Dipl. Inf. Boris Lau Phone +49 761 203-8012 Building 079, Room 1005

University of Freiburg Dept. of Computer Science Georges-Koehler-Allee 79 79110 Freiburg Germany

I'm a Ph.D. student with Prof. Wolfram Burgard in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) group at Freiburg University. My research topics cover robot navigation and robot-people interaction, I'm also interested in Neuroinformatics, machine learning and computer vision.

Research Highlights

• Updating distance maps and Voronoi diagrams
• Laser-based tracking of groups of people
• Kinodynamic trajectory generation for mobile robots

Publications

• B. Lau, C. Sprunk, and W. Burgard
  Efficient Grid-Based Spatial Representations for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013, to appear
• E. Demeester, E. Vander Poorten, A. Hüntemann, J. De Schutter, M. Hofmann, M. Rooker, G. Kronreif, B. Lau,
  M. Kuderer, W. Burgard, A. Gelin, K. Vanopdenbosch, P. Van der Beeten, M. Vereecken, S. Ilsbroukx,
  A. Fossati, G. Roig, X. Boix, L. Van Gool, H. Fraeyman, L. Broucke, H. Goessaert, and J. Josten
  Robotic ADaptation to Humans Adapting to Robots: Overview of the FP7 project RADHAR
  Intl. Conf. on Systems and Computer Science (ICSCS), Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, August, 2012
• K. O. Arras, B. Lau, S. Grzonka, M. Luber, O. M. Mozos, D. Meyer-Delius and W. Burgard
  Range-based people detection and tracking for socially enabled service robots
  In Towards Service Robots for Everyday in Environments, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), 76:235-280, Springer, 2012
• C. Sprunk, B. Lau and W. Burgard
  Improved Non-linear Spline Fitting for Teaching Trajectories to Mobile Robots
  IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012
• B. Lau, C. Sprunk and W. Burgard
  Incremental Updates of Configuration Space Representations
  for Non-Circular Mobile Robots with 2D, 2.5D, or 3D Obstacle Models
  European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Örebro, Sweden, 2011
• C. Sprunk, B. Lau and W. Burgard
  Online Generation of Kinodynamic Trajectories for Non-Circular Omnidirectional Robots
  IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, 2011
• B. Lau, C. Sprunk and W. Burgard
  Improved Updating of Euclidean Distance Maps and Voronoi Diagrams
  IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.
• C. Sprunk, B. Lau, P. Pfaff and W. Burgard
  Online Kinodynamic Trajectory Planning for Non-circular Omnidirectional Robots
  RSS Workshop on Motion Planning, Zaragoza, Spain, 2010
• B. Lau, K. O. Arras and W. Burgard
  Multi-model Hypothesis Group Tracking and Group Size Estimation
  International Journal of Social Robotics 2 (1), 2010, pp. 19-30, Springer Netherlands
  
• B. Lau, C. Sprunk and W. Burgard
  Kinodynamic Motion Planning for Mobile Robots Using Splines
  IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009
• B. Lau, K. O. Arras and W. Burgard
  Multi-model Hypothesis Group Tracking and Group Size Estimation
  ICRA2009 Workshop on People Detection and Tracking, Kobe, Japan, May 2009
• B. Lau, K. O. Arras and W. Burgard
  Tracking Groups of People with a Multi-Model Hypothesis Tracker
  International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 2009
• B. Lau
  Optimization-Based Motion Segmentation Using Additional Visual Cues
  Diploma Thesis, February 2007
• S. Hellbach, B. Lau, J. Eggert, E. Körner, and H.-M. Gross
  Optimization-Based Motion Segmentation using Additional Visual Cues
  In: Proc. of the 52. International Scientific Colloqium, 2007, pp. 327-332, Universitätsverlag Ilmenau
• B. Lau
  Learning gaze following in space: a computational model
  Seminal Paper, April 2006
• B. Lau and J. Triesch
  Learning gaze following in space: a computational model
  3rd International Conference for Development and Learning (ICDL'04), La Jolla, California, USA, October 2004
• B. Lau and J. Triesch
  Learning gaze following in space: a computational model
  Proc. 3rd Workshop on Self-Organization of AdaptiVE Behavior (SOAVE), Ilmenau, Germany, October 2004
  Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Reihe 10, Nr. 743, VDI-Verlag
• H. Kim, B. Lau and J. Triesch
  Adaptive Object Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot Head
  Proc. of 8th Intl. Conf. on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04), Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 2004

Short CV