Publications

2018

Simon Kueppers, Siying Wang, Harun Cetinkaya, Reinhold Herschel, and Nils Pohl.

Imaging Characteristics of a Highly Integrated Millimeter Wave MIMO Radar

19th International Radar Symposium IRS 2018, June 20-22, Bonn, Germany

Simon Kueppers, Reinhold Herschel, and Nils Pohl.

Advances in Compact Integrated MultichannelMillimeter Wave Radar Systems using SiGe BiCMOS Technology

8th Microwave and Radar Week 2018, May 14-17, Poznan,Poland

Y. Xing, B. Urasinska-Wojcik, and J.W. Gardner.

Plasmonic enhanced CMOS non-dispersive infrared gas sensor for acetone and ammonia detection

IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2018

T.A. Vincent, Y. Xing, M. Cole, and J.W. Gardner.

Investigation of response of high-bandwidth MOX sensors to gas plumes for application on a mobile robot in hazardous environments

Sensors and Actuators B, 2018 (under review)

T.A. Vincent, Y. Xing, M. Cole, and J.W. Gardner.

Thermal modulation of a high-bandwidth gas sensor array in real-time for application on a mobile robot

MDPI Proceedings, 2018 (under review for the Eurosensors 2018 conference)

Fritsche P., Kueppers S., Briese G., and Wagner B.

Fusing LiDAR and Radar Data to Perform SLAM in Harsh Environments

Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 430. Springer, Cham, 2018

H. Fan, V. Hernandez Bennetts, E. Schaffernicht and A. Lilienthal.

A cluster analysis approach based on exploiting density peaks for gas discrimination with electronic noses in open environments

Sensors And actuators. B, Chemical, 259:183-203, 2018

2017

Xing, Y., Vincent, T.,Cole, M., Gardner, J., Fan, H., Hernandez Bennetts, V., Schaffernicht, E., and Lilienthal, A.

Mobile robot multi-sensor unit for unsupervised gas discrimination in uncontrolled environments

2017 IEEE SENSORS, Glasgow, UK, 2017, pp. 1-3

Zeise, B. and Wagner, B.

Tempered Point Clouds and OctoMaps: A Step Towards True 3D Temperature Measurement in Unknown Environments

In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), pp. 88-95, Shanghai, China, Oct. 11-13, 2017

Fritsche, P., Zeise, B., Hemme, P. and Wagner, B.

Fusion of radar, LiDAR and thermal information for hazard detection in low visibility environments

In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), pp. 96-101, Shanghai, China, Oct. 11-13, 2017

S. Kueppers, H. Cetinkaya, and N. Pohl

A Compact 120 GHz SiGe:C Based 2x8 FMCW MIMO Radar Sensor for Robot Navigation in Low Visibility Environments for MIMO Radar Applications using the Bootstrapped Gilbert-Cell Doubler Topology

in Proc. 14th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), Nuremberg, Germany, Oct. 11-13, 2017

H. Cetinkaya, S. Kueppers, R. Herschel and N. Pohl

Focusing Patterns Within Far and Near Field for a Novel 2D Sparse MIMO Array

in Proc. 14th European Radar Conference (EuRAD), Nuremberg, Germany, Oct. 8-13, 2017

Vincent, T., Xing, Y.,Cole, M., and Gardner, J.

High Bandwidth Sensor Module for Mobile Robot Applications-Wind Tunnel Characterization

In Proc. Eurosensors Conference, Paris, France, Sept. 3-6, 2017

S. Nowok, S. Kueppers, H. Cetinkaya, M. Schroeder and R. Herschel

Millimeter wave radar for high resolution 3D near field imaging for robotics and security scans

18th International Radar Symposium (IRS), Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 28-30, 2017

M. Vuka, E. Schaffernicht, M. Schmuker, V. Hernandez Bennetts, F. Amigoni, and A. Lilienthal

Exploration and Localization of a Gas Source with MOX Gas Sensors on a Mobile Robot - A Gaussian Regression Bout Amplitude Approach (Best Paper Award)

ISOCS/IEEE International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose, Montreal, May, 2017

T. P. Kucner, M. Magnusson, E. Schaffernicht, V. Hernandez. B. and A. J. Lilienthal

Enabling Flow Awareness for Mobile Robots in partially Observable Environments

in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1093-1100, April, 2017

V. Hernandez B., T. P. Kucner, E. Schaffernicht, P. P. Neumann, H. Fan and A. J. Lilienthal

Probabilistic Air Flow Modelling Using Turbulent and Laminar Characteristics for Ground and Aerial Robots

in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1117-1123, April, 2017

H. Cetinkaya, S. Kueppers, R. Herschel, and N. Pohl

Near and Far Field Focusing Patterns for a 2D Sparse MIMO Array

in Proc. 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Paris, France, March 19-24, 2017

S. Kueppers, K. Aufinger, and N. Pohl

A fully differential 100 - 140 GHz frequency quadrupler in a 130 nm SiGe:C technology for MIMO radar applications using the bootstrapped Gilbert-Cell doubler topology

in Proc. 2017 IEEE 17th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), Phoenix, AZ, 2017

2016

Fritsche P., Kueppers S., Briese G. and Wagner B.

Radar and LiDAR Sensorfusion in Low Visibility Environments

In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. ISBN 978-989-758-198-4, pages 30-36, 2016

H. Fan, V. Hernandez B., E. Schaffernicht and A. J. Lilienthal

Unsupervised gas discrimination in uncontrolled environments by exploiting density peaks

2016 IEEE SENSORS, Orlando, FL, 2016, pp. 1-3

G. Wei, J. W. Gardner, M. Cole and Y. Xing

Multi-sensor module for a mobile robot operating in harsh environments

2016 IEEE SENSORS, Orlando, FL, 2016, pp. 1-3. doi:10.1109/ICSENS.2016.7808970

Malcolm Mielle, Martin Magnusson and Achim J. Lilienthal

Using sketch-maps for robot navigation: interpretation and matching

Proceedings SSRR (International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics), 2016

Björn Zeise and Bernardo Wagner

Temperature Correction and Reflection Removal in Thermal Images using 3D Temperature Mapping

13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2016

P. Fritsche, B. Zeise, P. Hemme and B. Wagner

New Perception Approaches for Mobile Robots in Low Visibility Environments

Proceedings DGR Days, 2016 [Presentation slides]

P. Fritsche and B. Wagner

Scanning Techniques with Low Bandwidth Radar for Robotic Mapping and Localization

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer International Publishing, 2016

Harun Cetinkaya, Simon Kueppers, Reinhold Herschel, Stefan Lang and Nils Pohl

Comparison of Near and Far Field focusing Patterns for Two Dimensional Sparse MIMO Arrays

in Proc. 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos, Switzerland, April 10-15, 2016

2015

Paul Fritsche and Bernardo Wagner

Comparison of two Radar-Based Scanning-Techniques for the Use in Robotic Mapping

International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2015
Best Student Paper Award

B. Zeise, S. P. Kleinschmidt, and B. Wagner

Improving the Interpretation of Thermal Images with the aid of Emissivity's Angular Dependency

IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2015