Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Software Engineer, Robotics & Team Lead: Task Control Interfaces

Agile Robots AG

Mar 2020 – Present Germany

Research Interests:

  • Autonomous Task Control
  • System Architectures
  • Robot Programming Interfaces
  • Human Robot Interaction
  • Belief State Modeling
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher in Robotics and AI

German Aerospace Center, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics

Mar 2014 – Feb 2020 Germany

Research Interests:

  • Autonomous Task Control
  • System Architectures
  • Semantic Planning
  • GUIs for Robot Programming
  • Semantic World Models
 
 
 
 
 

Working Student

German Aerospace Center, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics

Nov 2013 – Mar 2014 Germany

Tasks:

  • Spacemouse (3D mouse) integration for mobile robot control
  • Development of math library for non-linear 3D-pose transformation including their covariances
 
 
 
 
 

Working-Student

Fortiss Research Institute

Feb 2012 – Sep 2013 Germany

Tasks:

  • Low level software for UAV control and sensor fusion (IR, Ultrasonic, IMU)
  • Sensor data distribution on various bus systems: I2C, USB, COM
  • Sensor data filtering
  • Setup of HiL and SiL simulations
 
 
 
 
 

Master-Student

Technical University Munich

Jan 2012 – Mar 2014 Germany
Master of Science in Computer Science Focus: Robotics and AI Passed with Distinction
 
 
 
 
 

Exchange-Student

Lund University

Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 Sweden
Exchange Semester Studies in Computer Science
 
 
 
 
 

Tutor

Technical University Munich

Apr 2010 – Mar 2011 Germany

Tutor for basic lectures:

  • Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Operating Systems
 
 
 
 
 

Bachelor-Student

Technical University Munich

Oct 2008 – Jul 2011 Germany
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Subsidiary subject: Electrical Engineering

Projects

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All Robotics Software

Robot Simulation

Full Stack Robot Simulation using Gazebo

RAFCON

Implementing complex, autonomous robotic behavior using an intuitive graphical interface

Industrial Mobile Manipulation

Industrial, Autonomous Mobile Manipulation

Robex

Moon-analogue demonstration mission on Mt. Etna, Sicily

SpacebotCamp

SpacebotCamp 2015, organized by the DLR Space Administration

Semantic World Model

Semantic world model based on a graph database

Robocup

Logistics League, International Robocup

Bundle Adjustment

Multicore sparse bundle adjustment on FPGAs, GPUs and CPUs

NLCT

NonLinear Covariance Transform library

Recent Publications

(2019). Autonomous Parallelization of Resource-Aware Robotic Task Nodes. RA-L.

PDF Project

(2018). Design, Execution, and Post-Mortem Analysis of Prolonged Autonomous Robot Operations. RA-L.

PDF Project Video

(2018). Mobile Manipulation for Planetary Exploration. Aerospace.

PDF Project Project Video

(2017). Towards Autonomous Planetary Exploration: The Lightweight Rover Unit (LRU), its Success in the SpaceBotCamp Challenge, and Beyond. JINT.

PDF Project Video

(2016). RAFCON: A Graphical Tool for Engineering Complex, Robotic Tasks. In IROS.

PDF Project Video

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Accomplish­ments

Soft Skill Seminars

Graduate Program at DLR Aug 2014 – Jun 2019

Various soft skill seminars in the areas:

  • Project Management
  • Communication
  • Effective Presentations
  • Business Knigge
  • Writing Scientific Papers

Finalist, Robocup Logistics League, Brazil

Robocup Jul 2014
Second Place in the Logistics League of the International Robotics Competition in Joao Pessoa (Brazil) Team: TUMsBendingUnits Affiliation: German Aerospace Center
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First Place, Robocup Logistics League, Netherlands

Robocup Jul 2013
First Place in the Logistics League of the International Robotics Competition in Eindhoven (Netherlands) Team: TUMsBendingUnits Affiliation: Technical University Munich
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Award for Outstanding Student Projects

Student Council MPI, TUM Dec 2012
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First Place, Robocup Logistics League, Mexico

Robocup Jul 2012
First Place in the Logistics League of the International Robotics Competition in Mexico City Team: TUMsBendingUnits Affiliation: Technical University Munich
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DAAD Student Exchange Scholarship

DAAD Jul 2011

IBM Certified Database Administrator

IBM Mar 2010
DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
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Skills

python

90%

ROS

95%

C++

70%

Linux

80%

State Machines

95%

Adobe Creative Suite

60%

GraphQL

90%

Git

95%

Html, CSS

60%

UML

80%

SQL

60%

Django

60%

Popular Topics

Autonomy Bundle Adjustment C++ Communication Computer Vision Graph Database Industrial Industry Mobile Multirobot Navigation OpenCL OpenGL Optimization Planning Profiling Python RAFCON Robotics ROS Scheduling Semantic Knowledge Base SLAM Software Space State Machines Statistics System Architecture Task Analysis Uncertainty Unscented Transform

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