"The Times They Are A-Changin"
Bob Dylan
Publications & Videos
News
- Lecture at TUM in SS12: Human-Friendly Robotics: Human factors in control and planning strategies
- George Giralt PhD Award (best European PhD thesis in robotics)
- Our Nature paper with the colleagues from Brown University is accepted!
- Download PhD thesis
- New EU project SAPHARI launched!
- PC Member: RSS:Robotics Science and Systems 2012
- Invited talk at ARSO2011
- Invited talk at Johns Hopkins University
- Invited talk at Bristol Robotics Lab
- Lecture at TUM in SS11: Human-Friendly Robotics: Human factors in control and planning strategies
- I am currently a visiting scholar at Willow Garage and at Stanford University in Oussama Khatib's lab (I will be back beginning of June)
- We have won the euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2011 (DLR LWR team with KUKA LWR team)
- WORKSHOP at ICRA2011: Towards Autonomous Physical Human-Robot Interaction
- Two guest lectures at TUM: Dynamic Human Robot Interaction
- IROS 2010 Finalist Best Application Paper Award
- Co-organizer HFR2010
- Invited Talk: TUM Kolloquium
- NEW PAGE ONLINE: WWW.SAFE-ROBOTS.COM
- NEW LECTURE AT TUM: Human-Friendly Robotics: Human factors in control and planning strategies
- PC Member: RSS 10 Workshop Strategies and Evaluation for Mobile Manipulation in Household Environments
- Invited Talk: Schunk Expert Days
- Lecture at TUM: Lecture slides
- Invited Talk: URAI International Workshop on Robot Integration
- Finalist: Robotdalen Scientific Award 2009, "Honorable Mention". Congratulations to Davide Scaramuzza (Winner) and Mario Prats (Finalist)!
- Invited Talk: Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robots
- ICRA 2009 Best Service Robotics Paper Award, (pic1), (pic2), (pic3)
- PC Member: RSS 09 Workshop Mobile Manipulation in Human Environments
- Invited Talk: Fraunhofer IFF-Science Days
- Invited Talk: International Workshop on Robot Technologies
- IROS 2008 Best Application Paper Award, (pic1),(pic2)
- The RSS 2008 Manipulation Workshop is over and was a great success. Please have a look at the work presented there.
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2008 Manipulation Workshop organized together with Robert Platt Jr., Charlie Kemp, Lorenzo Natale, and Neo Ee Sian
- Our latest work is shown at AUTOMATICA 2008 in Munich
- Literati Outstanding Paper Award
- ICRA 2007 Best Video Award
- Open topics for Diploma, Master, & Bachelor thesis
Fields of interest
- Human-Robot interaction
- Safe Robots and Safety and dependability in robotics
- Robot Control
- Human biomechanics
- Robotics & AI
- Control of Variable Impedance Actuation
- Dynamic manipulation
- Reactive/Real-time Motion Planning and Task Planning
- Brain controlled robots
Curriculum Vitae
Projects involved:
DLR projects:
- DLR Lightweight Robots
- DLR Hand-arm system
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Brain controlled robots
Collaborative projects:
- KUKA Roboter GmbH
- Daimler Benz
- VIACTORS: European STREP Project (FP7): Variable Impedance Actuation Systems Embodying Advanced Interaction Behaviours
- Lynkeus: BMBF project: PMD Cameras for Human-Robot Interaction and Bin Picking (finished)
- SMERobot™: European Integrated Project (FP6): The European Robot Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing (finished)
- PHRIENDS: European STREP Project (FP6): Physical Human Robot Interaction: Dependability and Safety (finished)
- Neurobotics: (FP6 IST) The Fusion of Neuroscience and Robotics (finished)
Press
| Discovery Channel interview "Daily Planet", January, 9th, 2008
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Sanftmütige Maschinen, Der Spiegel, November, 12, 2007
The robot that knows when it has punched you, NewScientist, November, Issue 10, 2007
Collaborators
Current and former students
- Doctoral thesis
- Master thesis
- Hannes Widmoser (c)
- Chris Schindlbeck (c)
- Nico Mansfeld (c)
- Fabien Laurent (c)
- Tilo van Ekeris (f)
- Roman Weitschat (c)
- Can Ozparkucu (c)
- Steffen Walther (c)
- Felix Huber (f)
- Rico Belder (f)
- Kai Krieger (f)
- Sven Parusel (f)
- Michael Weis (f)
- Augusto Khoury (f)
- Bachelor thesis
- Markus Englert (f)
- Mirko Kunze (f)
- Tobias Ende (f)
- Internship
- Marco Witzmann (c)
- Nico Mansfeld (f)
- Hongrong Huan (c)
- Hannes Widmoser (f)
- Chris Schindelbeck (f)
- Robert Hartmann (f)
- Mirko Kunze (f)
- Rico Belder (f)
- Christian Liefhold (f)
Conferences & Workshops
- ICRA2011, Shanghai, China
- ISER2010, Dehli, India
- HFR2010, Tübingen, Germany
- IROS2010, Taipeh, Taiwan
- Schunk International Expert Days, Laufen/Neckar, Germany
- URAI 2009, Gwangju, Korea
- SWAR'09, Västerås, Sweden
- ISRR2009, Lucerne, Switzerland
- IFF Science Days, Magdeburg, Germany
- ICRA 2009, Kobe, Japan
- International Workshop on Robot Technology, Gwangju, Korea
- IROS 2008, Nice, France
- RSS 2008: Manipulation Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland
- RSS 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
- IARP 2008, Padadena, USA
- ICRA 2008, Pasadena, USA
- PRE-ICRA 2008 Mini-Symposium on Robot Technologies and Humanoids, Stanford, USA
- ISRR 2007, Hiroshima, Japan
- IROS 2007, San Diego, USA
- RSS 2007: Manipulation Workshop, Atlanta, USA
- RSS 2007, Atlanta, USA
- IARP Workshop 2007, Rome, Italy
- ICRA 2007, Rome, Italy
- IROS 2006, Beijing, China
Links
Hobbies
- My band
- Handball
- Sailing
- Painting