Katharina Hertkorn

• Leading the robotics team incl. hardware, low-level and application software • Responsible for growth of team and hiring • Manage day-to-day operations, ensuring processes run efficiently and align with strategic objectives across all departments • Monitor performance metrics to meet business goals • Oversee budgets, financial performance, and accounting • Develop and implement strategies to improve operational efficiency, productivity, and scalability while addressing challenges in real-time

• Develop the control and application software running on the robot from scratch • Review code and ensure best practices • Integration of software components with hardware systems, optimizing performance for real-world applications and ensuring reliability in diverse environments • Develop deployment tools to keep fleet in the field up to date • Lead remote field operations

* Leading the software team dedicated to mobile autonomy of the robot * Responsible for growth of team and hiring * Planning and shaping the MVP; Setting priorities * Responsible for CI/CD, automated tests * Support and realization of deployments

• Deputy group leader robotics; main tasks: – Creation of job postings and hiring of new team members – Support and individual growth of the existing team – Support in representing the group to internal and external partners • Product owner in the field of household robotics; main tasks: – Generation and selection of disruptive innovation ideas in the field of house- hold robotics – Project management in an agile environment; from project idea to hardware and software demonstrators – Lead and build cross-functional teams (Engineering, UX, Marketing and De- sign) – Establishment of a basic software engineering process across projects – Prioritization of the backlog, definition of the sprint goals – Transparent communication and stakeholder management – Supervision of students • Project management for industrial robotics in manufacturing; main tasks: – Technical evaluation of tasks for automation – Technical development of proof-of-concept solutions

Research associate and postdoc; main job: – Management of the group for telepresence and virtual reality – Systemintegration and -management of the robotics telepresence system – Development of semi-autonomous skills for the telepresence system – Research on grasp planning – Integration and deployment of the developed algorithms on the hardware system – Combination of algorithms from different robotic disciplines (like perception, virtual reality, control) and sensor fusion – Presentations and talks on conferences and fairs (ILA, Automatica) – Supervision of student final degree theses and internships – Videos summarizing my work: Virtual reality support for teleoperation using online grasp planning: https://vimeo.com/87159074 Robust real-time tracking with visual and physical constraints for robot manipulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdKxgFgG00 Car assembly simulations using the haptic feedback device of the German Aerospace Center (DLR): http://vimeo.com/64882662 • PhD on “Shared Grasping: a Combination of Telepresence and Grasp Planning”, finished in July 2015 as external PhD candidate at the “Karlsruhe Institut of Tech- nology” (KIT). – Doctoral supervisors: Prof. Tamim Asfour (KIT) and Prof. Gerd Hirzinger (DLR). – final grade 1,0 (A) • Member of the Institute Councils (consisting of three department heads and three elected members of the institute) • Foundation of the internal lecture series “Introduction to ...” where the basics of robotic technology, group topics, and robotic algorithms is presented

Im Juli 2015 habe ich meine Promotion zum Thema "Shared Grasping: a Combination of Telepresence and Grasp Planning" am KIT, Institut für Anthropomatik abgeschlossen. Mein Doktorvater war Tamim Asfour, Zweitprüfer Gerd Hirzinger.