Bram Demeulenaere – Research Stays Abroad

Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) of the University of Heidelberg, Germany

• 15.09.2007–15.09.2008

• with (Prof. H.G. Bock)

• funding: travel grant of the Research Foundation–Flanders

• topic: application of optimal control techniques to engineering applications in mechatronics and biomechanics

Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA

• 29.03.2007–27.04.2007

• with Prof. R.S. Berkof

• funding: travel grant of the Raymond Snoeys Foundation

• topic: writing of balancing survey paper with R.S. Berkof

• main result: this survey paper

Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

• 23.09.2004–17.09.2005

• with Prof. L. Vandenberghe

• funding: travel grant of the Research Foundation–Flanders

• topic: application of convex optimization techniques to engineering applications in mechatronics and biomechanics

• main results:

  • 3D counterweight balancing formulated as a convex optimization problem (SDP); journal paper submission for ASME J. Mech. Design: scheduled Summer 2008

  • design of dynamically optimal motion trajectories formulated as a linear optimization problem; journal paper(s) submission for ASME J. of Mech. Design: scheduled Spring 2008