About me
I'm a researcher at the department for Cyber-Physical Systems (formerly named as 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. Since the beginning of this year, I'm associated with Prof. Udo Frese's Real-Time Computer Vision Working Group.
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. My current team is B-Human, the reigning German and world champion in the Standard Platform 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.