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Andreas Birk

Andreas Birk

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Computer Science

D-Index
39
Citations
6938
World Ranking
9715
National Ranking
483

Overview

Andreas Birk is affiliated with Jacobs University in Germany and has contributed significantly to the fields of engineering and computer science, with a focused expertise in aerospace and ocean engineering. Their work encompasses education and health-related applications, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within these broader disciplines.

The scientist's research topics prominently feature underwater vehicles and communication systems, robotics and sensor-based localization, as well as underwater acoustics research. Additional interests include innovative teaching methods, experimental learning in engineering, online and blended learning, and water quality monitoring technologies.

Their recent publications include:

  • A Survey of Underwater Human-Robot Interaction (U-HRI), 2022, Current Robotics Reports
  • A Robotics Course during COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Online Teaching beyond the Pandemic, 2020, Robotics
  • Robotics Labs and Other Hands-On Teaching During COVID-19: Change Is Here to Stay?, 2021, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • Seeing through the forest and the trees with drones, 2021, Science Robotics

Among coauthors, Andreas Birk frequently collaborates with Evelina Dineva, Arturo Gomez Chavez, Christian A. Mueller, Francesco Maurelli, and Andreas Nabor, each contributing multiple joint publications.

The venues where their research is often published include:

  • IEEE Access
  • Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • Sensors
  • Current Robotics Reports

Best Publications

  • Merging Occupancy Grid Maps From Multiple Robots

    A. Birk;S. Carpin

  • Fast plane detection and polygonalization in noisy 3D range images

    J. Poppinga;N. Vaskevicius;A. Birk;K. Pathak

  • Fast Registration Based on Noisy Planes With Unknown Correspondences for 3-D Mapping

    Kaustubh Pathak;Andreas Birk;Narunas Vaškevičius;Jann Poppinga

  • Multi-robot exploration under the constraints of wireless networking

    Martijn N. Rooker;Andreas Birk

  • Postmortem: never leave a project without it

    A. Birk;T. Dingsoyr;T. Stalhane

  • Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measure of software requirements analysis process capability

    K. El Emam;A. Birk

  • Online three-dimensional SLAM by registration of large planar surface segments and closed-form pose-graph relaxation

    Kaustubh Pathak;Andreas Birk;Narunas Vaskevicius;Max Pfingsthorn

  • Rescue robotics — a crucial milestone on the road to autonomous systems

    Andreas Birk;Stefano Carpin

  • Safety, Security, and Rescue Missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

    Andreas Birk;Burkhard Wiggerich;Heiko Bülow;Max Pfingsthorn

  • Product line engineering, the state of the practice

    A. Birk;G. Heller;I. John;K. Schmid

  • High fidelity tools for rescue robotics: results and perspectives

    Stefano Carpin;Jijun Wang;Michael Lewis;Andreas Birk

  • Online three‐dimensional SLAM by registration of large planar surface segments and closed‐form pose‐graph relaxation

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  • 3D forward sensor modeling and application to occupancy grid based sensor fusion

    K. Pathak;A. Birk;J. Poppinga;S. Schwertfeger

  • On map merging

    Stefano Carpin;Andreas Birk;Viktoras Jucikas

  • The Pinax-model for accurate and efficient refraction correction of underwater cameras in flat-pane housings

    Tomasz Łuczyński;Max Pfingsthorn;Andreas Birk

  • Beyond points: Evaluating recent 3D scan-matching algorithms

    Martin Magnusson;Narunas Vaskevicius;Todor Stoyanov;Kaustubh Pathak

  • A networking framework for teleoperation in safety, security, and rescue robotics

    A. Birk;S. Schwertfeger;K. Pathak

  • CBR for Experimental Software Engineering

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff;Andreas Birk;Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim;Carsten Tautz

  • Fast 3D mapping by matching planes extracted from range sensor point-clouds

    Kaustubh Pathak;Narunas Vaskevicius;Jann Poppinga;Max Pfingsthorn

  • Boosting cooperation by evolving trust

    Andreas Birk

  • RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V

    Andreas Birk;Silvia Coradeschi;Satoshi Tadokoro

  • Merging Occupancy Grid Maps From Multiple Robots When individual robots map their local surroundings, regions of overlap with other local robot maps can be matched to allow merging these local maps into one overall map.

    Andreas Birk;Stefano Carpin

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio M. Pascoal
Antonio M. Pascoal Instituto Superior Técnico
Tony Belpaeme
Tony Belpaeme Ghent University
Dietmar Pfahl
Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu
Gianluca Antonelli
Gianluca Antonelli University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Satoshi Tadokoro
Satoshi Tadokoro Tohoku University
Pere Ridao
Pere Ridao University of Girona
Torgeir Dingsøyr
Torgeir Dingsøyr Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Karl Grammer
Karl Grammer University of Vienna
Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology
Sylvain Calinon
Sylvain Calinon Idiap Research Institute

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