Ingenieurbüro Markus Löffler

Dissertations

• "New Object-Oriented and PC-Based Approaches to Robot Control Software" (1.5 MB), 2001, Ph.D. Dissertation

• "Measurement of the Three-dimensional Yarn Path and Tension in Yarn Unwinding" (900 KB), 1996, Diplomarbeit

Journal Papers

• M. Loffler, V. Chitrakaran, and D. Dawson, "Design and Implementation of the Robotic Platform", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Special Issue on Multiple Cooperating Robots, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 39 Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 105-129.

• M. Loffler, D. Dawson, and N. Costescu, "QMotor 3.0 and QMotor Robotic Toolkit: A PC Based Control Platform", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 12-26.

• M. Loffler, N. Costescu, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "Telerobotic Decontamination and Decommissioning with QRobot, a PC-Based Robot Control System", International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2002, pp. 112-121.

• N. Costescu, D. Dawson, and M. Loffler, "QMotor 2.0 - A Real-Time PC Based Control Environment", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 68-76.

• N. Costescu, M. Loffler, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "QRobot - A Multitasking PC Based Robot Control System", Microcomputer Applications Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1999, pp.13-22.

Conference Papers

• M. Loffler, V. Chitrakaran, D. Dawson, "Design and Implementation of the Robotic Platform", Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, September, 2001, pp. 357-362.

• M. Loffler, D. Dawson, E. Zergeroglu, and N. Costescu, "Object-Oriented Techniques in Robot Manipulator Control Software Development", Proc. of the American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June, 2001, pp. 4520-4525.

• M. Loffler, N. Costescu, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "Telerobotic Decontamination and Decommissioning with QRobot, a PC-Based Robot Control System", Proc. of the Conference on Control Applications, Anchorage, AK, Sept., 2000, pp. 24-29.

• N. Costescu, M. Loffler, M. Feemster, and D. Dawson, "QMotor 3.0 - An Object Oriented System for PC Control Program Implementation and Tuning", Proc. of the American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June, 2001, pp. 4526-4531.

• N. Costescu, M. Loffler, E. Zergeroglu, and D. Dawson, "QRobot - A Multitasking PC Based Robot Control System", Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Trieste, Italy, Sept., 1998, pp 892-896.

Presentations and Movies

• Demonstration Video of QMotor 3.0 (QRTS)

• "Design and Implementation of the Robotic Platform", Ph.D. Defense, also presented at the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, September, 2001

• "QMotor 3.0", QRTS Presentation

• "Object-Oriented Techniques in Manipulator Control Software Development", presented at the American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June, 2001

• "Telerobotic Decontamination and Decommissioning with QRobot, a PC-Based Robot Control System", presented at the Conference on Control Applications, Anchorage, AK, Sept., 2000