Jimmy Alison Jørgensen

Co-Founder & CTO of Nordbo Robotics - a merger between two upcoming robotics companies Lead Robotics and Nordbo Systems. Check out www.nordbo-robotics.com

- Developed a learning-by-demonstration platform for buffing small MIM-based parts in the 3C industry - Introduced a novel force control system for buffer wear compensation and polishing program fine-tuning - Exhibited polishing systems at multiple trade fairs in China and initiated a partnership with a major robot manufacturer - Deployed 8 robotic buffing systems at a Chinese factory within one year - Parallel development of a strain gauge-based 6-axis force sensor for robotic polishing installations - Grew the team to 11 developers in the first year

CP Robotics is a high-tech startup that will create new exciting products for automation in metalworking. We have a strong focus on providing solutions for SME's and in general we want to provide flexible solutions that allow affordable automation of few-of-a-kind production.

As Assistant Professor at SDU my main function is to initiate and participate in scientific explorations of industrial and service related robot automation problems. My responsibilities include communication, coordination, developement and implementation of scientific work in several of our national and european projects. Additionally my responsibilities include teaching.

My PhD brought me close to the SDU CARO group that managed a wealth of interesting projects between Industry and University. I joined the management of the group and was able to continue and broaden my work into these projects and at the same time create and teach courses in robotics. Results: • Project development work – Handyman, BinPicker, Xperience, Intellact, HybridGripper, • Fund raising –– Co-authored: National projects: Carmen, ROSOR, HybridGripper and EU projects: ACAT • Teaching and supervision of Master and Bachelor projects

Product developer and manufacturing of quality assurance tools • Developed low cost height testing device for production line for accurately validating if parts were less than 460um with 2 um pression. • Developed electronics and firmware for a battery driven subsea sensing system. • Oversaw and coordinated pressurization testing at Force technologies and long term testing setup at GPV.

Shear curiosity and will to expand my technical skills made me deep dive into a fully funded PhD on innovating technologies for dexterous handling in robotics. Founded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation through the project Movebots. Results: • Co-founded Robwork – an open-source kinematics, simulation and planning framework for robots and sensors. Written in C++ and Qt with bindings for Python, Lua and Java. A framework that is still used by several Universities and companies. (www.robwork.dk) • Dynamic simulation for robotics - Developed new ways of using dynamic simulation to compute and predict outcomes of grasping parts using robot grippers. Worked with multi body physics, simulation and modeling of sensors such as 2D and 2.5D cameras, tactile sensors 1-6 dof and tactile array sensors. • Methods for computing stable grasp with industrial as well as dexterous and sensor equipped grippers using dynamic simulations • Developed computational models that allowed robust dynamic simulation of contacts in grasping and in simulation of tactile array sensors • Algorithms for high performing FPGA based collision computation between triangle meshes • Publications - 6 publications of which I was first author in four

As Research Assitant in the robotics group at SDU I participated in teaching activities and as application developer in a collaboration project with Danfoss Universe. Additionally, together with two other colleagues, I initiated the development of a c++ based, opensource control and simulation framework for robotics, named RobWork.

PhD project title: "MoveBots: Flexible Object Handling using Dexterous Grippers”

Master project: Control Systems Based on Generic Platforms Bachelor project: Local Tracking of Moving Objects