General Info
The Robotics group started at the very beginning
of academic activities at Jacobs
University in fall 2001. Much like Jacobs itself as a novel,
highly selective institution in the German university landscape,
robotics is still a very young and very small but ambitious group
comitted to excellence in research. The group is truly international
with English as working language. Jacobs University was called
International University Bremen (IUB) before 2007 [more
info]; hence the two names for the same institution can be
found on this website.
Jacobs Robotics is embedded in the EECS
undergraduate teaching activities and in the CS graduate program
SmartSystems.
The research of the group focuses on Autonomous
Systems. The expertise in this field ranges from the development
of embedded hardware over mechatronics and sensors to high-level
software. On the basic research side of autonomous systems, machine
learning and cooperation are core themes of robotics research
at Jacobs University. The systems developed here are used in various
domains, the most important one being safety,
security and rescue robots (SSRR).
Recent News
Jacobs Robotics qualifies for the ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge
2008
The Jacobs Robotics group
has qualified as one of 8 teams for the Lunar Robotics Challenge
of the European Space Agency (ESA). The goal of the ESA Lunar Robotics
Challenge is to evaluate systems that are capable of entering a
crater in a moon-like environment, to take samples at the bottom
of the crater, and to return with the samples out of the crater.
[more]
First Places at the ICRA Robot Challenge 2008
The annual International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is considered the most
prominent robotics conference in the world. This year ICRA for the
first time set up competition between robots specializing in differentiated
areas of skill: man-machine interaction, remote controlled and autonomous
exploration of planets. The robotics team of Jacobs University started
in the most difficult discipline, the autonomous exploration of
a planet’s surface. [more]
Double success at RoboCup German Open 2008
Jacobs University
clinched two first places at the RoboCup German Open held from April
21 to 25, 2008, at this year’s Hanover Fair. The competition
was part of a special exhibition on “Mobile Robots & Autonomous
Systems”, which featured intelligent mobile systems and components
for industrial manufacturing, the public sector and domestic applications.
In addition to the RoboCup awards, the robotic team were awarded
the „University Project Award“ of the large technology
enterprise Faulhaber, for their innovative work in the field of
rescue robot mechatronics. [more]
Past news and events.
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Documentation of the Jacobs Robotics equipment: robotics.jacobs-university.de/wiki
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