Prof. Dr. Markus Rickert

Lehrstuhlinhaber

Besucheradresse:
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Lehrstuhl für Multimodal Intelligent Interaction
Gutenbergstr. 13
96050 Bamberg

Briefadresse:
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Lehrstuhl für Multimodal Intelligent Interaction
96045 Bamberg

Tel.: +49 951 863 3089
E-Mail: markus.rickert(at)uni-bamberg.de

Raum: GU13/01.26
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung

Curriculum Vitae

Markus Rickert ist Professor und Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Multimodal Intelligent Interaction an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Er erhielt 2004 das Diplom in Informatik von der Technischen Universität München und promovierte dort 2011 (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude). Von 2010 bis 2021 war er bei fortiss, dem Landesforschungsinstitut des Freistaats Bayern für softwareintensive Systeme und An-Institut der Technischen Universität München, wo er die Forschungsgruppe für Virtual Engineering and Robotics und die Forschungsgruppe für Autonomous Driving gründete. Bei fortiss war er von 2013 bis 2016 stellvertretender Leiter des Fachbereichs Cyber-Physical Systems und von 2016 bis 2021 Leiter des Kompetenzfelds Robotics and Machine Learning. Von 2021 bis 2023 war er an der Technischen Universität München und leitete dort das TUM/Huawei Automotive Solutions Innovation Lab.

Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen Robotik, Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion, kognitive Systeme, künstliche Intelligenz, multimodale Interaktion, Bewegungsplanung, Advanced Systems Engineering und Software Engineering. Die wichtigsten Anwendungsbereiche seiner Forschung sind Serviceroboter, Smart Factories, cyber-physische Systeme, Industrieroboter, soziotechnische Systeme und autonome Fahrzeuge.

Ausgewählte Forschungsprojekte

  • JAST: Joint-Action Science and Technology (EU FP6, 2004–2009)
  • JAHIR: Joint Action for Humans and Industrial Robots (DFG EXC CoTeSys, 2006–2009)
  • BAJA: Basic Aspects of Joint Action (DFG EXC CoTeSys, 2009–2010)
  • JAMES: Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems (EU FP7, 2011–2014)
  • SMErobotics: The European Robotics Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing by Integrating Aspects of Cognitive Systems (EU FP7, 2012–2016)
  • SPEEDFACTORY: Automatische Einzelstückfertigung von Sportschuhen und Textilien (BMWi, 2013–2016)
  • FarmExpert 4.0: Architektur eines unabhängigen Expertennetzes für die Landwirtschaft für das Zeitalter der Digitalisierung (StMELF, 2017–2020)
  • Data Backbone: Erforschung eines Data Backbone Ansatzes für den Einsatz montagefähiger Robotiksysteme in cyberphysischen Systemen (StMWi, 2018–2020)
  • EmPReSs: Empowerment in der Produktion von morgen: Mixed Skill Factories und kollaborative Robotersysteme neu denken (bidt, 2020–2022)
  • VOJEXT: Value of Joint Experimentation in Digital Technologies for Manufacturing and Construction (EU H2020, 2020–2023)
  • IRISS: Intuitive Roboterprogrammierung und Integration standardisierter Steuerungsschnittstellen (StMWi, 2021–2023)
  • DiProLeA: Digitaler Produktentstehungsprozesses mit lernendem Assistenzsystem (BMBF, 2021–2024)
  • MANNHEIM-CeCaS: Central Car Server – Supercomputing für Automotive (BMBF, 2022–2025)

Veröffentlichungen

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2023). LieGrasPFormer: Point Transformer-Based 6-DOF Grasp Detection with Lie Algebra Grasp Representation. 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 1–7.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, Wen, Long, Hu, Yingbai, & Knoll, Alois. (2023). Robust Point Cloud Registration with Geometry-based Transformation Invariant Descriptor. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Proceedings, 7163–7170.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, Wen, Long, Pan, Fengjunjie, & Knoll, Alois. (2023). Knowledge-Augmented Anomaly Detection in Small Lot Production for Semantic Temporal Process Data. 2023 IEEE 28th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 1–8.

Pan, Fengjunjie, Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2023). Automated Design Space Exploration for Resource Allocation in Software-Defined Vehicles. 1–8.

Wen, Long, Rickert, Markus, Pan, Fengjunjie, Lin, Jianjie, & Knoll, Alois. (2023). Bare-Metal vs. Hypervisors and Containers: Performance Evaluation of Virtualization Technologies for Software-Defined Vehicles. 1–8.

Pan, Fengjunjie, Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2022). Resource Allocation in Software-Defined Vehicles: ILP Model Formulation and Solver Evaluation. 2577–2584.

