Francisco Williams-Riquer, M.Sc.
PhD candidate
 

Contact

Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
Institut für Geotechnik und Baubetrieb (B-5)
Schellerdamm 22 (Channel 7)
21079 Hamburg
Germany

Room: 1.005

Phone: 040 42878 3661

E-mail: francisco.williams @ tuhh.de

Research activities

• FVB/AiF-Projekt (IGF-Vorhaben 22370 BG/1) "Smart vibrodriving-SMARTVIB" (2023--2024)
• i3 Junior project (2024-2025): Data-driven Active Mass Damper System. Together with: Duy Ahn Dao, Mohamed Ali Abdennadher, Thamer Al-Zuriqat (B-1), Kosmas Dragos (B-1), Philipp Hüttich (M17)
• FVB/AiF-Projekt (IGF-Vorhaben 20348 N/1) "Entwicklung eines MRS-Systems zur Vermeidung des Umkippens von mobilen Baumaschinen auf nachgebendem Planum" (2019-2021)
• Ongoing DFG project GR 1024/50-1 "Closed-loop control of a nonlinear vibrator-profile system penetrating a heterogeneous ground (ViProSys)"
• Areas of interest: Control systems, data-driven modelling of soil, tracked vehicles, NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields.

Teaching activities

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Supervised students

• T. Zuchotzki (2020):  Matlab-Simulink-Implementierung eines Bodenmodells zur Abschätzung der Tragfähigkeit und Setzung unter den Ketten einer Spezialtiefbau Maschine

• P. Zirfaß (2021): Operational optimization of soil improvement works with consideration of subsoil conditions (Betreuung zusammen mit Maximilian Schröder)

• R. Marten (2021): Untersuchung der normalen Adhäsion eines Tonbodens mithilfe von Trennversuchen und Computertomographie (Betreuung zusammen mit Maximilian Schröder)

• Pulido Guerrero (2022): Multi-body Simulation MBS in Matlab/Simulink of the Vibrodriving process and a fuzzy logic controller implementation to reduce the installation time

• J. Beisner (2022): Development and automatic control of a scaled-down pile vibrator

• E. Hassürücü (ongoing): Development of an IoT-Integrated NeRF and trajectory tracking system for scaled down model of a tracked vehicle

Publications

• Williams Riquer F., Abdennadher M.A., Chmelnizkij A., Grabe J., Smarsly K. (2025): Modeling and predicting soil vribrations during vibrodriving installation using noisy data and dynamic mode decomposition. In: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES) 2025 in Porto, Portugal, ...
• Abdennadher M.A., Williams Riquer F., Dao D.A., Grabe J. (2025): Data-Driven Modeling of Structural Dynamics: Improving Measurement Noise Robustness with Augmented Dynamic Mode Decomposition. In: Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2025) at Rhodes Island, Greece, M. Papadrakakis and M. Fragiadakis (eds.), No. 24480, URL https://2025.compdyn.org/proceedings
• Williams-Riquer F., Beisner J., Atkinson S., Kurbanova Y., Milan J., Kaushik S., J. Grabe (2024): Development of a scaled-down experimental framework for the investigation of control strategies and modelling of the vibrodriving process for pile installation. 10. Fachtagung Baumaschinentechnik 2024: Automatisierung, Antriebssysteme, Bauverfahren. Dresden, Germany.
• Williams-Riquer F., Chmelnizkij A., Alkateeb D., and J. Grabe (2024): Prediction of induced soil vibration during pile vibrodriving using Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD). International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics (RASD). Southampton, UK.
• Williams-Riquer F., Dao D.A. and J. Grabe (2022): Towards the development of a digital twin for subsoil monitoring and stability against overturning of a mobile drilling rig. In: Proceedings of 39th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) 2022 in Bogota/Colombia, pp. 207-2014, DOI 10.22260/ISARC2022/0030
• Williams-Riquer F., Gronemeyer M. and J. Horn (2022): Finding stability bounds for delayed systems with uncertain parameters. In: Proceedings of European Control Conference (ECC) 2021 in Delft, DOI 10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9655056