Short biography

• 01/2020 - present: PhD student at the Chair of Information-oriented Control, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 10/2017 - 12/2019: M.Sc., Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 09/2014 - 07/2017: B.Sc., Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Research Interests

• Learning efficacious representations of dynamics
  • Koopman operator paradigm
• Data-driven control in constrained and uncertain environments
  • ​Model Predictive Control
  • Model-based Reinforcement Learning

SeaClear

The oceans today contain tons of waste, majority of which is underwater. While effort have been put into collecting litter on the surface, so far there have been few attempts to collect litter on the ocean floor. In addition, such activities are mostly dependent on human divers.

As a part of the research team at ITR and in collaboration with partners across Europe, we are working on strategies for the automated collection of underwater litter as part of the SeaClear project. To this end, we develop concepts for autonomous robots that support us in this task.

Interesting challenges for our team include:

• Hardware: Suitable mechanical grippers must be developed for collecting waste.
• Robotics and Control: The modeling and control of the robots in an underwater environment as well as the cooperation with humans requires new approaches.
• Artificial iIntelligence: Poor visibility in the underwater environment along with many unknown disturbances, lead to interesting possibilities for the use of artificial intelligence.

Working Field

• Learning for control in H2020 project "SEarch, identificAtion and Collection of marine Litter with Autonomous Robots“ (SeaClear)

Student Theses

I am in constant search for motivated students interested in my research. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in a thesis, even if no topics are currently listed down below.
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Open theses (Bachelor / Master):