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Perception and Cognition



Head of Department: Dr. Rudolph Triebel

 Localization of Rollin' Justin in a simulated environment
zum Bild Localization of Rollin' Justin in a simulated environment

The Department of Perception and Cognition develops solutions to enable a wholistic perception of robotic systems using the two predominant robot senses vision and tactility.
Perception and cognition are elementary components for tele operated, and autonomous robot systems, due to the fact that they enable reactive behavior, attention-based control and interpretation of situations.

The research areas cover

  • Innovative sensor concepts
  • Sensor data processing and analysis in realtime, e.g. stereo reconstruction, object tracking, and 3D-reconstruction
  • Optical navigation and localization of mobile, autonomous systems
  • Processing and analysis of EMG and forcetorque data
  • 3D environmental modeling using point-, volume-, and surface-based representations and derived functional models
  • Generation of digital terrain models and fusion of 3D-models of different dimensions
  • Data fusion, data classification and learning algorithms
  • Object recognition, pose estimation and scene interpretation
  • Real-time 3D-visualisation of large data sets, e.g. terrain rendering, augmentation and auto stereoscopy

The development of integrated solutions for robotic perception from the data acquisition to the application is a core competence of the department. Sensor-based applications such as tactile and visual exploration and navigation, photo realism, further augmentation of real scenes for tele robotics as well as derivation of solutions for automation in the industry are research topics. The methods for data interpretation and task-oriented scene comprehension are based on the modeling process and allow for efficient exploration for different missions in space, aerospace and terrestrial scenarios.

The department is networked worldwide as part of national and international cooperations.
Additionally, close industrial contacts exist, accounting for the increased industrial demand for intelligent sensor data processing.


Contact
Dr. rer. nat. Rudolph Triebel
Head of Department

German Aerospace Center

Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
, Perception and Cognition
Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling

Tel.: +49 8153 28-4289

Fax: +49 8153 28-1134

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