Alexander Schaefer

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Technische Fakultät Autonome Intelligente Systeme Georges-Köhler-Allee 080 D-79110 Freiburg i. Br., Germany Office:   01 022 alexander.schaefer@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Phone:   +49 761 203-8176

About me

• 07/2015 - now: Ph.D. student in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group of Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
• 02/2013 - 06/2015: Research Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation, Magdeburg, Germany
• 10/2006 - 11/2012: Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering, Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany

Research Interests

• Simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous robots
• Trajectory planning for autonomous robots

Current Research Projects

• EU project Flourish featuring the Deepfield Robotics BoniRob

Conference Papers

• Alexander Schaefer, Lukas Luft, Wolfram Burgard
  An Analytical Lidar Sensor Model Based on Ray Path Information
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2017
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Teaching

• 10/2016 - 04/2017: supervisor, lecture Robot Mapping
• 10/2015 - 04/2016: supervisor, lecture Robot Mapping
• 10/2007 - 04/2011: supervisor and lecturer, lecture Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Munich University of Technology