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Professor (“Hoogleraar”)
at K.U.Leuven
since October 2008.
(Assistant Professor since October 1998;
Associate Professor since October 2003; Junior Professor since October 1998.)
Coordinator of EURON, the European Robotics Research Network, as successor of the founding Coordinator Henrik Christensen. Thanks Henrik, for giving European robotics an internationally respected identity!
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K.U.Leuven is
Member no. 11
of the network, and my colleague Hendrik van Brussel
made sure that K.U.Leuven was one of the founding members.
I will also be member of the upcoming Coordination Action euRobotics that will strive for a more intensive collaboration between the academic EURON network and the industrial European Robotics Platform EUROP. |
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Co-promotor of K.U.Leuven's GOA (``Concerted Research Action'') projects on Active Sensing for Intelligent Machines (1999–2004), Model based intelligent robot systems (2005–2009), and Global real-time optimal control of autonomous robots and mechatronic systems (2009–2013). Partner in two European Integrated Projects (started March 2009, namely BRICS (Best practices in robotics) and Rosetta) of the European Seventh Framework Programme.
Academic research partner of the FMTC
(Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre).
Academic partner of the
OSADL (Open Source Automation
Development Lab).
Associate Editor of JOSER (the Journal of Software Engineering in Robotics), member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Robotics Research. Officer of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (2003–…).
Expert (and advocate since 1996) on Free and Open Source Software, and open IT standards. Advisor to various governmental, educational and industrial organisations and administrations.
Current students:
Email me when you have excellent expertise —or infinite
motivation to acquire such expertise— in
Eclipse, (realtime) Linux,
and/or
Bayesian probability theory,
for applications in robotic software and systems, including monitoring and
support for the (pathologically) moving human.
My research focuses on the realtime aspects of design and
implementation, close to the hardware, the controller(s) and the sensor(s),
and making use of as much domain knowledge as possible.
Alumni:
My major research questions are:
My research areas in somewhat more detail:
Autonomous and
compliant robot motion
I look into the combination of on-line,
recursive (Bayesian) estimation techniques to make (mobile) robot
manipulators adapt intelligently to their environment.
“Intelligently” to me means: according to the most appropriate
explicit sensing-action-environment model available to the
robot controller. Such controllers contain realtime
motion servoing based on the estimation results, as well as
event-based, task-driven switches between such realtime
estimation/servo control combinations.
Most of this research takes place in close cooperation with Joris De Schutter, Hendrik van Brussel and Jan Swevers.
Robot control software
I started the
Open RObot COntrol Software (OROCOS)
project in 2001, with later “spin-off” projects
Kinematics and Dynamics Library (KDL)
and
Bayesian Filtering Library (BFL).
Most of this research takes place in close cooperation with
FMTC (Flanders' Mechatronics
Technology Centre).
Currently, I am investigating how to get larger-scale FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) projects off the ground, around topics such as: the robotics and automation operating systems (by making the existing projects much more interoperable, and by more common developments); motion capture; Blender for Robotics (extensions to make the Blender 3D animation program more appropriate for use in robotics applications); Graphical Models (for use in robot kinematics and dynamics, as well as in intelligent knowledge systems in robotics).
Applied mechatronics and estimation projects, with various industrial and biomechanical partners in Belgium and Europe.
Contact me to get electronic copies of my publications. (This database-generated list only goes back five years.)
This page has a list of topics for Master theses, internships, or stages which I would very much like to supervise. I welcome Master students from universities as well as technical high schools. I'm especially interested in computer-literate students (Linux, C++, Java), who want to contribute to open source projects to make them better suited for robotics.
Born: 22 December 1962,
Turnhout, Belgium
Licentiate Mathematics (1984).
Burgerlijk Ingenieur Computerwetenschappen (1987). (Masters Degree in
Computer science)
Postgraduate Engineering Degree
Mechatronics (1988).
Military service (Aug. 1988-Jul. 1989).
1989-1995: Research Assistant at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division
PMA.
PhD (1995), Kinematic Models for Robot Compliant Motion with
Identification of Uncertainties.
[abstract]
[A4
paper, gzipped PostScript]
[US
letter, gzipped PostScript]
1995–2003: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific
Research-Flanders
(F.W.O.) in Belgium.
Mar. 1996–Aug. 1996: Postdoc at
GRASP Lab,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, U.S.A., with
Vijay Kumar.
April–August 1999: sabatical with the
Robotics group
at Stanford University,
headed by Prof.
Oussama Khatib.
July–August 2002: visiting the
Centre for Autonomous Systems
at the
Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, Sweden, headed by Prof.
Henrik Christensen.
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and
user.
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