Udo Frese

Udo Frese

Title: Halftime towards 2050 - Looking back and forth in Robot Soccer

Abstract:

RoboCup started in 1997 as an annual robot soccer competition with the ultimate goal to beat the human world champion in 2050. So, with some benevolent rounding, it's now halftime towards that goal and time to look back and forth. What has been achieved? Which challenges of human soccer are still open. University of Bremen has participated in the standard platform league, where all teams share the same commercial robot, first with Sony's quadruped Aibo, then with Aldeberan Robotics' humanoid Nao. So the talk covers that league in more depth.

Bio:
Udo Frese has obtained a Dr.-Ing. degree from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2004, with a dissertation on Simultanous Localization and Mapping developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen. He became assistant professor for real-time computer vision  and later professor for multi-sensor interactive systems at Universität Bremen. His main research interest is sensor fusion, i.e. methods to combine data from multiple sensors in the best way, in particular for cameras and inertial sensors. Together with the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) his group runs the robot soccer team B-Human that won the RoboCup World Championsship in the Standard Platform League 11 times.