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Herman Bruyninckx

EURON's National Representative for Belgium

Herman Bruyninckx, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Werktuigkunde), Production engineering, Machine design and Automation (PMA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium. Herman.Bruyninckx AT mech.kuleuven.be Web page

Herman Bruyninckx obtained the degrees of Licentiate (``Bachelors'') in Mathematics (1984), Burgerlijk Ingenieur (``Masters'') in Computer Science (1987) and in Mechatronics (1988), all from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In 1995 he got his Doctoral Degree in Applied Sciences from the same university, with a thesis entitled ``Kinematic Models for Robot Compliant Motion with Identification of Uncertainties.'' From 1994 to 1998 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher, and since 1998 he is Associate Professor at the K.U.Leuven. He held visiting research positions at the Grasp Lab of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1996), and the Robotics Lab of Stanford University (1999). His research interests are on-line Bayesian estimation of model uncertainties in sensor-based robot tasks, kinematics of serial and parallel manipulators, geometric foundations of robotics, and robot control software. In the latter context, he started the Open Robot Control Software framework, which is available as Free Software at http://www.orocos.org.