interests
  • Linear, Nonliner and Spatiotemporal System Identification
  • Robotics and Biomechatronics
  • Theoretical Neuroscience and Computational Biology

Research Experience

  • Research Associate in Complex Systems and Signal Processing Group, Dept of ACSE, Univ of ߲ݴý, 2010-2011.
  • EU FP7 project "Biomimetic Technology for Vibrissal Active Touch" (Biotact), 2009-2010.
  • EPSRC project "Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inspired Adaptive Control Algorithm: From Electrophysiology to Robotics" (Eyerobot), 2005-2008.
Publications

Journal articles

  • Bidar O, Anderson SR & Qin N (2024) . Physics of Fluids, 36(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jacobs WR, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2024) . IEEE Access, 1-1. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R, Yu Y, Horoshenkov KV & Anderson SR (2024) . IEEE Sensors Journal, 1-1. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yu Y, Horoshenkov K, Worley R & Anderson S (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(4_supplement), A68-A68. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Su J, Anderson S, Javed M, Khompatraporn C, Udomsakdigool A & Mihaylova L (2023) . Neurocomputing, 555. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Edwards S, Zhang R, Worley R, Mihaylova L, Aitken J & Anderson S (2023) . Frontiers of Robotics and AI, 10. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yu Y, Worley R, Anderson S & Horoshenkov KV (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(1), 367-383. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vicente BAH, Trodden PA & Anderson SR (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Rossiter JM, Dean P, Porrill J, Anderson SR & Pearson MJ (2021) . Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 18(174). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vicente BAH, James SS & Anderson SR (2021) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 29(3), 1380-1387. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R, Ma K, Sailor G, Schirru MM, Dwyer-Joyce R, Boxall J, Dodd T, Collins R & Anderson S (2020) . Sensors, 20(19). RIS download Bibtex download
  • James SS, Anderson SR & Lio MD (2020) . IEEE Access, 8, 73714-73729. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Porrill J & Dean P (2020) . Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 14(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Anderson S, Dean P & Porrill J (2019) . PLoS Computational Biology, 15(7). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jacobs WR, Dodd T & Anderson SR (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(5), 1905-1915. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jacobs WR, Baldacchino T, Dodd TJ & Anderson SR (2018) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(12), 4172-4187. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baldacchino T, Jacobs WR, Anderson SR, Worden K & Rowson J (2018) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 6(13). RIS download Bibtex download
  • James S, Papapavlou C, Blenkinsop A, Cope AJ, Anderson SJ, Moustakas K & Gurney K (2018) . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 1-33. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blenkinsop A, Anderson SR & Gurney K (2017) . The Journal of Physiology, 595(13), 4525-4548. RIS download Bibtex download
  • James S, Bell OA, Nazli MAM, Pearce RE, Spencer J, Tyrrell K, Paine PJ, Heaton TJ, Anderson S, Da Lio M & Gurney K (2017) . PLoS One, 12(5), e0176945-e0176945. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgiou C, Anderson S & Dodd T (2017) . The International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(3), 274-291. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Anderson SR, Porrill J & Dean P (2016) . Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13(122). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aram P, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2015) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 26(11), 2978-2983. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stahl JS, Thumser ZC, May PJ, Andrade FH, Anderson SR & Dean P (2015) . Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(3), 1455-1467. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jacobs WR, Wilson ED, Assaf T, Rossiter J, Dodd TJ, Porrill J & Anderson SR (2015) . Smart Materials and Structures, 24(5). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Robertson AL, Holmes GR, Bojarczuk AN, Burgon J, Loynes CA, Chimen M, Sawtell AK, Hamza B, Willson J, Walmsley SR , Anderson SR et al (2014) . Sci Transl Med, 6(225), 225ra29. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dean P, Anderson S, Porrill J & Jörntell H (2013) . The Journal of Physiology, 591(22), 5459-5474. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Porrill J, Dean P & Anderson SR (2013) . Neural Networks, 47, 134-149. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hale MF, Drew K, Baldacchino T, Anderson S, Sanders DS, Riley SA, Sidhu R & McAlindon ME (2013) . Gut, 62(Suppl 1), a156. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baldacchino T, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2013) . Automatica, 49(9), 2641-2651. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Porrill J, Pearson MJ, Pipe AG, Prescott TJ & Dean P (2012) . PLoS One, 7(9), e44560-e44560. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Holmes GR, Anderson SR, Dixon G, Robertson AL, Reyes-Aldasoro CC, Billings SA, Renshaw SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2012) . J R Soc Interface, 9(77), 3229-3239. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Krishnanathan K, Anderson SR, Billings SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2012) . ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, 1(8), 375-384. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kadirkamanathan V, Anderson SR, Billings SA, Zhang X, Holmes GR, Reyes-Aldasoro CC, Elks PM & Renshaw SA (2012) . PLoS ONE, 7(4). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Holmes GR, Dixon G, Anderson SR, Reyes-Aldasoro CC, Elks PM, Billings SA, Whyte MKB, Kadirkamanathan V & Renshaw SA (2012) . Adv Hematol, 2012, 792163. