Christiaan Moons

Curriculum vitae

Christiaan Moons was born in Lier, Belgium, in 1966. He received his degree of M.Sc. in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1990 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. The title of his Master Thesis was "Deveopment of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) for the U.Z. Gasthuisberg, Part II: communication." Currently, he is a research assistant at the ESAT-SISTA laboratories of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is working towards a Ph.D. degree on the subject of On-line parameter estimation of induction machines.

Main research interests

System Identification
Parameter estimation
Real time control and data acquisition systems
Real time operating systems for PC and VME
Vector control of induction motors

Current activities

Christiaan Moons is currently a Ph.D. student at the ESAT-SISTA group. His research promotors are Prof. Joos Vandewalle and Prof. Bart De Moor. His research deals with on-line identification of induction motor drives. The goal of this research is to track the physical parameters of an induction motor. This is needed to tune the vector controllers while they are up and running. The idea is to first filter the voltage and current signals of the motor, then applying non-linear transformation to these filtered signals, and finally find the parameters of the differential equations qhich describes the behavior of the motor.

Publications

Moons Ch., De Moor B., Parameter identification of induction motor drives, Automatica, Vol.31, No.8
Moons Ch., De Moor B., Advanced Control Theory and Digital Controllers, Internal-Report
Moons Ch., Vanvuchelen P., De Moor B., A computer controlled test setup for Continuously Variable Transmissions, Labview in Education Conference, Antwerp, June 30, 1994
Minten W., Vanvuchelen P., Moons C.,De Moor B., Modeling of the CVT in a Virtual Engineering Environment, roceedings of Road Vehicle Automation II, Rova 95 International, Boston, UK, 11-13/9/95
Vanvuchelen P., Moons C., Minten W., De Moor B. Electronic Control of Continuously Variable Transmissions, Proceedings of Road Vehicle Automation II, Rova 95 International, Boston, UK, 11-13/9/95
Moons C., Vanvuchelen P., Minten W., De Moor B. A computer controlled test set-up for continuously variable transmissions Proceedings of Road Vehicle Automation II, Rova 95 International, Boston, UK, 11-13/9/95

Main non-work related interests

Scuba Diving (NELOS/CMAS) and swimming
Giving scuba dive training to handicapped people (NELOS/WET WHEELS)
Playing with electronics and computers

If you want to contact Christiaan Moons :

	Christiaan Moons
	K.U.Leuven
	Dept. Elektrotechniek
	ESAT-SISTA
	Kardinaal Mercierlaan, 94
	B-3001 HEVERLEE
	Belgium
	Tel : +32-16-32 17 91
	Fax : +32-16-32 19 86
	email : christiaan.moons@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

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