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Dr. Wesley Roozing is an assistant professor at 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 for ICRA@40 in Rotterdam, the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and as Exhibition Chair for ICRA 2026 in Vienna.

He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on (energy-based) modelling and control of mechatronic systems and serves on the examination board of the Robotics MSc 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.

Robotics Expert Keywords

  • Actuators
  • Soft and Compliant
  • Exoskeletons
  • Humanoid and Legged Robots
  • Mechanisms
  • Energy Efficient System Design
  • Collaborative Robots (cobots)
  • Simulation
  • Motion Control
  • Interaction Control

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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