René van de Molengraft
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RESEARCH PROFILE
René van de Molengraft is an Associate Professor and Chair Robotics at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His main research interest is in autonomous robotic systems that can perform tasks in the living and working environments of humans, encompassing all the variations that occur therein.
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. He was Assistant Professor between 1990 and 2008 and Associate Professor since 2008.
In 2005, he founded the Tech United Robocup team (world champion MSL robot soccer in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 and world champion @Home competition for domestic service robots in 2019 and 2022).
René was main organizer of the RoboCup Dutch Open 2012, the RoboCup 2013 world championship (>3000 participants, >40000 visitors), the RoboCup European Open 2016, and currently the RoboCup 2024 world championship, all in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Recent Publications
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Koen de Vos,Gijs van den Brandt,Jordy Senden,Pieter Pauwels,Rene van de Molengraft,Elena Torta
Generation of skill-specific maps from graph world models for robotic systems
(2024) -
Aron J. Aertssen,Rudolf G.M. Huisman,Igo J.M. Besselink,M.J.G. (René) van de Molengraft
Real-Time Trajectory Planning for an Autonomous Articulated Commerical Vehicle
(2024) -
Mark van den Brand,Hossain Muhammad Muctadir,René van de Molengraft
ML-based Digital Twin for anomaly detection
(2024) -
K. de Vos,E. Torta,H. Bruyninckx,C.A. Lopez Martinez,M.J.G. van de Molengraft
Automatic Configuration of Multi-Agent Model Predictive Controllers based on Semantic Graph World Models
(2023) -
Hao Liang Chen,Bob Hendrikx,Elena Torta,Herman Bruyninckx,René van de Molengraft
Behavior adaptation for mobile robots via semantic map compositions of constraint-based controllers
Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2023)
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