Rob­oCup GO 2010 by fh

My name is Phil­ipp A. Baer. I’m cur­rently work­ing as a postdoc­toral researcher at the DFKI Robot­ics Innov­a­tion Cen­ter (RIC) in Bre­men, Ger­many. We are con­cerned with devel­op­ment strategies for robot con­trol archi­tec­tures and new ways of think­ing about autonom­ous beha­viour, mainly in space, secur­ity, and under­wa­ter robot­ics. We are inter­ested in (so-called, highly buzzword-loaded) bio­lo­gic­ally inspired approaches where applic­able. More gen­er­ally speak­ing, my research interests lie in the area of cooper­at­ive robot­ics, i.e. everything that has to do with groups of autonom­ous robots.

Kas­sel 2004–2008

Carpe Noctem in Graz 2009

Between Decem­ber 2004 and Decem­ber 2008 I was a sci­entific researcher at the Dis­trib­uted Sys­tems Group of Kas­sel Uni­ver­sity, Ger­many. Kas­sel is loc­ated approx­im­ately in the middle of Ger­many. It is sur­roun­ded by an impress­ive dead area (about 200km), a kind of green-belt. I have suc­cess­fully defen­ded my doc­toral thesis on 4^th Decem­ber 2008. You may find some more inform­a­tion on the page I ded­ic­ated to my dis­ser­ta­tion work.

In 2005, my col­league Roland Reichle and I foun­ded the Carpe Noctem Robotic Soc­cer team. I led the team from 2005 to 2008. We achieved a 7^th place (of 23 par­ti­cip­at­ing teams) in the Rob­oCup World Cham­pi­on­ships 2006 in Bre­men as well as a 5^th and 4^th place in the Rob­oCup Ger­man Open 2007 and 2008, respect­ively. In 2009, we again achieved the 4^th place. For the Rob­oCup Ger­man Open 2008 and 2009, I was appoin­ted chair of the Middle Size League games held dur­ing the Rob­oCup Ger­man Open. The Rob­oCup World Cham­pi­on­ships 2009 were held in Graz, Aus­tria, this year. We at least achieved the 6^th place – maybe even a 5^th but to be hon­est we didn’t check the other team’s performance.

Ulm 1999–2004

The Ulm Spar­rows 2003

From 1999 to 2004, I was enrolled in the Com­puter Sci­ence pro­gramme of the Fac­ulty of Com­puter Sci­ence (now Fac­ulty of Engin­eer­ing and Com­puter Sci­ences) at the Uni­ver­sity of Ulm, Ger­many. Ulm is loc­ated about 100km north of the Lake Con­stance (Bodensee). There is also a page I ded­ic­ated to my dip­loma thesis.

Between 2001 and 2004, I was a mem­ber of the Ulm Spar­rows Rob­oCup team. Dur­ing that time I took care of the com­puter install­a­tion in our robotic labor­at­ory and the con­fig­ur­a­tion of our robots. I was fur­ther respons­ible for robot com­mu­nic­a­tion and imple­men­ted an effi­cient group com­mu­nic­a­tion approach based on IP mul­tic­ast (Noti­fyMul­tic­ast) that is now part of the robot mid­dle­ware Miro and reportedly also used in a NASA research projekt :)

Other stuff

My research interests include robot­ics, effi­cient coordin­a­tion strategies for cooper­at­ive robots, secur­ity in terms of reli­ab­il­ity but also cryp­to­graphy, and system-level pro­gram­ming. I am a mem­ber of the IEEE, Com­puter Soci­ety, Com­mu­nic­a­tions Soci­ety, and Robot­ics and Auto­ma­tion Soci­ety. In my free time, I like being out­side in nature or in cit­ies, tak­ing pho­tos of things or people near by. Some years ago, I star­ted with a Nikon F56 SLR but switched over to Canon DSLRs in about 2004. Some pho­tos are also in my gal­lery at Fotocommunity.de.

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Phil­ipp A. Baer

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