News

This page contains a timeline of noteworthy news related to my work, such as publications, invited talks, and attended events over the years.

2026

• 01-05.06.2026: Attended ICRA in Vienna
• 30.05.2026: New paper on causal-based navigation got accepted at RO-MAN 2026
• 24-26.03.2026: Attended the European Robotics Forum 2026, where I co-organised a workshop on explainability, cognition, and embodied AI
• 11-13.03.2026: Attended the 2nd German Robotics Conference, where I presented posters of my ongoing work dealing with the interpretability and failure robustness of robot skills
• 31.01.2026: New paper on using LLMs for embodied robot cognition got accepted at IEEE ICRA
• 25.01.2026: Two extended abstracts (on visual predictive learning and the COFFAIL dataset) got accepted at the German Robotics Conference
• 15.01.2026: Attended the WASP Winter Conference
• 14.01.2026: Visited the robotics lab in the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) at Örebro University

2025

• 11.12.2025: Gave an online interview on my work with social robots and robot-assisted therapy of children with ASD
• 09.12.2025: Attended the Sweden Expo 2025 at Volvohallen
• 03.11.2025: Had my first lecture since joining Chalmers (in the course on decision-making for autonomous systems)
• 21.10.2025: New paper on monitoring and recovery of learning-based robot policies got accepted in IEEE RA-L
• 16-17.10.2025: Attended the Gothenburg Robotics Networking Workshop
• 01.10.2025: Joined the Division of Systems at Control at Chalmers University of Technology as a postdoc
• 16.09.2025: Had my goodbye party in the Autonomous Systems group at H-BRS
• 07.07.2025: Attended a full-day workshop on writing proposals for collaborative Horizon Europe projects at the University of Cologne
• 03.07.2025: Gave a talk on our work on social robots for robot-assisted therapy (in the context of the MigrAVE project) at the Deutsches Museum Bonn
• 23.06.2025: New paper on learning-based robot navigation got accepted at the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)
• 09.05.2025: Presented the A2S Institute with a stand at the H-BRS Research Day
• 25.04.2025: Organised and attended the PhD seminar of the Autonomous Systems group
• 10-11.04.2025: Visited the CRAFT group at Chalmers University of Technology and gave an invited talk
• 31.03.2025: The summer semester at H-BRS started today, and with that my courses on cognitive robotics, artificial intelligence, and software engineering for robotics
• 28.03.2025: New paper on interpretable demonstration-based robot learning got accepted in IEEE RA-L
• 24-28.03.2025: Attended the European Robotics Forum (ERF) in Germany, where we presented the A2S Institute with an exhibition booth (and I could present some demos developed in the context of KEROL)

2024

• 28.11.2024: Gave a presentation about our ongoing work with the Toyota HSR in the HSR EU webinar series
• 01.10.2024: The winter semester at H-BRS started today, and with that my courses on robot learning, autonomous mobile robots, and software engineering for robotics
• 01.09.2024: My project KEROL officially started today
• 15.07.2024: Our full-day workshop on robot execution failures took place at RSS (in Delft)
• 17.06.2024: My proposal for an H-BRS research grant (20,000€) was accepted
• 29.05.2024: Gave an (online) invited talk in the seminar on trustworthy robots at the University of Bremen
• 26.05.2024: Two new papers (on learning-based behaviour adaptation and child-robot interaction) got accepted at RO-MAN 2024
• 22.05.2024: Attended a full-day retreat by the Autonomous Systems group
• 08.04.2024: The summer semester at H-BRS started today, and with that my courses on cognitive robotics, autonomous mobile robots, and software engineering for robotics
• 20.03.2024: New paper on learning-based robot personalisation got accepted in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• 09.01.2024: Gave an (online) invited talk in the b-it alumni seminar

2023

• 06.12.2023: We had the final meeting of the MigrAVE project (online)
• 13-17.11.2023: Our final MigrAVE week took place
• 20.10.2023: Presented the research of the A2S Institute at the Technology Night (Nacht der Technik) 2023
• 02.10.2023: The winter semester at H-BRS started today, and with that my new course on robot learning, as well as courses on autonomous mobile robots and software engineering for robotics (I am teaching both for the first time)
• 18.09.2023: The MigrAVE robot field study concluded today (in Düsseldorf)
• 03.07.2023: The MigrAVE robot field study kicked off (in Düsseldorf)
• 21.06.2023: Presented the A2S Institute with a stand at the H-BRS Research Day
• 15.06.2023: New paper on failure recovery during manipulatioin got accepted at the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)
• 02.06.2023: New paper on robot demonstration-based learning got accepted at RO-MAN 2023
• 29.05-02.06.2023: Attended ICRA in London, where our full-day workshop on robot execution failures took place (on 02.06.2023)
• 24.05.2023: Hosted a visit by our partners universities in MigrAVE
• 24-28.04.2023: Our MigrAVE week took place
• 14.04.2023: Attended a full-day retreat by the Autonomous Systems group
• 27.03.2023: The summer semester at H-BRS started today, and with that my new course on cognitive robotics
• 17-18.02.2023: Attended a Vocal Europe workshop on proposal writing and project management for Horizon Europe projects
• 07.02.2023: Hosted a visit by our partners universities in MigrAVE
• 30.01.2023: Successfully defended my PhD at RWTH Aachen
• 20.01.2023: Presented our lab and robots at the Open Lab Day in the H-BRS Computer Science Department

