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Biography
Professor Paul Scott has an honours degree in Mathematics and an MSc in Statistics and also a PhD in Statistics with a thesis entitled Multipivital models with applications to a shape fitting problem under the supervision of Dr Rodney Coleman at Imperial College London.
Paul Scott started his career at Taylor Hobson Ltd, Leicester: a world leader in the design and development of ultra-precision metrology instruments for surface texture and form. He spent twenty six years in the research department applying mathematical ideas and concepts to surface texture and form measuring instruments both during the development of instrumentation and post development for mathematical enhancements of the metrological capabilities of instrumentation.
Paul focused his research on why algorithms in surface and form characterisation and instrumentation are quick and stable whilst others are not. Only by going back to mathematical fundamental principles is it possible to discover core factors for determining quick and substantially stable algorithms to solve problems and even to try and generalise the global solution to wider problems. Most of the algorithms he developed, usually being the first in the field, have become the de-facto standard algorithms against which algorithms developed by others are compared.
Paul is also very active in National and International Standardisation for Geometrical Product Specification and Verification (GPS). He is a core member of the BSI Committee TDW4 and convenor of one of its sub-committees TDW4/-/9. Paul Scott is also a leading member of ISO Technical Committee TC/213 being a founder member of its strategic group AG1, a founder member of its technical review group AG2, convenor of working group WG15 on Filtration and Extraction and also convenor of advisory group AG12 on Mathematics for Geometrical Product Specification. He was project leader for twenty published ISO standards and is currently working on four new ISO documents.
In 1995 Paul became a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working one day a week with the surface metrology group. In 1997 the whole group moved to the University of Huddersfield and became a part of the Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT). In 2001 Paul became the Taylor Hobson Visiting Industrial Professor: working for two days a week at the CPT.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Foundations of specifying geometrical products
- Foundations of characterising geometrical products
- Stable, Robust, and fast algorithms for computational geometry
- Solving next generation real world industrial/manufacturing problems (Industrie 4.0)
- Development of National and International standards
- Statistical approaches to Uncertainty
- Philosophy of the measurement of geometry
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Research Expertise and Interests
- Digital Signal Processing
- Signal Processing
- Instrumentation
- Measurement
- Calibration
- Measurement and Metrology
- Metrology
- Optical Metrology
- Precision Engineering
- Measurement Error
- Nanometrology
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Projects
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EPSRC Fellowship in Manufacturing: Controlling Geometrical Variability of Products for Manufacturing
1/09/13 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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ESPRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology
Jiang, J., Blunt, L., Longstaff, A., Towns-Andrews, L., Scott, P., Myers, A., Fletcher, S. & Ball, A.
1/09/11 → 28/02/17
Project: Research
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Future Advanced Metrology Hub
Jiang, J., Martin, H., Longstaff, A., Kadirkamanathan, V., Turner, M. S., Keogh, P., Scott, P., McLeay, T., Blunt, L., Zeng, W., Huntley, J. M., Bills, P., Fletcher, S., Gao, F., Coupland, J. M., Kinnell, P., Mahfouf, M. & Mullineux, G.
1/10/16 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
Research Output
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Advanced Metrology: Freeform Surfaces
Jiang, J. & Scott, P., 8 Apr 2020, 1st ed. Academic Press Inc. 374 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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An additive manufacturing process selection approach based on fuzzy Archimedean weighted power Bonferroni aggregation operators
Qin, Y., Qi, Q., Scott, P. & Jiang, J., 1 Aug 2020, In: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 64, 20 p., 101926.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus) -
A new partitioning process for geometrical product specifications and verification
Cai, N., Anwer, N., Scott, P. J., Qiao, L. & Jiang, X., 1 Mar 2020, In: Precision Engineering. 62, p. 282-295 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus) -
A novel learning-based feature recognition method using multiple sectional view representation
Shi, P., Qi, Q., Qin, Y., Scott, P. & Jiang, J., 1 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. 31, 5, p. 1291-1309 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Application of Clustering Filter for Noise and Outlier Suppression in Optical Measurement of Structured Surfaces
Lou, S., Tang, D., Zeng, W., Zhang, T., Gao, F., Muhamedsalih, H., Jiang, J. & Scott, P., 1 Sep 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 69, 9, p. 6509-6517 9 p., 9014495.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Surface Texture Measurement and Characterisation of Additively Manufactured Parts
Shan Lou (Speaker), Wenhan Zeng (Speaker), Paul Scott (Speaker), Liam Blunt (Speaker) & Jane Jiang (Speaker)
15 Jul 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Development of virtual reference samples for XCT measurements of additively manufactured surface texture
Xiao Chen (Speaker), Qiushuang Zhang (Speaker), Wenjuan Sun (Speaker), Wenhan Zeng (Speaker), Xin Jin (Speaker), Paul Scott (Speaker), Jane Jiang (Speaker) & Shan Lou (Speaker)
5 Feb 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Surface Measurement and Characterisation of Additively Manufactured 3D Cellular Scaffold for Acetabular Implants
Shan Lou (Speaker), Luca Pagani (Speaker), Wenhan Zeng (Speaker), Muhammad Usman Ghori (Speaker), Xiangqian Jiang (Speaker) & Paul Scott (Speaker)
16 Sep 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Measurement of additively manufactured surfaces with re-entrant features by X-ray computed tomography
Filippo Zanini (Speaker), Luca Pagani (Speaker), Paul Scott (Speaker), Enrico Savio (Speaker) & Simone Carmignato (Speaker)
25 Jul 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Poster presentation
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Development of 2D Local Searching Algorithms for Surface Determination of X-ray Computed Tomography Measurement
Shan Lou (Speaker), Wenjuan Sun (Speaker), Wenhan Zeng (Speaker), Luca Pagani (Speaker) & Paul Scott (Speaker)
3 Jul 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
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Manufacturers benefit in discovery of math foundation for decomposition in £1.5 million project
Paul Scott, Qunfen Qi & Luca Pagani
19/02/19 → 20/02/19
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment