Lars Kunze
Lars Kunze
M.Sc. Computer Science
Technische Universität München
Department of Computer Science
Informatik 9
Boltzmannstrasse 3
85748 Garching
Germany
Tel: +49-89-289-17786
Fax: +49-89-289-17757
Office: 02.09.043
Mail: Lars.Kunze@cs.tum.edu
About me
Please note: Currently I am a research fellow in the Intelligent Robotics Lab in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Hence, please contact me using the following email address if you have any inquiries:
L <dot> Kunze <at> cs <dot> bham <dot> ac <dot> uk
Until March 2013, I was a research assistant in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group at the Technische Universität München under the supervision of Prof. Michael Beetz, now head of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bremen.
Before I joined the IAS group in 2008, I studied computer science and cognitive science at the University of Osnabrück, and partly at The University of Edinburgh and the Technische Universität München. I received the MSc degree (with distinction) in computer science in 2008 and the BSc degree in cognitive science in 2006. As a graduate student, I worked as an assistant in the Knowledge-Based Systems group led by Prof. Joachim Hertzberg.
During summer 2011, I was a visiting researcher in the JSK lab at The University of Tokyo where I mainly worked on semantic object search within large-scale indoor environments (IEEE Spectrum Automaton blog).
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Knowledge Representation
- Commonsense Reasoning
- Naive Physics
- Robot Simulation
- Service Robots
Teaching
- WS11/12: Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence (Hauptseminar)
- SS11: Artificial Intelligence (Proseminar)
- SS10: Artificial Intelligence (Proseminar)
- WS09/10: Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence (Hauptseminar)
- WS09/10: Artificial Intelligence (Proseminar)
- SS09: Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence (Hauptseminar)
- SS09: Artificial Intelligence (Proseminar)
- WS08/09: Discrete Structures (Tutorial)
Supervised Theses/Projects
Running:
- Learning Probabilistic Geometrical Relations from Simulated Human Environments (Guided Research, i.e. “Forschungsarbeit unter Anleitung”)
Completed:
- Acquiring Commonsense Knowledge for Robots using Games with a Purpose (BSc)
- Learning Physical Aspects of Robot Manipulation Tasks (BSc)
- Enabling Robots to Perform Cooking Tasks (BSc)
- Towards Robots That Know What They Can Do - Semantic Representation of Robot Components, Capabilities and Actions (MSc)
- Simulation-based Naive Physics Reasoning for Everyday Robot Manipulation (MSc)
- Integrating Naive Physics into a Mobile Robot Knowledge Base (Guided Research, i.e. “Forschungsarbeit unter Anleitung”)
Publications
| 2012 | |
|---|---|
| Journal Articles | |
| Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence , In Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 100, 2012. [bib] | |
| Conference and Workshop Papers | |
| Making Virtual Pancakes --- Acquiring and Analyzing Data of Everyday Manipulation Tasks through Interactive Physics-based Simulations , In Poster and Demo Track of the 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), 2012. [bib] | |
| Pouring and Mixing Liquids --- Understanding the Physical Effects of Everyday Robot Manipulation Actions , In 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), Workshop on Human Reasoning and Automated Deduction, 2012. [bib] | |
| Searching Objects in Large-scale Indoor Environments: A Decision-thereotic Approach , In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf] | |
| 2011 | |
| Conference and Workshop Papers | |
| Semantic Object Search in Large-scale Indoor Environments , In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, 2011. [bib] [pdf] | |
| Logic Programming with Simulation-based Temporal Projection for Everyday Robot Object Manipulation , In 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. (Best Student Paper Finalist.) [bib] [pdf] | |
| Towards Semantic Robot Description Languages , In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011. [bib] [pdf] | |
| Simulation-based Temporal Projection of Everyday Robot Object Manipulation , In Proc. of the 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011) (Yolum, Tumer, Stone, Sonenberg, eds.), IFAAMAS, 2011. [bib] [pdf] | |
| 2010 | |
| Conference and Workshop Papers | |
| KNOWROB-MAP -- Knowledge-Linked Semantic Object Maps , In 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2010. [bib] [pdf] | |
| Putting People's Common Sense into Knowledge Bases of Household Robots , In 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010), Springer, 2010. [bib] [pdf] | |
| 2007 | |
| Conference and Workshop Papers | |
| Salient Visual Features to Help Close the Loop in 6D SLAM , In The 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2007, 2007. [bib] [pdf] | |
