Mikkel Rath Pedersen is a Robot Systems Developer at the Danish Technological Institute’s Center for Robot Technology. He used to be a Postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics, Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab (RVMI) at the Copenhagen campus of Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark. He holds a PhD in Robotics (2015) from the same lab, at Aalborg University Copenhagen. He holds a M.Sc.Eng. in Manufacturing Technology (2011), from Aalborg University, where he did his master thesis on the development of a mobile manipulator, and a B.Sc.Eng. (2009) in Industrial Engineering.
| 2016-present | Robot Systems Developer at Danish Technological Institute |
| 2015-2016 | Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalborg University Copenhagen |
| 2011-2015 | PhD in Robotics at Aalborg University Copenhagen Thesis: “Robot Skills for Transformable Manufacturing Systems” Supervisor: Prof. Volker Krüger |
| May-Oct 2012 | Visiting Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology Working with Prof. Aaron Bobick at the Computational Perception Lab |
| 2009-2011 | M.Sc. in Manufacturing Technology from Aalborg University Thesis: “Integration of the KUKA Light-Weight Robot in a Mobile Manipulator” Supervisor: Prof. Ole Madsen |
| 2006-2009 | B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Aalborg University Thesis: “Injection Molding of Wood-Polymer Composites” |
Organization
Local Chair, 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015
Committee Memberships
Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015
Program Committee, IROS 2013 workshop 2nd international workshop on Cognitive Robotics Systems: Replicating Human Actions and Activities (CRS 2013)
Reviewer
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015, 2016)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014, 2015)
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2015)
Other duties
Honorable ICRA 2015 Duckie Ambassador to Denmark [What is this?]