Dr Chris Manzie
teaching
Control Systems. Teaching
biography
Dr Manzie completed his PhD thesis on Intelligent Control of Air Fuel Ratio in Automotive Engines in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne in 2001, continuing in the Department as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2003 where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research is predominately centred on nonlinear and adaptive control and identification problems in applications including powertrain control, by-wire vehicle control, gas turbine instability and biomedical engineering. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California in 2007.
He has collaborations with several industry partners including the Ford Motor Company of Australia, Pacifica Group Technologies, General Motors-Holden, Virtual Sailing Pty Ltd, SVW Pty Ltd and ANCA.
Dr Manzie is the Department's Postgraduate Student Coordinator.
research interests
Dr Manzie's research interests are in the applications of nonlinear and adaptive control, optimisation and learning systems particularly in the fields of by-wire systems, hybrid vehicles, biomedical engineering and gas turbines. Current projects and postgraduate supervision
curriculum vitae
selected recent publications
- C. Line, C. Manzie, M Good, (in press) "Electromechanical Brake Modelling and Control: From PI to MPC", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
- C. Manzie, H. Watson, and S Halgamuge, (2007). Fuel economy improvements for urban driving: Hybrid vs Intelligent vehicles", Transportation Research Part C, January 2007.
- C. Line, C. Manzie, M C Good (2005) Control of An Electromechanical Brake for Automotive Brake-By-Wire Systems With An Adapted Motion Control Architecture, SAE Transactions - Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems, July 2005.
- C. Manzie and H. Watson. (2003). A Novel Approach to Disturbance Rejection in Idle Speed Control Towards Reduced Idle Fuel Consumption, Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering.
- C. Panchapakesan, D. Ralph, M. Palaniswami and C. Manzie (2002) Effects of Moving the Centres in an RBF Network. IEEE Trans on Neural Networks, Vol 13, No. 6, pp 1299-1307, November 2002.