Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions: What’s the Difference Anyway?
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Malte Helmert is a lecturer at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he graduated with a diploma in computer science in 2001 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006. His main research area is classical domain-independent planning, with occasional forays into other areas where combinatorial search techniques can be applied, such as model [...]
Search in the Physical World
Event Location: NSH 3305Abstract: This thesis examines search in the physical world, which differs significantly from the searches in the digital world that we perform every day on our computers. When searching the internet, for instance, success is a matter of informed indexing that allows the information to be retrieved quickly. In these cases, there [...]
Mechanics of Locomotion
Event Location: GHC 6501Abstract: Animals often use gaits - cyclic changes in shape producing a net displacement - to move through their environments. In robotics, we are interested in planning motions for artificial systems that can match or exceed the locomotive capabilities of animals. A fundamental question of locomotion is "What are the characteristics of [...]
With Two Eyes Intelligent Vehicles Perceive Better
Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Uwe Franke received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, in 1988 for his work on content based image coding. Since 1989 he is with Daimler Research & Development working on vision based driver assistance systems. He developed Daimler’s lane departure warning system (“Spurassistent”) introduced [...]