Nico Hochgeschwender

Nico Hochgeschwender Department of Computer Science Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University Master Program in Autonomous Systems

Contact

nico.hochgeschwender@h-brs.de

About me

I am a Research Associate in the Autonomous Systems Program at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
I am also affiliated with the University of Luxembourg as a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Holger Voos.

News

• October 2014 Please check out the Robotics DSL Zoo maintained by Arne Nordmann, Sebastian Wrede and myself.

• October 2014 I am (co)-organizing the 5th Workshop on Models and Languages in Robotics (DSLRob) located at the International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR) conference.

• July 2014. Three papers at SIMPAR got accepted!

• April 2013. I am chair of the RoboCup@Work competition at the RoboCup GermanOpen.

• March 2012. I am (co)-organizing a workshop on Models and Languages in Robotics for Academia and Industry at the European Robotics Forum.

• September 2011. Jenny our domestic service robot performed several tasks at the IROS 2011 exhibition.

• July 2011. We placed third! We reached again the podium at the RoboCup@Home competition in Istanbul.

• November 2010. I am (co)-organizing a workshop on Simulation and Emulation Technologies in Robotics at SIMPAR 2010.

• October 2010. I am (co)-organizing a workshop on Patterns in Robot Control Architectures at IROS 2010.

Research

• Robot Software Architectures
  

• Domain-specific Languages in Robotics
  

• Architectures and Paradigms of Robot Perception Systems
  

• Robot Benchmarking through Scientific Competitions
  

Current Projects

I am involved in the following EU-funded project

• Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics (RoCKIn) (2013 – 2015)

Previous Projects

I was involved in the EU-funded project

• Best Practice in Robotics (BRICS) (2009 – 2013)

Publications

2015

• Nico Hochgeschwender, Holger Voos, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  Context-based Selection and Execution of Robot Perception Graphs
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). Luxembourg, Luxembourg. To appear.

• Sven Schneider, Frederik Hegger, Nico Hochgeschwender, Rhama Dwiputra, Alexander Moriarty, Jakob Berghofer, and Gerhard Kraetzschmar
  Design and Development of a Benchmarking Testbed for the Factory of the Future
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). Luxembourg, Luxembourg. To appear.

• Luca Gherardi and Nico Hochgeschwender
  RRA: Models and Tools for Robotics Run-time Adaptation
  In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015). Hamburg, Germany. To appear.

• Sebastian Blumenthal, Nico Hochgeschwender, Erwin Prassler, Holger Voos, and Herman Bruyninckx
  An Approach for a Distributed World Model with QoS-based Perception Algorithm Adaptation
  In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015). Hamburg, Germany. To appear.

• Luca Gherardi and Nico Hochgeschwender
  Poster: Model-based Run-time Variability Resolution for Robotic Applications
  In Poster Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Florence, Italy.

2014

• Arne Nordmann, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Sebastian Wrede
  A Survey on Domain-specific Languages in Robotics
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR). Bergamo, Italy.
  

• Sven Schneider, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  Structured Design and Development of Domain-specific Languages in Robotics
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR). Bergamo, Italy.
  

• Nico Hochgeschwender, Sven Schneider, Holger Voos, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  Declarative Specification of Robot Perception Architectures
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR). Bergamo, Italy.
  

• Sven Schneider, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  Declarative Specification of Task-based Grasping with Constraint Validation.
  In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Chicago, USA.

• Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Nico Hochgeschwender, Sven Schneider, Walter Nowak, Rainer Bischoff, Rhama Dwiputra, Jakob Berghofer and Frederik Hegger.
  RoboCup@Work: Competing for the Factory of the Future
  In Proceedings of the 18th annual RoboCup International Symposium. Joao Pessoa, Brazil.

2013

• Nico Hochgeschwender, Luca Gherardi, Azamat Shakhimardanov, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Davide Brugali, Herman Bruyninckx
  A Model-based Approach to Software Deployment in Robotics
  In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Tokyo, Japan.

• Markus Klotzbuecher, Nico Hochgeschwender, Luca Gherardi, Herman Bruyninckx,
  Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Davide Brugali, Azamat Shakhimardanov, Jan Paulus,
  Michael Reckhaus, Hugo Garcia, Davide Faconti and Peter Soetens.
  The BRICS Component Model: A Model-Based Development Paradigm For Complex Robotics Software Systems.
  In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). Track on Software Architecture: Theory, Technology,
  and Applications (SA-TTA). Coimbra, Portugal.
  

• Nico Hochgeschwender, Sven Schneider, Holger Voos, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  Towards a Robot Perception Specification Language
  In Fourth International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and Models for Robotic Systems (DSLRob’13). Tokyo, Japan.

• Sven Schneider and Nico Hochgeschwender
  Towards a Declarative Grasp Specification Language
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Combining Task and Motion Planning held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Karlsruhe, Germany.

2012

• Frederik Hegger, Nico Hochgeschwender, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, and Paul G. Ploeger.
  People Detection in 3d Point Clouds using Local Surface Normals
  In Proceedings of the 16th RoboCup International Symposium 2012. Mexico City, Mexico.
  

2011

• Azamat Shakhimardanov, Nico Hochgeschwender, Michael Reckhaus, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar.
  Analysis of Software Connectors in Robotics
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). San Francisco, US.

• Christian A. Mueller, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Paul G. Ploeger.
  Towards Robust Object Categorization for Mobile Robots with Combination of Classifiers
  In Proceedings of the 15th RoboCup International Symposium. Istanbul, Turkey.

• Thomas Breuer, Geovanny R. Giorgana Macedo, Ronny Hartanto, Nico Hochgeschwender,
  Dirk Holz, Frederik Hegger, Zha Jin, Christian Mueller, Jan Paulus, Michael Reckhaus,
  Jose Antonio Alvarez Ruiz, Paul G. Ploeger, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar.
  Johnny: An autonomous service robot for domestic environments
  In Special Issue on Domestic Service Robots in the Real World.
  Springer Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.

• Christian Mueller, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Paul G. Ploeger.
  Surface Reconstruction with Growing Neural Gas
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). San Francisco, US.

2010

• Azamat Shakhimardanov, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  Component Models in Robotics Software
  In Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS 2010). Baltimore, US.
  

• Michael Reckhaus, Nico Hochgeschwender, Paul G. Ploeger, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
  A Platform-independent Programming Environment for Robot Control
  In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and Models for Robotic Systems (DSLRob)
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2010). Taipeh, Taiwan

2008

• Kai Reichel, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Holger Voos
  An Operational Driven Development Approach for Cognitive Agents in UAV Applications
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys). Karlsruhe, Germany.
  

• Kai Reichel, Nico Hochgeschwender, and Holger Voos
  OpCog: An Industrial Development Approach for Cognitive Agent Systems in Military UAV Applications
  In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) – Industrial Track. Estoril, Portugal.

2007

• Nico Hochgeschwender and Holger Voos
  Verification of Autonomous Robotic Systems: A Perspective
  In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Robotics, Applications and Telematics. Würzburg, Germany.

2006

• Nico Hochgeschwender, Yoichi Nakaguro and Matthew N. Dailey.
  Vision-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Point Features
  In Poster Proceedings of the 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Bremen, Germany.

2005

• Wolfgang Ertel, Joachim Fessler and Nico Hochgeschwender
  A universal modular autonomous robot architecture
  In Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). Barcelona, Spain.

• Wolfgang Ertel, Joachim Fessler and Nico Hochgeschwender
  Flexible Combination of Vision, Control and Drive in Autonomous Mobile Robots
  In Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS) 2005. Springer Informatik-Aktuell.