Control Systems Technology
The mission of the CST group is to develop new methods and tools in the area of Systems Theory, Control Engineering and Mechatronics. The research focuses on understanding the fundamental system properties that determine the performance of mechanical engineering systems, and exploiting this knowledge for the design of the high-tech systems of the future.
We want an internationally leading role in research, combined with inspiring education, valorisation through spin-off companies, and direct co-operation with industry.
Our overall research strategy is focused on performance-driven design and control. The performance of a controlled system is defined as the extent to which the actual behaviour of the system matches the intended behaviour, while being subject to disturbances acting on the system and variations in system dynamics. Performance requirements can be related, forinstance, to the accurate tracking of a set-point (motion) or to the energy utilisation (hybrid vehicles). Fundamental properties that determine and possibly limit performance can befound in both external sources (disturbances acting on the system) and internal sources (system properties, controller properties, quality of sensors and actuators etc.). Only by an integrated design of both the mechatronic (hardware) system and the (software) controller can the highest performance requirements be achieved.
Read moreResearch lines
The research in our group is structured in 5 research lines. Click on the following links to learn more about eacht topic.
Meet some of our Researchers
Our laboratories
The Control Systems Technology group shares the following laboratory facilities in the Mechanical Engineering Department
Student opportunities
The Control Systems Technology Group actively participates in the TU/e Bachelor College and Graduate School. The members of the CST group are responsible for many courses at Bsc(ME) and MSc levels, in the master programs of ME, AT, S&C and NF. Every year approximately 60 students finish their Master program within our group. Also, CST group participates in the PDEng program Automotive Systems Design as well as in the Graduate School DISC.
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D. Lee,A. Palha
A mixed mimetic spectral element model of the rotating shallow water equations on the cubed sphere
Journal of Computational Physics (2018) -
Michiel A. Beijen,Marcel F. Heertjes,Hans Butler,Maarten Steinbuch
Disturbance feedforward control for active vibration isolation systems with internal isolator dynamics
Journal of Sound and Vibration (2018) -
Stefan Heijmans,Romain Postoyan,Dragan Nešić,Navid Noroozi,Maurice Heemels
Stability analysis of networked linear control systems with direct-feedthrough terms
Automatica (2018) -
R.M. Jungers,A. Kundu,W.P.M.H. Heemels
Observability and controllability analysis of linear systems subject to data losses
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2018) -
M. van Berkel,G. Vandersteen,H.J Zwart,G. M.D. Hogeweij,J. Citrin,E. Westerhof,D. Peumans,M. R. de Baar
Separation of transport in slow and fast time-scales using modulated heat pulse experiments (hysteresis in flux explained)
Nuclear Fusion (2018)