Staff

DLR German Aerospace Center
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
Perception and Cognition
Oberpfaffenhofen
Muenchener Str. 20
82234 Wessling

Research

• pose estimation in industrial environments
• localization with RGB-D sensors
• camera calibration

Publications

• Martin Lingenauber, Dominic Seyfert, Christian Nissler, Klaus Strobl:
  Plenoptic cameras as depth sensors for the precise arm positioning of planetary exploration rovers
  In: 71. Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2022 (DLRK 2022). 71. Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2022 (DLRK 2022), 2022-09-27 - 2022-09-19, Dresden, Germany, 2022. [elib]
• Christian Nissler:
  Environment- and Self-Modeling through Camera-Based Pose Estimation
  Fortschritte der Robotik / Progress in Robotics, vol. 2. Shaker Verlag, 2019. ISBN 978-3-8440-7048-4. [elib]
• Christian Nissler:
  Environment- and Self-Modeling through Camera-Based Pose Estimation
  Dissertation. Technische Universität Chemnitz, 2019. [elib]
• Martin Lingenauber, Florian A. Fröhlich, Ulrike Krutz, Christian Nissler, Klaus Strobl:
  In-Situ Close-Range Imaging with Plenoptic Cameras
  In: IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings. 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2019-03-02 - 2019-03-09, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2019. DOI 10.1109/AERO.2019.8741956, ISBN 978-1-5386-6854-2, ISSN 1095-323X. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Markus Nowak, Mathilde Connan, Stefan Büttner, Jörg Vogel et 3 al.:
  VITA - An everyday virtual reality setup for prosthetics and upper-limb rehabilitation
  Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 16 (2). Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, 2019. DOI 10.1088/1741-2552/aaf35f, ISSN 1741-2560. [elib]
• Markus Nowak, Christian Nissler, Bernhard Weber, Michael Schäfer, Claudio Castellini:
  VVITA - Validation of the Virtual Therapy Arm
  In: TIPS - Trent International Prosthetics Symposium. TIPS - Trent International Prosthetics Symposium, Manchester, UK, 2019. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Maximilian Durner, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Rudolph Triebel:
  Simultaneous Calibration and Mapping
  In: Experimental Robotics. 2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2018-11-05 - 2018-11-08, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-33950-0_68. [elib]
• Martin Lingenauber, Ulrike Krutz, Florian Alexander Fröhlich, Christian Nissler, Klaus Strobl:
  Plenoptic cameras for in-situ micro imaging
  In: EPSC Abstracts, vol. 12. European Planetary Science Congress 2018, 2018-09-16 - 2018-09-21, Berlin, Germany, 2018. [elib]
• Martin J. Schuster, Sebastian Georg Brunner, Kristin Bussmann, Stefan Büttner, Andreas Dömel et 19 al.:
  Towards Autonomous Planetary Exploration: The Lightweight Rover Unit (LRU), its Success in the SpaceBotCamp Challenge, and Beyond
  Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. Springer, 2017. DOI 10.1007/s10846-017-0680-9, ISSN 0921-0296. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Hannes Kisner, Ulrike Thomas, Rudolph Triebel:
  A Method for Hand-Eye and Camera-to-Camera Calibration for Limited Fields of View
  In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Kanada, 2017. DOI 10.1109/iros.2017.8206478. [elib]
• Mark Post, Fabrice Souvannavong, Shashank Govinderaj, Jeremi Gancet, Vincent Bissonnette et 15 al.:
  InFuse : infusing perception and data fusion into space robotics with open building blocks
  In: Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2017-07-26 - 2017-07-28, Madrid, Spain, 2017. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Zoltan-Csaba Marton:
  Robot-to-Camera Calibration: A Generic Approach Using 6D Detections
  In: Proceedings - 2017 1st IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, IRC 2017. IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 2017-04-10 - 2017-04-12, Taichung, Taiwan, 2017. DOI 10.1109/IRC.2017.66. [elib]
• Shashank Govindaraj, Jeremi Gancet, Mark Post, Raul Dominguez, Fabrice Souvannavog et 14 al.:
  INFUSE: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR DATA FUSION IN SPACE ROBOTICS
  14th symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation, 2017-06-20 - 2017-06-22, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2017. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Imran Badshah, Claudio Castellini, Wadim Kehl, Nassir Navab:
  Improving Optical Myography via Convolutional Neural Networks
  MEC - Myoelectric Control Symposium, Fredericton, Canada, 2017. DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.22135.73120. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Mathilde Connan, Markus Nowak, Claudio Castellini:
  Online tactile myography for simultaneous and proportional hand and wrist myocontrol
  MEC - Myoelectric Control Symposium, Fredericton. Canada, 2017. DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.11230.54082. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Stefan Büttner, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Laura Beckmann, Ulrike Thomas:
  Evaluation and Improvement of Global Pose Estimation with Multiple AprilTags for Industrial Manipulators
  In: 2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). 2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2016-09-06 - 2016-09-09, Berlin, Deutschland, 2016. DOI 10.1109/ETFA.2016.7733711. [elib]
• Martin J. Schuster, Christoph Brand, Sebastian Brunner, Peter Lehner, Josef Reill et 15 al.:
  The LRU Rover for Autonomous Planetary Exploration and its Success in the SpaceBotCamp Challenge
  In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC). IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, 2016-05-04 - 2016-05-06, Braganca, Portugal, 2016. DOI 10.1109/ICARSC.2016.62. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Nikoleta Mouriki, Claudio Castellini:
  Optical Myography: Detecting Finger Movements by Looking at the Forearm
  Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Frontiers Media S.A., 2016. DOI 10.3389/fnbot.2016.00003, ISSN 1662-5218. [elib]
• Georg Braun, Christian Nissler, Florian Krebs:
  Development of a Vision-Based 6D Pose Estimation End Effector for Industrial Manipulators in Lightweight Production Environments
  In: 2015 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). 2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2015-09-08 - 2015-09-11, Luxembourg, 2015. DOI 10.1109/ETFA.2015.7301469. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Nikoleta Mouriki, Claudio Castellini, Vasileios Belagiannis, Nassir Navab:
  OMG: Introducing Optical Myography as a New Human Machine Interface for Hand Amputees
  In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). ICORR 2015, 2015-08-11 - 2015-08-14, Singapore, 2015. DOI 10.1109/ICORR.2015.7281324. [elib]
• Christian Nissler, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Michael Suppa:
  Sample Consensus Fitting of Bivariate Polynomials for Initializing EM-based Modeling of Smooth 3D Surfaces
  In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013-11-03 - 2013-11-08, Tokio, Japan, 2013. DOI 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696962. [elib]