Martin Klemm successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Intraoperative Planning and Execution of Arbitrary Orthopedic Interventions Using Handheld Robotics and Augmented Reality. The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Hoppe, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg.

Antonio Zea successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Tracking Extended Objects With Active Models and Negative Information with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Associate Professor Ph.D. Umut Orguner, Middle East Technical University.

Daniel Frisch joins the ISAS lab.

Jana Mayer joins the ISAS lab.

In the context of the 20th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2017) in Xi’an, China, the ISIF Conference Technical Contributions Award has been presented to Uwe D. Hanebeck for contributing 50 or more FUSION Conference Papers from 1998 to 2017.

Christian Tesch joins the ISAS lab.

Dr. Jörg Fischer, who obtained his doctorate degree in 2014 at ISAS, has been appointed to a W2 professorship in automation and control at the department of electrical engineering and information technology at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences.

Dr. Jörg Fischer, who obtained his doctorate degree in 2014 at ISAS, has been appointed to a W2 professorship in automation and control at the department of electrical engineering and information technology at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences.

Florian Rosenthal joins the ISAS lab.

Florian Faion successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Tracking Extended Objects in Noisy Point Clouds with Application in Telepresence Systems with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Wolfgang Koch, Fraunhofer FKIE Bonn.

Monday, 11/02/2015, Plenary talk "Hot Topics in Multisensor Data Fusion" by Uwe D. Hanebeck at Sensors 2015. PDF

The e-Installation project has won an award in the "Landmarks in the Land of ideas" competition.

Gerhard Kurz successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Directional Estimation for Robotic Beating Heart Surgery with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Prof. Dr. Anders Lindquist, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden / Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Pictures

Current work on telepresence was broadcast on television.

During the "Computer Science Day" (Tag der Informatik) the class "Stochastische Informationsverarbeitung (WS 2013/14)" received the award for "best elective class" of the winter term 2013/14. Additionally, the class "Unscharfe Mengen (SS 2013)" and the tutorials of the classes "Lokalisierung mobiler Agenten (SS 2013)" and "Unscharfe Mengen (SS 2013)" received the award for "best elective class" and "best tutorial", respectively, of the summer term 2013.

"RESEARCH TO BUSINESS" published an article about the ISAS-ZAK project "e-Installation".

Gerhard Kurz, Igor Gilitschenski, and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Paper Award of the "17th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2014), Salamanca, Spain" for the paper Deterministic Approximation of Circular Densities with Symmetric Dirac Mixtures Based on Two Circular Moments. Certificate (PDF)

Igor Gilitschenski, Gerhard Kurz, Simon J. Julier, and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Student Paper Award, First Runner-Up of the "17th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2014), Salamanca, Spain" for the paper A New Probability Distribution for Simultaneous Representation of Uncertain Position and Orientation. Certificate (PDF)

FUSION 2014

The "ZAK Newsletter" published an article about the ISAS-ZAK project "e-Installation".

The "KIT Neuland" published an article about the ISAS DIE QUADRATUR DER LÜFTE.

Uwe D. Hanebeck gives a talk at a meeting of the Ambassador Club e.V. Karlsruhe entitled Schätzen in Netzen: Datenfusion in Sensor-Aktor-Netzwerken.

Gerhard Kurz and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Paper Award of the "16th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2013), Istanbul, Turkey" for the paper Recursive Fusion of Noisy Depth and Position Measurements for Surface Reconstruction. Certificate (PDF)

Gerhard Kurz, Igor Gilitschenski, Simon J. Julier, and Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Best Student Paper Award, First Runner-Up of the "16th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2013), Istanbul, Turkey" for the paper Recursive Estimation of Orientation Based on the Bingham Distribution. Certificate (PDF)

FUSION 2013

The ISAS sends 10 researchers to the FUSION 2013 conference in Istanbul (Turkey), is involved in the presentation of 13 papers with ISAS participation, and organizes 9 special sessions. Prof. Hanebeck operates as Technical Co-Chair of the conference.

Sascha Faber joins the ISAS lab.

Jannik Steinbring joins the ISAS lab.

Christian Tesch joins the ISAS lab.

