Poznan University of Technology
Principal investigator
Krzysztof Walas graduated from Poznan University of Technology (PUT) in Poland receiving M.Sc. in Automatic Control and Robotics. He received (with honors) Ph.D. in Robotics in 2012 for his thesis concerning legged robots’ locomotion in structured environments.
Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence at PUT, Poland.
His research interests are related to robotic perception for physical interaction applied both to walking and grasping tasks.
Researchers
Piotr Kicki received his B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in automatic control and robotics from Poznan University of Technology, Poland in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In 2023 he finished his Ph.D. studies in robotics at Poznan University of Technology. He is currently a research engineer at IDEAS NCBR and assistant at the Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence at Poznan University of Technology, Poland. His main research interests include robot motion planning and applications of machine learning in robotics.
Grzegorz Czechmanowski is a graduate student at Poznan University of Technology, currently in his last year of a Master’s program in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He has been involved in projects focused on vehicle autonomy. In addition to his academic pursuits, Grzegorz is a member of the Formula Student science club and the F1tenth team. Notably, he contributed to his team’s success in securing third place at the ICRA F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix 2023. His primary research interests are the estimation and control of agile robots.
Maciej Krupka is a current graduate student pursuing a Master’s degree in robots and autonomous systems at Poznan University of Technology. He has participated in projects related to the autonomy of drones and mobile vehicles. His primary research interests revolve around robotic vision, leveraging his expertise in the field of autonomous systems.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Principal investigator
Jan Peters is a full professor (W3) for Intelligent Autonomous Systems at the
Computer Science Department of the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt. Jan Peters has received the Dick Volz Best 2007 US Ph.D. Thesis Runner-Up Award, the Robotics: Science & Systems – Early Career Spotlight, the INNS Young Investigator Award, and the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society’s Early Career Award as well as numerous best paper awards. In 2015, he received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2019, he was appointed as an IEEE Fellow.
Researchers
Davide Tateo is a Research Group Leader at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Darmstadt. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2014 and his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the same university in 2019. Davide Tateo worked in many areas of Robotics and Reinforcement Learning, including Deep Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Perception.
Nico Bohlinger is a PhD student at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Darmstadt. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics from the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and a master’s degree in Bioinformatics from the Goethe University Frankfurt. His main research interests lie in the development of machine learning methods for robotic locomotion, especially with the help of Deep Reinforcement Learning.