Seminar Robot Navigation
Requirements & Information
- Organizers: Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz (Juniorprof.), PD Dr. Cyrill Stachniss, Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard, Dipl. Inf. Armin Hornung, Dipl. Inf. Kai Wurm, and Dipl. Inf. Barbara Frank
- You have to prepare a talk of 30 minutes and to write a summary. Both can be done in English or German.
- The seminar is restricted to 9 students.
- Please register via the LSF (click here). We apply the strategy: first come, first serve.
- The seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" on February 11/12 starting at 10.00 s.t. in SR 00-019, building. 079.
- The first meeting will be on October 28, 2.00 s.t. (for registered students only) in SR 03-026, building 051.
- A first version of the slides for the presentation must be sent to the supervisor on January 31 at the latest.
- The final version of the summaries must be submitted by February 7. You should discuss the summary before with the supervisor and revise it once accoding to his/her comments.
- The summaries should be 7 pages long at maximum (latex, a4wide, 11pt) not counting the bibliography. Significantly longer summaries will not be accepted.
- Topics will be assigned in the first meeting.
Updated Information:
- The seminar takes place on Thursday, February 11, starting at 10.00 a.m. (s.t.) and
February 12, starting at 1.00 p.m. (s.t.). Please be there on time! - Location: Building 79, upper floor, seminar room (079 00 019)
Schedule
| Day | From | To | Presenter |
| Thu | 10:00 | 10:05 | Introduction |
| Thu | 10:05 | 10:40 | Thomas Huber |
| Thu | 10:40 | 11:15 | Zhongjie Cai |
| Thu | 11:15 | 11:25 | 10 min break |
| Thu | 11:25 | 12:00 | Stefan Oßwald |
| Thu | 12:00 | 12:35 | Hernando Ramirez |
| Thu | 12:35 | 15:15 | 2:40h break |
| Thu | 15:15 | 15:50 | Sabine Frauenhoffer |
| Thu | 15:50 | 16:25 | Peterhans Hendel |
| Fri | 13:00 | 13:35 | Nichola Abdo |
| Fri | 13:35 | 14:10 | Hadi Kheyruri |
Papers
- Kris Hauser, Tim Bretl, Kensuke Harada, and Jean-Claude Latombe
Using motion primitives in probabilistic sample-based planning for humanoid robots
published in Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, 2008
[supervisor: Maren Bennewitz] - Anna Petrovskaya and Andrew Ng
Probabilistic mobile manipulation in dynamic environments, with application to opening doors
presented at IJCAI 07
[supervisor: Maren Bennewitz] - Mark Cummins and Paul Newman
Highly Scalable Appearance-Only SLAM
presented at RSS 09
[supervisor: Cyrill Stachniss] - Aleksandr Segal, Dirk Haehnel, and Sebastian Thrun
Generalized-ICP
presented at RSS 09
[supervisor: Cyrill Stachniss] - Nicholas Roy, and Sebastian Thrun
Motion Planning through Policy Search
presented at IROS 02
[supervisor: Barbara Frank] - Amalia Foka, and Panos Trahanias
Predictive Autonomous Robot Navigation
presented at IROS 02
[supervisor: Barbara Frank] - D. Fox, J. Ko, K. Konolige, B. Limketkai, D. Schulz, and B. Stewart
Distributed Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping
Proc. of the IEEE, 2006
[supervisor: Kai Wurm] - D.F. Wolf and G.S. Sukhatme
Semantic Mapping Using Mobile Robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2008
[supervisor: Kai Wurm] - J. Chestnutt, Y. Takaoka, K. Suga, K. Nishiwaki, J. Kuffner, and S. Kagami
Biped Navigation in Rough Environments Using On-Board Sensing
presented ad IROS 09
[supervisor: Armin Hornung] - J. Lui and M. Veloso
Online ZMP Sampling Search for Biped Walking Planning
presented at IROS 08
[supervisor: Armin Hornung] - C. Kwok and D. Fox
Reinforcement Learning for Sensing Strategies
presented in 2004
[supervisor: Maren Bennewitz]