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Biography

Christian Ott currently is Full Professor for robotics at Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechatronics from the University of Linz, Austria, in 2001 and the Dr.-Ing. degree in control engineering from Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, in 2005. From 2001 to 2007, he was working as a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Project Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechano-Informatics, University of Tokyo, Japan. After that he has been a team leader at DLR and led a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group for “Dynamic Control of Legged Humanoid Robots”. From 2014 to 2022 he was head of the department for “Analysis and Control of Advanced Robotic Systems” in the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at DLR. He has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, was Co-Editor-in-Chief for IFAC Mechatronics, and is currently serving as Senior Editor for The International Journal of Robotics Research. He has been involved in several international conferences and was General Chair of Humanoids 2020 in Munich, Germany. In 2018 he received an ERC consolidator grant on energy efficient locomotion for elastic robots. He is IEEE Fellow since 2023. His current research interests include nonlinear robot control, elastic robots, whole-body control, impedance control, and control of humanoid robots.

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Research Interests

• Robotics
• Automatic Control

(source: Google Scholar)

Contact

• LinkedIn
• Robotic Systems Lab (RSL)
• Technische Universität Wien
• German Aerospace Center
• Google Scholar
• ORCID

Selected Publications

• Teodor Tomic, Christian Ott, Sami Haddadin, External Wrench Estimation, Collision Detection, and Reflex Reaction for Flying Robots, 2017. [Project Page]
• Nico Mansfeld, Badis Djellab, Jaime Raldua Veuthey, Fabian Beck, Christian Ott, Sami Haddadin, Improving the performance of biomechanically safe velocity control for redundant robots through reflected mass minimization, 2017. [Project Page]
• Nico Mansfeld, Christian Ott, Sami Haddadin, Maximal input limits for independent SISO control in modal space under consideration of actuator constraints, 2016. [Project Page]
• Alin Albu-Schäffer, Oliver Eiberger, Matthias Fuchs, Markus Grebenstein, Sami Haddadin, Christian Ott, Andreas Stemmer, Thomas Wimböck, Sebastian Wolf, Christoph Borst, Gerd Hirzinger, Anthropomorphic Soft Robotics - From Torque Control to Variable Intrinsic Compliance, 2009. [Project Page]
• Alin Albu-Schäffer, Oliver Eiberger, Markus Grebenstein, Sami Haddadin, Christian Ott, Thomas Wimböck, Sebastian Wolf, Gerd Hirzinger, Soft robotics, 2008. [Project Page]
• Alin Albu-Schäffer, Sami Haddadin, Christian Ott, Andreas Stemmer, Thomas Wimböck, Gerhard Hirzinger, The DLR lightweight robot: design and control concepts for robots in human environments, 2007. [Project Page]
• Christoph Borst, Christian Ott, Thomas Wimböck, Bernhard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Berthold Bäuml, Ulrich Hillenbrand, Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Gerd Hirzinger, A humanoid upper body system for two-handed manipulation, 2007. [Project Page]