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Frank Hoffmann

4 accepted papers

2025

Next-Best-Trajectory Planning of Robot Manipulators for Effective Observation and Exploration

ICRA 2025

Visual observation of objects is essential for many robotic applications, such as object reconstruction and manipulation, navigation, and scene understanding. Machine learning algorithms constitute the state-of-the-art in many fields but require vast data sets, which are costly and time-intensive to

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Uncertainty-Aware Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Automated Driving

RA-L 2023

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) provides a framework for learning decision-making from offline data and therefore constitutes a promising approach for real-world applications such as automated driving (AD). Especially in safety-critical applications, interpretability and transferability are cruc

Cited by 51SourceScholar
2018

Semantic Mapping with Omnidirectional Vision

ICRA 2018poster

This paper presents a purely visual semantic mapping framework using omnidirectional images. The approach rests upon the robust segmentation of the robot's local free space, replacing conventional range sensors for the generation of occupancy grid maps. The perceptions are mapped into a bird's eye v…

Cited by 22SourceScholar
2017

Kinodynamic trajectory optimization and control for car-like robots

IROS 2017poster

This paper presents a novel generic formulation of Timed-Elastic-Bands for efficient online motion planning of car-like robots. The planning problem is defined in terms of a finite-dimensional and sparse optimization problem subject to the robots kinodynamic constraints and obstacle avoidance. Contr…

Cited by 217SourceScholar