MOVEMENT

The mission of the MOVEMENT Research Group is to develop optimization models and methods for systems and control.

鈥淏efore being engineers, you are first and foremost humans鈥� F. De Sanctis

The mission of MOVEMENT (Modeling and Optimization for Vehicle Electrification, Mobility, Energy and Novel Topics) Research Group is to develop optimization models and methods for systems and control. Our focus lies in devising design and control methods for multi-scale cyber-socio-technical systems, with applications in mobility and energy systems, pandemics, and ceramic materials.

Sustainable Mobility Systems for Justice and Well-being: Mobility systems are facing significant challenges such as environmental pollution and social injustice. The advent of autonomy, connectivity, and electrification, combined with recent advances in optimal control and optimization methods, may provide us with opportunities to address such challenges, whilst luring us into the engineering trap, where technological solutions are engineered as an answer to the wrong question. The main goal of our research is rethink the design of mobility systems in line with principles of justice and well-being, with sustainability as an integral component. In this context, our research lines are aimed at mobilizing principles of justice and well-being from social sciences to engineering design methods, and at devising modelling and algorithmic framework to jointly optimize the design and operation of mobility systems, from the individual vehicles and aircraft to intermodal mobility systems and electric regional air mobility networks, as well as fair incentive schemes to achieve system-optimal operations.

Pandemic Control: During the Covid-19 pandemic, governments have been struggling to decide which policies to implement to limit the outbreak whilst minimizing collateral damage. Our research focuses on the development of epidemiological optimization models and control algorithms to support policymakers in the roll-out of NPIs and vaccination strategies.

Ceramic Materials: Ceramics show great promise to serve as key enabling materials in many fields, such as green energy, affordable communication, cleaner aviation, and biomedical technologies. However, their applications are severely hindered by their brittleness, which is their poor toughness against fracture. To overcome this limitation, we pursue the development of tougher ceramics by integrating optimization algorithms with an experimental-numerical platform. Through this approach, we aim to streamline the material design process and reduce the need for extensive experimental campaigns. Currently, we are collaborating with Group Giuntini (https://research.tue.nl/en/organisations/group-giuntini ) on the Double-tough Material Meta-experimental Design Optimization (DoMaMeDO) project (concluded in 2024).

Projects

Double-tough Material Meta-experimental Design Optimization (DoMaMeDO)

FlyECO

NGF Energy Charging Hubs

Research lines

This research group actively participates in the following research lines

Research line

Automotive & Mobility Systems

Driven by stringent legislation for CO2 and other pollutant emissions, the automotive industry faces enormous challenges to find a…

RESEARCH LINE

Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems Engineering

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate sensing, computation, control and networking into physical objects and infrastructure, connecting…

FACULTY

Assistant Professor

Mauro Salazar

Researchers, PostDocs, PhD鈥檚 & EngD's

University Researcher

Maedeh Izadi Najafabadi

Student opportunities

Do you want to join us for a bachelor's or master's project? Please get in touch with group leader, Mauro Salazar.

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MOVEMENT

鈥淏efore being engineers, you are first and foremost humans鈥� F. De Sanctis

Projects

Double-tough Material Meta-experimental Design Optimization (DoMaMeDO)

FlyECO

NGF Energy Charging Hubs

Research lines

Automotive & Mobility Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems Engineering

FACULTY

Mauro Salazar

Researchers, PostDocs, PhD鈥檚 & EngD's

Olaf Borsboom

Jorn van Kampen

Maurizio Clemente

Fabio Paparella

Juan Pablo Bertucci

Leonardo Pedroso Duarte

Finn Vehlhaber

Sara Betancur Giraldo

Marco Dell'Oro

Uto Perra

Faezeh Pak

Diego Fern谩ndez Zapico

Maedeh Izadi Najafabadi

Student opportunities

Selected publications

Recent Publications

CONTACT

Postal address

Group lead