Projects
Design of THz Radiators in Nanometer CMOS KU Leuven
In the frequency spectrum, the THz range is located between the millimeter wave and the far field infrared spectrum. There are numerous possible applications in the THz range such as medical/security imaging, spectroscopy, and communication. In these applications, THz signal sources are needed to provide the output signal in a transmitter or provide the LO signal in a heterodyne transceiver. CMOS technologies have the advantage of low cost in ...
Development of Microvalves for High-Performance Cooling of Microelectronics KU Leuven
Model-based active thermography for contactless quality assessment in the agro-food industry KU Leuven
In the agro-food industry, there is an increasing demand for non-destructive quality inspection tools that allow to inspect every individual product. This is the result of an increased focus on food safety and quality over the past decades. Several fast, non-destructive and contactless technologies have been studied for food quality inspection, many of them based on the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the food product. ...
Model Platinum Catalysts KU Leuven
Platinum is used by many industries because of its exceptional catalytic activity, electrochemical properties and corrosion resistance. It is widely used as a catalyst in the chemical production, in fuel cell and electrolyser electrodes and in sensors for analytical and medical applications. Catalysts are key to face grand technological challenges in the fields of energy and environmental protection and to ensure a sustainable supply of ...
A discrete element approach for simulating the compression of fibrous biomass KU Leuven
Due to the growing world population, the agricultural sector needs more productive and more energy-efficient agricultural machinery in order to adequately address the growing demand for food and biomass. Therefore, the sector significantly invests in the optimization of agricultural machinery.
Historically, the optimization of agricultural machinery was done by trial and error. Design improvements of agricultural machinery are still ...
A cardiovascular simulator for medical device testing KU Leuven
Cardiovascular simulators are a class of tools reproducing the human physiology of the cardiovascular system. With the increasing of computer power, simulators improved in the past decades in terms of accuracy and complexity. The use of simulators is currently increasing in the medical fields and is encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission with the Avicenna Alliance. Simulators can be used to test new medical ...
Higher Order Modelling for First Order Solvers KU Leuven
Many common computational problems can be posed as model expansion problems, where the task is to find a solution satisfying a set of constraints. Many different paradigms and approaches exist to solve these problems. Likewise, there are many languages to express these problems in. Some of these are standardized, such as Answer Set Programming (ASP) or Minizinc. For some languages there is only one system, like the FO(.) language. The ...
PhD verdediging Panagiotis VASARMIDIS UGent Flanders Hydraulics
Generic Machine Learning algorithms for Real-time Human-Computer Interaction KU Leuven
The goal is to build a generic classifier for gesture interaction applications. This kind of applications use directed, conscious intentional interactions that are clearly defined in time and space, for example gestures for selection and manipulation. The classifier needs to be generic and can be applied to different types of sensors and different gestures.The sensors which will be discussed are inertial measurement units (a combination of ...