Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (A2S)
1st and 2nd place at AFCEA Study Award 2023
At the AFCEA Bonn e.V., study prizes have been awarded annually since 2008 to young scientists for scientific qualification. Awards are given for outstanding theses in the fields of:
- Applied Computer Science, AI, Big Data, Automatic Speech Processing,
- communications engineering, radar technology and
- automation technology, robotics.
Ahmed Faisal Abdelrahman was the winner of the entire competition with his master's thesis: A Neuromorphic Approach to Obstacle Avoidance in Robot Manipulation. He received prize money of 6,000 euros for his Master's thesis, which was supervised by Prof. Dr. Paul Plöger (H-BRS), Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz (Uni Bonn), and Prof. Dr. Matias Valdenegro-Toro (University of Groningen).
Neuromorphic computing (NC) attempts to mimic the properties of the brain through hardware, specifically by using analogue VLSI circuits. In his master's thesis, Abdelrahman tries to explore the advantages and limitations of an NC-based solution using a very common robotics problem (i.e. obstacle avoidance of a manipulator using an on-board camera).
Sushant Vijay Chavan won second place. His Master's thesis on the topic: Coins Map - Composable ontology based indoor semantic map, was awarded a prize of 2,000 euros. Not only his supervisors Prof. Dr. Erwin Prassler and Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender are proud of this achievement, but also the Department of Computer Science congratulates both winners on their outstanding success.
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Professor im Ruhestand / retired professor Dr. Paul G. Plöger
Autonomous Systems
Professor im Ruhestand / retired professor Erwin Prassler
Autonomous Systems , (retired on 28.02.2025)
Nico Hochgeschwender
ZEV Collegium, Formerly Research Professor for Robotics, Autonomous Systems and their Safety at the Department of Computer Science
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