About me
I'm a researcher at the department for Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 2008. After receiving my diploma in computer science from the Universität Bremen in 2004, I worked in the group of Prof. Bernd Krieg-Brückner in the context of the DFG Priority Program Cooperating Teams of Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments as well as in the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition: Reasoning, Action, Interaction.
My main research interests include simulation and state estimation for autonomous robots, e.g. for rehabilitation robots as well as for different kinds of soccer robots.
Since 2002, I have regularly participated in RoboCup competitions with different teams. Our currently active teams are B-Human (the current world champion in the Standard Platform League) and B-Smart, participating in the Small Size League.
Aside the robot soccer pitch, I have developed components for autonomous navigation of rehabilitation robots, i.e. the intelligent walker iWalker, and the autonomous wheelchair Rolland.