Kessler, Ingmar, Perzylo, Alexander, & Rickert, Markus. (2021). Ontology-Based Decision Support System for the Nitrogen Fertilization of Winter Wheat. Metadata and Semantic Research: MTSR 2020; Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1355, 245–256.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2021c). Grasp Planning for Flexible Production with Small Lot Sizes based on CAD models using GPIS and Bayesian Optimization. 879–884.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2021a). Deep Hierarchical Rotation Invariance Learning with Exact Geometry Feature Representation for Point Cloud Classification. 9529–9535.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2021b). Parameterizable and Jerk-Limited Trajectories with Blending for Robot Motion Planning and Spherical Cartesian Waypoints. 13982–13988.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, Perzylo, Alexander, & Knoll, Alois. (2021). PCTMA-Net: Point Cloud Transformer with Morphing Atlas-based Point Generation Network for Dense Point Cloud Completion. 5657–5663.

Profanter, Stefan, Perzylo, Alexander, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2021). A Generic Plug & Produce System Composed of Semantic OPC UA Skills. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, 2, 128–141.

Lin, Jianjie, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2020). 6D Pose Estimation for Flexible Production with Small Lot Sizes based on CAD Models using Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces. 10572–10579.

Perzylo, Alexander, Kessler, Ingmar, Profanter, Stefan, & Rickert, Markus. (2020). Toward a Knowledge-Based Data Backbone for Seamless Digital Engineering in Smart Factories. 164–171.

Wildgrube, Fabian, Perzylo, Alexander, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2020). Semantic Mates: intuitive Geometric Constraints for Efficient Assembly Specifications. 6180–6187.

Nafissi, Anahita, Weckesser, Fabian, Kessler, Ingmar, Rickert, Markus, Pfaff, Matthias, Peisl, Sebastian, & Beck, Michael. (2019). Wissensbasierte digitale Unterstützung in der Pflanzenbauberatung. GI-Edition, 287, 145–150.

Perzylo, Alexander, Profanter, Stefan, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2019). OPC UA NodeSet Ontologies as a Pillar of Representing Semantic Digital Twins of Manufacturing Resources. 1085–1092.

Perzylo, Alexander, Rickert, Markus, Kahl, Bjorn, Somani, Nikhil, Lehmann, Christian, Kuss, Alexander, Profanter, Stefan, Beck, Anders Billeso, Haage, Mathias, Hansen, Mikkel Rath, Nibe, Malene Tofveson, Roa, Maximo A., Sornmo, Olof, Robertz, Sven Gestegard, Thomas, Ulrike, Veiga, Germano, Topp, Elin Anna, Kessler, Ingmar, & Danzer, Marinus. (2019). SMErobotics: Smart Robots for Flexible Manufacturing. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 26(1), 78–90.

Profanter, Stefan, Breitkreuz, Ari, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2019). A Hardware-Agnostic OPC UA Skill Model for Robot Manipulators and Tools. 1061–1068.

Profanter, Stefan, Tekat, Ayhun, Dorofeev, Kirill, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2019). OPC UA versus ROS, DDS, and MQTT: Performance Evaluation of Industry 4.0 Protocols. 955–962.

Rickert, Markus, Gaschler, Andre, & Knoll, Alois. (2019). Applications in HHI: Physical Cooperation. In Ambarish Goswami & Prahlad Vadakkepat (Eds.), Humanoid Robotics: a Reference (pp. 2221–2259). Springer.

Cheng, Chih-Hong, Diehl, Frederik, Hinz, Gereon, Hamza, Yassine, Nührenberg, Georg, Rickert, Markus, Ruess, Harald, & Truong-Le, Michael. (2018). Neural Networks for Safety-Critical Applications: Challenges, Experiments and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE): 19-23 March 2018, Dresden, Germany, 1005–1006.

Lin, Jianjie, Somani, Nikhil, Hu, Biao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2018). An Efficient and Time-Optimal Trajectory Generation Approach for Waypoints Under Kinematic Constraints and Error Bounds. Towards a Robotic Society: 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: October, 1-5, 2018, Madrid, Spain, Madrid Municipal Conference Centre, 5869–5876.

Chen, Chao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2017). Motion Planning under Perception and Control Uncertainties with Space Exploration Guided Heuristic Search. 28th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium: June 11-14, 2017, Redondo Beach, California, USA, 712–718.

Kraft, Martin, & Rickert, Markus. (2017). How to Teach Your Robot in 5 Minutes: applying UX Paradigms to Human-Robot-Interaction. Human-Robot Collaboration and Human Assistance for an Improved Quality of Life: IEEE RO-MAN 2017: 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Ineractive Communication: August 28-September 1, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 942–949.

