Dr Regina Frei
Postdoctoral research fellow
Location: Building 50, Cranfield campus
E: r.frei@cranfield.ac.uk
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Regina Frei’s current research focuses on creating self-healing properties in electronic and mechatronic systems including MEMS. She is interested in how to apply the findings from complexity science to engineering, which is referred to as “Complexity Engineering”. Dr. Frei’s competences include robotics, industrial assembly and automation, artificial life and collective intelligence.
Clients
EPSRC
Background
Dr Frei is currently a research fellow working on self-healing mechatronic systems.
Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK. She has a PhD from the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a MSc. in Micro-Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Her research interests are Self-Organising Assembly Systems, self-properties and Complexity Engineering.
Selected publications
- Frei, R. and Di Marzo Serugendo, G. (2011). Concepts in Complexity Engineering. Int. J. of Bio-Inspired Computation, 3(2), pages 123–139.
- Frei, R. and Di Marzo Serugendo, G. (2011). Advances in Complexity Engineering. Int. J. of Bio-Inspired Computation, 3(4), pages 199–212.
- Frei, R. and Di Marzo Serugendo, G. (2011). Self-organising evolvable assembly systems. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part C.
- Frei, R. and Whitacre, J. (2011). Degeneracy and Networked Buffering: principles for supporting emergent evolvability in agile manufacturing systems. Accepted for publication in Natural Computing Journal - Special issue on Engineering Emergence.
- Puviani, M., Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Frei, R. and Cabri, G. (2011). A method fragments approach to methodologies for engineering self-organising systems. Accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
- Frei, R., Di Marzo Serugendo, G. and Serbanuta, T.F. (2010). Ambient intelligence in self-organising assembly systems using the chemical reaction model. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 1(3), pages 163–184.
- Frei, R. and Barata, J. (2010). Distributed systems - from natural to engineered: three phases of inspiration by nature. Int. J. of Bioinspired Computation, 2(3/4), pages 258–270.
