Prof. Udo Frese

Further information:

AG Multisensory Interactive Systems

Affiliated with DFKI, working group hosts the world champion robot soccer team B-Human

Methods:

Probabilistic modeling of uncertainty
Deep learning
Least squares computation

Projects:

State estimation based only on prior knowledge and inertial sensors (ZaVI), DFG
Adaptive degree of freedom embedding as a cooperative user interface for an assistance robot (DoF-Adaptiv), BMBF, (TU Dortmund, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Munevo GmbH)
Everyday Activity Science and Enginnering, Subproject R2 (EASE), DFG, (Bielefeld University, DLR)

Ecosystem

Member of the research focus "Minds, Media, Machines"

Head of the Multisensory Interactive Systems working group, which looks after the B-Human robot soccer team

Senior Researcher in the Cyber Physical Systems research department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Publications

2010 // Conference paper

Hierarchical optimization on manifolds for online 2D and 3D mapping

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Grisetti, G.; Kümmerle, R.; Stachniss, C.; Frese, U.; Hertzberg, C.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509407

2010 // Conference paper

How far is SLAM from a linear least squares problem?

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Huang, S.; Lai, Y.; Frese, U.; Dissanayake, G.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2010.5652603

2009 // Book

A multiple hypothesis approach for a ball tracking system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Birbach, O.; Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04667-4_44

2009 // Journal article

Inside data association

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Frese, U.; Neira, J.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.031

2009 // Journal article

Iterated D-SLAM map joining: Evaluating its performance in terms of consistency, accuracy and efficiency

Autonomous Robots

Huang, S.; Wang, Z.; Dissanayake, G.; Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-009-9153-8

2009 // Journal article

Kick it with elasticity: Safety and performance in human-robot soccer

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Haddadin, S.; Laue, T.; Frese, U.; Wolf, S.; Albu-Schäffer, A.; Hirzinger, G.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2009.03.004

2009 // Journal article

The Importance of Being Formal

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Frese, U.; Hausmann, D.; Lüth, C.; Täubig, H.; Walter, D.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2009.09.006

2009 // Book

Tracking of ball trajectories with a free moving camera-inertial sensor

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Birbach, O.; Kurlbaum, J.; Laue, T.; Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02921-9_5

2008 // Conference paper

(A) Vision for 2050 - The road towards image understanding for a human-robot soccer match

ICINCO 2008 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics

Frese, U.; Laue, T.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-55849136553&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2008 // Conference paper

Iterated SLSJF: A sparse local submap joining algorithm with improved consistency

Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008

Huang, S.; Wang, Z.; Dissanayake, G.; Frese, U.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862955714&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2008 // Book

SAMS1 - Safety components for autonomous mobile service robots | SAMS1 - Safety components for autonomous mobile service robots

VDI Reports

Lüth, C.; Frese, U.; Täubig, H.; Walter, D.; Hausmann, D.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-48949088611&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2007 // Conference paper

Applying a 3DOF orientation tracker as a human-robot interface for autonomous wheelchairs

2007 IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR'07

Mandel, C.; Röfer, T.; Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428406

2007 // Book

Design improvements for proportional control of autonomous wheelchairs via 3DOF orientation tracker

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Mandel, C.; Frese, U.; Röfer, T.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-38049141295&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2007 // Conference paper

Efficient 6-DOF SLAM with treemap as a generic backend

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364221

2007 // Conference paper

Foul 2050: Thoughts on physical interaction in human-robot soccer

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Haddadin, S.; Laue, T.; Frese, U.; Hirzinger, G.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2007.4399464

2006 // Journal article

A discussion of simultaneous localization and mapping

Autonomous Robots

Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-006-5735-x

2006 // Conference paper

Closing a million-landmarks loop

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Frese, U.; Schröder, L.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2006.282531

2006 // Conference paper

Robot navigation based on the mapping of coarse qualitative route descriptions to route graphs

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Mandel, C.; Frese, U.; Ro̊fer, T.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2006.282484

2006 // Journal article

Treemap: An O(log n) algorithm for indoor simultaneous localization and mapping

Autonomous Robots

Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-006-9043-2

2005 // Journal article

A multilevel relaxation algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Frese, U.; Larsson, P.; Duckett, T.

https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2004.839220

2005 // Conference paper

A proof for the approximate sparsity of SLAM information matrices

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Frese, U.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570140

2005 // Conference paper

Specification of an ontology for Route Graphs

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Krieg-Brückner, B.; Frese, U.; Lüttich, K.; Mandel, C.; Mossakowski, T.; Ross, R.J.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-26444580707&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2005 // Conference paper

Treemap: An O(log n) algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Frese, U.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-26444575355&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2003 // Conference paper

Cartesian impedance control of redundant robots: Recent results with the DLR-Light-Weight-Arms

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Albu-Schäffer, A.; Ott, C.; Frese, U.; Hirzinger, G.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0344033765&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2001 // Conference paper

Off-the-shelf vision for a robotic ball catcher

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Frese, U.; Bäuml, B.; Haidacher, S.; Schreiber, G.; Schaefer, I.; Hähnle, M.; Hirzinger, G.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035560282&partnerID=MN8TOARS

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Prof. Udo Frese

Ecosystem

Publications

Hierarchical optimization on manifolds for online 2D and 3D mapping

How far is SLAM from a linear least squares problem?

A multiple hypothesis approach for a ball tracking system

Inside data association

Iterated D-SLAM map joining: Evaluating its performance in terms of consistency, accuracy and efficiency

Kick it with elasticity: Safety and performance in human-robot soccer

The Importance of Being Formal

Tracking of ball trajectories with a free moving camera-inertial sensor

(A) Vision for 2050 - The road towards image understanding for a human-robot soccer match

Iterated SLSJF: A sparse local submap joining algorithm with improved consistency

SAMS1 - Safety components for autonomous mobile service robots | SAMS1 - Safety components for autonomous mobile service robots

Applying a 3DOF orientation tracker as a human-robot interface for autonomous wheelchairs

Design improvements for proportional control of autonomous wheelchairs via 3DOF orientation tracker

Efficient 6-DOF SLAM with treemap as a generic backend

Foul 2050: Thoughts on physical interaction in human-robot soccer

A discussion of simultaneous localization and mapping

Closing a million-landmarks loop

Robot navigation based on the mapping of coarse qualitative route descriptions to route graphs

Treemap: An O(log n) algorithm for indoor simultaneous localization and mapping

A multilevel relaxation algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping

A proof for the approximate sparsity of SLAM information matrices

Specification of an ontology for Route Graphs

Treemap: An O(log n) algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping

Cartesian impedance control of redundant robots: Recent results with the DLR-Light-Weight-Arms

Off-the-shelf vision for a robotic ball catcher

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