Nadia García
Project Manager at Fraunhofer IPA
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Spain
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Top SchoolNadia García is a project manager and robotics software architect with over 14 years driving open-source and industrial robot integration at Fraunhofer IPA. She blends hands-on development—from low-level ROS drivers and kinematics packaging to simulation and visualization tweaks—to strategic project leadership, managing proposals, technical direction, and teams across multidisciplinary R&D. A long-time contributor to ros-industrial projects (including impactful work on Universal Robots models and Care-O-bot drivers), she emphasizes common standards and model-based approaches to simplify complex system integration. Since 2021 she’s pursuing a PhD at the University of Stuttgart focused on combining handcrafted and model-driven software for systematic robot composition. Colleagues know her as a technical coordinator who elevates reproducibility and DevOps practices in open-source robotics while balancing real-world deployments. Outside work she cites motherhood as a daily source of inspiration and pragmatic problem-solving.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Ingeniería electrónica robótica y mecatrónica, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Ingeniería electrónica robótica y mecatrónica at University of StuttgartIngeniería Superior de Telecomunicación Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones, Ingeniería Superior de Telecomunicación Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
urdf10
robotics10
c-language10
robot-control10
cprogramming-language10
collada10
ros10
python10
sys9
moveit9
mesh9
embedded9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
4am-robotics/cob_driver
Dec 2011 - Aug 2017
The cob_driver stack includes packages that provide access to the Care-O-bot hardware over ROS messages and services. E.g. for mobile base, arm, camera_sensors, scanners, etc...
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Robotics Engineer
Back-end Developer & Robotics EngineerContributions:59 commits, 21 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nadia primarily contributed to the `cob_driver` repository, a ROS package suite for Care-O-bot hardware interaction. Their commits involve merging branches and modifying C++ code within the `cob_utilities` and `cob_undercarriage_ctrl` packages. These modifications indicate the user worked on low-level control and utility functions related to the robot's hardware interfaces. Additionally, the user updated ROS packages for the sick_s300 and other sensor integration.
sensorscamerabotscannerscare
ros-industrial/universal_robot
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
ROS-Industrial Universal Robots support (https://wiki.ros.org/universal_robot)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 26 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nadia's commits primarily involve modifications to Universal Robot (UR) robot description files, including mesh adjustments and lighting configurations within COLLADA files. They also contributed to the build and setup of the ROS packages within the `ur_kinematics` directory by adding a `setup.py` script to define the python modules and dependencies for build and deploy the package. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the visual representation and integration aspects of the UR robot models within the ROS-Industrial framework.
ignitionroboticsros2webotsindustrial
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