We will continue our seminar series on 25th April 2024
On site: Room 3.S1.08 (Building -“Rey Pastor” Library)
For the next event in the Aerospace PhD Seminar Series, we will have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Laurens Jacobs, researcher at KU Leuven.
The event will take place in Room 3.S1.08 (Building -“Rey Pastor” Library) on Thursday, April 25th at 11:00 am and will be streamed (Online).
Dr. Laurens Jacobs graduated as a mechanical engineer from KU Leuven in 2016 and holds the PhD degree in robust and optimal linear feedback control theory from KU Leuven since 2021. During his PhD track, he collaborated with several partners from industry through Flanders Make, the strategic research center of the Flemish manufacturing industry. These collaborations sparked his profound interest in bridging the gap between the academic state-of-the-art in robust feedback control and the pragmatic suboptimal approaches of practicing control engineers in many industries. His research interests are therefore on the interface between academic rigor and practical engineering problems. After he obtained his PhD, he has been granted an industrial postdoctoral fellowship from Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship to stimulate the further adoption of his PhD results in industry. Besides, he is involved in several industrial consulting projects via contract research through KU Leuven.
“Bringing modern linear feedback control into practice: systematic design methodologies, supporting software tools and industrial uptake”
Abstract:
Already since the 1990s, academic control theorists have proven the value of robust and optimal linear feedback controller synthesis (e.g., H∞/H2 design) for high-end applications such as in aerospace (amongst others). Yet, even today, many control engineers in industry are hesitant or even reluctant to deploy these advanced techniques for their applications due to the tedious mathematics and its somewhat excessive formality. Together with the demand for help from different companies in Flanders for their challenging control problems, this observation has motivated the MECO Research Team of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of KU Leuven to develop systematic design methodologies, supporting software tools and convincing case studies to stimulate the deployment of robust control and linear parameter-varying control (LPV) in the industrial practice. This short seminar will address the design framework we proposed, will demonstrate the freely available software toolbox we developed to support control engineers, and will also showcase some interesting industrial cases we recently tackled using this framework.
The seminars will begin at 11:00 am and will take place in the Room 3.S1.08 (Building -“Rey Pastor” Library), EPS Leganés.
No previous registration is required.
PhD in Aerospace Engineering UC3M 