Prof. Harald Aschemann

Harald Aschemann received his diploma degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hanover, Germany, in 1994. After two years' work in research and development with a leading company in machine tools, where he worked on automated transfer systems, he joined the Department of Measurement, Control, and Microtechnology at the University of Ulm, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. on optimal trajectory planning and trajectory control of an overhead traveling crane in 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he was a Research Associate and lecturer in the same department. Since 2006 he has been a Full Professor and Head of the Chair of Mechatronics at the University of Rostock, Germany. His research interests involve control-oriented modeling, identification, nonlinear control, and estimation, as well as simulation of mechatronic, robotic, and thermofluidic systems.