Jan F. Broenink

Associate professor of embedded control systems

My CV and interests

Jan Broenink studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente, where he obtained a BSc degree in 1980, a MSc degree EE and Biomedical Engineering in 1984 and a PhD degree in 1990. His PhD project at the Control Laboratory was on the development of CAMAS, Computer-Aided Modeling and Simulation: a bond-graph approach.

From 1990 to 2003 he was assistant professor at the Control Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Twente, where he worked on CAMAS and parallel programming for robotic control. CAMAS is now commercially available as 20sim via our spin-off Controllab Products
Since 2003 he is associate professor at the same group.
(Foto from the STW annual report 2005 - Flash)

His current research interests are embedded control systems, namely realization of control schemes on mostly networked computers. For that, he is interested in
a) the use of parallel software based on CSP;
b) designing software tools including simulation;
c) concurrent & systems engineering.
For applications and test cases, he focuses on robotic /mechatronic systems.

He is member of the Program Committee of PROGRESS, the STW funding program on embedded systems and software. He is member of the international WoTUG committee supporting the use of  CSP for parallel processing. He was chairman of the CPA2003 conference.

He was coordinator of the ESWEL, the ES education working group of EE. He is member of the SIGs on Education and Model-based Systems Engineering (in formation) of the Dutch Chapter of INCOSE

He is (co-)author of quite a few papers on modeling and simulation software, parallel programming using CSP and embedded control system implementation. See also the project websites for more information on the research projects the papers report about.

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