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Dr.-Ing. Michael Strolz
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Short Biography

Current Status

Education

  • 12/2006 – 04/2010 : PhD Student
    LSR, TU München, Munich
  • 10/2001 – 11/2006 : Mechatronics student
    Technische Fakultät, FAU Erlangen-Nürnber, Erlangen

Practical Experience

  • 06/2010 – now: Engineer and Project Manager at
    BMW AG, Munich
  • 05/2006 – 11/2006 : Diploma Thesis at
    Baumüller Nürnberg GmbH, Nuremberg
  • 10/2005 – 03/2006 : Internship at
    Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg
  • 03/2005 – 07/2005 : Working student at
    Siemens Automation and Drives, Erlangen

Awards

  • Finalist of the 2010 EURON/EUROP
    Robotics Technology Transfer Award     with
    "Simulation and Control of Actuated Car Doors“ [certificate]
  • HSI 2009 Best Paper Award in the area of
    Human Machine Interaction for
    "Design of a Device for the High-Fidelity Haptic Rendering of Rotatory Car Doors“ [paper]
  • Studienpreis Mechatronik 2005 for "Entwurf und
    Realisierung der Steuerung für einen autonomen Roboter“
    (Award endowed with 2,000 Euro for "Control Design for an Autonomous Robot", the best student project)

 

Research Interests
  • Haptic Devices
  • Haptic Rendering of Actuated Mechanisms
  • Pro-Active Support of Haptic Interaction by Intention Recognition, Path Planning and Impedance Shaping
Working Fields

  • Finished student projects (selection):

  • Master's Thesis: Implementierung und Evaluation der Steuerung und Regelung einer Fahrzeugtür mit zwei aktuierten Freiheitsgraden
  • Master's Thesis: Weiterentwicklung und Evaluation eines Türsimulators
  • Master's Thesis: Entwicklung eines VR-Versuchsstands zur Simulation von Fahrzeugtüren
    woman-driving-award 2008 of Volkswagen AG
    (endowed with 5,000 Euro,     more)
  • Diploma Thesis: Regelkonzepte zur kraftabhängigen Bewegung einer aktuierten Fahrzeugtür
    Diplomandenpreis 2007 of SEW-EURODRIVE Stiftung (endowed with 2,500 Euro,     more)
  • Diploma Thesis: VR-Simulation und Regelung einer aktuierten Fahrzeugtür
  • Studienarbeit: Entwicklung eines Pfadplaners für einen Virtual Reality-Versuchsstand

 

Publications
Journal Articles
1. M. Strolz, R. Groten, A. Peer, M. Buss , Development and Evaluation of a Device for the Haptic Rendering of Rotatory Car Doors , Transactions on Industrial Electronics , 58 (2010) , no. 8 , 3133 - 3140 .
2. M. Strolz, A. Mörtl, M. Gräf, M. Buss , Development, Control, and Evaluation of an Actuated Car Door , IEEE Transactions on Haptics , 2 (2009) , no. 3 , 170-180 .
Bookchapters
3. M. Strolz, M. Buss , Real-Time Support of Haptic Interaction by Means of Sampling-Based Path Planning , Advances in Haptics (ISBN 978-953-307-093-3) , INTECH , 2010 .
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
4. M. Strolz, A. Mörtl, M. Gräf, M. Buss , Control of an Actuated Car Door Providing Outstanding Haptic Interaction , Proceedings of Third Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (Worldhaptics 2009) , Salt Lake City, USA , 2009 , p. 314-319 .
5. M. Strolz, C. Ehinger, M. Buss , Design of a Device for the High-Fidelity Haptic Rendering of Rotatory Car Doors , Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI 2009) , Catania, Italy , 2009 , p. 202-209. ,
Best Paper Award .
6. C. Scharfenberger, C. Daniilidis, M. Fischer, D. Hellenbrand, C. Richter, O. Sabbah, M. Strolz, P. Kuhl, G. Färber , Multidisziplinäre Entwicklung von neuen Türkonzepten als ein Teil einer ergonomisch optimierten Ein-/Ausstiegunterstützung , OEM Forum Fahrzeugtüren und -klappen , VDI-Bericht 2064 , 2009 .
7. M. Strolz, Q. Mühlbauer, C. Scharfenberger, G. Färber, M. Buss , Towards a Generic Control System for Actuated Car Doors with Arbitrary Degrees of Freedom , Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium , Eindhoven, The Netherlands , 2008 , p. 391--397 .
8. M. Strolz, G. Vasilev, M. Buss , Sensor System for the Determination of the Interaction Force at a Vehicle Door , Sensoren und Messsysteme 2008, 14. Fachtagung Ludwigsburg, VDI-Berichte Nr. 2011 , VDI-Verlag , Düsseldorf , 2008 , p. 811--820 .
9. M. Strolz, M. Buss , Haptic Rendering of Actuated Mechanisms by Active Admittance Control , Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios , (Manuel Ferre, ed.) , LNCS 5024 , Springer , Heidelberg , 2008 , p. 712-717 .
10. M. Fischer, S.C. Braun, D. Hellenbrand, C. Richter, O. Sabbah, C. Scharfenberger, M. Strolz, P. Kuhl, G. Färber , Multidisciplinary Development of New Door and Seat Concepts as Part of an Ergonomic Ingress/Egress Support System , FISITA 2008, World Automotive Congress , 2008 .
PhD thesis
11. M. Strolz , Simulation, Control, and Evaluation of Actuated Car Doors , 2010 .
Miscellaneous
12. M. Strolz, M. Buss , DE102007062472A1. Tür, insbesondere Fahrzeugtür, und Verfahren zu ihrer Betätigung , 2009 .
13. M. Strolz, M. Ueberle, Q. Mühlbauer, M. Buss , DE102007062473A1. Tür, insbesondere Fahrzeugtür, mit wenigstens zwei kinematischen Freiheitsgraden und Verfahren zu ihrer Betätigung , 2009 .

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