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Prof.dr. Arjan van der Schaft |
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A.J. (Arjan) van der Schaft (1955) received the undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. In 1982 he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, Enschede, where he was appointed as a full professor in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory in 2000. In September 2005 he returned to Groningen as a full professor in Mathematics. He served as Associate Editor for Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Nonlinear Science, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and was Editor-at-Large for the European Journal of Control. Currently he is Associate Editor for the Journal of Geometric Mechanics, and for Annual Reviews in Control. Arjan van der Schaft is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He was Invited Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain (2006), and was the 2013 Recipient of the three-yearly awarded ‘Certificate of Excellent Achievements’ of the IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Control Systems. He is member of the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control.
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Prof.dr. Hans Zwart |
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Hans Zwart is Professor in Physical Systems and Control, and head of the Chair Hybrid Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente.
His research interests are in control and analysis of systems described by partial differential equation and/or time difference differential equations. The main focus is on the development and analysis of controllers for linear systems. Hereby using the mathematical techniques from functional analysis and Hamiltonian dynamics. Main area of applications is the controller design and analysis of flexible structures. On this topic he has a long lasting collaboration with research groups in Besançon, Lyon, Wuppertal, and Eindhoven. At Eindhoven University of Technology, department of Mechanical Engineering, he holds a one-day-per-week professorship. Prof. H. Zwart is the co-author of two standard text books in his field; An Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional Systems Theory, (with R. Curtain) and Linear Port-Hamiltonian Systems on Infinite-Dimensional Spaces (with B. Jacob). |
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Dr.ir. Geert Folkertsma |
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Geert Folkertsma is Assistant Professor at the Robotics and Mechatronics group, University of Twente. He obtained his PhD in 2017 at the same group, with a thesis titled “Energy-based and biomimetic robotics.”
He is interested in the holistic, energy-based view of biomimetic robots: how can the efficient propulsion of animals be copied to artificial counterparts? Does a cheetah robot, that has to run fast with a low cost-of-transport, have to look like a cheetah to obtain similar dynamics? And: what are the fundamental aspects of flapping-wing bird flight that have to be copied to create and improve an ornithopter?
Geert works part-time as assistant professor at the University of Twente and part-time as lead R&D engineer at Clear Flight Solutions, the UT-spinoff that develops the Robird® for bird control. |