Robert Katzschmann: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2023

NameHerr Prof. Dr. Robert Katzschmann
NamensvariantenRobert K. Katzschmann
R. Katzschmann
Robert K Katzschmann
Robert Katzschmann
Robert Kevin Katzschmann
LehrgebietRobotik
Adresse
Professur für Robotik
ETH Zürich, CLA F 1.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telefon+41 44 632 22 40
E-Mailrkk@ethz.ch
URLhttp://srl.ethz.ch
DepartementMaschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik
BeziehungAssistenzprofessor (Tenure Track)

NummerTitelECTSUmfangDozierende
151-0073-21LSURF‐eDNA Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen
Voraussetzung: Besuch der Lerneinheit 151-0073-20L SURF‐eDNA im HS22.
14 KP15AR. Katzschmann
KurzbeschreibungIm Team ein Produkt von A-Z entwickeln und realisieren! Anwenden und Vertiefen des bestehenden Wissens, Arbeiten in Teams, Selbständigkeit, Problemstrukturierung, Lösungsfindung in unscharfen Problemstellungen, Systembeschreibung und -simulation, Präsentation und Dokumentation, Realisationsfähigkeit, Werkstatt- und Industriekontakte, Anwendung modernster Ingenieur-Werkzeuge (Matlab, Simulink usw).
LernzielDie vielfältigen Lernziele dieses Fokus-Projektes sind:
- Synthetisieren und Vertiefen des theoretischen Wissens aus den Grundlagenfächern des 1.-4. Semesters
- Teamorganisation, Arbeiten in Teams, Steigerung der sozialen Kompetenz
- Selbständigkeit, Initiative, selbständiges Lernen neuer Themeninhalte
- Problemstrukturierung, Lösungsfindung in unscharfen Problemstellungen, Suchen von Informationen
- Systembeschreibung und -simulation
- Präsentationstechnik, Dokumentationserstellung
- Entscheidungsfähigkeit, Realisationsfähigkeit
- Werkstatt- und Industriekontakte
- Erweiterung und Vertiefung von Sachwissen
- Beherrschung modernster Ingenieur-Werkzeuge (Matlab, Simulink, CAD, CAE, PDM)
151-0073-51LMetaSuit Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen
Voraussetzung: Besuch der Lerneinheit 151-0073-50L MetaSuit im HS22.
14 KP15AR. Katzschmann
KurzbeschreibungIm Team ein Produkt von A-Z entwickeln und realisieren! Anwenden und Vertiefen des bestehenden Wissens, Arbeiten in Teams, Selbständigkeit, Problemstrukturierung, Lösungsfindung in unscharfen Problemstellungen, Systembeschreibung und -simulation, Präsentation und Dokumentation, Realisationsfähigkeit, Werkstatt- und Industriekontakte, Anwendung modernster Ingenieur-Werkzeuge (Matlab, Simulink usw).
LernzielDie vielfältigen Lernziele dieses Fokus-Projektes sind:
- Synthetisieren und Vertiefen des theoretischen Wissens aus den Grundlagenfächern des 1.-4. Semesters
- Teamorganisation, Arbeiten in Teams, Steigerung der sozialen Kompetenz
- Selbständigkeit, Initiative, selbständiges Lernen neuer Themeninhalte
- Problemstrukturierung, Lösungsfindung in unscharfen Problemstellungen, Suchen von Informationen
- Systembeschreibung und -simulation
- Präsentationstechnik, Dokumentationserstellung
- Entscheidungsfähigkeit, Realisationsfähigkeit
- Werkstatt- und Industriekontakte
- Erweiterung und Vertiefung von Sachwissen
- Beherrschung modernster Ingenieur-Werkzeuge (Matlab, Simulink, CAD, CAE, PDM)
InhaltMehrere Teams mit je 4-8 Studierenden der ETH, ergänzt durch Studierende anderer Hochschulen und Universitäten, realisieren während zwei Semestern ein Produkt. Ausgehend von einer marktorientierten Problemstellung werden alle Prozesse der Produktentwicklung realitätsnah durchschritten: Marketing, Konzeption, Design, Engineering, Simulation, Entwurf und Produktion. Die Teams werden durch erfahrene Coachs betreut. Ein einmaliges Lernerlebnis wird ermöglicht.
Innovationsideen aus der Industrie (z.T. auch aus Forschungsprojekten) werden gesammelt und durch den Lenkungsausschuss evaluiert. Aus ausgewählten Problemstellungen werden Aufgabenstellungen für die Teams formuliert.
151-0636-00LSoft and Biohybrid Robotics Information Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen 4 KP3GR. Katzschmann
KurzbeschreibungSoft and biohybrid robotics are emerging fields taking inspiration from nature to create robots that are inherently safer to interact with. You learn how to create structures, actuators, sensors, models, controllers, and machine learning architectures exploiting the deformable nature of soft robots. You also learn how to apply soft robotic principles to challenges of your research domain.
LernzielLearning Objective 1: Solve a robotics challenge with a soft robotic design
Step 1: Formulate suitable functional requirements for the challenge
Step 2: Select soft robotic actuator material
Step 3: Design and fabrication approach suitable for the challenge
Step 4: Basic controller for robotic functionality

