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Monday, April 28, 2008
12:25 pm entry
2008 Summer Project Proposals

We offer internships for the summer of 2008 on the following project topics (Important note: the number of students / project is not limited, so everyone who is interested and has the below mentioned prerequisites is encouraged to apply):
  • Active Mapping for 3D Environments
    The project involves using the Player project (C/C++), to develop active mapping navigation algorithms for a mobile robot platform. The concept of active mapping is used in the following context: given a 3D snapshot representation of the environment as a point cloud, search for possible "problems" (discrepancies, errors, low-sampled areas, etc) in it, compute a position for the robot so that taking a scan from there would complete the model, and drive the robot to that position to perform the scan. For trying out different movement strategies, we will also make use of the 3D Gazebo simulator instead of the real robot. That will allow us to perform more experiments and try things which are not possible in the real world. Requirements: C/C++ programming and basic 3D Geometry knowledge.

  • 3D Model representations for objects used in mobile robot mapping
    In our research project, we are attempting to match 3D CAD models on color camera images, in a kitchen environment. So far, these models are synthetically generated (by hand). The next step is the use models acquired automatically using laser sensors (see the above project). Since sensors are in general noisy, and the models become more complex due to the type of primitives used, the following aspects need to be analyzed:
    • testing the matching of acquired models in order to find out problems and problematic parts;
    • testing different model resolutions (find out the maximum and minimum number of faces);
    • analyzing the optimal resolution for 3d models;
    • measuring the spatial detection error in the camera image;
    • measuring the perfomance of the detection.
    This project requires knowledge in C/C++ programming and basic 3D geometry.

  • 3D Modelling of the Justin Humanoid Robot Platform using Gazebo
    The project involves extending the Gazebo simulation platform (a 3D robot simulator part of the Player project) to model the Justin robot in simulations for the Assistive Kitchen project. The Gazebo extension will consist of the structural description of the Justin platform, a module for controlling the virtual actuators, an Inverse Kinematics module to be able to respond to commands in Cartesian space and a interface for the project's existing LISP planners. The project requires knowledge in C++ programming, forward and inverse kinematics.

  • Java-based Graphical User Interfaces for datamining/model learning applications
    The project involves the creation of extensive Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for several applications which deal with knowledge representation and datamining. Part of the project would be to create further visualizations, e.g. for actions, probability distributions or trajectories, to improve the feature graph editor and to migrate existing features from the football version of the program (e.g. a synchronized video viewer that exists and works, but has not been migrated yet). If the student has some individual preferences, we are also rather flexible, since there is a lot of work to do in several fields. Requirements include good Java programming skills, including SWING. Experience with JGraph for the feature graph editor, Processing (http://processing.org) for the visualizations and MySQL or other relational databases are a plus.
Monday, June 4, 2007
9:17 pm entry
PSSCR'07 - Player Summer School on Cognitive Robotics

IAS@TUM together with AI@SRI is hosting the Player Summer School on Cognitive Robotics 2007. Sponsored by CoTeSys ("Cognition for Technical Systems") and EURON ("European Robotics Network"). The CFP (Call For Participation) is available here.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
9:52 pm entry
Open positions at IAS/Vision!
We are seeking several outstanding researchers to fill newly opened positions at the level of:
- Postdoctoral researchers
- doctorate students
- exchange researchers and
- short-term guest researchers/students (3-6 months)

More information here.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
9:52 pm entry
Job openings for students!
We are searching for students at all levels, who are interested in working with us in one of the following areas:
- machine learning (model acquisition and inference from sensor data);
- surface reconstruction and modelling from 3d point clouds;
- software architectures for ubiquitous computing and robotics research (see Player/Stage/Gazebo);
- robotics in general (mobile robot navigation, manipulation, path-planning and so on...)

Please contact me via e-mail if you are interested. Basic knowledge in programming languages such as C, C++ is required. Previous experience with robotics and/or artificial intelligence techniques is a plus.

For romanian students (undergraduates and graduates):

Grupul IAS (Intelligent Autonomous Systems) va ofera posibilitatea de a participa in proiecte de cercetare in vederea realizarii lucrarilor de diploma, sau a proiectelor de semestru, respectiv inceperea unui stagiu doctoral pentru studentii absolventi. Se cauta studenti seriosi, cu rezultate bune, din cadrul facultatilor de profil (Informatica, Automatica si Calculatoare, etc). Experienta in domenii similare cu cele prezentate anterior constituie un plus. Cunostinte de limba engleza (scris/vorbit) sunt suficiente.

