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Tue, 29. April 2025
Prof Dr Javad Ghofrani takes over as head of the A2S Institute
On 1 March 2025, Prof. Dr Teena Hassan took up the post of Vice President for International Affairs and Digitalisation at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. In this context, she handed over the management of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (A2S). The new head of the institute is Prof. Dr Javad Ghofrani, who was only appointed to the Department of Computer Science in March 2025 as Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Autonomous Systems in the international Master's degree programme Autonomous Systems.
Mon, 07. April 2025
A2S institute presented with a stand at the European Robotics Forum 2025
Together with students and two robots, the Institute for AI and Autonomous Systems (A2S) at H-BRS presented its activities and innovations at the European Robotics Forum 2025 (ERF 2025).
Thu, 20. March 2025
Iman Awaad successfully defends her PhD
Iman's dissertation, completed at Osnabrück University, was titled "Towards Autonomous Object Substitution by Domestic Service Robots"
Fri, 20. December 2024
Happy holidays from the A2S Institute
The A2S institute wishes everyone a happy holiday season 2024. Particularly our robots look forward to a well-deserved break after a busy year.
Tue, 05. November 2024
1st place for Natalia Quiroga Perez at the AFCEA Bonn e.V. study award ceremony
Since 2008, the AFCEA Bonn e.V. has awarded annual study prizes to promote the scientific qualification of young talents. Prizes are awarded for outstanding theses in the fields of applied computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, automatic speech processing, communications engineering, radar technology, automation technology and robotics. This year, the first prize of 6,000 euros went to Natalia Quiroga Perez from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (H-BRS). The prize is endowed with a total of 20,000 euros and was presented on 24 October 2024 at the IT conference in Koblenz.
Wed, 23. October 2024
Party of the Autonomous Systems master's program with a Halloween touch
The traditional MAS party took place on 21.10.2024, this time with a Halloween theme.
Mon, 09. September 2024
RoboCup World Cup 2024: b-it-bots take third place and receive open source award
The H-BRS b-it-bots team from the Department of Computer Science achieved an impressive third place in the RoboCup@Work League at this year's world championship in Eindhoven/Netherlands, despite problems with the hardware, and was also honoured with the Open Source Award.
Thu, 11. July 2024
Robot-assisted learning programs presented at the DIGITAL@School Campus 2024
Various learning activities that were developed in the context of the MigrAVE project were presented to an audience of young students between 3rd and 10th grade
Sun, 26. May 2024
Papers by the Autonomous Systems Group accepted at RO-MAN 2024
The work presented in the papers was conducted in the context of the now-completed MigrAVE project
Tue, 30. January 2024
Paper by Santosh Thoduka accepted at ICRA 2024
S. Thoduka, N. Hochgeschwender, J. Gall, and P. G. Plöger, "A Multimodal Handover Failure Detection Dataset and Baselines"
Wed, 03. January 2024
In video: The Institute for AI and Autonomous Systems (A2S)
From the reforestation of destroyed forest areas to therapy assistance robots: the A2S Institute at H-BRS combines research, transfer and teaching on the topics of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. A video introduces the research institute founded in 2023.
Wed, 27. December 2023
Open position for a permanent professorship (W2) for Computer Science, with a specialisation in Autonomous Systems
Applications are open until February 16th, 2024
Fri, 22. December 2023
Happy holidays from the A2S institute
Our robots as well as human members would like to wish everyone happy holidays and a good start to the new year. 2023 was a year of many successful stories for our institute and we look forward to many more in the coming year.