Lukas Kaul
Senior Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Kaul is a Senior Research Scientist in Mountain View with over a decade of hands-on robotics experience spanning hardware and software, underpinned by graduate studies at KIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He combines PhD-level research rigor with practical embedded systems work, notably contributing Arduino motor-control improvements to the widely used ODrive project. At Toyota Research Institute he applies that blend to real-world robotic systems, focusing on low-level motor control, velocity estimation, and robust hardware–software integration. Known for turning research ideas into tangible firmware and control code, he bridges experimental autonomy research and production-capable embedded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, German, French, English
Github Skills (7)
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino10
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
odriverobotics/ODrive
Mar 2019 - May 2019
High performance motor control
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily contributed to the Arduino code of the ODrive project, adding and removing control mode setters for current and velocity control. They implemented a `GetVelocity()` function, indicating work on reading motor velocity estimates from the Arduino hardware. These changes demonstrate a focus on low-level motor control and communication with the ODrive hardware using the Arduino platform.
motor-controllermotormotor-controlperformance3d-printing
CharlestonRobotics/ChIMP
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Self-balancing robot using hoverboard hub motors
Contributions:63 commits, 54 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
stemroboticsself-balancing-robotrobotmotors
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