Projects
Safe Envelope Prediction
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Forecasting Safe Operating Envelopes for Autonomous Robots
In November 2020 I was awarded the NWO-Vidi grant (800.000 euros) for developing a new methodology for accurately estimating and exploiting the safe envelope for aut...
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Revolutionizing Drone Safety and Performance
The aim of this research project is to fundamentally improve the safety of drones by developing a new safe envelope predictive (SENCE) flight control system. The goa...
Aerospace System Identification
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Revolutionizing Drone Safety and Performance
The aim of this research project is to fundamentally improve the safety of drones by developing a new safe envelope predictive (SENCE) flight control system. The goa...
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Aircraft Stall Model Identification
This project focuses on developing dynamic models of aircraft in the stall and post-stall regime from flight data obtained with our Cessna Citation II laboratory air...
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Flight Envelope Prediction & Damaged Aircraft Modelling
Currently, Loss of Control (LOC) is the primary cause of fatal accidents in aviation, accounting for 44% of all fatalities between 2005 and 2015. LOC is the result o...
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Flapping Wing Model Identification
Flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs) are bio-inspired flying robots mimicking small birds and insects. Compared to drones with rotors (e.g. quadrotors), flappin...
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Satellite Aerodynamic Model Identification
This project is run in collaboration with ESA and the TU-Delft Astrodynamics group. The objective of this research project is to investigate the use of angular accel...
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Inertial Sensor Calibration and Modeling
Inertial sensors are essential components of inertial navigation systems and automatic flight control systems. They directly or indirectly measure linear acceleratio...
Mathematical Modeling Theory
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Multivariate Splines
Multivariate B-splines are a powerful class of function approximators. Multivariate B-splines consist of local multivariate Bernstein basis polynomials define...
Control Theory Applications
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Fault Tolerant Control
Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) methods are aimed at providing new levels of damage resilience to aircraft, spacecraft, and drones. Two different approaches are investi...
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Control Allocation of Over-Actuated Aircraft
This project is a collaboration between Lockheed-Martin and the Control & Simulation division. The goal of the project is to investigate new control allocation m...
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Active Flow Control
Application of our new Active Flow Control approach may result in significantly reduced aerodynamic drag, improved noise characteristics, and improved lift characte...
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Fast and high-performance control for E-ELT optical instruments
Adaptive optics (AO) are used in large telescopes to compensate for disturbances in the atmosphere as well as vibrations of the telescope’s optical components....