Autonomous Real-Time Systems

Current students

• [Ben Coughlan '09-'14, Ph.D. student]
• [Florian Poppa '09-'14, Ph.D. student]
• [Mark Turner '12-'20, Ph.D. student]
• [Steven Ellis '12-'15, Ph.D. student]
• [Evan Slatyer '09-'14, Ph.D student - advising]
• [Patrick Bernardi '09-'13, Ph.D. student]

Completed thesis / projects

• [Marie Christ '09, student winter project]
• [Daniel Breese '09, Honours student]
• [Navinda Kottege '04-'09, Ph.D. student]
• [Felix Schill '03-'08, Ph.D. student]
• [Shahab Kalantar '03-'07, Ph.D. student]
• [Justin Arthur '04/'05 summer scholar]
• [Christfried Webers '02-'05, Ph.D. student]
• [Andreas Pfeil '05-'08, Ph.D. student]
• [Abhinav (Ram) Somaraju '04-'07, Ph.D. student]
• [Kirill Kouzoubov '02-'05, Ph.D. student]
• [David Robertson Tulloh '04, Honours student]
• [Ankur Agrawal, student winter project '04]
• [Denver Serrao, student winter project '04]
• [Daniel Jang, '03/'04 summer scholar]
• [Ilona Pabst '03, Ph.D. student on a research project]
• [Christoph Burger-Scheidlin, student winter project '03]
• [Aakash Jain, student winter project '03]
• [Benjamin Liebald, student winter project '03]
• [Vinod Patmanathan, student winter project '03]
• Design and implementation of a school of compact autonomous submersibles (KAMBRINIS) [Alexander Bahr '03, postgraduate project]
• [Manuela Mark '02-'03]
• Inertia based control of the KAMBARA submersible [David Biddle '02-'03, Honours student & summer scholar]
• Underwater scanning sonar sensing [Daniel Brenner '02-'03]
• Distributed temporal event mapping and fusion [Felix Schill '01-'02, Diploma student]
• Distributed global time system in TCP/IP and Ada-RPC [Sharon Ong '01, summer scholar]
• Approximate sensor-data correlation under hard real-time constraints [Ram Somaraju '01, summer scholar]

LISA

(auditory modelling, specific and general spatial and behavioural models)

• Acoustic room modelling [Guido  Tesch '98]

ALICE

(self-localization, exploration, world-modelling, navigation, neural networks)

• Simulation of ALICE and dynamic situation clustering [Rainer Smidt '94]
• Navigation strategies based on reinforcement learning [Cornelia Fischer '94]
• Construction of the ALICE-platform [Andreas Prüß '94]
• Self-localization and stable world modelling under realtime constraints [Pascal Lefèvre '94]
• Exploration strategies for qualitative topologic world modelling [Andreas Prüß '95]
• Multi-layer self-organizing maps applied for distributed world modelling [Stefan Stranz '95]

(sources of this project are available on request)

SPIN

(subsymbolic, geometric abstractions - object recognition)

• Generation of an 3-d world model and adequate control of a laser range finder [Matthias Schäfer '93]
• Efficient geometric world modelling [Martin Stecher '94]
• Selective attention strategies for active surface completion [Franz-Josef Nölke '94]
• The extraction of surfaces [Martin Stecher '92]
• A neural fuzzy decision system [Jörg Bruske '93]
• Completion of 3-d surfaces with multi-layer backpropagation networks and frequency coding
• [Wolfgang Grund '93]
• Generalization and completion of surfaces with multi-layer backpropagation networks [Jörg Trundt '94]
• Classification of surfaces on the base of generalization trees and unsupervised neural networks [Edmund Klapper '93]
• Dynamic surface classifications on the base of 3Grow and Learn2 (GAL) from Alpaydin [Manfred Sigmann '93]
• Dynamic classification of surfaces with growing cell structures [Herman Keuchel '92]
• Dynamic classification of surface-clusters on the base of Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) [Herman Keuchel '94]
• Dynamic classification of surface-clusters with problem dependent cell structures [Martin Wagner '93]

(sources of this project are available on request)

ALBATROSS

(realtime communication and operating system)

• ALBATROSS - all the kernel structures [Christopher Wetzler '91]
• ALBATROSS - the I/O structure [Rolf Peukert '91]
• The ALBATROSS communication scheduler [Richard Tebuckhorst '92]
• Cyclic scheduling in a realtime communication system [Rolf Peukert '94]
• The blackboard communication scheme [Franz-Josef Nölke '92]
• A communication monitor [Dirk Sabiwalsky '92]
• Configuring the hardware components of ALBATROSS [Johann B. Adam '93]

Miscelanious

• Pulsed infrared detectors [Oliver Mezger '94]
• Userinterface for a classifier system [Oliver Schmitt '93]
• Cutlery classification employing Learning Vector Quanitization (LVQ) [Joachim Bayer '93]
• Graphical user-interface controlling a five degree of freedom manipulator [Jörg Trundt '92]
• Efficient teaching and control of a fiv degree of freedom manipulator [Stefan Stranz '93]
• Speed measurement and control of DC-motor employing a PID controller [Matthias Schäfer '91]
• Statistical evaluation of field-tests with a new anodyne [Regina Schmitt '91]
• Realtime extentions for a Modula-2 compiler [Ulrich Diel '90]