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-=====Theses and Jobs=====+=====Open researcher positions===== 
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 +We currently don't have any open positions for researchers. 
 +=====Theses and Student Jobs=====
 If you are looking for a bachelor/master thesis or a job as a student research assistant, you may find some interesting opportunities on this page. If you are looking for a bachelor/master thesis or a job as a student research assistant, you may find some interesting opportunities on this page.
  
  
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 +== Physics-based grasping in VR with finger tracking(Student Job / HiWi) ==
  
-== GPU-based Parallelization of Numerical Optimization Techniques (BA/MA/HiWi)== +Implementing physics-based grasping models in virtual environments, 
- +using Manus VR.
-In the field of Machine Learning, numerical optimization techniques play a focal role. However, as models grow larger, traditional implementations on single-core CPUs suffer from sequential execution causing a severe slow-down. In this thesis, state-of-the-art GPU frameworks (e.g. CUDA) are to be investigated in order implement numerical optimizers that substantially profit from parallel execution.+
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Skills in numerical optimization algorithms +  * Good C++ programming skills 
-  * Good programming skills in Python and C/C+++  * Familiar with skeletal animations 
 +  * Experience with simulators/physics-/game- engines 
 +  * Familiar with Unreal Engine API 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision 
 + 
 +Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
 +--></html>
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]] 
  
-== Online Learning of Markov Logic Networks for Natural-Language Understanding (MA)==+<html><!-- 
 +== Lisp / CRAM support assistant (HiWi) ==
  
-Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) combine the expressive power of first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models. In the past, they have been successfully applied to the problem of semantically interpreting and completing natural-language instructions from the web. State-of-the-art learning techniques mostly operate in batch mode, i.e. all training instances need to be known in the beginning of the learning process. In context of this thesis, online learning methods for MLNs are to be investigated, which allow incremental learning, when new examples come in one-by-one.+Technical support for the group for Lisp and the CRAM framework. \\ 
 +8+ hours per week for up to 1 year (paid).
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Experience in Machine Learning. +  * Good programming skills in Common Lisp 
-  * Experience with statistical relational learning (e.g. MLNs) is helpful. +  * Basic ROS knowledge
-  * Good programming skills in Python.+
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+The student will be introduced to the CRAM framework at the beginning of the job, which is a robot programming framework written in Lisp. The student will then be responsible for assisting not familiar with the framework people, explaining them the parts they don't understand and pointing them to the relevant documentation sources.
  
 +Contact: [[team:gayane_kazhoyan|Gayane Kazhoyan]]
 +--></html>
  
-==HiWi-Position: Knowledge Representation & Language Understanding for Intelligent Robots==+<html><!-- 
 +== Mesh Editing / Mesh Segmentation/Cutting (Student Job / HiWi)== 
 + {{ :research:human_hand_cutting.png?150|}}
  
-In the context of the European research project RoboHow.Cog [1,2] we + Editing and cutting a human mesh into different parts in Blender / Maya (or other).
-are investigating methods for combining multimodal sources of knowledge (e.g. video, natural-language recipes or computer games), in order to enable mobile robots to autonomously acquire new high level skills like cooking meals or straightening up rooms.  +
  
-The Institute for Artificial Intelligence is hiring a student researcher for the +Requirements: 
-development and the integration of probabilistic methods in AI, which enable intelligent robots to understand, interpret and execute natural-language instructions from recipes from the World Wide Web.+  * Good knowledge in 3D Modeling 
 +  * Familiar with Blender / Maya (or other)
  
-This HiWi-Position can serve as a starting point for future Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma Theses.+Contact: [[team/mona_abdel-keream|Mona Abdel-Keream]] 
 +--></html>
  
-Tasks: 
-  * Implementation of an interface to the Robot Operating System (ROS). 
-  * Linkage of the knowledge base to the executive of the robot. 
-  * Support for the scientific staff in extending and integrating components onto the robot platform PR2. 
  
-Requirements: +<html><!-- 
-  * Studies in Computer Science (Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma) +== 3D Animation and Modeling (Student Job / HiWi)== 
-  * Basic skills in Artificial Intelligence + {{ :research:kitchen_unreal.jpg?200|}} 
-  * Optional: basic skills in Probability Theory +
-  * Optional: basic skills in Machine Learning +
-  * Good programming skills in Python and Java+
  
-Hours: 10-20 h/week+Developing and improving existing or new 3D (static/skeletal) 
 +models in Blender / Maya (or other). Further importing and testing the 
 +models against Unreal Engine.
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+Bonus: Working with state of the art 3D Scanners [[https://www.goscan3d.com/|Go!SCAN]] for creating sketching new models.
  
-[1] www.robohow.eu\\ +Requirements: 
-[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIryyzlRwA+  * Experience with Blender / Maya (or other) 
 +  * Knowledge of Unreal Engine material / lightning development 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision
  
 +Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
 +--></html>
  
-== Kitchen Activity Games in a Realistic Robotic Simulator (BA/MA/HiWi)== +== Representing knowledge in a robot-agnostic ontology system for assistive robotics (MA Thesis) ==
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-Developing new activities and improving the current simulation framework done under the [[http://gazebosim.org/|Gazebo]] robotic simulator. Creating a custom GUI for the game, in order to launch new scenarios, save logs etc.+The thesis will be jointly supervised by German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Munich and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) at the University of Bremen.
  