TU-Munich (Munich University of Technology) este momentan cotata ca una din cele mai bune universitati din Europa (tot timpul numarul 1 sau 2 in Germania, la concurenta cu cealalta universitate din Munich: LMU). Recent, TUM si LMU au fost "premiate" cu titlul de "Universitati de elita" in cadrul initiativei de excelenta a guvernului german (fonduri de aproximativ 1.9 miliarde euro pe urmatorii 5 ani). (Mai multe informatii aici.)
Sunday, July 30, 2006
9:53 pm entry
VVV information
The VVV'06 has ended. Almost all the things that could be archived digitally are now available on the Wiki. Congratulations again for the people at LIRA Lab for the way they handled things regarding the organization of the camp, as well as pretty much everything else.
Some more details here.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
9:52 pm entry
OOO (Out Of the Office)
I will be out of the office starting the 15th of July until the 30th of July, attending the 1st RobotCub summer school - VVV06 (Veni Vidi Vici) held in Ventimiglia, Italy, by the people at Lira-Lab, University of Genova.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
9:52 pm entry
Extended Deadline for CogRob06
Due to the extended submission deadline proposed by AAAI on all workshops, we are pleased to announce an extension for CogRob06 until: April 17, 2006.
All submissions must arrive by April 17 (extended deadline), 2006. Only electronic submissions will be accepted and all papers must be in PDF format. All submissions should be sent to cogrob06@cs.tum.edu.
For any additional information please visit the official CogRob06 web page.
Friday, March 24, 2006
9:52 pm entry
Interesting SEP/Theses for students
We got some great new projects for students who are interested in working with us. Please check them here and here.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
9:52 pm entry
OOO (Out Of the Office)
I am out of the office starting the 22nd of March until the 23rd of March, attending the First International Doctoral Coloquium on Pervasive Computing held in Linz, Austria by Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
9:52 pm entry
Javaclient2 released
Javaclient2 for the new Player 2.x API was released a couple of days ago. Get it at the usual SourceForge address. More information about related projects can be found here.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
9:52 pm entry
TinyOS for Debian unstable (Motes) tutorial
I wrote a small tutorial/FAQ for those who own the Mica2 motes and have problems getting them to work with TinyOS and NesC under Debian Linux unstable. You can read it here. Ah, who am I kidding, first of all I wrote it for myself (in case I forget those things). ;)
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
9:52 pm entry
RFID patch for Player/Stage
Patches for adding a new RFID interface as well as two drivers for Inside R300 and Skyetek M1 RFID readers have been posted on my P/S web page. Note that they only work with Player 1.6.5 and Javaclient 1.6.5 respectively.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
9:52 pm entry
Sensor-Enabled Intelligent Environments
The web pages for the lab course "Sensor Enabled Intelligent Environments" (SEIE) are up at www9/praktika/seie.SS06/.
More information about the research topics as well as documentation will be added soon.
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
9:53 pm entry
RoboCup Robotics Camp
I was part of the RedBack team in Rome, 2005 at the RoboCup Rescue Robotics camp. The goal was to create five 'tarantula'-like mobile robots, and use Player to control them with a joystick for rescue robotics teleoperations.

Please contact Raymond Sheh or Adam Jacoff and/or join the redback mailing list for additional information about the RedBack robot.

Note: I uploaded some pictures from the RoboCup event.
They are available at here.

I have also mirrored Raymond's time-lapse movie (HQ) here.

Update (18.11.05): New movie added.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
9:53 pm entry
OOO (Out Of the Office)
I am out of the office starting the 28th of October until the 7th of November, attending the RoboCup camp (Robotics Rescue) held in Rome, Italy by Universita di Roma "La Sapienza".
Thursday, October 6, 2005
9:53 pm entry
Pimp my Robot! ;)
Today we finished building the first (second actually) AGILO robot. Several discussions about the customization process were involved in the Robocup Lab. In the end, we decided to go with the Blue neons, since they will contrast nicely with the green carpet.
May, 2008
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