Projects
Periodic visco-elastic add-ons KU Leuven
Structural periodic design is a powerful strategy for lightweight structures achievements while remaining a convenient solution for manufacturing aspects. This research will help develop and validate tools for the design of global vibroacoustic treatments based on periodic patterns allowing passive control of structural and acoustical paths in layered concepts. Viscoelastic materials will be used as a damping treatment to improve ...
Design and Development of a High-Precision Pointing Platform for Small Spacecraft KU Leuven
In this research, a High-Precision Pointing Platform (HPPP) will be designed and developed in order to improve the pointing performance of small spacecraft under which mainly microsatellites (10 - 100kg) and nanosatellites (1-10kg) are understood. These small satellites, however, still suffer from high-frequency disturbances produced by several components in the satellite. These disturbances perturb the pointing stability of the spacecraft ...
Accuracy of vibrotactile feedforward for posture and motion steering. University of Antwerp
Semantic Image Analysis Towards a Visual Turing Machine. KU Leuven
In the recent years visual recognition systems have progressed with leaps and bounds in their accuracy. The vision of this research proposal is to go beyond the existing, accurate, yet rough visual recognition machines, and approach an ideal Visual Turing Machine, namely a machine that would pass as a human when analyzing visual data. We identify 3 directions for this vision. First, beyond generic predictions a Visual Turing Machine should ...
Sound quality-driven active control of periodic disturbance for hybrid electric vehicles. KU Leuven
Hybrid and electric vehicles (HEVs) arise as a response of the automotive industry to the quest of implementing clean and sustainable propulsion, face to the potential scarcity of fossil fuels. The integration of the electric motor to the powertrain in this sort of vehicles presents acoustic stimuli that elicit new perceptions. The large number of spectral components, as well as the bandwidth of hybrid electric powertrain noise, pose new ...
MR spectroscopy quantitation results' evaluation KU Leuven
The main topic of this PhD project is to assess fitting quality for MR Spectroscopy data. This aim should be achieved by statistical evaluation.
Dynamic Modeling of Macro-Fiber Composite Transducers Integrated into Composite Structures KU Leuven
Composite structures have been already widely applied in engineering. Laminated composites using isotropic or anisotropic layers provide numerous options for designing lightweight structural components, that have high static stiffness and excellent impact resistance for automotive and aerospace products. However, lightweight structures can be susceptible to external disturbances due to mass reduction and light damping in many cases. As a ...
Mobile Robotic Platform for Embodied Sensor Development University of Antwerp
Factory of the Future Clusters KU Leuven
The FOCUS project will build upon the fundament of five existing FoF Clusters, Zero Defect Manufacturing (4ZDM), Robotics, Clean factory, Precision Micro Production Technologies (High Micro) and Maintenance and support. They will work toward the following four objectives.
- Provide pro-active support to the projects in the participating clusters to disseminate the project’s tangible outcomes to raise the awareness and thus increasing ...