Roland Philippsen

Roland Philippsen

Roland Philippsen, Roboticist, PhD

Family Name: Philippsen
Given Name: Roland
Role: Roboticist
Title: PhD
Subject: Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles
Organization: Google/X
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About Roland

I received my Ph.D. from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005, for work on mobile robot path planning and obstacle avoidance. My expertise lies in interweaving reasoning, planning, and control. My current research interest lies in robots that take an active part in modifying their environment, while also pursuing applied research in intelligent vehicles with industrial partners. Some of the real-world robotics project I have contributed to are: tour-guide robots at the Swiss Expo.02, educational robots for the EPFL student contest 2001-2004, robotic actors for a theater play in 2005, a Cognitive Robot Companion in 2006, the PR2 of Willow Garage Inc, and the Meka robot of HCRL at UT Austin. I always try to push for robust open source software in this area, because I believe that autonomous robots can improve the lives of all humanity, provided we openly share knowledge and implementations.

Activities

• open source advocacy in particular for our lab

Research Interest

• motion planning for mobile robots, manipulators, and intelligent vehicles
• interweaving planning, control, and obstacle avoidance for mobile robots, manipulators, and intelligent vehicles
• augmented reality for robotics, for R+D as well as teaching
• software engineering for robotics, system integration and architectures

Student Projects

Open

	OneLineSummary
Multi-robot trajectory adaptation using a state-time elastic band approach	For teams of robots moving through dynamic environments, deform planned trajectories in space and time such that they remain collision-free and reach the goal (if possible) or report failure if replanning is needed.

Completed

	ThesisAuthor	OneLineSummary
Graphical Traffic Scenario Editor	Iulian Carpatorea	Develop an interactive graphical application to draw vehicle paths and their surrounding environment, for rapid prototyping of traffic scenarios in intelligent vehicle research.
Integrating a new rigid-body dynamics model library with an existing whole-body controller	Anton Jerey Thomas Holleis Marlene Mohr	Integrating a new rigid-body dynamics model library with an existing whole-body controller
Mixed-Reality Robot Platform	Norbert Gruenwald	Build foundations for our mixed-reality platform by integrating and demonstrating an extensible system with one or more robots, a simulator, some offboard sensors, and simple teleoperation.
Mobile Social Robot for Healthcare	Matthias Mayr	Pilot study about a small interactive mobile robots for therapy and healthcare in homes.
Sailboat Motion Planning using the Level-Set Method	Lin Ge Yifei Li	Explore the use of Level-Set and Fast-Marching Methods to create time-optimal motions of a point in a plane subject to direction-dependent velocity.

Publications

Complete Publication List

Our library's DIVA system does not contain anything I published before joining Halmstad, so please visit my personal homepage for a complete list.