(image credit: Blickfeld)

Biography

CEO & Co-Founder of ZeroPhase

A passionate entrepreneur and tech enthusiast. Background in robotics with a focus on the control of robots in human-machine collaboration. Co-founded Blickfeld (Lidar perception). Co-founded SlingRFP (AI for Governmental Contracts). Now working on data links for drones at ZeroPhase.

When I’m not working, you can find me sailing on the local lakes of Bavaria or on a boulder wall.

(source: LinkedIn)

Research Interests

• Robotics
• Control

(source: Google Scholar)

Contact

• LinkedIn
• Google Scholar
• Blickfeld

Selected Publications

• Bram Vanderborght, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Antonio Bicchi, Etienne Burdet, Darwin G. Caldwell, Raffaella Carloni, Manuel G. Catalano, Oliver Eiberger, Werner Friedl, Ganesh Ganesh, Manolo Garabini, Markus Grebenstein, Giorgio Grioli, Sami Haddadin, Hannes Höppner, Amir Jafari, Matteo Laffranchi, Dirk Lefeber, Florian Petit, Stefano Stramigioli, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Ludo C. Visser, Sebastian Wolf, Variable impedance actuators: A review, 2013. [Project Page]
• David J. Braun, Florian Petit, Felix Huber, Sami Haddadin, Patrick van der Smagt, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Sethu Vijayakumar, Robots Driven by Compliant Actuators: Optimal Control Under Actuation Constraints, 2013. [Project Page]
• David J. Braun, Florian Petit, Felix Huber, Sami Haddadin, Patrick van der Smagt, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Sethu Vijayakumar, Optimal torque and stiffness control in compliantly actuated robots, 2012. [Project Page]
• Sami Haddadin, Felix Huber, Kai Krieger, Roman Weitschat, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Sebastian Wolf, Werner Friedl, Markus Grebenstein, Florian Petit, Jens Reinecke, Roberto Lampariello, Intrinsically elastic robots: The key to human like performance, 2012. [Project Page]
• Bram Vanderborght, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Antonio Bicchi, Etienne Burdet, Darwin G. Caldwell, Raffaella Carloni, Manuel G. Catalano, Ganesh Gowrishankar, Manolo Garabini, Markus Grebenstein, Giorgio Grioli, Sami Haddadin, Amir Jafari, Matteo Laffranchi, Dirk Lefeber, Florian Petit, Stefano Stramigioli, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Ludo C. Visser, Sebastian Wolf, Variable impedance actuators: Moving the robots of tomorrow, 2012. [Project Page]
• Markus Grebenstein, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Thomas Bahls, Maxime Chalon, Oliver Eiberger, Werner Friedl, Robin Gruber, Sami Haddadin, Ulrich Hagn, Robert Haslinger, Hannes Höppner, Stefan Jörg, Mathias Nickl, Alexander Nothhelfer, Florian Petit, Josef Reill, Nikolaus Seitz, Thomas Wimböck, Sebastian Wolf, Tilo Wüsthoff, Gerd Hirzinger, The DLR hand arm system, 2011. [Project Page]
• Alin Albu-Schäffer, Sebastian Wolf, Oliver Eiberger, Sami Haddadin, Florian Petit, Maxime Chalon, Dynamic modelling and control of variable stiffness actuators, 2010. [Project Page]