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Matthew Stables

Lecturer Energy & Engineering

School of Engineering

After many years in industry, Matt began his academic career in 1999 as a mature student, graduating with BSc Environmental Science from Lancaster University. Research interests led to a PhD in System Identification and Automated Control, quickly followed by post graduate research posts in varied fields from Particle Accelerator Physics to Marine Energy development. Dr Stables joined the School of Engineering at UCLan in 2012 pursuing further interests in Renewable Energy with the post of Project Engineer for a multi-million pound UCLan/ERDF project promoting renewable energy to small and medium sized businesses in the North West UK. At the same time, Matt completed a Masters degree in Wind Energy Engineering. Upon completion of the project, Matt was encouraged to take on course leadersmore...

BSc (Hons) Environmental Science (1st class) – Lancaster University, 2002 MSc Wind Energy Engineering (Dist) – UCLan, 2013 PhD ‘System Identification and Control Using State Dependant Parameter Modelling’ – Lancaster University, 2006

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  1. McCabe, A P, Stables, M A orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9971-9458 and Aggidis, G A (2010) A Frequency-Response Design Method for the Control of Wave Energy Converters in Irregular Seas. In: 3rd International Conference on Ocean Energy, 6/10/2010 - 8/10/2010, Bilbao, Spain.
  2. Taylor, C.J., Stables, M.A. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9971-9458, Cross, P., Gunn, K. and Aggidis, G.A. (2009) Linear and non–linear control of a power take–off simulation for wave energy conversion. In: 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 7-10 September 2009, Uppsala, Sweden.
  3. Taylor, C.J., Stables, Matthew orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9971-9458, Cross, P., Gunn, K. and Aggidis, G.A. (2009) Linear and non–linear control of a power take–off simulation for wave energy conversion. In: Proc 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Uppsala, Sweden.
  4. McCabe, AP, Stables, Matthew orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9971-9458 and Aggidis, GA (2010) A Modular Controller Design for a Wave Energy Converter. In: IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, CAMS 2010, 15-17 September 2010, Rostock, Germany.
  5. Zarrebini-Esfahani, A, Seviour, R, Stables, Matthew orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9971-9458, Ristic, M, Kurup, A, Long, K and Pozimski, J (2009) THE EFFECTS OF FIELD EMITTED ELECTRONS ON RF SURFACE. In: Particle Accelerator Conference, PAC09, 4-8 May 2009, Vancouver, Canada.
  6. Mokhtar, Maizura orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0460-3696, Stables, Matthew orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9971-9458, Liu, Xiongwei and Howe, Joe (2013) Intelligent Multi-Agent System for Building Heat Distribution Control with Combined Gas Boilers and Ground Source Heat Pump. Energy & Buildings, 62 . pp. 615-626. ISSN 0378-7788
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