Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin Scientific coordinator "Human-Robot Interaction" Lecturer TUM WWW.SAFE-ROBOTS.COM WWW.SAPHARI.EU German Aerospace Center (DLR) Robotics and Mechatronics Center P.O.Box 1116 D-82230 Wessling / Germany phone:+49-8153-28-1047 fax: +49-8153-28-1134 E-mail:Sami.Haddadin at dlr.de

 

"The Times They Are A-Changin"

Bob Dylan

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 Curriculum Vitae 

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• Short CV 

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Publications & Videos

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• Full list

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Fields of interest

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• Human-Robot Interaction and interaction design
• Safe robots
• Robot and mechatronic design
• Dexterous manipulation
• Mobile manipulation
• Nonlinear robot control
• Control of intrinsically elastic robots
• Human biomechanics and injury mechanics
• Real-time reflex and motion planning
• Real-time task planning and learning
• Nonlinear control and learning for Variable Impedance Robots
• Brain controlled assistive robots

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Projects involved:

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DLR projects:

• DLR Lightweight Robots
• DLR Hand-arm system
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Brain controlled robots

Collaborative projects:

• SAPHARI: European IP (FP7): Safe and Autonomous Physical Human Aware Interaction
• KUKA Roboter GmbH
• Daimler Benz
• VIACTORS: European STREP Project (FP7): Variable Impedance Actuation Systems Embodying Advanced Interaction Behaviours
• Lynkeus: BMBF project: PMD Cameras for Human-Robot Interaction and Bin Picking (finished)
• SMERobot™: European Integrated Project  (FP6): The European Robot Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing (finished)
• PHRIENDS: European STREP Project (FP6): Physical Human Robot Interaction: Dependability and Safety (finished)
• Neurobotics: (FP6 IST) The Fusion of Neuroscience and Robotics (finished)

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Press

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Discovery Channel interview "Daily Planet", January, 9th, 2008 (for download click on image)

 

Sanftmütige Maschinen, Der Spiegel, November, 12, 2007

The robot that knows when it has punched you, NewScientist, November, Issue 10, 2007

• Full list

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Collaborators

• Jürgen Rossmann - RWTH Aachen
  
• Alessandro De Luca - University of Rome
  
• Etienne Burdet - Imperial College London, UK
• Ganesh Gowrishankar - ATR, Japan
• Antonio Bicchi - University of Pisa
• Udo Frese - University of Bremen
• Jae-Bok Song - Korea University
• Dimitrios Kallieris - University of Heidelberg
• John Donoghue, Brown University
• Oussama Khatib, Stanford University
• Torsten Kroeger, Stanford University
• Sachin Chitta, Willow Garage
• Guenter Niemeyer, Willow Garage & Stanford University

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Current and former students

• Doctoral thesis
  • Simon Haddadin (c)
• Master thesis
  • Hannes Widmoser (c)
  • Chris Schindlbeck (c)
  • Nico Mansfeld (c)
  • Fabien Laurent (c)
  • Roman Weitschat (c)
  • Can Ozparkucu (c)
  • Steffen Walther (c)
  • Felix Huber (f)
  • Rico Belder (f)
  • Kai Krieger (f)
  • Sven Parusel (f)
  • Michael Weis (f)
  • Augusto Khoury (f)
• Bachelor thesis
  • Markus Englert (f)
  • Mirko Kunze (f)
  • Tobias Ende (f)
• Internship
  • Marco Witzmann (c)
  • Nico Mansfeld (f)
  • Hongrong Huan (c)
  • Hannes Widmoser (f)
  • Chris Schindelbeck (f)
  • Robert Hartmann (f)
  • Mirko Kunze (f)
  • Rico Belder (f)
  • Christian Liefhold (f)

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Conferences & Workshops

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• ICRA2011, Shanghai, China
• ISER2010, Dehli, India
• HFR2010, Tübingen, Germany
• IROS2010, Taipeh, Taiwan
• Schunk International Expert Days, Laufen/Neckar, Germany
• URAI 2009, Gwangju, Korea
• SWAR'09, Västerås, Sweden
• ISRR2009, Lucerne, Switzerland
• IFF Science Days, Magdeburg, Germany
• ICRA 2009, Kobe, Japan
• International Workshop on Robot Technology, Gwangju, Korea
• IROS 2008, Nice, France
• RSS 2008: Manipulation Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland
• RSS 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
• IARP 2008, Padadena, USA
• ICRA 2008, Pasadena, USA
• PRE-ICRA 2008 Mini-Symposium on Robot Technologies and Humanoids, Stanford, USA
• ISRR 2007, Hiroshima, Japan
• IROS 2007, San Diego, USA
• RSS 2007: Manipulation Workshop, Atlanta, USA
• RSS 2007, Atlanta, USA
• IARP Workshop 2007, Rome, Italy
• ICRA 2007, Rome, Italy
• IROS 2006, Beijing, China

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 Links

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• Institute of Man-Machine Interaction, RWTH Aachen
• European Robotics Network
• Robot Hall of Fame
• Statistical Machine Learning and Motor Control Group, University of Edinburgh
• Technical University of Munich
• Elite Network of Bavaria
• Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technical University of Munich
• Systems Engineering, University of Oulu
• Institute of Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

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Hobbies

• My band
• Handball
• Sailing
• Painting

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