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

Ernest Voets (2025-2026)
Thesis: “Safe Social Navigation in Corridor-Based Structured Environments: a Model Predictive Control Approach with Residual Reinforcement Learning and Control Barrier Functions”


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

Related Publications:


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:


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