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
Autonomous Systems