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Aug 03, 2026 “Adaptive Unmanned Surface Vehicle Control Under Perturbations with a Tunable Settling Time” was accepted in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. This work represents the main result from my master thesis, where we present an adaptive integral terminal sliding mode formulation for trajectory tracking.
Jul 27, 2026 “Multi-Agent Motion Planning on Industrial Magnetic Levitation Platforms: A Hybrid ADMM-HOCBF approach” has been published in European Journal of Control. This publication is part of the Special Issue on the European Control Conference 2026.
Jun 11, 2026 “Constant-Rate Convergence for an Adaptive Sliding Mode Controller Using a Fixed-time Disturbance Observer” was accepted in International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. This research was in collaboration with Tecnológico de Monterrey and Université de Technologie de Compiègne.
Jun 08, 2026 I recently traveled to Vienna, Austria for ICRA 2026. I presented our paper on fast motion planning for unicycle-like robots using a rectangular corridor abstraction of structured environments.
May 22, 2026 “Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotic Boats” was accepted in Nature Communications. This paper introduces FloatForm, a modular system for autonomous self-assembly and collective motion on water. This is a result of a multi-year collaboration that began during my time as a visiting researcher at MIT.
May 08, 2026 Our paper on safe time-optimal point-to-point motion planning and control was accepted to CCTA 2026. This work was led by Felix, a TUM PhD researcher who visited MECO at KU Leuven.
Mar 15, 2026 Our paper on safe distributed motion planning has been accepted to ECC 2026. This publication originated from the thesis work of Bavo and Stan, two former master’s students I co-advised.
Jan 31, 2026 Our paper on fast motion planning for non-holonomic AMRs was accepted to ICRA 2026. This research is part of the ARENA project and incorporates thesis contributions from Sebastiaan, a former master’s student I co-advised.