Dr.
Dominic
Jud

Alumni

Dr. Dominic Jud

Alumni

Dominic Jud completed his masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2014. He then worked over a year at the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) lead by Prof. Roland Siegwart and the Robotic Systems Lab (RSL) lead by Prof. Marco Hutter, where he worked on four legged walking robots and the development of the respective series elastic actuator. He joined NCCR Digital Fabrication in October 2015 as a PhD researcher and worked on autonomous landscaping with a walking excavator. In 2021 Dominic Jud completed his PhD, and has since been awarded an ETH Pioneering Fellowship to further develop his research on tele-operated and semi-autonomous heavy machinery.

Work Topic

Dominic focuses on autonomous excavation as well as on the general development of HEAP. He develops novel control concepts and planning algorithms for autonomous excavation to overcome existing implementations.

Role in the NCCR Digital Fabrication

Alumni: PhD Researcher

Current position

ETH Pioneer Fellowship - Teleoperated and Semi-Autonomous Heavy Machinery

NCCR publications

Soil-Adaptive Excavation Using Reinforcement Learning (2022)
- Date: 01.10.2022
- Authors: Pascal Egli, Dominique Gaschen, Simon Kerscher, Dr. Dominic Jud, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
HEAP – The autonomous walking excavator (2021)
- Date: 01.09.2021
- Authors: Dr. Dominic Jud, Simon Kerscher, Dr. Martin Wermelinger, Edo Jelavic, Pascal Egli, Philipp Leemann, Gabriel Hottiger, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
Towards Autonomous Robotic Precision Harvesting: Mapping, Localization, Planning and Control for a Legged Tree Harvester (2021)
- Date: 01.01.2021
- Authors: Edo Jelavic, Dr. Dominic Jud, Pascal Egli, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
High-Accuracy Autonomous Excavation Of Free-Form Shapes (2021)
- Date: 01.01.2021
- Authors: Dr. Dominic Jud
Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished (2021)
- Date: 01.01.2021
- Authors: Prof. Christophe Girot, Dana Cupkova, Fujan Fahmi, Mathias Bernhard, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Francesca Hughes, Dr. Ilmar Hurkxkens, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter, Dr. Dominic Jud, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Benedikt Kowalewski, Jesus Medina, Dr. Ammar Mirjan
Autonomous Dry Stone (2020)
- Date: 01.12.2020
- Authors: Dr. Ryan Luke Johns, Dr. Martin Wermelinger, Ruben Mascaro, Dr. Dominic Jud, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Prof. Dr. Margarita Chli, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
Terrain-Adaptive Planning and Control of Complex Motions for Walking Excavators (2020)
- Date: 01.01.2020
- Authors: Edo Jelavic, Yannick Berdou, Dr. Dominic Jud, Simon Kerscher, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
- Event: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020)
- Notes: Conference lecture held on October 26, 2020. Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.
Autonomous Free-Form Trenching using a Walking Excavator (2019)
- Date: 01.10.2019
- Authors: Dr. Dominic Jud, Philipp Leemann, Simon Kerscher, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
- Event: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- Notes: Presented on Wednesday, 6. November 2019.
Planning and Control for Autonomous Excavation (2017)
- Date: 01.10.2017
- Authors: Dr. Dominic Jud, Gabriel Hottiger, Philipp Leemann, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter

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