Development of software for particle size and shape measurement by automatic image processing with graphical user interface and PDF report generation
Anton Schirg
79429 Malsburg, Germany +49 176 7813 7383 anton.schirg@posteo.de
Work Experience
Internship Software Development
Cyfex AG January 2021 – June 2021 (full-time)Performance of a CSG algorithm - Profiling, Bit-level optimizations of floating point expansions, compile-time operations using C++ templates, parallelization
Software Developer and Electronics Engineer
PS Prozesstechnik GmbH January 2015 – February 2018 (external), March 2018 – December 2020 (part-time employee)
Electronics design and software development of an embedded membrane control system with graphical user interface
Research Assistant in Industrial Robotics
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik July 2015 – May 2019 (part-time)Robotics software development using ROS
Driver development for industrial robots
Force control of industrial robots (KUKA, Fanuc, UR) using ros_control
At FZI I was working on controlling robot arms using external force-torque sensors through ROS. Here is a video on YouTube of a demonstration I was involved in using a UR10 robot following the shape of a car door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yky_VfquO-8.
Education
Master of Science, Robotics, Systems & Control
ETH Zürich 2019 – 2022Master Thesis: "High-throughput scanning-based structured illumination microscopy"
Summer School: "Rethinking Waste - Sustainable Solid Waste Management"
Project: Development of a camera system for measurement of wheat plant geometry
As a semester project I was working on capturing wheat geometry data at the Crop Science Group at ETH. They have a phenotyping field with plots of different wheat varieties and were interested in geometry data of the plants to better understand the influence of plant geometry on photosynthetic efficiency.
To capture plant geometry data I developed a mobile measurement station and analysis software to quickly gather this data on plant samples in the field. The project report can be found here.
Course: Innovation in Smart Farming
In this course we developed, in a group of four students, a concept for a startup in the AgTech sector. Our suggestion was a robot for mechanical weeding in carrot fields. We were thinking about possible technologies to use, market size, business model and asking people in the field for their opiniton.
Bachelor of Science, Informatics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 2014 – 2019Bachelor Thesis at Fraunhofer IOSB: "Extension of an EKF-based localization filter by stochastic cloning"
Associations
Kamaro Engineering e.V.
2014 – 2019Participation in competitions for agricultural robotics and autonomous navigation
During my bachelor studies I was active in the student robotics group Kamaro Engineering, where we took part in the Field Robot Event.
Team lead Informatics
Kepler Seminar e.V.
2014 – 2019Giving electronics courses for children grade 7-10
Experience in Technologies
Programming
mainly C++ and Python, also Rust, Java, and Go
Computer Vision using OpenCV, GUI development using Qt
Data analysis and visualization in Python and R, relational databases (SQL)
Linux (NixOS, Ubuntu, Debian), git
Robotics
Robotics software development using ROS
Controlling of UR, Kuka and Fanuc robots using ROS
Electronics
Prototyping using Arduino, etc.
Electronics design using KiCad
SMT assembly
Embedded software development for the STM32 platform using C/C++ and Rust
Mechanics
CAD design for 3D printing in Fusion 360
Personal Projects
Live datamoshing of H.264 videos
Together with @dehexadop and @problame I built a tool for live datamoshing of H.264 encoded videos. We presented it at the GPN20 and hope to present it again somewhere in the future.
Group webpage: discoders.io | Project on GitHub: h264_glitcher | Recording from GPN20: YouTube
Languages
German: Native | English: Fluent | Swedish: Intermediate