Research

Research Interests and Expertise

(Co-)Supervision of TFE Students  at UMons in DS4DS 

MAB1 Students at UMons

Strategies for multiple autonomous mobile robots 2023.

Promoteur : A. Vande Wouwer.

Co-promoteurs : G. A. Pimentel, L. Dewasme.


(Co-)Supervision of MAB1 Students  at UMons in DS4DS 

Former MAB1 Students at UMons

Sparse matrix decomposition approach to generate data-driven models of therapeutic production 2021-2022.

Promoteur : A. Vande Wouwer.

Co-promoteurs : G. A. Pimentel, L. Dewasme.


(Co-)Supervision of BA3 Students at UMons in Electrical Engineering 

Former BA3 Students at UMons

Tuning of the flight controllers of au 3D printed “home-made” drone 2021-2022.

Promoteur : G. Delansnay.

Co-promoteurs : G. A. Pimentel, A. Vande Wouwer.

Estimation of battery state of power in a miniature electrical vehicle with experimental tests 2021-2022.

Promoteur : G. Delansnay.

Co-promoteurs : L. Dewasme, G. A.Pimentel, A. Vande Wouwer.


Supervision of Graduate Students  at PUCRS (MSc in Electrical Engineering)

Former Master Students at PUCRS

Singular Perturbation Analysis of Inverter-based DER units for Decentralized Aggregation in Microgrid Systems, 2021.

Robust Control applied to a Stewart Platform, 2021.

Extended Kalman Filter tunning  through Genetic Algorithms, 2021.

Identification of Dynamic Network Models with Application to Autonomous Vehicle Platooning - (Identificação de Redes Dinâmicas: Aplicada a Pelotão de Veículos Autônomos), 2020.

An Embedded Quaternion-Based Extended Kalman Filter Pose Estimation for Six Degrees of Freedom Systems (Filtro de Kalman Estendido Baseado em Quaternions para Estimação de um Sistema de 6-DOF Embarcado), supervised by Prof. Rafael Garibotti, 2020.

Dual-Stage Control Structure for Multilevel Voltage Source Inverters (Controle Ressonante Macro-Micro para conversores de Tensão CC-CA Multinível), 2019.

Quaternion-based controller for simultaneous attitude and position stabilization of omnidirectional vehicles, 2019.

Semidefinite Programming Solution to the Analysis and Control Problem of a Torpedo Shaped Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. 2018.

Study of D converter: qualitative and quantitative analysis and design criteria (Estudo do conversor D: análises qualitativa e quantitativa e critérios de dimensionamento), 2018.

Supervision of Undergraduate Students at PUCRS (Introduction to Scientific Research)

Identification of Dynamic Network Models: Application to Autonomous Vehicle Platooning (Identificação de Parâmetros de Modelos Dinâmicos em Rede: Aplicação a Pelotões de Veículos), 2020. (BSc Control and Automation Engineering)

State Estimator and Controller Design for a Stewart Platform with 6-DOF (Estimador de Estados e Projeto de Controladores para uma Plataforma Stewart com 6-DOF), 2020. (BSc Electrical Engineering)

Implementation of a controller using a camera for tracking reference for Omnidirectional vehicles (Implementação de um controlador utilizando câmera para seguimento referência para veículos Omnidirecionais), 2020. (BSc Electrical Engineering)

Optimal Control Theory Applied to Epidemic Control until the Development of a Vaccine - COVID-19 Case Study (Teoria de Controle Ótimo Aplicada ao Controle de Epidemias até o Desenvolvimento de uma Vacina – Estudo de Caso do COVID-19), 2020. (BSc Control and Automation Engineering).

Design, implementation and modeling of a prototype for testing autonomous vehicles platooning (Projeto, implementação e modelagem de um protótipo para ensaios de veículos autônomos em pelotão), 2019. (BSc Control and Automation Engineering).

Extremum-seeking for Anaerobic Digestion Processes (Extremum-seeking para Processos de Digestão Anaeróbica), 2018. (BSc Control and Automation Engineering)

Design, implementation and modeling of a prototype for testing autonomous vehicles platooning (Projeto, implementação e modelagem de um protótipo para ensaios de veículos autônomos em pelotão), 2018. (BSc Electrical Engineering)