Directly after finishing my studies, I started to work at the »University of Kaiserslautern in the »department of computer science. From March 2000 until October 2003, I worked as an assistant in the »robotics and embedded systems lab (RESY) of »Prof. Dr. Dominik Henrich. This lab now moved to the »University of Bayreuth. My old homepage is now located »here.

I organized tutorials for the lecture "fundamentals of digital technology" and some seminars. However, my main task was the research of safe human-robot coexistence and cooperation.

Currently, industrial robots have no perception of their environment. Robots are programmed by specifying the coordinates of their target positions. If an obstacle (or a human) happens to be somewhere in the path of the robot, a collision will occur. The long-range target is to equip robots with a perception of their environment, so they can actively evade a collision.

The results of the research lead to the development of a prototype system, the SIMERO-system. This system uses grayscale cameras to allow the safe coexistence of an industrial robot and humans.