Katja Mombaur
04.11.2019 -
Improving human-centered robots by model-based optimization
Katja Mombaur
Katja Mombaur is a full professor at the Institute of Computer Engineering of Heidelberg University and head of the Optimization, Robotics & Biomechanics Chair, as well as coordinator of the Heidelberg Center for Motion Research. She holds a diploma degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Stuttgart and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Heidelberg University and has worked as a researcher at Seoul National University and in LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. In 2020, she will join the University of Waterloo as Canada Excellence Chair for Human-Centered Robotics & Machine Intelligence. Her research focuses on understanding human movement by a combined approach of model-based optimization and experiments and using this knowledge to improve motions of humanoid robots and the interactions of humans with exoskeletons, prostheses and external physical devices.
Time & Place
The presentation on November 26, 2019 will be given in building 02, room 210 at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg and starts at 5.00 p.m..