RESUME RELATED DOCUMENTS

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Certificates (Education)

• Ph.D. Diploma / Transcript from Clemson University
  
• Diploma from Technische Universität München
  
• Abiturzeugnis

Certificates (Employment)

• Quality Real-Time Systems
  
• Live Show
  
• Internship at Siemens 3/95 - 4/95
  
• Internship at Siemens 3/93
  
• Internship at Siemens 4/92
  

Presentations and Movies

• Demonstration Video of QMotor 3.0 (QRTS) - RealPlayer Video (5 MB)

• "Design and Implementation of the Robotic Platform", Ph.D. Defense, also presented at the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, September, 2001

• "QMotor 3.0", QRTS Presentation

• "Object-Oriented Techniques in Manipulator Control Software Development", presented at the American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June, 2001

• "Telerobotic Decontamination and Decommissioning with QRobot, a PC-Based Robot Control System", presented at the Conference on Control Applications, Anchorage, AK, Sept., 2000

Dissertations

• "New Object-Oriented and PC-Based Approaches to Robot Control Software" (1.5 MB), 2001, Ph.D. Dissertation

• "Measurement of the Three-dimensional Yarn Path and Tension in Yarn Unwinding" (900 KB), 1996, Diplomarbeit

Journal Papers

• M. Loffler, V. Chitrakaran, and D. Dawson, "Design and Implementation of the Robotic Platform", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Special Issue on Multiple Cooperating Robots, to appear.

• M. Loffler, D. Dawson, and N. Costescu, "QMotor 3.0 and QMotor Robotic Toolkit: A PC Based Control Platform", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 12-26.

• M. Loffler, N. Costescu, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "Telerobotic Decontamination and Decommissioning with QRobot, a PC-Based Robot Control System", International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2002, pp. 112-121.

• N. Costescu, D. Dawson, and M. Loffler, "QMotor 2.0 - A Real-Time PC Based Control Environment", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 68-76.

• N. Costescu, M. Loffler, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "QRobot - A Multitasking PC Based Robot Control System", Microcomputer Applications Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1999, pp.13-22.

Conference Papers

• M. Loffler, V. Chitrakaran, D. Dawson, "Design and Implementation of the Robotic Platform", Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, September, 2001, pp. 357-362.

• M. Loffler, D. Dawson, E. Zergeroglu, and N. Costescu, "Object-Oriented Techniques in Robot Manipulator Control Software Development", Proc. of the American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June, 2001, pp. 4520-4525.

• M. Loffler, N. Costescu, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "Telerobotic Decontamination and Decommissioning with QRobot, a PC-Based Robot Control System", Proc. of the Conference on Control Applications, Anchorage, AK, Sept., 2000, pp. 24-29.

• N. Costescu, M. Loffler, M. Feemster, and D. Dawson, "QMotor 3.0 - An Object Oriented System for PC Control Program Implementation and Tuning", Proc. of the American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June, 2001, pp. 4526-4531.

• N. Costescu, M. Loffler, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "QRobot - A Multitasking PC Based Robot Control System", Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Trieste, Italy, Sept., 1998, pp 892-896.

Selected Completed Software

• QMotor Robotic Toolkit (2001) - An Object-Oriented Robot Control Environment
  Operating System: QNX 4.25 and 6.2
  Hardware: PC, ServoToGo motion control card
  Programming Environment: C++, GNU, Watcom
  Technologies: Object-oriented techniques in real-time software development, merging real-time control and data aquisition with a graphical user interface on a single PC, single OS, single programming language.
  Impact: Sold in USA and Asia, published in the Control Systems Magazine
  Links: Website, Paper, Manual
  
  
• QMotor (2000) - A Graphical Real-Time Control Environment
  Operating System: QNX 4.25 and 6.2
  Hardware: PC, ServoToGo motion control card
  Programming Environment: C++, GNU, Watcom
  Technologies: Object-oriented techniques in real-time software development
  Impact: Sold in USA, Europa, Asia and South America, published in the Control Systems Magazine
  Links: Website, Paper, Manual
  
  
• The Unwinding Analyzer (1996) - Video Analysis Tool for the Yarn Unwinding Process
  Operating System: Windows 95
  Hardware: PC, video capture board, DSP board
  Programming Environment: C++, Borland
  Technologies: Synchronized video capturing, DSP - PC communication, 3D image processing
  Impact: Provided new insights into the yarn unwinding process
  Links: Website, Thesis
  
  
• Easy Slide (1995) - The Different Audiovision Control Concept
  Operating System: Atari TOS
  Hardware: Atari 1040 ST
  Programming Language: C
  Technologies: Infrared Control of CD Players, Real-Time Control of Slide Projectors
  Impact: Successfully presented 18 slide shows in Germany
  Links: Manual