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Technical University of Munich

Research Associate

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M.Sc. Dennis Knobbe

Technische Universität München

Lehrstuhl für Robotik und Systemintelligenz (Prof. König komm.)

Postadresse

Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60_62
80992 München

About me

04/18 to date: Research Assistant, Chair of Robotic Science and Systems Intelligence, TUM

07/12 to date: Freelance Software Developer

07/16 to 03/18: Research Assistant, Institute of Control Engineering, Leibniz Universität Hannover

01/14 to 10/15: Research Assistant, Fraunhofer-ISIT, Itzehoe, Germany

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Specialization: Systems Theory and Control Engineering, Biological Systems.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Basics of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology

Research

  • Control of nonlinear dynamic systems
  • General control and system theory
  • Mathematical modeling of complex systems
  • Graph and network theory
  • Optimization, optimal control and adaptive regulation
  • Systems Biology/ Bioinformatics
  • Process automation and optimization

  1. Haddadin, S., & Knobbe, D. (2020). Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: The Present and Future Visions. In M. Ebers & S. Navas (Eds.), Algorithms and Law (pp. 1-36). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108347846.002
  2. Haddadin, S., & Knobbe, D. (2020). Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Robotik. In Ebers/Heinze/Krügel/Steinrötter, (Eds.), Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik (pp. 1-99). CH Beck.
  3. Haddadin, S., Knobbe, D., Reindl, A., & Thiel, S. (2020). Geriatronik–Assistenzroboter für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben im Alter?. In Roboter als (Er-) Lösung? Orientierung der Pflege von morgen am christlichen Menschenbild. Hans-Seidel-Stiftung.
  4. D. Knobbe, H. Zwirnmann, M. Eckhoff and S. Haddadin, "Core Processes in Intelligent Robotic Lab Assistants: Flexible Liquid Handling," 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022, pp. 2335-2342, doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981636.
  5. Ringwald, J., Schneider, S., Chen, L., Knobbe, D., Johannsmeier, L., Swikir, A., & Haddadin, S. (2023). "Towards Task-Specific Modular Gripper Fingers: Automatic Production of Fingertip Mechanics," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1866-1873, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2023.3241757.
  6. Zwirnmann, H., Knobbe, D., Culha, U., & Haddadin, S. (2023). Dual-Material 3D-Printed PaCoMe-Like Fingers for Flexible Biolaboratory Automation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03644. (Publication at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USA, 2023)
  7. Eckhoff, M., Knobbe, D., Zwirnmann, H., Swikir, A., & Haddadin, S. (2023). Towards Connecting Control to Perception: High-Performance Whole-Body Collision Avoidance Using Control-Compatible Obstacles. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06873 (Publication at the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, USA, 2023)
  8. Andrew I. Cooper et al. Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges.Sci. Robot.10,eadv7932(2025).DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.adv7932. (Corresponding: Authors Gabriella Pizzuto, Kourosh Darvish, & Dennis Knobbe)
  9. D. Knobbe, J. J. W. Standke and S. Haddadin, "Enhancing Robotic Perception with Low-Cost Fast Active Vision Achieving Sub-Millimeter Accurate Marker-Based Pose Estimation," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 12379-12385, doi: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11127902.
  10. H. Zwirnmann, M. Eckhoff, D. Knobbe, D. Fülöp, A. Gabrielli and S. Haddadin, "The qPCRBot: Combining Automated Data Handling, Standardization, and Robotic Labware Transport for Better qPCR Measurements," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 15858-15864, doi: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11128567.

Students

I am always looking for motivated and talented students who like to work in an interdisciplinary way and who are not afraid of being trained in completely new subject areas. If you are looking for a thesis or research practice, please contact me via e-mail or contact me at the following e-mail address: work-and-thesis@rsi.ei.tum.de.

On the following page you will find a list of all our projects for students that have already been advertised:

https://www.ce.cit.tum.de/en/rsi/research/

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