Benjamin Noack successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation State Estimation for Distributed Systems with Stochastic and Set-membership Uncertainties with distinction (summa cum laude). The thesis has been co-advised and co-examined by Simon J. Julier, University College London (UCL), UK. Pictures

Antonia Pérez successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation Haptic Guidance for Extended Range Telepresence! Pictures

At the 22nd Vision Traffic Review User Group Meeting 2012 organized by PTV Prof. Hanebeck gave a plenary talk about "Multimodal Extended Range Telepresence in Pedestrian Simulation".

At PED 2012, Prof. Hanebeck gave a keynote presentation: "Multimodal Extended Range Telepresence in Pedestrian Simulation"

The Badische Neueste Nachrichten published an article about the extended range telepresence.

Peter Krauthausen successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Learning Dynamic Systems for Intention Recognition in Human-Robot-Cooperation! Pictures

At the event Menschen und Maschinen im Karlsruher Rathaus a presentation about the KIT key area "anthropomatics and robotics" was held. On this occasion Prof. Hanebeck gave a talk about telepresence.

Christof Chlebek and Igor Gilitschenski join the ISAS lab.

Marc Reinhardt joins the ISAS lab.

Prof. Hanebeck gave a 3 ½ hour plenary talk at the 2011 International Workshop on Information Fusion (2011 年国际信息融合研讨会, 2011年8月4-5日), Xi’an, China (organized by Xiao-Rong Li) on Extended Range Telepresence Systems, Optimal Dirac Mixture Approximation for Accurate Gaussian Filters, and Extended Object and Group Tracking with Random Hypersurface Models. Slides

During the Semester Colloquium of the Faculty of Informatics the tutorial of the lecture Stochastische Informationsverarbeitung (Peter Krauthausen) receives the award for the "best tutorial" of the winter term 2010/11.

Read an article in the „lookKIT" journal about virtual telepresence.

Read an article at Spiegel Online about telepresence.

Alexander Riffel joins the ISAS lab.

Read an article in the „c't" journal (Heise online) about virtual telepresence.

Simon Friedberger joins the ISAS lab.

Patrick Ruoff joins the ISAS lab.

Read an article (German) in the KIT technology magazine RESEARCH TO BUSINESS about the haptic interface at the ISAS.

Hugh Durrant-Whyte (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sidney) visits the ISAS and presents recent work.

During the "Girls’Day" (German: Mädchen-Zukunftstag) a group of eleven girls got a 'sneak peak' at what a researcher's life is about.

Read the „Badischen Neuesten Nachrichten" (BNN) article about the ISAS student laboratory, Praktikum: Forschungsprojekt "Intelligente Sensor-Aktor-Systeme"p>

Article in the campus journal (lookKIT) about the ISAS student laboratory, Praktikum: Forschungsprojekt "Intelligente Sensor-Aktor-Systeme".

The day of the ISAS christmas party. View Photos (PDF-document)

Patrick Dunau joins the ISAS lab.

The entire ISAS lab moved to new building at the Durlacher Tor. New directions.

Frederik Beutler successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Probabilistic Model-Based Signal Processing for Instantaneous Localization (Trans.). Pictures (PDF)

Christian Hirsch was awarded a 3rd price of "Sparkassen price" 2008 for an outstanding work in the field environmental research - his Diplomarbeit "Tempo-Spatial Interpolation-Method for ground-water monitoring" (Trans.). (View Photo)

Benjamin Noack joins the ISAS lab.

Henning Eberhardt joins the ISAS lab.

Patrick Rößler successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Telepresent Motion and Haptic Interaction in Distant Extended Range Environments. View Photos (Pdf-document)

The day of the ISAS christmas party. View Photos (PDF-document)

Alberto Elfes (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) gives a talk on "In Situ Sensing in the Amazon" at the ISAS.

Retreat of the ISAS lab at Schloss Dagstuhl. Picture of the lab members

During the "Computer Science Day" (Tag der Informatik) both classes Informationsverarbeitung in Sensornetzwerken and Stochastische Informationsverarbeitung received the award for "best elective class" of the winter term 2007/08. Pictures (PDF)

Fusion 2008 took place from June 30 to July 03 at the Hyatt in Cologne and was a big success: 429 participants from over 40 countries, 274 talks, and three world-class keynote lectures.

Uwe D. Hanebeck was Program Chair and two special sessions have been organized by ISAS: Advances in Nonlinear State Estimation, Information Fusion in Sensor Networks.

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG (a.m.) and Fraunhofer-Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (IITB) (p.m.) in Karlsruhe.

