Our research

Our research has impact in several key areas, including Medicine and the Life Sciences, Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Transport, Manufacturing and Quality Control, Medicine and Health, Human-Computer Interaction and Communication, Wireless and Wired Communication Networks, Electronics and Microelectronics, Environmental Monitoring and Remote Sensing, Security, Surveillance and Defence.

The range of research activities presented above would not be possible without the disposal of an extensive range of facilities such as microfabrication cleanrooms, anechoic chamber for the measurement of field radiation patterns, low temperature cofired ceramic manufacturing laboratories, high voltage laboratory (one of four left in the UK), microwave manufacturing and characterisation facility, wireless communication laboratory and rapid prototyping facilities including electroplating suite. The research institute is very much a hands-on engineering institute with a strong applied and industrial research emphasis.

For further information on research activity within the institute please click on the following themes:-

• Communications and Radar
• Micro and Nano Systems
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• Signal and Image Processing
• Smart Systems Integration

Collaborative Funding Opportunities

See examples of our collaborative funding opportunities

Research pooling

The institute and many of our staff are actively involved in research pooling initiatives including:-

• Censis
• Edinburgh Research Partnership in particular several of the Joint Research Institutes:
  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Integrated Systems
  • Energy