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

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)

Djordje Vukcevic

Working title: Exploiting Natural Dynamics for Efficient and Robust Control of Modern Robots
Internal adviser: Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender

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)