Robotics · Control systems
Control. Coordination. Robots in motion.
I design and implement control systems for high-dynamic robots, from feedback control and state estimation to trajectory generation and coordinated fleets.
Robotics researcher and technical team lead at Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund. My work spans LoadRunner, evoBOT and experimental multi-robot systems.
Dortmund, Germany · PhD March 2027
Selected work
These systems were developed by multidisciplinary teams. Here is what we built and what I contributed.
01High-dynamic transport
High-dynamic, omnidirectional transport robots for coordinated material flow.
02Dynamic mobile manipulation
A dynamically balancing, two-wheeled robot for handling and transporting loads.
03Cyber-physical test field
I helped commission the motion-capture system and contributed to coordinated indoor-UAV experiments within the chair’s wider research team.
Open project →Patents
I am a named inventor on 14 selected robotics patent families: thirteen associated with LoadRunner and one with evoBOT. They address practical problems in dynamic transport, localization, coordination and load handling.
Controlling vehicle motion to stabilize the transported load.
DE 10 2019 122 052 B4Estimating vehicle position from observations of a speckled floor.
DE 10 2020 214 002 B3Planning routes for vehicles operating in a shared transport system.
DE 10 2020 214 005 A1Load-handling mechanisms and methods associated with evoBOT.
DE 10 2022 202 045 B4Selected families, not a count of granted or currently active patents. Technical summaries are descriptive. Linked records provide the document details.
About
I’ve worked in applied robotics since 2016. I’m interested in the point where dynamics, estimation and coordinated motion have to work together on real hardware, not just as separate algorithms.
At Fraunhofer IML, I combine hands-on control-system development with technical team leadership. My doctoral research examines integrated control architectures for high-dynamic transport-robot swarms. I expect to complete my doctorate in March 2027.
2016 · M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology · TU Dortmund University
2013 · B.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology · TU Dortmund University
Selected publications
Contact
Building a technical team around control, estimation or coordinated robot systems? I’d be glad to discuss the engineering challenges.
patrick.klokowski@gmail.com ↗