CV
Education
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
October 2019 - March 2021 / Heidelberg University / Heidelberg / Germany
- Final Grade: 1.2
- Specialization: Intelligent Autonomous Systems
- Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Decentralized Kinematic Gait Generator
Bachelor of Science in Physics
October 2015 - June 2019 / Heidelberg University / Heidelberg / Germany
- Final Grade: 1.9
- Specialization: Mathematical and Computational Physics
- Thesis: Measuring the relative Ground Velocity of a UAV
Work experience
Graduate Researcher
April 2022 - Present / WBK Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Working on Improving Robotic Manipulators through Collaboration
- Investigating the use cases for 5G in indsutrial ‘cloudrobotic’ solutions.
Graduate Researcher
June 2021 - March 2022 / ARIES Lab Heidelberg University
- Designed a library for kinematic computations and analysis of hybrid chain mechanisms called TriP and helped with development
- Designed and implemented novel human machine interfaces for shared control of mobile robots
- Integrated hardware and software systems for the TriPed robot robot
Research Assistant
October 2020 - May 2021 / ARIES Lab Heidelberg University
- Composed ethics proposals
- Contributed to DFG grant proposals by devising and detailing work packages related to decentralized control
- Coordinated the procurement of the new three legged TriPed robot robot with the medical devices lab in Stuttgart
- Lead and supervised a team of 5 people integrating hardware and software systems for the TriPed robot robot
- Set up new mobile robotics lab for teaching and research
Research Assistant
October 2019 - October 2020 / PROAUT Lab, Heidelberg University
- Designed and implemented software interfaces for a newly designed mobile robot
- Setup and maintenance of multi robot lab environment
- Developed a simple SLAM algorithm based on Aruco Markers as observations
Skills
- System Modelling and Simulation
- Robotics
- Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (Drones)
- Mobile Robots
- Walking Robots
- Control Theory
- Optimal Control
- Model Predictive Control
- Kalman Filtering
- Fuzzy Logic
- Planning Algorithm
- Differential Games
- Machine Learning
- Circuit Design
- Computer Vision
- Embedded Development
- Software Development
Publications
TriP: A Python package for the kinematic modeling of seriell-parallel hybrid robots
Baumgärtner et al., (2022). TriP: A Python package for the kinematic modeling of serial-parallel hybrid robots. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(71), 3967, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03967
Highly dynamic robotic leg for non-biomimetic walking robots
Jan Baumgärtner, Johannes Bach, Lorenzo Masia, Essam Badreddin and Peter Pott (2022). Highly dynamic robotic leg for non-biomimetic walking robots. ACTUATOR22, Mannheim, pp.85-88