Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inform. Thomas Röfer

I am working in the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in the group of Prof. Bernd Krieg-Brückner in the research area Cyber Physical Systems. I am a member of the DFG Collaborative Research Center "Spatial Cognition" and I teach in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universität Bremen in Germany.

Research Interests

• Control of autonomous mobile robots
• Humanoid robots
• Image processing
• Robotics simulation

Research

Spatial Cognition

• DFG Collaborative Research Center "Spatial Cognition"
• DFG priority program "Spatial Cognition"
• The Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair

RoboCup

• DFG priority program "Cooperating Teams of Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments"
• The GermanTeam in the Four-Legged League
• The Bremen Byters in the Four-Legged League
• B-Smart in the Small-Size League
• B-Human in the Humanoid League and the Standard Platform League

Ambient Assisted Living

• EU project SHARE-it - Supported Human Autonomy for Recovery and Enhancement of cognitive and motor abilities using information technologies
• BAALL: The Bremen Ambient Assisted Living Lab

Miscellaneous

• Experiment GRASPY - Stereovision for Grasping by Humanoid Robots in the EU project ECHORD - European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development
• SimRobot: A robotics simulator

Teaching (in German)

Basic Lectures

• Practical Informatics 1 (WiSe 03/04, WiSe 05/06, WiSe 07/08, WiSe 09/10)
• Practical Informatics 2 (SoSe 04, SoSe 06, SoSe 08, SoSe 10)
• Help lectures for PI-1 (WiSe 99/00)
• Tutorial for Practical Informatics 2 (SoSe 00)

Main Lectures

• Cognitive Robotics 1 (WiSe 00/01, 02/03)
and Cognitive Robotics 2 (SoSe 01, SoSe 03)
• Autonomous Outdoor Navigation (WiSe 07)
• Practical course Compiler Construction (SoSe 09)

Student Projects

• SAUS: Sensomotoric Autonomous Systems (WiSe 95/96 - SoSe 97)
• ROSES: Wheelchair as Safe Embedded System (WiSe 98/99 - SoSe 00)
• RoboCup: (WiSe 00/01 - SoSe 02, WiSe 02/03 - SoSe 04)
• Bremen Byters (WiSe 04/05 - SoSe 06)
• B-Smart (WiSe 04/05 - SoSe 06) and B-Smarter (WiSe 06/07 - SoSe 08)
• B-Human (WiSe 07/08 - SoSe 09, WiSe 11/12 - SoSe 13)
• Robot Soccer (WiSe 09/10 - SoSe 11)
• SmartEnergy (WiSe 10/11 - SoSe 12)

Theses (in German)

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