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-=====Theses and 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. 
  
 +=====Open researcher positions=====
  
 +== Researcher in the area of Knowledge bases and knowledge acquisition ==
  
-== HiWi-Position: Testing and Extension of Automated Experiment Environments for Robot Plans==+Position code A132/17. Please see [[http://www.uni-bremen.de/de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stellen/detailansicht/joblist/Job/show/early-stage-researcher-position-3224.html|the official listing]]
  
-When dealing with real-world robot tasks, simulation that is close to reality is key to test behavior-driven, smart robot plans before they are deployed on an actual physical system. In this HiWi job, I am looking for a competent student (preferably with prior experience in ROS) that performs, tests, and extends a simulated experiment world featuring a PR2 robot that autonomously performs tasks. 
  
-Requirements: +== Researcher with background in VR programming ==
-  * Experience in ROS +
-  * Passion for Robotics +
-  * Ideally programming skills in Lisp, Prolog, and Java+
  
-Contact: [[team:jan_winkler|Jan Winkler]]+Position code A133/17. Please see [[http://www.uni-bremen.de/de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stellen/detailansicht/joblist/Job/show/early-stage-researcher-position-3225.html|the official listing]]
  
  
-== GPU-based Parallelization of Numerical Optimization Techniques (BA/MA/HiWi)== 
  
-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: 
-  * Skills in numerical optimization algorithms 
-  * Good programming skills in Python and C/C++ 
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]] 
  
-== Online Learning of Markov Logic Networks for Natural-Language Understanding (MA)== +=====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.
-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. +
- +
-Requirements: +
-  * Experience in Machine Learning. +
-  * Experience with statistical relational learning (e.g. MLNs) is helpful. +
-  * Good programming skills in Python. +
- +
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]] +
- +
- +
-==HiWi-Position: Knowledge Representation & Language Understanding for Intelligent Robots== +
- +
-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.+
  
-This HiWi-Position can serve as a starting point for future Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma Theses.+<html><!-- 
 +== Lisp / CRAM support assistant (HiWi) ==
  
-Tasks: +Technical support for the group for Lisp and the CRAM framework. \\ 
-  * Implementation of an interface to the Robot Operating System (ROS). +8+ hours per week for up to 1 year (paid).
-  * 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: Requirements:
-  * Studies in Computer Science (Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma) +  * Good programming skills in Common Lisp 
-  * Basic skills in Artificial Intelligence +  * Basic ROS knowledge
-  * Optional: basic skills in Probability Theory +
-  * Optional: basic skills in Machine Learning +
-  * Good programming skills in Python and Java+
  
-Hours: 10-20 h/week+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:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+Contact: [[team:gayane_kazhoyan|Gayane Kazhoyan]] 
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-[1] www.robohow.eu\\ 
-[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIryyzlRwA 
  
 +== Integrating PR2 in the Unreal Game Engine Framework (BA/MA)==
 + {{ :research:unreal_ros_pr2.png?200|}} 
  
-== Kitchen Activity Games in a Realistic Robotic Simulator (BA/MA/HiWi)== +Integrating the [[https://www.willowgarage.com/pages/pr2/overview|PR2]] robot with [[http://www.ros.org/|ROS]] support in the [[https://www.unrealengine.com|Unreal Engine 4]] Framework.
- {{ :research:gz_env1.png?200|}}  +
- +
-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.+
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
   * Good programming skills in C/C++   * Good programming skills in C/C++
   * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge   * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge
-  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials+  * Basic ROS knowledge 
 +  * UE4 basic tutorials
  
 Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
  
-== Integrating Eye Tracking in the Kitchen Activity Games (BA/MA)== 
- {{ :research:eye_tracker.png?200|}}  
  
-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.+== Realistic Grasping using Unreal Engine (BA/MA) ==
  
-Requirements: +{{  :teaching:gsoc:topic2_unreal.png?nolink&150|}}
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ +
-  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials+
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]+The objective of the project is to implement var- 
 +ious human-like grasping approaches in a game developed using [[https://www.unrealengine.com/|Unreal Engine]]. 
  
