Former Research Assistant

E-Mail	steffen.wittmeier@in.tum.de
Room	HB 2.02.21 (Parkring 13) 85748 Garching-Hochbrück
Phone	+49.89.289.17626
Fax	+49.89.289.18107
Mailing Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany
Homepage	http://www6.in.tum.de/~wittmeis/

Steffen Wittmeier

Curriculum Vitæ

07/2009 - 12/2013	Technische Universität München Research Assistant at the Chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems (Prof. Knoll)
08/2007 - 06/2009	Bertrandt Engineering Ingolstadt Development Engineer at the Electronics Development Department
09/2006 - 05/2007	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
07/2006	Diploma in Computer engineering University of Applied Sciences Konstanz
01/2006 - 07/2006	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Diploma thesis)
07/2000	Abitur at the Windeck-Gymnasium Bühl
1981	born in Bühl, Germany

Projects

Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot - ECCEROBOT
Myorobotics

Publications

[1]	Michael Jäntsch, Steffen Wittmeier, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, Guido Herrmann, and Alois Knoll. Adaptive Neural Network Dynamic Surface Control: An Evaluation on the Musculoskeletal Robot Anthrob. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA, pages 4347-4352, 2015. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Michael Jäntsch, Steffen Wittmeier, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, Guido Herrmann, and Alois Knoll. Adaptive Neural Network Dynamic Surface Control for Musculoskeletal Robots. In Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC, pages 679-685, 2014. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Michael Jäntsch, Steffen Wittmeier, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, Alexander Panos, Fabian Volkart, and Alois Knoll. Anthrob - A Printed Anthropomimetic Robot. In Proc. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 342-347, 2013. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Michael Jäntsch, Steffen Wittmeier, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, and Alois Knoll. Computed Muscle Control for an Anthropomimetic Elbow Joint. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2012, pages 2192-2197, 2012. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[5]	S. Wittmeier, A. Gaschler, M. Jantsch, K. Dalamagkidis, and A. Knoll. Calibration of a physics-based model of an anthropomimetic robot using evolution strategies. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ InternationalConference on, pages 445-450, Oct 2012. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Steffen Wittmeier, Cristiano Alessandro, Nenad Bascarevic, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, David Devereux, Alan Diamond, Michael Jäntsch, Kosta Jovanovic, Rob Knight, Hugo Gravato Marques, Predrag Milosavljevic, Bhargav Mitra, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Veljko Potkonjak, Rolf Pfeifer, Alois Knoll, and Owen Holland. Toward anthropomimetic robotics: development, simulation, and control of a musculoskeletal torso. Artificial life, 19(1):171-193, 2012. PMID: 23186343. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[7]	Michael Jäntsch, Christian Schmaler, Steffen Wittmeier, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, and Alois Knoll. A scalable joint-space controller for musculoskeletal robots with spherical joints. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics ROBIO 2011, pages 2211-2216, 2011. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	Steffen Wittmeier, Michael Jäntsch, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, and Alois Knoll. Physics-based Modeling of an Anthropomimetic Robot. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 4148-4153, 2011. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	Steffen Wittmeier, Michael Jäntsch, Konstantinos Dalamagkidis, Markus Rickert, Hugo Gravato Marques, and Alois Knoll. Caliper: A universal robot simulation framework for tendon-driven robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 1063-1068, 2011. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	Alan Diamond, Owen Holland, Richard Newcombe, Rob Knight, Steffen Wittmeier, and Michael Jäntsch. GPU-Powered Control of a Compliant Humanoid Robot. In nVidia GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Michael Jäntsch, Steffen Wittmeier, and Alois Knoll. Distributed control for an anthropomimetic robot. In Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2010, pages 5466-5471, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Hugo Gravato Marques, Michael Jäntsch, Steffen Wittmeierand Christiano Alessandro, Max Lungarella, Rob Knight, and OwenHolland. ECCE1: the first of a series of anthropomimetic musculoskelal uppertorsos. In Proc. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2010, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[13]	Steffen Wittmeier, Gang Song, James Duffin, and Chi-Sang Poon. Pacemakers handshake synchronization mechanism of mammalian respiratory rhythmogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(46):18000-18005, 2008. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[14]	Steffen Wittmeier, Gong Song, James Duffin, and Chi-Sang Poon. Model of inspiratory rhythm generation and maintenance by parafacial respiratory group and pre-Bötzinger complex pacemakers. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, San Diego, California, USA, 2007. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[15]	Steffen Wittmeier, Gang Song, James Duffin, and Chi-Sang Poon. Modeling and simulation of chaotic bursting in pacemaker neurons. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2006. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[16]	Steffen Wittmeier, Guy Rachmuth, and Chi-Sang Poon. Effect of variable time-step integration accuracy on simulations of nonlinear systems. In NEURON Simulator Meeting Abstracts, Austin, Texas, USA, 2006. [ .bib ]