Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke

Editor

• Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• Associate Editor of Humanoid Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• Associate Editor of International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Program Committees

• Senior Program Committee Member, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10/2024
   
  
• 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17), Zagreb, Croatia, 06/2022
• Editor for Localization and Mapping, 39th IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, 05/2022
   
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, 08/2021
• Associate Editor, 20th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Munich, Germany, 07/2021
• 24th RoboCup International Symposium, online, 06/2021.
• 16th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Singapore, 06/2021
   
  
• Senior Program Committee Member, 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Yokohama, Japan, 07/2020
• Area Chair, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Corvallis, OR, USA, 07/2020
• 24th RoboCup International Symposium, Bordaux, France, 07/2020
• Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 05/2020
• 4th IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC),Taichung, Taiwan, 03/2020

• Associate Editor, 19th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Toronto, Canada, 10/2019
• Program Chair, European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Prague, 09/2019
• Senior Program Commitee Member, 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China, 08/2019
• 23rd RoboCup International Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 07/2019
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, 05/2019
• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, 02/2019


• Program Co-Chair, 18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Beijing, China, 11/2018
• Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 06/2018.
• 22nd RoboCup International Symposium, Montreal, Canada, 06/2018
• 15th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Baden-Baden, Germany, 06/2018.
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 05/2018
   
  
• Associate Editor, 17th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, UK, 11/2017
• Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 09/2017
• 40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Dortmund, Germany, 09/2017.
• Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Cambridge MA, USA, 07/2017
• 21st RoboCup International Symposium, Nagoya, Japan, 07/2017
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 05/2017

• Associate Editor, 16th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Cancun, Mexico, 11/2016
• Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, Korea, 10/2016
• Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Klagenfurt, Austria, 09/2016
• Senior Program Committee Member, 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), New York, USA, 07/2016
• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Singapore, 05/2016
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 05/2016
   
• Associate Editor, 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, Korea, 11/2015
• 38th Annual German Conference of Artificial Intelligence (KI), Dresden, Germany, 09/2015
• Innovative Session Co-Chair, Associate Editor IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 10/2015
• 7th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Lincoln, UK, 09/2015
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Killarney, Ireland, 07/2015
• 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 07/2015
• 19th RoboCup International Symposium, Hefei, China, 07/2015
• 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, 05/2015
• Associate Editor IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, 05/2015
  
  Earlier program committee activities  

Organizer

• General Chair 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn, 09/2021.
• Co-organizer Workshop on Dynamic Legged Locomotion in Realistic Terrains, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 05/2018
• Co-organizer 12th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, UK, 11/2017
• Co-organizer Workshop on Disaster Response Robots: Design principles and Control for Effective Mobility and Manipulation, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 06/2017.
• Co-organizer 11th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 15th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Cancun, Mexico, 11/2016
• Co-chair 20th International RoboCup Symposium, Leipzig, 07/2016
• Co-organizer 10th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 14th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Seoul, 11/2015
• Co-organizer TRADR Summer School on Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (AMAV), Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 08/2015
• Co-organizer 9th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 14th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Madrid, 11/2014
• League Chair Humanoid League at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, 04/2014.
• Co-organizer 8th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 13th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Atlanta, 10/2013
• Co-organizer International Summer School on Humanoid Soccer, Bonn, 07/2013
• Co-chair 17th International RoboCup Symposium, Eindhoven, 07/2013
• League Chair Humanoid League at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, 04/2013
• Co-organizer 7th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS 12th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Osaka, 11/2012

Invited Talks

• 10.11.2021: EASE & REMARO Fall School, Bremen: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
  
• 31.8.2021: Workshop on Resuce Robotics in the Field, 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn: "Autonomous Assistance Functions for Centaur-like Ground Robots and Micro Aerial Vehicles in Disaster Response"
  
• 31.8.2021: Workshop on Agricultural Robotics and Automation, 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn: "High-resolution In-field Crop Scanning"
  
