Research areas

• Knowledge representation and reasoning (knowledge retrieval, forgetting mechanisms, template- and case-based reasoning)
• Lifelong robot learning
• Simulation-based robot learning and reasoning
• Robot fault detection and diagnosis
• Cognitive robotics

Teaching

• SS2022
  • Project coach Software Development Project
• SS 2021
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control
  • Project coach Software Development Project
• WS 2020
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control
  • Project coach Software Development Project
• SS 2020
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control
  • Project coach Software Development Project
• WS 2019
  • Lecturer Research and Development Colloquium
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control
• SS 2019
  • Lecturer Fault Detection and Diagnosis
• WS 2018
  • Lecturer Mathematics for Robotics and Control
  • TA Scientific Experimentation and Evaluation
• SS 2018
  • Lecturer Research and Development Colloquium (together with Argentina Ortega)
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control
  • TA Scientific Experimentation and Evaluation
• WS 2017/18
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control
  • TA Scientific Experimentation and Evaluation
• SS 2017
  • TA Probabilistic Methods for Robotics
  • TA Mathematics for Robotics and Control (together with Santosh Thoduka)
  • TA Scientific Experimentation and Evaluation (together with Santosh Thoduka)

Supervised master's theses

• Visuomotor policy learning for predictive manipulation
• Robust environment sound classification and anomaly detection using deep learning
• Towards improvements on RoboCup@Home robots architecture, capabilities and development process
• Lifelong action learning for socially assistive robots

Supervised R&D projects

• Incorporating contextual knowledge into human-robot collaborative task execution
• Learning corrective models for multistep actions by analysing videos
• Registering and visualizing point cloud data with existing 3D CityGML Models
• A comparative analysis of fault detection approaches in mobile robots
• Benchmarking object placement algorithms for mobile robotic manipulators
• Tell your robot what to do: Evaluation of natural language models for robot command processing
• Manipulating handles in domestic environments
• Learning grasp evaluation models using synthetic 3D object-grasp representations
• Dynamic motion primitives
• Ontology-based robot fault diagnosis
• Learning human gestures by imitation for robots
•  Development and implementation of a self-learning control approach for contact-rich object manipulation
• Automated test generation for robot self-examination
• Personalised behaviour models for child-robot interaction
• Semantic information by acoustic clues: A modern approach to anomaly detection for robotics