Peter Ralph Desir
MSc Mechanical Engineering — BioMechanical Design, TU Delft. Physical human-robot interaction, robotics & haptics.
Available from November 2026 · relocating to Switzerland.
Projects
Mitoo Car Rental — Full-Stack Operations Platform
A production ERP powering a real car-rental business in Aruba (mitoocarrental.com): booking through contract generation, fleet tracking, financial archiving, and analytics — ~47k lines of application code across a FastAPI backend and Next.js frontend, in six languages.
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MSc Thesis: Surface-Adaptive Anisotropic Force Control
Ongoing MSc thesis (BodyHaptics group, TU Delft, Dr. Arno Stienen): contact-force regulation for assistive robotic tools in industrial work — hold a set contact force on an unknown curved surface while making tangential sliding effortless, estimating the surface by feel alone. Defense: Oct 2026.
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Systematic Review: Contact Force Regulation in Human–Robot Co-Manipulation
PRISMA 2020 systematic literature review of control strategies for contact force regulation on unknown surfaces in assistive human–robot co-manipulation — 71 studies, published as an engrXiv preprint (with A. Stienen, TU Delft).
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The Industrial Athlete: Ergonomic Problem Space Mapping in Industrial Insulation
MSc internship at Bilfinger on the Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk site: a field study on the robotization of industrial insulation work — posture and task-load data from on-site observation, distilled into design parameters for assistive robotic tools. The dataset and problem definition carried forward into the MSc thesis.
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