Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inform. Christian Mandel

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Curriculum Vitae

From October 1995 until October 1998 I did my undergraduate studies in computer science at the University of Hildesheim with appliance in medical informatics. After changing to the University of Bremen in Oktober 1998 I attended the four semester student project Roses - Rollstuhl als sicheres eingebettetes System according to the project oriented main study period in Bremen. In July 2002 I finished my diploma thesis Trajektorienplanung und Trajektorienfolgeregelung im Konfigurationsraum nicht-holonomer Fahrzeuge.
Starting in August 2002, I worked as a research assistant in the working group Programmiersprachen, Übersetzerbau und formale Methoden der Software-Techniken of Prof. Dr. Bernd Krieg-Brückner, being employed from January 2003 till December 2006 in the project A1-[RoboMap] of the SFB/TR8 - Spatial Cognition. After a one year doctoral scholarship from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), I received the Ph.D. degree in January 2008 from University of Bremen for my thesis Navigation of the Smart Wheelchair Rolland.
Since June 2008 I work at DFKI in the research area Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems on the development of multi-modal control possibilities and navigation solutions for electrical wheelchairs.

Publications

 

	Hui Shi, Christian Mandel, Robert J. Ross (2008). Interpreting Route Instructions as Qualitative Spatial Actions. In T. Barkowsky, M. Knauff, G. Ligozat, D. R. Montello (Eds.), Spatial Cognition V, Vol. 4387, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag, 14197 Berlin.
	C.Mandel, U.Frese (2007). Comparison of Wheelchair User Interfaces for the Paralysed: Head-Joystick vs. Verbal Path Selection from an offered Route-Set. In Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2007).
	C. Mandel, U. Frese, T. Röfer (2007). Design Improvements for Proportional Control of Autonomous Wheelchairs Via 3DOF Orientation Tracker. In Proceedings of the 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin.
	C. Mandel, T. Röfer, U. Frese (2007). Applying a 3DOF Orientation Tracker as a Human-Robot Interface for Autonomous Wheelchairs. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics.
	C. Mandel, U. Frese, T. Röfer (2006). Robot Navigation based on the Mapping of Coarse Qualitative Route Descriptions to Route Graphs. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006), pp. 205–210.
	B. Krieg-Brückner, U. Frese, K. Lüttich, C. Mandel, T. Mossakowski, R. Ross (2005). Specification of an Ontology for Route Graphs. In C. Freksa, M. Knauff, B. Krieg-Brückner, B. Nebel, T. Barkowsky (Eds.), Spatial Cognition IV, Vol. 3343, pp. 390–412, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany.
	C. Mandel, K. Huebner, T. Vierhuff (2005). Towards an Autonomous Wheelchair: Cognitive Aspects in Service Robotics. In Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2005), pp. 165–172.
	Christian Mandel (2002). Trajektorienplanung und Trajektorienfolgeregelung im Konfigurationsraum nich-holonomer Fahrzeuge. DiplomaThesis.
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Talks

• SFB/TR8 Colloquium, Bremen, 09/26/2003, Using RouteGraphs as an Appropriate Data Structure for Navigational Tasks [PPT] [PDF]
• SFB/TR8 Colloquium, Bremen, 09/17/2004, An Extension to the Dynamic Window Approach for arbitrarily shaped Robots [PPT] [PDF]
• IROS 2006 Conference Talk, Beijing, 10/11/2006, Robot Navigation based on the Mapping of Coarse Qualitative Route Descriptions to Route Graphs [PPT]
• ICORR 2007 Conference Talk, Noordwijk aan Zee, 06/12/2007, Applying a 3DOF Orientation Tracker (IMU) as a Human-Robot Interface for Autonomous Wheelchairs [PPT]

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