Seminar Autonome Intelligente Systeme

In this seminar we will focus on concepts and techniques used in the field of mobile robotics.

Requirerments & Information:

• Organizer: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
• Co-organizers: Axel Rottmann, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Christian Plagemann, Patrick Pfaff
• You have to prepare a talk of approx. 30 minutes and write a summary. Both can be done in English or German.
• The seminar is restricted to 12 students. Sorry, there is no free space left.
• The seminar will be a 2-3 days Blockseminar.
• Blockseminar date: 10.07.06, 11.07.06, 12.07.06.
• The 1st meeting will be at the 02.05, 13h, in room 079-00-019 (for registered students only!)
• The summaries should be approx. 6 pages long (not counting titlepage, toc, reference, or large figures).
  Much longer summaries will not be accepted!
• The summaries and the slides for the presentation must be submitted Fri, 02.06.06!
• Papers will be assigned in the first meeting.

Papers:

1. Olsen, Walter, Teller, Leonard: Single-Cluster Spectral Graph Partitioning for Robotics Applications (Patricia)
   
2. Schweighofer, Grigoras, Tresp, Hoffmann: GPPS: A Gaussian Process Positioning System for Cellular Networks (Philipp)
   
3. van der Zwaan, Perrone, Bernardino, Santos-Victor: Control of an Aerial Blimp Based on Visual Input (Tobias)
   
4. Lacroix, Jung: High resolution 3D terrain mapping with low altitude imagery (Robert)
   
5. Se, Lowe, Little: Vision-based Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping using Scale-Invariant Features (Alexander)
   
6. Ranganathan, Menegatti, Dellaert: Bayesian Inference in the Space of Topological Maps (Linh)
   
7. Law, Figueiredo, Jain: Simultaneous Feature Selection and Clustering Using Mixture Models (Dali)
   
8. Thrun et al.: The Winning Robot Stanley (Jakob)
   
9. Wellington, Courville, Stentz: Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection (Johannes)
   
10. Biber, Duckett: Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots (Ruixi)
    
11. Howard: Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Particle Filters (Michael)
    
12. Elinas, Little: Sigma-MCL: Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots with Stereo Vision (Thorsten)