I am a Mobile Robot Software Architect for the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) working with the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center. My work is concerned with the development of advanced software architectures for autonomous mobile robotics.

Along with sufficient computational power becoming available to embedded systems, robotics applications are growing tremendously in complexity. I am interested in finding principles for the design and implementation of professional, high-quality software for this domain, enhancing the reliability, scalability and maintainability of these systems.

Before joining Ames, I was a PhD student at the Dept of Neuroinformatics, University of Ulm, Germany. I designed the robotics middleware Miro and coached the Ulm Sparrows, a project on "autonomous mobile robotics in highly dynamic environments", which is probably better known as robot soccer.

I graduated from the Dept of Neuroinformatics at the University of Ulm, Germany. I hold a Diploma in "Computer Science" and since November 2006 a Dr. rer.nat. (PhD degree) from University of Ulm, Germany, thesis title "Advanced Software Concepts and Technologies for Autonomous Mobile Robotics".

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