Fields of interest: structural dynamics, active noise control, active vibration control, simulation, optimisation, machine tools, double walls,...

Bashir Nouri
Telephone: +32-16-322514
E-mail address: bashir.nouri@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: pneumatic systems, modelling and identification of nonlinear systems, friction modelling, advanced control.

Istvan Nemeth
Telephone: +32-16-322836
E-mail address: istvan.nemeth@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: conceptual design, CAD, AI in design, machine tool design.

Wim Meeusen
Telephone: +32-16-322836
E-mail address: wim.meeusen@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: micromachining, MEMS, electro-discharge machining.

Kris Henrioulle
Telephone: +32-16-322536
E-mail address: kris.henrioulle@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: Active structural acoustic control, piezoelectric film actuators.

Jan Peirs
Telephone: +32-16-322835
E-mail address: jan.peirs@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: micro-actuation, MEMS, shape memory alloys.

Ronny Moreas
Telephone: +32-16-322563
E-mail address: ronny.moreas@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: mobile manipulation, service robots, stereovision, man-machine interfaces.

Johan Baeten
Telephone: +32-16-322480
E-mail address: johan.baeten@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: Integration of vision and force sensing and control in robotic tasks

Bram Demeulenaere
Telephone: +32-16-322539
E-mail address: Bram.Demeulenaere@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: (optimal) identification of nonlinear systems dynamic optimization of periodically driven machines

Eric Demeester
Telephone: +32-16-322535
E-mail address: Eric.Demeester@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: mobile robots, wheelchair, shared autonomy, behaviour based techniques, sensors, sensorfusion, localization, navigation

Wim Desmet
Telephone: +32-16-322527
E-mail address: Wim.Desmet@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: experimental analysis and numerical prediction techniques for vibro-acoustics

Vincent Lampaert
Telephone: +32-16-322539
E-mail address: Vincent.Lampaert@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: control design, identification, modeling of friction

Tine Lefebvre
Telephone: +32-16-322528
E-mail address: Tine.Lefebvre@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, uncertainty, online identification, Kalman Filter, active sensing

Ivo Luyckx
Telephone: +32-16-322524
E-mail address: Ivo.Luyckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: upper limb prosthesis, mechanical design, actuation

Marnix Nuttin
Telephone: +32-16-322528
E-mail address: Marnix.Nuttin@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: learning in robotics and manufacturing, sensor-assisted wheel chairs, skill acquisition and programming by demonstration, behaviour-based cooperating robots

Wim Symens
Telephone: +32-16322515
E-mail address: Wim.Symens@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: motion and vibration control, mechatronics, optimisation, machine tools

Irina Trendafilova
Telephone: +32-16-322522
E-mail address: Irina.Trendafilova@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: structural dynamics, damage detection, condition monitoring, identification, classification methods, nonlinear dynamics

Walter Verdonck
Telephone: +32-16-322515
E-mail address: Walter.Verdonck@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: identification, robotics, signal processing, optimization

Rene Waarsing
Telephone: +32-16-322529
E-mail address: Rene.Waarsing@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: mobile manipulation, behavior based control, vision based control

Jian Wang
Telephone: +32-16-322529
E-mail address: Jian.Wang@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: PID controller tuning, motion control, digital control, robustness, VSC(Variable Structure Control), Sliding modes, Reaching law, Feedforward control, Output tracking.

Fuyi Xu
Telephone: +32-16-322477
E-mail address: Fuyi.Xu@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: methods of using gyroscape in mobile robot, orientation calibration for mobile robot, using image processing vision based localisation for mobile robot

Xiaozhong Song
Telephone: +32-16-322835
E-mail address: Xiaozhong.Song@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: Micro EDM (Micro-Electro-Discharge Machining), 3D Micro Silicon Machining, Micro System Technology, and MEMS ( Micro Electronic Mechanical System )

Joeri Clijnen
Telephone: +32-16-322526
E-mail address: Joeri.Clijnen@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: Gyrostabilizers, Vibro-acoustic control of cylinder systems, MEMS.

Frederic Bossens
Telephone: +32-2-6504663
E-mail address: fbossens@ulb.ac.be

Fields of interest: active damping of structures, unsteady aerodynamics ...

C. Vogels
Telephone: +32-2-6504664
E-mail address: cvogels@ulb.ac.be

Fields of interest: vibro-acoustic, coupling between structures and fluids.