Learning Objective 2: Formulate modeling, control, and learning frameworks for highly articulated robots in real-life scenarios
Step 1: Formulate the dynamic skills needed for the real-life scenario
Step 2: Pick + combine suitable multiphysics modeling, control + learning techniques for this scenario
Step 3: Evaluate the modeling/control approach for a real-life scenario
Step 4: Modify and enhance the modeling/control approach and repeat the evaluation
Step 5: Choose a learning approach for complex robotic skills

Learning Objective 3: Apply the principles of mechanical impedance and embodied intelligence to soft robotic challenges in various domains
Step 1: Identify the moving aspects of the problem
Step 2: Choose and design the passive and actively-controlled degrees of freedom
Step 3: Pick the actuation material based on suitability to your challenge
Step 4: Design in detail multiple combinations of body and brain
Step 5: Simulate, build, test, fail, and repeat this often and quickly until the soft robot works for simple settings
Step 6: Upgrade and validate the robot for a suitable performance under real-world conditions

Learning Objective 4: Rethink robotic approaches by moving towards designs made of living materials
Step 1: Identify what problems could be easier to solve with a complex living material
Step 2: Scout for available works that have potentially tackled the problem with a living material
Step 3: Formulate a hypothesis for your new approach with a living material
Step 4: Design a minimum viable prototype (MVP) that suitably highlights your new approach
InhaltStudents will learn about the latest research advances in material technologies, fabrication, modeling, and machine learning to design, simulate, build, and control soft and biohybrid robots.

Part 1: Functional and intelligent materials for use in soft and biohybrid robotic applications
Part 2: Design and design morphologies of soft robotic actuators and sensors
Part 3: Fabrication techniques including 3D printing, casting, roll-to-roll, tissue engineering
Part 4: Biohybrid robotics including microrobots and macrorobots; tissue engineering
Part 5: Mechanical modeling including minimal parameter models, finite-element models, and ML-based models
Part 6: Closed-loop controllers of soft robots that exploit the robot's impedance and dynamics for locomotion and manipulation tasks
Part 7: Machine Learning approaches to soft robotics, for design synthesis, modeling, and control

Regular assignments throughout the semester will teach the participants to implement the skills and knowledge learned during the class.
SkriptAll class materials including slides, recordings, assignments, pre-reads, and tutorials can be found on the Moodle page of the class.
Literatur1) Yasa et al. "An Overview of Soft Robotics." Annu. Rev. Control Robot. Auton. Syst. (2023). 6:1–29.
2) Polygerinos et al. "Soft robotics: Review of fluid‐driven intrinsically soft devices; manufacturing, sensing, control, and applications in human‐robot interaction." Advanced Engineering Materials 19.12 (2017): 1700016.
3) Cianchetti, et al. "Biomedical applications of soft robotics." Nature Reviews Materials 3.6 (2018): 143-153.
4) Ricotti et al. "Biohybrid actuators for robotics: A review of devices actuated by living cells." Science Robotics 2.12 (2017).
5) Sun et al. "Biohybrid robotics with living cell actuation." Chemical Society Reviews 49.12 (2020): 4043-4069.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes- Prerequesites are dynamics, controls, and intro to robotics.
- Only for students at master or PhD level.
- Due to the limited places, the priority goes first to students from the Robotics, Systems and Control Master and second to the other study programs where the course is offered.
KompetenzenKompetenzen
Fachspezifische KompetenzenKonzepte und Theoriengeprüft
Verfahren und Technologiengeprüft
Methodenspezifische KompetenzenAnalytische Kompetenzengeprüft
Entscheidungsfindunggefördert
Medien und digitale Technologiengeprüft
Problemlösunggeprüft
Projektmanagementgeprüft
Soziale KompetenzenKommunikationgeprüft
Kooperation und Teamarbeitgeprüft
Kundenorientierunggefördert
Menschenführung und Verantwortunggefördert
Selbstdarstellung und soziale Einflussnahmegefördert
Sensibilität für Vielfalt gefördert
Verhandlunggefördert
Persönliche KompetenzenAnpassung und Flexibilitätgefördert
Kreatives Denkengeprüft
Kritisches Denkengeprüft
Integrität und Arbeitsethikgefördert
Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion gefördert
Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement gefördert
151-0638-00LMaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Engineering with Living Materials
This course is primarily designed for MSc and doctoral students. Guests are welcome.