-Requirements: +Summary: 
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ +  * Investigate about existing ontologies, like the Socio-physical Model of Activities (SOMA) from the University of Bremen. 
-  * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge +  * Refactor an existing knowledge database (known as the Object DataBase, ODB) used by the DLR into an ontology. 
-  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials+  * Use the ontology to design tasks in the assistive robotics domain using assistive robots provided by the DLR
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]+Full offer:
  
-== Integrating Eye Tracking in the Kitchen Activity Games (BA/MA)== +{{ :teaching:offer_2020-01_op2_wedanjustin.pdf |}}
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-Integrating the eye tracker in the [[http://gazebosim.org/|Gazebo]] based Kitchen Activity Games framework and logging the gaze of the user during the gameplay. From the information typical activities should be inferred.+Contact: [[team:daniel_bessler|Daniel Beßler]]
  
-Requirements: +== Integration of novel objects into Digital Twin Knowledge Bases (MA Thesis) ==
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ +
-  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials+
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]+In this thesis, the goal is to make a robotic system learn new objects automatically. 
 +The system should be able to generate the necessary models required for re-detecting it again and also consult online information sources to automatically acquire knowledge about it.
  
-== Hand Skeleton Tracking Using Two Leap Motion Devices (BA/MA)== +The focus of the thesis would be two-fold: 
- {{ :research:leap_motion.jpg?200|}} +  * Develop methods to automatically infer the object class of new objects. This would include perceiving it with state of the art sensors, constructing a 3d model of it and then infer the object class from online information sources. 
 +  * In the second step the system should also infer factual knowledge about the object from the internet and assert it into a robotic knowledgebase. Such knowledge could for example include the category of this product, typical object properties like its weight or typical location and much more.
  
-Improving the skeletal tracking offered by the [[https://developer.leapmotion.com/|Leap Motion SDK]], by using two devices (one tracking vertically the other horizontally) and switching between them to the one that has the best current view of the hand. 
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-The tracked hand can then be used as input for the Kitchen Activity Games framework. 
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Good programming skills in C/C+++  * Knowledge about sensor data processing 
 +  * Interest in model construction from sensory data 
 +  * Work with KnowRob knowledge processing framework
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
  
-== Fluid Simulation in Gazebo (BA/MA)== +Contact: [[team:patrick_mania|Patrick Mania]]
- {{ :research:fluid.png?200|}} +
  
-[[http://gazebosim.org/|Gazebo]] currently only supports rigid body physics engines (ODE, Bullet etc.), however in some cases fluids are preferred in order to simulate as realistically as possible the given environment.+<html><!-- 
 +== Development of Modules for Robot Perception (Student Job / HiWi) == 
 +In our research group, we focus on the development of modern robots that can make use of the potential of game engines. One particular research direction, is the combination of computer vision with game engines. 
 +In this context, we are currently offering multiple Hiwi positions / student jobs for the following tasks: 
 +  * Software development to create Interfaces between ROS and Unreal Engine 4 (mainly C++) 
 +  * Software development for our Robot Perception framework [[http://robosherlock.org/|RoboSherlock]] which contains many algorithms for computer vision problems (mainly C++)
  
-Currently there is an [[http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=fluids&cat=physics|experimental version]] of fluids  in Gazebo, using the [[http://onezero.ca/fluidix/|Fluidix]] library to run the fluids computation on the GPU.+Requirements: 
 +  * Experience in C++. 
 +  * Basic understanding of the ROS middleware and Linux. 
 +The spoken language in this job is german or english, based on your preference.
  
-The computational method for the fluid simulation is SPH (Smoothed-particle Dynamics), however newer and better methods based on SPH are currently present +Contact: [[team:patrick_mania|Patrick Mania]] 
-and should be implemented (PCISPH/IISPH).+--></html>
  
-The interaction between the fluid and the rigid objects is a naive one, the forces and torques are applied only from the particle collisions (not taking into account pressure and other forces).+== Game Engine Developer and 3D-Modelling  (Student Job / HiWi) == 
 +A recent development in the field of AI is the usage of photorealistic simulations, for example to create Digital Twins of environments like households or  [[https://iottechnews.com/news/2021/apr/13/bentley-systems-nvidia-omniverse-create-real-time-digital-twins/|factories]]. 
 +In our research group, we focus on the development of modern robots that can make use of the potential of game engines. This requires a high degree of specialized game engine plugins that can simulate certain aspects of our research. Another important task is the creation of 3d models.
  
-Another topic would be the visualization of the fluid, currently is done by rendering every particle. For the rendering engine [[http://www.ogre3d.org/|OGRE]] is used. +Therefore, we are currently offering multiple Hiwi positions / student jobs for the following tasks: 
- +  * Modelling of objects for the use in Unreal Engine 4. 
-Here is a [[https://vimeo.com/104629835|video]] example of the current state of the fluid in Gazebo. +  * Creation of specific simulation aspects in Unreal Engine 4. For example the development of interactable objects.
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ +  * Knowledge of 3D-Modelling tools. Blender would be highly preferred. 
-  * Interest in Fluid simulation +  * Experience in Game Engine development. Ideally Unreal Engine 4 and C++.
-  * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge +
-  * Gazebo simulator and Fluidix basic tutorials+
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]+The spoken language in this job is german or english, based on your preference.
  
 +Contact: [[team:patrick_mania|Patrick Mania]]
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