Fields of interest: identification of dynamic parameters, biomechanics, reaction model.

Ahmed El Ouatouati
Telephone: +32-10-472508
E-mail address: elouatou@prm.ucl.ac.be

Fields of interest: flexible bodies, plates, multibody systems, robotran.

Laurent Ferriere
Telephone: +32-10-472516
E-mail address: ferriere@prm.ucl.ac.be

Fields of interest: omnimobile robot, mechanical design, trajectory planning.

Paul Fisette
Telephone: +32-10-472505
E-mail address: fisette@prm.ucl.ac.be

Fields of interest: railway vehicles, vehicle suspensions, hybrid actuators, wheeled or legged mobile robots, parallel manipulators.

Robert-Emmanuel Valembois
Telephone: +32-10-472516
E-mail address: valembois@prm.ucl.ac.be

Fields of interest: Multibody dynamics, telescopic arms, flexible tracks, symbolic calculation, finite elements, graphic animation of mechanisms.

Fields of interest: Will cooperate to WP1 through the development of the object-oriented software platform to be used in the project.

Raphael Fleury
Telephone: +32-4-3669257
E-mail address: R.Fleury@ulg.ac.be

Fields of interest: Optimization of flexible mechanisms and multibody systems.

Philippe Demy
Telephone: +32-4-3669443
E-mail address: P.Demy@ulg.ac.be

Fields of interest: System certification in operating conditions

Rodrigo Pasqual
Telephone: +32-4-3669443
E-mail address: R.Pasqual@ulg.ac.be

Fields of interest: Model updating in frequency domain

Vincent Lenaerts
Telephone: +32-4-3669184
E-mail address: V.Lenaerts@ulg.ac.be

Fields of interest: His topic of research falls also within the objectives of WP3

Stephan Paquay
Telephone: +32-4-3669257
E-mail address: S.Paquay@ulg.ac.be

Fields of interest: Vibroacoustic modelling, finite element modelling

Pascal de Vincenzo
Telephone: +32-4-3669150
E-mail address: P.Devincenzo@ulg.ac.be

Fields of interest: MEMS, finite element modelling

Fields of interest: 3D sensor, optics, system integration

Luk D'Haene
Telephone: +32-16-321091
E-mail address: Luk.Dhaene@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: mobile robot, navigation

Tinne Tuytelaars
Telephone: +32-16-321852
E-mail address: Tinne.Tuytelaars@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: object recognition, viewpoint invariance

Tanja Van Achteren (PSI/ACCA)
Telephone:+32-16-321816
E-mail address: Tanja.VanAchteren@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: data re-use, memory optimization, 3D acquisition

Joris Vanden Wijngaerd
Telephone: +32-16-321816
E-mail address: Joris.VandenWijngaerd@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: 3D surface description, invariance.

Pieter Op de Beeck (PSI/ACCA)
Telephone:+32-16-321894
E-mail address: Pieter.OpdeBeeck@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: building block granularity, hardware software co-design

Fields of interest: identification, control, optimization

Tony Van Gestel
Telephone: +32-16-321160
E-mail address: Tony.VanGestel@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: subspace-identification, econometrics

Fields of interest: data re-use, memory optimization, 3D acquisition

Marc Leeman
Telephone:+32-16-321818
E-mail address: Marc.Leeman@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: memory optimization, 3D acquisition.

Tom Vander Aa
Telephone:+32-16-321819
E-mail address: Tom.VanderAa@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: benchmarking, performance estimation

Pieter Op de Beeck (ACCA/PSI)
Telephone:+32-16-321894
E-mail address: Pieter.OpdeBeeck@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: building block granularity, hardware software co-design

Fields of interest: silicon micromachining, focussed ion beam, accelerometers, gyroscopes.

Jan Bienstman
Telephone: +32-16-321700
E-mail address: Jan.Bienstman@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: silicon micromachining, resonators, non-linear systems, mechanical sensors.

Michel De Cooman
Telephone: +32-16-321716
E-mail address: Michel.DeCooman@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: hybrid packaging and interconnection, laser machining and welding.

Dirk De Bruyker
Telephone: +32-16-321700
E-mail address: Dirk.DeBruyker@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

Fields of interest: silicon micromachining, pressure sensors, self testing and calibration