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Department of Robotic Systems

 

Dipl.-Inform.
Franziska Zacharias
DLR - German Aerospace Center
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
P.O. Box 1116
82230 Wessling
Germany

Tel.:++49-8153-28-2415
Fax.:++49-8153-28-1134

 

Academic Career

since 01/2005

research assistant at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics,
DLR - German Aerospace Center

11/2004

Graduation as Dipl.-Inform., University of Karlsruhe (TH), diploma thesis in the Interactive Diagnosis and Servicesystems Group, FZI- Research Center for Information Technologies, Karlsruhe:
"Lokalisation von Laufmaschinen im Gelände" ("Outdoor Localization for walking machines").

07/2002- 10/2002

Stayed for a research project at the Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Lab,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

10/1999 - 11/2004

Student of Computer Science at University of Karlsruhe (TH)

Research Interests

robot workspace representations, path planning, task planning, artificial intelligence

Open topics for a Diploma/Master thesis

Diplomarbeitsthema: Bewertung des Schwierigkeitsgrads von Manipulationsaufgaben
Thema: Planung und Ausführung von alltäglichen zwei-händigen Manipulationsaufgaben

Projects involved

DEXMART - DEXterous and autonomous dual-arm/hand robotic manipulation with sMART sensory-motor skills: A bridge from natural to artificial cognition
European IP Project (FP7)

Videos

ICRA 2007

Ch. Borst, Ch. Ott, T. Wimböck, B. Brunner, F. Zacharias, B. Bäuml, and G. Hirzinger,
" A Humanoid Upper-Body System for Two-Handed Manipulation "
in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2007.
(Best Video Award)

ICRA 2009

Christoph Borst, Thomas Wimböck, Florian Schmidt, Matthias Fuchs, Bernhard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Rainer Konietschke, Wolfgang Sepp, Stefan Fuchs, Christian Rink, Alin Abu-Schäffer, and Gerd Hirzinger, " Rollin’ Justin - Mobile Platform with Variable Base "
in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2009.
(Best Video Award)

 

Publications (Only personal use is allowed)

 

IROS 2010

F. Zacharias, D. Leidner, F. Schmidt, Ch.Borst, G. Hirzinger,
"Exploiting Structure in Two-armed Manipulation Tasks for Humanoid Robots,
in Proceedings of IROS '10, to appear.

IROS 2010

F. Zacharias, I. Howard, Th. Hulin, G. Hirzinger,
"Workspace Comparison of Setup Configurations for Human-Robot Interactions ,
in Proceedings of IROS'10, to appear.

Humanoids 2009

F. Zacharias, W. Sepp, Ch.Borst, G. Hirzinger,
"Using a Model of the Reachable Workspace to Position Mobile Manipulators
for 3-d Trajectories
,
in Proceedings of Humanoids'09, the International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
Paris, France, December, 2009
pdf video
Additional video matrial:
A spiral was searched in the workspace and executed. video

Humanoids 2009

F. Stulp, A. Federizzi, F. Zacharias, M. Tenorth, J. Bandouch, M. Beetz,
"Combining Analysis, Imitation, and Experience-based Learning to
Acquire a Concept of Reachability in Robot Mobile Manipulation
,
in Proceedings of Humanoids'09, the International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
Paris, France, December, 2009
pdf

ICAR 2009

F. Zacharias, Ch.Borst, G. Hirzinger,
"Online Generation of Reachable Grasps for Dexterous Manipulation Using
a Representation of the Reachable Workspace"
,
in Proceedings of ICAR'09, the International Conference on Advanced Robotics,
Munich, Germany, June, 2009

GWR 2009

F. Zacharias, Ch.Borst, G. Hirzinger,
"Object-specific Grasp Maps for Use in Planning Manipulation Actions",
in Proceedings of GWR'09, the German Workshop on Robotics,
Advances in Robotics Research- Theory, Implementation, Application, Springer Verlag, pp. 203-213, 2009

IROS 2008

F. Zacharias, Ch.Borst, M.Beetz, G. Hirzinger,
"Positioning Mobile Manipulators to Perform Constrained Linear Trajectories",
in Proceedings of IROS'08, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
pp. 2578-2584, Nice, France, September, 2008

pdf video

IROS 2007

F. Zacharias, Ch.Borst, G. Hirzinger,
"Capturing robot workspace structure: representing robot capabilities",
in Proceedings of IROS'07, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
pp. 3229-3236, San Diego, USA, October/November, 2007.
pdf video
Additional video material:
video




IROS 2006

F. Zacharias, Ch.Borst, G. Hirzinger,
"Bridging the Gap between Task Planning and Path Planning",
in Proceedings of IROS'06, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
pp. 4490-4495, Beijing, China, October, 2006.
pdf




Humanoids
2006

Ch. Ott, O. Eiberger, W. Friedl, B. Bäuml, U. Hillenbrand, Ch. Borst, A. Albu-Schäffer, B. Brunner, H. Hirschmüller,
S. Kielhöfer, R. Konietschke, M. Suppa, T. Wimböck, F. Zacharias, and G. Hirzinger,
"A Humanoid Two-Arm System for Dexterous Manipulation",
in Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 276-283, Genova/Italy, 2006.
pdf




SCI 2005

P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos,
"Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps of Indoor Environments",
in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 8, pp. 251-272, 2005, Springer-Verlag.




ICRA 2003

P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, J. F. Lett, O. Masoud, M. Gini and N. Papanikolopoulos,
"Using Visual Features to Build Topological Maps of Indoor Environments",
in Proceedings of ICRA'03, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
pp. 850-855, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003


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