W.P.M.H. Heemels
Papers
6
Total Citations
37
H-Index
4
About
W.P.M.H. Heemels is a leading researcher in the field of control systems, with a primary focus on event-triggered control, networked control systems, and resource-aware control for robotics and industrial automation. His work addresses the critical challenge of reducing communication and computation in control loops while maintaining performance guarantees, particularly in vision-based and wireless environments. Heemels has made pioneering contributions to the theoretical foundations of event-triggered control, including the development of suboptimal policies for unreliable communication links and decentralized estimation for nonlinear systems. His research is distinguished by a strong emphasis on experimental validation, with notable work on a self-localizing robot with vision-induced delays and a SCARA robot with shared actuation resources. These practical demonstrations bridge the gap between theory and real-world application, showcasing how event-triggered policies can reduce hardware costs without sacrificing performance. With over 37 citations across his most-cited papers, Heemels’ work is highly influential in advancing resource-efficient control strategies for modern cyber-physical systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2Decentralized event-triggered estimation of nonlinear systems10 citations · 2023
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- 4Switched control of a SCARA robot with shared actuation resources5 citations · 2017
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- 6Offset-Free MPC for Resource Sharing on a Nonlinear SCARA Robot2 citations · 2018