dr.ir. W. Roozing (Wesley)

Assistant Professor
EEMCS-EE-RAM
w.roozing@utwente.nl
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Dr. Wesley Roozing is an assistant professor at the Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM) group and Robotics Centre of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2018 and was a visiting student at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR).

He is chair of the euRobotics Topic Group on Mechatronics, fostering interactions between academic, industrial, and other practitioners in the field of mechatronics. He has served on the programme committee of the European Robotics Forum since 2021, and as associate editor for IROS and BioRob since 2020 and 2023, respectively. He served as Exhibition & Local Chair for ICRA@40, the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and is currently serving as Exhibition Chair for ICRA 2026 to take place in Vienna.

He is participating in national and international projects as local coordinator and teaching several graduate and undergraduate courses on energy-based modelling and control of mechatronic systems. He also actively contributes to development of the robotics programme and is on the examination board of the programme.

His main research interests include (compliant) actuation and their control, co-design for mechatronic systems, motors and gearing, mechanism design, bio-inspired and biarticulated actuation, and energy-based modelling and control methods for safety in robotics. He organised several highly attended workshops on these topics at international conferences. His research combines the latest developments in electric motors with innovative gearing concepts, compliance, co-design, and optimal control, with the aim of achieving high-performance robots capable of athletic feats such as running, jumping, and carrying, as well as grasping. His work has been published in high-quality robotics publications including IJRR, T-MECH, RA-L, ICRA, IROS, and many others, and received a honourable mention for the RA-L best paper award in 2021.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Robot
    • Control
    • Actuators
    • Design
    • Robotics
    • Energy Efficient

  • Engineering

    • Actuation
    • Energy Engineering

Organisations

Publications

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2025

Variable Stiffness Mechanism using a Cam Profile (2025)In European Robotics Forum 2024 - 15th ERF (pp. 76-80) (Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR); Vol. 32). Springer. van Ruitenbeek, F., Okken, B. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76424-0_14

2024

Tendon Routing Optimisation of a Tendon-Driven Gripper to Maximise Force Transmission Efficiency (2024)In 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) (pp. 367-372). Feldbrugge, B., Okken, B. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids58906.2024.10769817Limiting Kinetic Energy through Control Barrier Functions: Analysis and Experimental Validation (2024)[Working paper › Working paper]. ArXiv.org. Califano, F., Logmans, D. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.02186Denoising Diffusion Planner: Learning Complex Paths from Low-Quality Demonstrations (2024)[Working paper › Working paper]. ArXiv.org. Nikken, M., Botteghi, N., Roozing, W. & Califano, F.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.21497Synthetic Data-Based Training of Instance Segmentation: A Robotic Bin-Picking Pipeline for Chicken Fillets (2024)In 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2024 (pp. 2805-2812) (IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering). IEEE. Jonker, M., Roozing, W. & Strisciuglio, N.https://doi.org/10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711568Experimental comparison of pinwheel and non-pinwheel designs of 3D-printed cycloidal gearing for robotics (2024)In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024 (pp. 7091-7098) (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation). IEEE. Roozing, W. & Roozing, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610250Vision-based Force Estimation for Flexure-based Gripper (2024)In Book of Abstracts of the 43rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control (pp. 119). Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jonker, L.-Y., Hakvoort, W., de Jong, J. & Roozing, W.https://beneluxmeeting.nl/2024/uploads/bmsc/boa2024.pdfVision-based Force Estimation for Flexure-based Gripper (2024)In 43rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 26 – 28, 2024 Blankenberge, Belgium: Book of Abstracts (pp. 119-119). Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jonker, L. M., Hakvoort, W. B. J., de Jong, J. J. & Roozing, W.https://beneluxmeeting.nl/2024/uploads/bmsc/boa2024.pdf

2023

An Underactuated Tendon-Driven Gripper with Variable Stiffness for Deformable Agri-Food Objects (2023)In 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Bluiminck, M. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1109/case56687.2023.10260297Progressive Series-Elastic Actuation with Magnet-based Non-linear Elastic Elements (2023)In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) (pp. 166-173). Article 10018635. IEEE. Okken, B., Stramigioli, S. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR56537.2022.10018635

2022

3D-printable low-reduction cycloidal gearing for robotics (2022)In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2022 (pp. 1929-1935) (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems; Vol. 2022-October). IEEE. Roozing, W. & Roozing, G.https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982006A task-based post-impact safety protocol based on energy tanks (2022)IEEE Robotics and automation letters, 7(4), 8791-8798. Article 9812506. Califano, F., Dijk, D. v. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3187254A New Methodological Approach to Analyze Human Roles in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios (2022)In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts, ARSO 2022 (Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO; Vol. 2022-May). IEEE. Puig-Pey, A., Sanfeliu, A., Leroux, C., Dario, P., Rasso, R., Arrue, B. C., Soueres, P., Dailami, F., Vasco, V., Munih, M., Ijspeert, A. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1109/arso54254.2022.9802978Energy-aware adaptive impedance control using offline task-based optimization (2022)In 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2021 (pp. 187-194). IEEE. Gerlagh, B., Califano, F., Stramigioli, S. & Roozing, W.https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAR53236.2021.9659443

2021

Blending of Series-Parallel Compliant Actuation With Field Weakening Control for Explosive Motion Generation (2021)IEEE Robotics and automation letters, 6(2), 2076-2083. Article 9360453. Amara, V. D., Malzahn, J., Roozing, W. & Tsagarakis, N.https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3061066

2020

Energy-based Safety in Series Elastic Actuation (2020)In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 914-920). Article 9197448 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); Vol. 2020). IEEE. Roozing, W., Groothuis, S. S. & Stramigioli, S.https://doi.org/10.1109/icra40945.2020.9197448On the efficient control of series-parallel compliant articulated robots (2020)In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 385-391). Article 9196786 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); Vol. 2020). IEEE. Amara, V. D., Malzahn, J., Ren, Z., Roozing, W. & Tsagarakis, N.https://doi.org/10.1109/icra40945.2020.9196786

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