Thijs A.C. van Keulen

Thijs A.C. van Keulen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. He specializes in optimal control applications for sustainable mobility systems and high-precision mechatronics.

Research focuses on:

• Fuel-optimal control strategies for hybrid vehicles
• Extremum seeking control methods
• Real-time optimization of constrained systems
• Learning control for industrial applications
• Energy management in heavy-duty powertrains

Publications demonstrate innovative applications of Pontryagin's Minimum Principle to vehicle energy optimization and learning control techniques for precision motion systems. Recent work develops computationally efficient algorithms suitable for real-time implementation.

Maintains industry collaborations with automotive and high-tech sectors, bridging theoretical control advances with practical engineering challenges.