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Dr.-Ing. Malte Wirkus

Organization : DFKI GmbH
Area : Robotics Innovation Center
Status : Staff
Room HB : A 0.07
Address HB : Robert-Hooke-Str. 1
28359 Bremen
Phone HB : +49 421 17845 6657
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Publications

2025

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Malte Wirkus, Malte Langosz, Jungmin Lim, Abhijit Krishnananda Kamath, Julian Liersch, Marc Otto, Kabilan Tamilmani, Nayari Lessa, Haider Khan Lodhi, Sebastian Kasperski, Jonas Eisenmenger, Alexander Dettmann, Frank Kirchner
zenodo, May/2025.
Advantages of Active and Passive Suspension Systems in Obstacle Negotiation for Planetary Rovers
Malte Wirkus, Jonathan Babel, Christian Backe
Editors: Karsten Berns, Mohammad Osman Tokhi, Arne Roennau, Manuel F. Silva, Rüdiger Dillmann
In Walking Robots into Real World, (CLAWAR-2024), 4.9.-6.9.2024, Kaiserslautern, Springer Nature Switzerland, series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, volume 1115, number 2, pages 169-180, Jan/2025. ISBN: 978-3-031-71300-2 978-3-031-71301-9.
Modular Task Modeling and Creation of High-Level Building Blocks for Implementing Complex Robot Applications
Malte Wirkus
pages 170, 2025. Universität Bremen.
Collaborative creation and management of rich FAIR metadata: Two case studies from robotics field research
Christian Backe, Veit Briken, Atefeh Gooran Orimi, Rayen Hamlaoui, Malte Wirkus, Bilal Wehbe, Frank Kirchner
In ing.grid, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, volume 3, number 1, pages 1-25, 2025.

2024

Comparative Study of Soil Interaction and Driving Characteristics of Different Agricultural and Space Robots in an Agricultural Environment
Malte Wirkus, Stefan Hinck, Christian Backe, Jonathan Babel, Vadim Riedel, Nele Reichert, Andrej Kolesnikov, Tobias Stark, Jens Hilljegerdes, Hilmi Dogu Kücüker, Arno Ruckelshausen, Frank Kirchner
In Journal of Field Robotics, Wiley, volume 41, pages 1-34, Apr/2024.
RoBivaL data corpus
Christian Backe, Malte Wirkus, Stefan Hinck, Jonathan Babel, Vadim Riedel, Nele Reichert, Andrej Kolesnikov, Tobias Stark, Jens Hilljegerdes, Hilmi Dogu Kücüker, Emir Barcic, Eduard Klink, Arno Ruckelshausen, Frank Kirchner
Zenodo, Apr/2024.
Ground Interaction Models for Increased Autonomy of Planetary Exploration Systems
Alexander Dettmann, Malte Langosz, Jonas Eisenmenger, Marc Otto, Sebastian Kasperski, Malte Wirkus, Nayari Lessa
In 13th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space for opening New Horizons (13th EASN 2023), 5.9.-8.9.2023, Salerno, IOP Publishing Ltd, series Journal of Physics: Conference Series, volume 2716, Mar/2024.

2022

A Standard Interconnect Benchmark for a European In-orbit Services, Manufacturing and Assembly (ISMA) Demonstrator
Wiebke Brinkmann, Mehmed Yüksel, Marko Jankovic, Malte Wirkus, Jona Saffer, Isabel Soto, Jeremi Gancet, Pierre Letier, Thomas A. Schervan, Joerg Kreisel, Stephane Estable, Frank Kirchner
In 73rd International Astronautical Congress 2022, (IAC-2022), 18.9.-22.9.2022, Paris, International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 100 Avenue de Suffren 75015 Paris, France, Sep/2022. International Astronautical Federation (IAF).

2020

Online Reconfiguration of Distributed Robot Control Systems for Modular Robot Behavior Implementation
Malte Wirkus, Sascha Arnold, Elmar Berghöfer
In Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer Publishing, volume 100, number 3, pages 1283-1308, Dec/2020.
Space Robotics Software Testing with the Hybrid Locomotion Rover SherpaTT and a Validation Toolset
Raúl Domínguez, Florian Cordes, Malte Wirkus, Thomas Vögele
In 15th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS '20), (i-SAIRAS-2020), 19.9.-23.10.2020, Online-Conference, o.A., Oct/2020.

2019

Development of a Control Software for a Planetary Exploration Robot with ESROCOS
Malte Wirkus, Moritz Schilling, Benjamin Kisliuk
In Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2019), (ASTRA-2019), 27.5.-28.5.2019, Noordwijk, European Space Agency (ESA), 2019.
ESROCOS: Development and Validation of a Space Robotics Framework
Miguel Munoz Aracon, Malte Wirkus, Kilian Hoeflinger, Nikolaos Tsiogkas, Saddek Bensalem, Olli Rantanen, Daniel Silveira, Jerome Hugues, Mark Shilton, Herman Bruyninckx
In Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2019), (ASTRA-2019), 27.5.-28.5.2019, Noordwijk, European Space Agency (ESA), 2019.
Space Robotic Systems and Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the European Space Technology Roadmap
Wiebke Brinkmann, Florian Cordes, Christian Ernst Siegfried Koch, Malte Wirkus, Raúl Dominguez, Alexander Dettmann, Thomas Vögele, Frank Kirchner
In Proceedings of Space Tech Conferences, 19.11.-21.11.2019, Bremen, o.A., 2019.

