Zheng Qu
Freelance Robotics Engineer And Consultant
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolZheng Qu is a freelance robotics engineer and consultant based in Munich with 11 years of experience specializing in real-time C++ development for robotic systems. He spent seven years at Franka Emika developing and integrating controllers for collaborative robots, including dual-arm Cartesian impedance control and ROS integration work visible in the franka_ros project. Skilled at low-level control, transforms, and deterministic loop timing, he combines deep hands-on implementation with system-level thinking to move research-grade robotics into robust, reproducible deployments. His background includes industry and research roles (DLR) and a Master in Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence from TUM, reflecting a strong blend of academic foundations and product-focused engineering. As a freelancer he advises on control software and ROS architectures, bringing practical cleanup and performance-minded improvements to open-source robot stacks. Colleagues rely on him for making complex robotic behaviors predictable and maintainable in real-time production environments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Automation, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Automation at Harbin Engineering UniversityMaster of Robotics Cognition Intelligence, Master of Robotics Cognition Intelligence at Technical University of Munich
German, English, Chinese, Japanese, Polish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
robotics10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
control-systems9
eigen8
libtorch6
cuda6
nvidia6
tensorflow6
gpu6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
frankaemika/franka_ros
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
ROS integration for Franka research robots
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Zheng primarily focused on implementing and modifying controllers for Franka Emika research robots, particularly for dual-arm Cartesian impedance control. Their contributions involved integrating ROS components, handling transformations, and defining target poses for the robots' end-effectors. They also updated the main control node to use rate.sleep() and performed code cleanup by removing unnecessary comments and variables.
roboticsfrankaros2rosfranka-emika
Maverobot/ml_playground
Jul 2018 - Dec 2023
My personal playground of machine learning.
Contributions:16 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
pythondata-sciencemahjongmachine-learningplayground
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