Jonathan Paxman

Control Engineering Group

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I am currently employed as a Teaching Assistant and Research Associate by the Cambridge University Department of Engineering.

Academic

Graduated in 1998 with a BE(1st class Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and BSc in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia.

I commenced postgraduate study at Cambridge in October 1998, supported by a Packer Scholarship (Cambridge Australia Trust and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust), and an Overseas Research Student award (ORS).

I am a member of Churchill College, and the Control Group of the Cambridge University Engineering Department. In September, I completed an MPhil entitled Conditioning schemes for robust multivariable controllers.

My MPhil thesis is available in PDF form here.

I am currently preparing a PhD thesis entitled Switching Controllers: Realization, Initialization and Stability.

Awards and Scholarships

2000: Ford of Britain Trust bursary
1998: Packer Scholarship (CCT, CAT)
1998: Overseas Research Student Award (ORS)
1995: ADFA Research Student Award
1994: Bruce Kirkwood Memorial Scholarship

Publications

J.P. Paxman and G. Vinnicombe, Stability of Reset Switching Systems. European Control Conference, Cambridge, September 2003 (to appear).
J.P. Paxman and G. Vinnicombe, Optimal Transfer Schemes for Switching Controllers. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, December 2000.
J.P. Paxman and G. Vinnicombe, Optimal and Bumpless Transfer for switching controllers. UK Automatic Control Conference, Cambridge 2000. (nominated for best student paper)

Research Interests

Switching systems
Hybrid dynamical systems
Bumpless Transfer and Anti-windup for control
Robust multivariable control
Online tools for undergraduate teaching

Teaching

Project leader for the IIA Digital Robot Control project. Demonstrator and marker for the Pendulum Controller (3F2), and Flight Control (3F1) experiments. Demonstrator for IA and IB C++ laboratories, and for the IB Integrated Design Project.

Previous years supervised IIA Systems and Control course E4 (now 3F1 and 3F2), and IB Linear Systems and Control (Paper 6).

Developing online teaching tools for undergraduate computer programming courses (part of a CMI project).

E-mail: jpp27@cam.ac.uk

Department Address: University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 1223 3 39222

Fax: +44 1223 3 32662

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Jonathan Paxman- jpp27@cam.ac.uk last updated 16/6/03