The winner of the 2009 Robotdalen Scientific Award is Dr. Davide Scaramuzza, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received the prize sum of € 20 000 for his competition contribution - his doctoral thesis on autonomous navigation of vehicles. In his PhD thesis, he introduced a new generalized model for wide-angle cameras and a method to accurately estimate the motion of a vehicle (car or helicopter) and build a 3D map of the environment from a single camera alone (without GPS or other sensors). His research found several industrial applications in robotics, automotive, endoscopic imagery, meteorology, and aerial photography.
Dr. Scaramuzza received his Master degree in Electrical Engineering (2004) at the University of Perugia, Italy and a PhD in Computer Vision and Robotics (2008) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He is currently senior researcher at the Autonomous Systems Lab at the ETH Zurich and IEEE member. HE is lecturer of the Master course “Autonomous Mobile Robots” at the ETH Zurich, and also project leader and scientific manager of the European Project sFly.
He leads the European MAV team at the ETH Zurich and he is also author of the Omnidirectional Camera Calibration Toolbox for MATLAB!
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Open Robotics Development - ECHORD Opening Event
The European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD) is a new EU-funded project aimed to reinforce cooperation between the industry and the scientific research in robotics. ECHORD is coordinated by Professor Knoll, Technical University of Munich. The project's international orientation and its positioning in the existing robotics landscape are emphasized by the participation of the University of Naples Federico II (Prof. Siciliano) and the University of Coimbra in Portugal (Prof. Pires).
The industry can support research groups in the purchase of robotic equipment and the development of experiments in a series of selected scenarios, that are scientifically interesting and commercially relevant.
ECHORD Opening Event will be held September 4, 2009, 10 am – 4 pma t the Deutsches Museum, Ehrensaal Munich, Germany
Speakers will include:
• Horst Forster - Director of Directorate E "Digital Content and Cognitive Systems", Directorate-General for "Information Society and Media", European Commission
• Prof. Dr. Roland Siegwart – Autonomous Systems Lab , ETH, Zürich
• Ulf-Göran Norefors - Vice President ABB Automation Technologies, Sweden
The industry can support research groups in the purchase of robotic equipment and the development of experiments in a series of selected scenarios, that are scientifically interesting and commercially relevant.
ECHORD Opening Event will be held September 4, 2009, 10 am – 4 pma t the Deutsches Museum, Ehrensaal Munich, Germany
Speakers will include:
• Horst Forster - Director of Directorate E "Digital Content and Cognitive Systems", Directorate-General for "Information Society and Media", European Commission
• Prof. Dr. Roland Siegwart – Autonomous Systems Lab , ETH, Zürich
• Ulf-Göran Norefors - Vice President ABB Automation Technologies, Sweden
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