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Thu, 19. January 2023
Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender joins the Autonomous Systems faculty
Prof. Hochgeschwender was previously a member of the research staff in the Autonomous Systems Group
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Thu, 19. January 2023
b-it-bots world champions at RoboCup@Work 2019
The b-it-bots@Work team builds on its victory at the German Open and wins at the world championships as well
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Thu, 19. January 2023
Papers by Sven Schneider and Prof. Nico Hochgeschwender accepted at IROS 2019
Titles: "Exploiting Linearity in Dynamics Solvers for the Design of Composable Robotic Manipulation Architectures" and "Arguing Security of Autonomous Robots"
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Thu, 19. January 2023
Anastassia Kuestenmacher successfully defends her PhD
Anastassia successfully defended her PhD, titled “Improving the Reliability of Service Robots in the Presence of External Faults” at RWTH Aachen with magna cum laude
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Thu, 19. January 2023
2nd place for b-it bots@Work at German Open 2018
The team also won prizes for the Line Following Test and the Arbitrary Surface Test
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Thu, 19. January 2023
AFCEA awards for MAS graduates Matias Valdenegro and Sergey Alexandrov
Matias Valdenegro obtains first place, while Sergey Alexandrov third place, both for their master's thesis research
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Thu, 19. January 2023
b-it-bots place 3rd at RoboCup@Work 2015
The team finishes on the podium for a second consecutive year
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Thu, 19. January 2023
Best student paper award for MAS student Ashok Sundaram
Ashok Meenakshi Sundaram, together with Melanie Ludwig, won the best student paper award at the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well (ICT3AgeingWell) in Lisbon
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Thu, 19. January 2023
Prof. Dr. Erwin Prassler elected vice president of IEEE RAS
During his term of office from 2016 to 2017, he will be responsible for Industrial Activities
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Thu, 19. January 2023
b-it-bots place 2nd in the @Work league at German Open 2015
The team ends on the podium among considerably larger competition compared to previous years
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Thu, 19. January 2023
Adam Gaier wins E-Drive Academy award
This prize is awarded to the two most promising projects from over 50 contributions on energy efficient driving and batteries in electric mobility
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Thu, 19. January 2023
IEEE ETFA Special Session on "Mobile Robotics in the Factory of the Future"
The special session is part of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA) and is co-organised by Nico Hochgeschwender
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Thu, 19. January 2023
Ronny Hartanto appointed professor of Computer Engineering at Rhein-Waal University
Ronny was one of the first students of our Master of Autonomous Systems program