2017

Multimodal Sensor-Based Whole-Body Control for Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings
José de Gea Fernández, Dennis Mronga, Martin Günther, Tobias Knobloch, Malte Wirkus, Martin Schröer, Mathias Trampler, Stefan Stiene, Elsa Andrea Kirchner, Vinzenz Bargsten, Timo Bänziger, Johannes Teiwes, Thomas Krüger, Frank Kirchner
In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, volume 94, pages 102-119, Aug/2017.
Automation of product packaging for industrial applications
C. Perez-Vidal, L. Gracia, J. M. de Paco, Malte Wirkus, J. M. Azorin, Jose de Gea Fernandez
In International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis Online, volume 0, number 0, pages 1-9, Aug/2017.
iMRK: Demonstrator for Intelligent and Intuitive Human--Robot Collaboration in Industrial Manufacturing
José de Gea Fernández, Dennis Mronga, Martin Günther, Malte Wirkus, Martin Schröer, Stefan Stiene, Elsa Kirchner, Vinzenz Bargsten, Timo Bänziger, Johannes Teiwes, Thomas Krüger, Frank Kirchner
In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, German Journal on Artificial Intelligence - Organ des Fachbereiches "Künstliche Intelligenz" der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Springer, volume 31, number 2, pages 203-207, May/2017.
ESROCOS: A Robotic Operating System for Space and Terrestrial Applications
Miguel Muñoz Arancón, G. Montano, Malte Wirkus, Kilian Hoeflinger, D. Silveria, N. Tsiogkas, J. Hugues, Herman Bruyninckx, S. Bensalem, J. Alanen
In Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 20017), (ASTRA-17), 20.6.-22.6.2017, Leiden, ESA, 2017.

2016

Hybrid Teams: Flexible Collaboration Between Humans, Robots and Virtual Agents
Tim Schwartz, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Ingo Zinnikus, Christian Bürckert, Joachim Folz, Bernd Kiefer, Peter Hevesi, Christoph Lüth, Gerald Pirkl, Torsten Spieldenner, Norbert Schmitz, Malte Wirkus, Sirko Straube
Editors: Matthias Klusch, Rainer Unland, Onn Shehory, Alexander Pokhar, Sebastian Ahrndt
In Proceedings of the 14th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (Mates 2016), (MATES-2016), 27.9.-30.9.2016, Klagenfurt, Springer, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 9872, pages 131-146, Sep/2016.
Hybrid Teams of Humans, Robots and Virtual Agents in a Production Setting
Tim Schwartz, Michael Feld, Christian Bürckert, Svilen Dimitrov, Joachim Folz, Peter Hevesi, Dieter Hutter, Bernd Kiefer, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Christoph Lüth, Dennis Mronga, Gerald Pirkl, Torsten Spieldenner, Malte Wirkus, Ingo Zinnikus, Sirko Straube
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, (IE-16), 12.9.-13.9.2016, London, IEEE, Sep/2016.
Zusammen mit Robotern am Arbeitsplatz - Neue Bedienkonzepte eröffnen den Weg für neue Robotikanwendungen
Malte Wirkus, Vinzenz Bargsten
In Industrie 4.0 Management, Gito mbH Verlag für Industrielle Informationstechnik und Organisation, volume 2, pages 29-32, 2016.

2015

A framework for describing manipulation behavior
Malte Wirkus
In Proceedings of the RIC Project Day Workgroup "Framework & Standardization", 19.3.2015, Bremen, Selbstverlag, series DFKI Documents, volume 15-01, pages 72-85, May/2015. DFKI GmbH.
Towards Describing and Deploying Whole-Body Generic Manipulation Behaviours
José de Gea Fernández, Dennis Mronga, Malte Wirkus, Vinzenz Bargsten, Behnam Asadi, Frank Kirchner
In 2015 Space Robotics Symposium, 29.10.-30.10.2015, Glasgow, IET, University of Strathclyde, 2015.

2014

Towards Robot-independent Manipulation Behavior Description
Malte Wirkus
In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and models for ROBotic systems, (DSLRob-2014), 20.10.2014, Bergamo, o.A., Oct/2014.
Online trajectory generation using the Reflexxes library’
Benjamin Girault, Malte Wirkus
In Proceedings of the RIC Project Day "Framework & Standardization" and "Manipulation & Control", 19.6.2014, Selbstverlag, Bremen, series DFKI Documents, volume 14-03 , number 14-03, Jun/2014. DFKI GmbH. ISBN: ISSN 0946-0098.
The Artemis Rover as an Example for Model Based Engineering in Space Robotics
Jakob Schwendner, Thomas M. Roehr, Stefan Haase, Malte Wirkus, Marc Manz, Sascha Arnold, Janosch Machowinski
In Workshop Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014, (ICRA-2014), 31.5.-07.6.2014, Hong Kong, IEEE, May/2014.

2012

Realizing Target-Directed Throwing With a Real Robot Using Machine Learning Techniques
Malte Wirkus, José de Gea Fernández, Yohannes Kassahun
In ERLARS 2012 - 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, (ERLARS-2012), 27.8.-31.8.2012, Montpellier, o.A., pages 37-43, Aug/2012. ISBN: ISSN: 2190-5576.

2009

Design and Control of an Intelligent Dual-Arm Manipulator for Fault-Recovery in a Production Scenario
José de Gea Fernández, Johannes Lemburg, Thomas M. Roehr, Malte Wirkus, Iliya Gurov, Frank Kirchner
In ETFA'09 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE international conference on Emerging technologies & factory automation, (ETFA-09), 22.9.-26.9.2009, Mallorca, IEEE Press, pages 1583-1587, Sep/2009. ISBN: 978-1-4244-2727-7.


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