Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Friedrich

General information for students (office hours, exam review, final theses, etc.)

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Courses in Robotics

Winter term:

• Human-Robot Interaction II
  
• Collaborative Robotics / Kollaborative Robotik
  
• Fieldbusses
• Exercises Basics of Electrical Engineering

Sommer term:

• Simulation of mechatronic systems
• Regelungstechnik / Control Systems
• Robotics Systems Toolbox (Robotik-Praktikum 2)
• Robotik-Praktikum 4
  

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• S. R. Friedrich and M. Buss, "Parameterizing Robust Manipulator Controllers under Approximate Inverse Dynamics: a Double-Youla Approach," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 29, Oktober 2019, pp. 5137-5163
• S. R. Friedrich, M. Schreibauer, and M. Buss, "Least-squares policy iteration for robotics: Online, continuous and automatic," Engineering Applications oArtificial Intelligence 83, August 2019, pp. 72-84
• S. R. Friedrich and M. Buss, "A Simple Architecture for Arbitrary Interpolation of State Feedback," IEEE Control Systems Letters 3 (2), April 2019, pp. 469-474
• S. R. Friedrich and M. Buss, "A Robust Stability Approach to Robot Reinforcement Learning Based on a Parameterization of Stabilizing Controllers," In Proc. 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3365-3372, Singapore
• J. H. Richter and S. R. Friedrich, "Semi-formal verification of closed-loo specifications in the concept design phase," at - Automatisierungstechnik 65 (2), Feb. 2017, pp. 115-123
• S. R. Friedrich and M. Buss, "Direct Adaptive-Q Control for Online Performance Enhancement of Switching Linear Systems," In Proc. 2016 IEEE 55th Conf. Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6375-6381, Las Vegas
• T. Albach, P. Horn, J. Ilg, S. Friedrich, A. Sutor, and R. Lerch, “Towards a Magnetostrictive Micro-Loudspeaker,” In Proc. Sensor+Test 2011, pp. 477-482, Nürnberg

Patent Applications

• S. Friedrich, P. Bernhardt, Technique for compensating an x-ray grid shadow using an actuator system, US-2025090124-A1
• F. Lieschke, M. Hecht, S. Rastogi, T. Schoecklmann, C.-G. Schliermann, L. Weiß, M. Scherm, S. Friedrich, A. Deinlein, Methods, devices and computer-readable mediums for mechatronic system controlling, US-2024354464-A1
• S. Friedrich, J. Zeidler, Technique for image processing compensation of an x-ray shadow without the use of an additional mechanical actuator, EP-4523628-A1
• F. Lieschke, S. Friedrich, A. Krämer, S. Rastogi, M. Scherm, T. Schöcklmann, L. Weiß, Control of robots with centralized position detection, DE-102022211255-A1
• K. Dencovski, J. Hofmann, R. Scherlipp, F. Dirauf, S. Friedrich, W. Neuber, P. Schwingenschlögl, Autonomous mobile laboratory assistance robot for in vitro diagnostic laboratory, EP-4140661-A1
• V. Schmidt, J. Hofmann, S. Friedrich, Remote communication with a medical technology facility with the aid of a digital twin, US-2022165410-A1

Professional career

Since 2023: Professor at University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

2019 - 2023: Innovator Digital Technologies, Siemens Healthcare GmbH

2021: Doctoral degree, Technical University of Munich

2014 - 2019: Reserach associate, Chair of Automatic Control Engineering, Technical University of Munich

2007 - 2013: Bachelor's and Master's in mechatronics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Forschungsinteressen

• Cybernetics of Human-Robot Interaction
• Human System Engineering for Robotics