• 19.5.2021: Amazon Research Robotics Symposium: "Learning Structured Scene Modelling for Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 23.2.2021: Jahreskonferenz der Plattform Lernende Systeme (PLS), Panel "KI in lebensfeindlichen Umgebungen – Kein Vertrauen ohne Zertifizierung?"
• 26.10.2020, University of Stuttgart: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
• 13.10.2020, TU Dortmund: "Perception, Planning, and Learning for Cognitive Robots"
• 22.11.2019, Absolventenkongress, Köln: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter" 
• 29.10.2019, Thementag Künstliche Intelligenz, NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Düsseldorf: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter"
• 24.10.2019, Digitaler Rhein, Raketenstation Hombroich: "Kognitive Roboter"
• 11.10.2019, Amazon Research Award Symposium, Boston: "Generalizing Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 26.9.2019, Google X, München: "Perception and Planning for Cognitive Robots"
• 2.9.2019, Workshop on Anticipating Human Behavior, Bonn, "Representation Learning and Activity Prediction from Video"
• 13.5.2019, Bonn Waseda University Day Workshop on Advanced Robotics and AI Technologies: "Perception and Planning for Humanoid Disaster-response Robots"
• 12.4.2019, PhenoRob Seminar, Bonn:  "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots"
• 21.3.2019, Workshop on Aerial Robotics Technologies & Applications, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Bucharest, Romania: "3D Mapping and planning for autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles in complex GNSS-denied environments"
• 7.12.2018, French-German Conference on Humanoid and Legged Robots (HLR), Munich, Germany: "Flexible Driving-stepping Locomotion and Human-like Manipulation for Disaster Response"
• 9.11.2018, Plenary Keynote IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Beijing, China: "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Humanoid Robots in Complex Environments"
• 6.11.2018: Workshop on Humanoid Robotics: Dead-end or Bright Future?, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),Beijing, China: "Humanoid Robots: From Fiction to Reality?"
• 26.10.2018, Amazon Research Awards Fall Symposium (ARA), Boston, MA, USA: "Learning Semantic Perception for Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 1.10.2018, IROS 2018 Workshop on Humanoid Robot Falling: Fall Detection, Damage Prevention, and Recovery Actions, Madrid, Spain: "Push Recovery, Fall Survival, and Getting-up of NimbRo Humanoid Soccer Robots"
• 13.6.2018, 9th International Scientific Symposium on Logistics (ISSL), Magdeburg, Keynote: "Semantic Perception for Bin Picking"
  