Rickert, Markus, & Gaschler, Andre. (2017). Robotics Library: an Object-Oriented Approach to Robot Applications. IROS Vancouver 2017: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada September 24-28, 2017: Conference Digest, 733–740.

Somani, Nikhil, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2017). An Exact Solver for Geometric Constraints with Inequalities. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2), 1148–1155.

Chen, Chao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2016). Combining Task and Motion Planning for Intersection Assistance Systems. 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV): 19-22 June 2016 (2016), 1242–1247.

Perzylo, Alexander, Somani, Nikhil, Profanter, Stefan, Kessler, Ingmar, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2016). Intuitive Instruction of Industrial Robots: Semantic Process Descriptions for Small Lot Production. IROS 2016: 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: October 9-14, 2016, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea, 2293–2300.

Rickert, Markus, & Perzylo, Alexander. (2016). Industrieroboter für KMU: flexible und intuitive Prozessbeschreibung. Industrie 4.0 Management, 32(2), 46–49.

Somani, Nikhil, Rickert, Markus, Gaschler, Andre, Cai, Caixia, Perzylo, Alexander, & Knoll, Alois. (2016). Task Level Robot Programming Using Prioritized Non-Linear Inequality Constraints. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 430–437.

Cai, Caixia, Somani, Nikhil, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Prioritized Motion-Force Control of Multi-Constraints for Industrial Manipulators. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics: IEEE-ROBIO 2015: December 6-9, 2015, Zhuhai, China (2015), 952–957.

Chen, Chao, Gaschler, Andre, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Task Planning for Highly Automated Driving. 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 940–945.

Chen, Chao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015a). Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Space-Time Exploration Guided Heuristic Search for Car-Like Robots in Dynamic Environments. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2666–2671.

Chen, Chao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015b). Path Planning with Orientation-Aware Space Exploration Guided Heuristic Search for Autonomous Parking and Maneuvering. 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 1148–1153.

Lenz, David, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Heuristic Search in Belief Space for Motion Planning Under Map and Actuator Uncertainties. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2659–2665.

Perzylo, Alexander, Somani, Nikhil, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). An Ontology for CAD Data and Geometric Constraints as a Link Between Product Models and Semantic Robot Task Descriptions. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 4197–4203.

Profanter, Stefan, Perzylo, Alexander, Somani, Nikhil, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Analysis and Semantic Modeling of Modality Preferences in Industrial Human-Robot Interaction. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015): Hamburg, Germany, 28 September - 2 October 2015, 1812–1818.

Roitberg, Alina, Somani, Nikhil, Perzylo, Alexander, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Multimodal Human Activity Recognition for Industrial Manufacturing Processes in Robotic Workcells. ICMI ’15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 259–266.

Somani, Nikhil, Gaschler, Andre, Rickert, Markus, Perzylo, Alexander, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Constraint-Based Task Programming with CAD Semantics: from Intuitive Specification to Real-Time Control. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015): Hamburg, Germany, 28 September - 2 October 2015, 2854–2859.

Somani, Nikhil, Perzylo, Alexander, Cai, Caixia, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2015). Object Detection Using Boundary Representations of Primitive Shapes. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics: IEEE-ROBIO 2015: December 6-9, 2015, Zhuhai, China, 108–113.

Chen, Chao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2014). A Traffic Knowledge Aided Vehicle Motion Planning Engine Based on Space Exploration Guided Heuristic Search. 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Proceedings, 535–540.

Gaschler, Andre, Springer, Maximilian, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2014). Intuitive Robot Tasks with Augmented Reality and Virtual Obstacles. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6026–6031.

Rickert, Markus, Sieverling, Arne, & Brock, Oliver. (2014). Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Sampling-Based Motion Planning. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 30(6), 1305–1317.

Roitberg, Alina, Perzylo, Alexander, Somani, Nikhil, Giuliani, Manuel, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2014). Human Activity Recognition in the Context of Industrial Human-Robot Interaction. Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2014 Asia-Pacific, 1–10.

Somani, Nikhil, Cai, Caixia, Perzylo, Alexander, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2014). Object Recognition Using Constraints from Primitive Shape Matching. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Part 1, 783–792.

Chen, Chao, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2013). Combining Space Exploration and Heuristic Search in Online Motion Planning for Nonholonomic Vehicles. 2013 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 1307–1312.

Gaschler, Andre, Petrick, Ronald P. A., Giuliani, Manuel, Rickert, Markus, & Knoll, Alois. (2013). KVP: a Knowledge of Volumes Approach to Robot Task Planning. 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 202–208.