Background

• Born : 9 februari 1979, Maaseik, Belgium
  Nationality : Belgian
• 1997-2002: engineering student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (K.U.Leuven) Belgium.
  
• 2002: degree in Electrocal engineering, specialization Data mining and automation (D&A) , Leuven,Belgium.
  My master thesis tackles the problem of EM-algoritms designed for the clustering of mixed data types (short description).
• 2002-?: Ph.D. student at the Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design & Automation (PMA), K.U.Leuven, Belgium; under the supervision of Prof. J. De Schutter and Prof. H. Bruyninckx.
  
• 2004-?: Teacher at the XIOS Hogeschool Limburg),Diepenbeek, Belgium; Member of the electronics research group
  

Research

Keywords: robotics, force control, autonomous compliant motion, assembly, contact identification,Kalman Filtering, Bayesian estimation, active sensing,programming by demonstration.

Research area:

Our Autonomous Manipulation Research Group
electronics research group

Publications, Internal Reports, workshops

Teaching assistant

HB30: Modelvorming en simulatie voor automatisering: seminaries

My wife and me