Sebastian Hoose

Our interdisciplinary team of eight researchers plus students, with backgrounds in computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and psychology, works on perception, AMRs, cobots, mobile manipulation and humanoid robotics. Our focus is cognitive robotics: robots that understand their environment and act in context. We also look at how these robots fit into real processes, including the people who work alongside them. Together with industry partners in logistics, production and pharma, we turn research into use cases and pilots, from potential analysis to development and integration.

Responsibilities include leading the team, acquiring new industry and research projects, developing the team's strategic topics, and building new fields of activity together with other departments of the institute.

Research and industry projects in mobile robotics, collaborative robotics, perception and human-robot collaboration, including project management and coordination of a team of student assistants. Worked on several AMR projects in which the vehicles were built from scratch, on cobot applications, hospital robotics and brain-computer interfaces, as well as on 3D object recognition for bin picking, trajectory planning for collaborative manipulators and behavior frameworks for multi-agent systems.

Further development of a cross-institutional European robot demonstrator, workshops on software architecture and DevOps for robotics.

Worked alongside my studies in computer science with a focus on robotics, on embedded systems and mobile robots for logistics applications, including PCB design, apps for wearables and techniques for deploying robotic systems. Wrote my Master's thesis on a behavior framework for multi-agent systems with decision support based on deep reinforcement learning.