Robert Krug

Hi there,

I am a Ph.D. student at the AASS Mobile Robotics and Olfaction Lab. Born and raised in the Austrian Alps, I moved to the Mid-Swedish flatlands to start my research in dexterous manipulation with robotic hands as part of the HANDLE project.

Research Interests

• Grasping with anthropomorphic robotic hands,

• Dexterous robotic manipulation,

• Control theory.

Teaching and Supervision

• Artificial Intelligence for Mobile Robots,

• Sensors and Sensing.

Brief CV

I was born in 1981 in Tamsweg, Austria. After attending a secondary college for timber industry and doing my military service, I joined the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. From 2005 to 2007 I was employed as an undergraduate assistant at the Institute of Mechanics, where I was involved in the teaching of Technical Mechanics, as well as in the institute's research activities. In 2009 I graduated with a diploma degree in "Mechatronics in Mechanical Engineering", focusing on robotics and control theory. One semester of my studies, I spent at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. In the course of my diploma thesis, I developed a 3-axis Pick & Place - robot with high dynamics. During this time, I worked as a freelancer at M&R Automation in Graz, Austria. Since September 2009 I've been working as a Ph.D. student at the Centre of Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Papers

• R. Krug and D. Dimitrov, Representing Movement Primitives as Implicit Dynamical Systems learned from Multiple Demonstrations. (submitted to IROS 2013),

• K. Charusta, R. Krug, D. Dimitrov and B. Iliev, Independent Contact Regions Based on a Patch Contact Model. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012, pp. 4162-4169. [BibTex] [PDF (1.3MB)] [Digest (0.2MB)]

• K. Charusta, R. Krug, T. Stoyanov, D. Dimitrov and B. Iliev, Generation of Independent Contact Regions on Objects Reconstructed from Noisy Real-World Range Data. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012, 1338-1344. [BibTex] [PDF (1.3MB)] [Digest (0.3MB)]

• R. Krug, D. Dimitrov, K. Charusta and B. Iliev, Prioritized Independent Contact Regions for Form Closure Grasps. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011, pp. 1797-1803. [BibTex] [PDF (1.3MB)] [Digest (0.3MB)] [Presentation (7.8MB)]

• E. Berglund, B. Iliev, R. Palm, R. Krug, K. Charusta and D. Dimitrov, Mapping between different kinematic structures without absolute positioning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Autonomous Grasping, 2011. [PDF (0.4MB)]

• R. Krug, D. Dimitrov, K. Charusta and B. Iliev, On the Efficient Computation of Independent Contact Regions for Force Closure Grasps. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010, pp. 586-591. [BibTex] [PDF (0.7MB)] [Digest (0.3MB)] [Presentation (5.3MB)]

Theses

• Robert Krug, "Development of a flexible Handling- and Assemblysystem for short cycle times" (in German). Diploma Thesis, Graz University of Technology, 2008. [BibTex] [PDF (4.7MB)].

Contact

Robert Krug
AASS Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Örebro University
SE - 70182 Örebro, Sweden
Room: T1219
Phone: (+46/0) 19 - 30 1143
Fax: (+46/0) 19 - 30 3463
Email (masked to avoid spamming): robert {dot} krug {at} oru {dot} se