Dirk Wollherr

Dirk Wollherr is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM). He received his Dipl.-Ing. (2000), Dr.-Ing. (2005), and Habilitation (2013) from TUM. His career includes research at TU Berlin and a JSPS Fellowship at the University of Tokyo. He led the Cluster of Excellence 'Cognition for Technical Systems' (2006-2008) and is a TUM Carl-von-Linde Junior Fellow (2010-2013).

Research Interests: Autonomous mobile robots, human-robot interaction, SLAM, real-time trajectory planning, stochastic model predictive control, and robotic manipulation under uncertainty. His work bridges control theory and practical applications in urban robotics, agriculture automation, and autonomous vehicles.

Publication Trends: Recent articles (2021-2025) focus on robust control under uncertainty, human-robot collaboration, agricultural automation, and probabilistic motion planning. Key themes include constraint violation minimization, data-driven control, and ethical human-robot interaction.

Awards & Recognition:

• Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship (2004)
• TUM Carl-von-Linde Junior Fellowship (2010-2013)

Projects & Leadership: Principal investigator in EU projects (Robot@CWE, IURO), General Chair of Robotik 2008, and Co-Chair of ARSO 2013. Leads research on the Autonomous City Explorer and human-robot interaction frameworks.