I’m Valentin! I am a Postdoc at the Computational Robotics Lab at ETH. I am working on real-world multi-agent task and motion planning, and am interested in how to deal with uncertainty, and how to get robots to be adaptive to changing circumstances.

I am always looking for good students - please reach out if you are interested in working with me!

Previously, I was in Marc Toussaint’s LIS group at TU Berlin, working on task and motion planning (TAMP) using optimization techniques, in addition to sampling based planners, with inspiration from control theory. I was associated with IntCDC, and was involved in several projects at the intersection of robotics and architecture.

In 2021, I (virtually) visited Jon Gammell’s ESP lab at the University of Oxford.

Generally, I like making robotics code go fast. Most of the time, the code I am looking at has strong relations to control systems, optimization, trajectory planning, or numerical methods. Before taking on my current position, I have been a mechanical engineering student at ETH Zurich, and have focussed on robotics, systems and control. I did a few internships at various companies (notably Amazon and BCG Gamma), and I was a PhD resident at intrinsic.ai working in the motion and controls team.

I like cycling, used to row competitively, like all kinds of other sports, and to my friends delight I am an avid cook.

I have an open list of ideas for which I am looking for collaborators (external pressure to complete something!) here. Contact me if anything catches your interest: v [at] vhartmann [dot] com for side-projects, valentin [dot] hartmann [at] inf [dot] ethz [dot] ch for more academic chatter.

I am looking around a bit for things/jobs to do after my postdoc - please reach out if you are looking for anything from motion planning/control/optimization in robotics or generally anything where code should go fast. I am quite easily motivated for any kind of intellectually challenging work. Preferably in Zurich/Switzerland, and ideally with a mix of homeoffice and in person work.

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Also see my Google Scholar Profile here.

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