dominic r. frutiger Dominic Frutiger was born 1976 in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his diploma in mechanical engineering (MSc M.E.) from ETH Zurich in 2004. His studies were interdisciplinary and international and to date he has broad interests in both academic and non-academic activities. He is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems focusing on micro- and nanorobotics. Besides his research interests he follows other, more entrepreneurial activities.

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publications

in press

  • D. R. Frutiger, B. E. Kratochvil, B. J. Nelson, MagMites - Microrobots for Wireless Microhandling in Dry and Wet Environments, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA, May 2010, accepted for publication
  • Z. Nagy, D. R. Frutiger, R. I. Leine, C. Glocker, B. J. Nelson, Modeling and Analysis of Magnetic Micro Impact Drives, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA, May 2010, accepted for publication

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international refereed conferences

  • B. E. Kratochvil, D. R. Frutiger, K. Vollmers, B. J. Nelson, Visual Servoing and Characterization of Resonant Magnetic Actuators for Decoupled Locomotion of Multiple Untethered Mobile Microrobots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009 (ICRA), Kobe, Japan. May 2009, invited paper
  • D. R. Frutiger, B. E. Kratochvil, K. Vollmers, B. J. Nelson, Small, fast, and under control: wireless resonant magnetic micro-agents, Proc. of the 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics 2008 (ISER), Athens, Greece, Ben Wegbreit IFRR Student Fellowship Award, July 2008
  • D. R. Frutiger, B. E. Kratochvil, K. Vollmers, B. J. Nelson, Magmites - Wireless Resonant Magnetic Microrobots, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, CA, USA, best video nomination finalist (awards), May 2008. DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543458
  • L. X. Dong, B. J. Nelson, X. Y. Tao, L. Zhang, X. B. Zhang, D. R. Frutiger, A. Subramanian, Nanorobotic Manipulation of Carbon Nanotubes Inside a Transmission Electron Microscope, Proc. of MECHATRONICS 2006 - 4th IFAC-Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2006. IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • A. Subramanian, L. X. Dong, D. R. Frutiger, B. J. Nelson, Shell Engineering of Carbon Nanotube Arrays by Current Driven Breakdown, Proc. the 6th IEEE Conf. on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO2006), Cincinnati, Ohio, Vol. 2, July 2006. IEEEXplore
  • D. R. Frutiger, L. X. Dong, B. J. Nelson, Optical Tracking of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Attaching Functionalized Quantum Dots, Proc. 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, Zhuhai, China, Vols. January 2006. ISI WoS
  • Suzuki T., Takeuchi S., Ziegler D., Fukayama O., Morishita Y., Frutiger D., Ishii K., and Mabuchi K., Development of flexible neural probes and their application to rat brain interfaces, SICE Annual Conference in Sapporo, August 2005. ISI WoS
  • Frutiger, D., Bongard, J., Iida, F., Iterative product engineering: Evolutionary robot design, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR'02), 619-626, September 2002. ISI WoS

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education

Institution Period Type Details
ETH Zürich
Switzerland		 since 2005 Ph.D. Student Field: bio-micro/nanorobotics
Primary advisor: Prof. Brad Nelson
ETH Zürich
Switzerland		 Oct 1998 - Apr 2004 BSc. / MSc. Field: Mechanical Engineering
Title: Dipl. Masch.-Ing. ETH
Primary advisors: Prof. Brad Nelson, Prof. Markus Meier
University of Tokyo
Japan		 Nov 2003 - Mar 2004 diploma thesis Field: brain-machine interfaces
Primary advisors: Prof. Kunihiko Mabuchi, Prof. Takafumi Suzuki
ETH Zürich
Switzerland		 Apr 2003 - Jul 2003 semester thesis 2 Field: chip for neural spike sorting
Primary advisor: Dr. Sadik Hafizovic Prof. Henry Balthes
University of Zürich
Switzerland		 Feb 2002 - Apr 2002 semester thesis 1 Field: artificial intelligence/evolution
Primary advisors: Prof. Rolf Pfeifer, Prof. Josh Bongard, Dr. Fumiya Iida
ETH Zürich
Switzerland		 Jul 2002 - Feb 2005 programmer, R&D Field: digital libraries
Primary advisor: Prof. Markus Meier
Queen's University
Canada		 Jun 2001 - Dec 2001 IAESTE exchange Field: non-destructive pipe inspection
Primary advisor: Prof. David L. Atherton
Intelliact AG
Switzerland		 Apr 2001 - Mai 2001 programmer, R&D Field: interactive assembly tool
Primary advisor: Dr. Martin Bichsel

organizations

teaching

Semesters Course Students Duties
2007 - 2009 Advanced Robotics & Mechatronic Systems ~20/sem preparation, supervision (weekly laboratory sessions, project work), grading
2005 - 2006 Micro- & Nanorobotics ~70/sem preparation, teaching, exams, grading
2004 - 2008 MSc. students student supervision, grading (08: Rahel Strässle)
2004 - 2008 BSc. students student supervision, grading (08: David Grob, David Sturzenegger)
2004 - 2008 Studies on Mechatronics student supervision, grading (04/05: Stefan Bracher; 05: Rahel Strässle, Shane Cunningham, Josias Wacker, Severin Stocker, Konrad Thoma; 05/06: Martin Rufli, Stefan Leutenegger; 06: Raffaele Bornatico; 06/07: Philipp Reist; 07: Claude Holenstein; 08: David Grob, Robin Ritz, David Sturzenegger)

open projects

Open undergraduate student projects and research opportunities at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems: