Ph.D. in Robotics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
April 2022 – present
Research focus: Legged robotics, sim-to-real transfer, learning-based design and control
Master of Science in Computational Engineering – Robotics, TU Darmstadt, Germany
October 2019 – April 2022
GPA: 1.34 (“very good”), top 10% graduates
Academic Exchange Year (AI & Robotics), Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
August 2018 – June 2019
GPA: 3.71, First Class Honours
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Process Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Germany
October 2015 – September 2018
GPA: 1.54 (“very good”), top 2.86% graduates
F. Bjelonic, and M. Hutter, “PACE Dataset for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Legged Robots,” ETH Zurich Research Collection, 2025. Available: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/items/2277fcdc-ee56-41c7-b856-c3f3cb570ad1
F. Bjelonic, F. Tischhauser, and M. Hutter, “Towards Bridging the Gap: Systematic Sim-to-Real Transfer for Diverse Legged Robots,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06342, 2025.
R. Watanabe, T. Miki, F. Shi, Y. Kadokawa, F. Bjelonic, K. Kawaharazuka, A. Cramariuc, and M. Hutter, “Learning Quiet Walking for a Small Home Robot,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
Z. Li, F. Bjelonic, V. Klemm, and M. Hutter, “Marladona – Towards cooperative team play using multi-agent reinforcement learning,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 15014–15020, 2025.
F. Bjelonic, J. Lee, P. Arm, D. Sako, D. Tateo, J. Peters, and M. Hutter, “Learning-based design and control for quadrupedal robots with parallel-elastic actuators,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1611–1618, 2023.
F. Bjelonic, A. Sachtler, A. Albu-Schäffer, and C. Della Santina, “Experimental closed-loop excitation of nonlinear normal modes on an elastic industrial robot,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1689–1696, 2022.