Frank Kittmann

Established focus and accelerate the product increment by strategically combining work packages towards customer delivery expectations - Leading a high performing / collaborative team of 18 team members (Developers (11), Release Train Architects (2), Release Train Engineers (1), Product Owners (3), Scrum Masters (1)) - Coordinating 5 leads and 80 employees globally

I am a major contributor to the Instrument Control Software for LINC-NIRVANA, an astronomical interferometric camera, which will be installed at the Large Binocular Telescope. ICS is required on all levels of the instrument hierarchy, from unit- to system level; it forms the core of all control tasks which are essential to the instrument: adaptive optics, infrared camera control, and fringe tracking. LINC-NIRVANA depends on the proper implementation of the Instrument Control Software.

For the research project LINC NIRVANA I was responsible for expanding the flexure tracker functionality and the integration and commissioning of the Fringe Tracker and LINC NIRVANA at the MPIA and at the LBT.

Development of an in-gripper-sensor system to support manipulation processes of an autonomous mobile robot with a grappler (Care-O-bot -II). The project group of the Institute is developing a service robot, with which people can communicate, interact and cooperate.

Msc in Network Centered Computing / Cybernetics Thesis: Evaluation and Implementation of 3D-Visualisation-Methods for Remote Control of Mobile Robots