Elias Bitsch

MetaMove

Bare-hand mixed-reality teleoperation of an ABB GoFa cobot: Meta Quest 3 to ROS 2 with MoveIt Servo and an EGM bridge at 250 Hz, plus a distance-based speed-scaling safety layer and a live bidirectional digital twin. Accepted at the XR-SPro workshop, IEEE ISMAR 2026.

ROS online course

A course that teaches ROS from the first node to a working robot, written as structured lessons with runnable examples so that readers learn by doing rather than by reading.

FlexiStylus

A handheld instrument for marking defects directly on a physical casting: the operator points at the flaw on the part itself instead of on a screen, and a collaborative robot picks up the marked positions. Shown publicly at SALZ 2026.

MONUMENTAL

An operator interface for two rail-mounted brick-laying arms: a 3D view of the site, joint sliders, a wrist camera that detects the bricks, behaviour-tree missions and a prompt field for spoken commands. The same site can be driven with a pencil on a tablet or with a game controller, so the operator arrives already knowing the input device and spends the learning time on the task instead of the interface. Master project in Robotics Engineering.

Taurob-Tracker

A tracked field robot that has to find and turn a valve on its own. My part was the perception: a YOLOv8 detector on a RealSense camera that finds the valve wheel and hands its position to the arm, so the operator no longer has to line up the gripper by hand. Team project at UAS Technikum Wien.

TurtleBot 4 linear controller

A closed-loop controller that drives a TurtleBot 4 to a goal pose: it reads the odometry, computes the velocity command and stops once the goal is reached. Written in C++ against ROS 2 and run from a container.

ABB robot cell in RobotStudio

A simulated production cell in ABB RobotStudio: an industrial arm on a pedestal moves parts between two conveyors, inside a fenced workspace with a light curtain. Built and run entirely in simulation, so the motion, the reach and the cycle can be checked before any real robot is touched.

Conveyor belt with a digital twin

A conveyor controlled from a Siemens PLC: the program and the HMI screen are built in TIA Portal, and the panel talks over the S7 connection to a Visual Components model of the same belt. Pressing Start on the panel starts the belt in the simulation, the direction arrow follows, and the box travels. The point is that the control logic can be commissioned against the model before the hardware exists.

Ball Balancing Robot

A semester project: a tilting platform that holds a steel ball in place. Servos drive the plate over two axes and a PID closed-loop controller on an Arduino keeps correcting the position.

Circuit-Crusher

A Sumo-Bot for the RoboRingOut competition at UAS Technikum Wien. I led a team of eight through design, build and programming, and coached the members who had never written firmware or read a schematic before.

Maze solving Robot & Line follower

Two ROS behaviours on the same robot: finding its way through a maze with the ROS navigation stack, an A-Star planner and a k-nearest neighbour classifier, and following a line from the camera image with OpenCV. The clip ends on the camera view, where the red band is the region the detector looks at and the green dot is the line centre it steers to. Packaged in Docker.

Hardware from scratch

The making side: printed circuit boards from schematic to soldered board, etched and milled in house, parts milled and turned from aluminium, and pneumatic handling stations with valve terminals and sensors. Built at HTL Eisenstadt between 2016 and 2021, and still in use: the feedback hardware I build at AIT today comes off the same bench.

Portfolio Website

A personal portfolio website built with Next.js, Typescript and Chakra UI.