I am currently pursuing a PhD degree at the IAS group at the TU Munich.

I have started my PhD studies in 2008, however I was working at the chair during my under graduate studies in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering / Mechatronics before that, and wrote my diploma thesis on "Efficient Detection of Primitive Geometric Shapes in 3D Point Clouds" during this time.

From February to April 2009, I was a visiting scholar in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the Personal Robotics group of Intel Labs Pittsburgh, where I was working with Siddartha Srinivasa on 3D perception for personal robots.

Research Topics

• Model Fitting

• Semantic Mapping

• 3D Geometric Reasoning

• Laser Segmentation

Current Research Projects

• EnvMod : We focus on point cloud based representation and reasoning techniques for building accurate and meaningful 3D maps for mobile robots in both indoor and outdoor environments. One of our main application and deployment scenario is the Assistive Kitchen. However, all our methods were carefully crafted with generality in mind, therefore they have been also successfully applied to outdoor urban, aerial, and underwater datasets.

Selected Publications

• Radu Bogdan Rusu , Zoltan-Csaba Marton , Nico Blodow , Mihai Emanuel Dolha , Michael Beetz , Towards 3D Point Cloud Based Object Maps for Household Environments, 2008, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge),

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• Nico Blodow , Radu Bogdan Rusu , Zoltan-Csaba Marton , Michael Beetz , Partial View Modeling and Validation in 3D Laser Scans for Grasping, 2009, 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),

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