Daniel Bolgar

Software Developer

2019 - 2021

OnRobot A/S, Aalborg, Denmark

About the company:
A fast growing, ambitious, medium sized robotics company with the goal of becoming a One-Stop Shop for applications and tooling of industrial robots. It was named a soonicorn company, i.e. a startup expected to hit a 100 million USD evaluation soon. Its portfolio includes robot vision, grippers, analytics, force sensors, a sander, and a screwdriver. All the products are integrated with a wide variety of industrial/collaborative robots. The R&D department is quite small, the work is highly dynamic. OnRobot A/S acquired my previous company, Blue Workforce A/S.

My responsibilities:

• Research, evaluation, implementation of algorithms for the company’s 2.5D robot vision solution, OnRobot Eyes. The goal was to create a vision system that is easy-to-setup, fast, robust, and cheap. I have implemented algorithms for workspace calibration, object segmentation, object recognition, object localisation, object inspection.
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• Automation of vision software deployment.
• Adjustment of Blue Workforce’s computer vision solution to fitOnRobot Eyes’s needs.
• Prototype OnRobot’s generalized robot programming solution, meant to ease deployment of industrial robot applications.
• Tool integration and GUI development for UR cobots:
  • OnRobot Eyes
  • OnRobot Magnetic Gripper
  • OnRobot Sander
  • OnRobot Two Finger Gripper
• Tool integration and GUI development for Yaskawa cobots:
  • OnRobot RG2
  • OnRobot Magnetic Gripper
  • OnRobot Two Finger Gripper
  • OnRobot Vacuum Gripper
  • OnRobot Soft Gripper

Software Developer

2017 - 2019

Blue Workforce A/S, Aalborg, Denmark

About the company:
An extremely ambitious robotics startup, acquired by OnRobot A/S. Before its acquisition, the R&D department consisted of 14 people. The goal of Blue Workforce A/S was to democratize robotics by offering cheap, scalable, easy to setup pick and place solutions for small and medium sized companies. The main customers were bakeries, farms, secondary packaging companies. The company’s portfolio included:

• A cheap and fast 4-arm parallel robot.
• An easy-to-setup, flexible vision system with a visual programming interface, mainly created for tracking and classifying objects on a conveyor belt.
• A distributed, ROS inspired solution for connecting the nodes: robots, belt encoders, digital twin, computer vision system, 3rd party I/Os.
• A robot simulation platform derived from the V-Rep robot simulator. Easy setup, capable of viability testing, digital twin of the real robot.
• A soft, compliant gripper.

My responsibilities:

• Creation of a flexible, user friendly, robust, visually programmable vision system for a wide range of pick and place applications, using the Intel RealSense D415 3D camera. Applications included:
  • Detection of strawberries in a farm setting. Setting the trajectory for the removal of strawberries
  • Automatic planting through detection and tracking of holes in plant pots on a conveyor belt.
  • Quality check for pastries and sushi plates assembled by the robot.
• Automated data collection, data labeling, data augmentation solution for machine learning datasets. Utilization of transfer learning to fit YOLO v2 to the gathered data.
• Visualization of the robot’s trajectory through Microsoft HoloLens AR.
• Extension of the parallel robot’s library of trajectories.
• Synchronization of distributed system components.
• Creation of bash scripts for packaging and automatic deployment.

Driving Assistance Computer Vision Intern

2015

Bosch GmbH, Budapest, Hungary

My responsibilities:

• Writing scripts for Altium to extract PCB layout data.
• Support tasks such as soldering, checking for PCB faults, running mostly automated tests.

Computer Vision

• OpenCV
• Tensorflow 2.0

Robot Programming

• UR
• Yaskawa
• Techman
• ROS

Programming Languages, Frameworks, Libraries

• C++
• Python
• Java
• Bash script
• C#
• C language
• Angular WebDev
• MATLAB
• LabView
• Pandas
• Sklearn

• English - Fluent
• German - Intermediate
• Hungarian - Native
• Danish - Intermediate Reading

• SolidWorks
• Fusion 360
• Blender
• Zbrush
• Ableton Live
• Photoshop
• Premiere Pro

Master of Science in Control & Automation

2016 - 2018

Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

• Internship at Blue Workforce
• Final project: Orientation control of a cube satellite using gyroscope and magnetic actuators
• Semester projects:
  • Haptic feedback for remote controlled surgical robot
  • Force control of wall mounting robot

Exchange Semester in Electrical & Computing

Fall 2017

Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic Of Korea

• Focus on Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Chip Design

Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering

2012 - 2016

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

• Summa Cum Laude
• Final Project: 3D scanning with an Android phone
• Member of MSZO – Mechatronics Student Organization
• Unilever Engineering Competition: 3rd place
• NYIFFF Physics Competition: 2nd place
• Internship at Bosch