Curriculum Vitae

Managing a development project for offline programming of an robot-automated press brake.

• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, 2008
  Focus: mobile service robotics, autonomous anthropomorphic grasping, machine vision
Thesis: Grasp determination for anthropomorphic end effectors using geometrical a priori knowledge

• Master degree in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, 2002
  Focus: technical computer science
Thesis: Haptic Exploration of Flow Features in Virtual Environments

• Intermediate degree in Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 1998

• Metal bending with machine tools, Press Brake Automation
• Mobile Service Robots
• Autonomous Navigation, Manipulation and Anthropomorphic Grasping
• Image Processing, Visual Servoing, Object Recognition, Scene Analysis
• Virtual Reality Technologies, 3D Graphics

• Fluent in German and English
• Basic skills in French

• Software development engineer and project manager at TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, 12/2008 - present
  - offline programming for press brake automation
  - machine tools for metal bending
  
• Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Man Machine Interaction, 04/2006 - 06/2008
  - Assisting the class Foundations of Computer Science I
  - Assisting the laboratory Applied Computer Science
  - Project Management Mobile Service Robotics
  - Note: After the retirement of my old superior in March 2006,
  "Chair of Technical Computer Science" was renamed to "Institute for Man Machine Interaction"
  
• Chief Engineer at the Chair of Technical Computer Science, 07/2003 - 03/2006
  - Chief of the non-research staff
  - Financial officer of the chairs ongoing research projects
  - Administrative responsibilities
• Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Technical Computer Science, 10/2002 - 03/2006
  - Assisting the class Foundations of Computer Science I
  - Heading the laboratory Multimedia Techniques
  - Assisting the laboratory Applied Computer Science
  - Assisting the workshop Machine Vision
• Research Assistant at the Chair of Technical Computer Science, 10/2002 - 03/2006
  - Project Management Assistive Wheelchair for Physically Challenged Persons
  - Assistent for the RoboCup Team of the RWTH Aachen University (AllemaniACs)
• Student Assistant at the Center for High Performance Computing, 03/2001 - 12/2001
  - Concept, creation and integration of a 6 DOF joystick gimbal in the virtual reality library ViSTA2
• Intern at Engineering Animation Inc., Mill Valley, CA, 10/2000 - 02/2001
  - Development of a small docking simulation of a space shuttle for NASA
  - Integration of a new 3D file format in the next release of the World Toolkit
  - Development of a Space Glove plugin for WorldUp
  - Product support for the World Toolkit
• Student Assistant at the Chair of Technical Computer Science, 11/1998 - 10/2000
  - Development of a 3D interactive menu for an assembly simulation in a virtual environment
  - Development of a module for logging and playing back interactions in a virtual environment
• Intern at Maehler & Kaege AG, 55218 Ingelheim, Summer 1996
  - basic training in electrical engineering
• Intern at Boehringer Ingelheim KG, 55218 Ingelheim, Summer 1996
  - basic training in mechanical engineering

