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Sun, 09. July 2023
b-it-bots win RoboCup@Work world championship title at RoboCup 2023
This is the second world championship title for the team after winning for the first time in 2019
Fri, 23. June 2023
Paper by Samuel Parra, Argentina Ortega, Sven Schneider, and Prof. Hochgeschwender accepted at IROS 2023
S. Parra, A. Ortega, S. Schneider, and N. Hochgeschwender, "A Thousand Worlds: Scenery Specification and Generation for Simulation-Based Testing of Mobile Robot Navigation Stacks"
Wed, 21. June 2023
A2S Institute presented at the H-BRS research day 2023
Posters of four funded projects and five ongoing PhD projects were presented; two of our robots (QTrobot and Lucy) were there to display some of their skills
Fri, 16. June 2023
Paper by Ekansh Sharma, Alex Mitrevski, and Prof. Plöger accepted at ECMR 2023
E. Sharma, C. Henke, A. Mitrevski, and P. G. Plöger, "Adaptive Compliant Robot Control with Failure Recovery for Object Press-Fitting"
Tue, 06. June 2023
Paper by Natalia Quiroga, Alex Mitrevski, and Prof. Plöger accepted at RO-MAN 2023
N. Quiroga, A. Mitrevski, and P. G. Plöger, "A Study of Demonstration-Based Learning of Upper-Body Motions in the Context of Robot-Assisted Therapy"
Tue, 14. March 2023
Prof. Dr. Teena Hassan joins Autonomous Systems Group
The research of Prof. Hassan focuses on social human-robot interaction
Tue, 31. January 2023
Alex Mitrevski successfully defends his PhD
Alex completed his dissertation titled "Skill Generalisation and Experience Acquisition for Predicting and Avoiding Execution Failures" in a cooperative PhD project with RWTH Aachen University
Fri, 20. January 2023
Two ICRA workshops co-organised by the Autonomous Systems Group
Alex Mitrevski, Santosh Thoduka, and Prof. Plöger are co-organising a workshop on robot execution failures; Prof. Hochgeschwender is co-organising a workshop on robot software architectures
Fri, 20. January 2023
Multiple papers by the Autonomous Systems Group accepted at ICRA 2023
The titles are "Analysing the Safety and Security of a UV-C Disinfection Robot", "Domain-specific languages for kinematic chains and their solver algorithms: lessons learned for composable models", and "LiDAR-based indoor localization with optimal particle filters using surface normal constraints"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Paper by Argentina Ortega and Prof. Hochgeschwender accepted at IROS 2022
A. Ortega, N. Hochgeschwender, and Thorsten Berger, "Testing Service Robots in the Field: An Experience Report"
Thu, 19. January 2023
Autonomous Systems Group at the Hannover Messe 2022
The Autonomous Systems Group was there as part of the "Economic Region Bonn" and presented a new bimanual and modular mobile robot platform by KELO Robotics, a recent startup by our Prof. Prassler
Thu, 19. January 2023
MAS graduate Arun Prabhu wins 2nd place AFCEA award for his master's thesis
Arun won the award for his master's thesis "An investigation of regression as an avenue to find precision-runtime trade-off for object segmentation"
Thu, 19. January 2023
MAS student Samuel Parra wins "DAAD award for outstanding achievements of international students"
Samuel is not only an active student researcher, but also volunteers in the MAS foundations course and organises various social events for the MAS students