In January 2013, I moved to the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bremen. My new web site can be found here.
I obtained the Doctor in computer science from TUM in November 2011 for my thesis titled Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robots. Previously, I studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Robotics and Embedded Systems at the ENSTA in Paris, France. I spent one year as an intern at the Accenture Technology Labs in Sophia Antipolis, France, where I worked on visual localization and mapping. From February to May 2009, I was a visiting scholar in the Human Sensing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University where I worked with Fernando De la Torre on models of human everyday activities.
News, talks and events
- The paper “Learning Probability Distributions over Partially-Ordered Human Everyday Activities”, a result of the collaboration with Prof. De la Torre at CMU, has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2013.
- Our paper “Representation and Exchange of Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments in the RoboEarth Framework” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
- Two papers accepted for IROS 2012: “A Unified Representation for Reasoning about Robot Actions, Processes, and their Effects on Objects” (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), and “Semantic Object Maps for Robotic Housework - Representation, Acquisition and Use” (Dejan Pangercic, Moritz Tenorth, Benjamin Pitzer, and Michael Beetz)
- From July to November 2012, I'll be a post-doc in the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, working on the Ubiquitous Network Robot project.
- My paper The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments has won the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2012.
- Two papers have been accepted for IAS 2012: “Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots” and “RoboEarth Action Recipe Execution”.
- I'll be invited speaker at the ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics.
- Two papers accepted for ICRA 2012: “The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments” and “Learning Organizational Principles in Human Environments”.
- My paper about “Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robot Control” has been accepted at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI.
- I have co-organized the IROS 2011 Workshop: Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots. The workshop program and proceedings can be found here.
- A tutorial on the KnowRob knowledge base I gave at the CoTeSys-ROS Fall School in November 2010.
- The Robots podcast has interviewed me about my views on robots as personal assistants.
- Video of a CMU VASC seminar I gave together with Jan Bandouch in 2009.
