| 27/05/2021 Our project proposal "Gaussian Process Modeling on Directional Manifolds for Data-Driven Estimation of Rigid Body Motion" has been accepted by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with a funding of 36 PM. https://www.dfg.de |
 IEEE MFI 2021 23–25 September 2021The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI 2021) organized by ISAS takes place from September 23 to 25. It is planned to be a hybrid event with options for virtual and on-site participation. www.mfi2021.org |
| Real-Time Control Framework (RTCF) The Real-Time Control Framework (RTCF) developed by ISAS is released under the MIT License. With this framework, modular and high-performance control applications can be easily developed and seamlessly integrated into ROS ecosystems. https://github.com/KIT-ISAS/RTCF |
 IEEE MFI 2020 14–16 September 2020The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI 2020) organized by ISAS takes place next week. www.mfi2020.org |
 09/01/2020Lukas Michiels joins the ISAS lab. |
 07/08/2020Susanne Radtke, Benjamin Noack, and Uwe D. Hanebeck receive the Fusion 2020 Best Paper Award: General Category for the paper Fully Decentralized Estimation Using Square-Root Decompositions. Certificate (PDF) |
| 05/05/2020 Dr. Igor Gilitschenski becomes tenure track assistant professor for robotics at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and at the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). He obtained his PhD degree at ISAS in April 2015 with the thesis Deterministic Sampling for Nonlinear Dynamic State Estimation. |
 04/01/2020Michael Fennel joins the ISAS lab. |
| 02/27/2020 Uwe D. Hanebeck is now author and coauthor of more than 500 publications in various high-ranking journals and conferences. |
| 01/10/2020 The project "Embedded AI in a Box" has successfully participated in the innovation competition "KI für KMU" funded by the Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Wohnungsbau Baden-Württemberg. Industrial partners are: Knowtion UG in Karlsruhe and endiio GmbH in Freiburg. |
 01/01/2020The lab has acquired a new multi-GPU server equipped with four high-end graphics cards, which will significantly simplify and accelerate the work on computationally intensive methods. Especially research related to deep learning applications will benefit from the new server. The server is equally accessible for both employees and students. |
| 08/15/2019 Marko Ristic joins the ISAS lab. |
| 07/15/2019 Marcel Reith-Braun joins the ISAS lab. |
| 06/25/2019 At 25.06.2019 the kickoff event of the project ROBDEKON took place at the Fraunhofer Institute IOSB in Karlsruhe. The aim of this BMBF-funded project is to investigate autonomous and semi-autonomous robot systems for decontamination in misanthropic environments. Current work on ROBDEKON was broadcast on television. |
| 06/19/2019 Dr.-Ing. Florian Pfaff was awarded with the SICK-science award 2018 for the Best Dissertation for his PhD thesis "Multitarget Tracking Using Orientation Estimation for Optical Belt Sorting". |
| Software Campus The projects "Distributed Multi-Target Pose Estimation and Collaborative Mapping Using Heterogeneous Sensor Networks" (Kailai Li), "Detektion und Klassifikation von Systemanomalien mit Hilfe von Machine Learning" (Jana Mayer), OptInfNet: Optimale Informationsfusion in intelligenten Sensornetzwerken" (Susanne Radtke) and "Reinforcement Learning für die Regelung mechatronischer Prozesse mit wenigen unsicheren Daten" (Johannes Westermann) are currently supported under the "Software Campus" initiative. |
| 06/03/2019 Christopher Funk joins the ISAS lab. |
| 03/04/2019 Johannes Westermann joins the ISAS lab. |
| 12/03/2018 Due to the outstanding project results, the IGF project 18798 N "Inside Schüttgut" (Verbesserung optischer Schüttgutsortierung durch simulationsgestützte Entwicklung von Trackingverfahren) was awarded the title project of the year 2019. GVT Homepage |
| 11/26/2018 Michael Feldmann successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Tracking von Objektgruppen und ausgedehnten Zielobjekten". The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Koch, Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE Wachtberg. |
| 11/13/2018 Florian Pfaff successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Multitarget Tracking Using Orientation Estimation for Optical Belt Sorting" with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Dr.-lng. Thomas Längle, Fraunhofer IOSB Karlsruhe. |
| 09/01/2018 Start of project "SeReMo: Secure Remote Monitoring" in cooperation with SEKAS GmbH and Institute of Theoretical Informatics (ITI). |
| 06/15/2018 Start of project "Robotersysteme für die Dekontamination in menschenfeindlichen Umgebungen (ROBDEKON)" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Press Release |
