Christian P
Robotics Software Engineer at Unchained Robotics
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian P is a robotics software engineer with eight years of experience blending academic research and industrial development, currently building systems at Unchained Robotics in Bielefeld. He holds an M.Sc. in BioMechatronics from Bielefeld University and has contributed to robot motion planning and manipulation across roles at DMG MORI, university labs, and industry internships. His open-source work includes extending MoveIt Task Constructor Python bindings—adding dictionary-based setGoal overloads, IK frame and motion stage bindings, and trampoline classes to enable Python inheritance—showing a focus on making advanced planning tools more accessible to Python users. Comfortable in both C++ and Python ecosystems, he brings hands-on expertise in robot kinematics, motion planning and mechatronics prototyping. Colleagues find him adept at bridging research-grade algorithms with production-ready software, often surfacing subtle usability improvements that speed up developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at University of ManitobaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Fachhochschule BielefeldMaster of Science - MS, BioMechatronics, Master of Science - MS, BioMechatronics at Bielefeld University
Github Skills (8)
binding10
c-language10
moveit10
cprogramming-language10
python10
ros10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
moveit/moveit_task_constructor
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
A hierarchical multi-stage manipulation planner
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the Python bindings of the moveit_task_constructor project. They added new overloads for the `setGoal()` function to accept dictionaries, enabling users to define joint configurations via Python. Furthermore, they added Python bindings for several functions like `setIKFrame`, `setApproachMotion`, and `setLiftMotion` for different stages. They also focused on refactoring the python wrapper by using collective includes, and they have introduced a set of trampoline classes to enable Python inheritance within the MoveIt Task Constructor library.
manipulationmulti-stagehierarchicalplannerstage
cpetersmeier/moveit_tutorials
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
A sphinx-based centralized documentation repo for MoveIt
Contributions:65 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
centralizedpythonmoveitsphinx
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