2022

• 20.12.2022: New paper that presents the main pillars of my PhD work in a combined manner (semantic skill representation, skill failure diagnosis and correction, and ontology-based skill generalisation), and thus essentially summarises my PhD dissertation, got accepted in Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• 12-16.12.2022: Our MigrAVE week took place
• 11.11.2022: Attended an event celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the b-it institute, and presented my PhD project at the event
• 24.10.2022: Gave an (online) invited talk in the H-BRS lecture series on advanced topics in AI and robotics
• 13.10.2022: Presented our lab and work on robotics to a group of visiting high-school students
• 02.09.2022: “Refereed” an internal robotics competition between our b-it-bots@Work and b-it-bots@Home teams
• 19.07.2022: Two papers (on demonstration-based robot learning and robot personalisation) got accepted at the workshop on behavior adaptation and learning for assistive robotics (BAILAR), taking place in conjunction with IEEE RO-MAN
• 25-29.07.2022: Our MigrAVE week took place
• 23.05.2022: Gave an invited spotlight talk at the ICRA workshop on the verification of autonomous systems, and served as a panelist in the session on safety for learning-enabled autonomous systems
• 12.04.2022: Officially submitted my dissertation
• 29-30.03.2022: Attended a two-day retreat by the Autonomous Systems group
• 21-25.03.2022: Our MigrAVE week took place
• 25.02.2022: New paper on learning-based robot personalisation got accepted at the workshop on lifelong learning and personalization in long-term human-robot interaction (LEAP-HRI), taking place in conjunction with ACM/IEEE HRI
• 20.02.2022: Gave a presentation about our ongoing work with the Toyota HSR in the HSR EU webinar series

2021

• 06.12.2021: Gave an invited lecture on reinforcement learning in the machine learning course at H-BRS
• 29.11-03.12.2021: Our MigrAVE week took place
• 23.11.2021: Organised and attended an (online) PhD seminar of the Autonomous Systems group
• 10.11.2021: Extended abstract on learning-based robot personalisation got accepted at the workshop on social AI for human-robot interaction of human-care robots, taking place in conjunction with the International Conference on Social Robots (ICSR)
• 07.10.2021: Presented the work done in my PhD at a workshop organised by the German Robotics Society (DGR Days)
• 27.09-01.10.2021: Attended IROS and presented my work on ontology-assisted generalisation of robot skills
• 27.09.2021: Presented my work on ontology-assisted generalisation of robot skills at the IROS workshop on semantic policy and action representations (SPAR). My work got one of the “audience choice” awards at the workshop!
• 26-30.07.2021: Attended the DeepLearn summer school in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• 13-17.09.2021: Our MigrAVE week took place
• 15.07.2021: Gave an invited talk about our RoboCup@Home participation in the HSR EU webinar series
• 15.07.2021: New paper on simulation-based evaluation of robot action execution got accepted at the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)
• 30.06.2021: New paper on using ontological knowledge for generalising robot actions between objects got accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS
• 21-27.06.2021: Participated in the (online, simulated-based) RoboCup@Home competition with our b-it-bots team. We finished 5th in the Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL)
• 31.05-04.06.2021: Attended ICRA (online), and presented my paper on failure diagnosis of robot actions
• 20.05.2021: Gave an invited talk about my work on robot execution failures in the HSR EU webinar series
• 13.05.2021: Attended the IFRR Colloquium on The Future of Robotic Manipulation (online)
• 29.03.2021: Visited FH Münster for watching videos from therapy sessions of children with ASD
• 22-26.03.2021: Attended (online) the TransAIR Virtual Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Robot Agents
• 21.03.2021: Organised and attended the PhD seminar of the Autonomous Systems group
• 28.02.2021: New paper on failure diagnosis of robot actions got accepted at IEEE ICRA
• 25.01.2021: We had the MigrAVE project kick-off meeting today (online)

2020

• 03.11.2020: Our IROS paper on explainable robot action modelling won the Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics
• 22.09.2020: New paper that qualitatively analyses how diagnosable robot actions are got accepted at the DX workshop
• 11.09.2020: Our IROS paper on explainable robot action modelling was selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics
• 01.07.2020: New paper on explainable robot action modelling got accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS
• 23.04.2020: The final review meeting of our ROPOD project took place (sadly online and without a live demo)
• 22.01.2020: New paper on context-aware robot-to-human object handover got accepted at IEEE ICRA

2019

• 09-13.12.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place in Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus in Frankfurt (last integration week in the hospital)
• 11-13.11.2019: Attended the DX workshop in Klagenfurt
• 10.10.2019: Organised and attended a PhD seminar of the Autonomous Systems group
• 23-27.09.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place
• 02.09.2019: Attended a workshop on anticipating human behaviour at the University of Bonn
• 28.08.2019: New paper on learning-based anomaly detection and subsequent model-based diagnosis got accepted at the DX workshop (as a poster)
• 13-16.08.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place
• 22-26.07.2019: Attended the DeepLearn summer school in Warsaw
• 15-19.07.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place
• 04.06.2019: Three new papers got accepted at the RoboCup Symposium (two in the scientific track, one in the development track)
• 24-28.06.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place
• 13-17.05.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place
• 08.05.2019: Presented my PhD work and some robot demos at a stand at the H-BRS Research Day
• 30.04-05.05.2019: Participated in the RoboCup German Open (in the @Home league) in Magdeburg
• 25-29.03.2019: Our ROPOD integration week took place
• 19.03.2019: Organised and attended the first PhD seminar of the Autonomous Systems group