Anton Bredenbeck

I'm a PhD candidate at the Biomorphic Intelligence Lab @TU Delft. Under the supervision of Prof. Salua Hamaza and Prof. Cosimo Della Santina I am working on "Tactile Control for Aerial Robots". I received both my bachelor's and master's degrees from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany (Aerospace Computer Science and Satellite Technologies respectively). Throughout, I spent some time at the Finish Geospatial Research Institute and the Czech Technical University in Prague which played a pivotal role in fostering my enthusiasm for research in general and robotics and controls in particular. I completed my master thesis at the Automation and Robotics Section of the European Space Agency, where I worked on the trajectory optimization of a free-floating platform. Afterward, I began my PhD in Delft, where I attempt to make aerial robots more capable by allowing collisions and incorporating the sense of touch. In particular, the main question I am trying to answer during my PhD is: Instead of avoiding contact with the environment, how can we exploit it for guidance, navigation, and control of aerial robots? To answer this question, I worked on blind navigation of aerial robots, collision recovery, and other touch-related projects—some of which were in cooperation with TU Dresden or UC Berkeley. I'm also interested in the control of systems with varying degrees of free-floating behaviors that interact with their environment or other systems that provide interesting modeling and control challenges; besides drones, this includes mobile manipulators in general and space manipulators in particular as well as continuum robots and hybrid dynamical systems.
In my free time, I enjoy long bike rides, long runs, climbing steep walls, and lifting heavy weights. But it seems, this list of different interests is constantly getting longer...