Torsten Kröger (engineer)
Torsten Kröger (born February 22, 1977 in Rendsburg ) is a German engineer and university professor.
He is professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and director of the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics and is responsible for Intelligent Process Automation and Robotics (IPR). He is also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Career and research
Torsten Kröger received his master's degree in electrical engineering from the TU Braunschweig in 2002. He also studied electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) At the TU Braunschweig and obtained his doctorate in computer science in 2009 (summa cum laude). His dissertation dealt with the topic "On- Line Trajectory Generation in Robotic Systems ".
In 2010 he joined the Stanford AI Lab as a lecturer and research assistant . He has done research in a variety of topics, such as autonomous robotic systems, real-time path generation, perception , sensor fusion .
From 2014 to 2017 he worked as a robotics specialist and finally as a division manager for robot software at the company X: The Moonshot Factory , which is part of the Alphabet Group .
His core research interests lie in the areas of autonomous systems using data-driven approaches (e.g. machine learning) and deterministic motion planning and control of dynamic systems in real time. The areas of application of his research results include a. Industrial robotics and automation, service robotics, medical robotics as well as haptic input devices and space telescopes.
Kröger has also gained experience as a consultant for Volkswagen , KUKA , Manz Automation , Auris Surgical Robotics, Redwood Robotics and Google worldwide.
He is the founder and former managing director of Reflexxes, a startup that brought real-time deterministic robot motion planning software to the market. In 2014, Reflexxes was taken over by Google, where Kröger was responsible for robot software until 2017.
List of publications (selection)
- Substitution and Complementation of Production Management Functions with Data Analytics
- A depth space approach for evaluating distance to objects
- Robot task planning with contingencies for run-time sensing
- Jedibot experiments in human robot sword fighting
- A depth space approach to human-robot collision avoidance
- A middleware for high-speed distributed real-time robotic applications
Individual evidence
- ^ IAR-IPR: IPR - staff. May 28, 2018, accessed on August 6, 2018 (German).
- ↑ On-Line Trajectory Generation in Robotic Systems - Basic Concepts for Instantaneous Reactions to Unforeseen (Sensor) Events | Torsten Kröger | Jumper . ( springer.com [accessed August 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Torsten Kroeger: Reflexxes - Online Trajectory Generation - Robotics - Home. Retrieved August 6, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kröger, Torsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |