Projects
Monitoring of cutting and processing quality on a forage harvester’ KU Leuven
In the agricultural sector, innovative methods are continuously developed to optimize agricultural processes with the ultimate purpose to obtain, in a sustainable way, a higher (quality of) yield from the same land. Agricultural vehicles should therefore be controlled in an optimal manner: machine settings are often suboptimal. A better processing of crops is realizable if real-time monitoring can be used for analysing the effect of the ...
Integrated process monitoring and control of active pharmaceutical ingredients production via tensor based data driven modeling methods. iMPC4API KU Leuven
General purpose
The ultimate goal of this project is to develop an advanced data driven modeling methodology for full scale plant-wide API production processes. The constructed models are intended for advanced monitoring and control of the processes, which are understood as integrated systems formed by multiple heterogeneous subsystems. Therefore the key aspect is learning the relationships between process variables along the process ...
On the use of a combined numerical/experimental approach for dynamic health monitoring of mechatronic systems. KU Leuven
Rotating components and rotating machinery play a key role in the dynamics of several mechatronic system.In the current state-of-the-use, rotating machinery fault detection, diagnosis and identification are usually based on vibration measurements. Unfortunately, In many practical situations, it is not possible to measure directly those system quantities that are more sensitive to the investigated fault, due to lack of space or dedicated ...
Towards Improving Biocompatibility in Implantable Monitoring KU Leuven
The encapsulation of electronic systems to be implanted in the human body has to ensure a hermetic seal that prevents the ingress of moisture, potentially leading to corrosion and failure of the implant. Moreover, the packaging materials have to be selected to minimize the risk of an adverse reaction of the organism to the foreign object.
The focus of this PhD is the development of advanced packaging techniques for flexible and ...
Bioreactors and process monitoring for scale-up of stem cell production KU Leuven
For almost two decades it is claimed that cell-based therapies will revolutionize the field of medicine. Albeit major scientific breakthroughs that present cells as the active ingredient of a clinical therapy are succeeding each other at increasing speed, today only few of these research successes are able to materialise their full clinical potential and develop into a widely available commercial cell-based treatment. Besides the remaining ...
Multi-scale monitoring and modelling for the analysis of the hydrologic response of southern Ecuadorian Andean páramos KU Leuven
The present research is focused on an “alpine” Neotropical grassland ecosystem, situated between ca. 3500 and 4500 m a.s.l. –locally known as “páramo”– which covers the Andean mountains. Below the páramo, the study area hosts other types of high-altitude Andean ecosystems, such as: tropical montane cloud forest and grasslands. The study area is located in the south-west highlands of the Paute River basin that drains to the Amazon River. These ...