The Robotics Logbook
Effective Bibliography Management with Zotero
Motivation Throughout my Ph.D. I built a highly flexible, automated bibliography management pipeline. I was driven by three factors: I love automating things. I would rather spend 5 hours automating ...
Research Vision: Safe AI
Motivation We cannot directly deploy embodied AI agents in human environments, as they may exhibit unforeseen and erratic behavior under out-of-distribution conditions, requiring formal safety verific...
Research Vision: Personalized AI
Motivation The acceptance of autonomous robots increases significantly when user biases, preferences, and ideas are taken into account by personalized robots. Recent approaches that aim to incorporate...
Research Vision: Embodied AI
Motivation For robots to be effective partners in human environments, they must autonomously perform challenging manipulation tasks such as retrieving, sorting, assembling, and handing over objects. R...
Safety shield for human-robot collaboration
We cannot directly deploy embodied AI agents in human environments, as they may exhibit unforeseen and erratic behavior under OOD conditions. We solve this problem with our SARA shield that provides ...
Including User Preferences in Embodied AI
Baseline Text2Interaction Different users have varying preferences. This naturally applies to robotics as well! Adjusting robot behavior to human preferences can require intensive human fe...
Provably Safe RL
We have to guarantee the safety of AI agents in deployment as they can show dangerous behavior in unseen situations. As reinforcement learning (RL) agents learn by exploring the world, they are espec...
Human-robot gym
The field of collaborative robotics is rapidly growing and has the potential to change the way we live our day-to-day lives. From easing the work of factory workers, construction workers, and people w...
Reducing Safety Interventions in Provably Safe Reinforcement Learning
In our previous work, we showed how a [safety shield](/posts/safety-shield/) can ensure the safety of RL agents in general robotic tasks. When trained in simulation, the RL agent learns to evade the ...
Mercedes-Benz R&D North America
During my 6-month internship at Mercedes Benz Research and Development North America, I had the opportunity to work with a talented team of experts in the autonomous driving department. As part of the...
Road Condition Monitoring
Road maintenance is a crucial aspect of ensuring safe and efficient transportation. In Germany alone, over 10 billion Euros were spent on road maintenance projects in 2015, as reported by the German F...
Optical Belt Sorting
Optical sorters are a game-changer in various industrial sectors like civil engineering, recycling, and agriculture. Unlike other sorters, optical sorters can sort based on visual properties alone, me...