Software Engineering for Cognitive Robots and Systems

The Software Engineering for Cognitive Robots and Systems (SECORO) group at the University of Bremen conducts basic and applied research on robotic agents capable of physically interacting with their environment, collaborating with humans and other agents, and performing a variety of tasks autonomously in open-ended environments. Our overall mission is to make these systems act in a transparent manner that makes sense to humans and other agents and can function reliably over a long period of time. To this end, we are conducting research on novel methods, concepts, and tools to support automated engineering of robotic agents, covering their complete lifecycles in virtual and real environments. We enable humans to specify, construct, validate, and evaluate these systems,  as well as the robots themselves, to autonomously adapt their software to the various and changing runtime requirements induced by the robot’s task or environment. We are evaluating our research jointly with stakeholders from various application domains, including smart factories, healthcare, and logistics. 

Contact

Faculty 3
Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender

TAB, Eingang E
Am Fallturm 1
28359 Bremen

Administration
Atessa Logemann
atessa.logemann@uni-bremen.de
Tel. 0421 218-64331

Research topics

  • robot motion, perception, and control architectures
  • safe, transparent, and explainable robot behaviour 
  • domain-specific modelling and languages
  • automated validation and verification
  • benchmarking and performance evaluation
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Team

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Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender

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Atessa Logemann

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News

Jun. 24: Our paper "Embodied Runtime Monitoring of Learning-enabled Robot Perception Components" (Deebul Sivarajan Nair, Sathwik Panchangam, Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez, Nico Hochgeschwender) got accepted at CASE 2024!

Feb. 24: Our paper "A Multimodal Handover Failure Detection Dataset and Baselines" (Santosh Thoduka, Nico Hochgeschwender, Jürgen Gall, and Paul G.. Plöger) got accepted at ICRA 2024!

Dec. 23: Nico Hochgeschwender received the VDI Ring of Honor. Link