Ralph Lange
Head Of Robotics at TRUMPF
Ditzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRalph Lange is a robotics R&D leader and Head of Robotics with over a decade of experience translating academic AI and formal methods into industrial robotics products and research portfolios. He led global robotics research at Bosch, drove systems and software engineering for ROS-based solutions, and coordinated Open-Source and InnerSource collaborations that influenced ROS 2 documentation and governance. With a PhD from the University of Stuttgart, he combines deep technical expertise in autonomous decision-making, verifiable deliberation, and middleware with hands-on development of production tooling and geometry algorithms. At TRUMPF he now shapes AI-based robotics strategy and product integration, bringing both research rigor and pragmatic delivery to industrial automation. An understated strength is his track record of bridging academic projects (EU initiatives like micro-ROS/CONVINCE) with industrial adoption, accelerating transfer of research into shipped systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
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Github Skills (4)
technical-writing10
documentation10
ros10
fmi6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ros2/ros2_documentation
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
ROS 2 docs repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 reviews, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ralph primarily contributed to the documentation of the ROS 2 project. Their commits focused on updating governance documents, adding content about executors and related projects, and enhancing the roadmap documentation. They also updated the documentation to reflect the changes in the Embedded Systems working group and TSC members. In addition, they also added entries to the roadmap demonstrating planned contributions by Bosch.
roboticsros-2rosros2
boschresearch/fmi_adapter-release
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:84 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 8 months
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