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- | =====Theses and Jobs===== | ||
- | If you are looking for a bachelor/ | ||
+ | =====Open researcher positions===== | ||
+ | ====Digital Twin Knowledge Base for submarine robot inspection/ | ||
+ | The Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) investigates methods for cognition-enabled robot control. The research is at the intersection of robotics and Artificial Intelligence and includes methods for intelligent perception, dexterous object manipulation, | ||
- | == GPU-based Parallelization | + | As a researcher |
- | 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. | + | **Prerequisites: |
+ | * Digital Twins | ||
+ | * Knowledge Representation | ||
+ | * Data structures | ||
+ | * Data Stream Representation. | ||
- | Requirements: | + | **Hiring institution:** University of Bremen |
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- | Contact: [[team: | + | **PhD Enrollment:** PhD position in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at University of Bremen. The project involves collaboration with ROSEN in Bremen and UiO in Oslo. |
- | == Online Learning | + | The PhD examination acceptance requires a “Certificate |
- | 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, | + | **Duration |
- | Requirements: | + | **Main Academic Supervisor:** Prof. Michael Beetz, contact: beetz@cs.uni-bremen.de |
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- | * Good programming skills in Python. | + | |
- | Contact: [[team: | + | **Co-supervisors:** prof. Einar Broch Johnsen (UiO, Norway), dr. Peter Kampmann (ROSEN, Germany) |
+ | =====Theses and Student Jobs===== | ||
+ | If you are looking for a bachelor/ | ||
- | ==HiWi-Position: | ||
- | In the context of the European research project RoboHow.Cog [1,2] we | ||
- | 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 | + | < |
- | 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. | + | == Knowledge-enabled PID Controller for 3D Hand Movements in Virtual Environments (BA/MA Thesis) == |
- | This HiWi-Position can serve as a starting point for future Bachelor' | + | Implementing a force-, velocity- and impulse-based PID controller for precise and responsive hand movements in a virtual environment. The virtual environment used in Unreal Engine in combination with Virtual Reality devices. The movements |
- | + | of the human user will be mapped | |
- | Tasks: | + | The controller should be able to dynamically tune itself depending on the executed actions (opening/ |
- | * Implementation of an interface to the Robot Operating System (ROS). | + | |
- | * Linkage | + | |
- | * Support for the scientific staff in extending and integrating components onto the robot platform PR2. | + | |
Requirements: | Requirements: | ||
- | * Studies in Computer Science (Bachelor' | + | * Good C++ programming skills |
- | * Basic skills in Artificial Intelligence | + | * Familiar with PID controllers and control theory |
- | * Optional: basic skills in Probability Theory | + | * Experience with simulators/ |
- | * Optional: basic skills in Machine Learning | + | * Familiar with Unreal Engine API |
- | * Good programming skills in Python and Java | + | * Familiar with version-control systems (git) |
+ | * Able to work independently with minimal supervision | ||
- | Hours: 10-20 h/week | + | Contact: [[team: |
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- | Contact: [[team: | + | == Natural Physics-based Grasping in Virtual Environments (BA/MA Thesis) == |
- | [1] www.robohow.eu\\ | + | Implementing physics-based grasping models |
- | [2] http:// | + | from various devices such as Manus VR or Valve Index. |
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- | == Kitchen Activity Games in a Realistic Robotic Simulator (BA/ | + | |
- | {{ : | + | |
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- | Developing new activities and improving the current simulation framework done under the [[http:// | + | |
Requirements: | Requirements: | ||
- | * Good programming skills in C/C++ | + | * Good C++ programming skills |
- | * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge | + | * Familiar with skeletal animations |
- | * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials | + | * 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: | Contact: [[team: | ||
- | == Integrating Eye Tracking in the Kitchen Activity Games (BA/MA)== | + | < |
- | {{ : | + | == Lisp / CRAM support assistant (HiWi) == |
- | Integrating | + | Technical support for the group for Lisp and the CRAM framework. |
+ | 8+ hours per week for up to 1 year (paid). | ||
Requirements: | Requirements: | ||
- | * Good programming skills in C/C++ | + | * Good programming skills in Common Lisp |
- | * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials | + | * Basic ROS knowledge |
- | Contact: [[team: | + | 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. |
- | == Hand Skeleton Tracking Using Two Leap Motion Devices (BA/MA)== | + | Contact: [[team:gayane_kazhoyan|Gayane Kazhoyan]] |
- | | + | --></ |
- | 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. | + | < |
+ | == Mesh Editing | ||
+ | {{ : | ||
- | The tracked hand can then be used as input for the Kitchen Activity Games framework. | + | |
Requirements: | Requirements: | ||
- | * Good programming skills | + | * Good knowledge |
+ | * Familiar with Blender | ||
