Uwe R. Zimmer
Uwe R. Zimmer
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Current research interests
Spatio-temporal modelling and control in autonomous systems (robots)
    Keywords: autonomous and adaptive physical systems, distributed estimation and control, real-time architectures, active sensing, clustering & classification

Selected recent publications
Distributed Dynamical Omnicast Routing
Felix Schill & Uwe R. Zimmer
Complex Systems (intl. journal) Volume 16, Issue 4, 2006
Abstract | contact authors for a copy
 
Distributed Shape Control of Homogeneous Swarms of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Shahab Kalantar & Uwe R. Zimmer
Autonomous Robots (intl. journal) 2006
Abstract | contact authors for a copy
 
Control of Open Contour Formations of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Shahab Kalantar & Uwe R. Zimmer
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Dec. '05
Abstract | contact authors for a copy
 
Towards Optimal TDMA Scheduling for Robotic Swarm Communication
Felix Schill, Uwe R. Zimmer & Jochen Trumpf
Proceedings of the TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) intl. conference, September 12-14, 2005, London
Abstract | Paper (pdf)
 
(more publications | activities | students)

Current courses
Some former courses

Current projects
  • Serafina project
    (school of autonomous submersibles)
  • ARC-project:
    To flee or not to flee: surviving on incomplete information
    '05-'08
    (collaboration with the Research School for Biological Sciences)
Some former projects

Contact

uwe.zimmer@ieee.org
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  Canberra, Australia
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Phone: +61 2 6125 8619
Fax: +61 2 6125 8660

Fellow at the Australian National University  

for the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Department of Computer Science
Building 108
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
Department of Systems Engineering
RSISE Building 115
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia


formerly visiting professor at the International University Bremen  
School of Engineering and Science
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Campus-Ring, 28759 Bremen, Germany
 

formerly scientific director of the
GMD - Japan Research Laboratory
Kitakyushu, Japan
 

formerly head of the underwater activities at the
German National Research Centre
for Information Technology

Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems
Bonn, German
(The German National Research Centre ceased to exist in 2001,
while most former research institutes were transformed into Fraunhofer institutes.
So was the now Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems.)
 

formerly research and teaching assistant at the
University of Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern, Germany


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Some of the Origamis on this site are created by Sarah Wooden
Most Japanese translations by Yoko Yamane & Setsuko Takashima
Russian translations by Klaus-Jürgen Nissen
Arabic translations by Maki K. Habib
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