Dennis Mronga
Post-Doctoral Researcher at Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany
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Top SchoolDennis Mronga is a post-doctoral researcher and team leader at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) with 12 years of experience advancing dynamic, contact-aware humanoid and terrestrial robotics. He leads the Mechanics & Control group at DFKI’s Robotics Innovation Center, focusing on physics-informed robot dynamics and machine learning for robust real-world motion and human-robot collaboration. His work blends deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science, University of Bremen) with hands-on leadership across multiple DFKI teams since 2009, shepherding research from control theory to deployable robot behavior. Colleagues know him for tackling the gritty details of contact physics—an often overlooked bottleneck for graceful robotic motion—and for translating those insights into practical control strategies.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Bremen
Github Skills (61)
robotics10
robot10
c-library10
cpp10
optimization10
buffered8
joystick8
mixture8
openscenegraph8
gaussian-mixture-models8
robot-control7
journal7
evolutionary-algorithms7
ruby7
regression7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ARC-OPT/orogen-ctrl_lib
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Rock (Robot Construction Kit, https://www.rock-robotics.org/) interface for the WBC library (only controllers)
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
rock-data-processing/data_processing-orogen-type_to_vector
Nov 2016 - Jul 2020
This is a base for components that could consume and process data from a arbitrary sources of arbitrary type.
The structured data are converted into vectors and
are buffered.
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 issues in 3 years 8 months
structuredvectorsarbitraryconsumeconverted
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