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baldacchino T, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2012) Structure detection and parameter estimation for NARX models in a unified EM framework. Automatica. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Lepora NF, Porrill J & Dean P (2010) . IEEE T BIO-MED ENG, 57(7), 1554-1567. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Pearson MJ, Pipe A, Prescott T, Dean P & Porrill J (2010) . IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26(6), 1065-1076. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chadwick MA, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2010) . INT J SYST SCI, 41(7), 839-851. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lenz A, Anderson SR, Pipe AG, Melhuish C, Dean P & Porrill J (2009) . IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern, 39(6), 1420-1433. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Porrill J, Sklavos S, Gandhi NJ, Sparks DL & Dean P (2009) . J Neurophysiol, 101(6), 2907-2923. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kadirkamanathan V, Halauca C & Anderson SR (2009) . INT J SYST SCI, 40(7), 745-756. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2008) . IEEE T SIGNAL PROCES, 56(8), 3765-3770. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Dean P, Kadirkamanathan V, Kaneko CRS & Porrill J (2007) . IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 54(12), 2205-2213. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2007) . AUTOMATICA, 43(11), 1859-1868. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Kadirkamanathan V, Chipperfield A, Sharifi V & Swithenbank J (2005) . COMPUT CHEM ENG, 29(5), 1121-1130. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang R, Worley R, Edwards S, Aitken J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L () Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping for Sewer Pipe Networks Leveraging Cylindrical Regularity. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhu J, Boxall JB, Hills AF, Dwyer-Joyce RS, Anderson SR & Collins RP () . Infrastructures, 6(2), 30-30. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Dean P, Anderson SR & Porrill J () . Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 9. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aitken J, Evans M, Worley R, Edwards S, Zhang R, Dodd T, Mihaylova L & Anderson S () Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Inspection Robots in Water and Sewer Pipe Networks: A Review. IEEE Access. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Jacobs W & Anderson SR (2024) , Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (pp. 361-366). Springer Nature Switzerland RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kouppas C, Pearson M, Dean P & Anderson S (2017) , Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 230-241). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Prescott TJ, Mitchinson B, Lepora NF, Wilson SP, Anderson SR, Porrill J, Dean P, Fox CW, Pearson MJ, Sullivan JC & Pipe AG (2015) , Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System (pp. 213-240). Springer New York RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N (2024) . AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bidar O, Anderson S & Qin N (2024) . AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum RIS download Bibtex download
  • Su J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L (2023) . 2023 26th International Conference on Information Fusion Proceedings. Charleston, SC, USA, 27 June 2023 - 27 June 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Su J, Anderson S & Mihaylova LS (2022) . 2022 Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF), 12 October 2022 - 14 October 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Edwards S, Mihaylova L, Aitken J & Anderson S (2022) Toward robust visual odometry using prior 2D map information and multiple hypothesis particle filtering. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems; 22nd Annual Conference, TAROS 2021, Lincoln, UK, September 8–10, 2021, Proceedings, 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Evans MH, Aitken JM & Anderson SR (2021) . 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 6 December 2021 - 10 December 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jaramillo-Avila U, Aitken JM, Gurney K & Anderson SR (2021) . 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 27 September 2021 - 1 October 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R & Anderson S (2021) . IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R, Yu Y & Anderson S (2020) . 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), 14 September 2020 - 16 September 2020. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jaramillo-Avila U, Aitken J & Anderson S (2020) . The Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) (pp 773-778). Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2 December 2019 - 6 December 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jaramillo-Avila U & Anderson SR (2019) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 193-204), 9 July 2019 - 12 July 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • James S & Anderson SR (2018) . Proceedings of 2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 146-151), 5 September 2018 - 7 September 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anupam A, Wilton DJ, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2018) . 2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 5 September 2018 - 7 September 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2018) . 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob), 26 August 2018 - 29 August 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jaramillo-Avila U, Hartwell A, Gurney K & Anderson S (2018) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 10965 (pp 489-490), 25 July 2018 - 27 July 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2018) Compact Deep Neural Networks for Computationally Efficient Gesture Classification From Electromyography Signals.. BioRob (pp 891-896) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Da Lio M, Mazzalai A, Windridge D, Thill S, Svensson H, Yuksel M, Gurney K, Saroldi A, Andreone L, Anderson SR & Heich H-J (2017) . 