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Department of control engineering and system analysis (SAAS)

Faculty of Applied Sciences | Discipline: Electronics, photonics, telecommunication and control

Interfaculty institutes | FARI : AI for the common good institute Brussels

Faculty of Applied Sciences | Societal impact: Energy

Faculty of Applied Sciences | Societal impact: Transport

(Code: ULB809)

► Optimal power dispatching in offshore wind farms ensuring power reserve for frequency control and load mitigation (PhairywinD)

Autres ministères fédéraux.

This research project is part of the  Belgian PhairywinD project, which aims to develop the current and the future offshore wind farms in a multi-disci ...

► Navigation and trajectory control of a robotic hummingbird

Gouvernements étrangers.

This project is a part of the COLIBRI project, which aims at building a robot mimicking the flight of a natural hummingbird. The objective of the resea ...

► MONISA - Health monitoring of an EMA for aircraft primary flight surface control

Région bruxelloise.

The trend is to replace the hydraulic actuators by electromechanical actuators (EMAs) in aviation. This structural change would allow cancelling the ov ...

► Optimization and monitoring of environmetally friendly battery packs

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

The project aims at developing safer, long lasting and environmentally
friendly lithium ion batteries for use in stationary storage applications. The
 ...

► Robotic Bricklayer: a multi-robot system for sand-lime blocks masonry

Région bruxelloise.

In this project we will design and develop an innovative concept for the automatic bricklaying of sand-lime bricks. The robotization of this activity p ...

► AMATS – ADVANCED MULTILAYER ADAPTIVE THIN SHELLS

Autres U.E..

The project is a collaboration between ULB, MateriaNova and the European Space Agency to manufacture and characterize a thermally stable piezoelectrica ...

► Testing and preemptive quarantine for the control of epidemics

Autres U.E..

This project aims at defining smart policies for the selection of the individuals that must be tested during an epidemics with the goal of maximizing t ...

► LI-ION FAST & SAFE: SAFE AND FAST CHARGE OF LI-ION BATTERY

Région bruxelloise.

Fast charging is considered a key aspect for increasing the usage of Li-ion batteries, especially within applications where it is fundamental to reduce ...

► PESTFINDER: MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION AND CONTROL OF AGRICULTURAL INFESTATIONS THROUGH ABIOTIC CHANGES

Autres U.E..

PestFinder is a project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship actions 2022 (grant n ...

► Multi-sensor battery monitoring

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

The project aims at improving the aging modelling and monitoring of large lithium-ion batteries in the form of pouch cells, by exploiting additional me ...

► BRICKIEBOTS 2.0

Région bruxelloise.

This project aims to continue the development of BrickieBots, a multi-agent robotic system that will aid in sand-lime masonry. This robotic system, com ...

► SELF-ORGANIZED NERVOUS SYSTEMS FOR ROBOT SWARMS

Fonds propres (patrimoine).

The project aimed to enhance the coordination and performance of heterogeneous robot swarms through a self-organized hierarchical control architecture. ...

► CONSTRAINED CONTROL AND ITS MARINE APPLICATIONS

Financement de base institutionnel.

Frank is currently exploring the realm of control allocation for marine vessels. He is working on optimization-free approaches and also new convex form ...

► SPACE4RELAUNCH -HEALTH MONITORING OF ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS FOR REUSABLE LAUNCHERS

Région wallonne.

Due to the expensive nature of rockets, a major challenge consists in reducing their costs. Launchers in particular are quite expensive and the majorit ...

► DESIGN OF ROBOT SWARMS WITH GUARANTEED BEHAVIOURAL PROPERTIES

Actions concertées.

My research focuses on the design of robot swarms with guaranteed behavioural properties. The goal is to conceive a reliable method to design robust ro ...