Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke

- Leiter der Abteilung Informatik VI - Intelligente Systeme und Robotik
- Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe Autonome Intelligente Systeme
- PI und Area-Chair Embodied AI des Lamarr-Instituts für Maschinelles Lernen und Künstliche Intelligenz
- Gründungsmitglied des Center for Robotics

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   Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke
   Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
   Institut für Informatik VI
   Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8
   53115 Bonn 

Tel:  +49 (0) 228 73-4116
Fax: +49 (0) 228 73-4425 

Email: behnke _at_ cs.uni-bonn.de

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Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke hat seit 2008 den Lehrstuhl für Autonome Intelligente Systeme an der Universität Bonn inne und leitet das Institut für Informatik VI – Intelligente Systeme und Robotik. Er erwarb 1997 einen Abschluss als Diplom-Informatiker an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg und promovierte 2002 im Fach Informatik an der Freien Universität Berlin. In seiner Dissertation „Hierarchical Neural Networks for Image Interpretation“ hat er vorwärtsgerichtete Deep Learning-Modelle zu rekurrenten Modellen für die visuelle Wahrnehmung erweitert. Im Jahr 2003 forschte er als Postdoktorand zu robuster Spracherkennung am International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA. In den Jahren 2004-2008 leitete Professor Behnke die Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe "Humanoide Roboter" an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Zu seinen Forschungsinteressen gehören Kognitive Robotik, Computer Vision und Maschinelles Lernen. Prof. Behnke erhielt mehrere Best Paper-Awards, drei Amazon Research Awards (2018-20), einen Google Faculty Research Award (2019), sowie den Ralf-Dahrendorf-Preis des BMBF für den Europäischen Forschungsraum (2019). Sein Team NimbRo hat zahlreiche Roboterwettbewerbe gewonnen (RoboCup Humanoid Soccer, RoboCup@Home, MBZIRC).

Eine Liste mit Programmkomitee-Mitgliedschaften, Veranstaltungsorganisationen und eingeladenen Vorträgen ist hier.

Ausgewählte Projekte

• BMBF-Projekt "UMDenken: Unterstützendes Monitoring bei Drehleitereinsätzen zur Brandbekämpfung mittels IR-Bildern", Teilvorhaben "Autonomer Flugroboter zur Löschunterstützung"
• 2023-2026: KAIST project "Immersive Televisualization"
  
• 2022-2025: BMBF project "WestAI – Service Center for Artificial Intelligence"
• 2022-2026: BMBF project "Autonomous flying robot swarms for real-time situational awareness"
• 2022-2028: The Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, principal investigator
  
• 2021-2025: BMBF project "BNTrAinee: Bonn Transdisciplinary Education in Artificial Intelligence"
• 2021-2025: BMBF project "RimA: Roboter im Alltag (Robots in Everyday Environments)" 
• 2021-2025: BMBF/ANR project "Learn2Grasp: Learning Human-like Interactive Grasping based on Visual and Haptic Feedback"
  
• 2021-2022: European H2020 FSTP project "EUROBENCH – EUropean ROBotic framework for bipedal locomotion bENCHmarking"
• 2021-2023 DFG Research Unit 2535 “Anticipating Human Behaviour”, projects “Semantic Video Prediction" and "Anticipative Human-Robot Collaboration"
• 2019-2025: DFG Cluster of Excellence “PhenoRob–Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production”, principal investigator, co-lead of Core Project 1: “In-field 4D Crop Reconstruction”
  
• 2020-2022: BMBF Competence Center “Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr (ML2R)”, project "Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Visual Representations"
  
• 2018-2022: BMBF Competence Center “German Center for Rescue Robots”, project „Autonomous Assistance Functions for Flying Robots”
• 2020-2021: Fraunhofer project "Collaborative Perception and Prediction with Smart Edge Sensors"
• 2020-2021: Amazon Research Award project “Learning Structured Scene Modeling and Physics-based Prediction”
  
• 2019-2020: Google Faculty Research Award project “Collaborative Perception using Smart Edge Sensors”
  
• 2019-2020: Amazon Research Award project “Generalizing Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking”
  
• 2018-2020: Khalifa University project “Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC)”
  
• 2017-2020: DFG Research Unit 2535 “Anticipating Human Behaviour”, projects “Learning Hierarchical Representations for Anticipative Human-Robot Collaboration” and “Activity Prediction at Varying Timescales”
  
• 2016-2020: DFG project “Automatic Reconstruction of Plant Root Systems from MRI”
  
• 2017-2019: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) project “Development of the Artificial Electronic Skin that Mimics Human Skin Structure and Functions for Tactile and Kinesthetic Feedback in Robotic Surgery or Prosthetic Arms”
  
• 2018-2019: Amazon Research Award project “Learning Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking”
  
• 2016-2017: Khalifa University project “Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC)”
  
• 2015-2018: European H2020 project “CENTAURO – Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response“, coordinator
  
• 2012-2018: DFG Research Unit 1505 “Mapping on Demand”, projects “Local Perception for the Autonomous Navigation of Multicopters” and “Autonomous Navigation for Object Capture with Multicopters”
  
• 2012-2018: DFG Priority Programme SPP 1527 “Autonomous Learning”, projects “ALROMA - Autonomous Active Object Learning Through Robot Manipulation” and “Autonomous Learning of Bipedal Walking Stabilization”
  
• 2014-2017: BMWi project “InventAIRy - Identification with autonomous flying robots” 
• 2015-2017: European FP7 project “European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC)”, projects “robolink® feeder – Flexible Energy Chain Assembly Automation with a Lightweight Cable-driven Robot”, “KittingBot – Mobile Manipulation for Part Sequencing and Kitting in Automotive Logistics”, and “ChimneySpector – Inside/outside chimney and smoke pipe inspection by aerial robots”
  
• 2013-2016: European FP7 project “STAMINA – Sustainable and reliable robotics for part handling in manufacturing automation“
  
• 2012-2016: DFG project „Open-source Humanoid Soccer Robot for the RoboCup TeenSize Class”
  
• 2012-2013: DFG Graduate School GRK 1572 “Bionics – Interactions across Boundaries to the Environment”, project “Learning of Invariant Representations in a Hierarchy for Action Recognition”
  
• 2010-2013 NRW Graduate School “Bonn-Aachen International Research School of Applied Information Technology”, two projects in area “Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”
  
• 2004-2011 DFG Emmy Noether Excellency Grant "Learning Humanoid Robots”
  
• 2006-2009 DFG project "Humanoid Soccer Robots for the RoboCup KidSize League"