Shaun Edwards

Founder and Lead Architect of ROS-Industrial Software

Mr. Edwards is a co-founder at PlusOne Robotics. He has a decade of experience conceptualizing, designing, and deploying robotics and automation systems for factory automation. Prior to founding ROS-I, he was a visiting researcher at Willow Garage. Mr. Edwards received his Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Gijs van der Hoorn

ROS-Industrial Project Manager, TU Delft

Gijs van der Hoorn is a researcher at the Delft Robotics Institute and the Delft BioRobotics Laboratory of the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. His main interests include software engineering in experimental robotics contexts, industrial robotics and factory automation. At home, he enjoys tinkering with ROS, Mindstorms and his collection of robotic toys. Gijs received his Master of Science in Computer Science from the Technical University of Delft.

Matt Robinson

ROS-Industrial Consortium Americas Program Manager

Mr. Robinson is the Program Manager for the ROS-Industrial Consortium – Americas, in his current role he is tasked with setting the strategy and vision to align the open source development community with industry needs. Prior to his current role, Mr. Robinson was team leader for Caterpillar’s Manufacturing Technology Automation Research. Here, Mr. Robinson led development and deployment of automation tools to improve the performance and productivity of Caterpillar manufacturing facilities around the globe. Mr. Robinson, during this time, also led manufacturing value stream design initiatives that led to the deployment of over 50 robotic/automated manufacturing systems around the world. Mr. Robinson has a Master’s Degree in Welding Engineering from Ohio State University.

Ulrich Reiser

ROS-Industrial Project Manager, Fraunhofer IPA

Dr. Ulrich Reiser is heading the group for software engineering and system integration which aims at increasing the efficiency of both industrial and service robot application development. He holds a PhD from the University of Stuttgart in the area of software engineering for complex service robots. He was involved in various European research projects, e.g. COGNIRON, BRICS, SRS and R3-COP. He currently manages the ROS-Industrial Europe Consortium.

Florian Weisshardt

ROS-Industrial Project Manager, Fraunhofer IPA

Florian Weisshardt finished his studies of “Mechatronics and Automation” with the focus on Robot Systems at the University of Stuttgart in 2009. Since 2009 he is working as a Research Associate and project manager at the Service Robotics Group at Fraunhofer IPA in the field of System Engineering and Software Development for Service Robots. He is leading several national and international founded projects and coordinating the Open Source Software development for the Service Robot Care-O-bot and ROS-Industrial.

Martijn Wisse

ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe Scientific Coordinator, TU Delft

Dr. Martijn Wisse is co-founder and associate professor of the TU Delft Robotics Institute. He heads the agile manufacturing research in Delft, and coordinates several national and international research projects within this theme such as "Factory-in-a-Day". Martijn has also co-founded two spin-off companies in the field of agile robotics. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering for bio-inspired robotics from Delft University of Technology.

Mirko Bordignon

ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe Progam Manager, Fraunhofer IPA

Dr. Bordignon is a Senior Expert at Fraunhofer IPA, which he joined after spending four years in industry developing on-board and traffic control software for automated guided vehicles. As a graduate student and later postdoctoral researcher he investigated and developed novel software toolchains for modular robotics based on model-based code generation and domain-specific languages. He received BS and MS degrees from the University of Padova, Italy, and a PhD from the University of Southern Denmark. He held visiting positions at Örebro University, Sweden, and Harvard University, USA.

Erik Unemyr

ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Progam Manager, A*STAR Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre

Mr. Unemyr manages the ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific, where he aims to proliferate ROS adoption and advanced robotic applications to be successfully deployed in industry and commercial applications.

He received his Master of Science degree from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Prior to ROS-Industrial, he spent majority of his career in industrial MNCs delivering software and hardware products all the way from concept to mass-production. Erik holds 7 patents within the fields of printing applications and image processing.