Funding ID: 16ME0999
The BMFTR-funded project "Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)" connects leading robotics labs across Germany to enhance their international visibility, attract talent, and accelerate progress in AI-powered robotics. [Press release]
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The principal investigators at the University of Bonn are:
Grzegorz Ficht, Luis Denninger, and Sven Behnke:
AGILOped: Agile Open-Source
Humanoid Robot for Research
10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics
(ARM), Portsmouth, UK, August 2025.
Haofei Kuang, Yue Pan, Xingguang Zhong, Louis Wiesmann, Jens Behley,
and Cyrill Stachniss:
Improving Indoor Localization
Accuracy by Using an Efficient Implicit Neural Map Representation
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Atlanta, USA, May 2025.
Shaoxiong Yao, Sicong Pan, Maren Bennewitz, and Kris Hauser:
Safe Leaf Manipulation for
Accurate Shape and Pose Estimation of Occluded Fruits
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Atlanta, USA, May 2025.
Shahram Khorshidi, Murad Dawood, Benno Nederkorn, Maren Bennewitz,
Majid Khadiv:
Physically-Consistent Parameter Identification of Robots in Contact
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Atlanta, USA, May 2025.
Rodrigo Marcuzzi, Lucas Nunes, Elias Marks, Louis Wiesmann, Thomas
Läbe, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss:
SfmOcc: Vision-Based 3D Semantic
Occupancy Prediction in Urban Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 10(5):5074-5081, April 2025.
Rohit Menon, Nils Dengler, Sicong Pan, Gokul Krishna Chenchani, Maren
Bennewitz:
EvidMTL: Evidential Multi-Task Learning for Uncertainty-Aware
Semantic Surface Mapping from Monocular RGB Images
Preprint arXiv:2503.04441, March 2025.
Jorge de Heuvel, Daniel Marta, Simon Holk, Iolanda Leite, and Maren
Bennewitz:
The Impact of VR and 2D Interfaces on Human Feedback in
Preference-Based Robot Learning
Preprint arXiv:2503.16500, March 2025.
Subham Agrawal, Nico Ostermann-Myrau, Nils Dengler, and Maren Bennewitz
Pedestrians and Robots: A Novel Dataset for Learning Distinct Social
Navigation Forces
Preprint arXiv:2503.16481, March 2025.
Allen Isaac Jose, Sicong Pan, Tobias Zaenker, Rohit Menon, Sebastian
Houben, and Maren Bennewitz:
GO-VMP: Global Optimization for View Motion Planning in Fruit Mapping
Preprint arXiv:2503.03912, March 2025.
Matteo Sodano, Federico Magistri, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss:
Open-World Panoptic Segmentation
Preprint arXiv:2412.12740, December 2024.
Louis Wiesmann, Elias Marks, Saurabh Gupta, Tiziano Guadagnino, Jens
Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss:
Efficient LiDAR Bundle Adjustment for Multi-Scan Alignment Utilizing
Continuous-Time Trajectories
Preprint arXiv:2412.11760, December 2024.
Benedikt Kreis, Nils Dengler, Jorge de Heuvel, Rohit Menon, Hamsa
Perur, and Maren Bennewitz:
Compact Multi-Object Placement
Using Adjacency-Aware Reinforcement Learning
In: IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),
Nancy, France, November 2024.
Grzegorz Ficht and Sven Behnke:
Maximum Impulse Approach to
Soccer Kicking for Humanoid Robots
In: Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots, IEEE-RAS 23rd International
Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, France, November 2024.
Subham Agrawal, Nils Dengler, and Maren Bennewitz:
Evaluating Robot Influence on
Pedestrian Behavior Models for Crowd Simulation and Benchmarking
In: International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Odense, Denmark,
October 2024.
Tiziano Guadagnino, Benedikt Mersch, Ignacio Vizzo, Saurabh Gupta,
Meher V.R. Malladi, Luca Lobefaro, Guillaume Doisy, and Cyrill
Stachniss:
Kinematic-ICP: Enhancing LiDAR Odometry with Kinematic Constraints
for Wheeled Mobile Robots Moving on Planar Surfaces
Preprint arXiv:2410.10277, October 2024.
Ahmed Shokry, Walid Gomaa, Tobias Zaenker, Murad Dawood, Shady A.
Maged, Mohammed I. Awad, and Maren Bennewitz:
Context-Based Meta Reinforcement Learning for Robust and Adaptable
Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks
Preprint arXiv:2409.16208, September 2024.
Louis Wiesmann, Thomas Läbe, Lucas Nunes, Jens Behley, and Cyrill
Stachniss:
Joint Intrinsic and Extrinsic
Calibration of Perception Systems Utilizing a Calibration
Environment
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 9(10): 9103-9110, September
2024.
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