About SAM XL:
Accelerator of innovation
SAM XL was founded in 2018 as an expertise centre for Smart Advanced Manufacturing with the aid of XL robotics, hence our name: SAM XL. We maximize the synergy between skilled professionals and intelligent manufacturing systems. Our aim is to form the bridge between TU Delft scientists’ fundamental research and the industry’s needs. Our pragmatic approach to achieve this: small steps, big impact.
Facilities
SAM XL is located on the TU Delft campus, close to the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. Our facility is a 2000 m2 research lab, with different robot cells and automation labs. SAM XL brings you at the centre of the vibrant Delft start-up community and the talented student body of Delft University of Technology, The Hague University of Applied Sciences and InHolland.
Robots
Our entire collection of robots is not only top of the range, but also capable of communicating with the outside world. They cover a wide range of payloads and ranges and all have the ability to output real-time data for monitoring purposes. Equipped with models and sensors capable of real-time, high-speed, path and task planning.
Ideally suitable for developing, demonstrating and validating Artificial Intelligence for the manufacturing industry. We use both the robot’s own programming software as well as the ROS industrial middleware platform to put our intelligent manufacturing systems into motion.
Team
Meet our dynamic team of highly skilled professionals! At SAM XL we are glad to collaborate with each other, with our TU Delft colleagues, with our partners and with our suppliers! Together, we are engineering the future. With aerospace technology in our DNA, we love to experiment, innovate and demonstrate.
Hein Koelman
CEO
Eveline van Kan
Business Controller
Claudia Kemper
Event and Office Manager
Heleen Woldhuis
Project Officer
Aashish Vatsyayan
Robotics Software Engineer
Abhas Choudhary
Materials & Process Engineer
André Florindo
Automated Manufacturing Engineer
Aydin van den Bergh
Business Developer
Berthil Grashof
System Integrator and Robot Safety Expert
Bram Jongbloed
Materials & Process Engineer
Dave Kroezen
Software Engineer
Erich Foster
Robotics Software Engineer
Eugenio Bernardi
Robotics Engineer
Johan van Stuyvesant Meijen
Associate Research Engineer
Kasahun Asfew
Researcher Automated Fibre Placement
Kate Twiss
Robotics Software Engineer
Martin Kampinga
Program manager
Menno Verkade
Education and Research Technician
Nadia Haïfi
Communications advisor
Nigel van Nierop
Associate Research Engineer
Nikhil Sethi
Robotics Software Engineer
Nithish Kumar
Robotics Software Engineer
Quang Nguyen
Robotics Software Engineer
Sungi Han
Additive Manufacturing Engineer
Syrine Zbidi
Software Automation Engineer
Interns & student assistants
Furqan Mahmood
Assistant Robotics & Software
Joris Koopman
Assistant Communication
Pleun de Goede
Assistant Communication
Board
Rinze Benedictus
Board Chairman
Chair Department SI&C TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Gijs van der Hoorn
Board Secretary
Researcher at the Delft Robotics Institute and the Delft BioRobotics Laboratory
Jos van den Boom
Board Treasurer
Business Developer TU Delft Innovation and Impact Centre
Anton Bakker
Board Member
Head of Capabilities Technology Assembly & Metals GTC-NL (GKN Aerospace)
Maarten Labordus
Board Member
R&D Manager KVE Composites Group/Daher
TU Delft experts
Nathan Eskue
AI for Manufacturing Certification
Clemens Dransfeld
Professor of Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies
Daniël Peeters
Assistant professor in aerospace structures & materials
Roger Groves
Associate Professor in Aerospace NDT/SHM
Martijn Wisse
Director of TU Delft Robotics Institute
Irene Fernandez Villegas
TU Delft thermoplastic composite welding expert
Our participants
Technology partners
Supporters & network
SAM XL is the outcome of the Composite Automation Development Program (CADC), which was funded via the European Fund of Regional Development (EFRD): a programme to build, use and grow a fieldlab for smart composite manufacturing technologies. The CADC consortium comprises of TU Delft, Fokker-GKN, Airborne, Airbus Defence & Space Netherlands, Suzlon, TNO, GTM Advanced Materials and KVE.
