Dr. André Schiele

Founder of ESA Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory

TU Delft, Associate Professor

Dr. André Schiele is the founding head and Principle Investigator (PI) of ESA's Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory as well as the robotics PI behind ESA's METERON flight experiments programme. André has innovated space robotics by researching for the first time how haptic feedback in space on ISS (Haptics-1) influences human-motor performance, by developing and performing the first 'haptic' handshake experiment ever between space and ground (Haptics-2) and by demonstrating in September 2015 that sub-millimeter precision assembly can be conducted remotely by robots on Earth that are remote controlled with force-feedback from space (INTERACT). This work as established confidence that "Exploration Telerobotics" is a viable way forward to realize future manned exploration of our solar system.

Besides driving and innovating in space through implementing and operating actual flight hardware and experiments, André performs also fundamental research within the Telerobotics Laboratory that is highly applicable also to many terrestrial applications (e.g. Teleoperation system design and advanced mechatronics for remote handling, offshore and nuclear maintenance). 

Research Interests / Track-record

Telerobotics, Haptics, Exoskeletons, advanced Mechatronics, Space Robotics, low-bandwidth communication, Haptics, Human-Robot Interaction, Haptic Devices, Distributed Robotic Systems, Wearable Robots, bilateral control, time-delay compensation (passivity, model-based), Human-Machine Systems, Perception optimization, real-time control and robot Middleware, mobile robot hardware, Perceptual Motor-performance, Human Factors, Efficient distributed communications through IP and space data networks;

Publications

http://esa-telerobotics.net/publications

Media

http://esa-telerobotics.net/pr

 

Current Professional Positions

2013-present: Associate Professor for Telerobotics and advanced Mechatronics, Delft University of Technology

2010-present: Founder and Principle Investigator (PI) of ESA Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory

2009-present: Coordinator of ESA/DLR Reference Laboratory for Space Robotics


Academic Functions

2013-present: Co-founder and Team-lead of Delft Space Institute (Space Robotics)

2011-present: Co-founder and Team-lead of Delft Robotics Institute (Interactive Robotics)

2010-present: Initiator and course-lead for "Space Robotics" M.Sc.-course (4ECTS, M.Sc. final year)

 

Selected Invited Key-notes 

2016: RoboBusiness Europe 2016 Opening Keynote ("The INTERACT Experience - A Journey to ISS and reaching down to Earth via Robots") together with A. Mogenson (ESA Astronaut)

2015: Key-note at NVR to celebrate the festive appointment of Mr. Bart Reijnen (EADS) as honorary member of the Netherlands Space Society, 2015 ("Exploration Telerobotics")

2014: IoT ISRAEL 2014 ("Real-time Control for the Internet of Things - making IoT data actionable")

2014: TEDx Rocketminds Darmstadt ("Game Changing Human Robot Interaction")