Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Friedrich
Faculty of Elektrotechnik
97421 Schweinfurt
During the lecture period in the wintersemester 2026/27, on Monday 14:15 - 15:00. Only by prior appointment.
News
General information for students (office hours, exam review, final theses, etc.)
see THWS E-Learning, "Infos Prof. Friedrich"
Teaching Areas
Courses in Robotics
Winter term:
- Humanoid Robotics (used to be Human-Robot Interaction II)
- Collaborative Robotics / Kollaborative Robotik
Sommer term:
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Simulation of Mechatronic Systems
- Regelungstechnik / Control Systems
- Robotics Systems Toolbox (Robotics Lab 2)
Publications
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
Career
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
Additional Information
Forschungsinteressen
- Cybernetics of Human-Robot Interaction
- Human System Engineering for Robotics
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