Projects
Assessing the energy, thermal comfort and economic impact of Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) - Towards a reliable evaluation for new and retrofitted residential buildings University of Antwerp
Flexible automation systems for de- and remanufacturing KU Leuven
The main objective of the Phd is to develop innovative automated processes and systems for the de- and remanufacturing industry. These systems aim at improving the reuse, repair and remanufacturing of waste of electric and electronic equipment, as well as the recycling of critical and precious metals and plastics. Due to the high variation of discarded products, flexibility of the de- and remanufacturing systems is extremely challenging and ...
Advances in FOrestry Control and aUtomation Systems in Europe KU Leuven
The forest-based value chains are one of the dominant contributors to the GDP in the rural regions of Europe. Besides the traditional value chains, novel ones are in the horizon, with significant impacts on the requirements for the raw material supply chains. A major roadblock for improving forest-based value chains is the lack of integrated control and planning mechanism. FOCUS will demonstrate how innovative sensor technologies and control ...
Human-robot collaborative construction system for shotcrete digitization and automation through advanced perception, cognition, mobility and additive manufacturing skills KU Leuven
RobetArme will deliver a human-robot collaborative construction system for the automation of shotcrete (i.e. concrete spray casting), which is an emerging technology in construction domain. A multitasking Inspection-Reconnaissance mobile manipulator-IRR (ROB) will fuse the latest Geotechnical models (BIM/CIM) (DTT), high-density visual data and semantic SLAM (CERTH) representations to automate modelling and fast reconstruction (DTU) of the ...
Innovation and implementation of automatic monitoring and warning systems for pest insects to support a sustainable Flemish fruit and vegetable production pcfruit npo
Nowadays manual monitoring (checking pheromone traps, visual inspections, collecting samples from plants/trees, etc.) are time consuming and require specialized entomological expertise in order to recognize specific (life stages of) insects. The goal of this project is to facilitate/automate/digitize our monitoring and warning system. For this we focus on 4 target pests (including D. suzukii and codling moth) and two main techniques: camera ...
Development of Automatic Physiological and Behavioural Monitoring Systems for Pigs KU Leuven
Automated physiological and behavioural monitoring can play a major role in assessing the welfare of pigs. Conventional behaviour monitoring through human observers is time-consuming and labour-intensive. Wearable sensors to measure activity and physiological signals also need to be attached to animals, and so are not robust and animal-friendly for long-term monitoring. The aim of this thesis was to explore new approaches for monitoring of ...
Development and validation of an automatic quality control system for a appel packing machine. KU Leuven
Design Automation and Exploration for Energy Efficient Machine Learning SoCs and Chiplets KU Leuven
The state-of-the-art research for artificial intelligence (AI) aims to bring these power hungry algorithms into edge computing. This necessitates ultra-low energy computing despite requiring complex heterogenous systems. To find the best designs, we need several prototyping of system-on-chips (SoC) architectures. To pave the way for fast experimentation, this research work aims to explore novel algorithms, a library of energy efficient ...
Design and design automation of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits KU Leuven
Microelectronic/nanoelectronic integrated circuits are the underlying technology for the many ICT applications that increasingly impact our daily lives: computing, communication, multimedia, entertainment, transport, healthcare, etc. While more and more applications are becoming digital in nature, analog and mixed analog-digital integrated circuits remain an essential part in electronic systems for the countless applications that interact ...