teaching & mentoring

courses I have assisted and students I have supervised.

Teaching Assistant

Period Course Institution
Fall 2025 Systems and Control Theory [KU Leuven]
Fall 2024 Systems and Control Theory [KU Leuven]
Spring 2024 Sensors and Measurement Systems [KU Leuven]
Fall 2023 Systems and Control Theory [KU Leuven]
Spring 2023 Sensors and Measurement Systems [KU Leuven]
Fall 2022 Systems and Control Theory [KU Leuven]


Mentoring & Supervision

Master’s Thesis

Sebastiaan Wyns (2024-2025)
Thesis: “Efficient Free Space Representation for Robot Motion Planning Using Interconnected Rectangular Corridors” [Thesis PDF]

Related Publications:

2026

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    Fast Motion Planning for Non-Holonomic Mobile Robots via a Rectangular Corridor Representation of Structured Environments
    Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Sebastiaan Wyns, Sonia De Santis, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09714, 2026
    Accepted to IEEE ICRA 2026
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Stan Servaes & Bavo Tistaert (2024-2025)
Thesis: “ Decentralised Motion Planning for Holonomic Multi-Agent Systems Using a Hybrid ADMM-CBF Approach: Application to Industrial Magnetic Levitation Platforms” [Thesis PDF]

Related Publications:

2026

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    Multi-Agent Motion Planning on Industrial Magnetic Levitation Platforms: A Hybrid ADMM-HOCBF approach
    Bavo Tistaert, Stan Servaes, Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.19838, 2026
    Accepted to ECC 2026
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Yannick Claes & Lucas Tielens (2023 - 2024)
Thesis: “Smooth control strategies for trajectory tracking on computationally constrained mobile robots with discontinuous localization” [Thesis PDF]

Related Publications:

2025

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    Smooth Control Strategies for Path-Following on Computationally Constrained Mobile Robots with Discontinuous Localization
    Yannick Claes, Lucas Tielens, Sonia De Santis, and 3 more authors
    In 2025 European Control Conference (ECC), 2025
    DOI Video