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.

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

  • Lone JA, Atlan N, Fasolato S, Raimondo DM & Drummond R (2026) . IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 1-12.
  • Tredenick EC, Boyce AM, Drummond R & Duncan SR (2026) . Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 173(9), 090530-090530.
  • Lekas S, Drummond R, Zheng Q, Grant PS & Duncan SR (2026) . Additive Manufacturing, 118, 105089-105089.
  • 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 & 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.
  • Lambert P, Drummond R, Ross JP, Tredenick EC, Howey DA & Duncan SR () . Communications Engineering, 5(1).

Conference proceedings

  • Ramesh N, Drummond R, Monasterios PRB & Nie Y (2025) . 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp 905-910), 9 December 2025 - 12 December 2025.
  • 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.

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.
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
  • ELE130 Analysis Tools for Mechatronics, Computer Engineering and AI
  • ELE316 State Space Control Design

Links

Control and Systems Engineering