picture Aspirant of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)
Mech. Eng. Dept. - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium




Contact

Mailing address
postbusnr.: 2420
Mechanical Engineering Department - PMA Division
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 300B
B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

Contact info
tinne_dot_delaet_at_mech_dot_kuleuven_dot_be
Phone: ++32 16 32 25 33
Office: 01.015

Research

My research focuses to Rigorously Bayesian Multitarget Tracking and Localization. The goal of the research is to approach the problem of multitarget tracking and localization in a consistent rigorously Bayesian manner. The work focuses on both the development of a fully Bayesian range scanner measurement model, suited for multitarget tracking and localization and the analysis and development of probabilistic multitarget tracking and localization methods. The Bayesian approach reveals underlying assumptions and approximations by explicitly encoding them in the prior probabilities. Other research interest include: task specification and human motion estimation (see journal publications).

Publications

Conference

  • Unified Constraint-Based Task Specification for Complex Sensor-Based Robot System; Joris De Schutter, Johan Rutgeerts, Erwin Aertbelien, Friedl De Groote, Tinne De Laet, Tine Lefebvre, Walter Verdonck, Herman Bruynincxk; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, K.U.Leuven, Belgium; Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, 2005
  • Kinematic Reconstruction of the Lower Limb Based on Measurements of the Body Surface; Friedl De Groote, Tinne De Laet, Tom De Wilde, Bart Haex, Jos Vander Sloten; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, K.U.Leuven, Belgium; Proceedings of the 7th national congres on theoretical and applied mechanics, Mons, 2006
  • Bayesian filtering and smoothing techniques in gait analysis; Friedl De Groote, Tinne De Laet, Ilse Jonkers, Joris De Schutter; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Kinesiology, K.U.Leuven, Belgium; Proceedings of Benelux meeting on systems and control 2007.
  • Application of Constraint-Based Task Specification and Estimation for Sensor-Based Robot Systems to a Laser Tracing Task; Tinne De Laet, Wilm Decre, Johan Rutgeerts, Herman Bruyninckx and Joris De Schutter; Dept. Mechanical Engineering, K.U.Leuven, Belgium; Proceedings of Benelux meeting on systems and control 2007.
  • Application of a Generic Constraint-Based Programming Approach to an Industriually Relevant Robot Task with Geometric Uncertainties; Wilm Decre, Tinne De Laet,Johan Rutgeerts, Herman Bruyninckx en Joris De Schutter; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, K.U.Leuven, Belgium: Proceedings of International Conference on Computer as a Tool 2007 (pages 2620--2626), Warsaw, Poland;.
  • An Application of Constraint-Based Task Specification and Estimation for Sensor-Based Robot Systems; Tinne De Laet, Wilm Decre, Johan Rutgeerts, Herman Bruyninckx en Joris De Schutter; Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pages 1658--1664), San Diego, California;
  • Bayesian techniques improve human motion estimation; Friedl De Groote, Tinne De Laet, Ilse Jonkers and Joris De Schutter; Americal Society of Biomechanics 2007 annual conference, August 22-25, 2007, Stanford, USA.
  • Bayesian filtering and smoothing techniques in human motion analysis; Friedl De Groote, Tinne De Laet, Ilse Jonkers, Joris De Schutter; Proceedings of the XXI Congress of International Society of Biomechanics (July 1-5, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan), 2007, p. 232.
  • iTASC: a Tool for Multi-Sensor Integration in Robot Manipulation; Ruben Smits, Tinne De Laet, Kasper Claes, Herman Bruyninckx, and Joris De Schutter; 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Seoul, Korea;
  • Adaptive Full Scan Model for Range Finders in Dynamic Environments; Tinne De Laet, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninckx; Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Athens, Greece, 2008;
  • Rigorously Bayesian range finder sensor model for dynamic environments; Tinne De Laet, Joris De Schutter and Herman Bruyninckx; Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pages 1658--1664), Pasadena, California;

Books

  • Image-Based Visual Servoing with Extra Task Related Constraints in a General Framework for Sensor-Based Robot Systems; Ruben Smits, Duccio Fioravanti, Tinne De Laet, Benedetto Allotta, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris De Schutter; Published in Unifying Perspectives in Computational and Robot Vision (Springer), Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering , pp 187-204;

Journal


Projects

  • Since january 2007 I'm the maintainer of the Bayesian Filtering Library (BFL).
  • I made a getting started guide and a installation guide for the Bayesian Filtering Library. Some extra movie material on the use of a bootstrap filter for the mobile robot localisation and tracking example is available in the case of deadreckoning and in the case of the use of an ultrasonic sensor
  • I made a first draft on a particle filter tutorial. A presentation on this tutorial can be found here. And more explanation on the example can be found here.
  • I made a presentation on estimation for thesis students of our ACM research group. The main focus is on recursive state estimation. The presentation can be found here. Also an article version including extra comments is available.
  • I adapted the installation instructions to install SceneLib on a recent Ubuntu/Kubuntu system (8.04, the Hardy Heron). The adapted installation instructions can be found here.

Conferences

  • BioRob 2006
    Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, February 20-22, 2006
    The first IEEE / RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
    (website)
  • NCTAM 2006
    Mons, Belgium, May 29-30, 2006
    The 7th national congres on theoretical and applied mechanics
    (website)
  • Ninth International Symposium on 3D Analysis of Human Movement
    Valenciennes, France, June 29-30, 2006
    (website)
  • Benelux Meeting Meeting 2007
    Lommel, Belgium, March 13-15, 2007
    (website)
  • Euron Annual Meeting 2007
    Chania, Crete, March 28-29, 2007
    (website)
  • ICRA 2007
    Rome, Italy, April 10-14, 2007
    (website)
  • ISER 2007
    San Diego, California, October 29- November 2, 2007
    (website)

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
    • Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
      Graduated with highest distinction and congratulations of the exam commission.
      Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2000-2005
    • Attendant at Second Summer School on Surgical Robotics, Montpellier (France), September 2005 (website)
    • Attendant at First Winter School on Telesurgery, Benidorm (Spanje), March 2006
      (website)
    • Attendant the Ninth Machine Learning Summerschool, Tuebingen (Germany), August 2007
      (website)
  • Work History
    • Hansen Transmissions Int., Edegem, Belgium, July 2003.
    • Simulations concerning the unified constraint-based task specification for complex sensor-based robot systems (see publications), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, August 2004.
    • Start of PhD-thesis as aspirant of FWO: Autonomous manipulation skills based on Bayesian networks, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, October 2005.
Get my full CV in pdf.

Personal Stuff

  • Lute-stuff
    • Since 2002, I play the lute. I own a 10 course lute made by Barber.
      lute
  • Other stuff: