Research Group on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Contact

Address: Institut für Informatik Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee, Geb. 052 79110 Freiburg, Germany Room: Building 052, Room 00-041 Coordinates: 48°0'49.03" N 7°50'1.96" E (WGS84) Email: kleiner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Phone: +49 (761) 203-8234 Fax: +49 (761) 203-8222

Research Interests

I am interested in (D)SLAM, Exploration, and Multi-Robot approaches, applied on autonomous robots in the context of Rescue (e.g. Emergency Response), and Security (e.g. Plant Surveillance). Finally, my overall motivation is to build truly autonomous systems, i.e. robots that solve problems within a continuous Perception-Action cycle online and in real-time.

Projects

    TechX Challenge 2008
    Sick Challenge 2007
    Rescue Robots Freiburg 2006 (RoboCup Rescue Real Robot League)
    Rescue Robots Freiburg Virtual 2006 (RoboCup Rescue Simulation League)
    Rescue Robots Freiburg 2005 (RoboCup Rescue Real Robots Robot League)
    Res-Q Freiburg 2004 (RoboCup Rescue Simulation league)
    CS Freiburg 2001-2002 (RoboCup Soccer F2000 league)
    Rescue3D (the new 3D viewer project for RoboCupRescue Simulation)
    ResQ firesimulator (the new firesimulator for RoboCupRescue Simulation)
    Simsrv: A RoboCup F2000 simulator

Awards

  In the RoboCup mid-sized league (with CS Freiburg):
    1st place at the GermanOpen 2001
    1st place at the RoboCup world championship 2001 in Seattle
    2nd place at the GermanOpen 2002

  In the RoboCupRescue Simulation league (with ResQ Freiburg):
    1st place at the GermanOpen 2003
    1st place at the GermanOpen 2004
    1st place at the RoboCup world championship 2004 in Lisboa
     Winner of the Infrastructure Competition at the RoboCup world championship 2004 in Lisboa

  In the RoboCupRescue Robot league (with RescueRobots Freiburg):
     2nd place at the GermanOpen 2005
     Winner of the mobility award at the GermanOpen 2005 (Together with AIS Fraunhoffer)
     1st place of the "Best in class Autonomy" competition at the RoboCup world championship 2005 in Osaka
     1st place of the "Best in class Autonomy" competition at the RoboCup world championship 2006 in Bremen

  In the RoboCupRescue Simulation league (Virtual Robots) (with Vittorio Ziparo)
    1st place at the RoboCup world championship 2006 in Bremen

  In the RoboCupRescue Simulation league (Infrastructure competition) (with Nils Behrens and Holger Kenn)
     Winner of the Infrastructure Competition at the RoboCup world championship 2006 in Bremen

  At the "Robot Day" from the Sick company in Waldkirch (with Joerg Mueller and Christian Dornhege)
     1st place of the indoor competition Sick AG
    (please see the [Video], or the [Map] generated by the robot, or the official results from Sick [Results]

Activities

• Executive Committee member of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League
• Program Committee: SSRR'08, SIMPAR'08, RoboCup Symposium'08,
• External review: IROS'08, IAS'08, KI'08, ICRA'08, SSRR'07, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, JAAMAS, ISCRAM'07, ICRA'07, SSRR'06, ECAI'06, ISCRAM'06, IEEE Transactions on robotics. Journal of Autonomous Robots, and KI'05, DAGM'04, KI'04,
• Lecturer at the Rescue Robotics Camp, Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome 2006 Rescue Robotics Camp 2006 [Description and results]
• Local chair (LOC) of the Rescue Simulation League at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany
• Tecnical Committee (TC) of the Rescue Robot League at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany
• Organizing chair (LOC) of the Rescue Simulation League at RoboCup 2005 in Osaka, Japan
• Organizing chair of the Rescue Simulation League at RoboCup GermanOpen 2004 in Paderborn, Germany
• Organizing chair of the Rescue Simulation League at RoboCup GermanOpen 2003 in Paderborn, Germany
• Co-organizer of the Workshop Umweltmodellierung und Bewegungsplanung 2001 in Freiburg, Germany

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