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Joris De Schutter

Joris De Schutter

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
54
Citations
12198
World Ranking
3152
National Ranking
42

Overview

Joris De Schutter is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a notable presence in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics covered by De Schutter's work include:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

De Schutter has published extensively, with a concentration of papers in several key venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Human Movement Science
  • 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Among recent papers are:

  • "Force from Shape-Estimating the Location and Magnitude of the External Force on Flexible Instruments", 2021, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "Effect of the soft tissue artifact on marker measurements and on the calculation of the helical axis of the knee during a gait cycle: A study on the CAMS-Knee data set", 2021, Human Movement Science
  • "A Framework for Recognition and Prediction of Human Motions in Human-Robot Collaboration Using Probabilistic Motion Models", 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Forward flight tests of a quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle with various spherical body diameters", 2020, International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles
  • "Towards Dynamic Visual Servoing for Interaction Control and Moving Targets", 2022, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

De Schutter frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Erwin Aertbeliën
  • Maxim Vochten
  • Wilm Decré
  • Arno Verduyn
  • Andrea Ancillao

Best Publications

  • Optimal robot excitation and identification

    J. Swevers;C. Ganseman;D.B. Tukel;J. de Schutter

  • Time-Optimal Path Tracking for Robots: A Convex Optimization Approach

    D. Verscheure;B. Demeulenaere;J. Swevers;J. De Schutter

  • Comment on "A new method for the nonlinear transformation of means and covariances in filters and estimators" [with authors' reply]

    T. Lefebvre;H. Bruyninckx;J. De Schuller

  • Dynamic Model Identification for Industrial Robots

    J. Swevers;W. Verdonck;J. De Schutter

  • Kalman filters for non-linear systems: a comparison of performance

    Tine Lefebvre;Herman Bruyninckx;Joris De Schutter

  • Compliant robot motion II. A control approach based on external control loops

    J. De Schutter;H. van Brussel

  • Specification of force-controlled actions in the "task frame formalism"-a synthesis

    H. Bruyninckx;J. De Schutter

  • Constraint-based Task Specification and Estimation for Sensor-Based Robot Systems in the Presence of Geometric Uncertainty

    Joris De Schutter;Tinne De Laet;Johan Rutgeerts;Wilm Decré

  • Force Control

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  • A smoothly constrained Kalman filter

    J. De Geeter;H. Van Brussel;J. De Schutter;M. Decreton

  • Human-inspired robot assistant for fast point-to-point movements

    B. Corteville;E. Aertbelien;H. Bruyninckx;J. De Schutter

  • Brief paper: Robust high-order repetitive control: Optimal performance trade-offs

    Goele Pipeleers;Bram Demeulenaere;Joris De Schutter;Jan Swevers

  • A comparison of decision making criteria and optimization methods for active robotic sensing

    Lyudmila Mihaylova;Tine Lefebvre;Herman Bruyninckx;Klaas Gadeyne

  • Extended Bandwidth Zero Phase Error Tracking Control of Nonminimal Phase Systems

    D. Torfs;J. De Schutter;J. Swevers

  • Force control: A bird's eye view

    Joris De Schutter;Herman Bruyninckx;Wen-Hong Zhu;Mark W. Spong

  • An adaptable system for RGB-D based human body detection and pose estimation

    Koen Buys;Cedric Cagniart;Anatoly Baksheev;Tinne De Laet

  • EXPERIMENTAL ROBOT IDENTIFICATION USING OPTIMISED PERIODIC TRAJECTORIES

    J. Swevers;C. Ganseman;J. De Schutter;H. Van Brussel

  • Servo motor selection criterion for mechatronic applications

    H.J. van de Straete;P. Degezelle;J. De Schutter;R.J.M. Belmans

  • eTaSL/eTC: A constraint-based task specification language and robot controller using expression graphs.

    Erwin Aertbeliën;Joris De Schutter

  • Virtual decomposition based control for generalized high dimensional robotic systems with complicated structure

    Wen-Hong Zhu;Yu-Geng Xi;Zhong-Jun Zhang;Zeungnam Bien

  • Design and Control of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Autonomous Parcel Delivery with Transition from Vertical Take-off to Forward Flight – VertiKUL, a Quadcopter Tailsitter

    Menno Hochstenbach;Cyriel Notteboom;Bart Theys;Joris De Schutter

  • Sensitivity of dynamic simulations of gait and dynamometer experiments to hill muscle model parameters of knee flexors and extensors

    F. De Groote;A. Van Campen;I. Jonkers;J. De Schutter

  • Peg-on-hole: a model based solution to peg and hole alignment

    H. Bruyninckx;S. Dutre;J. De Schutter

  • Estimating first-order geometric parameters and monitoring contact transitions during force-controlled compliant motion

    Joris de Schutter;Herman Bruyninckx;Stefan Dutré;Jan de Geeter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Swevers
Jan Swevers KU Leuven
Ilse Jonkers
Ilse Jonkers KU Leuven
Moritz Diehl
Moritz Diehl University of Freiburg
Lyudmila Mihaylova
Lyudmila Mihaylova University of Sheffield
Dirk Lefeber
Dirk Lefeber Radboud University
Christian Laugier
Christian Laugier French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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