• 8.6.2018, Center for Management Studies (CMS), Beiratssitzung Digitale Technologien und Innovationen, Bonn: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter"
• 25.5.2018, ICRA 2018 Workshop on Dynamic Legged Locomotion in Realistic Terrains, Brisbane, Australia: "Hybrid Driving-Stepping Locomotion in Challenging Environments"
• 21.5.2018, ICRA 2018 Workshop on Advances in Robotic Warehouse Automation, Brisbane, Australia: "Team NimbRo Picking at ARC 2017: Fast Learning Semantic Perception and Coordinating Two Arms"
• 14.3.2018, Workshop on Dexterous Telerobotics Technologies and Applications, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Tampere (Finland): "Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot"
• 13.3.2018, Workshop on Aerial Robotics for Industrial Inspection, Maintenance & Transportation, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Tampere (Finland): "Fast Autonomous Flight Near Structures in Large Indoor Environments"
• 18.1.2018, VDI/VDE Neujahrsseminar Künstliche Intelligenz - Vision und Realität, Deutsches Museum Bonn: "Umgebungswahrnehmung und Verhaltensplanung für Kognitive Roboter"
• 6.12.2017, 2. VDI-Fachkonferenz Humanoide Roboter, München: "Humanoide Roboter für den Einsatz in menschenfeindlichen Umgebungen"
• 27.11.2017, DGR Days, Bremen: "Semantic Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 15.11.2017, The 12th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Birmingham, UK: "Winning Humanoid Soccer Robots of Team NimbRo: Mechatronics, Perception, Control, and Learning".
• 13.11.2017, RWTH Aachen University: "Learning Semantic Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 11.10.2017, Keynote at 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Shanghai, China: "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots in Complex Environments"
• 2.10.2017, Delft Workshop on Robot Learning (DWRL): "Learning Semantic Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 26.9.2017, IEEE-RAS Young Professionals Luncheon, IROS, Vancouver, Canada: "Advancing Robotics Research through Robot Competitions and Challenges"
• 5.9.2017, Summer School on Foundations of Robotics and Autonomous Learning (RALSS), Berlin: "Deep Learning of Semantic Perception for Robots"
• 17./18.7.2017, International Summer School on Deep Learning, Bilbao, Spain: "Visual Perception using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks".
• 12.7.2017, VDI-Konferenz Autonome Systeme in Produktion und Logistik, Karlsruhe: "Semantische Wahrnehmung für den Griff in die Kiste"
• 28.6.2017, Machine Intelligence Summit, Amsterdam: "Learning Semantic Environment Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 28.6.2017, Machine Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicles Summit, Amsterdam: "3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping and Navigation Planning for Mobile Robots in Complex Environments"
• 20.6.2017, Viszeralchirurgische Tage Bonn, CEASAR: "Vom Gehirn inspiriert: Künstliche Intelligenz durch Deep Learning"
• 2.6.2017, ICRA Workshop on Disaster Response Robots, Singapore: "Perception and Planning for Autonomous Locomotion and Manipulation in a Disaster-Response Robot" 
• 29.5.2017, ICRA Warehouse Picking Automation Workshop (WPAW), Singapore: "Data-efficient Deep Learning for RGB-D Object Perception in Cluttered Bin Picking"
• 23.3.2017, Workshop on Robots for Disaster Response, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Edinburgh, UK: "CENTAURO – Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot"
• 19.3.2017, Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) Workshop, Abu Dhabi, UAE: "MBZIRC Challenge 2 Winner NimbRo", "MBZIRC Grand Challenge Winner NimbRo"
• 21.2.2017, HAP Workshop Big Data Science in Astroparticle Physics, RWTH Aachen: "Spatiotemporal Integration in Recurrent Deep Neural Networks"
• 6.12.2016, German-French Conference on Humanoid and Legged Robots (HLR), Toulouse, France: "Anthropomorphic Robots for Disaster Response"
• 8.11.2016, French Robotics Days (GdR), CNRS, Paris: "Humanoid Robots: From Playing Soccer to Rescue Operations"
• 14.10.2016, IROS Workshop on State Estimation and Terrain Perception for All Terrain Mobile Robots, Daejong, Korea: "Real-time SLAM, Traversability Analysis and Navigation Planning in Rough Terrain based on 3D Lidar"
• 10.10.2016, IROS Workshop on Evaluation and Benchmarking of Underactuated and Soft Robotic Hands, Daejong, Korea: "Manipulating a Large Variety of Objects and Tool Use in Domestic Service, Industrial Automation, Search and Rescue, and Space Exploration"
• 29.6.2016, Machine Intelligence Summit, Berlin: "Learning Semantic Environment Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 20.5.2016, ICRA Workshop on Legged Robot Falling: Fall Detection, Damage Prevention, and Recovery Actions, Stockholm: "Instability Detection and Disturbance Rejection for Bipedal Walking"
• 12.1.2016, Ringvorlesung "Die Maschine: Freund oder Feind? – Mensch und Technologie im digitalen Zeitalter", Bonn: "Kognitive Roboter als Helfer des Menschen"
• 8.11.2015, Dagstuhl Seminar on Vision for Autonomous Vehicles and Probes: "Semantic RGB-D Perception for Cognitive Robots"
• 4.11.2015, Panel Discussion: "What happened at the DARPA Robotics Challenge?" Humanoids Conference, Seoul: "DRC Team NimbRo Rescue: Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro"
• 3.11.2015, Workshop on "What did we do for the Darpa Robotics Challenge?", Humanoids Conference, Seoul: "DRC Team NimbRo Rescue: Flexible Driving-Stepping Locomotion and Human-like Manipulation with Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro"
• 4.10.2015, 12th Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium, Kyoto, Japan: "Deep Learning for Visual Perception"
• 2.10.2015, IROS Workshop on Perception and Planning for Legged Robot Locomotion in Challenging Domains, Hamburg: "Hybrid Wheeled-Legged Locomotion in Semi-Structured Environments"
• 24.9.2015, Deep Learing Summit, London: "From the Neural Abstraction Pyramid to Semantic RGB-D Perception"
• 26.5.2015, Workshop on Mobile Manipulators for Manufacturing Applications, ICRA 2015, Seattle, USA: "From Domestic Service Robots to Industrial Mobile Manipulators" 
• 23.2.2015, Hochschultag Informatik, B-IT, Bonn: "Kognitive Roboter: Wahrnehmung, Handlungsplanung und Lernen"
• 18.11.2014, Workshop on How to Make Best Use of a Human Supervisor for Semi-Autonomous Humanoid Operation at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Madrid, Spain: "Mobile Teleoperation Interfaces for Domestic Service Robots"
• 27.-28.10.2014, Leopoldina-KAST Conference on Human Centered Assistive Robotics, Munich, "Perception and Planning for Cognitive Service Robots"
• 23.6.2014, First International Symposium on Soft Robotics in Germany, Stuttgart: "Perception of Deformable Objects and Compliant Manipulation for Service Robots"
• 1.6.2014, ECHORD++ Workshop at ICRA, Hong Kong: "Active Recognition and Manipulation of Simple Parts Exploiting 3D Information"
• 12.-14.5.2014, French-German-Japanese Conference on Humanoid and Legged Robots (HLR), Heidelberg: "Mobile Manipulation in Everyday Environments"
• 27.2.2014, Schunk Expert Days: "Perception and Planning for Cognitive Service Robots"
• 16.-21.2.2014, Dagstuhl Seminar on Robots Learning from Experiences: "Manipulation Skill Learning for Cognitive Service Robots"
• 1.10.2013, Bonn Vision Workshop: "Visual Perception for Robots"
• 9.9.2013, Informatik-Kolloquium, TU Braunschweig: "Wahrnehmung und Verhaltenssteuerung für kognitive Roboter in komplexen Umgebungen"
• 3.9.2013, SPS Summer School on Signal Processing, Riotorto; "Deep Learning Architectures for Pattern Recognition"
• 8.5.2013, ICRA Humanoid Challenge, Karlsruhe: "NimbRo-OP Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform"
• 15.4.2013, ECHORD Review Meeting, Frankfurt: Active Recognition and Manipulation of Simple Parts Exploiting 3D Information
• 21.11.2012, Institut für Landtechnik, Bonn: "Kognitive Serviceroboter für den Einsatz in Alltagsumgebungen"
• 11.10.2012, IROS ECHORD Workshop, Vilamoura: "Shape-primitive based object recognition and grasp planning for bin picking"
• 28.6.2012, Ringvorlesung Bionik, Bonn: "Humanoide Roboter – Eine Herausforderung für die KI-Forschung und die Robotik"
• 7.5.2012, Abendveranstaltung Embodiment, Düsseldorf: "Humanoide Roboter – Eine Herausforderung für die KI-Forschung und die Robotik"