Control Systems Technology (CST) TU/e

Congratulations to Nancy Wagemakers on her 12.5th anniversary at TU/e🎉 Photo left Patrick Anderson, right Nancy Wagemakers

🧑🏼🌾📈 Farm smarter: use data! 🧑🏼🌾📈   🌱🥔 In this recently published article, Puck Mulders and colleagues show how the use of data can help farmers to optimize their potato planting. Farmers have to make many decisions, which can be a challenging and time-consuming task. Using a case study of a large potato farm in the Netherlands, the authors have successfully created an optimization model, the use of which can lead to a significant profit gain for farmers.   💡This study shows the power of combining optimization techniques, data science, and agronomic knowledge to provide farmers with practical, locally relevant guidance. It is a perfect example of the great potential of the cooperation between these different domains! A special thanks to Jacob van den Borne for sharing his data and making this research possible. 👉🏽 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eW-YkF3Z Menno van Zutphen Paul Ravensbergen Roy Cobbenhagen Edwin van den Heuvel René van de Molengraft Pytrik Reidsma Duarte Antunes Maurice Heemels

🤝 Yesterday, we had the great honor of welcoming Mr. Kumar Tuhin, Ambassador of India to the Netherlands, and Counsellor Ms. Tara Pathak to TU/e. During their visit, we had the pleasure of discussing strategies, partnerships, and opportunities and highlighting some of our top semicon research. Thank you, Mr. Tuhin and Ms. Pathak, for your time and interest in strengthening ties between India and the Netherlands. Together, we can drive innovation and create impactful solutions! #TUeindhoven #Innovation #SemiconductorResearch #IndiaNetherlandsPartnerships

📣 Deadline 15th February for our (all-rank) Professor openings in Systems and Control 🎓 Final call for our #Professor openings (al ranks) in #Systems and #Control at Eindhoven University of Technology in our Control Systems Technology (CST) TU/e section in Mechanical Engineering at TU/e! Be quick if you are interested, see for application link below! 😀 International Federation of Automatic Control

💡 From a frequency-domain Willems' lemma to FreePC 🔎   In our most recent work, which is available on ArXiv (see link in comments), we bridge the gap between state-of-the-art data-driven control, and widespread frequency-domain data and expertise, particularly, in the high-tech industry. In particular, we formulate a version of the celebrated Willems' fundamental lemma based on frequency-domain data and use it to develop (among other relevant applications) a frequency-domain data-driven predictive control (FreePC) scheme (complementing the well-known DeePC approach, a time-domain data-based version of #MPC). We demonstrate the benefits of FreePC and the use of frequency-domain data in several numerical case studies.   This work is the result of great collaboration with my colleagues Koen Scheres, Sven Nouwens, Victor Dolk, and Maurice Heemels at Control Systems Technology (CST) TU/e. The support of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Proacthis is greatly acknowledged!

Supervisory Control Theory (SCT) traditionally relies on enabling or disabling events, but real-world systems often require direct intervention. This paper introduces forcible events, allowing supervisors to force specific actions and preempt uncontrollable events. The authors define forcible controllability and present an efficient algorithm to synthesize maximally permissive, nonblocking supervisors. A case study on a manufacturing line demonstrates the practical benefits of event forcing. By bridging the gap between theory and implementation, this work advances SCT toward greater real-world applicability. Title: Supervisory Control Theory with Event Forcing Authors: Michel Reniers & Kai Cai Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control #discreteeventsystems #supervisorycontrol #cst

Graduated! 🎓 A few months ago, I successfully defended my thesis on “Linear Parameter-Varying Feedforward Control for Compensating Flexible Modes in Wafer Stages” in collaboration with ASML, officially marking the completion of my Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at TU/e within the research group Control Systems Technology (CST) TU/e. I want to thank both my daily supervisor Johan Kon and company supervisor Jeroen van de Wijdeven for the invaluable guidance and interesting discussions throughout my thesis. In addition, I would like to thank Tom Oomen and Marcel Heertjes for their guidance throughout the project. After graduating, I took some time to travel through Asia, experiencing new cultures, perspectives, and unforgettable moments. Now, feeling recharged and inspired, I am excited to apply my skills in the high-tech industry and take on new challenges!

What combines robots, soccer, large language models and edge computing? The Science track of the first (𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡) 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 on 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬. I am so excited to announce the distinguished speakers of the Science track: Bayu Jayawardhana (University of Groningen) - Autonomy in Multi-robot Systems Tom Oomen (Eindhoven University of Technology) - From data to future high-tech systems Ming Cao (University of Groningen) - What can large language models (AI) do for autonomous robots? Udo Frese (University of Bremen) - Halftime towards 2050 - Looking back and forth in Robot Soccer Javier Alonso-Mora (Delft University of Technology) - Robot Autonomy among Decision-Making Agents Özlem Durmaz Incel (University of Twente) - Pervasive Smart Sensing Systems at the Edge And there is more! A keynote by Aaron Saunders (CTO of Boston Dynamics), an industry track with 7 speakers from the high-tech industry and an ELSA (Ethical, Legal, Societal) track. The congress will be chaired by the University of Groningen rector, Prof. Jacquelien Scherpen Register now: https://lnkd.in/gv6dtfmV

Exciting PhD vacancy jointly at Airbus and the Control Systems Technology (CST) TU/e Section: https://lnkd.in/dGY22YBY, involving an exciting application domain of control, together with Niek Doelman. Specific areas of interest - Opto-mechatronics; in particular the design and analysis of a wide range, high-bandwidth, low drag optical beam pointing system - Control; specifically the modeling of the dynamic behaviour of the pointing system, fast tracking and the closed-loop rejection of time-variant vibration disturbances - Communication; the network aspects of high data throughput links to and from aircraft terminals

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