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Yijun Yuan defended his thesis titled "Incremental continuous scene modeling - Geometric, Color, Semantic representations and unified framework for robotic mapping" on 18.09.2024 successfully.

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The University of Würzburg (Chair of Robotics), will be hosting "Akademy 2024. Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE, one of the largest Free Software communities in the world. It is a free, non-commercial event organized by the KDE Community. Hundreds of attendees from the global KDE Community, the broad free and open-source software community, local organizations, and software companies will gather in Würzburg, Germany, and virtually from Saturday, September 7th, to Thursday, September 12th, for the annual conference 'Akademy 2024.'

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This paper presents Uni-Fusion, a universal continuous mapping framework for surfaces, surface properties (color, infrared, etc.) and more (latent features in contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) embedding space, etc.). This is the first universal implicit encoding model that supports encoding of both geometry and different types of properties (RGB, infrared, features, etc.) without requiring any training.

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ESA Underwater VR

12/04/2023

Würzburg computer scientists take a dive -- research study on the use of VR technology in astronaut training concludes. In view of the many possibilities that swimming pools offer for the training of divers or astronauts, a group of researchers led by Prof. Andreas Nüchter has investigated the use of virtual reality (VR) in astronautics.

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For ten years now, Würzburg corps students have been awarding the Rector Max Meier Prize for young scientists. This year, it goes to Michael Bleier from the Chair of Computer Science XVII (Robotics).

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Project AMADEE-24: The Dress rehearsak 1 took place from 31Aug2023 to 03Sep2023 in the community of Peuerbach, Upper Austria (about 1 hour driving west of Linz). It is the first out of two Dress Rehearsals allowing for team-specific training, procedure rehearsals, integrated sim-sims.

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The Chair Computer Science XVII at the University of Würzburg is pleased to confirm its collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) on a research project concerning lunar exploration. The project, titled "Control of Spherical Robots for Lunar Cave Exploration Using Telescopic Linear Actuators for Locomotion," is a significant contribution to the field of space robotics.

 

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The paper titled "Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields alongside Real-time Incremental 3D Reconstruction" proposes a novel Neural Surface Light Fields model that copes with the small range of view directions while producing a good result in unseen directions. Exploiting recent encoding techniques, the training of our model is highly efficient.

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On the 2nd of February the project kickoff for WISP - Windkraft Inspektion (Wind Power Plant Inspection) took place at Oktopus in Kiel.

 

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We have qualified for the AMADEE-24 mission! The simulation of human-robot operations could be an essential tool in future Mars missions. The previous AMADEE missions led by the Austrian Space Forum (ÖWF), have

shown that robotic systems in the form of UAVs or UGVs can support astronauts very well

in their field missions.

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