Pro-/Seminar Robot Navigation - WS 2014/15

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Requirements & Information

Organizer: Prof Dr. Wolfram Burgard
Co-Organizers:Andreas Lars Wachaja, Michael Partheil, Barbara Frank, Tim Caselitz, Tim Welschehold, Abhinav Valada
The Proseminar and Seminar will be held as a "Blockseminar" in February 2015.
Please register via the online registration system.
The first meeting was on Tuesday, October 28, 10.00 a.m. in room 02-017, building 52.
Students are requested to prepare a talk of 30 minutes and to write a summary. Both can be done in English or German.
Please send your summary and the slides of your presentation to your advisor until Wednesday, February 25. The summaries should be 7 pages long at maximum (latex, a4wide, 11pt) not counting the bibliography and figures. Significantly longer summaries will not be accepted. A LaTeX template can be downloaded here.
Slides from the first meeting.
Topic assignments can be found below. Please contact your supervisor for details on literature.

Updated Information

Wolfram Burgard will give a lecture on "How to give a presentation" (Slides)
This lecture will take place on Wednesday, January 14, 10.00 s.t. in room 00-034, building 51.
The Proseminar and Seminar will take place on:
- Tuesday, February 17, 9.00 to 16.00 and
- Wednesday, February 18, 9.00 to 16.00.
Location for the Proseminar: Room 00-014 , Building 078

Topics Proseminar

K. M. Wurm, A. Hornung, M. Bennewitz, C. Stachniss, W. Burgard.
OctoMap: A Probabilistic, Flexible, and Compact 3D Map Representation for Robotic Systems
ICRA 2010 Workshop on Best Practice in 3D Perception and Modeling for Mobile Manipulation.
[Supervisor: Andreas Lars Wachaja]
G. Floros, B. van der Zander, B. Leibe.
OpenStreetSLAM: Global Vehicle Localization Using OpenStreetMaps
ICRA 2013.
[Supervisor: Michael Partheil]
M. Faessler, E. Mueggler, K. Schwabe, D. Scaramuzza.
A Monocular Pose Estimation System based on Infrared LEDs
ICRA 2014.
[Supervisor: Tim Caselitz]
D. Harabor, A. Grastien.
Online Graph Pruning for Pathfinding on Grid Maps
AAAI 2011.
[Supervisor: Barbara Frank]
W. Churchill, P. Newman.
Experience-based Navigation for Long-term Localization
IJRR 2013.
[Supervisor: Barbara Frank]
M. J. Milford, G. F. Wyeth.
SeqSLAM: Visual Route-Based Navigation for Sunny Summer Days and Stormy Winter Nights
ICRA 2012.
[Supervisor: Michael Partheil]
R. D. Morton, E. Olson.
Positive and Negative Obstacle Detection using the HLD Classifier
IROS 2011.
[Supervisor: Andreas Lars Wachaja]
V. R. Desaraju, N. Michael, M. Humenberger, R. Brockers, S. Weiss, L. Matthies.
Vision-based Landing Site Evaluation and Trajectory Generation Toward Rooftop Landing
RSS 2014.
[Supervisor: Tim Welschehold]
A. Hornung, M. Phillips, E. Gil Jones, M. Bennewitz, M. Likhachev, S. Chitta.
Navigation in Three-Dimensional Cluttered Environments for Mobile Manipulation
ICRA 2012.
[Supervisor: Tim Welschehold]

Topics Seminar

D. Dolgov, S. Thrun.
Detection of Principal Directions in Unknown Environments for Autonomous Navigation
RSS 2008.
[Supervisor: Michael Partheil]
D. J. Webb, J. van den Berg.
Kinodynamic RRT*: Asymptotically Optimal Motion Planning for Robots with Linear Dynamics
ICRA 2013.
[Supervisor: Barbara Frank]
V. Narayanan, M. Phillips, M. Likhachev.
Anytime Safe Interval Path Planning for Dynamic Environments
IROS 2012.
[Supervisor: Abhinav Valada]
D. Sabatta, R. Siegwart.
Bearings-only Path Following with a Vision-based Potential Field
ICRA 2014.
[Supervisor: Abhinav Valada]
L. Riazuelo, J. Civera, J. M. M. Montiel.
C2TAM: A Cloud Framework for cooperative tracking and mapping
RAS 2014.
[Supervisor: Tim Caselitz]
L. Murphy, P. Newman.
Planning Most-Likely Paths from Overhead Imagery
ICRA 2010.
[Supervisor: Barbara Frank]
J. Engel, J. Sturm, D. Cremers.
Camera-Based Navigation of a Low-cost Quadrocopter
IROS 2012.
[Supervisor: Andreas Lars Wachaja]