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Basics

Name Ken-Joel Simmoteit
Label Robotics and control researcher
Email ken-joel.simmoteit@student.kit.edu

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2024.10

    Renningen, Germany

    Master’s Thesis
    Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)
    Topic: Neural Contractive Robot Learning With Full-Body Obstacle Avoidance on Riemannian Manifolds. New obstacle avoidance based on learned implicit robot surfaces and grasped objects. Design of a novel generative flow model for a contraction preserving diffeomorphism
    • GenAI & Robotics
  • 2023.10 - 2024.03

    Renningen, Germany

    Internship
    Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)
    Learning from Demonstration based on Riemannian manifolds. Development of ROS interfaces for learning and executing robot skills
    • Imitation Learning
  • 2022.12 - 2023.09

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Research Assistant
    FZI Research Center for Information Technology
    Research & development of a locomotion control for the walking robot Lauron V based on behavioral modules. Research & development of a cascaded control concept for six-legged walking robots with gait behavior generation. Design of the robot backend in ROS2 with C++. Mathematical design of the inverse kinematics of a robot leg.
    • Robotics, Locomotion Behavior, Control Engineering
  • 2022.10 - 2024.10

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Co-Founder Tech-Startup
    Desoltik, Karlsruhe
    Research & development of a robot- and AI-driven desoldering system for a circular electronics industry. Exhibitor and presenter at SAP sapphire (Orlando & Barcelona) 2024, SPS (Nürnberg) 2023, BW Summit 2024. Sensor fusion of a heat array using ML and system dynamics. Development of a cascaded control loop following temperature profiles based on non-linear models. Implementation of industrial robot arms for removal of semiconductors.
    • Circular industry, Control Engineering, Machine Learning, International Fairs
  • 2020.10 - 2021.03

    Leinfelden, Germany

    Internship
    Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbH
    Construction and prototyping of mechanical assemblies. Support in the development of 4+ new devices.
    • Mechanical Design, System Dynamics, Patent

Volunteer

  • 2021.09 - 2022.09

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Levitation control engineer
    mu-zero HYPERLOOP e.V.
    Modeling of a free-floating electromagnetic system. Design of nonlinear control strategies for 6 DOF levitation. Research & development of a state estimation using a Kalman filter and state dynamics by combining 14 sensors. Design of a control parameter optimization based on a Particle Swarm Algorithm and a Genetic Algorithm.
    • Levitation Control, Optimization, System Modeling, State Estimation

Education

  • 2021.10 - 2024.11

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    M. Sc.
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Mechatronics and Information Technology
    • Control Engineering & Robotics
  • 2017.10 - 2021.09

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    B. Sc.
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Mechatronics and Information Technology
    • Robotics & Machine Design Theory

Awards

  • 2023.07
    Best Product Award
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    6 professors and 6 experts from the industry evaluate the product, which has been worked on from the idea to the realization within one year. The technical development as well as the entrepreneurial idea are evaluated.

Certificates

Reinforcement Learning
University of Alberta 2023-06-16

Skills

Robotics
Imitation Learning, Obstacle Avoidance, Locomotion Control, Kinematics
Machine Learning
Generative AI (Flows), Learning Continuous Signed Distance Functions, Geometric Machine Learning, Reinforcement learning
Control Engineering
Nonlinear Control, Contractive Stability, Model Predictive Control, Control Parameter Optimization, System Modeling
Mechanical Design
Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Rapid Prototyping, Viscoelastic Impedance Damping
Programming Languages
Python, ROS2, C++, MATLAB
Programming Toolbox
Pytorch, Open3D
Engineering Toolbox
Creo Parametric, SolidWorks, Simulink

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Robotics
Imitation Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Locomotion Control, Bio-inspired Robots, Anthropomorphic Robots, Manipulation
Machine Learning
Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Models, Geometric Machine Learning, Artificial General Intelligence
Control Engineering
Adaptive Control, Learning Dynamical Systems