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Alexander Gloye is a robotics researcher whose work centers on autonomous mobile robot control, machine learning for robotics, and computer vision systems for robotic applications. He is perhaps best known for his influential 2004 paper "Predicting Away Robot Control Latency," which has accumulated 48 citations and addresses one of the fundamental challenges in real-time robot control — compensating for the inherent delays between sensing and actuation that degrade performance. This contribution has proven particularly valuable in fast-paced robotic applications where milliseconds matter. Much of Gloye's applied research emerged from his work with the FU-Fighters, Freie Universität Berlin's RoboCup small-size soccer team, which provided a rich experimental platform for developing and testing autonomous systems. His work on anticipatory motor learning demonstrated that omnidirectional robots could adaptively correct driving inaccuracies — even compensating for partial motor failures — through learned corrective commands. He also contributed practical solutions to the vision pipeline challenge through a fast automatic camera calibration system for robot tracking environments. Across his publications, Gloye consistently bridges theoretical machine learning with the demanding real-world constraints of autonomous robot deployment, making his work a useful reference for researchers working at the intersection of control systems and applied robotics.