• Griffermittlung für anthropomorphe Endffektoren mit Hilfe von geometrischem Vorwissen
  Bley F. (2009)
  Dissertation Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Verlag Dr.Hut, ISBN 978-3-89963-932-2
• Mobile Manipulation Based on Generic Object Knowledge
  Bley F., Schmirgel V., Kraiss K.-F. (2006)
  15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication RO-MAN 2006, Hatfield
• Autonomous Manipulation in Assistive Mobile Robotics
  Schmirgel V., Bley F. (2006)
  10th International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering POSTER 2006, Prague
• Komponentenbasierte Bildanalyse zur Identifikation von Objektkategorien
  Bley F., Kraiss K.-F. (2005)
  In: Levi, P., Schanz, M., Lafrenz, R., Avrutin, V. (Eds.): 19. Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme AMS , Volume Informatik aktuell, pp. 59-65, 8.-9. Dezember, Stuttgart, Springer, ISBN 3-540-30291-3
• Mobile Manipulation for Impaired Wheelchair Users
  Bley F. (2005)
  In: Karl-Friedrich Kraiss (Ed.): Lehrstuhl für Technische Informatik Jahresbericht 2003/2004, pp. 30-35, March 2005, Aachen, ISBN 3-8322-3713-5
• Supervised Navigation and Manipulation for Impaired Wheelchair Users
  Bley F., Rous M., Canzler U., Kraiss K.-F. (2004)
  In: Thissen, Wil / Wierings, Peter / Pantic, Maja / Ludema, Marcel (Eds.): Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Impacts of Emerging Cybernetics and Human-Machine Systems , pp. 2790-2796, October 10-13, The Hague, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society, ISBN 0-7803-8567-5
• Assisted Wheelchair
  Bley F., Rous M. (2003)
  In: Karl-Friedrich Kraiss (Ed.): Lehrstuhl für Technische Informatik Jahresbericht 2001/2002, pp. 59-62, March 2003, Aachen, ISBN 3-8322-1397-X
• Haptic Rendering Techniques for the Interactive Exploration of the CFD Datasets in Virtual Environments
  van Reimersdahl T., Bley F., Kuhlen T., Bischof C. H. (2003)
  In: Deisinger, J. and A. Kunz (Eds.): 7th Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, and 9th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments IPT-EGVEZ03 , pp. 241-246, May 22.-23, Zurich, Switzerland, ISBN 3-905673-00-2

• Griffermittlung für anthropomorphe Endffektoren mit Hilfe von geometrischem Vorwissen
  Event: Presentation of doctoral thesis, RWTH Aachen University
  Date: December 08, 2008
• Roboter als Paradigma - Paradigmen der Robotik
  Event: Lecture of the Historical Institute, RWTH Aachen University
  Date: December 19, 2005
  Contribution: Intelligente Service-Robotik?
• Perfekter als der Mensch? Künstliche Intelligenz und Roboter
  Event: Seminar of the Episcopal Academy of the Aachen Diocese
  Date: October 4-7, 2005
  Contribution: Wie intelligent sind heutige Roboter?

• Data- and Model-Driven Detection of Objects for the Determination of Stable Grasps with a Two-Finger Gripper
  Sebastian Pliefke (2007)
  Thesis, Institute for Man-Machine-Interaction, RWTH Aachen University - to appear
• Color-based Visual Servoing for a Mobile Manipulator
  Robert Firnich (2007)
  Student Research Thesis, Institute for Man-Machine-Interaction, RWTH Aachen University
• Evaluation of Grasping Strategies for an Anthropomorphic Manipulator
  Dominique Diegmann (2006)
  Thesis, Institute for Man Machine Interaction, RWTH Aachen University
• Mobile Navigation Using a Time-of-Flight Camera
  Matthias Bergmeister (2006)
  Student Research Thesis, Chair of Technical Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University
• Non-Holonomic Path Planning to Shunt a Mobile Robot
  Jan Gaida (2006)
  Student Research Thesis, Chair of Technical Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University
• Collision and Attitude Detection for the Gripper of a Mobile Manipulator Using an Accelerometer
  Christian Hein (2006)
  Student Research Thesis, Chair of Technical Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University
• Image-Based Determination of Stable Grasps With a Two-Finger Gripper for Multiple Object Categories
  Volker Schmirgel (2006)
  Thesis, Chair of Technical Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University
• Development of an Experimental Setup and Setting-Up of Neural Nets for the Autonomous Robots micro.Adam and micro.Eva
  Kai Sudau (2006).
  External Student Research Thesis, conducted at Fraunhofer Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme, Sankt Augustin
• Implementation of an Obstacle Avoidance System and a Planning Strategy Using Reinforcement Learning
  Moritz Tenorth (2006)
  External Student Research Thesis, conducted at ENSTA, Paris
• Design and Implementation of an Experimental Setup for Inertial Motion Guidance and Programming of Industrial Robots
  Dennis Do-Khac (2006)
  External Thesis, conducted at WZL, RWTH Aachen University