Hi, I'm Malte 👋

Robotics & AI Engineer | M.Sc. Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Intelligent Agricultural Systems Research Group · Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene · Hochschule Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Germany

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What I'm working on

Building a Real-to-Sim pipeline for autonomous agricultural robotics — from raw LiDAR/Camera/IMU sensor data to simulation-ready Digital Twins in NVIDIA Isaac Sim from a single sensor pass.

FAST-LIVO2 SLAM → 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGRUT) → USDZ / NuRec → NVIDIA Isaac Sim + PhysX

→ Research topic overview

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Featured research

Synthetic Data & Real-to-Sim Pipeline — AgrifoodTEF (2023–present)

Automated generation of high-fidelity Digital Twin simulation environments for autonomous agricultural robots.

• Multimodal sensor calibration: LiDAR/Camera/IMU, targetless, PTP/PPS synchronisation (Ouster, Allied Vision, Microstrain)
• FAST-LIVO2 LiDAR-Inertial-Visual SLAM for accurate pose estimation and point cloud generation
• Neural rendering via 3DGRUT with USDZ export and PhysX integration into NVIDIA Isaac Sim
• PSNR ≥ 27 dB reconstruction quality, further optimised via LVBA-based framework
• Dual simulator integration: ROS2-native Gazebo sensor plugin + NVIDIA Isaac Sim via NuRec

Hyperspectral + LiDAR Fusion — Master's Thesis (2022–2023)

Open-source benchtop visual inspection system fusing laser line profiling and hyperspectral imaging to generate synthetic 3D plant training models for ML applications in precision agriculture.

• Dual Gocator 2350A laser line profilers + Resonon Pika L hyperspectral camera (281 channels, 400–1000 nm)
• 2.1 nm spectral resolution and 0.019 mm Z-resolution — exceeds state of the art at the time.
• PSO-based pixel-accurate sensor alignment; Poisson surface reconstruction; .ply / .obj export
• Implemented in Python with ROS sensor drivers and Open3D

→ Short thesis documentation

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Tech stack

Robotics & Perception
SLAM Sensor Fusion Point Cloud Processing LiDAR / Camera / IMU ROS2 Open3D

3D Reconstruction & Simulation
3D Gaussian Splatting NeRF Novel View Synthesis NVIDIA Isaac Sim Omniverse / USD Gazebo

ML & Computer Vision
PyTorch OpenCV YOLO Python NumPy Pandas C++

AI & Agentic Workflows
Claude API Gemini CLI

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Background

M.Sc. Mechatronic Systems Engineering  —  Hochschule Osnabrück
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering           —  Hochschule Osnabrück
Research: AgrifoodTEF (EU) · Agri-Gaia · DFKI Nature Robots

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Contact

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• 🔬 Intelligent Agricultural Systems Research Group · Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene · Hochschule Osnabrück

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