Dipl.-Ing. Florian Petit Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics German Aerospace Center (DLR) P.O. Box 1116 82230 Wessling Germany Phone: +49 8153 28 2177 Fax: +49 8153 28 1134 florian.petit(at)dlr.de

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Short CV

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Under construction..

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Fields of interest

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• Robot control
• Variable impedance actuation
• Nonlinear control theory
• Dynamic systems

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Projects involved

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• VIACTORS: European STREP Project (FP7): Variable Impedance Actuation Systems Embodying Advanced Interaction Behaviours
• PHRIENDS: European STREP Project (FP6): Physical Human Robot Interaction: Dependability and Safety

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Open topics for a Diploma/Master thesis

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Please contact me!

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Publications

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• Florian Petit, Maxime Chalon, Werner Friedl, Markus Grebenstein, Alin Albu-Sch¨affer and Gerd Hirzinger: Bidirectional Antagonistic Variable Stiffness Actuation: Analysis, Design & Implementation, IEEE Int. conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska
• Alin Albu-Schäffer, S. Wolf, O. Eiberger, and S. Haddadin, F. Petit, M. Chalon: Dynamic Modelling and Control of Variable Stiffness Actuators, IEEE Int. conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Anchorage, Alaska
• M.S Müller, L. Hoffmann, T. Bodendorfer, F. Hirth, F. Petit, M.P. Plattner, T.C. Buck, A.W. Koch: Fiber Bragg Grating Interrogation based on monolithic tunable laser diode. In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, accepted for publication, 2009.
• C.David Remy, Keith Florian Petit, and Roland Siegwart: Passive dynamic walking with quadrupeds, Poster at the Workshop at the "Robotics: Science and Systems" Conference RSS2008, Zurich, Switzerland.