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
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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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 Sheffield.

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

  • Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2025) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1-8.
  • Lone JA, Drummond R, Bhaumik S & Tomar NK (2025) . European Journal of Control, 85, 101264-101264.
  • 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).
  • Drummond R, Tredenick E, Kirk TL, Forghani M, Grant P & Duncan S (2025) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 172(1).
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171(6).
  • Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2024) . IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, 41(1), 1-17.
  • Lekas S, Drummond R, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 32(5), 1579-1589.
  • 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.
  • Drummond R, Duncan S, Turner M, Pauli P & Allgower F (2023) Bounding the difference between model predictive control and neural networks. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 168, 817-829.
  • Drummond R, Guiver C & Turner MC (2023) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68(8), 5073-5080.
  • 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, 4(4).
  • Cheng C, Drummond R, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2022) . Journal of Power Sources, 542.
  • Drummond R, Cheng C, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2022) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 169(1).
  • Toso LF, Drummond R & Duncan SR (2022) . IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6, 2287-2292.
  • 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.
  • 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 & Valmorbida G () . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Conference proceedings

  • Rossiter J, Drummond R, Su L & Bars R (2025) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 59(7) (pp 54-59). Budapest, Hungary, 17 June 2025 - 17 June 2025.
  • Drummond R, Guiver C, Turner MC, Tredenick EC & Duncan SR (2025) . 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp 396-401), 25 August 2025 - 27 August 2025.
  • Duncan SR, Fruhnert M & Drummond R (2025) . 2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp 838-843), 25 August 2025 - 27 August 2025.
  • Lone JA, Drummond R, Bhaumik S, Tomar NK & Zhang D (2025) . 2025 American Control Conference (ACC) (pp 4031-4036), 8 July 2025 - 10 July 2025.
  • 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). Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024.
  • 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). Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024.
  • 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). Oxford, United Kingdom, 15 July 2024 - 15 July 2024.
  • Drummond R, Taghavian H & Baldivieso-Monasterios PR (2024) . 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) Proceedings (pp 3584-3589). Toronto, ON, Canada, 10 July 2024 - 10 July 2024.
  • Nie Y, Ko P & Drummond R (2024) . 2024 European Control Conference (ECC) Proceedings (pp 218-223). Stockholm, Sweden, 25 June 2024 - 25 June 2024.
  • Su L, Drummond R & Khong SZ (2024) . 2024 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 3015-3020), 25 June 2024 - 28 June 2024.
  • Liang W, Baldivieso PR, Drummond R & Shin D (2024) . 2024 UKACC 14th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 72-77). Winchester, United Kingdom, 10 April 2024 - 10 April 2024.
  • Lekas SA, Drummond R, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2022) . 6th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp 932-937). Trieste, Italy, 23 August 2022 - 23 August 2022.
  • Couto LD, Drummond R, Zhang D, Kirk T & Howey DA (2022) . 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) Proceedings (pp 1087-1093). Atlanta, GA, USA, 8 June 2022 - 8 June 2022.
  • Courtier NE, Drummond R, Ascencio P, Couto LD & Howey DA (2022) . Proceeding of 2022 European Control Conference (ECC) (pp 628-634). London, United Kingdom, 12 July 2022 - 12 July 2022.
  • Drummond R, Valmorbida G & Duncan SR (2017) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 50(1) (pp 2671-2676). Toulouse, France, 9 July 2017 - 9 July 2017.

Preprints

  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Liang W, Baldivieso PR, Drummond R & Shin D (2024) , arXiv.
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Tredenick EC, Wheeler S, Drummond R, Sun Y, Duncan SR & Grant PS (2024) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Tredenick EC, Boyce AM, Wheeler S, Li J, Sun Y, Drummond R, Duncan SR, Grant PS & Shearing PR (2023) , Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
  • Lambert P, Tredenick E, Duncan S & Drummond R (2023) , Springer Science and Business Media 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

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Control and Systems Engineering