Staff

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

Studies:

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for Dynamic Indoor Environments
  Focus on development of loclaiziation and mapping systems that work in environments populated by people. We implement systems that try to model the dynamics of those environments and illustrate them in the map
   
• Semantic Mapping
  Maps of robotic systems shall reflect more information than just geometry. This shall enhance further inference on semantic level to gain more information for further processing. The information shall be temporal complete.
   
• Audio Processing and Localization
  Adding the modality of audio information increases the possiblities of the robot to react, interact and observe its environment. We want to introduce robotic audition as a suitable sensor system on our platforms.

Student Work:

• Development of Robot Audition Library
  A C++ library for robot audtion on our robotic platforms.
   
• Concept of Multi-Cam SLAM for current state-of-the-art-systems
  Enhancements and advances for using multiple cameras within one SLAM system.
   
• Local Navigationmap for highly-dynamic systems
  Development of systems for creating navigation maps on platforms with high-dynamics in the vision processs