Projects
Modular system for instrumentation of everyday objects to accelerate robotic learning Ghent University
The retail industry is good for a vast employment of over 300.000 persons, but has unfortunately been in decline over the last few years. Automation is the key to more productivity growth and to regain our position within the international economy, while also providing benefits in food safety. To this end, we need general purpose cobots which are able to quickly learn how to handle a variety of goods in complex dynamical environments ...
Modular system for instrumentation of everyday objects to accelerate robotic learning Ghent University
Compliant, self-learning robots are of great economic importance, notably in the retail sector. Robotic learning is mostly vision-based, computationally expensive and slow. We propose a versatile and modular sensing platform with stretchable circuit technology for the instrumentation of everyday objects, to conveniently extract relevant data from the object under manipulation and thus speed up the learning process.
Spectroscopic analysis of hot, high-mass (pulsating) stars with state-of-the-art instrumentation KU Leuven
Asteroseismology played a major role in the advancement of stellar astrophysics over the past decade, due to observations delivered by the Kepler/K2 space mission. Because of the prime focus on exoplanets and their host (lower-mass) stars, Kepler purposely avoided observations of high(er)-mass stars, whose models of the interior structure and evolution are among the worst-calibrated in the meantime. The recently launched NASA TESS space ...
Development of key components for 3rd generation gravitational wave instrumentation. University of Antwerp
High-end electron paramagnetic resonance instrumentation for catalysis and materials characterization. University of Antwerp
Portable Raman instrumentation for non-destructive analysis of art objects Ghent University
Raman spectroscopy is well-suited for pigment analysis. Typically, this approach suffers interferences caused by fluorescence (prompted by varnish layers, binders, degradation products). By using an infrared laser it is feasible to study organic compounds and simultaneously avoid fluorescence. This proposal includes mobile Raman instrumentation with different lasers, adapted stages and lenses with long working distances, developed for ...
Development of instrumentation and data processing algorithms to enhance the image quality of elemental nanoprobes for neuroimaging Ghent University
This fundamentally-oriented project proposal focuses on the development of instrumentation and
computational approaches to enhance the capabilities of imaging techniques capable of detecting
elements within brain samples, such as (i) laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass
spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), (ii) synchrotron resonant ptychography, and (iii) synchrotron nanoscale
X-ray fluorescence ...
Development and exploitation of novel ground-based astronomical instrumentation. KU Leuven
Total-relfexion X-ray Fluorescence (TXRF) instrumentation Ghent University
In this project, Total-reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) instrumentation is achieved and installed. This approach allows us to determine the elemental composition of micro-samples and to quantify it. Appart from the analytical instrumentation, equipment fora n appropriate sample preparation is foreseen. The technique allows us to determine simultaneously the main elements as well as the tracé elemental composition. Applications of the ...