- | Contact: [[team: | + | Contact: [[team/ |
+ | --></ | ||
- | == Fluid Simulation in Gazebo (BA/MA)== | ||
- | {{ : | ||
- | [[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. | + | == 3D animation and model developer (Student Job / HiWi)== |
+ | | ||
- | Currently there is an [[http:// | + | Developing and improving existing or new 3D (static/skeletal) |
+ | models | ||
+ | models against Unreal Engine. | ||
- | The computational method for the fluid simulation is SPH (Smoothed-particle Dynamics), however newer and better methods based on SPH are currently present | + | Bonus: Working with state of the art 3D Scanners [[https:// |
- | and should be implemented (PCISPH/IISPH). | + | |
+ | Requirements: | ||
+ | * Experience with Blender / Maya (or other) | ||
+ | * Knowledge of Unreal Engine material | ||
+ | * Familiar with version-control systems (git) | ||
+ | * Able to work independently with minimal supervision | ||
+ | |||
+ | Contact: [[team: | ||
- | 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). | ||
- | 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. | + | < |
+ | == Integrating PR2 in the Unreal Game Engine Framework (BA/MA/HiWi)== | ||
+ | {{ : | ||
- | Here is a [[https://vimeo.com/104629835|video]] example of the current state of the fluid in Gazebo. | + | Integrating the [[https://www.willowgarage.com/pages/ |
Requirements: | Requirements: | ||
* Good programming skills in C/C++ | * Good programming skills in C/C++ | ||
- | * Interest in Fluid simulation | ||
* Basic physics/ | * Basic physics/ | ||
- | * Gazebo simulator and Fluidix | + | * Basic ROS knowledge |
+ | * UE4 basic tutorials | ||
Contact: [[team: | Contact: [[team: | ||
- | == Automated sensor calibration toolkit | + | == Realistic Grasping using Unreal Engine |
- | Computer vision is an important part of autonomous robots. For robots the image sensors are the main source of information of the surrounding world. Each camera is different, even if they are from the same production line. For computer vision, especially for robots manipulating their environment, | + | {{ : |
- | The topic for this master thesis | + | The objective of the project |
+ | ious human-like grasping approaches in a game developed using [[https:// | ||
- | The system should be: | + | The game consist |
- | * independent | + | |
- | * estimate intrinsics and extrinsics | + | |
- | * have depth calibration (case of RGBD) | + | |
- | * integrate capabilities from Halcon [1] | + | |
+ | In order to improve the ease of manipulating objects the user should | ||
+ | be able to switch during runtime the type of grasp (pinch, power | ||
+ | grasp, precision grip etc.) he/she would like to use. | ||
+ | | ||
Requirements: | Requirements: | ||
- | * Good programming skills in Python and C/C++ | + | * Good programming skills in C++ |
- | * ROS, OpenCV | + | * Good knowledge of the Unreal Engine API. |
+ | * Experience with skeletal control / animations / 3D models in Unreal Engine. | ||
+ | * Familiar with version-control systems (git) | ||
+ | * Able to work independently with minimal supervision | ||
- | [1] http:// | ||
- | Contact: [[team: | + | Contact: [[team/ |
+ | --></ | ||
- | == On-the-fly 3D CAD model creation | + | < |
+ | == Unreal Engine Editor Developer | ||
+ | {{ : | ||
- | Create models during runtime | + | Creating new user interfaces (panel customization) |
- | Requirements: | ||
- | * Good programming skills in C/C++ | ||
- | * strong background in computer vision | ||
- | * ROS, OpenCV, PCL | ||
- | Contact: [[team:thiemo_wiedemeyer|Thiemo Wiedemeyer]] | + | Requirements: |
+ | * Good C++ programming skills | ||
+ | * Familiar with the [[https:// | ||
+ | * Familiar with Unreal Engine API | ||
+ | * Familiar with version-control systems (git) | ||
+ | * Able to work independently with minimal supervision | ||
- | == Simulation of a robots belief state to support perception(MA) == | + | Contact: [[team: |
- | Create a simulation environment that represents the robots current belief state and can be updated frequently. Use off-screen rendering to investigate the affordances these objects possess, in order to support segmentation, | ||
- | Requirements: | ||
- | * Good programming skills in C/C++ | ||
- | * strong background in computer vision | ||
- | * Gazebo, OpenCV, PCL | ||
- | Contact: [[team: | + | == OpenEASE rendering in Unreal Engine (BA/MA Thesis, Student Job / HiWi)== |
- | == Multi-expert segmentation of cluttered and occluded scenes == | ||
- | Objects in a human environment are usually found in challenging scenes. They can be stacked upon eachother, touching or occluding, can be found in drawers, cupboards, refrigerators and so on. A personal robot assistant in order to execute | + | Implmenting the rendering of the [[https:// |
- | Requirements: | + | Requirements: |
- | * Good programming skills in C/C++ | + | * Good C++ programming skills |
- | * strong background in 3D vision | + | * Familiar with Unreal Engine API |
- | * basic knowledge of ROS, OpenCV, PCL | + | * Familiar with HTML5 and JavaScript |
- | + | * Familiar with the [[https:// | |
- | Contact: | + | * Familiar with basic ROS communication |
+ | * Familiar with version-control systems (git) | ||
+ | * Able to work independently with minimal supervision | ||
+ | Contact: [[team: | ||
+ | --></ |
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