Professors

Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender

• Software Engineering for Autonomous Systems
• Safety and Security of Autonomous Systems
• Domain-specific Modeling and Languages for Robotic and Autonomous Systems
• Explainable AI

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Houben

• Computer Vision and Environment Perception in Autonomous Robotics
• Interpretable, Robust, and Reliable Machine Learning and Machine Learning-Based Systems
• Automated Driving

Prof. Dr. Paul G. Plöger

• Service robotics
• Perception for robotic systems
• Fault Identification, Diagnosis and Removal for autonomous systems
• NNs, especially Echo State Networks
• E-Assessment, especially ASAG

Prof. Dr. Erwin Prassler

• Big data analysis/time series analysis/anomaly detection
• Cognitive mechatronics (that explains itself)
• Autonomous driving
• Human robot/cobot interaction

Ph.D. Students

Iman Awaad

Working title: Affordance-based Reasoning for Robotics
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kraetzschmar
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg (Uni Osnabrück)

Alex Mitrevski

Working title: Skill Generalisation and Experience Acquisition for Predicting and Avoiding Execution Failures
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Paul G. Plöger
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University)

Deebul Nair

Working title: Exploiting Constraints for Dependable Learning Enabled Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Olivares Mendez (University of Luxembourg)

Argentina Ortega Sáinz

Working title: Scenario Generation for Automated Safety Assessment of Robotic Systems
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Berger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Sven Schneider

Working title: Solving Robot Grasping Problems with Contrained-Based Optimization Methods
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kraetzschmar
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Herman Bruyninckx (KU Leuven)

Santosh Thoduka

Working title: Visual Anomaly Detection for Robotics
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Paul G. Plöger
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall (Uni Bonn)

Djordje Vukcevic

Working title: Exploiting Natural Dynamics for Efficient and Robust Control of Modern Robots
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender
External adviser: Prof. Dr. Herman Bruyninckx (KU Leuven)

Research Staff

Dr. Anastassia Küstenmacher

Intelligent Human-Understandable Quality Control for Assisting Drivers in Testing of Vehicle Dynamics

Tim Metzler

E-Assessment

Minh Nguyen

SESAME

Samuel Parra Gonzalez

SESAME

Mohammad Wasil

MigrAVE, E-Assessment

Former Members

Dr. Björn Kahl

Prof. Dr. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar

Sergey Alexandrov

Roberto Cai Wu

RoboLand

Rhama Dwiputra

Matthias Füller

Ronny Hartanto

Frederik Hegger

Patrick Nagel

RoboLand

Lakshadeep Naik

ROPOD

Walter Nowak

Jan Paulus

Michael Reckhaus

Maximilian Schöbel

RoboLand

Azamat Sharkimadanov