Editor
Program Committees
- Senior Program Committee Member, IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE,
10/2024
- Editor, IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, 11/2022.
- 24th RoboCup International Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, 07/2022.
- 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI) and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ECAI), Vienna, Austria,
07/2022
- 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
Earlier
program committee activities
Organizer
- Competition Co-chair,
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 05/2023
- Co-organizer Workshop "Toward Robot Avatars: Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Compeitition",
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS),
New York City, 07/2022
- 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
- 16.6.2022: Workshop on Intelligent Autonomous Robots for
Hazardous Decomissioning Tasks, 17th International Conference on
Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), taking place in Zagreb, Croatia: "Autonomous Assistance Functions for Mobile Manipulation Robots and Micro Aerial Vehicles"
- 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"
Universität
Bonn,
Institute for
Computer Science, Departments: I,
II,
III,
IV,
V,
VI