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 16 October 2017 - 19 October 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma K, Schirru MM, Zahraee AH, Dwyer-Joyce R, Boxall J, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 2548-2553). Singapore RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma K, Schirru M, Zahraee AH, Dwyer-Joyce R, Boxall J, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 3 July 2017 - 7 July 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson S (2016) . 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 880-883), 16 August 2016 - 20 August 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ke M, Hassan-Zahraee A, Zhu J, Mills R, Boxall J, Dwyer-Joyce R, Dodd T, Collins R & Anderson SR (2016) Robotic Mapping and Localisation in Feature Sparse Water Pipes. 19th World Conference on Non Destructive Testing, 13 March 2017 - 17 March 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Assaf T, Wilson ED, Anderson S, Dean P, Porrill J & Pearson MJ (2016) . 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 16 May 2016 - 21 May 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jacobs WR, Baldacchino T & Anderson SR (2015) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 48(28) (pp 172-177) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ma K, Zhu J, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2015) (pp 161-166) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baldacchino T, Jacobs W, Anderson SR, Worden K & Rowson J (2015) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, 12 January 2015 - 15 January 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgiou C, Anderson S & Dodd T (2015) . 2015 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), 17 February 2015 - 19 February 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson SR, Aram P, Bhattacharya B & Kadirkamanathan V (2014) . IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), Vol. 3(PART 1) (pp 949-954) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jacobs W, Wilson ED, Assaf T, Rossiter JM, Dodd TJ, Porrill J & Anderson SR (2014) (pp 259-260) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Anderson SR, Assaf T, Rossiter JM, Pearson MJ & Porrill J (2014) (pp 53-63) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Holmes GR, Anderson SR, Dixon G, Renshaw SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2013) . Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, Vol. 2013 (pp 3455-3458). United States RIS download Bibtex download
  • Holmes GR, Anderson SR, Dixon G, Renshaw SA, Kadirkamanathan V & IEEE (2013) A Bayesian framework for identifying cell migration dynamics. 2013 35TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC) (pp 3459-3462) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Anderson SR & Porrill J (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 311-322) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson E, Anderson SR, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Walters P, Prescott TJ, Melhuish C, Rossiter J, Pipe T, Dean P & Porrill J (2012) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 424-425) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zammit Mangion A, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2011) . IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), Vol. 44(1 PART 1) (pp 4489-4494) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Porrill J, Anderson S & Dean P (2010) . BMC Neuroscience, Vol. 11(S1) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Binns LA, Valachis D, Anderson S, Gough DW, Nicholson D & Greenway P (2002) . Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XI RIS download Bibtex download
  • Anderson S, Binns LA, Collins PRC, Cooke A, Greenway P & Valachis D (2002) . Battlespace Digitization and Network-Centric Warfare II RIS download Bibtex download
  • Binns LA, Valachis D, Anderson S, Gough DW, Nicholson D & Greenway P (2002) . Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XI RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N () An open-source adjoint-based field inversion tool for data-driven RANS modelling. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N () Turbulent Mean Flow Reconstruction Based on Sparse Multi-sensor Data and Adjoint-based Field Inversion. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, P. Dean JMR & Anderson SR () . USES Conference Proceedings RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R & Anderson S () Topological Robot Localization in a Large-Scale Water Pipe Network. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 21st Annual Conference, TAROS 2020, Nottingham, UK, Proceedings - TAROS 2020 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R & Anderson S () . UKRAS20 Conference: “Robots into the real world” Proceedings RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang R, Evans M, Worley R, Anderson S & Mihaylova L () Improving SLAM in Pipe Networks by Leveraging Cylindrical Regularity. Proceedings of TAROS (pp 1-10), 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Worley R & Anderson S () Robust efficient localization of robots in pipe networks using a particle filter for hybrid metric-topological space. European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) 2021, Proceedings. Virtual conference, 31 August 2021 - 3 September 2021. RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Worley R, Yu Y, Horoshenkov K & Anderson S (2023) , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2018) Compact Deep Neural Networks for Computationally Efficient Gesture Classification From Electromyography Signals, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • James S, Bell OA, Nazli MAM, Pearce RE, Spencer J, Tyrrell K, Paine PJ, Heaton TJ, Anderson S, Da Lio M & Gurney K (2017) Target-distractor Synchrony Affects Performance in a Novel Motor Task for Studying Action Selection, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR () A temporal-to-spatial deep convolutional neural network for classification of hand movements from multichannel electromyography data. RIS download Bibtex download
Grants

