
Sebastian Andreas Scherer
Background
- Since January 2010: Research assistant at the Department of Computer Architecture, University of Tübingen
- 2006-2007: Exchange Student at David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- 2003-2009: Studies of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
Research Interests
- Computer Vision
- Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- Autonomous Flying Robots
Publications
[1] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Xiaodong Yi, and Andreas Zell. Multi-camera visual {SLAM} for autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 93:116 -- 134, 2017. [ DOI | link ] |
[2] | Sebastian Otte, Christian Weiss, Tobias Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Recurrent Neural Networks for Fast and Robust Vibration-based Ground Classification on Mobile Robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016. |
[3] | Sebastian A. Scherer, Shaowu Yang, and Andreas Zell. Dctam: Drift-corrected tracking and mapping for autonomous micro aerial vehicles. In Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2015 International Conference on, pages 1094--1101, Denver, CO, USA, June 2015. [ details | link | pdf ] |
[4] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Robust onboard visual SLAM for autonomous MAVs. In 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13), Padova, Italy, July 2014. [ details | pdf ] |
[5] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Visual SLAM for autonomous MAVs with dual cameras. In 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'14), Hongkong, China, June 2014. [ details | pdf ] |
[6] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Konstantin Schauwecker, and Andreas Zell. Autonomous Landing of MAVs on Arbitrarily Textured Landing Sites using Onboard Monocular Vision. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 74(1-2):27--43, 2014. [ DOI | details | link | pdf ] |
[7] | Lixing Jiang, Artur Koch, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Multi-class fruit classification using RGB-D data for indoor robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenzhen, China, December 2013. [ details | pdf ] |
[8] | Sebastian A. Scherer and Andreas Zell. Efficient Onboard RGBD-SLAM for Fully Autonomous MAVs. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, November 2013. [ details | pdf ] |
[9] | Sebastian A. Scherer, Alina Kloss, and Andreas Zell. Loop Closure Detection using Depth Images. In European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2013), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, September 2013. [ details | pdf ] |
[10] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Konstantin Schauwecker, and Andreas Zell. Onboard Monocular Vision for Landing of an MAV on a Landing Site Specified by a Single Reference Image. In 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'13), pages 317--324, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2013. [ details | link | pdf ] |
[11] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. An onboard monocular vision system for autonomous takeoff, hovering and landing of a micro aerial vehicle. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 69(1--4):499--515, January 2013. [ details | link | pdf ] |
[12] | Konstantin Schauwecker, Nan Rosemary Ke, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Markerless Visual Control of a Quad-Rotor Micro Aerial Vehicle by Means of On-Board Stereo Processing. In 22nd Conference on Autonomous Mobile Systems (AMS), pages 11--20, Stuttgart, Germany, September 2012. Springer. [ link | pdf ] |
[13] | Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. An Onboard Monocular Vision System for Autonomous Takeoff, Hovering and Landing of a Micro Aerial Vehicle. In 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'12), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 2012. [ details ] |
[14] | Sebastian A. Scherer, Daniel Dube, and Andreas Zell. Using Depth in Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2012. [ details | pdf ] |
[15] | Sebastian A. Scherer, Daniel Dube, Philippe Komma, Andreas Masselli, and Andreas Zell. Robust Real-Time Number Sign Detection on a Mobile Outdoor Robot. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2011), Örebro, Sweden, September 2011. [ details | pdf ] |
Competitions
- DLR SpaceBot Cup 2015
- SICK robot day 2012 (2nd place with Team Attempto)
- SICK robot day 2010 (1st place with Team Attempto)
- Robocup World Cup 2006 (1st place free technical challenge with Team Attempto)
Teaching
- Lecture and tutorial "Mobile Roboter", Summer 2015
- Seminar Advanced Topics in Mobile Robotics: Flying Robots, Summer 2015
- Tutorial "Grundlagen der Robotik", Winter 2014/2015
- Lecture and tutorial "Mobile Roboter", Summer 2014
- Tutorial "Grundlagen der Robotik", Winter 2013/2014
- Lecture and tutorial "Mobile Roboter", Summer 2013
- Tutorial "Grundlagen der Robotik", Winter 2012/2013
- Tutorial "Mobile Roboter", Summer 2012
- Tutorial "Grundlagen der Robotik", Winter 2011/2012
- Tutorial "Mobile Roboter", Summer 2011
- Practical course "Software Engineering", Summer 2011
- Tutorial "Grundlagen der Robotik", Winter 2010/2011
- Practical course Mobile Robots, Summer 2010
Address, Phone, Fax, Email
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
- Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
- Lehrstuhl Rechnerarchitektur
- Sand 1
- D - 72076 Tübingen
- Germany
- Tel: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 78982
- Fax: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 5091
- Email: sebastian.scherer at uni-tuebingen.de