About SERG

Systems Engineering Research Group is founded in Brunel University London and it is a part of electronics & computer engineering and civil & enviromental engineering departments.
Our capabilities include: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), National Instrument Suite (NI), Sensor & Actuation Networks, Flexible I/O Configurations, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL), Software-in-the-Loop (SiL), Robotics, RFID technologies. High performance computing facilities (e.g. intel xeon (E5-2583 V4) platform and the latest pascal GPU architecture).

Modelling tools: LabView, MATLAB, Arena, and other research based software tools for quality assessment, control and event modelling built in SERG.



Project Design

The key scientific areas that the centre will become known for are:

  • Complex Systems.
  • Environmental Sciences, Technology and Economy.
  • Data and Knowledge Science and Engineering.
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
  • Micro-Electronics and Electronics Security and Provenance.
  • Digital Economy.
  • Circular Economy Philosophy, Science and Technology.
  • Advance Process Monitoring and Control.
  • Water Engineering.
  • Advanced Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
  • Applied Automation and Robotics.

Current and expanding applications in:

  • Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing/Production Processes.
  • Water and Wastewater Industry.
  • Green Technologies.
  • Photoelectronic and Laser.
  • Machine Tools and Robotics.
  • Navigation, Aerospace, Automotive, and Defence.
  • Advanced Materials.
  • Security and Cybersecurity.
  • Waste Management, Resource Extraction and Circular Economy.
  • BioFuels.
  • Sensors and Data acquisition technologies.
  • Value Chain Integration.
  • Large scale Tracking, traceability and provenance evaluation for multiple industries (aerospace, aviation, food, security, defence…).
  • Healthcare Technologies and Management Systems.