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, in the CS graduate program
SmartSystems,
and in the COSYP
graduate program of the Jacobs Research Center on Cognitive
Systems and Processes (COSYP).
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, including safety, security
and rescue robots (SSRR) and underwater
robotics.
Recent News
Tutorial on 3D mapping at SSRR 2011
The material from the tutorial
on 3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) at the IEEE
Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) is now
available. You can download it via the following links that cover
the tutorial slides, a
PDF with the literature references,
and the references as bibtex
file.
Feature on Jacobs Rescue Robots in German TV program "W wie
Wissen"
The TV program "W wie Wissen" on the major German TV
station ARD has aired on Sunday, 3. July 2011 at 17h00 a show on
search and rescue including a feature on the Jacobs rescue robots.
The feature covers joined experiments of Jacobs Robotics with Satoshi
Tadokoro from Tohuko University in Sendai and his Active Scope Camera.
The Jacobs robots generate 2D and 3D maps of a search and rescue
scenario with aerial and ground robots. The maps guide the search
process of the robots to look for possible signs of life like thermal
signatures. The active scope camera of Satoshi Tadokoro is then
used to locate a victim in a rubble pile. Further information can
be found on the ARD
"W wie Wissen" website with background information on
the feature (in German) and of course in the ARD
"W wie Wissen" video of the feature itself.
Success at ICRA 2011 Robot Challenge
The Robotics Group from Jacobs University finished second at the
'Solutions in Perception Challenge' held during the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Shanghai, China.
The team was closley beaten by UC Berkeley. Stanford University
came third. [more]
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Ln9PVFuMU
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