Researcher
Tom Verstraten
- Keywords:Mechanical engineering
- Disciplines:Mechanical drive systems, Human-centred and life-like robotics, Physical system modelling, Smart lightweight structures, Kinematics and dynamics, Robot structures
Affiliations
- Applied Mechanics (Department)
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From1 Jan 2020 → Today - Applied Mechanics (Department)
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From1 Jan 2020 → 20 Oct 2022 - Applied Mechanics (Department)
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From8 Apr 2019 → 30 Sep 2021 - Faculty of Engineering (Faculty)
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From26 Aug 2015 → 8 Mar 2018 - Applied Mechanics (Department)
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From1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2021 - Faculty of Engineering (Faculty)
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From16 Aug 2010 → 6 Jul 2012
Projects
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- AILOS Launch – Upgrading Technology and Business for Investment ReadinessFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in real environment
- Smart Mechatronic Ankle-Foot Orthosis Platform for Gait Assistance and AugmentationFrom1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie-actions (MSCA)
- SBO project WellFiciency_SBO - Measuring and Optimizing Operator Well-being via Dashboards and Task Allocation While Sustaining Production EfFiciencyFrom1 Apr 2023 → TodayFunding: Flanders Make
- ANIMATE - Active and seNsorized Interfaces for coMfort and sAfeTy within ExoskeletonsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- SBO Project XRtwin - Cost-efficient authoring of large interactive industrial objects and dynamic environments for XR consumptionFrom1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Flanders Make
- PoC project PoweRing Design-for-Craftsmanship PoC: A TRL6 golden sample demonstrator of a compact, lightweight, and highly efficient gearbox to drive the next generation of robotsFrom15 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology concept exploration
- Innovationmandate Spin-Off: PoweRing: A gearbox for the next generation robotsFrom1 May 2022 → TodayFunding: IWT / VLAIO - indirect funding by business world
- IPSU 2022: Unleashed new design potentials in 3D printing of fiber composite materials (CFRP) showcased by the production of the next generation of robotic actuatorsFrom17 Feb 2022 → 16 May 2022Funding: Brussels Capital Region
- Experimental garden project Industry 4.0 Workable work.From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: Flanders Make
- Embodied intelligence in robotic arms: leveraging human-inspired morphology for intra- and interpersonal coordinationFrom1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - mobility
Publications
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- Redundancy in Biology and Robotics: Potential of Kinematic Redundancy and its Interplay with Elasticity(2020)
Authors: Tom Verstraten, Christian Schumacher, Raphaël Guy Furnémont, André Seyfarth, Philipp Beckerle
Pages: 695-707 - The two-degree-of-freedom Cable Pulley (2DCP) transmission system: An under-actuated and motion decoupled transmission for robotic applications(2020)
Authors: David Rodriguez Cianca, Tom Verstraten, Carlos Rodriguez Guerrero, Rene Enrique Jimenez Fabian, Matthias Näf, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
- Design, Optimization and Energetic Evaluation of an Efficient Fully Powered Ankle-foot Prosthesis with a Series Elastic Actuator(2020)
Authors: Dianbiao Dong, Wenjie Ge, Bryan Convens, Yuanxi Sun, Tom Verstraten, Bram Vanderborght
Pages: 61491-61503 - Scaling laws for robotic transmissions(2019)
Authors: Elias Saerens, Stein Crispel, Pablo Lopez Garcia, Tom Verstraten, Vincent Ducastel, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
Pages: 601-621 - Wolfrom planetary gear trains for lightweight, human-centered robotics(2019)Volume: 2355
Authors: Pablo Lopez Garcia, Stein Crispel, Tom Verstraten, Elias Saerens, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
Pages: 753-764Number of pages: 12 - Scaling laws of compliant elements for high energy storage capacity in robotics(2019)
Authors: Elias Saerens, Raphaël Guy Furnémont, Tom Verstraten, Pablo Lopez Garcia, Stein Crispel, Vincent Ducastel, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
Pages: 482-505 - Using parallel elasticity in back-support exoskeletons: a study on energy consumption during industrial lifting tasks(2019)Series: 2019 Wearable Robotics Association Conference, WearRAcon 2019
Authors: Stefano Toxiri, Tom Verstraten, Andrea Calanca, Darwin Caldwell, Jesús Ortiz
Pages: 1-6Number of pages: 6 - A Flexible shaft-driven Remote and Torsionally Compliant Actuator (RTCA) for wearable robots (2019)
Authors: David Rodriguez Cianca, Carlos Rodriguez Guerrero, Tom Verstraten, Rene Jimenez-Fabian, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
Pages: 178-188 - Kinematically Redundant Actuators, a solution for conflicting torque-speed requirements(2019)
Authors: Tom Verstraten, Raphaël Guy Furnémont, Pablo Lopez Garcia, David Rodriguez Cianca, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
Pages: 612-629 - A Hopping Robot Driven by a Series Elastic Dual-Motor Actuator(2019)
Authors: Tom Verstraten, Raphaël Guy Furnémont, Philipp Beckerle, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
Pages: 2310-2316