-== Hand Skeleton Tracking Using Two Leap Motion Devices (BA/MA)== +The game consist of a household environment where a user has to execute various given tasks, such as cooking a dish, setting the table, cleaning the dishes etc. The interaction is done using various sensors to map the users hands onto the virtual hands in the game.
- {{ :research:leap_motion.jpg?200|}} +
  
-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.+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:  
 +  * Good programming skills in C++ 
 +  * Good knowledge of the Unreal Engine API.  
 +  * Experience with skeletal control / animations / 3D models in Unreal Engine.
  
-The tracked hand can then be used as input for the Kitchen Activity Games framework. 
  
-Requirements: +Contact: [[team/andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
-  * Good programming skills in C/C+++
  
-Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]+== Kitchen Activity Games in a Realistic Robotic Simulator (BA/MA)== 
 + {{ :research:gz_env1.png?200|}} 
  
-== Fluid Simulation in Gazebo (BA/MA)== +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.
- {{ :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. +
- +
-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. +
- +
-The computational method for the fluid simulation is SPH (Smoothed-particle Dynamics), however newer and better methods based on SPH are currently present +
-and should be implemented (PCISPH/IISPH). +
- +
-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. +
- +
-Here is a [[https://vimeo.com/104629835|video]] example of the current state of the fluid in Gazebo. +
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
   * Good programming skills in C/C++   * Good programming skills in C/C++
-  * Interest in Fluid simulation 
   * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge   * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge
-  * Gazebo simulator and Fluidix basic tutorials+  * Gazebo simulator basic tutorials
  
 Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
- 
- 
-== Automated sensor calibration toolkit (BA/MA)== 
- 
-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, it is important that the parameters for the cameras in use are well known. The calibration of a camera is a time consuming task, and the result depends highly on the chosen setup and the accuracy of the operator. 
- 
-The topic for this thesis is to develop an automated system for calibrating cameras, especially RGB-D cameras like the Kinect v2. 
- 
- {{ :kinect2_calibration_setup_small.jpg?200|}} 
-The system should: 
-  * be independent of the camera type 
-  * estimate intrinsic and extrinsic parameters 
-  * calibrate depth images (case of RGB-D) 
-  * integrate capabilities from Halcon [1] 
-  * operate autonomously 
- 
-Requirements:  
-  * Good programming skills in Python and C/C++ 
-  * ROS, OpenCV 
- 
-[1] http://www.halcon.de/ 
- 
-Contact: [[team:alexis_maldonado|Alexis Maldonado]] and [[team:thiemo_wiedemeyer|Thiemo Wiedemeyer]] 
- 
-== On-the-fly 3D CAD model creation (MA)== 
- 
-Create models during runtime for unknown textured objets based on depth and color information. Track the object and update the model with more detailed information, completing it's 3D model from multiple views improving redetection. Using the robots manipulator pick up the object and complete the model by viewing it from multiple viewpoints. 
- 
-Requirements:  
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ 
-  * strong background in computer vision  
-  * ROS, OpenCV, PCL 
- 
-Contact: [[team:thiemo_wiedemeyer|Thiemo Wiedemeyer]] 
- 
-== Simulation of a robots belief state to support perception(MA) == 
- 
-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, detection and tracking of these in the real world.  
- 
-Requirements:  
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ 
-  * strong background in computer vision  
-  * Gazebo, OpenCV, PCL 
- 
-Contact: [[team:ferenc_balint-benczedi|Ferenc Balint-Benczedi]] 
- 
-== 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 a task, needs to detect these objects and recognize them. In this thesis a multi-modal approach to interpreting cluttered scenes is going to be investigated, combining the results of multiple segmentation algorithms in order to come up with more reliable object hypotheses. 
- 
-Requirements:  
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++ 
-  * strong background in 3D vision  
-  * basic knowledge of ROS, OpenCV, PCL 
- 
-Contact: [[team:ferenc_balint-benczedi|Ferenc Balint-Benczedi]] 
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