Djordje Vukcevic
Robot Teleoperation Engineer
Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolDjordje Vukcevic is a robotics engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry, specializing in robot motion control, dynamics, physics simulation, and real-time C++ systems. He develops teleoperation and control software at NEURA Robotics and previously led lab operations and the design of a dual-arm mobile manipulator at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, where he also mentored students and co-taught graduate courses. His doctoral work at KU Leuven explored exploiting natural dynamics for efficient control, and he is the second-largest global contributor to the widely used Orocos Kinematics and Dynamics Library, improving hybrid solvers and forward-dynamics testing. A competitive RoboCup veteran (silver 2018, bronze 2024), he combines hands-on simulation tooling (a MuJoCo–Orocos interface) with a track record of making simulation and control pipelines robust for sim-to-real transfer.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Autonomous Systems, Master's degree, Autonomous Systems at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied SciencesDoctoral studies in Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Engineering, Doctoral studies in Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics at University of Montenegro
English, German, montenegrin, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
robotics10
cprogramming-language10
kinematics10
kin10
testing10
eigen6
python6
gradient6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
orocos/orocos_kinematics_dynamics
Aug 2020 - May 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 56 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Djordje primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Orocos Kinematics and Dynamics (KDL) library. Their work included updating documentation related to the Vereshchagin solver and adding consistency tests for the Forward Dynamics (FD) and Vereshchagin solvers. Furthermore, they updated the KUKA LWR 4 robot model with the relevant dynamics parameters. This indicates a focus on improving the library's accuracy, reliability, and ease of use.
kinematicscppc-libraryc-plus-plusdynamics
DjoleMNE/Lazy_Robot_Control_by_Relaxation_of_Motion_and_Force_Constraints
Feb 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:215 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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