Stefan Fabian
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Fabian is a robotics software engineer and near-complete PhD candidate at Technische Universität Darmstadt with 11 years of experience building heterogeneous robot systems for search-and-rescue scenarios. He designs generalized navigation and stability-aware control for wheeled, tracked, legged robots and cooperating drones, and led his lab’s migration from ROS 1 to ROS 2 while rebuilding a cleaner, agile tech stack. Equally comfortable in simulation and hardware, he has hands-on experience in mechanical design of a tracked rescue robot and contributed backend and full‑stack improvements to prominent ROS projects like hector_gazebo and hector_slam. His work balances research rigor with pragmatic engineering—shipping sensor fusion, odometry edge-case fixes, geotiff tooling updates, and intuitive multi-robot operator interfaces. Based in Darmstadt, he pairs academic depth in autonomous systems with practical open-source impact and system-level integration.
11 years of coding experience
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
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Github Skills (16)
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
gazebosim10
slam10
odometry10
ros10
gazebo-simulator10
sensor9
qt9
windows6
javascript6
windows-phone6
vue6
xaml6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_slam
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
hector_slam contains ROS packages related to performing SLAM in unstructed environments like those encountered in the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) scenarios of the RoboCup Rescue competition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 30 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on updating the hector_slam project, particularly updating changelogs across several packages. They also made changes to the geotiff writer, including moving to Qt5 and experiments with platform arguments. The user's contributions appear to center around updating dependencies and build configurations and preparing the project for newer releases.
robocupros
tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_gazebo
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
hector_gazebo provides packages related to the simulation of robots using gazebo (gazebo plugins, world files etc.).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily contributed to the hector_gazebo plugin, focusing on improving odometry calculations and integrating with the Gazebo simulation environment. They addressed edge cases in odometry, implemented a feature to publish magnetic field messages, and added functionality to retrieve spherical coordinates from the world for the GPS and magnetic field sensors. The user's work involved modifying existing code, adding new features, and updating the changelogs to reflect the changes made.
simulation
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