Curriculum vitae of Diederik Verscheure

Curriculum Vitae of Diederik Verscheure

Personalia Name: Diederik Verscheure Birthdate: 04/02/1982 Birthplace: Kortrijk Marital status: Unmarried fourth of six children

• Contact information

Address:	******************   ***
	8870 Izegem
	West-Flanders
	Belgium

Home phone number:  ******************
Mobile phone number: +** *** ** ** **
E-mail:  ****************


• Objectives and professional interests

Doctoral research: 
• Mechatronics
• Control and systems engineering
• Robotics

• Language skills

Dutch:	Mother tongue
	Speaking: Fluent,  Reading: Fluent,  Writing: Fluent

French:	Second language
	Speaking: Fluent,  Reading: Fluent,  Writing: Fluent

English:	Third language (TOEIC: 930-990)
	Speaking: Fluent,  Reading: Fluent,  Writing: Fluent

German:	Fourth language
	Speaking: Fair,  Reading: Fair,  Writing: Fair

• Education

2005-2008:	Ph.D. research: Modelling and identification of contact dynamics and time-optimal path tracking for robots (Robotics)
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2007-2008:	Modelling and identification of contact dynamics (Research stay)
	McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2006-2007:	Graduate in Corporate Communication (Ondernemingscommunicatie)
	Year 1/3
	Groep T, Leuven, Belgium

2005-2006:	Postgraduate in Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde)
	with High Distinction
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2000-2005:	Mechanical and Electrotechnical Engineering (Mechatronics and Product Development)
	with High Distinction
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

1994-2000:	Sciences - Mathematics (8 hours of Mathematics)
	with Distinction
	St.-Jozefscollege, Izegem, Belgium

• Courses

2007:	Dynamic Process and System Optimization
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2006:	LMI Optimisation with Applications in Control
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2006:	Convex Optimisation
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2006:	Multibody dynamics
	Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

2005:	Academic English
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2005:	Independent Component Analysis
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

• Workshops

2007:	Haptic Perception and Rendering
	International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy

2007:	Contact Interface in Robotic Manipulation: Modeling and Application
	International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy

• Didactic activities

2006-2007:	Master's thesis: Acceleration resolved control in the constraint-based task specification framework
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2006-2007:	Master's thesis: Design of a one-dimensional frictionless pneumatic actuator for high-performance force control
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2005-2008:	Exercise sessions: Systems and control theory
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2007-2008:	Laboratory sessions: Measurement systems
	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

• Work experience

August 2004:	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
	Type: Holiday job
	Description: Modelling and visualisation of industrial robots
	Field: Academic research

July 2004:	Lindauer Dornier GmbH, Lindau, Germany
	Type: Internship
	Description: Air velocity and heat transfer measurements
	Field: Manufacturing of industrial dryers

July 2003:	Welser Technische Dienstleistungen, Grosseibstadt, Germany
	Type: Holiday job
	Description: Mounting of dust filter group
	Field: Industrial assembly

1996-2003:	Isolava Belgips, Wielsbeke, Belgium
	Type: Weekend and holiday job
	Description: Maintenance crew
	Field: Gypsum board production

• Publications

2009:	Diederik Verscheure, Moritz Diehl, Joris De Schutter, Jan Swevers,
	Recursive log-barrier method for on-line time-optimal robot path tracking,
	American Control Conference,
	Accepted




2009:	Diederik Verscheure, Moritz Diehl, Joris De Schutter, Jan Swevers,
	On-line time-optimal path tracking for robots,
	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
	Accepted




2008:	Diederik Verscheure, Inna Sharf, Jan Swevers, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter,
	Identification of contact parameters from stiff multi-point contact robotic operations,
	The International Journal on Robotics Research,
	Accepted




2008:	Diederik Verscheure, Inna Sharf, Jan Swevers, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter,
	Identification of contact dynamics parameters for stiff robotic payloads,
	IEEE Transactions on Robotics,
	Accepted




2008:	Diederik Verscheure, Bram Demeulenaere, Jan Swevers, Joris De Schutter, Moritz Diehl,
	Time-optimal path tracking for robots: a convex optimization approach,
	IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
	Accepted




2008:	Diederik Verscheure, Bram Demeulenaere, Jan Swevers, Joris De Schutter, Moritz Diehl,
	Time-Energy optimal path tracking for robots: a numerically efficient optimization approach,
	IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control,
	Accepted




2008:	Diederik Verscheure, Jan Swevers, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter,
	On-line identification of contact dynamics in the presence of geometric uncertainties,
	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
	Accepted




2007:	Diederik Verscheure, Jan Swevers, Joris De Schutter,
	Constrained filtering with truncated Gaussians,
	26th BeNeLux Meeting on Systems and Control,
	Accepted




2006:	Diederik Verscheure, Bart Paijmans, Hendrik Van Brussel, Jan Swevers,
	Vibration and motion control design and trade-off for high-performance mechatronic systems,
	IEEE Conference on Control Applications,
	Accepted




2005:	Diederik Verscheure, Bart Verrecas,
	High-performance control of a Cartesian robot with position-dependent dynamics,
	Master's Thesis,
	Prof. dr. ir. Hendrik Van Brussel, Prof. dr. ir. Jan Swevers




• Information technology

Operating systems:
• Microsoft Windows
• Linux
• BSD

Programming languages:
• C
• C++
• assembler
• Python
• Java
• Matlab

CAD:
• AutoCad
• Mechanical Desktop
• Unigraphics

FEM/FEA:
• Familiar with Femap/Nastran, Patran/Nastran

Office:
• LaTeX
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint



• Other skills

Various:
• Driving License B (regular car)
• Knowledge of mechanical maintenance techniques, welding, etc.



• Hobbies

Music:

1990-1998:	Violin
	Music Academy, Izegem, Belgium

1997-1998:	Violin
	Kortrijks Symfonisch Orkest, Kortrijk, Belgium

1996-1999:	Viola
	Music Academy, Izegem, Belgium


Literature:
• Philosophy
• History
• Politics
• Economy

Sports:
• Cycling (W.T.C. "De morgenvrienden", McGill cycling team)
• five years: Horse-back riding
• seven years: Fitness
• six years: Karate
• Other: running, basketball