Former title: MaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Soft Robotics
1 KP2SR. Katzschmann, M. Filippi, X.‑H. Qin, Z. Zhang
KurzbeschreibungThis course is an interdisciplinary colloquium on the engineering of biohybrid systems and robotics. Internationally renowned speakers from academia and industry give lectures about their cutting-edge research, which highlights the state-of-the-art and frontiers in the field of engineering with living materials and biohybrids.
LernzielParticipants become acquainted with the state-of-the-art and frontiers in biohybrid systems and robotics, which is a topic of global and future relevance from the field of materials and process engineering. The self-study of relevant literature and active participation in discussions following presentations by internationally renowned speakers stimulate critical thinking and allow participants to deliberately discuss challenges and opportunities with leading academics and industrial experts and to exchange ideas within an interdisciplinary community.
InhaltThis course is a colloquium involving a selected mix of internationally renowned speakers from academia and industry who present their cutting-edge research in the field of engineered systems using living materials. In particular, the course will cover fundamentals of bioengineering at a multicellular level (biofabrication), as well as examples of manufacturing and application of living cells to engineered systems for medical applications and beyond. Speakers will show how to combine living cells with non-living, synthetic materials to realize bio-hybrid systems to be applied to many fields of human life, ranging from biomedicine to robotics, biosensing, ecology, and architecture. It will be shown how bio-hybrid technologies and cutting-edge engineering techniques can support cell proliferation and even enhance their cell functions. The course will cover materials and approaches for the biofabrication of living tissue, seen as a biomedical model for pathophysiological discovery research, or as transplantable grafts for tissue regeneration. Speakers will illustrate how living species can contribute to ecological approaches in town planning (such as CO2 sequestration), sensing and processor technologies enabled by connective and signaling abilities of cells, and motile systems actuated by contractile cells (bio-hybrid robots).  The main learning objective is to learn about: materials and techniques to build intelligent biological systems for future, sustainable societies; mechanisms of cell and tissue programmability; and applications in bio-robotics, communication, sensing technologies, and medical engineering.
The self-study of relevant pre-read literature provided in advance of each lecture serves as a basis for active participation in the critical discussions following each presentation.
SkriptSelected scientific pre-read literature (around two articles per lecture) relevant for and discussed during the lectures is posted in advance on the course web page.
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesThis course is taught by a selection of internationally renowned speakers from academia and industry working in the field of bio-hybrid systems and robotics. This lecture series is focusing on the recent trends in engineering with living materials.

Participants should have a background in tissue engineering, material science, and/or robotics.

To obtain credits, students need to: (i) attend 80% of all lectures; (ii) submit a one-page abstract of 3 different lectures. The performance will be assessed with a "Pass/Fail" format.

On-site attendance to the lectures is preferred to foster in-person contacts. However, for lectures given by online speakers, a Zoom link to attend remotely will be provided on Moodle.
KompetenzenKompetenzen
Fachspezifische KompetenzenKonzepte und Theoriengeprüft
Verfahren und Technologiengeprüft
Methodenspezifische KompetenzenAnalytische Kompetenzengefördert
Medien und digitale Technologiengefördert
Problemlösunggefördert
Soziale KompetenzenKommunikationgefördert
Persönliche KompetenzenAnpassung und Flexibilitätgefördert
Kreatives Denkengefördert
Kritisches Denkengefördert
Integrität und Arbeitsethikgefördert
Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion gefördert
Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement gefördert
327-2224-00LMaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Additive Manufacturing
Findet dieses Semester nicht statt.
This course is primarily designed for MSc and doctoral students. Guests are welcome.
1 KP2SR. Katzschmann, L. De Lorenzis, Noch nicht bekannt
KurzbeschreibungThis course is an interdisciplinary colloquium on Additive Manufacturing (AM) with focus on simulation and biohybrid robotics. Internationally renowned experts from academia and industry present cutting-edge research, highlighting the state-of-the-art and frontiers in the field.
LernzielParticipants become acquainted with the state-of-the-art and frontiers in Additive Manufacturing, a topic of global and future relevance for materials and process engineering. A focus is placed on simulation and biohybrid robotics applications. The self-study of relevant literature and active participation in discussions following presentations by internationally renowned speakers stimulate critical thinking and allow participants to deliberately discuss challenges and opportunities with leading academics and industrial experts and exchange ideas within an interdisciplinary community.
InhaltThis course is a colloquium involving a selected mix of internationally renowned speakers from academia and industry who present their cutting-edge research in the field of Additive Manufacturing. The self-study of relevant pre-read literature provided in advance of each lecture serves as a basis for active participation in the critical discussions following each presentation.
SkriptSelected scientific pre-read literature (max. three articles per lecture) relevant for and discussed during the lectures is posted in advance on the course web page.
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesParticipants should have a solid background in materials science and/or engineering.
401-5860-00LSeminar in Robotics for CSE4 KP2SM. Hutter, R. Katzschmann, E. Konukoglu, B. Nelson, R. Siegwart, M. Zeilinger
KurzbeschreibungThis course provides an opportunity to familiarize yourself with the advanced topics of robotics and mechatronics research. The seminar consists of a literature study, including a report and a presentation.
LernzielThe students are familiar with the challenges of the fascinating and interdisciplinary field of Robotics and Mechatronics. They are introduced in the basics of independent non-experimental scientific research and are able to summarize and to present the results efficiently.
InhaltThis 4 ECTS course requires each student to discuss a study plan with the lecturer and select minimum 10 relevant scientific publications to read through. At the end of semester, the results should be presented in an oral presentation and summarized in a report.