Bernhard Rinner

Multi-robot systems (MRS) accomplish many missions with different complexities, and their applications range from search-and-rescue and surveillance to transportation and entertainment. In many missions, multiple robots need to cooperate to complete tasks. The workflow of these multi-robot tasks involves forming coalitions of robots, assigning them to available tasks, and jointly […]

Former research staff member and PhD graduate Melanie Schranz talks about her career in engineering and how she found her dream job. Read the complete Interview (in German).

Our former research staff member Jennifer Simonjan received the “Digitalization Award” of the state of Carinthia for her PhD thesis entitled “Resource-efficient and Resiliant Self-Calibration in Distributed Visual Sensor Networks”. Jennifer received the award from the Govenor Peter Kaiser as part of a virtual ceremony on November 23, 2020. Press […]

The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation filmed about our research on privacy protection for more than four hours. The shooting took place in our laboratory and outdoors, where we reenacted a selfie drone scenario and demonstrated our aerial video anonymization approach. The shooting also covered our smart camera prototypes with embedded privacy […]

Jennifer Simonjan is a winner of the 2020 Austria Marshall Plan Foundation poster award for her work on localization and tracking of in-body nanosensors. This work was done during her research stay at Georgia Tech during the first half of this year. Sincere congrats to my former PhD student and […]

Today Jürgen Scherer successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled Multi-robot Persistent Surveillance with Connectivity Constraints. The committee was composed by Prof. Christian Bettstetter (chair), Prof. Angela Schoellig (Univ. Toronto) and Prof. Hermann Hellwagner. Let’s congratulate our most recent PhD graduate!