Welcome!

I am working as an academic advisor (Akademischer Rat) in the Lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the University of Freiburg. In my research, I focus on probabilistic techniques in the context of mobile robotics. A main area of my research is autonomous exploration in combination with solutions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. I am also interested in classification and learning approaches as well as in computer controlled cars, vision, navigation techniques, and scene analysis. See my publication list and research page for further details.

Short curriculum vitae

News

2008-03   I received the 7th Georges Giralt Award for the best robotics thesis in Europe in 2006!
2008-01   New version of our Tree-based netwORk Optimizer (TORO) has been released (fixes a convergence problem in 3D).
2008-01   I am in the program committee of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2008 (PGAI).
2007-12   I am in the program committee of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation & Robotics (ICINCO) 2008.
2007-10   I am in the program committee of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2008.
2007-09   Download the tutorial slides on RBPF-SLAM presented at the ECMR'07.
2007-08   I am in the program committee of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2008.
2007-05   First release of our new Tree-based netwORk Optimizer (TORO).
2007-05   I am in the program committee of the Embedded Systems and Robotics track on the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
2007-01   OpenSLAM.org is now online!
2007-01   I am in the program committee of the International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOMM) 2007
2006-12   I am in the program committee of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2007
2006-11   Our SFB/TR-8 has been approved for 4 additional years of funding
2006-11   I moved from Zurich to Freiburg
2006-10   I received the Wolfgang-Gentner-Award for my PhD thesis
2006-10   My daughter Janna Marie is born!
2006-09   I am publicity chair and publication chair of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2007
2006-09   Local arrangement for the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) 2007 in Zurich
2006-09   I am in the program commitee of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) 2007
2006-04   I moved to Zurich (ETH Zurich, IRIS, ASL)
2006-04   PhD defense - summa cum laude
2006-01   I submitted my PhD thesis
2005-12   CARMEN integration meeting in Boston
2005-12   I am responsible the conference management system of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2006
2005-08   I received the IROS/ICASE best paper award on application
2005-04   Finalist - ICRA 2005 best student paper