Research stay of Marco Huber at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney with Hugh Durrant-Whyte.

The day of the ISAS christmas party. View Photos (PDF-document)

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit the ZDF television station in Mainz. In the afternoon, the lab visited the Vitronic company in Wiesbaden, attending a talk on technological aspects of truck toll collection followed by a guided tour of Vitronic's production facilities. View Photos (PDF-document)

During the "Computer Science Day" (Tag der Informatik) the class Stochastische Informationsverarbeitung of Prof. Uwe D. Hanebeck receives the award for "best elective class" of the winter term 2006/07 and Oliver Schrempf receives the award for "best teaching assistant of an elective class" for his assistance in this class.

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit the Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit and John Deere in Mannheim.

Patrick Rößler receives the award for "best teaching assistant of an elective class" of the summer term 2006 for his assistance in the class "Unscharfe Mengen".

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart and the engine production plant of the Powertrain Passenger Cars Division of the Daimler Chrysler AG.

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit Auto & Technik MUSEUM SINSHEIM.

Two Leibniz High School pupils perform their mandatory internships (BOGY) at the ISAS Lab. Read how they experienced their internship (German report).

Marco Huber joins the ISAS lab.

The ISAS lab and mentored students visit the Frankfurter airport and the German Central Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).

Karlsruhe is ranked 1st in computer science ("FOCUS" Ranking of German Universities).

Read a media feature on the Graduiertenkolleg 1194 in the „Badischen Neuesten Nachrichten" (BNN).

During the "Computer Science Day" (Tag der Informatik) the class Informationsverarbeitung in Sensornetzwerken of Prof. Uwe D. Hanebeck receives the award for "best elective class" of the winter term 2006/07 and Frederik Beutler receives the award for "best teaching assistant of an elective class" for his assistance in this class.

Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe D. Hanebeck "Schätzen mit Netzen" (Estimation with Networks).

The Karlsruhe culture magazine Klappe Auf contains an article about our telepresence system.

An article in the campus news UniKaTH presents the research on wide-range telepresence at the ISAS lab.

Premiere! For the first time a robot at LSR, TU Munich is steered from Karlsruhe via a telepresence interface using "Motion Compresion" techniques.

Funding for the Graduiertenkolleg "Development of New Computer Based Methods for the Future Working Space in Soft-Tissue Surgery" was granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Spokes-person for the Kolleg are Prof. Büchler (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg). Vice-spokes-person is Prof. Wörn. The ISAS lab will be involved in the project "Motion-Synchronisation of Instruments with the Correponding Interventional Area of the Beating Heart" in the project "Telemanipulation".

Visit of Prof. Dr. Masayuki Fujita from the Kanazawa University (Japan) and Prof. Dr. Ryoichi Suzuki from the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Japan).

The Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems (ISAS) lab joins the collaborative research project "Humanoid Robots" (SFB 588, Spokesman: Prof. Dillmann) of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft". Prof. Hanebeck will be joint head with Prof. Wörn of the project "K2 human-robot-ooperation" and with Prof. Steusloff of the project "K3 detection and treatment of exceptional situations". Prolonged funding has been granted until 08/31/2008.

The project "Development of a New Measurement Principle on the Basis of a Kinematic Alignment Model for the Optimal Alignment of Multi-Axis Tool Machinery" in cooperation the Prüftechnik company from Munich will be funded by the Working group of industrial research alliance for three years as part of the "Competence for Innovation of Midsized Companies" program. Contact at ISAS is Dietrich Brunn.

Hendrik Bock joins the ISAS lab.

Prof. Hanebeck becomes spokesman of the leading collegiate of the "Institut für Rechnerentwurf und Fehlertoleranz" (Computer Engineering and Fault Tolerance).

One year of Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems (ISAS) lab.

Start of a cooperation with the Prüftechnik company from Munich for the "Development of a New Measurement Principle on the Basis of a Kinematic Alignment Model for the Optimal Alignment of Multi-Axis Tool Machinery". Contact at ISAS is Dietrich Brunn.

Frederik Beutler, Rainer Misch and Patrick Rößler tap beer at the Computer Science Day party.

Prof. Hanebeck succesfully concludes his habilitation process at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the TU Munich with his academic talk.

Prof. Hanebeck celebrates his start at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH).

Patrick Rößler joins the ISAS lab.