I received my Doctoral, Master's and Bachelor's Degree from ETH Zürich. During my PhD I was part of the Computational Robotics Lab (CRL) led by Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros. The focus of my research was on dynamic robotic manipulation of physical systems. Before that I studied Mechanical Engineering with focus on Robotics, Systems and Control.

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Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization With Learned Dynamics

Bhavya Sukhija, Nathanael Köhler, Miguel Zamora, Simon Zimmermann, Sebastian Curi, Andreas Krause, Stelian Coros
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

Differentiable Collision Avoidance Using Collision Primitives

Simon Zimmermann, Matthias Busenhart, Simon Huber, Roi Poranne, Stelian Coros
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (iROS), 2022

Animal Gaits on Quadrupedal Robots Using Motion Matching and Model-Based Control

Dongho Kang, Simon Zimmermann, Stelian Coros
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (iROS), 2021

Go Fetch! - Dynamic Grasps using Boston Dynamics Spot with External Robotic Arm

Simon Zimmermann, Roi Poranne, Stelian Coros
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021

Dynamic manipulation of deformable objects with implicit integration

Simon Zimmermann, Roi Poranne, Stelian Coros
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021

A multi-level optimization framework for simultaneous grasping and motion planning

Simon Zimmermann, Ghazal Hakimifard, Miguel Zamora, Roi Poranne,
Stelian Coros
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2020

Optimal control via second order sensitivity analysis

Simon Zimmermann, Roi Poranne, Stelian Coros
arXiv:1905.08534

PuppetMaster: Robotic Animation of Marionettes

Simon Zimmermann, Roi Poranne, James M. Bern, Stelian Coros
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH), 2019

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IEEE SPECTRUM
RETHINKING CREATIVITY Exhibition

Puppeteering using a two-armed Manipulator Robot

Master Thesis
Computational Robotics Lab (CRL), ETH Zürich
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros, Dr. Roi Poranne

Improvement of Self-Localization via Pose Correction Procedure in RoboCup

Semester Thesis
Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL), ETH Zürich
Advisors: Louis Lettry, Alex Locher
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Luc van Gool
RoboCup Team: NomadZ

Traction Control Concepts for a Walking Excavator

Bachelor Thesis
Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), ETH Zürich
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter

Fast Driving Concepts for a Walking Excavator

Studies on Mechatronics
Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), ETH Zürich
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter