| 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  | 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) |
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 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) 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
 Additional video matrial: A spiral was searched in the workspace and executed. | 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

| 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
 | 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.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 | last modified 07/07/2010 |