Vanessa Hassouna

Research Staff

Tel: +49 421 218 64044
Room: TAB 2.81
Mail: hassouna(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

I am passionate about advancing robotics, particularly in enabling robotic systems to perform complex, real-world tasks autonomously. My current focus lies in the development of generalized, context-aware actions such as cutting, pouring, and transporting, especially within dynamic environments like household tasks. I am interested in creating adaptable action models that utilize scene graphs and domain knowledge to empower robots to operate with greater flexibility and autonomy.

I've had the opportunity to participate in RoboCup@Home three times, and for the second year, I am part of the technical committee, contributing to shaping the future of robotics in real-world applications. By leveraging cognitive models and scalable algorithms, I aim to contribute to the future of household robotics, making robots more efficient in managing multi-step, context-dependent tasks. I’m also keen on exploring how we can integrate symbolic reasoning and action cores to allow robots to perform actions more independently and in unpredictable situations.

Feel free to connect if you're interested in robotics, AI, or research collaboration!

Teaching

Supervised Thesis

  • Bachelor's Thesis of Mohammad Aswad “Towards Robust Robot Tasks: A Focus on Transport and Pouring Failure Handling” (2024)
  • Master Thesis of Sorin Arion and Naser Azizi: “A Knowledge Base with which You Can Parameterize Robot Plans for Multiple Mixing Actions” (2024)
  • Bachelor's Thesis of Luca Krohm “Exploring Underdetermined Action Descriptions for Bottle Opening by Household Robots” (2023)
  • Bachelor's Thesis of Luca Krohm “Exploring Underdetermined Action Descriptions for Bottle Opening by Household Robots” (2023)
  • Bachelor's Thesis of Felix Krause “Towards Wiping Events, A Baseline Scheme for Robotic Agents in Everyday Household Activities” (2023)
  • Bachelor's Thesis of Tina Van “Exploring the use of designators for improved contextualisation in robotic mixing tasks” (2023)

Projects

Publications

Conference Papers
[1]Dhanabalachandran, Kaviya, Hassouna, Vanessa, Hedblom, Maria M., Kümpel, Michaela, Leusmann, Nils and Beetz, Michael, "Cutting Events: Towards Autonomous Plan Adaption by Robotic Agents through Image-Schematic Event Segmentation", In Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 25–32, 2021. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[2]Kümpel, Michaela, Vyas, Abhijit, Hassouna, Vanessa and Beetz, Michael, "Task Learning Using Actionable Knowledge Graphs", In ICRA40- 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024. in press [bibtex]
[3]Kümpel, Michaela, Töberg, Jan-Phillip, Hassouna, Vanessa, Cimiano, Phillip and Beetz, Michael, "Towards a Knowledge Engineering Methodology for Flexible Robot Manipulation in Everyday Tasks", In Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots (AKR^3) at European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2024. [bibtex] [pdf]
Workshop Papers
[4]Kümpel, Michaela, Hassouna, Vanessa, Hawkin, Alina and Beetz, Michael, "Between Input and Output: The Importance of Modelling Transients in Meal Preparation Tasks", In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), July 15-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands., 2024. [bibtex] [pdf]





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