René van de Molengraft
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RESEARCH PROFILE
René van de Molengraft is an Associate Professor and Chair Motion Control of at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).He worked as an assistant professor at TU/e from 1992 to 2008 and became an associate professor in 2008). His main research interest is in the area of autonomous robotic systems
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
René van de Molengraft received his MSc degree (with honors) in Mechanical Engineering from TU/e in 1986. From 1986 until 1990 he was a research assistant at Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1990 he received his PhD from TU/e for this thesis on the subject of Identification of Mechanical Systems for Control.
In 2005, he founded the Tech United Robocup team (world champion MSL robot soccer in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2022 and world champion @Home competition for domestic service robots).
René was main organizer of the RoboCup Dutch Open 2012, the RoboCup 2013 world championship (>3000 participants, >40000 visitors), and the RoboCup European Open 2016, all in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Key Publications
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J. Lunenburg,R. van de Molengraft,M. Steinbuch
A representation method based on the probability of collision for safe robot navigation in domestic environments
Autonomous Robots (2018) -
J.J. Salmerón-García,S. van den Dries,F. Díaz-del-Río,A. Morgado-Estevez,J.L. Sevillano-Ramos,M.J.G. van de Molengraft
Towards a cloud-based automated surveillance system using wireless technologies
Multimedia Systems (2019) -
R. Janssen,M.J.G. Molengraft, van de,H.P.J. Bruyninckx,M. Steinbuch
Cloud based centralized task control for human domain multi-robot operations
Intelligent Service Robotics (2016) -
Cesar Lopez Martinez,René van de Molengraft,Siep Weiland,Maarten Steinbuch
Switching robust control for bilateral teleoperation
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2016) -
J.J.M. Lunenburg,S.A.M. Coenen,G.J.L. Naus,M.J.G. van de Molengraft,M. Steinbuch
Motion planning for mobile robots
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (2016)
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