Projects
Towards industry-oriented and applied research on Machine building & Mechatronics KU Leuven
The foundation of the Machine Building & Mechatronics (M&M) industry lies in the province of West-Flanders. Further digitalisation, robotisation, and automation within the M&M sector is essential for increased output and reduced dependence on high labour costs as well as to circumvent the scarcity of good professionals. Together, KU Leuven and VIVES want to be the go-to institutes for companies (large companies as well as SMEs) ...
Hybrid AI for Estimation in Mechatronics Ghent University
HAIEM is rooted in multiple interactions that took place in the framework of the recently finished Flanders Make ICON project MODA. Flanders Make DecisionS, FlandersMake@UGent-EEDT-DC, Bekaert and Atlas Copco were partners in MODA. These interactions as well as those with many other companies confirmed that Flemish industry heavily relies on models of physical dynamic systems (e.g., drivetrain models, thermal models, actuator models) to ...
Modelling and testing for total life cycle management in mechatronics. University of Antwerp
The complexity and intelligence of cyber-physical systems (CPS) are continually increasing. Developers and manufacturers of large systems such as industrial printing machines, many-sided agriculture machines, high-speed weaving looms, autonomous driving cars, up to highly safe commercial airplanes are confronted with common technical challenges that span the total product's life cycle from requirements capturing over design and validation up to ...
CIMAT: Catalyst for Innovative Mechatronics in Agricultural Technology KU Leuven
CIMAT wants to provide answers. The project combines the forces of Flemish and Dutch partners. Together they explore the possibilities of an autonomous tool platform with modular tools for a variety of tasks. The basis is a self-driving, electrically powered robot, which is optimized during the project duration.
Catalyst for Innovative Mechatronics in Agricultural Technology (CIMAT) Inagro vzw
KU Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Octinion bvba (BE), Vanhoucke Machine Engineering bvba (BE), Compas Agro (NL), University College Roosevelt (NL), PCFruit - Proefcentrum Fruitteelt vzw, Proefboerderij Rusthoeve, Delphy BV, Provincie Vlaams-Brabant, ILVO - Instituut voor Land- en Visserijonderzoek, Inagro vzw
Traditionally, scaling up or an increase in performance of machines has been used as a response to the increasing pressure on agricultural and horticultural companies to improve cost efficiency in order to be able to compete internationally. For small-scale businesses that focus on organic farming or specific niches (vegetables, fruit, berries, arboriculture) in the fragmented acreage of Flanders and the Netherlands, this is not an appropriate ...
Catalyst for Innovative Mechatronics in Agricultural Technology Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Main research question/goal
Can a multi-purpose, modular, semi-autonomous, electrically powered robotic platform for various agricultural tasks be developed in a feasible and attractive way for small and medium-sized farms striving to adopt more sustainable practices? The action-oriented answer lies in the CIMAT interreg research project. The project potentially generates a paradigm shift with respect to current ...
Co-creation within the Competence Center Machine Building and Mechatronics W-VL Ghent University
Department of Electromechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design
In this project, the partners wish to involve the companies in the M&M center through co-creation. This co-creation is realized through two successive cycles (inspiration and implementation, co-design and co-production and co-evaluation). After each cycle, the findings are disseminated openly and non-discriminatively to the broad target group. In particular, 9 proof-of-concepts will be developed and validated with participating companies ...
Machine building and Mechatronics center West Flanders Ghent University
Efficient model based design parameter exploration and optimization in mechatronics KU Leuven
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA) Section
This strategic basic research project aims to transform the current design tools and workflow deployed in the mechatronic industry into an efficient framework for multi-disciplinary systemlevel design parameter space exploration and optimization. In mechatronic design, as in many other industries, each new design has to exhibit an ever improved performance, along with a reduced involvement of resources, both during the design process as well as ...