Kamal Dine

Team Lead/Product owner - Motion Control and Interfaces @ Franka Robotics

Country

Germany

City

Munich

Industry

Industrial Automation

Skill

Software Development, Industrial Safety, Management, Team Building, Product Management, Open-Source Software, Team Management, Product Development, Technical Leadership, Teamwork, Computer Science, Organization Skills, Communication, control, Agile Software Development, Agile Project Management, Contol, Project Management, Algorithms, Motion Control

Experience

Team Lead/Product owner - Motion Control and Interfaces

Franka Robotics

2023-12 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

Technical Development Lead - Control & Motion algorithms

Franka Robotics

2021-3 - 2023-12 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Robotics Software Engineer - Control algorithms

Franka Robotics

2019-7 - 2021-3 · 1 yr 9 mos

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Research Engineer

SIGMA Clermont

2016-4 - 2019-5 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

● Development and implementation of adaptive wall grinding controllers based on active force-position control on KUKA LWR robot equipped with force-torque sensor and a grinder. ● Development and implementation of mobile manipulator control for on-line tip-over avoidance. ● Development and implementation of a recurrent neural network force-torque sensor disturbance observer to remove the non-contact forces from the sensor readings. ● DC motor control. ● Deformable objects manipulation. ● Tutoring colleagues and students on the development of 7 degrees of freedom mobile manipulator.

System Design Engineer

Keio University

2015-2 - 2015-8 · 7 mos

Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

● Proposition of a novel type of walking assist devices for elderly people based on a mobile manipulator robot. ● Design and assembly of the device. ● Control of the device is based on an advanced motion control strategy, it takes into account the human motion that is captured using IMU body sensor network and force sensing. ● A fall detection algorithm is implemented to signal to the device in case the user is about to fall and assist him actively.

Bachelor thesis project

American University of Science and Technology

2013-2 - 2013-6 · 5 mos

Zahle, Lebanon

● Design and implementation of a wireless mine detection system using a drone equipped with a mine detection sensor that sends the data to the mobile device.

Internship

Virtual ISP

2012-8 - 2012-11 · 4 mos

Beirut, Lebanon

● Networking, Antennas and Security systems. ● System deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting.

Education

Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand

Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering

2016 - 2019 · 3 yrs

● Thesis: Control of robotic mobile manipulators: application to civil engineering. ● Thesis advisors: Youcef Mezouar, Juan-Antonio corrales-ramon, and Jean-Christophe Fauroux. ● The thesis was part of the European project Bots2reC (Robots to Reconstruction) that aimed to automate the asbestos removal tasks in contaminated buildings.