Major Grants

  • EU H2020, Dreams4Cars - Dreamlike Simulation Abilities for Automated Cars (߲ݴý PI), Jan 2017-Dec 2019, EUR 4 million.
  • EU FP7, NoTremor - Virtual, Physiological and Computational Neuromuscular Models for the Predictive Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (CI), Jan 2014-Dec 2016, EUR 2.9 million.
  • EPSRC, Assessing the Underworld - An integrated performance model of city infrastructures (EP/K021699/1) (CI), Jun 2013-May 2017, £5,782,838.
  • EPSRC, Bioinspired Control of Electro-Active Polymers for Next Generation Soft Robots (EP/I032533/1) (CI), Jan 2012-Jul 2015, £1,081,051. 

Pilot Funding, Feasibility Studies and Equipment Grants

  • Royal Society Equipment Grant, Oct 2013-Sep 2014, £15,000.
  • Insigneo Bursary for Clinical Translation, funded by ߲ݴý Hospitals Charity Trust. Gastric Surface Mapping for Future Automated Approaches to Wireless Capsule Endoscopy of the Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract, Dec 2013-Apr 2014, £15,500.
  • Engineering for Life award, funded by the University of ߲ݴý. Towards a smart vest for sensing and actuation of wireless capsule endoscopes (PI), Oct 2012-Mar 2013, £31,741.
  • Peninne Water Group, University of ߲ݴý. Developing ultrasound sensing technology to assess infrastructure and soil conditions external to buried pipes, Sep 2012-Jan 2013, £15,000.
Teaching activities
  • ACS61011 Deep Learning